Negotiating the Academic Social Contract

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Dr. Emily J. Levine is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History at Stanford University. She is the author of Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association. Levine has published in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Review of Books, and Foreign Policy, as well as in top scholarly journals. Mitchell L. Stevens is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University, where he also co-leads the Stanford Pathways Lab (pathwayslab. stanford.edu). His most recent books are Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2018).