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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:27:47 -0800
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Subject: Fwd: Academic Freedom Statement
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001
From: "Phil Gasper" <pgasper@ndnu.edu>
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Subject: Academic Freedom Statement
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PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
The following statement in defense of academic freedom is being circulated
by concerned faculty members. If you would like to endorse the statement,
please send your name, academic position and affiliation, and contact
information to academicfreedomnow@hotmail.com. Non-academic endorsers are
also welcome.
We hope to publish the statement as a full page ad in the New York Times
and possibly other media outlets with the names of hundreds or thousands of
endorsers. The cost will be many thousands of dollars. If you would like to
make a contribution towards the cost of publishing the statement, please
send a check to:
Center for Economic Research and Social Change
P.O. Box 258082
Chicago, IL 60625
Mark your check "Academic Freedom Ad".
Please contact the email address above if you have any questions or comments.
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To fellow teachers and staff members:
In the crisis precipitated by the terrible events of September 11, members
of academic communities across the U.S. have participated in teach-ins,
colloquia, demonstrations, and other events aimed at developing an informed
critical understanding of what happened and why. Now that the U.S. is
waging war in Afghanistan, such activities are continuing.
Unfortunately, some participants in these events have been threatened and
attacked for speaking out. Trustees of the City University of New York
voted to condemn faculty members who criticized U.S. foreign policy at a
teach-in during the first week in October. The president of the University
of Texas at Austin publicly denounced a prominent faculty critic of U.S.
policy. Efforts by pro-war students, alumni, and prominent media outlets to
silence criticism and dissent have been reported at the University of New
Mexico, Brown University, MIT, the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and elsewhere. AAUP
director of public policy Ruth Flower told the Boston Globe on October 6,
"We're watching these developments with a lot of concern."
Attacks on faculty who have questioned or dissented from the Bush
administration's current war policy have coincided with other ominous
developments. Colleges and universities are being pressured by agencies of
the federal government to hand over confidential information from student
files. And there are moves in Congress to limit visas for students from abroad.
We call on all members of the academic community to speak out strongly in
defense of academic freedom and civil liberties, not just as an abstract
principle but as a practical necessity. At a moment such as this we must
make sure that all informed voices-especially those that are critical and
dissenting-are heard.
Nigel Alderman
Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
Anatole Anton
Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Anthony Arnove
Adjunct Professor of Communications, Rhode Island College
Nancy L. Ashton
Associate Professor, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Gregory A. Baker
Director and Associate Professor, Food and Agribusiness Institute, Santa
Clara University
Suzanne Baker
Lecturer in Anthropology, Creighton University
Davarian L. Baldwin
Assistant Professor of History, Boston College
John D. Bandy
Instructor of Sociology; Oglala Lakota College
Alexandra Barron
Assistant Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
Mark Bartlett
Associate Professor, Humanities and Science & Graduate Studies, California
College of Arts and Crafts
Jaime Becker
Graduate Student, Sociology Department, University of California, Davis
Mark Beeman
Professor of Sociology, Northern Arizona University
Rick Berg
Unemployed Adjunct
Elaine Bernard
Harvard University Trade Union Program
Shelley Blackman
Reference Librarian, Heafey Law Library, University of Santa Clara
Joshua Brandon
MA candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada
Eliot Brenner
Chicago
Dan Brook
Instructor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Susan Bruce,
Lecturer, School of English and Philosophy, Keele University, U.K.
Dennis Brutus
Professor Emeritus, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Mari Jo Buhle
Brown University
Paul Buhle
Brown University
Richard A. Dello Buono
Fulbright Professor, 2001, Panama City, Panama
Michael Burawoy
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Buzzanco
Associate Professor of History, University of Houston
Alex Callinicos
Professor of Politics, University of York, U.K.
