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American Campus Podcast
The Other University with Chad Wellmon
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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References and suggested readings:
- Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press.
- Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Bavarian L. Baldwin. 2021. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books.
- David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press.
- Matteo Pasquinelli. 2023. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. Verso.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception.
- Sean Keilen. 2026. Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts. Princeton University Press.
- Chadwellmon.com
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