Nathaniel Rodwell-Simon
Dear President Alivisatos,
As instructors at the University of Chicago, we object—in the strongest possible terms—to your decision to deploy armed police against a peaceful encampment of our students in the early hours of Tuesday, May 7. We object in particular to the administration’s weaponization of the University’s much-vaunted Kalven Report and Chicago Principles, which it has used to vindicate its decision to take a deliberate stance against the peaceful encampment and, ultimately, to order the police to break it up. In choosing this course of action, the administration has elected to abandon its own principles of neutrality and the protection of free speech. It is as if sincere, thoughtful, and passionate disagreement were a mark of moral failure among our students.
Since the encampment began, the administration has turned to the Kalven Report to restrict, rather than protect, speech; to vindicate a narrow, limited, and self-interested interpretation of its principles; and to assert its rights over those of the students. This appeal reached the height of its absurdity when you explained in the Wall Street Journal that it was the Kalven Report’s principle of institutional neutrality that actually required the administration to walk away from negotiations and extinguish the students’ speech. Here, the Kalven Report’s principles are twisted beyond recognition to justify the refusal of dialogue in favor of the forceful repression of dissent.
The order for campus police to suppress students’ speech was not a neutral act under the terms of the Kalven Report. The authors of the Kalven Report specified that the University’s commitment to institutional neutrality must be buttressed by an expansive understanding of both faculty and students’ rights to protest. The authors wrote that the University’s commitment to neutrality “arises out of respect for free inquiry and the obligation to cherish a diversity of viewpoints.” They clarified: “This neutrality as an institution has its complement in the fullest freedom for its faculty and students as individuals to participate in political action and social protest. It finds its complement, too, in the obligation of the university to provide a forum for the most searching and candid discussion of public issues.” The administration had many options available to it short of bringing physical force to bear on our students, from endorsing a broad and generous construal of its students’ free-speech rights to mere toleration to de-escalation and negotiation. The administration’s choice of the most escalatory option, to suppress the students’ speech, chooses force over persuasion, abandoning the Kalven Report’s clearest ideals.
The administration maintains that it decided to suppress the students’ speech because the protest had become unduly disruptive. In so doing, however, it takes a position against free speech in arrogating to itself power to decide by administrative fiat when enough speech has been heard. The Kalven Report counsels the University to provide the widest possible leeway for protest and dissent. As far as we understand, the encampment did not lead to the cancellation of any classes, access to Levi Hall was not restricted, the area of the Quad that the students were camping on remained traversable, and the University maintained an active presence of both police and security guards. Further, the administration’s own Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Protest and Dissent in 2013 noted that “vocal protest, and demonstrations in particular, are by their nature disruptive” and concluded that “such incidental disruption should not be regarded as a violation of University policy.” The administration’s conclusion that encampment, as a protest strategy, is inherently too disruptive is simply to say that it disfavors this form of speech.
Further, the administration has claimed that its principle of institutional neutrality required it to walk away from negotiations when protestors demanded policies that the administration believes would violate it. But walking away from negotiations does not require subsequently repressing the protestors’ continued speech. Moreover, there is no reason to think that making investment decisions according to the principle of profit maximization is more neutral than making them according to, for example, a basic principle of respect for humanity. We would hope that, were slavery to be reinstated and become maximally profitable, the University would nonetheless refrain from investing in it. Once again, the administration appeals to the principle of institutional neutrality to refuse negotiations, suppress speech, fight transparency, and maintain its financial interests in politically-charged causes.
Over the past several months, a fraught political climate has faced universities with a number of difficult choices. The authors of the Kalven Report were sure to clarify that “the sources of power of a great university should not be misconceived. Its prestige and influence are based on integrity and intellectual competence; they are not based on the circumstance that it may be wealthy, may have political contacts, and may have influential friends.” Here, the administration would do well to heed the report’s clear warning and its prescription to resist outside pressures and defend its commitment to free speech and open inquiry: “From time-to-time instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry. In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures and actively to defend its interests and its values.” If this administration cannot commit itself to the core mission of the institution of the university as defined by the Kalven Report—“the discovery, improvement, and dissemination of knowledge”—then the Kalven Report loses all meaning.
