UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #843

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  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: '5'
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
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  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: mmcvicar@fsu.edu
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  faculty_advisor_name: ''
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: ''
  fsu_college: 'Arts and Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Religion Department'
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  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: ''
  mentoring_philosophy: 'I do not have a defined mentoring philosophy. I prefer to work one-on-one with students. I will provide concrete instructions for assessing primary sources and work closely with students.'
  mentor_handbook_and_faqs: '1'
  name_of_other_faculty_collaborator_if_applicable_: ''
  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '3'
  other_faculty_collaborator_s_preferred_pronouns: ''
  overall_research_project_description: 'From mega-surveillance on the mind-boggling scale of the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk collection of cellular metadata to the banal head-counting embodied in census records, citizens routinely accept—and, increasingly, resist—state-sponsored oversight. Likewise, business surveillance techniques—whether in the form of frequent-shopper cards that track every purchase, CCTV systems that follow a customer’s every move, or “cookies” that monitor web traffic—are a routine aspect of contemporary life. Far less understood and virtually ignored by scholars of American history and average citizens alike are the surveillance practices of voluntary associations, especially in the expansive private sector of churches, parachurch organizations, patriotic groups, and non-sectarian moral reform organizations with religious connections. Yet, the very state and corporate surveillance systems that most Americans take for granted today have emerged from the nexus of governmental, business, and religious interests that coalesced at the dawn of the twentieth century.'
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: 'Students interested in the project can see an example of the type of research performed by several cohorts of my previous UROP mentees in my article, “Charts, Indexes, and Files: Surveillance, Information Management, and the Visualization of Subversion in Mainline Protestantism,” Religion and American Culture 30, no. 3 (2020): 1–54, https://doi.org/10.1017/rac.2020.13. For details of the UROP researchers contributions, please see the acknowledgements at the beginning of the "Notes" section, and footnotes 73 through 84. '
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: 'https://religion.fsu.edu/person/michael-j-mcvicar'
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: Faculty
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Michael J. McVicar'
  project_keywords: 'Religion, Surveillance, Violence, National Security '
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'English, History, Political Science, Sociology, Religion, etc. (pretty much any major in the Humanities or Social Sciences)'
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: he/him
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: |-
    Primarily, the research assistant will read, summarize, and discuss primary sources related to religion and surveillance in American history. These sources will include Federal Bureau of Investigation files (including material released under the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA]), archival collections, newspapers, microfilmed primary sources available at FSU and through interlibrary loan, electronic databases, and archival collections available in the region. Secondary responsibilities could include filing and managing FOIA requests, digitizing and analyzing the content of primary sources, and reading secondary literature on the history of religion and surveillance in the United States.

    Currently, my research is focused on working four problems questions: 1) Federal responses to religiously motivated violence against abortion clinics and abortion providers during the 1990s. 1) The FBI's response to the Minute Men, a domestic terrorist organization that emerged in the 1960s and was the predecessor to the modern militia movement and militant pro-second amendment organizations. 3) Religious responses to gun violence and crime during the 1960s. 4) Investigations of Communism infiltration of churches in the 1960s. Depending on student interests and aptitude, we can discuss tailoring the research to their interests in these four broad areas. 
  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: 'Thursday, September 5, 2024, at 2:00-2:30 PM (Zoom link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/95889727212). '
  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: "If the student can read, write, and take good notes, they'll be fine."
  title_of_the_project: 'God’s Watchers: Domestic Surveillance and Religious Activism from the Civil War to the War on Terror'
  update_url: 'https://cre.fsu.edu/urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal?token=n-Dy8J_TGK4DMZbshPeZL3ZqcFU022Iha2HzPy4m_ho'
  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_wh: ''
  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: ''
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'Yes'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: ''
  year: '2024'