Allison L. Palmadessa is Chair of the Department of History, Professor of History at Greensboro College, USA. She is the author of American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education: A History of the Relationship between Higher Education and the United States, 1862-2015 (2017, Palgrave Macmillan); Higher Education Divided: National Expectations and the Bifurcation of National Identity, 1946-2016 (2020, Palgrave Macmillan); and Power, Discourse, and the Purpose of Policy in Higher Education: A Genealogical Study of the Higher Education Act (2023, Palgrave MacMillan).