CURRICULUM VITAE

WILLIAM G. STAPLES

Department of University of Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7556 785.864.9414 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Southern California, 1987 M.A., Sociology, University of Southern California, 1984 B.S., Sociology, University of Oregon, 1980

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Global and International Studies, 2009-present Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, May 2008. Visiting Professor, Ivan Franko University, L’viv, Ukraine, May-June 2005, 2006 Professor of Sociology, , 2000-present Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-2000 Affiliated Faculty, American Studies Program, University of Kansas, 1992-present Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1989-1994 Assistant Adjunct Professor of Sociology, UCLA, 1987-1989 National Institute of Mental Health, Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCLA, 1987-1989

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Department Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2016- Founding Director, Surveillance Studies Research Center, Institute for Policy & Social Research, University of Kansas, 2013-present Department Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2002-2012 Senior Administrative Fellow, University of Kansas, 2005-2006 Executive Committee, Hall Center for the Humanities, 2002-2004 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, 1996-1999

AWARDS AND HONORS

2016-2017 Paul and Hele Waddle Roofe Professor of Sociology

2014-2019 Member, Fulbright Senior Specialists Program

2012 KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Craig Anthony Arnold Faculty Innovation Award

2011 Balfour Jeffrey Research Award in Humanities and Social Sciences. One of four Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards, the most prestigious state-wide research honors for faculty at Kansas Board of Regents institutions

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E. Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2010-11; 2013-14

2005-2010 Member, Fulbright Senior Specialists Program

2003 American Sociological Association Book Prize for Power, Profits, and Patriarchy: The Social Organization of Work at a British Metal Trades Firm, 1791-1922 (with C. Staples). Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

2003 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Mentor Award, KU Graduate and Professional Association

2001 Graduate Teacher Appreciation Award, KU Center for Teaching Excellence

1999 Faculty Fellow, KU Center for Teaching Excellence

1993 Quest for the Best Faculty Competition Award, KU ASTUTE Technology Center

1989 Honorable Mention, Best Recent Article by the Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association, “Technology, Control and the Social Organization of Work at a British Hardware Firm, 1791-1891.”

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Surveillance Studies; Social Control; Historical Sociology; Cultural Sociology

COURSES TAUGHT

Honors 190 Freshman Honors Tutorial Sociology 177 First Year Seminar: Everyday Surveillance Sociology 310 Introduction to Research Methods Sociology 340 The Community: A Service-Learning Seminar Sociology 525 Sociology of Work Sociology 563 The Sociology of Surveillance (on-line) Sociology 600 Special Topics: Surveillance and Social Control (Honors) Sociology 634 Sociology of Culture (Cross-listed, American Studies Program) Sociology 811 Sociological Research Sociology 910 Historical Sociology (Cross-listed, American Studies Program) Sociology 960 Social Control (Cross-listed, American Studies Program) Sociology 980 Dissertation Professional Seminar Sociology 990 Graduate Student Professional Seminar

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Second Edition), 2014.

The Encyclopedia of Privacy (Volumes 1-2). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers, 2006. CHOICE 2007 Outstanding Academic Title.

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Power, Profits, and Patriarchy: The Social Organization of Work at a British Metal Trades Firm, 1791-1922 (with C. L. Staples). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. 2003 American Sociological Association Book Award

Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States (Scholarly and Reference edition). New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control and the American State, 1800-1985. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1990. Co-published, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. CHOICE 1991 Outstanding Academic Title.

Articles and Chapters (refereed)

“Drug Testing Kits,” “Fingerprints,” “Jennicam,” “Plethysmograph” in, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, ed. B. Arrigo, forthcoming, 2016.

Between the ‘Home’ and ‘Institutional’ Worlds: Tensions and Contradictions in the Practice of House Arrest” (with S. Decker). Critical 18 (March 2010): 1-20.

“’Where Are You and What Are You Doing?’ Familial ‘Back Up Work’ as a Collateral Consequence of House Arrest.” In Who’s Watching: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families, edited by M. Nelson and A. Garey, 33-53. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.

