User:Nhudson35/Christopher Newfield

Christopher "Chris" Newfield is a Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an author, a political and social commentator, and a blogger. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University, The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980, and The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America. He was a joint editor of Mapping Multiculturalism and After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s.

Newfield writes on a range of topics, including higher education finance, the culture wars, affirmative action, capitalism, social and socioeconomic stratification, and academic freedom. Newfield is founder of the blog, Remaking the Public University.

Education and Professional Life
Newfield received his, and his Ph.D in American Literature from Cornell University in 1988, his M.A. from Cornell in 1984, and his B.A. from Reed University in 1980.

Newfield taught at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and1981, at Cornell University from 1981 to 1987, at Rice University from 1987-1989, at Duke University from 1999-2000, and at the University of California since 1989.