Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters

Register here for a virtual discussion on Eve Darian-Smith’s new book Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters.

Darian Smith (distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Global Studies and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine and fellow at the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom) will be joined by a number of experts. Panelists include: Camilla Croso (executive director, Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas), Karin Fischer (senior writer, Chronicle of Higher Education), Milica Popović (senior postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences and former project lead at Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, Central European University in Vienna), Barrett Taylor (professor and coordinator of higher education, University of North Texas, fellow at the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom), and Jeremy Young (senior advisor, American Association of Colleges & Universities). The discussion will be moderated by Isaac Kamola (director of the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom and professor of political science at Trinity College).