Unsettling the University

Sharon Stein (VANCOUVER, BC / MUSQUEAM TERRITORY) is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of British Columbia and a visiting professor with the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University. She is the founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network and a founding member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective.

• IntroductionChapter 1. A Colonial History of the Higher Education PresentChapter 2. The Violent Origins of US Higher Education in the Colonial and Antebellum ErasChapter 3. Dispossession at the Roots of "Democracy's Colleges": The Colonial Legacy of Land-Grant InstitutionsChapter 4. The "Golden Age" of Higher Education and the Underside of the American DreamChapter 5. Inclusion is Not Reparation: Reckoning with Violence or Reproducing Higher Education Exceptionalism?Chapter 6. Imagining Higher Education OtherwiseAcknowledgementsWorks CitedNotesIndex

Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education is not only a critique of higher education but rather a grounded approach to critique hegemonic systems that reproduce colonial foundations and white supremacy....This call to action by Stein urges not only higher education institutions and individuals to move beyond superficial gestures but also to take concrete steps toward decolonization and a social transformation.—Globalisation, Societies and Education