A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey
to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils
associated with breaching the town-gown divide.
* Includes contributions from departments of geography,
comparative literature, sociology, communications, history,
English, public health, and biology
* Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make
their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider
audience
* Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--one
based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation
* Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming
a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while
remaining within a university system
* Provides a broad prescription for social change, both within
and outside the university
