The following is the text of a letter sent July 25 to President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and signed by approximately 400 U.S. academics, including AAUP President Rudy Fichtenbaum, AAUP First Vice-President Henry Reichman, AAUP-CBC Chair Howard Bunsis, AAUP General Counsel Risa Lieberwitz, many additional members of the AAUP Council, and leaders of local AAUP chapters, among others.
We write as academics and concerned citizens to express our strong condemnation of the current situation in Turkey. While we disapprove of the attempt to subvert the democratic process in Turkey through the military coup of July 15, 2016, President Erdogan’s response has gone beyond measures compatible with the rule of law and human rights, using the occasion to undertake a massive dismissal or suspension from duty of judges, military personnel, civil servants, university deans, and teachers. As of the most recent news this number has reached nearly 60,000.
In addition, the Turkish government has suspended the annual leave of more than three million civil servants nationwide, and public sector employees are also banned from traveling abroad. Academics and university researchers are asked to request special approval from their superiors to attend scholarly conferences and other professional activities abroad. During an interview with CNN on July 18, Turkish President Erdoğan did not rule out the possibility of reinstating the death penalty. We fear that justice cannot be done in this situation. There are no checks and balances left; authoritarian presidential rule has taken over and in major military and civil society institutions the ideology of one party is beginning to dominate while opposition of any kind is being crushed. There are reports that those in custody cannot find lawyers, since no one dares defend them fearing to be added to the purge lists.
All the evidence suggests that the coup provided an opportunity for the Turkish government to further restrict the role of the legitimate political opposition and its function of democratic oversight–a process already underway before the coup attempt. Shortly after arriving in Istanbul, on the day after the coup attempt, President Erdogan said “This insurgency is a blessing from Allah, because it will allow us to purge the military” of mutineers. He has gone far beyond punishment of the conspirators, however, to attack any who have ever questioned his policies.
Turkey is a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights and, as a candidate for membership in the European Union, it has committed itself to the full observance of the Copenhagen criteria, including stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, respect for and protection of minorities, and abolition of capital punishment. The current crackdown violates all of these commitments and ought not to be tolerated by the EU, by NATO, or by the government of the United States of America, which considers Turkey its strong ally.
We, the undersigned, condemn the actions taken by the Turkish government in violation of human rights and the rule of law. The principle of independence and impartiality of the judiciary—together with freedom of the media—is at the foundation of the rule of law and democracy. The political independence and the academic freedom of the educational profession is essential for free societies.
We therefore call upon President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, and Secretary of Defense Carter to strongly criticize the Turkish government’s violation of human rights, academic freedom and the rule of law and to refuse to accept anything but a reversal of these authoritarian policies.
Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
Joan W. Scott, Professor Emerita, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
Rudy Fichtenbaum, Wright State University, President AAUP
Henry Reichman, California State University, East Bay, First Vice-President; Chair, Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, American Association of University Professors
David L. Ransel, Indiana University
Prof Joan Neuberger, The University of Texas at Austin
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
Eve Levin, University of Kansas
Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College
Anne Friedman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York ,Member of AAUP Executive Council
John Castella, Rutgers University, AAUP/AFT Vice-President PTL, AAUP Council Member
Michele Ganon, Western Connecticut State University, Secretary-Treasurer American Association of University Professors
Brian Turner, Randolph-Macon College
Gregory D. Loving, AAUP National Council, University of Cincinnati
Richard Gomes, Rutgers University, AAUP-AFT
Sally Dear-Healey, President, New York State American Association of University Professors (NYSAAUP)
Ashlee Brand, Cuyahoga Community College, AAUP National Council
Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University – Pueblo, Co-President, AAUP Colorado Conference, AAUP National Council member
Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Risa Lieberwitz, Cornell University, General Counsel, AAUP
Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University, President, LSU Faculty Senate
Philip L Cole, Idaho State University
Howard Bunsis, Eastern Michigan University, Chair, AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress
Nancy McKenney, Eastern Kentucky University; President, Kentucky Conference of the American Association of University Professors
Nathan (Natalio) Avani, PhD, San Francisco State University, AAUP National Council Member
William Chase, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa 1526
Linda Rouillard, University of Toledo; AAUP Council Member
Michael Bérubé, Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University
Debra Nails, Michigan State University
James L. Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression, Ryerson University
Eve Levin, University of Kansas; editor, Russian Review
Rei Terada, UC Irvine
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University.
Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University and University of Toronto
Chandler Davis, University of Toronto
Stephen F. Cohen, Princeton University and New York University
Marianna Tax Choldin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Julie A. Carlson, UC Santa Barbara
Claudio Fogu, UC Santa Barbara
Constance Penley, University of California-Santa Barbara
Eyal Amiral, UC Irvine
Michael DeCesare, Merrimack College, Member, AAUP National Council; Chair, AAUP Committee on College and University Governance
Katie Trumpener, Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale
Katerina Clark, Yale University, Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages, Yale University
Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics, Yale University
Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, Yale University
Laura Wexler, Dept of History and American Civilization, Yale University
Inderpal Grewal, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 Chair, University of California, Berkeley
Carol Bernstein, Professor Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College
Richard Bernstein, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
Benjamin Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Yale University
Gary Tomlinson, John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and Humanities and Director, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
Christopher L. Miller, Professor of African American Studies and French, Yale University
Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Robert Gooding-Williams, M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of AfricanAmerican Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Simone Chambers, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Irvine
Gordon Rogoff, Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama
Susan G. Clark, Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Sciences, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Tim Barringer, Chair and Paul Mellon Professor, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Carol Jacobs, Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory, University of California Berkeley
John Protevi, Professor of French and of Philosophy, Louisiana State University
Robin S. Dillon, William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University
Shamik Dasgupta, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Dole, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College
Edward Kazarian, Instructor in Philosophy, Rowan University
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Associate Professor of Social Justice, University of British Columbia
Adam M. Rosenfeld, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Executive Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Gabriel Zamosc, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Denver
Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco
John E. Drabinski, Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Professor of Black Studies, Amherst College
Bruno Gulli, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kingsborough Community College -CUNY
Steven Vogel, John and Christine Warner Professor of Philosophy, Denison University
Maya Mikdashi, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Isaac Rivera, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Colorado Denver
Rebecca Bamford, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University
Sabrina L. Hom, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgia College
Bernard W. Kobes, Faculty of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Tom Digby, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Springfield College
Ron Silliman, Lecturer in English, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Schenk Sacco, Associate Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University
Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University
Jason Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine
Sean Duffy, Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University
Ellen Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University
Gina Zavota, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Kent State University
Mary Paddock, Associate Dean/Associate Professor of German, Quinnipiac University
Selah Saterstrom, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Denver
Zena Hitz, Faculty, St. John’s College
Renee Tursi, Associate Professor of English, Quinnipiac University
Jeffrey Flynn, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
Sarah Surak, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Salisbury University
Adam Hosein, Assistant Prof. of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder
Robb Eason, Senior Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy, Emerson College
Jaklin Kornfilt, Professor of Linguistics, Syracuse University
Jason Del Gandio, Temple University
Gregory Patrick Garvey, Professor of Game Design & Development, Quinnipiac University
Heather Pool, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Denison University
William Haver, Associate Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
Justin E. H. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, formerly Professor of Philosophy, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
Jeremy R. Bell, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia Southern University
Eva Feder Kittay, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Stony Brook University, SUNY
John Schwenkler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University
Greg Recco, Tutor, St. John’s College
Matthew Boyle, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
Adam J. Graves, Associate Professor of Philosophy, MSU Denver
Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Communication & Theatre, Millersville University
Anna-Sara Malmgren, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Laury Silvers, Sessional Instructor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Michelle Kisliuk, Associate Professor, Music, University of Virginia
Joshua Foa Dienstag, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah Dalrymple, Clinical Faculty in Biology, Boise State University
Holly Andersen, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University [US citizen]
Nikhil Anand, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Eberhardt, Professor of Anthropology, Knox College
Michael Nair-Collins, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University
William E. Scheuerman, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Alexander Gourevitch, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Rocío Zambrana, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Jean L. Cohen, Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University
Wendy Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Alexander Livingston, Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University
Erin Pineda, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Political Science, University of Chicago
Inder S. Marwah, Assistant Professor of Political Science, McMaster University
Steven Levine, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Chad Kautzer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University
Bryan McGovern, Associate Professor of History, Kennesaw State University.
Michael Hoffmann, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Alice Crary, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York
Frederick Neuhouser, Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Gabriella Coleman, Associate Professor, McGill University, Montreal
Michael Rodríguez-Muñz, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
Emily Nacol, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Karen Ng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Christopher F. Zurn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Chris Adamo, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Centenary University, New Jersey
Alexander Hughes, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, MSU Denver, Colorado
Teresa Irene Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Knox College, Illinois
Jeffrey S. Juris, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University
Brian Talbot, Washington University in St. Louis
Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY
Adam Dahl, Assistant Professor of Politics, University of the South
Joshua Cherniss, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Max Shue, Spanish Faculty, College of Western Idaho
Zeki Saritoprak, Professor of Islamic Studies, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH. 152. Karen Bray, Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Wesleyan College, Georgia
Millie Wilson, Faculty Emeritus, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Elaine Miller, Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Brendan Hogan, Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Liberal Studies, New York University
Theodore Christov, Asst Prof, George Washington University
Alexei Efros, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Greg Felker, Associate Professor of Politics, Willamette University
Sharyn Clough, Professor, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University
Alyson Cole, Associate Professor, Political Science, Queens College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Franke Wilmer, Full Professor, Political Science, Montana State University
Susan L. Woodward, Full Professor, Political Science, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago
Jurgen Braungardt, California State University East Bay, Philosophy Department
Andrew I. Port, Professor of History, Wayne State University
Jill Frank, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
John C. Franklin, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Vermont
Christopher Stone, Associate Professor, Arabic, Hunter College (CUNY)
Kevin Funk, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Spring Hill College
Lynne Tirrell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Oyku Tekten, PhD Candidate in English, The Graduate Center (CUNY)
Al Kagan, Professor of Library Administration Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Gabriel Oak Rabin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Laurie Cosgriff, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek, Portland State University
Joseph R. Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Howard Pflanzer, Adjunct Associate Professor, English, Bronx Community College/CUNY
Patricia M. Locke, Tutor, St. John’s College, Annapolis
Georgia Warnke, Professor, Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Annick T.R. Wibben, Professor of Politics & International Studies, University of San Francisco
Baki Tezcan, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis
Alison McQueen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Suzanne Bergeron, Professor of Women’s Studies and Social Sciences, University of Michigan Dearborn
Mark Warren, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Joanne Meyerowitz, Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Nicholas Mowad, Professor of Philosophy, Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University 188. Linda Gordon, University Professor of History, NYU
Aziz Rana, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Victor Bers, Professor of Classics, Yale University
John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University
Andrew Dilts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University
Davide Panagia, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Michael Fischer, Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Rosalind Petchesky, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York
Zillah Eisenstein, Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence, Professor of Political Theory and Anti-Racist Feminism, Ithaca College
Julie Webber, Professor, Illinois State University
Raymond Duvall, Professor of Political Science and Special Assistant to the Provost, University of Minnesota
Jay M. Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
Zehra Kabasakal Arat, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut at Storrs
Glenda Gilmore, Peter V. and C. van Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
Melvin Rogers, Scott Vaugh Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences and Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Political Science, UCLA
Jill Campbell, Professor of English, Yale University
Julia Driver, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
John Medearis, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Renate Bridenthal, emerita Professor of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Erin McGlothlin, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Ismail K. Poonawala, Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Alice Bullard, former Professor of History, Georgia Institute of Technology, current President and CEO, IRA – USA (www.ira–usa.org/news)
Bonnie H. Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University
Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History, New York University
Naomi Scheman, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Dan Wood, PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Villanova University
Michael Smith, McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Lisa Guenther, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Simona Sharoni, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh
Indra Levy, Associate Professor of Japanese & Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Steve Cohn, Professor of Economics, Knox College
Cory Wright, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University Long Beach 222. Candice L. Shelby, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Denver
Michael Oman-Reagan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland – Critical Languages Scholar (2013), U.S. Department of State
John Rapko, Ph.D, Lecturer in Art History, College of Marin, and Lecturer in Philosophy, California College of the Arts
Mauricio Suchowlansky, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Letters & Sciences, Arizona State University
Muhammad Shafiq, PhD. Professor of Religious Studies and Islamics, Executive Director, Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York
Elizabeth Burbridge, ABD, Medieval History, Fordham University
Stephen Cory, Professor of History and Comparative Religion, Cleveland State University
John Evelev, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri.
