Forthcoming Fall 2027

 

The Oxford Handbook of Knowledge Production and the Research University

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Robert Frodeman, Christine Gerrard, and Steve Fuller, editors

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The university today is under tremendous pressure -- funding cuts, political attacks, its status undermined by social media and the internet, and in increasing competition with research coming from the private sector. The authors of the essays in this volume explore all these issues and more.

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The volume

• traces the historical evolution of the research university

• explores the challenges presented by new knowledge systems (i.e., private research, internet-based knowledge, and AI)

• surveys the reasons underlying the current attacks on university culture

• discusses the uses and limitations of interdisciplinary approaches for making academic knowledge socially relevant

• surveys innovative experiments in knowledge production across the university landscape, and 

• reconceives the role of the humanities in both the university and society