Positions

2008-present Associate Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University.

2008-present Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University.

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

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dissertation: Designing Flexible Futures: Globalization, Technological Change, and Institutional Conflict in the Los Angeles Public School System.

M.S., Science and Technology Studies, 2002

California State University, Northridge

Thesis: Modern American Characters and The Natural World: A Quest for Reconciliation.

B.A., English, Literature Option, 1993 

Publications

Books

(Under contract) Constructing Insecurity: Surveillance, Fear, and Inequality in America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

(Under contract) Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education. Edited Volume (with Rodolfo D. Torres). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

2006 Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. Edited Volume. New York: Routledge.

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

Special Issues of Academic Journals

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

• 2008 Monahan, T. Editorial: Surveillance and Inequality. Surveillance & Society 5 (3): 217-226.
  
  

Peer-Reviewed Articles

(Forthcoming) Monahan, T. Dreams of Control at a Distance: Gender, Surveillance, and Social Control. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 8 (4).

(Forthcoming) Monahan, T. Marketing the Beast: Left Behind and the Apocalypse Industry. Media, Culture, & Society.

(Forthcoming) Monahan, T. Identity Theft Vulnerability: Neoliberal Governance through Crime Construction. Theoretical Criminology.

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.

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

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.

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.

• To be reprinted in The Critical Pedagogy Reader (2nd edition), edited by A. Darder, R.D. Torres, and M. Baltodamo (Routledge, 2008)
  

  
  

Book Reviews

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

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 & Awards

External

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)

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

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

2006-2008 Workshops on Surveillance and Society. National Science Foundation. PI $108,807.

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

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

Internal

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

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

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.

Research

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.

Workshops

Organized

Competitively Selected

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

Invited

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

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

Invited Lectures

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, SUNY, Buffalo, May.

Conference Papers

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 Technologies of Citizenship: Surveillance and the Regulation of Difference. Panel co-chaired 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 Questioning Infrastructure: Everyday Practices in Critical Perspective. Panel chaired at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Boston, 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. [image]

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

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. [image]

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

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. [image]

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

Elected Positions

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

Invited Positions

2007- Member of the Surveillance Studies Network and editorial board for the journal Surveillance & Society.

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 & Book Publishers

City & Society; Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery; International Review of Information Ethics; Journal of International & Intercultural Communication; Museum Anthropology; New York University Press; Routledge; Sage Publications; Surveillance & Society; The Information Society; Theoretical Criminology; Theory, Culture & Society; The Internet Encyclopedia.

Reviewer: Foundations

National Science Foundation: Science & Society Division.

GEOIDE: Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence Program

University Service

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- Faculty Affiliate of CriticalCorps: an interdisciplinary collaborative initiative for the critical study of design and culture, Arizona State University.

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

2004- Faculty Affiliate of Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO). Arizona State University.

2004- Faculty Affiliate of Bioethics Program. School of Life Sciences. 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- Council Affiliate of Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. Arizona State University.

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

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.

American Sociological Association

International Sociological Association

Society for Social Studies of Science

Surveillance Studies Network