Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
2023-2024 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Public Affairs in North America
| Email: | elizabeth.shermer@carleton.ca |
Why did the 21st century begin with inequality in the US unlike anything seen since the late nineteenth century? That’s the question that drove my research, teaching, and service before I came to Carleton, where I am honored to hold the 2023-2024 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Public Affairs in North America. I am historian by training and continue to seek answers to that question by looking at the history of politics, public policy, labor, and capitalism. My research has appeared in op-eds, academic articles, and scholarly books. I am thrilled to be here at Carleton finishing two more books related to that central research question: Work, Capitalism, and Democracy (an edited collection) and The Business of Education (a scholarly monograph).
Selected Publications:
“Borrowed to the Hilt,” The Baffler, October 11, 2023
“Want to Honor Labor Day? Check Your Paystub”, Time, September 2, 2023
Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning In College Debt, Harvard University Press (2021)
“Higher Education for the 99 Percent,” Dissent, September 17, 2021
Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Capitalism, Penn Press (2013)
Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape, The University of Arizona Press (edited collection, 2013)
The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, Penn Press (edited with Nelson Lichtenstein, 2012 & 2016 re-release)