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Meet Chad Wellmon

Chad Wellmon

Chad Wellmon is a professor of German at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University and Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age.

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After the University
Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work

Chad Wellmon

Publication Date: June 23, 2026
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Organizing Enlightenment
Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University

Chad Wellmon

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