Christopher Newfield

Jan 9, 2025 | mla.confex.com | Paula Krebs |Christopher Newfield |Phillip Brian Harper |Christopher Thornton

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Nov 3, 2024 | utotherescue.blogspot.com | Christopher Newfield |Michael Meranze |Chris Newfield

Michael Meranze and I stopped this blog not long after I left UC Santa Barbara to take up my current job as Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in London, England--it’s great!--and Michael became divisional chair of the UCLA Academic Senate and then co-chair of that campus’s Covid task force.  We had a few relapses. I wrote a late-pandemic post on the UC budget in October 2021 and another in January 2022.

Sep 3, 2024 | isrf.org | Christopher Newfield

In this Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield asks what the novel Tastes Like War teaches us about the importance of research. Feature image by Marcus Hessenberg. As I was about to leave the kitchen with my second cup of coffee, my partner came downstairs. We hugged good morning, as we always do, and she told me how she’d stayed up late to finish a memoir she’d been reading by Grace M. Cho.

Dec 1, 2023 | berghahnjournals.com | Christopher Newfield |Georgie Wemyss |Steffen Jöhncke |Annika Capelán

Christopher Newfield was Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently the Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. Working in critical university studies and contemporary cultural studies, he is the author of books on the U.S. university, the effects of quantification and U.S. literature and racial culture.

Oct 1, 2023 | makehistory.substack.com | Charles Petersen |Christopher Newfield |Warren’s proposals point

Welcome to Making History, a newsletter about how historians make history. And how do historians really make history these days? By wasting their time on the internet. Here’s a few glimpses from this week at where all those hours went. To subscribe, go here. It’s free!And you thought Tim Barker’s reviews were mean.