Professor Emerita of Higher Education Sheila Slaughter was the first occupant of the McBee Professorship of Higher Education. She came to the Institute from the University of Arizona. A distinguished scholar of higher education, her most recent book is Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education with Gary Rhoades. Professor Slaughter’s scholarship concentrates on the relationship between knowledge and power as it plays out in higher education policy at the state, federal, and global levels. During her career, she has focused on topics such as intellectual property and statutes, commercialization of academic science and technology market mechanisms in higher education, and, to borrow from the title of her most recent book, the dynamics of academic capitalism and the new economy. Professor Slaughter served as the President of ASHE, and received the ASHE and AERA lifetime research awards. She has substantial funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has served as consultant to the NSF. During 2004, she served as program director of Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Slaughter worked with the European Universities Project, Hedda - the European association of research centres, institutes and groups with expertise in higher education research, the Salzburg Seminar, and various groups in Mexico and Argentina on issues related to marketization and commercialization of science and curricula. Professor Slaughter is the author or co-author of four refereed books, the two most recent of which were published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. She has also published 34 refereed articles, 25 book chapters, 11 edited books or special journal issues, and 3 monographs. She has published in all of the leading journals of higher education including the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Higher Education, and Higher Education. In addition, she has published in major journals outside the field, ranging from sociology to science and technology studies because her scholarship cuts across several disciplines. Curriculum Vitae: Curriculum Vitae (209 KB) Contact Information Email: slaughtr@uga.edu Education Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Selected Publications Kauppinen, I., Cantwell, B., & Slaughter, S. (2017). Social mechanisms and strategic action fields: The example of the emergence of the European Research Area. International Sociology, 32(6), 796–813. Rosinger, K. O. & Taylor, B. J. & Coco, L. & Slaughter, S. (2016). Organizational segmentation and the prestige economy: Deprofessionalization in high- and low-resource departments. The Journal of Higher Education 87(1), 27-54. Sheila Slaughter and Barrett J. Taylor (Eds). 2016. Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development: Competitive Advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. Mathies, C. & Slaughter, S. (2013). University trustees as channels between academe and industry: Toward an understanding of the executive science network. Research Policy 42(6-7), 1286-1300. Taylor, B. J., Cantwell, B. & Slaughter, S. (2013). Quasi-markets in U.S. higher education: The humanities and institutional revenues. The Journal of Higher Education 84(5), 675-707.
