Assistant Professor of Sociology
413-663-4735
Hollander Hall Rm 331
At Williams since 2018
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Education
B.A. Haverford College, Anthropology (2003)
M.A. University of Virginia, Sociology (2007)
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Sociology (2013)
M.A. University of Virginia, Sociology (2007)
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Sociology (2013)
Areas of Expertise
- Surveillance technology, crime, and policing
- The changing nature of work
- Capitalism and post-capitalist alternatives
- The U.S. trucking industry
- Time, temporality, and the culture of overwork
Courses
SOC 234 SEM
How Emotions Work (not offered 2023/24)SOC 372 SEM
Time and Temporality (not offered 2023/24)Scholarship/Creative Work
Selected publications
Books
- Snyder, Benjamin H. Forthcoming. Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment. Oakland: University of California Press.
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2016. The Disrupted Workplace: Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism. New York: Oxford University Press.
Articles, Essays, and Op-eds
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2022. ” ‘All We See Is Dots’: Aerial Objectivity and Mass Surveillance in Baltimore.” Special issue on photography and policing. History of Photography. DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2022.2108263.
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2020. ” ‘Big Brother’s Bigger Brother’: The Visual Politics of (Counter) Surveillance in Baltimore.” Sociological Forum. 43(3).
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2018. “How work ethnographers are adapting to the changing nature of work.” Invited Essay, Newsletter of the Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, American Sociological Association. February 26.
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2017. “The Tyranny of Clock Time? Debating Fatigue in the U.S. Truck Driving Industry.” Time and Society. DOI: 10.1177/0961463X17701955.
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2017. “Trump is Making Truckers’ Regulation Problems Much Worse.” Slate, August 25.
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2012. “Dignity and the Professionalized Body: Truck Driving in the Age of Instant Gratification.” The Hedgehog Review 14(3):8-20.
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2013. “From Vigilance to Busyness: A Neo-Weberian Approach to Clock Time.” Sociological Theory 31(3):243-266. DOI: 10.1177/0735275113502482.
- Oishi, Shigehiro, Selin Kesebir, & Benjamin H. Snyder. 2009. “Sociology: A Lost Connection in Social Psychology.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 13(4):334-353. DOI: 10.1177/1088868309347835
Current Committees
- Diversity and Community
Committee on Diversity and Community
Megamenu Social