Academic Brands

Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication at UCLA. He has also taught at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, UC Davis, and the EHESS (Paris). A former Guggenheim, IAS, and CASBS fellow, he is the author of Galileo, Courtier (1993) and Galileo's Instruments of Credit (2006), the editor of The Science Studies Reader (1998), and the co-editor of Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property (2011), Nature Engaged (2011), From Russia with Code (2019), and Gaming the Metrics (2020). Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a leading scholar of intellectual property and law and culture. Her articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and numerous other law journals. Her book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice, was published in 2012 by Yale University Press.

'This one-of-a-kind collection integrates scholarship on trademarks, marketing, and communication with analyses of the so-called neoliberal university to examine the social, cultural, and political contexts of higher education in relation to the rise of the brand economy. Wide in scope and non-technical in presentation, it offers some lessons for higher education leaders and many insights for critical scholars. … Highly recommended.' M. J. Garrison, Choice

• Prologue: Mario Biagioli and Madhavi Sunder; Part I. Are Academic Brands Distinctive: 1. Distinctive Excellence Mario Biagioli; 2. One of a kind like you: The university as a personalized generic Celia Lury; 3. The public higher education brand Deven Desai; Part II. Local and Global Dimensions: 4. Academic brands and online education Paul Berman; 5. University brands as Geographical indications Jeremy Sheff; 6. Elite universities as luxury brands Haochen Sun; Part III. Conflicted Interests, Haunting Associations: 7. Academic branding and cognitive dissonance Mark Bartholomew; 8. A captive audience: Corporate propaganda on the American college campus Joshua Hunt; 9. When brands go bad: The rise and fall, and Re-Rise and Re-Fall, of Isaac royall, Jr. Janet Halley; Epilogue: The Aesthetic university Madhavi Sunder.