Torin Monahan

Curriculum Vitae


Positions

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2013-present Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies

Vanderbilt University

2008-2012 Associate Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development

Arizona State University

2003-2008 Assistant Professor, School of Justice and Social Inquiry


Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, 2003 

M.S., Science and Technology Studies, 2002

California State University, Northridge

M.A., English (with distinction), Literature Option, 1996

B.A., English, Literature Option, 1993 


Honors & Awards

2013 Invited Testimony to the European Commission, European Group on Ethics, on the “Societal and ethical implications of surveillance and security technologies,” Brussels (teleconference), May.

2011 Surveillance Studies Book Prize, International Surveillance Studies Network, for the world's best English language book published on the topic of surveillance in the past year.

2011- Associate Editor, Surveillance & Society

2011 Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Rutgers University Press, 2010) selected for Author Meets Critics Session at the Midwest Sociological Society conference held in St. Louis, March.

2010-2014 Elected Council member of the Sociology of Science and Technology section of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

2007- Editorial Board Member, Surveillance & Society.

2006-2010 Elected Council member of the Sociology of Science and Technology section of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

2002 Recipient of the Founders Award of Excellence for recognition of academic achievement and campus leadership at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

2000-2 Recipient of 2 academic year NSF-sponsored research awards ("An STS focus on design") through Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


Publications

Books

2013 Gilliom, J. & Monahan, T. SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2010 Monahan, T. Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

  • Recipient, Inaugural Surveillance Studies Book Prize, International Surveillance Studies Network, 2011.

2010 Monahan, T. & Torres, R.D. (eds.) Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

2006 Monahan, T. (ed.) Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge.

2005 Monahan, T. Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education. New York: Routledge.

Special Issues of Academic Journals

2011 Monahan, T. Surveillance as Cultural Practice. The Sociological Quarterly. (Guest editor).

2010 Monahan, T., Phillips, D.J., & Murakami Wood, D. Surveillance and Empowerment. Surveillance & Society 8 (2). (Guest editors).

2008 Monahan, T. & Fisher, J.A. Surveillance and Inequality. Surveillance & Society 5 (3). (Guest editors).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2012 Monahan, T. & Regan, P.M. Zones of Opacity: Data Fusion in Post 9/11 Security Organizations. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 27 (3): 301-317.

2012 Fisher, J.A. & Monahan, T. Evaluation of Real-time Location Systems in their Hospital Contexts. International Journal of Medical Informatics 81 (10): 705-712.

2011 Monahan, T. & Fisher, J.A. Surveillance Impediments: Recognizing Obduracy with the Deployment of Hospital Information Systems. Surveillance & Society 9 (1/2): 1-16.

2011 Monahan, T. The Future of Security? Surveillance Operations at Homeland Security Fusion Centers. Social Justice 37 (2-3): 84-98.

2011 Wall, T. & Monahan, T. Surveillance and Violence from Afar: The Politics of Drones and Liminal Security-Scapes. Theoretical Criminology 15 (3): 239-254.

2011 Fisher, J.A. & Monahan, T. The "Biosecuritization" of Healthcare Delivery: Examples of Post-9/11 Technological Imperatives. Social Science & Medicine 72 (4): 545-552.

2010 Monahan, T. and Fisher, J.A. Implanting inequality: Empirical evidence of social and ethical risks of implantable radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 26 (4): 370-376.

2010 Monahan, T. & Fisher J.A. Benefits of "Observer Effects": Lessons from the Field. Qualitative Research 10 (3): 357-376.

2010 Monahan, T. & Mokos, J.T. Sensing Environmental Danger in the City. International Review of Information Ethics 12: 21-27.

2009 Monahan, T. & Palmer, N.A. The Emerging Politics of DHS Fusion Centers. Security Dialogue 40 (6): 617-636.

2009 Monahan, T. Identity Theft Vulnerability: Neoliberal Governance through Crime Construction. Theoretical Criminology 13 (2): 155-176.

2009 Monahan, T. Dreams of Control at a Distance: Gender, Surveillance, and Social Control. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 9 (2): 286-305.

2008 Monahan, T. Marketing the Beast: Left Behind and the Apocalypse Industry. Media, Culture, & Society 30 (6): 813-830.

