Zhaowen Guo is a PhD candidate in political science and a data and research consultant at the Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) at the University of Washington. For her dissertation, titled “When Caretaking Meets Monitoring: Explaining the Expansion of Surveillance in Rural China,” she has been compiling a comprehensive database that examines the extent of government investments in digital and physical surveillance, investigating the causes and consequences of China’s surveillance state.
Award Information
Data Fluencies Dissertation Grants
Institutional Affiliation (at time of award):
PhD candidate, Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR), University of Washington
When Caretaking Meets Monitoring: Explaining the Expansion of Surveillance in Rural China