“The Culture of Surveillance Revisited: “Total Information Awareness” and the New Privacy Landscape.” Social Thought and Research 26, 1&2 (2005): 123-135.

“Negotiating Workplace Surveillance” (with B. Zirkle). In Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Controversies and Solutions, edited by J. Weckert, 79-100. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc., 2005.

“Gary’s Gone...”: Comment on The Case of the Pepping Tom: Technology and ,” by Gary T. Marx” (with J. Nagel). Symposium on Technology, Surveillance, and Gender. The Sociological Quarterly 43 (Summer 2002): 447-452.

“Rereading Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital after Twenty Years” (with C. Staples). Social Thought and Research 23, No. 1 & 2 (2000):227-238.

“‘A Strike of Girls’: Gender and Class in the British Metal Trades, 1913” (with C. Staples). Journal of Historical Sociology 12 (June 1999): 158-180.

“Narrative Analysis and the New Historical Sociology” (with K. Gotham). The Sociological Quarterly 37 (Summer 1996): 481-501.

“Small Acts of Cunning: Disciplinary Practices in Contemporary Life.” The Sociological Quarterly 35 (Fall 1994): 645-664.

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“Seen But Unseen: Part-time Faculty and Institutional Surveillance and Control” (with D. Krier). The American Sociologist 24 (Fall/Winter 1993): 119-134.

“Producing Evaluative Knowledge: The Interactional Bases of Social Science Findings” (with J. Holstein). Sociological Inquiry 62 (Winter 1992): 11-35.

“In the Interest of the State: Production Politics in the Nineteenth Century Prison.” Sociological Perspectives 33 (Fall 1990): 375-395.

“Fieldwork in Forbidden Terrain: The State, Privatization and Human Subjects Regulations” (with C. Warren). The American Sociologist 20 (Fall 1989): 263-267.

“Dual-Careerism and the Conjoint-Career Couple” (with P.A. Adler, P. Adler, C. Ahrons, M. Perlmutter, and C. Warren). The American Sociologist 20 (Fall 1989): 207-226.

“Technology, Control and the Social Organization of Work at a British Hardware Firm, 1791-1891.” American Journal of Sociology 93 (July 1987): 62-88.

“Law and Social Control in Juvenile Justice Dispositions.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 24 (February 1987): 7-22.

“Restitution as a Sanction in Juvenile Court.” Crime and Delinquency 32 (April 1986): 177-185.

“Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court.” Sociological Perspectives 27 (July 1984): 349-367.

Chapters in Books (invited)

“Technologies of the Body, Technologies of the Self: House Arrest as Neo-Liberal Governance” (with S. Decker). In Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control Today, edited by M. Deflem, 131-149. Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Volume 10. Bingley, UK: Emerald/JAI Press, 2008. Abridged and reprinted in, A Foucault for the 21st Century, edited by Sam Binkley and Jorge Capetillo-Ponce. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

“The Everyday World of House Arrest: Collateral Consequences for Families and Others.” In Civil Penalties, Social Consequences, edited by C. Mele and T. Miller, 139-159. New York: Routledge, 2005.

“Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life.” In Punishment and Social Control edited by T. Blomberg and S. Cohen, 191-211. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 2003.

“Everyday Surveillance.” In Investigating Deviance: An Anthology, edited by B. A. Jacobs, 530- 533. Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2001

“Mental Health and Adolescent Social Control” (with C. Warren). In Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control: A Research Annual, edited by S. Spitzer and A. Scull, 113-126. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988.

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Court Cases

U.S. Supreme Court. United States of America, Petitioner, v. Antoine Jones, Respondent. 10- 1259. Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Brief of Amici Curiae, Yale Law School, Information Society Project Scholars and other experts in the law of privacy and technology in support of the respondent.

Multimedia

Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Privacy. Vol.1-2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers, Electronic Edition, 2007.

Book Reviews

Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society, by Michael J. Coyle (Rutledge, 2013). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 44 (May 2015): 351-352.

