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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 States

Focus areas of expertise

Social movements

How to Connect

Publications

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).