On (corporate) foundation investments in knowledge production.

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References and suggested readings:

• Emily Hauptmann. 2022. Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970. University Press of Kansas. 
• ACP episode on eugenics and the origins of statistics
• ACP episodes on funding and knowledge production: the academic-military-industrial complex and Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma
• Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. 2023. The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities. Duke University Press.
• Samantha Rose Hill, ed. 2024. What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt. Liveright.
• Emily Hauptmann’s faculty page and ResearchGate page

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