PUBLICATIONS

Books

Canaan, J.  & Shumar, W. (forthcoming) 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

Shumar, W. & Sarmiento, J. (Forthcoming).  Communities of Practice at the Math Forum: Supporting Teachers as Professionals. In Hildreth, P. & Kimble, C. (Eds.) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Shumar, W. (forthcoming). Commodification verses Civic Engagement: Service Learning in the Sociology Curriculum. To be published in Cope, J., Canaan, Joyce E and Harris, Dave (Ed.), Learning and Teaching Social and Political Theory (Vol. C-SAP Monograph). Birmingham, UK: Birmingham University.

 

Shumar, W., Renninger, K. A. Weimar, S. (forthcoming). Communities, Texts and Consciousness: The Practice of Participation at the Math Forum In Joni Falk and Brian Drayton (Eds.) Behind the Scenes of Electronic Communities that Nurture Professional Development. New York: Teacher College Press.

 

Shumar, W. (2004). "Shadow Dialogues": On the Early History of Anthropology and Psychoanalysis, in Culture Subject Psyche: Anthropology and Psychoanalysis Revisited. London: Whurr Publishers and Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

 

Renninger, K. A. & Shumar, W. (2004). The Centrality of Culture and Community to Participant Learning at and with the Math Forum. In S. Barab, J. Grey, & R. Kling (Eds.), Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning (pp.  ). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

 

Shumar, W. (2003). The Role of Community and Belonging in Online Learning, in M. Mardis (Ed.) Developing Digital Libraries for K-12, Washington, DC: ERIC Monograph Series.

 

Shumar, W. (2003). Internet Dreaming: Investigating Online Community at the Math Forum. In A. B. Shostak (ed.) Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World.  M. E. Sharpe.

 

Shumar, W. & Church, J. T. (2003). Above and Below: Mapping Social Positions Within the Academy. In Deborah Herman & Julie Schmid (eds.) Cogs in the Classroom Factory, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

 

Shumar, W. & Renninger, K. A. (2002). Introduction: On Conceptualizing Community. in K. Ann Renninger & Wesley Shumar (eds.) Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, Cambridge University Press.

 

Renninger , K. A. & Shumar, W. (2002). Community Building with and for Teacher at The Math Forum. In K. Ann Renninger & Wesley Shumar (eds.) Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, Cambridge University Press.

 

Molino, A. & Shumar, W. (2002). Returns of the Repressed: Some New Applications of Psychoanalysis to Ethnography. In J. Scalia (ed.) The Vitality of Objects. London: Continuum Press.

 

Shumar, W. (2001). Protean Impulses: A Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton, in A. Molino and Christine Ware, (eds.) Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis, Athlone Press (London) and Wesleyan University Press.

 

Shumar, W. (1995). Higher Education and the State: the Irony of Fordism in American Universities, in John Smyth (Ed.)  Academic Work: The Changing Labor Process in Higher Education. Open University Press.

 

Journal Articles and Proceedings

Shumar, W. and Bach, C. (2005). Negotiating Identity in The Math ForumÕs Online Mentoring Project. Proceedings of the 5^th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, The Association of Computing Machinery.

 

Giersch, S., Klotz,  E. A., Mcmartin, F., Muramatsu, B., Renninger, K.A., Shumar, W., Weimar, S. (2004). If You Build It, Will They Come? Participant Involvement in Digital Libraries. To be published in D-Lib Magazine

 

Shumar, W. (2004). Global Pressures, Local Reactions: Higher Education and Global Economic Pressures. In Qualitative Studies in Education. 17(6) Nov.-Dec. 2004

 

Shumar, W. (2004). Making Strangers at Home. In The Journal of Higher Education, Volume 75, No. 1 (January/February 2004).

 

Molino, A. & Shumar, W. (2002). I ritorni del rimosso: nuove applicazioni della psicoanalisi allÕetnografia (translation of previously published article) Quaderni de Gli Argonauti N. 4 (Dicembre 2002).

 

Shumar, W. (2001). The Culture of Consumption as Idolatry: Meaning and Commodification in Bridges: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science,  Spring/Summer 2001.

 

Shumar, W. (1999). Laboring in the Dream Factory Part 1 in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, London, Taylor and Francis Publishers.

 

Lareau, A. & Shumar, W. (1996). The Problem of Individualism in Family-School Policies. Sociology of Education, Special Policy Issue.

 

Review Articles

Shumar, W. (1999). Review article of Being and Worth by Andrew Collier in Alethia, Vol.2, No. 2, the newsletter of the International Association of Critical Realism.