U.S.-China Surveillance

As I prepare a paper abstract for submission to an upcoming conference on national intelligence ethics, I’ve been thinking more about the historical context in which new federal standards for US “suspicious activity reporting” (the ISE-SAR) can be understood. Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are an increasingly important tool of “domestic intelligence” distinct from the [...]

I successfully defended my dissertation, “Suspect until Proven Guilty, a problematization of state dossier systems,” late this past August and just recently started work as a post-doc at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication. Now that my dissertation is done and I’ve had time to settle in to my new routine of research and [...]