The New Social Control: The Institutional Web, Normativity and the Social Bond, by Michalis Lianos (Red Quill Books, 2012). Surveillance & Society 12(3): (2014): 468-70.

The Passport in America: The History of a Document, by Craig Robertson (Oxford University Press, 2010). Surveillance & Society 9(3) (2012): 336-338.

The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle by Michelle Brown. (New York University Press, 2009). American Journal of Sociology 116 (September 2010): 667–669.

Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective, by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon (Routledge, 2008). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 38 (September 2009): 419-420.

Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe, by Valentin Groebner (Zone Books, 2007). Surveillance & Society 6(4) (2009): 424-425.

iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era, by Mark Andrejevic (University Press of Kansas, 2007). American Studies 50 (2009): 177-178.

Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond, edited by David Lyon (Willan Publishing, 2006). The Sociological Review 55 (2007): 422-424.

Policing Contingencies, by Peter K. Manning (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 33 (September 2004): 590-591.

Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control, by Jeff Ferrell and Neil Websdale (Aldine De Gruyter, 1999). Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 7(2) (2000): 96-98.

Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (MIT Press, 1998). The American Scientist 86 (September-October 1998):487.

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Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government, by Andrew Barry, et al. (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 26 (September 1997): 598-599.

The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Social Forces 71 (September 1992): 250-251.

From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America, by Gerald N. Grob (Princeton University Press, 1992). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 21 (March 1992): 269-270

Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront, by Howard Kimeldorf (University of California Press, 1988). American Journal of Sociology 95 (July 1990): 1075-1076.

Step Children of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town, by Kathryn M. Robinson (State University of New York Press, 1986). Contemporary Sociology 18 (May 1989): 351.

The Development of the Labor Process in Capitalist Societies, by Craig R. Littler (Heinemann, 1983). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 14 (May 1985): 376-377.

Habermas: Critical Debates, by J. Thompson and D. Held, eds. (The MIT Press, 1983). Sociology and Social Research 67 (July 1983): 467-468.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

2015 Carnegie Corporation of New York: Andrew Carnegie Fellows for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, “Digital Inequalities in the Heartland: Exploring the Information Security Experiences of Marginalized Internet Users.” Principal Investigator: William Staples; unfunded, $200,000.

2015 National Endowment for the Humanities, “Documenting the Body; Creating the Self: A Social and Cultural History of the Birth Certificate.” Principal Investigator: William Staples; unfunded, $50,400.

2015 Digital Trust Foundation, “Exploring Digital Inequalities in the Heartland: Information Security Practices and Experiences among Low-SES People Using Shared Computing Infrastructure.” Principal Investigator: William Staples; Co-PI Michael Williams (KU Journalism); Co-PI, Perry Alexander (KU Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; unfunded, $297,635.

2015 Spencer Foundation, “Student Information Systems: Fostering Trust or Enabling Surveillance? Principal Investigator: William Staples; Co-PI, Argun Saatcioglu (KU Educational Leadership and Policy Studies); awarded $43,417.

2014 Knight Foundation Challenge Grant, "CertiDig—Using Technology to Make Data Sharing safer." Principal Investigator: Michael Williams (KU Journalism); Co-PI, Perry Alexander (KU Electrical Engineering & Computer Science); Co-PI, William Staples; awarded $35,000.

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2012 KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Craig Anthony Arnold Faculty Innovation Award for the best General Research Fund proposal, “Documenting the Body; Creating the Self: A Social and Cultural History of the Birth Certificate”; awarded $1,250.

2012 General Research Fund, University of Kansas, “Documenting the Body; Creating the Self: A Social and Cultural History of the Birth Certificate”; awarded $12,270.

2011 Balfour Jeffrey Research Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, Kansas Board of Regents; awarded $10,000.

2001 Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. Travel to London, England; awarded $1,000.

1997 General Research Fund, University of Kansas, “New Technologies, Surveillance, and Privacy in the Work Place”; awarded $5,000.

