Cristina Visperas is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses on cultural studies and science and technology studies. She is the author of Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (NYU Press, 2022), which explores the intersecting visual practices and logics of US incarceration and medical science research, reaching for a bioethics in line with the principles of abolition. Her second book project examines the affective life of the Anthropocene, drawing on feminist and queer theories of affect, trauma, and care to examine public feeling in the context of present and looming crises. Cristina was the founding managing editor and currently sits on the editorial board of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. More details on her website: https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/cristina-m-visperas