Seeing the World: How Us Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era

by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Mitchell L. Stevens, Seteney Shami

Book Overview

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan

U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades of government and philanthropic investment in international scholarship, the most prestigious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691202931
• ISBN13: 9780691202938
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"