| Kelly Gates is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY. She is currently working on her first book, Our Biometric Future: The Social Construction of an Emerging Information Technology. It examines the social dimensions of automated facial recognition and other biometrics, including how these new identification technologies are posited as solutions to prevailing social necessities or problems of government. Professor Gates is the author of “Technologies of Identity and the Identity of Technology: Race and the Social Construction of Biometrics,” forthcoming in Cameron McCarthy et al. (Eds.), Race, Identity, and Representation in Education (2nd edition), as well as “Biometrics and Post-9/11 Technostalgia,” forthcoming in Social Text. She earned her PhD in Communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2004. At Queens College, she teaches Media Studies 357W: Media Law and Ethics and Media Studies 100: Media Technologies: From Gutenberg to the Internet.
kgates@qc1.qc.edu
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