2008 Monahan, T. Picturing Technological Change: The Materiality of Information Infrastructures in Public Education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education 17 (2): 89-101.

2008 Fisher, J.A. & Monahan, T. Tracking the Social Dimensions of RFID Systems in Hospitals. International Journal of Medical Informatics 77 (3): 176-183.

2007 Monahan, T. "War Rooms" of the Street: Surveillance Practices in Transportation Control Centers. The Communication Review 10 (4): 367-389.

  • Reprinted in The New Media of Surveillance, edited by S. Magnet and K. Gates (Routledge, 2009), 88-110.

2007 Monahan, T. & Wall, T. Somatic Surveillance: Corporeal Control through Information Networks. Surveillance & Society 4 (3): 154-173.

2006 Monahan, T. Counter-surveillance as Political Intervention? Social Semiotics 16 (4): 515-534.

2006 Monahan, T. Electronic Fortification in Phoenix: Surveillance Technologies and Social Regulation in Residential Communities. Urban Affairs Review 42 (2): 169-192.

2006 Monahan, T. Securing the Homeland: Torture, Preparedness, and the Right to Let Die. Social Justice 33 (1): 95-105.

2006 Kupchik, A. & Monahan, T. The New American School: Preparation for Post-Industrial Discipline. British Journal of Sociology of Education 27 (5): 617-631.

2005 Monahan, T. The School System as a Post-Fordist Organization: Fragmented Centralization and the Emergence of IT Specialists. Critical Sociology 31 (4): 583-616.

2004 Monahan, T. Digital Art Worlds: Technology and Productions of Value in Art Education. Foundations in Art: Theory and Education in Review 26: 7-15.

2004 Monahan, T. Just Another Tool? IT Pedagogy and the Commodification of Education. The Urban Review 36 (4): 271-292.

2004 Monahan, T. Technology Policy as a Stealth Agent of Global Change. Globalisation, Societies and Education 2 (3): 355-376.

2002 Monahan, T. Los Angeles Studies: The Emergence of a Specialty Field. City & Society XIV (2): 155-184.

2002 Monahan, T. Flexible Space & Built Pedagogy: Emerging IT Embodiments. Inventio 4 (1): 1-19.

2002 Monahan, T. Hot Technologies on Every Pillow: The Discursive Development of Institutional Change. Radical Pedagogy 4 (1): 1-24.

2001 Monahan, T. Please Increase Your Browser's Memory Partition: Individual Action and Collective Blame in the Hall of Biodiversity. Museum Anthropology 25 (1): 41-45.

2001 Monahan, T. The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education. Computers & Society 31 (3): 22-31.


Book Chapters

2012 Monahan, T. Surveillance and Terrorism. In Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies, edited by K. Ball, K. D. Haggerty and D. Lyon. London: Routledge, 285-291.

2012 Gilliom, J. & Monahan, T. Everyday Resistance. In Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies, edited by K. Ball, K. D. Haggerty and D. Lyon. London: Routledge, 405-411.

2010 Monahan, T. Surveillance as Governance: Social Inequality and the Pursuit of Democratic Surveillance. In Surveillance and Democracy, edited by K.D. Haggerty and M. Samatas. New York: Routledge, 91-110.

2010 Monahan, T. & Torres, R.D. Introduction. In Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education, edited by T. Monahan and R.D. Torres. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1-18.

2007 Monahan, T. Just-in-time Security: Permanent Exceptions and Neoliberal Orders. In Reading 24: TV Against the Clock, edited by S. Peacock. London: I. B. Tauris, 109-118.

2006 Monahan, T. Questioning Surveillance and Security. In Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life, edited by T. Monahan. New York: Routledge, 1-23.

  • Reprinted in Technology and Society: Classic and Contemporary Readings, edited by R. Bilsker (Kendall/Hunt, 2010), 267-290.

  • Reprinted in Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future, edited by D.G. Johnson and J.M. Wetmore (MIT Press, 2008), 537-564

2006 Monahan, T. The Surveillance Curriculum: Risk Management and Social Control in the Neoliberal School. In Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life, edited by T. Monahan. New York: Routledge, 109-124.

  • Reprinted in The Critical Pedagogy Reader (2nd edition), edited by A. Darder, R.D. Torres, and M. Baltodamo (Routledge, 2008), 123-134


Book Reviews

2009 Monahan, T. Review of Kerry B. Fosher, Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level. Surveillance & Society 6 (4): 424-425.