1994 ASTUTE Technology Center, University of Kansas, “Incorporating Computer-based Data Analysis and Presentation Techniques into Social Research Methods”; awarded $5,000.

1994 Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. Travel to Birmingham, England; awarded $1,000.

1992 General Research Fund, University of Kansas, “Small Acts of Cunning: Recent Political Technologies of the Body”; awarded $5,000.

1990 General Research Fund, University of Kansas, “Conflict and Compromise at a British Metal-Trades Firm, 1791-1922”; awarded $5,000.

1990 Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. Travel to Center for British Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder; awarded $500.

1988 Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History from the American Historical Association. Travel to Birmingham, England; awarded $500.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

Presentations

“Cyber Security vs. Privacy for Nation, Corporation & Citizen.” Innovations Series: Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, April 29th, 2015.

“You Watch Us, We Watch You: Assessing the Effects of Emerging Surveillance Technologies.” The 28th Annual KU Law School Media & the Law Seminar, Kansas City, April 17th, 2015.

“Midwives versus the State: Experts and Expertise in Early American Birth Registration” (with A. Myers). Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, 2015.

Author Meets the Critics: Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Rutgers, 2010) by Torin Monahan. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 2011.

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“From Top Heavy to Bottom Full: Managing Rapid Generational Turnover in Academic Departments.” Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, 2011.

“How to Submit an Article and Get It Published” and “How to Serve as a Reviewer for an ,” with Brian Donovan. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 2009.

“Technologies of the Body, Technologies of the Self: House Arrest as Neo-Liberal Governance” (with S. Decker). The Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum: A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium," Boston, 2008.

Author Meets the Critics: Postindustrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle-Class (Worth 2007) by Kevin Leicht. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 2008.

“The Sociological Quarterly: Past, Present, and Future” (Panel). Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 2008.

“Between the ‘Home’ and ‘Institutional’ Worlds: House Arrest as Postmodern Social Control” (with S. Decker). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 2007.

“Searching for and Obtaining Academic Positions.” ASA Workshop on Preparing Future Faculty. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 2007.

“Privacy, Citizenship, and Social Justice.” National Science Foundation sponsored Workshop on Surveillance and Inequality.” School of Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, March 16-18, 2007.

“The Art of Writing Sociology.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, 2006.

“Doing Time at Home: House Arrest and Invisible Punishments for Families and Others.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 2004.

“I Sing the Body Detected: Electronic Surveillance and the Right to Privacy.” Invited opening presentation to the MIT Conference on Human Rights and Technology, Boston, April 29, 2004.

“The Culture of Surveillance Revisited: ‘Total Information Awareness’ and the New Privacy Landscape.” Invited presentation in a thematic session entitled, “The Culture of Surveillance, Civil Liberties, and Freedom.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 2003.

“Spies like Us: Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life.” Colloquium presentation to the Department of Sociology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC October 19, 2001.

“Service Learning and Social Justice: Critical Reflections, Border Crossings, and Beyond.” Read. Write. Act., the National Conference for Student Coalition for Action Literacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October, 2001

“CU-SeeMe: Everyday Surveillance and the Internet.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 2001.

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“Documenting the Body: A Social History of the Birth Certificate.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 1999.

“Reading Community: The Field Studies Seminar in Undergraduate .” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, 1999.

“‘A Strike of Girls’: Gender and Class in the British Metal Trades, 1913.” British Seminar (co- sponsored by the Social and Economic History Seminar), Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, February 8, 1999.

“The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States.” Author meets the Critics session. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, 1998.

“Forget ‘Big Brother’: Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life.” Invited lecture, Department of Sociology, Department of Criminal Justice, and the School of Law, University of Nebraska, Omaha, March 29, 1996.

“Consent Over Coercion: ‘Industrial Relations’ and the Social Organization of Work in the British Metal Trades, 1913-1922” (with C. Staples). Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, 1996.

“‘A Strike of Girls’: Gender and Production Politics at the Kenrick Factory, 1913” (with C. Staples). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 1996.

