Scott Peters
As a professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, Scott Peters has established an innovative, publicly engaged teaching and research program that interweaves democratic theory and political and educational philosophy with historical and narrative methods. His research agenda centers on a critical study of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of higher education’s off-campus engagement work. His most recent book, “Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement” (Michigan State University Press, 2010), contributes to a new line of research on the critically important task of strengthening and defending higher education’s positive roles in and for a democratic society. He is the author of Imagining America’s Foreseeable Futures position paper, “Changing the Story about Higher Education’s Public Purposes and Work: Land-Grants, Liberty, and the Little Country Theater.”
