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Educated at Oxford and Newcastle, UK, David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies and a full professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. He is a Faculty Member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS) and the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), as well as an associate of the AI + Society initiative. Previously, he served as the Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University Kingston and was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology from 2009 to 2022. David holds a PhD in Surveillance Studies, as well as an MSc in Environmental Management and a BA (hons) in Modern History. His research focuses on the intersection of surveillance, security, and urban technology from a global comparative perspective, particularly examining trends in Canada, Japan, the UK, and Brazil. He co-founded and serves as co-editor-in-chief of the international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal Surveillance & Society, and is recognized as a leading figure in the field, frequently commenting on surveillance issues in various media. David is currently working on a book titled 'Cities at the End of the World.'
Department of History