Simone Browne

Browne was born in 1973, 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.{{Cite news|last=Bielamowicz|first=Rebecca|date=2016-01-28|title=5 Questions: Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies|language=en-US|work=AMS :: ATX|url=https://amstudies.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/5-questions-dr-simone-browne-associate-professor-african-and-african-diaspora-studies/|access-date=2018-04-14}} Her 2001 Masters thesis was titled Surveilling the Jamaican body, leisure imperialism, immigration and the Canadian imagination.{{Cite web|last=Browne|first=Simone Arlene|date=2001|title=Surveilling the Jamaican body : leisure imperialism, immigration and the Canadian imagination|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?4501435&uuid=fc36b027-1957-4457-9c83-e7b4508c2b4e|access-date=2018-04-14|website=library.utoronto.ca|language=en}} Her doctoral dissertation in 2007 was titled Trusted travellers: the identity-industrial complex, race and Canada's permanent resident card.{{Cite web|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?6172269&uuid=d86695f0-8e24-4d83-bec4-53a8496075b0|title=Trusted travellers : the identity-industrial complex, race and Canada's permanent resident card|last=Browne|first=Simone Arlene|website=search.library.utoronto.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-04-14}}

Browne is a professor of Black Studies in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. 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.{{Cite journal|last=Lingel|first=Jessica|date=2016-04-22|title=Review of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (Duke University Press, 2015)|url=http://catalystjournal.org/ojs/index.php/catalyst/article/view/76|journal=Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience |language=en|volume=2|issue=2|pages=1–5|doi=10.28968/cftt.v2i2.28806|issn=2380-3312|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=McGlotten|first=Shaka|date=2017-01-01|title=Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne|journal=American Journal of Sociology|volume=122|issue=4|pages=1305–1307|doi=10.1086/689272|issn=0002-9602}} Javier Arbona of the University of California, Davis, said "her wholly original scholarship best captures new kinds of thinking and theorizing in surveillance studies".{{Cite web|last=Maroney|first=Stephanie|date=May 18, 2015|title=Humanities Institute » Simone Browne Explores Surveillance through the History of Slavery|url=http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/featured-stories/simone-browne-explores-surveillance-through-the-history-of-slavery|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612072846/http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/featured-stories/simone-browne-explores-surveillance-through-the-history-of-slavery|archive-date=June 12, 2018|access-date=2018-04-16|website=dhi.ucdavis.edu|language=en}}

She is a member of Deep Lab, a "congress of cyber-feminist researchers."{{Cite news|last=Syfret|first=Wendy|date=2015-07-20|title=exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab|language=en-au|work=I-d|url=https://i-d.co/article/exploring-feminist-hacktivism-with-deep-lab/|access-date=2018-04-14}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Leadership|url=https://www.hastac.org/about/leadership|access-date=2020-06-10|website=HASTAC|language=en}}

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.{{Cite web|last=S|first=Nyeda|date=2019-03-31|title=Interview with Simone Browne|url=https://yaleherald.com/interview-with-simone-browne-74ec45e177c|access-date=2020-09-14|website=Yale Herald|language=en}} The exhibit "used the space to showcase selected artists and artwork which reflect the intersections and evolving history of surveillance and the Black community."{{Cite web |last=Tzanis |first=Zoe |title=Simone Browne showcases conversation between Black studies, surveillance in SXSW featured art program 'Not Only Will I Stare' |url=https://thedailytexan.com/2022/03/23/simone-browne-showcases-conversation-between-black-studies-surveillance-in-sxsw-featured-art-program-not-only-will-i-stare/ |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=The Daily Texan}}

• Presidential Visiting Fellow for the 2018–2019 academic year, Yale University
• Winner of the 2016 Best Book Prize, Surveillance Studies Network{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=February 28, 2017|title=Vol 15 No 1 (2017): Race, Communities and Informers, Surveillance & Society|url=https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/Race|access-date=2018-04-17|website=ojs.library.queensu.ca|language=en-US}}
• Winner of the 2016 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association{{Cite web|url=https://www.theasa.net/awards/asa-awards-prizes/lora-romero-prize|title=Lora Romero Prize {{!}} ASA|website=www.theasa.net|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}}
• Winner of the 2015 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsMFdiLsqbg Simone Browne, Dark Surveillance: Race, Surveillance and Resistance] (Video, 1:04:05)
• [https://player.fm/series/washingtech-tech-policy-podcast-with-joe-miller/simone-browne-surveillance-in-color-ep-125 Simone Browne: Surveillance in Color (Ep. 125)] (Podcast, 20:44)
• [https://lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu/2018/01/smile-youre-on-camera-behind-the-lens-of-24-7-surveillance/ Smile, Your'e on Camera: Behind the Lens of 24/7 Surveillance]
• [https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/06/07/tracking-blackness-a-qa-with-dark-matters-author-simone-browne/#sthash.Q72kGxUr.GsS7JjEp.dpbs Tracking Blackness: a Q&A with Dark Matters Author Simone Browne]
• [https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27376-biocode-mixes-art-and-academia-to-explore-pigeonholing/ Biocode Mixes Art and Academia to Explore Pigeonholing]
• [http://college.usatoday.com/2017/06/16/heres-what-uc-berkeley-freshmen-are-reading-this-summer/ What UC-Berkeley Freshmen are Reading this Summer]
• [https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tactics_of_appearance/ Tactics of Appearance]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLbmVmLrblw&t=2s 2019 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon panel] (video, 55:04; begins at 9:53)

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