POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN
On June 19th, 2020, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer and Provost Ka Yee C. Lee sent an email to the University community on the occasion of Juneteenth inviting the University and its members to use the day to “learn and listen, to examine history, to challenge assumptions, and to explore bold ideas to address racism and inequality.” The President and Provost asked readers to “take a fresh look at concrete actions we all can take to build a more just community, and to strengthen our culture of diversity and inclusion so that all members of our campus community are welcomed and valued.” Following up on this invitation, we insist on a set of specific and immediate actions the University of Chicago must take to begin to repair and redress its long history of willingly enabling and directly contributing to structural racism.
It is not just individual members of the university community, but the University of Chicago as an institution that needs to engage in critical reflection and concrete action. Over its history, the University has consistently reproduced racist structures and social systems. Professed commitments to diversity and inclusion ring hollow in a context where the University does not support the study of race, falls short of its commitments to build a diverse faculty, maintains one of the largest private police force in the country, and refuses to engage the South Side of Chicago as an equal partner in decisions about campus expansion. Pledges of good intentions, claims to racial innocence, and protestations of having done good works do little to blunt the systemic racism the University often capitulates to.
As just one example of the evident gap between stated University ideals and practices, we received the Juneteenth email just days after learning that the most recent national search to hire a Faculty Director for the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture (CSRPC) had failed. The external search for a CSRPC Faculty Director, facilitated by the Office of the Provost, has been ongoing since 2017. For nearly four years, the Center has been under interim leadership, severely constraining its ability to fulfill its mission to serve as a hub for the rigorous study of race. Each year the Center has lacked a permanent director with the institutional stability to pursue a long-term vision, the University of Chicago demonstrates its studied neglect of the study of race. Scores of new faculty have been hired, thousands of undergraduates have completed their degrees and hundreds of graduate students have undergone their coursework requirements without ever experiencing stable, long-term leadership at the Center.
Both of the costly external searches mounted for a permanent Director–the first in 2017 and the second in 2019, both supported by an external search firm to which the University paid over $80,000–failed to yield a hire. The faculty finalists for both searches cited similar uncertainties about the upper administration’s support for CSRPC as a major factor in their decision to decline or withdraw. Moreover, because the CSRPC Director must also be appointed by a Department, the position is constrained by the priorities and objectives of other units who ultimately have the authority to vet and appoint its leadership. This series of failed searches have made it even clearer that new administrative structures governing the study of race at the University of Chicago are immediately necessary.
In addition to the failure of the most recent search for a Director, CSRPC’s budget for next year has been cut by over $50,000. While we recognize the financial difficulties posed by the current pandemic, the need to support the study of race and racism has never been more urgent. The administration’s failure to successfully recruit a permanent CSRPC Director, alienating multiple distinguished candidates in the process, in addition to the most recent budget cuts, signals to current and prospective students, faculty, staff, and community members a lack of commitment to the study of race and the meaningful redress of the University’s legacy of injurious actions to the minority communities it neighbors, serves, and is constituted by.
News of the University’s failure to hire Barbara Ransby and this recent cut to the CSRPC budget arrived in the midst of the national and global uprisings against white supremacy, racial injustice, and police violence. Our city and campus have been at the center of these mobilizations. As protestors faced off against the violent repression of the Chicago Police Department, University of Chicago students organizing under the banner #CareNotCops occupied the headquarters of the UC police department calling for the defunding and dismantling of university police.
Faculty, staff and community members have no choice but to interpret the continued ambiguity regarding the future of the CSRPC’s leadership, declining budget of the Center, the recent elimination of the Special Trustee’s Program providing central funding for under-represented minority doctoral students, the large footprint of University police, and the continued disregard of demands for a Community Benefits Agreement for the Obama Presidential Center as clear signals that the University is not only failing to live up to its professed commitment to “build a more just community,” but remains indifferent to how its policies and actions work, in fact, to reproduce racial hierarchy within and beyond its walls.
Since its founding the CSRPC has modelled a powerful vision of how the University might engage the persistent structures of white supremacy and racial hierarchy. The work of CSRPC constituents not only spans divisions but the globe as well, with many affiliates writing, working and teaching about race in comparative and transnational contexts. But equally important is that the Center supports work on race in our local contexts of Chicago and the South Side. It is a crucial site of interfacing with our neighbors in shared political and intellectual projects–a counterpoint to the experience of policing and gentrification with which the University is so deeply associated. Working with community members to study and address racial disparities, movement formation, and insurgent art practices as they shape the physical, material, and political context in which we all move is central to the work of the Center. As faculty affiliated with CSRPC, we are committed to situating our intellectual work in the context of wider struggles for racial justice and equity. We thus advance our demands in solidarity with other collectives mobilized against racial injustice, white supremacy, and police violence on our campus and throughout the South Side of Chicago.
