Harrie Kevill-Davies is a PhD candidate. They hold bachelor’s degrees in Politics, Philosophy and History; and Linguistics and French, from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. Their research focuses on collectible trading cards that were sold to children during the early Cold War, and the contradictions between the ostensibly exciting content of the cards: aliens, space travel, war, and so on, and the latent messages of mundanity that they contain, relating to technological control and information management. They argue that such cards promoted messages about technical competence in service of national security goals, and the disciplinary ordering of the world, its peoples, and their ideas, priming children to take their place in a wider military-scientific complex. harriettekd@u.northwestern.edu