Mara Mills

Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where she co-founded and co-directs the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Mills is a founding editor of the journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (winner of the 2020 4S STS Infrastructure Award) and a recent member of the executive council of the Society for the History of Technology. She is the author or co-author of over 50 articles and essays and her publications have been translated into German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Most recently, she co-edited the book Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality (Oxford University Press, 2020) with Viktoria Tkaczyk and Alexandra Hui. With Jonathan Sterne, she is co-authoring a book titled Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed, an excerpt from which was published in Triple Canopy in October 2020. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the IEEE History Center, among other granting agencies.