François Furstenberg is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches on the history of the US and the Atlantic World, and writes occasionally about university governance. His books include In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (2006); and When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation (2014).
François Furstenberg
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The Misuses of the University
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