The University of Chicago often prides itself on being a leader in matters of free speech, and many other peer institutions have followed its lead in adopting the Chicago Principles. On Tuesday morning, the administration gave up this mission, choosing instead to follow behind the panic of peer institutions. This has compromised its commitment to an expansive view of freedom of speech. In using its power to crush protestors’ speech, it turned its back on the very document it now appeals to for an alibi.
While we, the undersigned, may disagree on many of the specific prescriptions of the Kalven Report and reflect a broad diversity of opinion on questions of policy, politics, and effectuating change, we believe that the University’s actions this week are in flagrant contradiction with the principles it claims to cherish, and would hold this belief for any topic that aroused a collective student action of this kind.
Sincerely,
William Levine, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
Daragh Grant, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Connor B.S. Strobel, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
John P. McCormick, Professor, Political Science
Linda M. G. Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor, Political Science and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Chiara Cordelli, Professor, Political Science
Alireza Doostdar, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion, Divinity School and the College
Duygu Uygun-Tunc, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
Hoda El Shakry, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Brinton Ahlin, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History
Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College
Jason de Stefano, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Harper-Schmidt Fellow
Jonathan Levy, James Westfall Thompson Professor of History and Social Thought
Joy Wang, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences
Eman Abdelhadi, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development
Phillip Henry, Collegiate Assistant Professor
Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies
Tina Post, Assistant Professor of English and Theater and Performance Studies
Isaac Hand, Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow
Ghenwa Hayek, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Gabriel Ellis, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities
Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions
Leora Auslander, Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and History
Matthew Harris, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Divinity School
Colleen M. Grogan, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta University Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor in History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Andrew Brandel, Associate Instructional Professor
Julian Go, Professor of Sociology
Anne Beal, Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology
Elham Mireshghi, Assistant Instructional Professor, Divinity School and the College
Olivia Bustion, Teaching Fellow, Divinity School
Uday Jain, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Committee on Social Thought, Social Sciences Division
Marta Antonetti, Family Life Programs Classroom Assistant, UChicago Laboratory School
Bart Schultz, Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
Larry Svabek, Teaching Fellow, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity,
Margaret Ross, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Leah Feldman, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Kimberly Kay Hoang, Professor of Sociology
Anthony Nicholson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science
Julie Y. Chu, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Karlyn J. Gorski, Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Karlos Arregi, Professor, Department of Linguistics
John Proios, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Sarah Johnson, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Program in Law, Letters, and Society
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Assistant Professor, Divinity School and the College
Bill Brown, Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor, English Language and LIterature, Visual Arts, the College
Ben Laurence, Instructional Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division and the Division of Social Sciences
Na’ama Rokem, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature
Megan Sullivan, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
Paola Iovene, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Gina Samuels, Faculty Director, Center for The Study of Race, Politics and Culture
Elaine Hadley, Professor, English Language and Literature
Agnes Mondragon, Teaching Fellow, Anthropology
Claudia Brittenham, Professor, Art History
Sarah Newman, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Robert L. Kendrick, Prof. Emeritus, Department of Music
Joyce M. Bell, Associate Professor, Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity and Sociology
Hussein Ali Agrama, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor, Sociology
Molly K Cunningham, Harper Schmidt Fellow
Jennifer Scappettone, Associate Professor, English, Creative Writing, Romance Languages and Literatures
Jason Grunebaum, Instructional Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Peter Tinti, Lecturer, Committee on International Relations
Mariam Nawas, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Biological Sciences Division
Stephen Haswell Todd, Associate Instructional Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division
Jessica H Darrow, Associate Instructional Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Gina Fedock, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Rashauna Johnson, Associate Professor, History
Sharvari Sastry, Harper Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
Korey Williams, Harper Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities
Amanda Klonsky, Lecturer, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Summerson Carr, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Sarah McDaniel, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Department of English and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Alida Bouris, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice
Laura Ring, Southern Asian Studies Librarian
Jade Pagkas-Bather, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health
Faith Hillis, Professor of Russian History
Jennifer Mosley, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Salikoko S. Mufwene, Professor of Linguistics
M. Ahmed, UChicago staff
Stephan Palmié, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology
Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor, Department of History and the Law School
Matthias Staisch, Associate Senior Instructional Professor, Committee on International Relations
Loren Kruger, Professor in English, Comparative Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, and The College
Ada H. Shissler, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Cate Fugazzola, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Global Studies
Julie Orlemanski, Associate Professor, English
John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History
Angela S. García, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Travis A. Jackson, Associate Professor of Music
Ralph Austen, Emeritus Professor of History
Geoff Wodtke, Associate Professor of Sociology
Joseph Masco, Samuel N Harper Professor of Anthropology
Carolina López-Ruiz, Professor, Divinity School and Department of Classics
Andreas Glaeser, Professor of Sociology
Yousef Casewit, Associate Professor, Divinity School and the College
Matthew Kruer, Assistant Professor, History and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Maria Angelica Bautista, Senior Research Associate, Harris School of Public Policy
Paula Martin, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Francois Richard, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and Romance Languages and Literatures
Tanya L. Zakrison, MD, MPH, FACS, FRCSC, Professor of Surgery
Maliha Chishti, Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Chiara Galli, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development
Ayman Al-Hendy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Natacha Nsabimana, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Daniel Morgan, Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Kamala Russell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Norma M. Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ashish Premkumar, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Daisy Delogu, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Farah A. Alvi, MD, MS, Clinical Associate of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, History
Ruby Rorty, Analyst at the Center for RISC at UChicago
Nell Pach, Writing and Research Advisor
Seth Brodsky, Associate Professor, Music
Baddr Shakhsheer, MD, FACS, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Jennifer Cole, Professor, Comparative Human Development
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Anjli Parrin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Neha Bhardwaj, MD MS, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Carmelle Romain, MD, FACS, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Benjamin Saltzman, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature
Daniel Brudney, Professor, Philosophy Department
Catherine Kearns, Assistant Professor, Classics
Julia Henly, Samuel Deutsch Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Osmanuddin Ahmed, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology
Philip Garboden, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Fred M. Donner, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Heather Keenleyside, Associate Professor, English
Anton Ford, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Kai Ihns, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities
Hoyt Long, Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College
Mehrnoush Soroush, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Kara Ann Hooser, Assistant Instructional Professor, Committee on International Relations
Asim V. Farooq, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Jennifer Pitts, Professor, Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought
Adom Getachew, Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity
Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor of English and Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity
Stephanie Soileau, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts, Creative Writing Program
Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor, Art History
Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought
Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History
Hassan Shah, MD, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Steven Rings, Associate Professor, Music
Eléonore Rimbault, Teaching Fellow in the College and Anthropology
Kristine Palmieri, Postdoctoral Researcher at the rank of Instructor, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Willemien Otten, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology
Ariel Fox, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies
Kyeong-Hee Choi, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English
Robert Chaskin, McCormick Foundation Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English
Michael Dietler, Professor, Anthropology
Oliver Cussen, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
Zoya Sameen, Teaching Fellow in History, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor, Political Science and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Susan Burns, Professor, History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Patrick Morrissey, Assistant Instructional Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division
Michael Bourdaghs, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Demetra Kasimis, Associate Professor of Political Science
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Andrew Broughton, Associate Instructional Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division
Jordan Jochim, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
Cecilia Palombo, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Michele Friedner, Professor, Comparative Human Development
Alison James, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Paul Copp, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Jennifer Iverson, Associate Professor, Music and the Humanities
Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Marissa Fenley, Harper Schmidt Fellow in Theater and Performance Studies
Hakan Karateke, Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Kaneesha Parsard, Assistant Professor, English
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Assistant Professor, Divinity School
Rebeca Velásquez, Humanities Teaching Fellow
Tristan Schweiger, Assistant Instructional Professor, English and Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Hilary Strang, Associate Senior Instructional Professor, Humanities; Director, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Aaron Jakes, Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History
Zach Loeffler, Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division
Mee-Ju Ro, Assistant Professor, English
Yali Amit, Professor, Statistics
