College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• PhD, Temple University
• MA, New York University
• BA, University of Pennsylvania

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research Interests:

• The Commodification of Culture
• Consumer Culture and the Production of Value
• Cultural Change in Higher Education
• Digital Media and Learning
• Learning and Communication

Bio:

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Selected Publications:

Books

• Robinson, S., Lackéus, M., Shumar, W. (forthcoming) Teaching for meaningful learning in higher education; shaping university futures. London: Bloomsbury.
• Shumar, W. & Mitman, T. (2023). Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement, As part of the Routledge Critical Beverage Studies Series, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
• Shumar, W. (2017). Inside Mathforum.org: Analysis of an Online Mathematics Education Community. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Canaan, J. & Shumar, W. (Eds.) (2008). Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University. New York: Routledge.
• Renninger, K. A. & Shumar, W. (Eds.) (2002). Building Virtual Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Shumar, W. (1997). College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education. London: Falmer Press.

Book Chapters

• Coffman, N. & Shumar, W. (2023). Binge new world: Streaming television narratives and the interpellated subject. In A. Ferchaud & J. M. Proffitt (Eds) in Television’s Streaming Wars (Routledge Advances in Television Studies). Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon & New York: Routledge.
• Shumar, W. and Bengtsen, S. S. E. (2021). An entrepreneurial ecology for higher education: a new approach to student formation, in: Bengtsen, S. S. E., Robinson, S. and Shumar W. (Eds) The University Becoming: Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory. Springer Nature.
• Robinson, S. Thestrup, K. and Shumar, W. (2021). Active citizenship and agency: creating experimenting communities for the future university, in: Bengtsen, S. S. E., Robinson, S. and Shumar W. (Eds) The University Becoming: Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory. Springer Nature.
• Matranga, A., Silverman, J., Klein, V.E. & Shumar, W. (2018). Designing Technology to Scaffold Generative Pedagogical Practice. In Silverman & Hoyos (Eds.), Advances in the Research of Distance Mathematics Education Mediated by Technology: An International Perspective. Springer Nature.
• Sebastian, M. & Shumar, W. (2018). The Digital Age and the Social Imaginary, in the Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age.  Springer Verlag for inclusion in their "Law, Governance and Technology Series".
• Shumar, W. & Robinson, S. (2018) Universities as societal value drivers; Entrepreneurial practices for a better future, chapter for The Thinking University, edited by Søren S. E. Bengtsen and Ronald Barnett,  published by Springer.
• Shumar, W., & Robinson, S. (2018). Rethinking the Entrepreneurial University for the 21st Century. In R. Barnett, & M. A. Peters (Eds.), The Idea of the University: Volume 2 – Contemporary Perspectives. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
• Shumar, W. (2018) Caught between commodification and audit: Contradictions in American higher education in Urciuoli, B. (Ed.) The Experience of Neoliberal Education. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Publishers.

Journal Articles and Proceedings

• Postner, L., Ellis, H. J. C., Hislop, G. W. and Shumar, W. (2024). The Potential of Humanitarian Applications to Increase Interest and Motivation of Underrepresented Student Groups. SIGCSE 2024: The 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 1780 – 1781. Published Mar/14/2024.
• Braught, G., Jackson, S., Macdonnell, C. Postner, L., Wurst, K. R., Shumar, W. (2024). GitKit: Learning Free and Open Source Collaboration in Context. SIGCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, March 2024, Pages 144–150, https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630864
• Shumar, W., Silverman, J., Moyer, A. E., Casino, M., Condon, B., Murasko, D., King, D., Stanford, J. S. (2023). Use of a Professional Development Course to Promote Student-Centered Teaching in Large STEM Courses. College Teaching, DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2023.2246618
• Shumar, W. (2020). Eroding Academic Freedom Through the Assessment of Academic Practice. In Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 2(1): 67-87.
• Shumar, W. & Robinson, S. (2019) Agency, identity & risk-taking in entrepreneurship education. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Special issue Imagining the Future University, edited by Søren S. E. Bengsten and Ronald Barnett.)
• Shumar, W. (2016). TED: The University Intellectual as Globalized Neoliberal Consumer Self, in Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences.
• Shumar, W. & Wright, S. (2016). Introduction Special Issue: Social Media and New Visions of Education. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences.
• Shumar, W. & Madison, N. (2013) Ethnography in a Virtual World. Ethnography and Education. Vol. 8 (2): 255-272.
• Shumar, W. (2010). Key Contributors: Homi Bhabha. Cultural Studies of Science Education, Vol. 5(2): 495-506.