John Willinsky

John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor Emeritus at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and a professor of publishing studies at Simon Fraser University. He began his career as a schoolteacher in Ontario and holds degrees in English, education theory, and the sociology of education. His research examines education, knowledge systems, and scholarly communication, with a particular focus on expanding public access to research. He founded the Public Knowledge Project, which develops open-source scholarly publishing software.

Willinsky is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED, Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End, Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, and The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke.