Areas of Expertise
- Technology ethics
- Surveillance, crime, and policing
- The changing nature of work
- Capitalism and post-capitalist alternatives
- Organizing and social movement activism
- Time, temporality, and processual theory
Education
B.A. Haverford College, Anthropology (2003)
M.A. University of Virginia, Sociology (2007)
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Sociology (2013)
Courses
- STS 101/SOC 201 (F) SEM Science, Technology, and Human Values
- ANSO 205 (S) SEM Ways of Knowing
- SOC 228/STS 229 SEM The Panopticon: Surveillance, Power, and Inequality (not offered 2026/27)
- SOC 234 SEM How Emotions Work (not offered 2026/27)
- SOC 280/WGSS 280/LEAD 285 (S) SEM Organizing for Change
- SOC 329 (F) SEM Capitalism and the Future of Work
- SOC 372 SEM Time and Temporality (not offered 2026/27)
Publications
Selected publications
Books
- Snyder, Benjamin H. 2024. 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. and Brandon Soderberg. 2024 “Baltimore’s ‘Spy Plane’ Was Ruled Unconstitutional in 2021. So Why Did One Murder Case Go to Trial Years Later?” Baltimore Magazine.
- 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
Service
Committee on Diversity and Community (Co-Chair, 2024-2025)
Committees
- Faculty Compensation Committee
Contact Info
On leave, Spring 2026