Christopher Newfield

Christopher J. Newfield is an American academician and writer. He is Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London, and until 2020 was Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Newfield is the author of a number of books and many papers in the following areas of research: Critical University Studies, quantification studies, the intellectual and social effects of the humanities, contemporary U.S. cultural history, and the relation between humanities knowledge and artificial intelligence. His book ''The Great Mistake'' (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2016) was welcomed as a "timely, persuasive" warning against the evolving trend of privatization that led to "anti-egalitarian policy choices" affecting public funding of higher education in the US. Provided by Wikipedia