Eduardo Capulong
Director of Public Interest and Public Policy Programs & Lecturer in Law,
Stanford Law School
Mia Carter
Associate Professor of English, University of Texas-Austin
Sean Chabot
Doctoral Student, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University
of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lin Kaatz Chary
School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Renny Christopher
Associate Professor of English, California State University, Stanislaus
Dana Cloud
Associate Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Jane L. Curry
Associate Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University
Anne D'Arcy
Departments of English and Philosophy, California State University, Chico
Diane Davis
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, University of Texas at Austin
Lennard J. Davis
Professor and Head, Department of English and Professor of Disability and
Human Development, University of Illinois--Chicago
Mario Diani
Professor of Sociology, Universit di Trento, Italy
Lauren Dietrich
Undergraduate, Stanford University
Bill Dixon
Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Keele University, U.K.
Emory Elliott
University Professor, University of California, Riverside
Marc Epprecht
Assistant Professor of History, Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada
Barbara Epstein
Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Samuel Farber
Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Ansar Fayyazuddin
Assistant Professor of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden & Visiting
Scientist, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT
Crystal Feimster
Assistant Professor of History, Boston College
Serra Fels
Undergraduate, Stanford University
Milton Fisk
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington
Donna Flayhan
Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies, Goucher College
Tucker Foehl
Graduate Student, American Studies, Yale University
Barbara Foley
Professor of English, Rutgers University, Newark
Cynthia Franklin
Associate Professor of English, University of Hawai'i
Amelia Frank-Vitale
Yale University '05
Rosemary Frank-Vitale
Reading, PA
Dorothea French
History Department, Santa Clara University
Phil Gasper
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame de Namur University
Richard Gibson
Associate Professor of Social Studies, San Diego State University
Kevin Gillan
Research Student, Politics Department, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Glenda E. Gilmore
Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
Eric Glynn
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Julian Go
Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies,
Harvard University
Penny Green
Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Westminster, U.K.
Jean Grossholtz
Professor of Politics and Women's Studies, Mount Holyoke College
John Gulick
Postgraduate Researcher, Institute for Research on World-Systems,
University of California, Riverside
Chadwick W. Hale
Graduate Student of Philosophy & Presidential Doctoral Fellow, University
of South Florida
Nigel Harris
Professor Emeritus, University College, London, U.K.
Jonathan H. Harwell
Reference/Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Berry College
Anne Hayner
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Lisa Heldke
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gustavus Adolphus College
Pedro Hernandez-Ramos
Assistant Professor of Education & Program Director, Center for Science,
Technology & Society, Santa Clara University
Patricia Penn Hilden
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Hunt
Lecturer in English, Santa Clara University
Ron Jacobs
Bailey Howe Library, University of Vermont
Robert Jensen
Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
Amy J. Johnson
Assistant Professor of History, Berry College
Priya Joshi
Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Sanjay Joshi
Assistant Professor of History, Northern Arizona University
Philip J. Kain
Professor of Philosophy, Santa Clara University
Dennis Kalob
Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of General Education, New
England College
William Keach
Professor of English, Brown University
Nancee Kesinger
Professor of English, San Diego Mesa College
Michael Kevane
Department of Economics, Santa Clara University
Sharon Kinsella
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Kristin Kusanovich
Lab Instructor, Theatre and Dance, Santa Clara University
Scott LaBarge
Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Classics, Santa Clara University
Mark Lance
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Mark A. Lause
Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
Charles Lawrence
Associate Professor of Sociology, Seattle University
Debbie LeAnce
President/Founder of Student Coalition for Peace, University of California,
Riverside
Steve Leigh
Program Coordinator, Department of Health Services, University of Washington
Tom Lewis
Professor of Spanish, University of Iowa
Anne Lewinson
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Berry College
Michael I. Lichter
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York
at Buffalo
Catherine Lord
Professor of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine.
Robin Lorentzen
Professor of Sociology, Albertson College of Idaho
Jan Lucassen
Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Social History, Netherlands
John MacKay
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Sanjoy Mahajan
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, U.K.
