About

Andrea Miller is an assistant professor in the departments of Telecommunications and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. They serve as the director of the Feminist Technocultures Lab, housed in the Bellsario College of Communications and the College of the Liberal Arts. Miller earned their doctoral degree in cultural studies with a designated emphasis in science and technology studies from the University of California, Davis, and holds a master's degree in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Georgia State University. Their research and teaching draw from transnational and postcolonial feminist studies, science and technology studies, and cultural studies to examine how technology, security, and empire influence perceptions of race and gender. Miller’s work has explored the racialized and gendered logics of drone warfare and preemption, the criminalization of online speech acts and incitements to violence, predictive policing, biometric surveillance technologies, and U.S. counterterrorism policy. They have published in various academic journals and serve on the editorial board for Big Data & Society. Currently, Miller is working on a book project, under contract with Duke University Press, that investigates the concept of the “cyber ecosystem” as a remediating framework for the U.S. security state, drawing from ethnographic and archival research in Georgia and South Carolina, and analyzing the racial legacies and technoscientific infrastructures associated with U.S. empire.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Visual arts
• Art

Selected publications

• One Reel a Week

  2023

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  • Computer Science
  • Art
  • Computer Science
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• Pulsar Search Results from the Arecibo Remote Command Center

  MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 2015-01-01

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• Do TODs Make a Difference? MAX Yellow Line Portland, Oregon

  PDXScholar (Portland State University) · 2014-01-01

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  This analysis was intended to help answer the following policy questions: Q1: Are TODs attractive to certain NAICS sectors? Q2: Do TODs generate more jobs in certain NAICS sectors? Q3: Are firms in TODs more resilient to economic downturns? Q4: Do TODs create more affordable housing measured as H+T? Q5: Do TODs improve job accessibility for those living in or near them? The first question investigates which types of industries are actually transit oriented. Best planning practices call for a mix of uses focused around housing and retail, but analysis provides some surprises. The second question tests the economic development effects of transit—do locations provided with transit actually experience employment growth? The third question is intended to determine the ability of employers near transit to resist losing jobs; or having lost jobs, to rapidly regain them. The fourth research question confronts the issue of affordable housing and transit. Transit is often billed as a way to provide affordable housing by matching low-cost housing with employment. Yet proximity to transit stations is also expected to raise land values. Proximity to transit, however, may increase actual affordability, regardless of increases in housing costs, because of the reduction in transportation costs. The final research question considers the relationship between workplace and residence locations. To be able to commute by transit, both the workplace and home must be near transit. Effective transit should increase both the number and share of workers who work and live along the transit corridor.

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• SELECTING AND ACCOMMODATING INFLOW DESIGN FLOODS FOR DAMS: A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT UPDATING FEDERAL GUIDANCE

  2013-01-01

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  The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Dam Safety Program recently sponsored development of an updated guidance document entitled Selecting and Accommodating Inflow Design Floods for Dams which was finalized in 2013. The main objectives of this document are to recommend appropriate procedures for selecting and accommodating the Inflow Design Flood (IDF) for dams based on current and accepted practices and to promote a reasonable degree of consistency and uniformity among state and federal agencies. Over the course of its development, the document was reviewed by an independent Steering Committee, a FEMA Research Work Group, state and federal dam safety agencies, and the National Dam Safety Review Board. This paper will: 1. Provide a summary of the guidelines with an emphasis on changes from the previous guidelines; 2. Discuss how the guidelines should be used by state and federal agencies; 3. Summarize the most significant review comments and how they were resolved; and 4. Identify issues where additional research and guidance is needed. These insights into the development of Selecting and Accommodating Inflow Design Floods for Dams will benefit dam safety officials and practitioners as they strive to apply the updated guidance within their various jurisdictions. They will also provide a better understanding of current practices related to the hydrologic safety of dams and how they are evolving in response to changes in technology.

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• Hydraulic Design of Safe Bridges

  2012-01-01 · 13 citations

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  This document provides technical information and guidance on the hydraulic analysis and design of bridges. The goal is to provide information such that bridges can be designed as safely as possible while optimizing costs and limiting impacts to property and the environment. Many significant aspects of bridge hydraulic design are discussed. These include regulatory topics, specific approaches for bridge hydraulic modeling, hydraulic model selection, bridge design impacts on scour and stream instability, and sediment transport.

