Donald Fisher

Donald Fisher is a professor and Co-Director at the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, in the Department of Educational Studies, at the University of British Columbia. 

His PhD was "The impact of American foundations on the development of British university education, 1900-1939", Thesis (Ph. D. in Education)--University of California, Berkeley, June 1977.

Books

 * Donald Fisher, The social sciences in Canada: 50 years of national activity by the Social Science Federation of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1991).
 * Donald Fisher, Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Research Council (University of Michigan Press, 1993).
 * Theresa R. Richardson and Donald Fisher, The development of the social sciences in the United States and Canada: the role of philanthropy (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999).
 * Adrienne S. Chan and Donald Fisher (eds.), The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture (University of British Columbia Press, 2008). Review

Exchange with Martin Bulmer

 * Donald Fisher, "The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Reproduction and Production of Hegemony," Sociology 17 (1983).; "Boundary Work: Toward a Model of the Relation of Power/Knowledge," Knowledge 10 (1988): 156-76
 * Martin Bulmer, "Philanthropic Foundations and the Development of the Social Sciences: A Reply to Donald Fisher," Sociology 18 (1984): 572-79
 * Donald Fisher, "Philanthropic Foundations and the Social Sciences: A Response to Martin Bulmer," Sociology, 18 (1984): 581-87.

Other Articles

 * Donald Fisher, "Rockefeller Philanthropy: And the Rise of Social Anthropology", Anthropology Today, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Feb., 1986), pp. 5-8.

Recent Articles

 * Fisher, D., Rubenson, K., Jones, G., & Shanahan, T. (2008). The political economy of post-secondary education: A comparison of British Columbia, Ontario and Québec. Higher Education.
 * Fisher, D., & Edwards, G. (2007). Histoire sociale de la Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation: La reconnaissance du champ l’étude de l’éducation. Ottawa: Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation/Canadian Society for the Study of Education.
 * Chan, A. S., Fisher, D., & Rubenson, K. (Eds.) (2007). The evolution of professionalism: Educational policy in the Provinces and Territories of Canada. Vancouver: Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training.
 * Fisher, D., Rubenson, K., Bernatchez, J., Clift, R., Jones, G., Lee, J., MacIvor, M., Meredith, J., Shanahan, T., & Trottier, C. (2006). Canadian federal policy and postsecondary education. Vancouver: Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training.
 * Fisher, D. (2006). The social sciences at Bishop’s University: The professoriate and changes in academic culture, 1050-1985. In P.J. Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotides, (Eds). Historical identities: The Professoriate in Canada (pp. 158-182). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.