Nick Mitchell writes on higher education and the politics of knowledge in the US. Her research can be found in essays published in Feminist Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, The New Inquiry, and Spectre, as well as in two forthcoming books: “Discipline and Surplus: Black Studies at the Dawn of Neoliberalism” (under contract with Duke University Press), and “The University, in Theory: Essays on Institutionalized Knowledge”. She works in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.