I have sent a supplemental list of signatures attached to the original statement to Chancellor Wise. I have reproduced it below.
Dear Chancellor Wise:
As members of history departments from around the world we are deeply concerned by the recent decision to prevent Steven Salaita from assuming his appointment to the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. We believe that the university's revocation of an already accepted offer due to the tone and content of political statements on social media about recent events in Gaza is a violation of academic freedom and sets a very negative precedent for intellectual diversity in academia. Until such time as the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign decides to allow Dr. Salaita to take the position he was offered and accepted we refuse to participate in any events on its campus including academic conferences. Listed institutions are for identification purposes. The individual scholars signing this petition represent only their own personal views and not those of their employers.
Sincerely,
56. James Gustafon, Indiana State University
57. Andrew Needham, New York University
58. Grey Anderson, Yale University
59. Mark Lause, University of Cincinnati
60. Mathew Payne, Emory University
61. Nabil Al-Tikriti, University of Mary Washington
62. Steve Tamari, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
63. Elizabeth Irwin, Columbia University
64. Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia
65. Andrew Feffer, Union College
66. Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College of CUNY
19 comments:
Add my name.
Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island
Please add my name, Eric Caplan, History PhD, independent scholar, former Harper Instructor, University of Chicago
Please add my name:
Jeffrey Waaserstrom, UC Irvine
Add my name please.
Gabriel Winant
Yale University
Please add my name, Raymond Haberski, IUPUI
Please add my name
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Professor Emerita
California State University East Bay
add me. Jason Fossella, Harris-Stowe State University
please add my name to the list
Daniel Wickberg
University of Texas at Dallas
Please add my name.
Gregory Kaster
Gustavus Adolphus College
One more: Ruth Mostern, University of California, Merced
I'm in. Eric Schuster, Loyola University Chicago
Please add my name:
David Stein, Queens College
Please add my name: Isaac Curtis, University of Pittsburgh.
Add my name.
David Prochaska, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Definitely add my name:
Alan Bachers, Ph.D., director
Neurofeedback Foundation
Please add my name: Zach Sell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In.
Carl Dyke
Methodist University
Please add me: Ananya Chakravarti, The American University in Cairo
Please add my name.
Satadru Sen
City University of New York
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