Mia Fischer / University of Colorado Denver

Mia Fischer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Working at the intersections of critical media, sports, queer, trans and surveillance studies, her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Communication, Culture & Critique, Sexualities, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Communication & Sport, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking among other venues. Her monograph, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) is the recipient of NCA’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award. Mia is currently working on a larger project that contextualizes the rise of anti-trans legislation since 2020 within the broader resurgence of white supremacy and anti-democratic forces in the U.S.