Jerome Tharaud is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University, where he teaches American literature and culture. He is the author of Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape (Princeton University Press, 2020). His current book project investigates the relationship of settler colonialism, resource scarcity, and culture in the modern American West.
Jerome Tharaud
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America’s “Land Grab” Universities: Robert Lee on Colonial Extraction by “Treaty-Like Agreements”
“It’s not about the land underneath campuses. It’s land at a distance, that can be sold or managed to raise funds for endowments.”
