Emma Cytrynbaum

Emma Cytrynbaum is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Economy and Society and a lecturer and advisor in the Moral and Political Economy major. Her research interests are in political theory, with a focus on the politics of digital media, surveillance, and policing in the United States.

Cytrynbaum holds a BA in Political Science from Reed College, and a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Her dissertation, Spectacles of Surveillance in the “New” True Crime, brings political philosophy, legal studies, media theory, and qualitative analysis to bear on wrongful-conviction documentaries, police interrogation tapes on YouTube, and online “citizen detective” communities, showing how our cultural fascination with crime-and-justice events is is tied to a complex entertainment-media and surveillance system.