Living up to the commitments of diversity, equity and inclusion, and transforming the University’s history of white supremacy and racial hierarchy will require more than platitudes. It will be necessary to redistribute material resources and decision-making power on this campus from the Board of Trustees all the way to the structure of the departments. This will be a years-long project requiring reckoning with the University’s past and rethinking its future orientation, but immediate action is possible and necessary. Our action is a refusal to participate in laundering the University of Chicago’s reputation given how its actions continue to reinforce, rather than reduce or resolve conditions of systemic and institutional racism.
As educators we are committed to our students and will continue to teach, mentor, and support them. Nonetheless, as faculty affiliates of CSRPC, bearing in mind the recent history of the Center, we see no choice but to make the following immediate demands and will cease to collaborate on diversity and inclusion initiatives.
I. Increased Support for and Autonomy of the CSRPC
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture has the potential to become an even more vital part of the University of Chicago community, its neighbors and the city at large, as well as the national and international community of scholars engaged in scholarship and artistic practices related to race.
As it stands however, the CSRPC’s potential and that of the undergraduates, graduates, visiting fellows, artists-in-residence, staff and faculty affiliates are paralyzed by its meager resources but most of all by the ways that the University’s leaders discount the importance of studying race critically as an essential component of social inquiry and humanistic knowledge.
For us to do our work and support the CSRPC’s potential, we demand the following:
- The CSRPC must be fully independent in all its decision-making processes but especially vis-à-vis the hiring of staff. Personnel decisions concerning the Center, up to and including the position of faculty director and executive director, will be entirely controlled by faculty affiliates who do not hold administrative positions.
- It is crucial for the effective functioning of the CSRPC that colleagues who hold staff rather than faculty positions have the full freedom of speech and engagement that is afforded the faculty.
- The budget should be increased to a minimum annual budget of $2 million. We should reach this minimum in a 3-year period. A proper budget would:
a) secure the staff and operating budgets;
b) sponsor community and activists fellows’ programs;
c) provide financial support for the pursuing of the Mellon projects;
d) provide resources to build a race core for undergraduates;
e) support students, faculty and staff in their research, mentorship and teaching endeavors
II. Process towards the formation of Department of Critical Race Studies
Alongside an adequately funded and autonomous Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, effective teaching and research on race at the University of Chicago requires a Department of Critical Race Studies. It is, in fact, extraordinary that we should have to articulate this as a demand in 2020. The University of Chicago stands alone among our peer institutions in lacking a Department through which scholars working centrally on race may be hired and students systematically trained. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, and UCLA all have Departments of African American Studies. Brown and Penn have Departments of Africana Studies while Columbia’s is entitled African American and African Diaspora Studies. Previous University of Chicago Provosts have actively discouraged the formation of such a Department here. This absence is particularly egregious in a university that prides itself on continuously questioning and challenging knowledge formations and their institutional groundings.
Faculty affiliates will produce a proposal for a department that we will submit to the Council of the University Senate during the 2020-2021 academic year. In the interim we call on the University to support the process of departmentalization by:
- Funding an External Advisory Council composed of faculty at peer institutions that will provide advice on best practices as faculty affiliates put together a proposal. Faculty affiliates will select members of the Council, which will commence work in January 2021.
- A commitment to four full lines in the new Department, including at least two full professors, the option of half-lines for existing faculty seeking affiliation with the new Department and their home Department that would not count against the full lines in the Department. We also call for 2 staff positions and a space allocation for the new department. The lines and half-lines, space and funding for staff positions will be released upon approval of the departmentalization proposal by faculty affiliates and the Council of the University Senate.
III. Faculty Governance of Diversity and Inclusion
At present, the formal leadership of university diversity and inclusion efforts is carried out by the Office of the Provost under the auspices of the Vice Provost for Academic Leadership, Advancement and Diversity. This model of executive governance is incompatible with the stated objectives of a diverse and equitable campus and supporting community health, education, and economic opportunities for residents of the South Side. No individual should be appointed as the mouthpiece of the Provostial Office of Diversity and Inclusion or be empowered to make unilateral decisions on its behalf.
In accordance with said objectives, we demand the following:
- The incorporation of “equity” as an explicitly stated objective alongside Diversity and Inclusion. Diversity, on its own, has become an empty slogan, one that emphasizes cosmetic changes, leaving uninterrogated the unequal structures of power that persist well after there are “black [and brown] faces in the mirror.” The incorporation of equity is no mere change of slogan. Instead, it will require that each body committed to diversity at the university employ an equity analysis that shapes their agenda and informs their goals.
