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Dr. Kellie Renee Marin

  • Assistant Professor - Department of Communication Studies

Biography and education

Dr. Marin earned her Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from The Pennsylvania State University. Marin’s research centers on the role of civic participation within the surveillance state. Her scholarship has examined the role of virtual reality’s depiction of state violence, counterterrorism education initiatives, the use of facial recognition technology during social protests, and the evolution of citizen surveillance practices. You can find her work in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Surveillance & Society, Screen Bodies, and in the edited book collection From a Whisper to a Movement: Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest.

Research Interests

  • Marin, K. R. (2025). See someone, say someone: Doxing vision as usurping the rhetoric of whistleblowing. In This isa chapter in a book, From a whisper to a movement: Investigating the shared rhetorical spaces of whistleblowing and social protest. Albany, NY, United States of America: SUNY Press.
  • Marin, K. R. (2024). Failure to enroll: The blurring rhetorical power of anonymizing technologies in making (in)visible Black lives. Surveillance & Society, 22, 212–226. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v22i3.16307
  • Marin, K. R. (2019). Pseudo-sousveillance: (Re)imagining immigration narratives and surveillance practices by experiencing “Use of Force.” Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display, 4(2), 39–58. https://doi.org/10:3167/screen.2019.040204
  • Ott, B., Bean, H., & Marin, K. R. (2016). On the aesthetic production of atmospheres: The rhetorical workings of biopower at The CELL. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 13(4), 346–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2016.1195505
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2024 Early Career Researcher Award, Surveillance Studies Network. August 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Wrage-Baskerville Award, Public Address Division - National Communication Association. November 2014
  1. Graduate Advisor

    Communication Studies Graduate Association (CSGA)

  2. Editor

    Associate Editor - Surveillance & Society