Academia

• White Man’s Country: The Image of Africa in the American Century (PhD Dissertation)
• “Tarzan’s White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane” (American Literature)

• Making Sense of Senseless Violence at Berkeley (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform (AACU)
• From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education (Dissent)
• Academe’s Willful Ignorance of African Literature (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Public universities should be free (Al Jazeera)
• Against Student Stories (The New Inquiry)
• “The Grass Is Closed”: What I Have Learned About Power from the Police, Chancellor Birgeneau, and Occupy Cal (zunguzungu)
• Take Five (part one)
• Take Five (part two)
• On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses (The New Inquiry)
• Let Us Eat Cake (The New Inquiry)
• A Different Baton (The New Inquiry)
• Il faut défendre la société contre les étudiants: Québec’s Law 78 (The New Inquiry)
• What Terry Sullivan’s Reinstatement at UVa tells us (The New Inquiry)
• Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor (The New Inquiry)
• Questioning Clay Shirky (Inside Higher Education)
• My Norm is More Normal Than Yours: Academic Tweeting and Loose Fish (The New Inquiry)