Degrees of Empire
Noncitizen Students and the Making of U.S. Higher Education
$83.25
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
A sweeping history of how noncitizen students shaped U.S. universities
From colonial missionary schools to the globalized university of the twentieth century, U.S. higher education has long depended on students who were never meant to belong. Degrees of Empire tells the untold history of how noncitizen students – Indigenous youth, students from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and others positioned outside the boundaries of citizenship – have been central to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781531514563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1531514561 |
| Author: | Abigail Boggs |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
| Imprint: | Fordham University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 1753mm |
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Abbie Boggs offers a profoundly structural but simultaneously humane account of the American university. In organizing her study around the figure of the noncitizen student, Boggs reveals how tensions and contradictions between university, state, capital, and empire evolve over time, shaping the very fabric of the institutions we inhabit.—Isaac Kamola, Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, HartfordPowerful, timely, erudite and rigorously researched, Degrees of Empire is incredibly prescient in this moment as the Trump regime targets international students for deportation. Readers of this book will come away with an understanding that such authoritarian orientations are inherent to the structure of international education. Indeed, Boggs gives us a framework for understanding the entire sweep of US empire.—Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference
About The Author
Abigail Boggs
Abigail Boggs is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education Studies and affiliated faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. Her writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Feminist Studies, The Journal of Academic Freedom, and other venues, and explores race, migration, higher education, and the politics of knowledge.
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