# Deepa Das Acevedo

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Deepa Das Acevedo, "The War on Tenure" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure (Cambridge UP, 2025) steps in to demystify what professors do and to explain the importance of tenure for their work. Deepa Das Acevedo takes readers on a backstage tour of tenure-stream academia to reveal hidden dy…

Deepa Das Acevedo, "The War on Tenure" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure (Cambridge UP, 2025) steps in to demystify what professors do and to explain the importance of tenure for their work. Deepa Das Acevedo takes readers on a backstage tour of tenure-stream academia to reveal hidden dy…

The Uberification of Academia: Why Adjunct Professors are Living in their Cars

We’ve done a couple (here and here) of shows recently about the war on cars. But we never discussed the connections, both literal and metaphorical, between the damage of “Big Car” and “Big University” . According to the tenured Emory law professor Deepa Das Acevedo, what she calls in her new book, …

Episode 15 -Ed Up Insights "Author Insights" ft. Deepa Das Acevedo

Deepa Das Acevedo is a law and anthropology scholar whose work sits at the intersection of academic labor, institutional culture, and the evolving structures of higher education. A professor at Emory University, she blends rigorous legal analysis with anthropological insight to illuminate how facul…

Tenure with Deepa Das Acevedo

What is academic tenure, what are the main arguments for or against it? Why has it gotten harder to get, and to what extent should public scholarship be a criteria for it? Deepa Das Acevedo discusses her book The War on Tenure.

Tenure’s Endless Numbered Days

In its long and often tortured history, the faculty-job-protection status known as tenure has been defended as an essential safeguard for academic freedom. Professors, the argument goes, need to know that they won’t get fired for researching and teaching about controversial topics. In theory, tenur…

S2E2 - Labor Contracts In Higher Ed

Episode Notes This episode features Dr. Deepa Das Acevedo, an Associate Professor at the Emory University School of Law. Tenure is often discussed but rarely understood with data. Dr. Deepa Das Acevedo discusses her groundbreaking research and her book, The War on Tenure. She provides a data-drive…

Higher Ed 101: Tenure Explained

Tenure is a defining feature of U.S. higher education, but these days the practice is in decline and under attack by critics. On this episode, Jeff and Michael talk with Jacques Berlinerblau, a Georgetown University professor who has written extensively about the tenure system, for an explainer on …

Deepa Das Acevedo, Emory University School of Law - What Is Faculty Tenure and Why Is It So Controversial?

Why is faculty tenure so controversial? Deepa Das Acevedo, associate professor of law at the Emory University School of Law, explores this question. Faculty Bio: Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and Associate Professor at Emory University School of Law. Since 2020, she has been studying …