Mitchell L. Stevens is professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology at Stanford University, where he also co-leads the Stanford Pathways Lab. He is the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007), and, most recently, Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2018) with Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Seteney Shami. He has written scholarly articles for a variety of academic journals and commentary for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, the New York Times, and other outlets.