Dr. Cait McKinney is currently assistant professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, specializing in sexuality studies, media history, feminist media studies, and activist media.

At the Collaboratory, Cait developed an audiotape digitization station and volunteer training program, as well as a digital collection for the Lesbians Making History Project.

Cait’s research on the media histories of LGBTQ social movements explores how queer activists have taken up and re-configured digital and online media in the late 20th century.

Cait’s’s research has appeared in GLQ, Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture, Radical History Review and Feminist Theory, among other publications. They are the co-editor of Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings (UBC Press and AGYU Press, 2019).

Their first monograph Information Activism was published with Duke University Press in August, 2020.