Torin Monahan is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Surveillance & Society, a former director of the Surveillance Studies Network, and a professor of communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[5][6] Monahan worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University from 2003 to 2008.
[5][8] Monahan’s research focuses on institutional and cultural transformations with new technologies, with a particular emphasis on surveillance and security programs.
[2][9][10] He has written on Department of Homeland Security data fusion centers,[4][11] surveillance and inequality in schools,[12] managerial supervision with hospital tracking systems,[13][14] racial violence,[15][16] and artistic modes of resistance to state surveillance.
[17][18] He has served as Principal Investigator on several National Science Foundation-funded grants, including the Platform Mediation research project studying the ways that cities contend with platforms like Uber and Airbnb.