Matthew Guariglia

I am historian and inter-disciplinary scholar serving as senior policy analyst for surveillance and technology policy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) where I focus on policy and advocacy related to how local & federal law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and private corporations use technology. I currently hold an academic affiliations in the Emory University Department of History and at Indiana University and the Institute of American Thought in support of research into the long history of how the U.S. government collects information on individuals and the relationship between information technologies and punitive state power and activism.

My first book Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York is out now from Duke University Press. I am also the co-editor of the Essential Kerner Commission Report (Liveright, 2021). I have a PhD in History from the University of Connecticut where my dissertation was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

I am also a researcher with years of experience with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting. My writing can also be found in the Washington Post, NBC News, TIME, Slate, VICE, MuckRock, and the Urban History Association's blog, The Metropole.

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You can follow me on Twitter at @mguariglia.