Joseph Dov Bruch, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Divinity School
Victoria Saramago, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Elizabeth Helsinger, John Mathews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of English Emerita
Tamara Golan, Assistant Professor, Art History
Tara Zahra, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History
Leland Jasperse, Humanities Teaching Fellow
Miguel Martínez, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
William Sites, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Rochona Majumdar, Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies
Dalia H. Elmofty, MD, FASA, Associate Professor, Associate Program Director, Pain Fellowship, Department of Anesthesia
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor, History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Saad Ali, MD, Clinical Associate of Radiology
Emilio Kourí, Professor, Department of History
Wang You, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
James Chandler, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English and Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Abhishek Bhattacharyya, Teaching Fellow in Anthropology and the College
Noel Blanco Mourelle, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Mark Philip Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History
Josef Stern, William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus)
Florian Klinger, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Angie Heo, Associate Professor, Divinity School
Andrew Ferguson, Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Diana Schwartz Francisco, Assistant Instructional Professor, History
Patrick Jagoda, William Rainey Harper Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, English, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
James León Weber, Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures
Monther Qandeel, MD, Clinical Associate of Radiology
Larissa Brewer-García, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar
Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Julia Brown, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
Joe Bonni, Lecturer in The College
Danielle Jones, Humanities Teaching Fellow
Alice McLean, Senior Lecturer, Romance Languages and Literatures
Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor of Art History
Crystal Beiersdorfer, Lecturer, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Program in Media Arts and Design, and the Humanities Collegiate Division.
Cameron Mankin, Lecturer, Media Arts and Design
Brodwyn Fischer, Professor of History
John A. Schneider MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Social Work
Tyler W. Williams, Associate Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Andrew Pitel, Assistant Instructional Professor, Philosophy and Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Danielle M Roper, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literature
James Fernandez, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Mario Santana, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Ruba Azzam, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Leslie Buxbaum, Associate Professor of Practice, Theater and Performance Studies
Mustafa Hussain, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Veronica Vegna, Senior Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Esmael Jafari Haddadian, Instructional Professor, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
Jieun Kim, Senior Lecturer, East Asian languages and Civilizations
Eugene Raikhel, Associate Professor, Comparative Human Development
Prashant Kumar, Postdoctoral Researcher at the rank of Instructor, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus, Divinity School
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History
Yueling Ji, Teaching Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the College
Darrel Chia, Assistant Instructional Professor, English and Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Jon Rogowski, Professor, Department of Political Science
John D. Kelly, Christian W. Mackauer Professor in Anthropology and the College
Omar Metwally, MD, Clinical Associate of Radiology
James Osborne, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
James F. Lastra, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and English
Lina Ferreira, Assistant Professor in the Program in Creative Writing
John E. Woods, Professor Emeritus, History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Denis Hirschfeldt, Professor of Mathematics
Aaron Turkewitz, Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Committee on Microbiology
Françoise Meltzer, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities, Divinity School and the College
Jasmin Tiro, Professor, Public Health Sciences, Biological Sciences Division
Chris Carloy, Assistant Instructional Professor, Cinema and Media Studies and Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Kurt Jacobsen, Lecturer, Social Sciences
Augusta McMahon, Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Brianna Parry, Theater and Performance Studies Production Manager
Theo van den Hout, Rasmussen Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages, retired
Anna Woodard, Research Data Scientist, Data Science Institute
Jared Berkowitz, Assistant Instructional Professor, Program in Law, Letters, and Society
Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MS, Ellen H. Block Professor of Health Justice, Department of Medicine
Christian K. Wedemeyer, Associate Professor of the History of Religions, Divinity School
Julia Rhoads, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in Theater and Performance Studies
Craig B. Futterman, Clinical Professor of Law
Molly Offer-Westort, Assistant Professor, Political Science
David Lebow, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Program in Law, Letters, and Society
Callie Maidhof, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director of Global Studies
Matt Epperson, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Nicole Whalen, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows
Maryam Siddiqui, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Amber Ginsburg, Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought, Divinity School
Mary Hicks, Assistant Professor of History
Agnes Malinowska, Assistant Instructional Professor, English and Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Adam Almqvist, Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science and the College
Devon de Mayo, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies
K.J. Hickerson, Assistant Instructional Professor of History
The list of signatories above represents those who signed the letter before the time of publication (May 13, 2024). The full list can be found here.