Letter to US Government Officials Concerning Recent Events in Turkey

POSTED BY HENRY REICHMAN

The following is the text of a letter sent today (July 25) to President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and signed by nearly 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. Those who wish to add their signatures may do so here.

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

34. 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

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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

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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

105, Jeremy R. Bell, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia Southern University

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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

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Jean L. Cohen, Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University

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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

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Alice Crary, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York

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Alexander Hughes, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, MSU Denver, Colorado

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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

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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

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Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago

Jurgen Braungardt, California State University East Bay, Philosophy Department

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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

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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

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Mauricio Suchowlansky, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Letters & Sciences, Arizona State University

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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

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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

269. 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

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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

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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

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West Gurley, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University

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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

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Patricia Morton, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside

Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor, University College Dublin; Visiting Professor, Yale University

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Julia Roos, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Sondra Hale, Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles

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Serena Laws, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

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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

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Arijit Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of WisconsinMilwaukee

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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

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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

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Min Song, Professor of English, Boston College

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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

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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

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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

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