John Gilliom is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Ohio University, where he has received numerous awards for his teaching on law and American Politics.   His research interests center on the political and cultural dynamics surrounding the emergence of new forms of surveillance with a particular emphasis on gender, class, and the resistance of those who are targeted by surveillance programs.  He is the author of Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy (Chicago 2001) which explores how the words and actions of those who live under intensive monitoring challenge our prevailing ways of thinking about surveillance and privacy.  Gilliom is also the author of Surveillance, Privacy and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control (Michigan 1994), as well as articles on law, legal theory, and the politics of surveillance.   His current work explores the implementation of nationwide standardized educational testing under No Child Left Behind, with a special interest in resistance and compliance; race, class and gender; the ideologies of the testing culture; and the reformation of school curricula in response to the testing regime.  Away from the office, Professor Gilliom amuses himself with part-time farming, home restoration, and cooking; he also appears as a public speaker on surveillance and privacy.   Gilliom received his Ph D in 1990 at the University of Washington.