He writes for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm blog and maintains a Youtube channel focussed on academic labor issues. He serves on the national council of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and on the advisory board of several journals including AAUP’s Academe. While president of MLA’s Graduate Student Caucus, he founded Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. His most recent book is How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU, 2008). He is at work on a book about the bipartisan failure of education policy, and another about participatory culture in the United States.