Michelle Stack’s is the author of Global University Ranking and the Mediatization of Higher Education, and she is editor of a second upcoming book on university rankings and journal impact factors. Her central research interest concerns how people, knowledge and institutions are categorized and the influence of these categorizations on our ability to grapple with “wicked problems” including inequity. She won the Killam Award for Excellence in Teaching and is a Peter Wall 2020 Scholar. She also has dipped her toe in stand-up comedy and writing for young adults.