“Understanding Social Change: The Intersection of Sociology and History.” Faculty Mini- course, “Bridging the Disciplines: Methodological Links between the Humanities and the Social Sciences,” Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Feb.22, 1995.

“Recent Developments in Socio-historical Inquiry: Social Theory, Narrative, and the Convergence of Social History and Historical Sociology” (with K. Gotham). Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 1995.

“Braverman as Postmodernist: Culture and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century,” (with C. Staples). Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 1994.

“Seen But Unseen: Part-time Faculty and Institutional Surveillance and Control” (with D. Krier). Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 1994.

“The Genesis of the New Paternalism in the British Metal Trades, 1868-1891.” Economic and Social History Seminar, University of Kansas, October 4, 1993.

“Power, Knowledge, and the Body: From Modern to Post-Modern Forms of Coercion and Discipline.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, 1992.

“The Foundations of Patriarchy in the British Metal Trades, 1791-1867.” Economic and Social History Seminar, University of Kansas, December 4, 1991.

“Small Acts of Cunning: Recent Political Technologies of the Body.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, 1991.

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“Symbolic Justice and Community Action: The Lynching of George White, Wilmington Delaware, June 23, 1903.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 1990.

“Knowledge and Discourse in Public Policy Assessment.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1989. “Fieldwork in Forbidden Terrain: The State, Privatization and Human Subjects Regulations.” Colloquium presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, May 25, 1989.

“In the Interest of the State: Production Politics in the Nineteenth Century Prison.” Colloquium presentation of to the Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, December 19, 1988; Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, January 24, 1989.

“In the Interest of the State: Production Politics in the Nineteenth Century Prison.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 1988.

“Mental Health: The Hidden System of Adolescent Social Control,” with C. Warren. Presented at “Rethinking Child Welfare: International Perspectives,” sponsored by The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 1985.

“U.S. Social Control in the 1980s.” Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, April 13, 1985.

“Technology, Control and the Social Organization of Work at a British Hardware Firm 1791-1914.” Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C., 1985.

“Legal and Non-legal Factors in Police Dispositions of Juveniles.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Antonio, 1984.

“Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court.” Annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, 1984.

“Social Junk as Human Commodities: A Historical Perspective on the Privatization and Profitization of Social Control.” Annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Jose, 1983.

“Restitution as a Sanction in Juvenile Courts.” Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, 1983.

“Mead, The Self, and Delinquency Prevention through Youth Development.” Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit, 1983.

Memberships

Surveillance Studies Network American Sociological Association Midwest Sociological Society Pacific Sociological Society Phi Beta Delta, International Scholars Honor Society

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Alpha Kappa Delta: The Honor Society of Sociology Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society

Offices and Committees

Board of Directors, Surveillance Studies Network, 2015-

Board of Directors, Midwest Sociological Society, 2006-2012.

Kansas State Representative, Midwest Sociological Society, 2006-2008.

Program Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 1997-98.

Award Selection Committee, Best Graduate Student Paper Competition, Midwest Sociological Society, 1997.

Executive Council Member, Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society, 1992-1997.

Award Selection Committee, Best Undergraduate Student Paper Competition, Alpha Kappa Delta, 1992.

Program Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 1991-92

Barrington Moore Award Committee, Comparative Historical Section, American Sociological Association, 1989.

Sessions

Organizer and Presider: States of Surveillance: New Directions and Empirical Projects, SSRC Symposium, University of Kansas, October 1-2, 2015.

Organizer: Author Meets the Critics: Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Rutgers, 2010) by Torin Monahan. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 2011.

Presider: “Big Brother is on MySpace: How GPS Will Change Our Lives.” Geographic Information Day, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, November 2006.

Organizer: “Technology and Society.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 2002.

Organizer: “Privacy in Everyday Life”. Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, 2001.

Organizer: “Historical Sociology: Emerging Agendas and Recurrent Strategies.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, 1998.

Commentator: “Social Control and Social Policy in Britain, 1880-1963.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Conference on British Studies, Lawrence, Kansas, 1997.

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Organizer and Presider: “Power, Politics and the Inner Workings of the State.” Annual meeting of Midwest Sociological Society meeting, Kansas City, 1992. Chair and Commentator: “General Strikes and Labor Strategies in Comparative Perspective.” Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, 1991.

Organizer and Presider: “Historical and Comparative Sociology.” Annual meeting of Midwest Sociological Society meeting, Des Moines, 1991.

Organizer and Presider: “From Discipline to Discourse: Reproducing the Social Order in the Late 20th Century.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, 1991.

Grant and Program Evaluation

Evaluation Committee Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Project: The Globalization of Personal Data, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, 2005. Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, Sociology and Law and Social Sciences.

Editorial Activity

Associate Editor, Surveillance & Society, 2016-present

Editorial Committee, University Press of Kansas, 2014-present.

Guest Editor for “Surveillance” articles for Information, Communication & Society, 2015.

Co-Editor, The Sociological Quarterly, 2008-2012.

Editorial Board Memberships: Surveillance & Society, 2014-2017; Sociological Forum, 2007- 2012; Social Thought and Research, 2003-present; The Sociological Quarterly, 1995-2008.

Co-Editor, Sociological Inquiry, 1993-1997.

Ad Hoc Manuscript Reviewer: Surveillance & Society, American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Sociological Theory; The Sociological Quarterly; Mid-American Review of Sociology; Social Problems; Qualitative Inquiry; Sociological Forum; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Oxford University Press; Prentice-Hall; Blackwell Publishers; SUNY Press; Wadsworth; Routledge, Rutgers University Press, Stanford University Press, Cambridge University Press, W.W. Norton.

University of Kansas

Department of Sociology

Department Chair, 2016-present Chair, Personnel Committee, 2013-16 Department Chair, 2002-2012 Chair, Personnel Committee, 2000-2001 Clark Lectureship Advisory Committee, 1999-2005 Director of Graduate Studies, 1996-1999 Graduate Studies Committee, 1999-2001 Department Executive Committee, 1996-1999

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Department General Research Fund Committee, 1993 Center for Applied Social Theory, Steering Committee, 1992-2002 Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1990-1995 Computer Committee, 1989-1998 Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Exams, 1991 Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Evaluations, 1993 Ad Hoc Committee on Computer Hardware, 1989 Colloquium Committee, 1989 Faculty Advisor, Mid-American Review of Sociology, 1989-93 Library Liaison, 1989

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Chair, CLAS Committee on Evaluation of Chairs & Directors (CECD), 2013-2015 Director Search Committee, School of Public Affairs and Administration, 2013-14 Travel Grant Committee, Hall Center for the Humanities, 2014 CLAS Chairs Working Group on Tuition Enhancement Planning, 2003-2004 Chair, Travel Grant Committee, Hall Center for the Humanities, 2003 Hall Center, British Seminar Steering Committee, 1997-2000 Executive Committee, Hall Center for the Humanities, 2002-2004 Honors Program, University Scholars interviews, 2003 Honors Program, Review Committee of Undergraduate Research proposals, 2003 Faculty Elections Committee, 2000-2001 Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 2000-2002 Review Committee, Social Science Division, General Research Fund, 2000-2001 Committee on Academic Misconduct, 1999-2001 Chair Search Committee, Department of Economics, 1997 Hall Center, NEH Fellowship Selection Committee, 1994 Committee on the College Budget, 1990-1993 CBUD Ad Hoc Sub-Committee on Parental Leave Policy, 1992-1995 First Level Review Committee for the General Research Fund, 1989

University

Faculty Senate Research Committee, 2015-2017 Performance Review Committee, Provost Jeffrey Vitter, 2014 Faculty Senate (elected), 2014-2017 Higuchi-KU Endowment Achievement Awards Committee, 2012-2014 Hall Center for the Humanities Five-Year Review Committee, 2009 CLAS Dean Search Committee, 2009-2010 Provost’s Department Chair Development Committee, 2006-2009 University Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, 2006-2009Internal Faculty Communications Team, 2004 Langston Hughes Visiting Professorship Committee, 2004-2005 Graduate Council, Committee on Fellowships and Scholarships, 1998-1999 Graduate Council, Committee on Program Review, 1997-1998 Judicial Review Panel, 1994-2000 SENEX Library Committee, 1993-94 Judge, Snyder Book Collecting Contest, Spencer Library, 1989

