In Aerial Aftermaths (Duke University Press, January 2018), Caren Kaplan, professor of American studies, traces the history of aerial imagery and how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war, from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. 

Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies. She is also affiliated with the Humanities Innovation Lab, the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures, and the IFHA on Gamification. She is the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke 1996) and the co-author/editor of Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill 2001/2005), Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke 1999), and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota 1994) as well as two digital multi-media scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. She is completing a book on aerial views and militarized visual culture.

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