isaac.kamola@trincoll.edu

I am currently an associate professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. My teaching and research interest focus on the political economy of higher education, African anticolonial theory, and critical globalization studies. My latest book project, Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (with Ralph Wilson, forthcoming 2021), examines the dark money behind the so-called campus free speech crisis. My previous book, Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (Duke, 2019; ToC and Intro), examines how relationships between universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial organizations shape the reproduction of academic knowledge about the world as global. It documents how the state-sponsored Cold War university—which imagined the world as a system of nation-states—was gradually replaced by more marketized forms of academic knowledge production and, in the process, created the conditions within which “the global” has become a particular object of knowledge.

South Africa, Colonialism, Education, International Order