2009 Monahan, T. Review of Susan N. Herman and Paul Finkelman, eds., Terrorism, Government, and Law: National Authority and Local Autonomy in the War on Terror. Law and Politics Book Review 19 (1): 25-27.

2008 Monahan, T. Review of Richard V. Ericson, Crime in an Insecure World. Contemporary Sociology 37 (5): 468-469.

2008 Monahan, T. Review of Anthony Burke, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War against the Other. Thesis Eleven 93 (1): 135-138.

2007 Monahan, T. Review of Geoffrey R. Stone, War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present. Law and Politics Book Review 17 (10): 211-214.

2007 Monahan, T. Review of Jerry L. Simich and Thomas C. Wright, eds., The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces. American Ethnologist 34 (1): 1037-1039.

2006 Monahan, T. Review of Philip B. Heymann and Juliette N. Kayyem, Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror. Law and Politics Book Review 16 (3): 211-214.

2004 Monahan, T. Review of Setha Low, Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. Journal of Historical Geography 30 (4): 807-808.

2004 Monahan, T. Review of William Crotty, The Politics of Terror: The U.S. Response to 9/11. Law and Politics Book Review 14 (5): 312-315.

2003 Monahan, T. Review of Roger Keil, Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization and Social Struggles. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27 (1): 210-211.

2002 Monahan, T. Review of Lawrence D. Bobo et al., Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles. Social Forces 80 (4): 1405-1406.

2002 Monahan, T. Review of William Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Urban Affairs Review 37 (5): 757-759.

2002 Monahan, T. Review of Norman M. Klein, The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory. Midwest Quarterly XLIII (4): 368-369.

2002 Monahan, T. Review of Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres, Latino Metropolis. Journal of Historical Geography 28 (3): 470-471.

Encyclopedia Entries & Commentary

2010 Monahan, T. Security vs. Privacy is a False Choice. The Tennessean, January 3, 16A.

2009 Monahan, T. The Murky World of 'Fusion Centres'. Criminal Justice Matters 75 (1): 20-21.

2008 Monahan, T. & Fisher, J.A. Scanning the Future of Hospital Radio-Frequency Identification Systems. Hospital Information Technology Europe 1 (1): 44-45.

2006 Monahan, T. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). In Encyclopedia of Privacy, edited by W. G. Staples. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 455-456.

2006 Monahan, T. Red-Light and Speeding Cameras. In Encyclopedia of Privacy, edited by W. G. Staples. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 461-462.

2006 Monahan, T. Data Vulnerability is a Systemic Problem. Arizona Republic, May 21, V3.

2004 Monahan, T. Professional Advice for the Interdisciplinary Student. Technoscience 20 (3): 5-6.


 

Grants

External: PI or Co-PI

2010-2014 Collaborative Research: Exploring Homeland Security Fusion Centers. National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator $332,423. (Co-PI: Priscilla Regan)

2009-2012 Privacy Awareness through Branding of Security Organisations. European Commission, FP7 Science in Society. Co-Principal Investigator 964,594 (euros). (PI: Leon Hempel) [Grant awarded; funding declined by Vanderbilt University.]

2008 The Use of Implants in Ethical Surveillance Infrastructures. The Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. Co-Principal Investigator 10,000 (euros). (PI: Michael Nagenborg)

2007-2009 Effects of RFID Technologies on Organizational Dynamics in Hospitals. National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigator $247,162. (PI: Jill A. Fisher)

2006-2009 Workshops on Surveillance and Society. National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator $108,807.

2004-06 Experiences of Surveillance Technologies in Gated Communities and Public Housing. National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator $76,582.

External: Co-investigator or Collaborator

2012-2017 Factors Affecting Healthy Volunteers’ Long-Term Participation in Clinical Trials. National Institutes of Health. Co-Investigator $1.8 million. (PI: Jill A. Fisher)

2009-2012 Phase I Clinical Trials and the Informed Consent of Healthy Subjects. National Institutes of Health. Co-Investigator $385,048. (PI: Jill A. Fisher)

2008-2014 The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Team member / Collaborator $2.5 million (Canadian) (PI: David Lyon)

2005-2006 Team leader for research on Freedom, Privacy, and Security. Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU. National Science Foundation. Co-Investigator $6.2 million. (PI: David Guston)

Internal

2011 Public Monitoring of Environmental Threats. Scwab Endowment, Vanderbilt University. Principal Investigator $1,800.

2005 Engaging Radio. Institute for Humanities Research, Seed Grant, Arizona State University. Co-Principal Investigator $10,000.

