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Torin Monahan is Associate Professor of Human & Organizational Development and Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is editor of Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life (2006) and author of Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education (2005). His main theoretical interests are in social control and institutional transformations with new technologies. Additional interests include globalization, urban studies, social inequality, and contemporary social and cultural theory.
Monahan's current research is on the social implications of surveillance and security systems. Projects include (1) an ethnographic study of the effects of RFID technologies on organizational dynamics in hospitals, (2) collaborative research on the surveillance modalities and ethical dimensions of human implants, (3) inquiry into emerging public-private partnerships and Department of Homeland Security "fusion centers" for the provision of national security, and (4) a book project on surveillance and police in U.S. public schools. Monahan is a member of the international Surveillance Studies Network, is an elected council member of the Sociology of Science and Technology division of the International Sociological Association, and is on the editorial board for the primary academic journal on surveillance, Surveillance & Society.