Simone Browne

Simone Arlene Browne (born 1973) is an author and educator. She is on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin,[1] and the author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness.

Early life and education

Browne was born in 1973,[2] and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, where she received a BA (with honors), MA, and PhD from the University of Toronto.[3] Her 2001 Masters thesis was titled, Surveilling the Jamaican body, leisure imperialism, immigration and the Canadian imagination.[2] Her doctoral dissertation in 2007 was titled, Trusted travellers: the identity-industrial complex, race and Canada's permanent resident card.[4]

Career

Browne is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] Her most recent book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, presents a case to consider race and blackness as a central to the field of surveillance studies, and investigates the roots of present-day surveillance in practices originating in slavery and the Jim Crow era.[5][6] Javier Arbona of the University of California, Davis, said "her wholly original scholarship best captures new kinds of thinking and theorizing in surveillance studies".[7]

She is a member of Deep Lab, a "congress of cyber-feminist researchers."[8]

Awards

  • Winner of the 2016 Best Book Prize, Surveillance Studies Network[9]
  • Winner of the 2016 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association[10]
  • Winner of the 2015 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "UT College of Liberal Arts:". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  2. 1 2 Brwone, Simone Arlene (2001). "Surveilling the Jamaican body : leisure imperialism, immigration and the Canadian imagination". library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  3. ↑ "5 Questions: Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies". AMS :: ATX. 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  4. ↑ Browne, Simone Arlene. "Trusted travellers : the identity-industrial complex, race and Canada's permanent resident card". search.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  5. ↑ Lingel, Jessica (2016-04-22). "Review of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (Duke University Press, 2015)". Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 2 (2). doi:10.28968/cftt.v2i2.76.g190. ISSN 2380-3312.
  6. ↑ McGlotten, Shaka (2017-01-01). "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne". American Journal of Sociology. 122 (4): 1305–1307. doi:10.1086/689272. ISSN 0002-9602.
  7. ↑ "Humanities Institute » Simone Browne Explores Surveillance through the History of Slavery". dhi.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  8. ↑ "exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab". I-d. 2015-07-20. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  9. ↑ "Vol 15 No 1 (2017): Race, Communities and Informers, Surveillance & Society". ojs.library.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  10. ↑ "Lora Romero Prize | ASA". www.theasa.net. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
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