Rachel Hall

Biography

Rachel Hall studies how visual logics shape our ideas about risk, security, mobility, access and sustainability. Her current book project, “Natural Feelings: Anthropocene Remorse as a Settler Colonial Aesthetic,” traces the recurrent white fantasy of adopting Native perspectives as a way of envisioning continuity with the nonhuman from the 19th century to the present.

A full list of Hall’s published work is available online.

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Selected Publications

• “Architectures of Risk and Resiliency: ‘Embedded Security’ and the Redesign of Sandy Hook Elementary School.” “Routledge Companion: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture,” edited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White. New York: Routledge (2019).
• “Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools.” “Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Urban Imaginary.” Durham: Duke University Press (2019).
• “The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security.” Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
• “Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture.” Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Selected Invited Presentations

• “Automating Injustice.” Monday Night Seminar at the Marshall McLuhan Center, University of Toronto (October 2017).
• “Asymmetrical Transparency: The Global Politics of Risk Management.” Securing the Image: Surveillance, Verification and Global Violence (Symposium on Visual Rhetoric), Northwestern University, October 2014.
• “Wanted Dead: On the Refusal to Publicly Display Images of Bin Laden’s Corpse.” Featured Speaker, Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference, Indiana State University, 2013.