Thomas O. Beebee, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of German and Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
Mustafa Gokcek, Associate Professor of History, Niagara University
Shelly Silver, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, School of the Arts, Columbia University
Megan Gallagher, Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Pembroke Center, Brown University
Patchen Markell, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Chicago
Jack Jackson, Assistant Professor, Politics, Whitman College
Reed Kurtz, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University
Nefertiti Takla, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Aaron P Smith, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Moraine Valley Community College
Joe Lockard, Associate Professor, English Department, Arizona State University
Michael Kremer, Mary R. Morton Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
N. Nyeck, Clarkson University
Elizabeth Bishop, History Department, Texas State University-San Marcos
John Durham Peters, A. Craig Baird Professor, Communication Studies, University of Iowa
Alison Staudinger, Assistant Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Guillermina Seri, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Union College, NY
Don Howard, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.
Noelle Brigden, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Marquette University
Anne Kane, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Houston-Downtown
Yair Minsky, Einar Hille Professor of Mathematics, Yale University
Shannon B. Lundeen, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Academic Initiatives for the Residential Campus, Elon University
Mark Brown, Professor of Government, California State University, Sacramento
Jim Sleeper, Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University
Jann Matlock (American citizen), Senior Lecturer, School of European Languages, Cultures, and Society, University College London
Stephen Darwall, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
Richard Schmitt, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Jennifer Eidum Zinchuk, Assistant Professor of English, Elon University, Elon, NC.
Julia Skinner, Curator of Rare Books, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA.
Daniel M. Haybron, Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
Talia Shalev, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Gloria Fisk, Assistant Professor of English, Queens College, CUNY
Matthew Hart, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, NY
Tim McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University – Pueblo, Pueblo, CO
Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History, New School for Social Research & Lang College, New York City
Roshen Hendrickson, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Staten Island, New York City
Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Jeffrey C. Isaac, Rudy Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
Yogita Goyal, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, UCLA
Robyn Marasco, Associate Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY
Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research
Julie Mostov, Professor of Politics; Senior Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Drexel University
Talia Schaffer, Professor of English, Graduate Center CUNY and Queens College CUNY
Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton College, MN
Henry Theriault, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Worcester State University
Rochelle Davis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University
Nico Israel, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College
Ronald Gregg, Programming Director and Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies,Yale University
Kim Shively, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Assistant Professor of History. City University of New York, Queensborough Community College
Leyla J Keough, Anthropologist, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University
Jay Rajiva, Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literature, Department of English. Georgia State University.
Max Pensky, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University
Priya Kandaswamy, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Mills College
Christopher Fox, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Newman University.
Patrick Anderson, Associate Professor of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies, University of California, San Diego
Maureen N. McLane, Professor of English, New York University
Nancy Bentley, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Morris B. Kaplan, Professor of Philosophy. Purchase College SUNY
Jose Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University
Olga Touloumi, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bard College
Nataly Reed, University of Arizona
Laura McMahon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University
Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory, The New School for Social Research
James Chamberlain, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University
Macartan Humphreys, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University.
