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Shoshana Magnet holds both SSHRC and Tomlinson Postdoctoral awards in Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled When Biometrics Fail: Culture, Technology, and the Business of Identity.
She is joining the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor on July 1, 2009.
She completed her PhD at the Institute
of Communications Research at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
She completed her undergraduate degree in Arts & Science at McMaster University, and her Master's degree in Sociology and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto.
Her published work appears in The Journal of Communication Inquiry, New Media & Society, The Journal of Men's Health and Gender, Qualitative Inquiry, Atlantis and Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme.
Her current research is a comparative project between US and Canada, in which she examines the development of biometrics for the prison industrial complex, their incorporation into the welfare system, and their current use at the border between Canada and the United States.
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