Christopher NewfieldChristopher Newfield is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current areas of research span innovation theory, race relations, science studies, the future of solar energy, humanities-based appraches to economics, and Critical University Studies, a field that he helped found. His most recent books include Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 (Duke University Press, 2003), Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2008), and The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Read More Read Less