Torin Monahan Explained

Torin Monahan
Workplaces:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University
Alma Mater:	California State University, Northridge, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thesis Title:	Designing Flexible Futures: Globalization, Technological Change, and Institutional Conflict in the Los Angeles Public School System.
Thesis Year:	2003
Doctoral Advisor:	David J. Hess
Major Works:	Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (2010), Surveillance Studies: A Reader (2018)
Website:	https://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

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

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.^[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. 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.^[7]

Research

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

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

• 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]

External links

• Torin Monahan’s website
• Torin Monahan’s Google Scholar page
• Platform Mediation Research Project
• The Dual-Careers Project

Notes and References

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