Arthur Holland Michel

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Drone

Arthur Holland Michel is an author, researcher, and the co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College. He has written about drones, robots, and defense for a variety of publications, including Wired Magazine, The Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture, Vice, Al Jazeera America, Fast Company, Bookforum, U.S. News, the Verge, and the New York Daily News, among other publications, and is the co-author of a number of research reports, including “The Drone Primer: A Compendium of the Key Issues,” “Drone Sightings and Close Encounters: An Analysis,” "Local and State Drone Laws," and “The Drone Revolution Revisited: An Assessment of Military Unmanned Systems in 2016.” He is the author of a forthcoming book about airborne surveillance technology, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018.