William B. Dabars

William Dabars is Senior Director of Research for the New American University in the Office of the President and an associate research professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University. He is also an affiliate scholar in the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO). He is the coauthor, with Michael M. Crow, of The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), and Designing the New American University (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). He has served in various research capacities for the University of Southern California, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Getty Research Institute, one of the operating programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and as a consultant for the Getty Conservation Institute and University of Colorado, Boulder. He received a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.