Concerned Citizens and Scholars Protest Proposed Punitive Actions
The following individuals are among the many concerned citizens and scholars who have written to John Sexton registering protest at the proposed punitive actions against striking GSOC members after December 5.
Geoff Eley
Sylvia L. Thrupp Collegiate Professor of Comparative History
University of Michigan
John Comaroff
Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and
the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Atina Grossmann
Professor of History
Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Cooper Union
John Womack,
Department of History,
Harvard University
Hector L. Delgado
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of La Verne
Jocelyn Olcott
Department of History
Duke University
Renate Bridenthal,
Emerita Professor of History
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
Stanford University
Arthur MacEwan
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Sanford M. Jacoby
Professor of Management & Public Policy
UCLA
Allen J. Scott
Distinguished Professor of Geography
UCLA
Lisa Wedeen
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
The University of Chicago
Matthew Frye Jacobson
Professor of American Studies and History
Yale University
John L. Hammond
Professor of Sociology
Hunter College, CUNY
Professor Lorraine Schmall
Northern Illinois University College of Law
James G. Pope
Professor of Law & Sidney Reitman Scholar
Rutgers University School of Law
Peter Ranis
Professor Emeritus
CUNY
Barry Shank
Professor of Comparative Ethnic and American Studies
Ohio State University
Geoffrey D. Miller
NYU Law `02
Benjamin Isitt
PhD candidate, Canadian history
University of New Brunswick
Rose Daitsman
Program Manager, Emerita
College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Christopher C. Lowe
Adjunct Professor of History
Portland State University
Steve Estes
Assistant Professor
History Department, Sonoma State University
Brian Rothgery
VP for Negotiations
Dept steward for Communication
Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association, AFT Local 2169, AFL-CIO
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Ann Eagan
Chair, West Queens Greens
Green Party local
Max Obuszewski
Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth Williamson
University of Pennsylvania
Sarah M. Roberts
Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2278
PhD candidate, Department of Geography
University of British Columbia
Andrew J. Hamilton, Ph.D., J.D.
Columbus, Ohio
Carl Arnold
Member, Park Slope Greens and
New York State Green Party
Daniel E. Bender
NYU, Ph.D. (History, 2001)
Canada Research Chair in Urban History
University of Toronto
Dr. John Marsh
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Joseph A. McCartin
Georgetown University
Mathieu Brûlé
University of Ottawa
Devorah Tarrow Carduner
NYU alum
Carl Lindskoog
Department of History
Queens College CUNY
Norman Markowitz
Rutgers University
Hugo du Coudray, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Portland State University
Deborah Cohen, Ph.D.
Daniel Lukas
Missouri State University
Henry Foner
Retired President, Fur, Leather and Machine
Workers Union
President, The Paul Robeson Foundation
Dr. David Palmer, Senior Lecturer
American Studies, Social Sciences
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
Ned Bertz
University of Iowa
Jonathan Sterne
Associate Professor
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
Maria Svart
Brooklyn, NY
Sylvia Rackow
Dr. Brian Greenberg
Professor
Monmouth University
Ty Geltmaker, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, CA
Kerry Taylor
(UE) United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union, Local 150A
Department of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shirley R. Rausher. Ph.D.(’70)
Rebecca M. Trussell, MA, New School University, 2004
Susan Thorne
Associate Professor
Department of History
Duke University
Eric Fure-Slocum
Stephen Kantrowitz
Associate Professor, History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
David McMurray
Chair, Anthropology Dept.
