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Christopher J. Newfield is Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London, UK, and until 2020 was Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a well-known American academician and the author of several books and many papers in the following areas of research: Critical University Studies, quantification studies, the intellectual and social effects of the humanities, contemporary U.S. cultural history, and the relation between humanities knowledge and artificial intelligence. He became a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Literature and American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019. His book "The Great Mistake" (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2016) was welcomed as a "timely, persuasive" warning against the evolving trend of privatization that led to "anti-egalitarian policy choices" affecting public funding of higher education in the US.

Career
Newfield graduated with a BA from Reed College in 1980. This was followed by an MA from Cornell University in 1984, and a PhD from the same institution in 1988. In 1987, Newfield became an Assistant Professor of English at Rice University. He was an Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara from 1989 to 1995. In 1999-2000 he was a Visiting Associate Professor of English at Duke University. From 2008 to 2011, he was Director of the UC Education Abroad Programs for Lyon, Grenoble, Bordeaux and Paris. In 2001, he returned to UC Santa Barbara as a Professor of English, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of Literature and American Studies in 2019. Newfield's academic research has often dealt with ongoing flaws in the politics and funding of public higher education in the US and their undesirable impact on American culture. A complete list of his academic publications is available on Google Scholar. Together with Michael Meranze, he publishes the blog Remaking the University.

Books

 * Gordon, Avery F., Newfield C (1997). Mapping multiculturalism (2. print ed.). Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2546-8
 * Newfield, Christopher (2003). Ivy and industry: business and the making of the American university, 1880-1980. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3201-5  https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8223-3201-5
 * Newfield, Christopher (2011). Unmaking the public university: the forty-year assault on the middle class (Paperback edition ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-06036-4
 * Newfield, Christopher (2018). The great mistake: how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them. Critical university studies (Paperback edition ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2703-4
 * Newfield, Christopher; Alexandrova, Anna; John, Stephen, eds. (2022). Limits of the numerical: the abuses and uses of quantification. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-81715-6
 * Bleemer, Zachary; Kumar, Mukul; Mehta, Aashish; Muellerleile, Christopher; Newfield, Christopher (2023). Metrics that matter: student life in the quantified university. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-4573-1