2004 Experiences of Surveillance Technologies in Public Places. College of Public Programs, Dean's Incentive Grant. Arizona State University. Principal Investigator $5,000.


Workshops

Organized

2009 Primary organizer of international workshop on Surveillance and Empowerment. Vanderbilt University, March.

2008 Co-organizer of international workshop on The Use of Implants in Ethical Surveillance Infrastructures. Bielefeld, Germany, September.

2007 Primary organizer of international workshop on Surveillance and Inequality. Arizona State University, March.

Competitively Selected

2011 Participant of workshop on The Expanding Surveillance Net: Ten Years after 9/11. Queen's University, Canada, September.

2011 Participant of Cyber-surveillance in Everyday Life: An International Workshop. University of Toronto, Canada, May.

2006 Participant of workshop on Generating Collaborative Research in the Ethical Design of Surveillance Infrastructures. University of Texas, Austin, June.

Invited

2012 Participant of workshop on Power Geographies of Surveillance. University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, January.

2011 Participant of workshop on Privacy Awareness through Security Organisation Branding. Temple University, January.

2009 Participant of roundtable on Technology, Privacy, and DHS Fusion Centers. University of Maryland Law School, April.

2008 Participant of workshop on Surveillance & Democracy. University of Crete, Greece, June.

2003 Participant of workshop on the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science in the Public Realm. Arizona State University, May.


Presentations 

Invited Lectures

2012 Mediating the Surveillance State: Data Fusion in Post-9/11 Security Organizations, Keynote lecture at Association for Integrative Studies conference, Rochester, Michigan, October.

2012 The Future of Security? Surveillance Operations at Homeland Security Fusion Centers. Dept. of Sociology, State University of New York-Binghamton, April.

2009 Exploring the Surveillance Dimensions of Hospital Identification and Tracking Systems. Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, February.

2008 Plenary lecture: Privacy in America: Balancing the Individual and Society. The E. James Holland Symposium on American Values at Angelo State University, Texas, October.

2008 Implanting Inequality?: Probing the Surveillance Dimensions of Hospital Tracking and Identification Systems. Dept. of Bioethics, University of Crete, June.

2008 Care and Control with Hospital Positioning Systems. The Hixon-Riggs Forum on Science, Technology and Society. Harvey Mudd College, March.

2008 "War Rooms" of the Street: Surveillance Practices in Transportation Control Centers. School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, January.

2008 Transportation Surveillance & Security Imperatives in the U.S.. Dept. of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, January.

2007 Surveillance, Mobility, and Resistance. Dept. of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, November.

2007 Corporeal Control through Information Networks. Dept. of Communication, UC San Diego, January.

2006 Surveillance Cultures: Techno-logics and Symbolic Resistance. Dept. of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, January.

2006 Freedom, Privacy, and Security. Launch of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-ASU). Arizona State University, January.

2005 Neoliberal Security and the Social Construction of Everyday Surveillance. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, January.

2000 Flexible Spaces & Built Pedagogies: Emerging IT Embodiments. Critical and Cultural Studies of Information Technology, State University of New York-Buffalo, May.


Conference Panels Organized or Chaired

2010 Technologies of Citizenship: The Regulation of Identity, Mobility, and Belonging. Invited thematic session chaired at American Sociological Association (ASA) conference in Atlanta, August.

2010 The Uses of Identity. Invited thematic session chaired at American Sociological Association (ASA) conference in Atlanta, August.

2010 Surveillance and Popular Culture. Panel chaired at International Sociological Association (ISA) conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, July.

2009 Surveillance. Panel chaired at American Sociological Association (ASA) conference in San Francisco, August.

2008 Technological Surveillance and Power in Everyday Life. Panel chaired at International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Barcelona, Spain, September.

2005 Technologies of Citizenship: Surveillance and the Regulation of Difference. Panel co-chaired at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Pasadena, October.