Jose Gabriel Maldonado-Rivera
Chair, Department of Education, Hartwick College
Ronald Markwardt
Research Associate, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sean Martin
Lecturer in Philosophy, Sonoma State University
Richard Edward Martinez
PhD Candidate, Department of Urban Planning, University of California at
Los Angeles
Peter Mascini
Scholar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University of Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Susan Matt
Assistant Professor of History, Weber State University
Kathleen Maxwell
Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Santa Clara University
Louis Mendoza
Interim Director, Hispanic Research Center, University of Texas at San Antonio
Cynthia Metcalf
PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Birgit Meyer
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Netherlands
Will Miller
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Vermont
Raza Mir
Assistant Professor of Management, Monmouth University
Annelies Moors
Professor and ISIM Chair, ASSR/Department of Anthropology and Sociology,
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Greg Moses
Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Marist College
Francis Mulhern
University Professor, Middlesex University, U.K.
Andrs J. Nader
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature,
University of Rochester
Clare Norins
Law Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Margo Okazawa-Rey
Professor of Social Work, San Francisco State University
Jeff Ostler
Associate Professor History, University of Oregon
Susan Gushee O'Malley
Professor of English, City University of New York
Ken Parsons
PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
Nadine Peacock
Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Chicago
David Pesnichak
Undergraduate Senior/Southern Rockies Semester, Audubon Expedition Institute
Frances Fox Piven
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
Dwight R. Platt
Emeritus Professor of Biology, Bethel College
Kamala Platt
Lecturer, University of Texas, San Antonio & San Antonio College
Amy Traub Poole
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Colm Power
Principal Researcher, 'Room to Roam: Britain's Irish Travellers' Research
Project, St. Mary's College, U.K.
Kathryn Ray
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, U.K.
Theodore F Rippey
Assistant Professor of German, Bowling Green State University
John E. Roemer
Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and
Economics, Yale University
Avital Ronell
Chair, German Department & Professor of German and Comparative Literature,
New York University
Rodolfo Rosales
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at San Antonio
Edward Said
University Professor, Columbia University
Bernie Sanabria
Assistant Director, The Career Center, Santa Clara University
Jeremy L. Sappington
Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of
Washington
Jennifer Scappettone
PhD Candidate/Instructor, Department of English, Univeristy of California,
Berkeley
Edward Schaefer
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Santa Clara University
Joseph Schaller
Department of Religious Studies, Nazareth College
Rebecca Schein
PhD Candidate, History of Consciousness Department, University of
California, Santa Cruz
Zach Schiller
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Eric Schocket
Assistant Professor of American Literature, Hampshire College
Juliet Schor
Department of Sociology, Boston College
Anne Scott
Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
Helen Scott
Assistant Professor of English, University of Vermont
Conchita Franco Serri
Director, Office of Affirmative Action, Santa Clara University
Barry Shank
Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
Kara Shaw
Teaching Fellow, School of Politics, International Relations and the
Environment, Keele University, U.K.
Walt Sheasby
Adjunct Instructor, University of Phoenix & Rio Hondo College
Snehal Shingavi
PhD candidate/instructor, Department of English, Univeristy of California,
Berkeley
Ashley Smith
Adjunct Professor, Johnson State University
George Snedeker
Professor of Sociology, State University of New York/College at OldWestbury
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Assistant Director, Master of Arts Creative Writing Concentration, English
Department, University of Texas at Austin
Mindy Spatt
San Francisco
Johnnie Spraggins
Department of Sociology, Our Lady of the Lake University
Mary Stiles
Public Interest Program Coordinator, Stanford Law School
Nora Sveaass
Psychosocial Centre for Refugees, University of Oslo, Norway
Rhonda Taube
Assistant Professor of Art History, Mt. San Antonio College
Jennifer Terry
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Julie M. Thompson
Assistant Professor of Communication, Southwestern University
Nicholas Toloudis
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Laura Turney
Research Fellow, Dept of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
Jojada Verrips
Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Luis A. Vivanco
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Vermont
Meredith Warden
Masters Program, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dave Whyte
Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.
Lisa A. Wilkinson
PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida
Ed Wiltse
Assistant Professor of English, Nazareth College
Derek Wright
Researcher, Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Emily Wright
Assistant Professor of English, Berry College
Dvora Yanow
Professor and Chair, Department of Public Administration, California State
University, Hayward
Usha Zacharias
Assistant Professor, Westfield State College
Susan Zieger
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Zinn
Emeritus Professor, Boston University
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