Julia Huggins is a Lecturer in the Program in Media Studies at Rice University. Her research centers environmental media, digital infrastructure, postcolonial and feminist science and technology studies, and critical legal studies, and her current research deals with the intersecting impacts of automation and climate change on viticultural industries in Canada. Huggins’ first book project, Politics of Scatter: Dust and Forensic Media, traces the role of dust as a material concept in the history of forensics–one that simultaneously constrains and challenges the ambits of the ‘scene of the crime.’ Her work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Fulbright Canada, and her writing has appeared in Fata Morgana.