Course Direction
I am the director of a proposed new, 1-year intensive, course-only MA in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies, which should now be starting in the Fall of 2027… but who knows? It currently appears to be hampered by the bureaucracy at uOttawa and perhaps worse than that…
Teaching
I have been teaching three courses a year –a selection from: an Introduction to Surveillance Studies; Globalization, Crime and Justice; Crime in Literature and Film; Open Source Investigation; and graduate social theory– in the Department of Criminology at Ottawa. However, the CRC means that I am currently teaching less and doing more research.
Mentoring and Supervision
If you are interested in working with me, please contact me directly!
I can supervise in the Department of Criminology, and in the Department of Sociology at uOttawa, so you can apply to work with me in either department.
I have supervised several foreign visiting students and I am very happy to work with visiting Masters and Doctoral students, Postdoctoral researchers and faculty.
Doctoral Students
Currently, I am supervising or co-supervising 4 PhD students (in Criminology at uOttawa unless stated):
- David Eliot, who is a Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Fellow, working on the genealogy of AI;
- Ashley Poon, who is working on attitudes to “social credit”-like social surveillance policies
- Zimo Meng, who will be working on my Platform Cities in an Age of Planetary Surveillance project, focusing mainly on post-smart cities in China and Singapore;
- Claire Wang, who just finished her MA thesis with me, and is now starting her PhD on sociolegal issues with the Internet of Things;
My last remaining Queen’s PhD student, Rohit Revi (Cultural Studies), defended his thesis, The Great Delusion, with aplomb earlier this year.
I’ve now supervised 8 PhD students to completion, the majority of whom now have tenure or tenure-track jobs.
Masters Supervision
Until this year’s new MAs decide who they want to supervise them, I have only one current MA student!
- Taylor Doak-Hess (Cultural Studies, QueensU), who is currently finishing her thesis on surveillance in the world of Bioshock.
I’ve supervised 23 MA theses or major projects while at Queen’s and uOttawa.
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