Nalan Erbil, PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ross Poole. Adjunct Professor of Politics and Philosophy, New School for Social Research
Nanette Funk, Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Jack Woods, University Academic Fellow in Mathematical Philosophy, Leeds (previously Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara)
Rachel Beaty, University of Arizona
Sabra J. Webber, Professor, The Ohio State University
Whitney Dirks-Schuster, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Grand Valley State University
Elizabeth R. Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Martin Rocek, Professor of Physics, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University
Jackson Beck, Occidental College
Stephen Nelson, Philosophy Instructor, Northland Community & Technical College
Dorothy Salinger, Professor, University of California at Irvine
Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University Chicago
Miriam McCormick, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Richmond
Florence Dore, Associate Professor of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Paul A. Passavant, Associate Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Eugene Ostashevsky, Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University, New York, NY.
Susan R. Ackerman, Henry Luce Professor Jurisprudence in Law and Political Science, Yale University
Peter J. Schwartz, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Boston University
Alexander Dickow, Assistant Professor of French, Virginia Tech
Sofian Merabet, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UT Austin
Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Jessica Sewell, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia
Judy E. Gaughan, Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University, Pueblo.
Cynthia Paccacerqua, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
James Owens, PhD student, UMass Amherst
Jennifer J. Carroll, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
West Gurley, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Christa Salamandra, Associate Professor, City University of New York
Erin C. Tarver, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Oxford College of Emory University
Gary R. Poe, Associate Professor of History, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Illya Bronshteyn, Research Associate, University of Kansas Medical Center
Greg Carey, Professor of New Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Michael Ting, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University
Michael Cowan, St Andrews University
Nina d’Alessandro, Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University, New York, N.Y.
Patricia Morton, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor, University College Dublin; Visiting Professor, Yale University
Amy K. Drees, Composition and Literacy Faculty, Northwest State Community College, Archbold, Ohio
Julia Roos, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.
Sondra Hale, Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles
Nikolai Kitanine, Professor, Université de Bourgogne, France
Matthew Siegel, Professor of English and Writing, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Benjamin Peters, Professor of Communication, the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor, Emeritus, U. of California, Berkeley
Sondra Hale, Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles.
Karen Koehler, Levin Professor of Architectural and Art History, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Serena Laws, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Erin Adam, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Chausovsky, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, The State University of New York at Fredonia
Stephen Loffredo, Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law
Arijit Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of WisconsinMilwaukee
Richard Grusin, Professor of English and Media Studies, University of WisconsinMilwaukee
Matthew P. Hitt, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University.
Fred Dallmayr, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Mona El-Sherif, Assistant Professor of Arabic Cultural Studies, University of Miami
Tracy L. R. Lightcap, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
Jessie Clark, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Nevada Reno
Kent Schull, Associate Professor, History, Binghamton University, SUNY
William McKeithen, Graduate Instructor, Geography, University of Washington, Seattle
Pamela Brandwein, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.
Julie Novkov, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY
Jennet Kirkpatrick, Associate Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Alexander Dolinin, Professor of Russian Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cynthia Wu, Associate Professor of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Min Song, Professor of English, Boston College
Maxwell Uphaus, Assistant Professor of English, Montana State University
David J. Vanness, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christian P. Traeger, Assistant Professor, Environmental Economics, UC Berkeley.
Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Mary K Meyer McAleese, Professor of Political Science, Eckerd College.
Dohra Ahmad, Associate Professor of English, St. John’s University
Kristie Dotson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, MSU
David Gutman, Assistant Professor of History, Manhattanville College, NY
Michael Bosia, Associate Professor of Political Science, Saint Michael’s College
Amy Werbel, Associate Professor of the History of Art, State University of New York – Fashion Institute of Technology
Joe Lockard, Associate Professor, English Department, Arizona State University
Sarah Lopez, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Lipson, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, SUNY New Paltz
Jamie Mayerfeld, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
Hugh Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
Yevgeniy Slivkin, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Denver
Tamara C. Ho, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
Julian Carter, Associate Professor of Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco
Elyse Semerdjian, Associate Professor of Middle East/Islamic World History, Whitman College
Alison M. Jaggar, College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Donna Robinson Divine, Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government Emerita, Department of Government, Smith College
Alice Stek, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Los Angeles, California
Bernard Harcourt, Professor of Law and Political Science, Columbia University
Rolla E. Lewis, EdD, NCC, Professor Emeritus, California State University, East Bay
