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University Challenges and Reforms

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Syed Farid Alatas
National University of Singapore
2
André Marinha
University of Lisbon
3
Michael Kwet
Yale University
4
M. Lee Pelton
Boston Foundation
5
Danya Al-Saleh
University of Washington
6
Carla Liuzzo
Queensland University of Technology
7
Lia B Wheatley
Unknown
8
Ranjan Kumar Sahoo
University of Delhi
9
Molly Hiro
University of Portland
10
Romel Espinel
Stevens Institute of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Coloniality of Knowledge and the Autonomous Knowledge Tradition
Sociology Compass|2024
10 cit.
2
Crisis of imagination: Integrating degrowth pedagogy for sustainability innovation in business schools
Futures|2025
4 cit.
3
Introduction: Intellectual decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives
Sociology Compass|2024
2 cit.
4
Beyond the neoliberal straitjacket: the Degrowth Pedagogy Framework (DPF) for business schools
The International Journal of Management Education|2025
2 cit.
5
WIP: Improving Writing Instruction, Practice, and Feedback in an Introduction to engineering course
Unknown Journal|2024
0 cit.
6
What Universities Owe Democracy
Journal of Economic Literature|2024
0 cit.
7
Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?
Unknown Journal|2025
0 cit.
8
The decolonization of research: structures of inquiry and theory
International Journal of Social Research Methodology|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Nick Mitchell
University of California, Santa Cruz
2
Catherine Rottenberg
Goldsmiths University of London
3
Marisa Méndez-Brady
University of Maine
4
Daniela Tepe-Belfrage
University of Liverpool
5
Krystal Sundstrom
University of Oregon
6
Yegor V. Neborskii
Unknown
7
Neha Vora
American University of Sharjah
8
Claudia Dutson
Royal College of Art
9
Noelle Chaddock
Unknown
10
Lenora Hanson
New York University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage
European Journal of Cultural Studies|2023
43 cit.
2
The 2022 World Cup and Migrants' Rights in Qatar: Racialised Labour Hierarchies and the Influence of Racial Capitalism
The Political Quarterly|2022
34 cit.
3
Mediating menopause: Feminism, neoliberalism, and biomedicalisation
Feminist Theory|2023
22 cit.
4
Critical University Studies
Annual Review of Anthropology|2023
14 cit.
5
US Higher education and fossil fuels: the limits of liberalism in university climate action
Climate and Development|2023
8 cit.
6
How to tame your hormones: menopause rage in media discourse
Feminist Media Studies|2024
7 cit.
7
Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality
The British Journal of Criminology|2022
6 cit.
8
From Human Rights to a Politics of Care
Humanity|2023
6 cit.
9
New Cartographies of Belonging and Exclusion in the United Arab Emirates
Social Change|2025
6 cit.
10
The menopausal subject at work: gendered embodiment and neoliberal management in the UK
Journal of Gender Studies|2025
4 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Brian Massumi
Arts and Humanities Research Council
2
Winifred Curran
DePaul University
3
Elizabeth Nixon
Bournemouth University
4
Richard Scullion
Southampton Solent University
5
Silvia Federici
Hofstra University
6
Evan Schofer
UC Irvine Health
7
David S. Park
California Northstate University
8
Peter Bansel
NSW Department of Education
9
Roger L. Geiger
Pennsylvania State University
10
Jeff B. Murray
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History|1989
22.8k cit.
2
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Poetics Today|1984
14.7k cit.
3
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
American Sociological Review|2005
1.6k cit.
4
The Autonomy of Affect
Cultural Critique|1995
1.5k cit.
5
Neoliberalism and education
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education|2007
902 cit.
6
For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University
Open Collections|2015
815 cit.
7
Noise, the Political Economy of Music
Theatre Journal|1989
713 cit.
8
Methods of Applied Mathematics
American Journal of Physics|1953
689 cit.
9
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
American Sociological Review|2000
675 cit.
10
Having, being and higher education: the marketisation of the university and the transformation of the student into consumer
Teaching in Higher Education|2009
629 cit.

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