Oregon State University
David H. Serlin, Ph.D. (NYU ’99)
Assistant Professor, Communication
University of California at San Diego
Stephen Leberstein
Professor of History (retired)
The City College of New York
Member Professional Staff Congress AFT # 2334
Anna Marie Smith
Associate Professor of Government
Cornell University
Marc Stein, Associate Professor
Department of History
York University
Alex Urquhart
Ph.D. Student in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Managing Editor for the Queer Twin Cities Book Project
Ryan Murphy
Co-Chair
Twin Cities Northwest Workers Solidarity Committee
Ph.D. Student
Department of American Studies
University of Minnesota
Elizabeth Freeman
Associate Professor of English
University of California, Davis
Kathleen McHugh
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor
University of California/Berkeley
Fredric Jameson
William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature
Duke University
Joan W. Scott
Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Talal Asad
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
CUNY Graduate Center
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Columbia
Paul Gilroy
Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory
London School of Economics
Donna Haraway
Professor of History of Consciousness
University of California/Santa Cruz
Immanuel Wallerstein
Professor of Sociology
Yale
Etienne Balibar
Professor of Political Philosophy
Université de Paris, Nanterre
Stuart Ewen
Distinguished Professor in History and Sociology
CUNY Graduate Center
Richard Flacks
Sociology
University of California/Santa Barbara
Jill Lane
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Theatre
Yale University
Elaine Tyler May
Professor of American Studies and History
University of Minnesota
Michael Steven Smith
lawyer
Peter Marcuse
Professor of Urban Planning
Columbia
Gillian Hart
Professor of Geography and Chair, Development Studies
University of California/Berkeley
Derek Gregory
Distinguished University Professor, Geography
University of British Columbia
Don Mitchell
Macarthur Fellow, Professor and Chair of Geography
Syracuse University
Sandi Cooper
Professor Emerita of History
CUNY
Craig Greenman
Assistant Professor of Humanities
Colby-Sawyer College
Stefanie Lopez-Boy
NOW LDEF
Sonya Michel
Professor of History
University of Maryland and Fellow
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Jesse Lemisch
Professor Emeritus of History
John Jay College
John F. Stephens
Executive Director
American Studies Association
David M. Halperin
W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of English
University of Michigan
Marv Waterstone
Geography
University of Arizona
Pete Daniel
Curator, National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
Ethan Lowenstein, NYU PhD 2003
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Ransby
Professor of History
University of Illinois/Chicago
Stephen Kantrowitz
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin/Madison
James Green
Professor of History and Labor Studies
University of Massachusetts/Boston
Carole Joffe
Professor of Sociology
University of California/Davis
David McMurray
Chair of Anthropology
Oregon State University
Gabriel Piterberg
Alastair Horne Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Associate Professor of History, UCLA
Elliot G. Mishler
Professor of Social Psychology
Harvard Medical School
Marcus Rediker
Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
Nancy Folbre
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts
Tim Tyson
Professor of African American Studies
University of Wisconsin/Madison
Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture
Duke University
Paul Sutter
Associate Professor of History
University of Georgia
Renate Bridenthal
Professor Emerita of History
Brooklyn College
John Bruni
Assistant Professor of English
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Tovah P. Klein
Director, Barnard College Center for Toddler Development
Department of Psychology
Barnard College
Ian Hansen
University of British Columbia
Susan Englander
Assistant Editor, Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
Gwen Moore
State Representative
Wisconsin
Sarah Deutsch
Chair, Department of History
Duke University
Jen Schneider
Nature and Human Values
Colorado School of Mines
Michele Mason
Institute for International Studies
Stanford
Philip T.Niesser
Chair, Department of Politics
SUNY-Potsdam
Michael Schwartz
Professor of Sociology
Director, College of Global Studies
SUNY-Stonybrook
Corey Robin
Associate Professor of Politics
Queens College
Eileen Boris
Hull Professor of Women’s Studies
University of California/Santa Barbara
Mark D. Naison
Professor of History
Fordham University
James Hatley
Philosophy
Salisbury University
Sarah Kaiksow
Law
Oxford University
Larry G. Gerber
1st Vice-President, AAUP
Professor of History
Auburn University
SooJin Pate
University of Minnesota
Sarah C. Chambers
Associate Professor of History
University of Minnesota
Virginia Ravenscroft-Scott
Harvard University
Aysha Fatima
Patricia Morton
Sacha Crittenden
Elizabeth Jameson
Imperial Oil & Lincoln McKay
Professor of History and American Studies
University of Calgary
Peter Cole
History
Western Illinois University
Helen Charters
Senior Tutor in Linguistics
Auckland University
Dexter Arnold
Jon Curtiss
Organizer, AFT, AFL-CIO
Nitin Govil NYU PhD 2005
Assistant Professor of Communications
University of California/San Diego,
Ranjani Mazumdar NYU PhD 2000
James L. Secor
Anna Marie Smith
Associate Professor of Government
Cornell University
Thomas W. Volscho, Jr.
