Morgan E. Barry is an Assistant Editor at Public Books and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University. Her most recent published work, “SUBJECT’s Wife: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance,” (Signs, 2023) examines how ideas about race, gender, and sexuality shaped surveillance and political repression in Cold War Chicago. She holds a PhD in history from Northwestern University.
Morgan E. Barry
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Burglaries, Assassinations, and Mind Control: Talking the 50th Anniversary of the Church Committee Report with Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman
“Despite what the law says, the government still spies on people because of their political beliefs. What is new is the scale to which the government can collect data very, very easily.”
