Brendan McQuade
I am an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine. I was previously an assistant professor in the sociology/anthropology department at SUNY-Cortland and visiting assistant professor in the international studies department at DePaul University. I finished my PhD in sociology from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2015. I specialize in the critique of security and historical sociology.
The University of California Press published my book "Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision" in August 2019. This project provides a window into the secretive world of criminal intelligence and counterterrorism at fusion centers. Although the organizational complexity that surrounds fusion centers complicates their operations, I find that they buttress an emergent regime of mass supervision, helping to manage social suffering in an era of austerity and decarceration.
My research and teaching interests encompass social regulation, political violence and state formation, and the study of historical capitalism. I have published on counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, policing, social movements, and intellectuals, expertise and knowledge production.
Supervisors: William Martin, Leslie Gates, and Kelvin Santiago-Valles
The University of California Press published my book "Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision" in August 2019. This project provides a window into the secretive world of criminal intelligence and counterterrorism at fusion centers. Although the organizational complexity that surrounds fusion centers complicates their operations, I find that they buttress an emergent regime of mass supervision, helping to manage social suffering in an era of austerity and decarceration.
My research and teaching interests encompass social regulation, political violence and state formation, and the study of historical capitalism. I have published on counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, policing, social movements, and intellectuals, expertise and knowledge production.
Supervisors: William Martin, Leslie Gates, and Kelvin Santiago-Valles
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US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular,
military and intelligence funding of US Africanists’ research including at the major African Studies centres. While the classification of much federal research limits conclusions, it is apparent that military and intelligence priorities are coming to
significantly shape the present and future of much research and training.
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US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular,
military and intelligence funding of US Africanists’ research including at the major African Studies centres. While the classification of much federal research limits conclusions, it is apparent that military and intelligence priorities are coming to
significantly shape the present and future of much research and training.
Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.