Postdoctoral Associates 2011

Brendan Cantwell published several studies on postdoctoral researchers over the past year, including “Academic In-Sourcing: International Postdoctoral Employment and New Modes of Production” in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management; “Unseen Workers in the Academic Factory: Perceptions of Neoracisim among Postdocs in the United States and United Kingdom” with Jenny J. Lee in the Harvard Educational Review; and “Transnational Mobility and International Academic Employment: Positioning and Gate Keeping in an Academic Competition Arena,” which will be published in Minerva in December 2011. He also wrote an entry on international students for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education edited by James A. Banks. Brendan is the co-author with Professor Sheila Slaughter of “Transatlantic Moves to the Market: United States and European Union” to be published in Higher Education. He presented a paper co-authored with IHE graduate Charles Mathies on U.S. research capacity at the Consortium for Higher Education Research (CHER) annual meeting at the University of Iceland in June 2011, and he is currently working on several papers with IHE Ph.D. student Barrett J. Taylor on postdoctoral labor, global university rankings, and the organizational and financial position of arts and humanities units.

Lijing Yang joined the Institute of Higher Education as a postdoctoral research associate in August 2011. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a concentration in higher education policy. She will be mentored by Jim Hearn to continue her research examining higher education finance policy and access in the U.S. and other countries. Her current research interests include higher education organization and governance, economics of education and research methods.