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.

Simone Browne speaking at the 2019 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at 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 a Professor of Black Studies in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] Her most recent book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, published by Duke University Press in 2015, 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]

She is also on the executive board of HASTAC, a virtual organization led by a dynamic Steering Committee consisting of innovators from a variety of disciplines.[9]

Her work, "Not Only Will I Stare," involves the curation of an exhibit about surveillance through black women artists at the University of Texas at Austin.[10] The exhibit "used the space to showcase selected artists and artwork which reflect the intersections and evolving history of surveillance and the Black community."[11]

Awards, honors
  • Presidential Visiting Fellow for the 2018–2019 academic year, Yale University[10]
  • Winner of the 2016 Best Book Prize, Surveillance Studies Network[12]
  • Winner of the 2016 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association[13]
  • Winner of the 2015 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research[1]

References
  1. "UT College of Liberal Arts". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  2. Browne, Simone Arlene (2001). "Surveilling the Jamaican body : leisure imperialism, immigration and the Canadian imagination". library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  3. Bielamowicz, Rebecca (2016-01-28). "5 Questions: Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies". AMS :: ATX. 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): 1–5. doi:10.28968/cftt.v2i2.28806. 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. Maroney, Stephanie (May 18, 2015). "Humanities Institute » Simone Browne Explores Surveillance through the History of Slavery". dhi.ucdavis.edu. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  8. Syfret, Wendy (2015-07-20). "exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab". I-d. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  9. "Leadership". HASTAC. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  10. S, Nyeda (2019-03-31). "Interview with Simone Browne". Yale Herald. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  11. Tzanis, Zoe. "Simone Browne showcases conversation between Black studies, surveillance in SXSW featured art program 'Not Only Will I Stare'". The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
  12. "Vol 15 No 1 (2017): Race, Communities and Informers, Surveillance & Society". ojs.library.queensu.ca. February 28, 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  13. "Lora Romero Prize | ASA". www.theasa.net. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
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