2001 Questioning Infrastructure: Everyday Practices in Critical Perspective. Panel chaired at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Boston, November.

Conference Papers

2011 Police, Surveillance, and Inequality in the Carceral School. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference, November, Montreal.

2011 Negotiating Technological Control: Cultural and Infrastructural Resistance to Hospital Tracking Systems. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Cleveland, November.

2011 Security Transformations in U.S. Hospitals. Paper presented at American Political Science Association (APSA) conference, Seattle, September.

2010 Mapping concerns with Homeland Security fusion centers. Paper presented at International Sociological Association (ISA) conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, July.

2010 The Future of Security? Surveillance Operations at Homeland Security Fusion Centers. Paper presented at Law and Society Association (LSA) conference, Chicago, May.

2010 Surveillance Impediments: Recognizing Obduracy with the Deployment of Hospital Information Systems. Paper (with Jill A. Fisher) presented at "A Global Surveillance Society?" conference in London, April.

2009 "Blossoming" Surveillance: Exploring DHS Fusion Centers. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference, Philadelphia, November.

2009 Social Inequality and the Pursuit of Democratic Surveillance. Paper presented at American Sociological Association (ASA) conference in San Francisco, August.

2008 Situational Awareness of the Security Industry. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference, St. Louis, November.

2008 Technological Politics of Critical Infrastructure Protection. Paper presented at International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Barcelona, Spain, September.

2008 Somatic Surveillance. Paper presented at West Coast Law and Society Retreat, University of Hawaii, January.

2007 The Rise of the Apocalypse Industry: Rapture Fiction, Technology, and Crisis. Paper presented at National Communication Association (NCA) conference in Chicago, November.

2007 Corporeal Control through Information Networks. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Montreal, October.

2007 Controlling Mobilities: Intelligent Transportation Systems as Surveillance Infrastructures. Paper presented at American Sociological Association (ASA) conference in New York, August.

2006 Marketing the Beast: Surveillance and the Apocalypse Industry. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Vancouver, BC, November.

2006 Neoliberal Security and the Regulation of Space. Paper presented at International Sociological Association (ISA) conference in Durban, South Africa, July.

2006 Nothing to Hide: Governing Mentalities of Everyday Surveillance. Paper presented at Crime, Justice and Surveillance conference in Sheffield, U.K., April.

2005 Techno-logics of Residential Surveillance. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Pasadena, October.

2005 The Surveillance Curriculum: Risk Management and Social Control in the Neoliberal School. Paper presented at American Sociological Association (ASA) conference in Philadelphia, August.

2005 Electronic Fortification in Phoenix: Surveillance Technologies and Lived Urban Space. Paper presented at Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) conference in Santa Fe, April.

2004 Counter-Surveillance as Political Intervention? Paper presented at Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and Social Control conference in Sheffield, U.K., January.

2003 Globalization and Technology in Public Education. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Chicago, November.

2003 Symbols as Design Agents: Building Technological Infrastructures Across Social Worlds. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Chicago, November.

2003 Fragmented Centralization: Building Technological Infrastructures in Public Institutions. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Atlanta, October.

2002 Peering Through the Gates in Los Angeles: Globalization, Technology, and Exclusion in Public Education. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Milwaukee, November.

2001 Midnight Trenching at School: The Hidden Networks of Educational Infrastructures. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Boston, November.

2001 Ersatz Art Worlds: Productions of Value in Art Education. Paper presented at Society for Literature & Science (SLS) conference in Buffalo, NY, October.

2001 Flexible Possibilities for Participatory Architecture. Paper presented at Committee on the Anthropology of Sci, Tech, and Computers (CASTAC) conference in Los Angeles, June.

2001 IT Parasites in U.S. Student Production. Paper presented at American Ethnological Society (AES) conference in Montreal, May.

2001 Conflicting Global Regimes and Camouflaged Possibilities in Education. Paper presented at Science, Technology, and Globalization conference in Washington, DC, April.

2000 Built Pedagogies and Technology Practices: Designing for Participatory Learning. Paper presented at Participatory Design conference in New York City, December. 

2000 Intersections of Alterity: Transformative Flows and Digital Divisions within Public Education. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in San Francisco, November.

