Stephanie Polsky is an interdisciplinary writer and academic working in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Her work explores the confluence of power around race and gender as technologies of governance. Her most recent book The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World (Punctum Books, 2022), explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialized, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of the category of the posthuman through the dimensions of cultural, geographic, political, social, and scientific classification. Her forthcoming book and companion volume, The Photographic Invention of WhitenessThe Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds (Routledge, 2023), focuses on the creation of the concept of whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that was common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid-to late-nineteenth century.