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Student Committees

Ph.D. Committees Chaired

Alex Myers, current; Stephanie Decker, 2012; Brian Zirkle, 2011; Gregg Ventello (American Studies), 2003; Kevin Gotham, 1997

Ph.D. Committee Memberships

Daniel Alvord, current; Duncan Friend (Public Affairs and Administration), current; Chelsea Bailey, current; Jerry Moon, (Political Science) current; Terilyn Johnston Huntington (Political Science), 2016; James Ordner, 2015; Nikki Perry, 2015; Meghan Farley Webb (), 2015; Maria Alonso Luaces (School of Education), 2015; Solomon Woods (Public Affairs and Administration), 2014; Tori Barnes-Brus, 2010; Fernando Arenas (Theater and Film), 2008; Kelley Massoni, 2007; Gwyn Mellinger (American Studies), 2006; Richard Johnson, 2005; Sara Collas, 2004; Curt Wood (Public Administration), 2004; Christine Robinson (Honors), 2003; Jennifer Hackney, 2003; David Barney (Social Work), 1999; William Swart, 1997; Brad Wharton, 1997; Chris Moos, 1991

M.A. Committees Chaired

Alex Myers, 2013; Geoff Harkness (Thesis, Honors), 2002; Brian Zirkle (Thesis, Honors), 2000; Franklin Kunkle, 1999; Lourdes Pereira-Nunez, 1998

M.A. Committee Memberships

Alex Cloyd, (American Studies), current; Sarah Smith, 2016; Jake Lipsman, 2014; Melissa Irwin, 2012; Stefan Vogler, 2012; Shane McCall, 2005; Ann Hickey, 2002; Teresa Young (Religious Studies), 1998; Ryland Higgins (Anthropology), 1997; Joe Tamura (Thesis), 1993; Gary Foulke, 1992; Kevin Gotham (Thesis), 1991

Ph.D. Oral Comprehensive Exam Committee

Chelsea Bailey, 2016; Duncan Friend (Public Affairs and Administration), 2016; Meghan Farley Webb, 2012 (Anthropology); James Ordner, 2012; Robert Hughes, 2012; Nikki Perry, 2011; Stephanie Decker, 2009; Brian Zirkle, 2005; Tori Barnes-Brus, 2004; Julia Good Fox (American Studies), 2004; Curt Wood (Public Administration), 2003; Gwyn Mellinger, (American Studies), 2003; Kelly Massoni, 2003; Melisa Haveman, 2003; Kelly Massoni, 2003; Christine Robinson, 2001; Gregg Ventello (American Studies), 1997; Michael Caron (Geography), 1996; Su Lee, 1995; William Swart, 1993; Brad Whorton, 1993; Kevin Gotham, 1993 (Chair); James Orr, 1991; Ken Chao, 1989; Chris Moos, 1989

Ph.D. Area Specialization Committees

Alex Myers, (Deviance and Social Control), 2014; Daniel Alvord (Historical), 2013; Emily Kennedy (Culture), 2012; Kevin McCannon (Social Inequality), 2012; Jason Sternberg (Culture), 2012; Jane Webb (Culture), 2012; Christy Craig (Culture), 2011; Nikki Perry (Chair, Historical), 2010; Ada Van Roekel (Culture), 2010; Rachel Craft, (Culture), 2010; Robert Hughes (Chair, Historical), 2010; Stephanie Decker, (Deviance and Social Control), 2008; Brian Zirkle (Chair, Work), 2005; Debora Archer (Chair, Deviance and Social Control), 2005; Ann Hickey (Chair, Social Control), 2003; Brian Zirkle (Chair, Social

