Metrics That Matter: Counting What’s Really Important to College Students, co-author with Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, and Chris Muellerleile (John Hopkins University Press, 2023)

Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification, ed. with Anna Alexandrova and Stephen John (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities, and How We Can Fix Them  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Paperback Fall 2018.

Film: 

Whatever Happened to Solar Innovation? (film, 80 minutes, 2015). Vimeo.  

“Against the Day: The Struggle for Public Education in California,” co-editor, South Atlantic Quarterly 110:2 (2011).

“The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University,” co-editor of special issue of Representations (2011)

“Rebuilding Public Universities,” special issue editor for Academe (November-December 2011). 

Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class, (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Gold Winner, 2008 Book of the Year Award, ForeWord Magazine. Paperback edition, Spring 2011.

Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003).

The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). 

Mapping Multiculturalism, ed. with Avery Gordon (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s, ed. with Ron Strickland (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).