Sean P. Hier

Sean Heir is an Associate Professr of Sociology at the University of Victoria. He holds a PhD from McMaster University. Seans current research is concentrated in two areas: public camera surveillance and racism. He is currently preparing books on racism and the complexity of social change (to be published by Broadview Press) and the establishment of public camera surveillance in Canada (to be published by UBC Press). He is also currently preparing edited volumes on critical debates in racism studies and surveillance and social problems (both with Fernwood Publishing). Dr. Hier’s graduate students have completed Master’s theses on Public Camera Surveillance (2004), Media Representation (2005), Visual Culture (2005), Alternative Communities (2007), and Public Opinion and Surveillance (2007). He currently supervises theses on CCTV Surveillance (PhD), Pre-Electronic Surveillance (PhD), Resisting Surveillance (MA), Governance and Representation (MA), Realism and Panic (MA), and Realism and Justice (MA).

• Race & Anti-Racism