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When Academic Capital Doesn't Travel and the Framing of Meritocracy Obscures
Economic Sociology & Political Economy
When Academic Capital Doesn’t Travel
by Robert (Robby) Cserni* I arrived in the UK with a US-trained PhD, a CV formatted for the American academic market, and a stack of materials that no British search committee was asking for. I had…
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