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…
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 last year.
I’ve now supervised 8 PhD students to completion, the majority of whom now have tenure or tenure-track jobs.
Masters Supervision
I have no current MA students, but I’ve supervised 23 MA theses or major projects while at Queen’s and uOttawa. I’m very happy to supervise more!
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