Michael Meranze

Michael Meranze is a professor of history and served as chair of the Academic Senate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a member of the American Association of University Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Articles

Reclaiming Academic Freedom
Michael Meranze reviews David M. Rabban’s “Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right.”
Michael MeranzeJan 8
The Function of the University at the Present Time: On Julia Schleck’s “Dirty Knowledge”
Michael Meranze reviews Julia Schleck’s “Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism.”
Michael MeranzeJan 21, 2023
- Remaking the University
We Other Humanists: On Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s “Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age”
“Crisis” is both the driving force and the false consciousness of the humanities.
Michael MeranzeFeb 1, 2022
- Education
- Remaking the University
Remaking the University: Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Democracy and Interpretation in the United States
What do Frederick Douglass and the New Criticism have in common?
Michael MeranzeMar 15, 2018
Remaking the University: The Idea of the English University
Michael Meranze reviews Stefan Collini’s “Speaking of Universities.”
Michael MeranzeMay 23, 2017
Taking Care
Barbara Taylor's "The Last Asylum" is a gripping account of her own madness and a historical reflection on asylums and the implication of their demise.
Michael MeranzeNov 1, 2015
- Memoir & Essay
Pathology of the Carceral State
Crime and Punishment: Is it too late to control the carceral state? Michael Meranze on Marie Gottschalk’s "commanding and disturbing" new book.
Michael MeranzeFeb 4, 2015
- Politics
We Wish We Weren’t in Kansas Anymore: An Elegy for Academic Freedom
Michael MeranzeMar 4, 2014
- Remaking the University