Deane Edward Neubauer

The United States stands athwart a widening gap in PhD education with respect to effective consideration of the role of this degree in reference to the global climate crisis. Where a small number of research universities have begun to reconsider the role of the degree in the face of this crisis, most have not. In point of fact, within most US higher education institutions, the degree is framed and conducted as it has been for decades with little or no attention paid to its particular role within the crisis. The chapter seeks to place the current status of the PhD in American higher education in the context of Bruno Latour’s analysis of the global response to the changing global climate.