- The formation of a permanent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council composed of faculty, staff and students that is empowered to develop, fund, and implement university policies and initiatives on issues of equity, inclusion, and racial justice. Members of the Council will be elected by faculty, staff and students respectively. Two seats of this Council will be reserved to the CSRPC and the future Department of Critical Race Studies. This body should be put in place by January 2021.
- The position of Vice Provost for Academic Leadership, Advancement and Diversity will be restructured such that the role of VP for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is distinct from the role of VP for Academic Leadership and Advancement. The person who holds the role of VP for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will have served at least one year on the Council and will be elected from among the members of the Council. This structure will be put in place when the term of the current VP for Faculty Development and Diversity ends. In the interim, the current VP for Faculty Development and Diversity will interface with the elected body of the Diversity Advisory Council.
IV. University Policing
The University of Chicago, like most universities across the country and the nation as a whole, has expanded the scope and resources for policing over the last five decades. But for students of color and black residents on the South Side, the expansive jurisdiction and policing powers of the UCPD do not enhance their safety. This was made painfully clear when the UCPD shot Charles Soji Thomas, a senior student of color in Spring 2018.
The logic of policing and punishment also informs the University’s new disciplinary processes for addressing instances of protest and civil disobedience. Though the University lauds itself as a defender of free speech, its punitive approach to student protest undermines the rights of assembly.
Advocating for the safety and livelihoods of students, staff, faculty, and community members, we stand with UChicago United, the #CareNotCops campaign, Reparations at UChicago Working Group (RAUC), and the Library Activist Network at UChicago.
1. As a first step toward rethinking safety beyond policing, we call on the University to honor the demand of #CareNotCops for a public meeting between student representatives and the Provost.
2. We call for an immediate release of the UCPD and all other safety and security budgets from the past 20 years and every year in perpetuity.
3. Release a plan for disarming and gradual defunding of UCPD in conversation with #CareNotCops and on the model of divesting from police to invest in grassroots community-driven projects in the southside.
V. Reparations at UChicago
“Like so many other venerable American institutions, the University of Chicago is built on slavery.” So opens “A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago” a working paper authored by Caine Jordan, Guy Emerson Mount, and Kai Parker of the Reparations at UChicago Working Group (RAUC). As the authors document empirically and convincingly, the founding of the University of Chicago is indelibly linked to the fortune of slaveholder Stephen A. Douglas as its earliest benefactor.
While a recent university press release insists that Douglas “had no connection to the University of Chicago that was founded in 1890 as a new institution with a distinct mission” after his death in 1861, there is no question that his fortune permitted the Hyde Park campus to retain the institutional mores, donor networks, faculty base, and library holdings from the Old University of Chicago. As John Boyer concludes in The University of Chicago: A History, “there was indeed no break, if one saw the University through a Burkean spectrum of transgenerational partnerships.”
But we need not go back to slavery and the nineteenth century to identify the ways the university has directly participated in and benefited from racial domination. The University’s active role in maintaining and supporting racial restrictive covenants and urban renewal policies that kept out Black residents in the 20th century must also be acknowledged. Moreover, the institution’s current unwillingness to support the Community Benefits Agreement protecting neighborhoods surrounding the Obama Presidential Center as well as the potential harms that inviting students back to campus this fall poses to the greater South Side speak to its more recent and ongoing history of injurious practices towards local communities.
We demand:
- An immediate acknowledgement of the University of Chicago’s debt to the enslaved people who toiled on the Douglas plantations in Lawrence County and Washington County, Mississippi.
- The establishment of a truth and justice committee to further investigate and determine appropriate reparations for the University’s connections to slavery, Jim Crow, and other ongoing forms of racial exploitation, exclusion, and discrimination. Said committee should be directed by community organizations from the South Side of Chicago. Its members would be selected by CSRPC in collaboration with allied organizations and institutions on and off campus. This committee would be named by October 1, 2020.
Labor & Publicity Withdrawal
Until these demands are met, faculty associates of the Center for Race, Politics, and Culture and allies will refuse to:
- Participate in any new faculty searches approved beginning AY 2020-2021.
- Participate in any Departmental, Divisional, or University committee whose nominal mission is related to Diversity and Inclusion.
- Allow the University to use our accomplishments to promote the University; these “celebrations” of individual recognition provide camouflage for a long-standing practice, if not policy, of neglect and derision of people of color and scholarship and teaching on race. We will not cooperate with the University’s Press office, nor be highlighted on the University’s web-page. We will communicate with the University’s News office and Divisional Public Relations staff that we are withdrawing from such exposure.
