What Makes a Research University?

Speaker Series

What Makes a Research University?

Part 1 of Reimagining the University

February 17, 2023

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Susan Pedersen

Columbia University

Susan G. Pedersen is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the co-editor of Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century (2005) and the author of The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, which won the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.

Chad Wellmon

University of Virginia

Chad Wellmon is Professor of German Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the co-editor of The Rise of the Research University (2017) and the author of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University.

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.