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• Estimating the Impacts of Climate Change and Population Growth on Flood Discharges in the United States

  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management · 2012-09-01 · 23 citations

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  This study reflects a portion of the riverine analysis for a Federal Emergency Management Agency initiative to estimate the economic risks associated with climate and land use change to the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program. Specifically, this paper investigates how the 1% annual chance flood discharge, Q1% (equivalent to a 100-year return period flood), may change based on climate change and population projections through the year 2100. Watershed characteristics and observations of climate indicators at 2,357 U.S. Geological Survey gauging stations were used to develop regression relationships to estimate Q1%. Projections of the climate indicators that measure extremes in temperature and precipitation from a suite of global climate models were then used within a Monte Carlo sampling framework to estimate future changes to Q1% throughout the United States, while also translating the uncertainty resulting from multiple climate model projections into uncertainty in estimating the future Q1%. Population growth models consistent with climate model emission assumptions were used to estimate increases to impervious area over the next century, along with corresponding contributions to the Q1% estimates. The study provides a screening-level analysis of possible changes to flow and suggests spatial trends across the United States. The results suggest that Q1% may increase substantially over many areas of the United States over the next century, especially in the Pacific Northwest, the Northeast, and highly urbanized areas.

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• ARCC Pulsar Plug-in for Google Sky: A Pulsar Outreach Tool

  American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #215 · 2010-01-01

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• Pulsar Search Results from the Arecibo Remote Command Center

  AAS · 2009-01-01

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• Development of an Empirical Lag Time Equation

  Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering · 2008-07-28 · 20 citations

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  A regression analysis was performed on measured lag times from gauged watersheds to develop a lag time equation. The watersheds are part of the Agricultural Research Service’s database. They are located in several states and are comprised of varying terrain. The goal of the analysis was to develop a lag time equation that is useful in hydrologic modeling. The study included measurements from approximately 10,000 direct runoff events from 52 watersheds to determine which watershed parameters are best for predicting lag time. The lag time was found to correlate strongly with the longest hydraulic length of the watershed. Therefore an equation was developed that used only this parameter. The inclusion of any other watershed characteristics in the equation did not improve its ability to predict the lag time. Finally, the National Resource Conservation Service procedures for calculating watershed lag time were used to determine the lag times of the watersheds. These estimated lag times were then compared with the measured lag time of the watershed. It was found that the use of these methods generally underpredicted the true lag time of a watershed.

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• History and Development of the NRCS Lag Time Equation¹

  JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association · 2007-05-23 · 23 citations

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  Abstract: Many of the hydrologic methods that are used in engineering practice today resulted from the Spring Flood of 1936, which blanketed the Northeastern portion of the United States. Because of the flood damage that was caused by this rainfall‐snowmelt event, many federal agencies including the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) implemented the hydrologic theories that were available in the literature at this time and developed hydrologic procedures for design flow estimation. Sherman had recently published his unit hydrograph theory in 1932, and later in 1938 Snyder, who had been charged by the Water Resource Council to develop a synthetic unit hydrograph, published his famous paper. The SCS unit hydrograph theory was developed by Victor Mockus in the late 1950s. Most if not all of the theories at that time reported the rainfall‐runoff process for floods as a surface phenomenon, and as such those theories all required some type of a timing parameter to estimate watershed response time. This article documents the development of the SCS lag equation.

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Frequent coauthors

• Gert Aron

  Pennsylvania State University

  11 shared

• Ronald A. Chadderton

  Villanova University

  11 shared

• C. B. Sande

  7 shared

• Fredrick Jenet

  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  7 shared

• D. A. Tracewell

  7 shared

• W. H. Warren

  7 shared

• K. Stovall

  National Radio Astronomy Observatory

  6 shared

• L. P. Dartez

  5 shared

Awards & honors

• Judith Hardes WGSS Reproductive Justice Undergraduate Studen…
• Mimi Barash Coppersmith Endowed Scholarship in Women’s Studi…
• Laura Richardson Whitaker Memorial Undergraduate Award in Wo…
• Wietlisbach Family Award in the Department of Women’s Studie…
• Judith Hardes Fund in the College of the Liberal Arts