Eyako Heh
- eyakoheh@u.northwestern.edu
- Advisor(s): Jones
- Entry Cohort: Fall 2023
Area(s) of Interest
Surveillance Studies; Science and Technology; Urban Sociology; Social Movements; Race and Ethnicity; Mixed Methods
Current Research
Eyako Heh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research explores how digital surveillance technologies shape urban decision-making processes, with a focus on immigration and the carceral state. Before coming to Northwestern, Eyako worked as a Senior Research Specialist for the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University and a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He received a B.S. in political science from The Ohio State University. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, and his non-academic writing can be found in The Columbus Dispatch and Net Politics.
Publications
Heh, Eyako, and Joel Wainwright. 2022. “No Privacy, No Peace: Urban Surveillance and the Movement for Black Lives.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City 3(2):121–41. doi: 10.1080/26884674.2022.2061392.