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Control), 2003; Molly Dingle (Gender), 2002; Kelley Massoni (Culture), 2001; Christine Robinson (Deviance and Social Control), 2000; Kim Kuntz (Gender), 2000; Robert Futrell (Political), 1998; Gregg Ventello (American Studies), 1997; Dorether Welch (Work), 1996; Laura Bechtel (Chair, Historical), 1995; Kevin Gotham (Chair, Historical), 1994; Kevin Gotham (Political, 1993; Jean Van Delinder (Historical), 1993; Joon Jang (Criminology), 1992; Su Lee (Chair, Historical), 1992; Jim Orr (Chair, Historical), 1991; Sharon Hogan (Criminology), 1991; Jim Orr (Chair, Social Class), 1990; Chris Moos (Criminology), 1990; William Swart (Deviance), 1990; Chris Bohling (Political), 1990; Brad Whorton (Social Class), 1989; Ken Chao (Political), 1989 Honors Program

Mentor for University Scholar, Gregory Zielinski, 2001-2004

Undergraduate Honors Theses Chaired

David Cooper, 2010; Rachel Berkley, 2009; Genevieve Payne (American Studies), 2005; Ann Schlicher, 1991 (Co-chair)

Undergraduate Honors Theses Committees

Emily Page, 2012; James Walsh, 2003; Jacob Hecker, 2002; Machell Collier, 1998; Hong Nyguen, 1994; Laura Cook, 1993

Undergraduate Independent Research Directed

Luke Hanson, 2010; Sara Diediker, 2005; Jamie Katzen, 2005; Suzanne Stines, 2004; Massimo Ferrara, 2001, McNair Scholar, Faculty Mentor; James Walsh, 2001; Gavin Ross, 1999; Geoffrey Harkness, 1998; Tracy Cody, 1994; Sarah Flood, 1994; Kris Kanakaras, 1994; Kris Macneal, 1994; Lori Stites, 1994; Angie Marks, 1994; Joyce Roundtree, 1994; Daniel Fitzgerald, 1993; Paula Smith, 1993; Elizabeth Duran, 1992

Undergraduate Internships Directed

Nicole Rosacker, 2015

Community

Public Speaking

Spying! Government Spying In The U.S.: A Forum, Kansas City, MO; Downtown Surveillance Cameras in Lawrence, Town Hall Meeting, ACLU of Kansas and Western ; The Privacy Paradox,” University Forum, ECM, Lawrence; “What We Know About You? Privacy, Security, and Community Concerns.” The Preview Forum, Lawrence Public Library; “Spies like Us: Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life.” Salina Art Center. “Forget ‘Big Brother’: Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life.” Johnson Co. Rotary Club; Border’s Books, Kansas City; Hastings Books, Lawrence; Barnes and Noble Books, Topeka; University Forum, ECM, Lawrence. “Orwell Revisited,” Free State High School, Lawrence, KS.

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Opinion

USA Today; Kansas City Star; Lawrence Journal World; Kaw Valley Independent

Interviews

New York Times; Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman; ABCNEWS.COM; Chicago Sun- Times; Ann Arbor News, San Jose Mercury News; International Herald Tribune; Orlando Sentential; Christian Science Monitor; The Wichita Eagle, KSHB TV 41, Kansas City; Public Radio International, “To the Best of Our Knowledge”; City Paper, Washington D.C.; Boston Globe; MSNNBC, New York; National Public Radio, “The Todd Mundt Show”; The Washington Post; Topeka-Capitol Journal; KARE11-TV Minneapolis, MN; The Village Voice, New York; KCMO radio, Kansas City; KCTV Kansas City; Overland Park Business News; KLWN, Lawrence; WIBW-TV, Topeka; KANU, Lawrence; KJHK-FM, Lawrence; Des Moines Business Leger.

Activities

Organizer: Three surveillance-themed panels for the Free State Festival, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS, June 2015.

Founding Member, Kaw Valley Living Wage Alliance.

Board of Directors, Community Mercantile Food Co-Operative, 2005-2008.

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