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Torin Monahan is Associate Professor of Human & Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. His books include Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (2010), Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education (2010), Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life (2006), and Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education (2005). His main theoretical interests are in social control and institutional transformations with new technologies. Additional interests include ethnography, urban studies, social inequality, critical criminology, and contemporary social and cultural theory.
Monahan's current research is on the social implications of surveillance and security systems. Projects include (1) collaborative research on Department of Homeland Security "fusion centers" for the provision of national security, (2) critical exploration of the ramifications of police and surveillance in U.S. public schools, and (3) an ethnographic study of gender dynamics and workplace surveillance with tracking systems in hospitals. Monahan is an elected council member of the Sociology of Science and Technology division of the International Sociological Association and is an associate editor of the primary academic journal on surveillance, Surveillance & Society.