1999 Virtual Deep Play: Rhythm, Ritual, and IT in Higher Education. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Chicago, November.

1999 Power and Politics in the Technological Transformation of Education. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in San Diego, California, October.

1998 A New Focus on Managed Care and Alternative Medicine. Paper presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, October.

1996 Back Home, Down to Earth: The Challenge of Sustainability in Higher Education, the Schools and Society. Panel discussant at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference at San Jose State University, June.

1995 The Labyrinth of Jealousy: The Chaotics of Robbe-Grillet's Postmodern Novel. Paper presented at Society for Literature and Science (SLS) conference in Los Angeles, November.


Teaching

Courses Taught

  • Ethnographic Research Methods (Graduate Seminar)
  • Globalization & Social Inequality (Graduate Seminar)
  • Social & Cultural Theory (Graduate Seminar)
  • Sociology of Science (Graduate Seminar)
  • Surveillance & Society
  • Introduction to Justice Studies
  • Understanding Organizations
  • Technological Change & Social Justice
  • Design, Innovation, & Social Change
  • Technology & Environmental Problems

Professional Service

Positions

2007- Board member of the International Surveillance Studies Network.

2007 Program Committee member for the annual conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

2002-3 Managing editor of Technoscience: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) newsletter.

Reviewer: Journals

American Medical Informatics Association; American Sociological Review; Canadian Review of Sociology; City & Society; Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; International Journal of E-Politics; International Review of Information Ethics; International Sociology; Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice; Journal of Criminal Justice; Journal of International & Intercultural Communication; Journal of Urban Affairs; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; Museum Anthropology; Qualitative Research; Qualitative Sociology; Sage Open; Social Analysis; Social Forces; Surveillance & Society; The Information Society; Theoretical Criminology; Theory, Culture & Society.

Reviewer: Book Publishers

Duke University Press; MIT Press; New York University Press; Routledge; Sage Publications; Wiley.

Reviewer: Foundations

Canada Council for the Arts

GEOIDE: Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence Program

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The Leverhulme Trust, U.K.

U.S. National Science Foundation: Grant reviewer and Advisory Panel member

U.K. Economic and Social Research Council



External Reviews

2010- Tenure and promotion case reviews: 1


University Service

2012 Co-chair of Graduate Admissions committee. Dept. of Human & Organizational Development. Vanderbilt University.

2011-12 Member of the Faculty Review committee. Dept. of Human & Organizational Development. Vanderbilt University.

2011-12 Member of the Undergraduate committee. Dept. of Human & Organizational Development. Vanderbilt University.

2010-11 Member of faculty search committee. Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Vanderbilt University.

2010-11 Member of the College Senate Academic Standards committee. Peabody College. Vanderbilt University.

2009-10 Member of the College Senate Academic Standards committee. Peabody College. Vanderbilt University.

2008-9 Member of the Graduate Admissions committee. Dept. of Human & Organizational Development. Vanderbilt University.

2007-8 Member of the Graduate committee. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2006-7 Member of Colloquium committee. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2006 Member of Visioning committee for crafting a strategic plan. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2005-6 Member of faculty search committee. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2005 Co-organizer of a graduate student conference on Justice without Borders. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2004-5 Member of Undergraduate committee. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2004-5 Member of Annual Performance Review committee. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2003-4 Member of Colloquium and Computing committee. School of Justice & Social Inquiry. Arizona State University.

2003-4 Member of Organizing Team for ASU's Research Initiative on The Human Dynamics of Homeland Security.

2003 Member of an RPI research group that wrote an NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement grant for the Institute's Product Design & Innovation program.

1999 Member of RPI's Information Technology research group, which drafted a white paper for the development of RPI's IT Program.

1998-9 Graduate student representative on Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

1998-9 Member of faculty search committee for social studies of health and medicine position. Dept. of Science & Technology Studies. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

1997-9 Editor of Facts and Artifacts, newsletter for the Science and Technology Studies department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

1997-2000 Host and engineer of Blinded By Science, weekly WRPI radio show for the Science and Technology Studies department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

1995 Co-organizer of an interdisciplinary conference on Academic Discourse. California State University, Northridge.


 

Societies

American Sociological Association

International Sociological Association

Law and Society Association

National Communication Association

Society for Social Studies of Science

Surveillance Studies Network

 

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