Steven Brint

Steven Brint is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside and Director of the Colleges & Universities 2000 Project.  He is a faculty associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley.  His studies of higher education have been funded for more than two decades by the National Science Foundation and four philanthropies. 

He is the author of four and editor of three books and has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters.  He has also written for The American Prospect, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Washington Post, among other publications. His most recent book, Two Cheers for Higher Education, won honorable mention for the American Sociological Association’s Pierre Bourdieu Award, was co-recipient of the Emory Elliott Book Prize, and was named one of the top 10 books on higher education for 2019 by Forbes. 

He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Sociological Research Association.  In recent years, he has written extensively about academic freedom issues, both in relation to challenges from the left and the right.  A native of Albuquerque, NM, Steven Brint received his BA with highest honors from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.