Simone Browne

Simone Browne is black diaspora studies and surveillance studies scholar who is currently an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora studies the University of Texas at Austin.^[1] Her topics of research and teaching include surveillance, biometrics, airport security, social media, black diaspora and virtual worlds.^[2][3]

Academic career

Browne holds an MA and Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education from the University of Toronto.^[4] She was a faculty affiliate at the University of Kansas's Surveillance Studies Research Center, and has also worked as a faculty affiliate at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for Women and Gender Studies, the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and the departments of American Studies and Sociology.^[5] Browne is currently on the Executive Board of HASTAC, or the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory.^[6] Browne is a member of Deep Lab.

Publications

Books

• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Duke University Press, 2015

Book Chapters

• French, M. and S. Browne. “Surveillance as Social Regulation: Profiles and Profiling Technology.” Criminalization, Representation, Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime. Eds. Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, and Carmela Murdocca. University of Toronto Press, 2014: 251-284.
• “Race and Surveillance.” Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. Eds. Kirstie Ball, Kevin D. Haggerty, and David Lyon. Routledge, 2012: 72-79.

Articles

• “Everybody’s Got a Little Light Under the Sun: Black Luminosity and the Visual Culture of Surveillance.” Cultural Studies 26(4), 2012: 542-564.
• “Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics.” Critical Sociology 36(1), 2010:131-150.
• “Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada’s Permanent Resident Card.” Citizenship Studies 9(4), 2005: 423-438.
• “Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada’s Permanent Resident Card.” The New Media of Surveillance. Eds. Shoshana Magnet and Kelly Gates. Routledge, 2009: 111-126.
• “Of ‘Passport Babies’ and ‘Border Control’: The Case of Mavis Baker v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.” Atlantis 26(2), 2002: 97-108.

See also

• Airport security
• Border control
• Biometrics
• Sousveillance

References

1. “Simone A. Browne.” The University of Texas at Austin: African & African Diaspora Studies Department. Accessed March 16, 2016. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/aads/faculty/profile.php?id=sb28889.
2. “Simone A. Browne,” The University of Texas at Austin: African & African Diaspora Studies Department, accessed March 16, 2016, http://www.utexas.edu/cola/aads/faculty/profile.php?id=sb28889.
3. “Simone Browne,” HASTAC, accessed March 16, 2016, https://www.hastac.org/u/simone-browne.
4. Browne, Simone. “Browne CV September 2015.” Simone A. Browne, University of Texas at Austin: African & African Diaspora Studies Department, retrieved March 16, 2016 http://www.utexas.edu/cola/files/5622514.
5. Browne, Simone. “Browne CV September 2015.” Simone A. Browne, University of Texas at Austin: African & African Diaspora Studies Department, retrieved March 16, 2016 http://www.utexas.edu/cola/files/5622514.
6. “Simone Browne.” HASTAC. Accessed March 16, 2016. https://www.hastac.org/u/simone-browne.