Sociology
University of Connecticut
Marc Stein
Associate Professor of History
York University, Toronto
Laura Briggs
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Cindi Katz
Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
Jon Wiener
Professor of History
University of California/Irvine
Claudia Koonz
Professor of History
Duke University
Bruce Robbins
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia
Ashley Dawson
Center for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center
Ruben Flores
University of California/Berkeley
Hugh Lusk
Lecturer, Department of Planning
Auckland University
Jan R. Lambertz
Associate Editor, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
George Washington University
Zoe Lake
University of California/Berkeley
Jessica Johnson
American Civilization
Brown University
Arthur MacEwan, Chair
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts/Boston
Hester Eisenstein
Professor of Sociology
Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Hector L. Delgado
Sociology and Anthropology
University of La Verne, California
Bill Mullen
Professor of English
Purdue
Van Gosse
Professor of History
Franklin and Marshall College
Atina Grossmann
Professor of History
Cooper Union
Lisa Wedeen
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Chicago
Steve Leberstein
Professor of History Emeritus
CUNY City College
Chad Allen Goldberg
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin/Madison
Mark Kesselman
Professor of Political Science
Columbia University
Nan D. Hunter
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Sandra Addickes
NYU PhD
Peter Ranes
Professor Emeritus
CUNY
Michael Bader
Sociology
University of Michigan
Joel LeFevre
Dr. Philip T. Neisser
Chair, Department of Politics
SUNY Potsdam
Stefanie Lopez-Boy
Member of UAW 2320
Chad Alan Goldberg
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin
Jane Buck
President
AAUP
Barbara Weinstein
Professor of History, University of Maryland
President-Elect (2006)
American Historical Association
Norma Field
Robert S. Ingersoll Professor, Japanese Studies
The University of Chicago
Ron Eglash
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jeff Ballinger
Julia Mickenberg
Assistant Professor of American Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Ryan Murphy
Co-Chair
Twin Cities Northwest Workers Solidarity Committee
Ph.D. Student
Department of American Studies
University of Minnesota
Andrew Urban
Graduate Student in History
University of Minnesota
Slavoj Zizek
Co-Director
International Center for Humanities
Birkbeck College, University of London
Tia Kolbaba
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion
Director, Modern Greek Studies Program
Rutgers University
Allen M. Howard
Professor of History
Rutgers University
Alex Urquhart
Ph.D. Student in American Studies
University of Minnesota
Elizabeth Freeman
Associate Professor of English
University of California, Davis
Kathleen McHugh
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles
Andreas Huyssen
The Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Cindi Katz
Environmental Psychology Program
CUNY Graduate Center
Carol Duncan
Professor Emerita
Ramapo College of NJ
Alan Wald
Professor of
American Culture
University of Michigan
Tyler Curtain
Department of English and American Literature
University of North Carolina
Fred Moten
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
Adrian Rifkin FRSA
Professor of Visual Culture
School of Arts
Middlesex University UK
Jeremy Stolow
Department of Sociology &
Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia
McMaster University
Felice Lifshitz
Professor of History
Florida International University
Melani McAlister
Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs
George Washington University
Amy Dru Stanley
Associate Professor of History
University of Chicago
Robert K. Massie
Pulitzer Prize winning author
Kathryn Burns
Associate Professor of History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tani Barlow
Professor of History & Women's Studies
University of Washington
Ken Kawashima NYU PhD
Asst. Professor of History & East Asian Studies
University of Toronto
Bryna Goodman
Associate Professor of History
University of Oregon
Miranda Massie
NYU LAW alumna
Civil Rights Lawyer
Laikwan Pang
Assoc. Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies
Chinese University of Hong Kong
David Chioni Moore, PhD
Associate Professor and Incoming Chair
International Studies Department
Associate Professor of English
Macalester College