Rate My Professor Bryce Newell

Bryce Clayton Newell is the David and Nancy Petrone Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, where he also directs the SOJC Honors Program. He earned a PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington in 2015, a JD from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2010, an MS in Information Science from the University of Washington in 2013, and a BS in Multimedia Communication Technology from Utah Valley State College in 2006 (summa cum laude).

Newell's scholarship explores the legal, ethical, and social dimensions of surveillance technologies and information practices, with emphases on privacy and data protection, freedom of expression, police accountability via body-worn cameras, technology regulation, and information behaviors in humanitarian migrant aid. Before arriving at Oregon in 2019, he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky (2017–2019) and Postdoctoral Researcher and Senior Researcher at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (2015–2017). He has held recent visiting appointments at Utrecht University School of Law (2022–2023), Tilburg University (2024–2025), and will be a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Copenhagen in 2026. Newell authored Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras (University of California Press, 2021), recipient of the Surveillance Studies Network 2022 Book Award, and edited Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability (Routledge, 2021), Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (Routledge, 2019), and Privacy in Public Space: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges (Edward Elgar, 2017). His articles appear in leading journals including New Media & Society, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Surveillance & Society, Hastings Law Journal, and BYU Law Review. As Dialogue Editor for Surveillance & Society since 2019 and Co-Director of the Surveillance Studies Network since 2021, he contributes to shaping discourse in surveillance studies through editorial work and conference leadership.