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Torin Monahan
Academic background
Alma materCalifornia State University, Northridge, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ThesisDesigning Flexible Futures: Globalization, Technological Change, and Institutional Conflict in the Los Angeles Public School System. (2003)
Doctoral advisorDavid J. Hess
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University
Notable worksSurveillance in the Time of Insecurity (2010), Surveillance Studies: A Reader (2018)
Websitehttps://www.torinmonahan.com/

Torin Monahan is an American science and technology studies scholar who has made significant contributions to the study of surveillance, social inequalities, national security, and art-based activism.[1][2][3] He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society, the leading academic journal on surveillance. Monahan is currently a Professor of communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[4]

Education[edit]

Monahan received a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University, Northridge in 1993, and a Master of Arts in English (with distinction) from the same university in 1996.[5] Monahan then pursued additional graduate training in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, receiving a Master of Science in STS in 2002 followed by a PhD in STS in 2003.[5]

Career[edit]

Monahan worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University from 2003 to 2008. He moved to Vanderbilt University in 2008, where he was an Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development and Associate Professor of Medicine from 2008 to 2012.[5][6] He began as an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013 and has been Professor at the same institution since 2015.[5] Additionally, from 2015 to 2020 Monahan served as a director of the international Surveillance Studies Network, which is the primary professional academic association dedicated to the critical study of surveillance.[5][7]

Research[edit]

Monahan’s research focuses on institutional and cultural transformations with new technologies, with a particular emphasis on surveillance and security programs.[1][8][9] He has written on Department of Homeland Security data fusion centers,[3][10] surveillance and inequality in schools,[11] managerial supervision with hospital tracking systems,[12][13] racial violence,[14][15] and artistic modes of resistance to state surveillance.[16][17] He has served as Principal Investigator on several National Science Foundation-funded grants, including the Platform Mediation research project studying the ways that cities contend with platforms like Uber and Airbnb.[18][19]

Reception[edit]

Monahan’s book Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity received the 2011 Surveillance Studies Book Prize from the Surveillance Studies Network for the world's best English language book published on the topic of surveillance.[20]

Selected works[edit]

  • Monahan, Torin. Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education. Routledge (2005).[21]
  • Monahan, Torin. (Ed.) Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. Routledge (2006).[22]
  • Monahan, Torin, and Rodolfo D. Torres (Eds.) Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2010).[11]
  • Monahan, Torin. Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity. Rutgers University Press (2010).[23]
  • Gilliom, John, and Torin Monahan. SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society. University of Chicago Press (2013).[24]
  • Monahan, Torin, and David Murakami Wood. (Eds.) Surveillance Studies: A Reader. Oxford University Press (2018).[25]
  • Monahan, Torin. Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance. Duke University Press (2022).[26]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "A Security Scholar Talks About the NSA Scandal". Pacific Standard.
  2. ^ "How coronavirus turned the "dystopian joke" of FaceID masks into a reality". www.technologyreview.com.
  3. ^ a b Newcombe, Tod (June 7, 2013). "Fusion Centers Struggle to Find Their Place in the Post-9/11 World". Government Technology. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Torin Monahan, Department Faculty, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill". comm.unc.edu.
  5. ^ a b c d e http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/cv.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity". www.rutgersuniversitypress.org.
  7. ^ "Contact Us - Surveillance Studies Network". www.surveillance-studies.net.
  8. ^ Kurutz, Steven (February 19, 2014). "Steven Kurutz". New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  9. ^ Sadowski, Jathan (December 28, 2014). "The architecture of dissent". Al Jazeera America. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  10. ^ Monahan, Torin; Regan, Priscilla M. (2012). "Zones of Opacity: Data Fusion in Post-9/11 Security Organizations". Canadian Journal of Law and Society. 27 (3): 301–317. doi:10.1017/S0829320100010528. S2CID 143914114.
  11. ^ a b Monahan, Torin; Torres, Rodolfo, eds. (2010). Schools under Surveillance. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813546803 – via www.rutgersuniversitypress.org.
  12. ^ Monahan, Torin; Fisher, Jill A. (2011). "Surveillance Impediments: Recognizing Obduracy with the Deployment of Hospital Information Systems". Surveillance & Society. 9 (1/2): 1–16. doi:10.24908/ss.v9i1/2.4099.
  13. ^ Fisher, Jill A.; Monahan, Torin (2008). "Tracking the Social Dimensions of Rfid Systems in Hospitals". International Journal of Medical Informatics. 77 (3): 176–183. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.010. PMID 17544841.
  14. ^ Monahan, Torin (2020). "The Arresting Gaze: Artistic Disruptions of Antiblack Surveillance". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 23 (4): 564–581. doi:10.1177/1367877920901859. S2CID 216278546.
  15. ^ Monahan, Torin (2021). "Reckoning with COVID, Racial Violence, and the Perilous Pursuit of Transparency". Surveillance & Society. 19 (1): 1–10. doi:10.24908/ss.v19i1.14698.
  16. ^ Monahan, Torin (2015). "The Right to Hide? Anti-Surveillance Camouflage and the Aestheticization of Resistance". Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 12 (2): 159–178. doi:10.1080/14791420.2015.1006646. S2CID 73544749.
  17. ^ Monahan, Torin (2018). "Ways of Being Seen: Surveillance Art and the Interpellation of Viewing Subjects". Cultural Studies. 32 (4): 560–581. doi:10.1080/09502386.2017.1374424. S2CID 149016146.
  18. ^ "Standard Grant: Digital Platforms and the Mediation of Technological Change". NSF Award Search. National Science Foundation. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  19. ^ "Platform Mediation: A Research Project". www. platformmediation.com.
  20. ^ "Awards & Prizes - Surveillance Studies Network". www.surveillance-studies.net.
  21. ^ Monahan, Torin (2005). Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education. Routledge. ISBN 9780415951036 – via www.routledge.com.
  22. ^ Monahan, Torin (2006). Surveillance and Security. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415953931 – via www.routledge.com.
  23. ^ Monahan, Torin (2010). Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813547657 – via www.rutgersuniversitypress.org.
  24. ^ Gilliom, John; Monahan, Torin (November 20, 2012). SuperVision. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226924441 – via press.uchicago.edu.
  25. ^ Monahan, Torin; Murakami Wood, David, eds. (2018). Surveillance Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190297824 – via www.surveillancestudies.net.
  26. ^ Monahan, Torin (2022). Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-1875-9 – via www.dukeupress.edu.

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