Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration Theory and Practice Across Disciplines

"A most welcome contribution, filled with richly detailed case studies conducted by a stellar array of scholars. This volume scrutinizes key assumptions of the case for interdisciplinarity." - Jerry A. Jacobs (U. Pennsylvania, author of In Defense of Disciplines) "Interdisciplinary collaboration has been established as valuable to scientific creativity and vital to bringing knowledge effectively to major public issues. But discussion of what this means and how it works are still too often vague. This book will help, because it offers thoughtful and indeed disciplined case studies of how interdisciplinary collaboration works in practice." - Craig Calhoun (London School of Economics and Political Science) "This high quality volume makes a crucial contribution to our empirical understanding of the worlds of interdisciplinarity at a time when they are generating a great deal of interest from funding agencies, academic administrators and scholars alike. This book should be required reading for all concerned." - Michele Lamont (Harvard University, author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement)