Scholars
Isaac Kamola
Trinity College
Based in
United States
North America
Isaac Kamola is an associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He is author of “Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War” (with Ralph Wilson, 2021) and “Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (2019).” He is the creator of Faculty First Responders, a program that monitors right-wing attacks on academics, and the Director for the Center on the Defense of Academic Freedom at the AAUP.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Social movementsPublications
Books
Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War, with Ralph Wilson (Pluto Press, 2021).
Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2019).
Articles
“Sensationalized Surveillance: Campus Reform and the Targeted Harassment of Faculty,” with Sam McCarthy, New Political Science, 2021.
“IR, the Critic, and the World: From Reifying the Discipline to Decolonizing the University,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2020, 1-26.
“Academic Freedom and Dark Money Donors: The Cases of Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Florida,” in Academic Freedom in a Plural World: Global Critical Perspectives, Nandini Ramanujam & Frédéric Mégret, eds. Central European Press (forthcoming).
“A Koch-funded Racial Backlash: Understanding the Critical Race Theory Moral Panic (in Four Acts),” in The Right to Learn: The War on Higher Education in a Multicultural Democracy, Valerie Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker (eds). Beacon Press (forthcoming).