Without movement on our demands, we will discourage colleagues elsewhere from accepting invitations to participate in talks, conferences, or symposia hosted by the University of Chicago until the University takes meaningful action to address its inequitable structures, and request that those committing to this action sign this letter in solidarity.
We recognize that hierarchies and material privileges make it such that colleagues at the University and around the country vary in their ability to make a public pledge of this kind.
[To add your signature to this letter, please fill out this form.]
Signed by:
Former Directors of the CSRPC
Michael Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
Salikoko S. Mufwene, The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Preston & Sterling Distinguished Service Professor of History
Current Faculty affiliates
Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor of English
Jacqueline Stewart, Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science
Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History
Robert Vargas, Associate Professor of Sociology
Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization in the College and Professor of History
Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Chris Taylor, Associate Professor of English
C. Riley Snorton, Professor of English & Gender and Sexuality Studies
Danielle Roper, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Micere Keels, Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development
Kaneesha Parsard, Assistant Professor of English
Eve L. Ewing, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Omar McRoberts, Associate Professor of Sociology
Natacha Nsabimana, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr. Professor and Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Director, Trauma Center
Stephan Palmie, Professor of Anthropology
Larissa Brewer-García, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of History
Jessica S. Baker, Assistant Professor of Music
Sophia Azeb, Assistant Professor of English
Maanasa Raghavan, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
Travis A. Jackson, Associate Professor of Music
Sarah Johnson, Assistant Professor of English
Adam Green, Associate Professor of History
Kara Keeling, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Anton Ford, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Gina E. Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, SSA
Theaster Gates, Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Natalia Bermúdez, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Margaret Beale Spencer, Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education, Comparative Human Development
Sharese King, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Damon Jones, Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine
Doriane C. Miller, Associate Professor of Medicine
Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Julie Iromuanya, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Department of History
Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts, English & Creative Writing
Noémie Ndiaye, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago
Loren Kruger, Professor of Comparative and English Literatures, African Studies. Theater and Performance Studies
Hoda El Shakry, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Monica Vela MD, Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs, Pritzker School of Medicine
Joyce Bell, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Sociology
Matthew M. Briones, Associate Professor of US History, Department of History
Tina Post, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Leah Feldman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Marci Ybarra, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Rachel Galvin, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Angela S. García, School of Social Service Administration
Reuben Miller, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Non-CSRPC Signatories (this is an extremely long list)
Michelle Yang, BA’20, College, Anthropology & CRES (Alum)
Jessica Law, Alum, University of Chicago BA’18, PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Sociology Department (Alum)
Guy Emerson Mount, Assistant Professor, Auburn University, Department of History (Faculty member at another university)
John Eason, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Alum)
Miki Takeshita, UChicago College, Department of History, Class of 2017
Elena Gormley, MSW Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago Jane Addams College of Social Work
Heaven Lee, Student, UCI, Political Science
Grace Su, Policy Project Associate, University of Chicago Urban Labs
Anne Lim, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Dept. of Social Sciences
Maren Hulden, BA ’06, College, Political Science
Wyatt Green, College alum
Grace Su, BA’19 (Political Science and Public Policy Studies), Policy Project Associate, UChicago Urban Labs
Briallen Hopper, Assistant Professor, Queens College CUNY, English
Samuel Baudinette, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School
Megan Wachspress, Alum (A.B. 2006), PhD UCBerkeley, JD Yale
Olive Lopez, BA ’19, Psychology, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Ben Samuels-Kalow, Head of School, Creo College Prep
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Divinity School
Emily Lipstein, University of Chicago BS ’17, Biological Sciences Division
Jamie Keener, MA student, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, English Department
Samuel Bryant, AB ’05 (Classical Studies)
Ellen Platts, BA ‘15, Anthropology; PhD student, Anthropology at the University of Maryland
Sophia Yan, BA ‘12, University of Chicago, PBPL
Serena Cervantes, BA, Comparative Literature
Leland Jasperse, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Dept. of English
Catherine Kearns, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
Maria Sachiko Cecire, Associate Professor of Literature, Bard College
Michelle Gan, BA 2018, College, Public Policy
Susan Paykin, MPP ’20, Harris School of Public Policy
Claire Schmitt, University of Chicago, the College
Catherine Dudun, AM Candidate, SSA
Jennifer Higgs, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, School of Education
Warren Wagner, College, BA’23
Leora Hudak, Lecturer, School of Social Service Administration
Joyce Harduvel, School of Social Service Administration
Lubna Najar, M.A. English 2012
Karlyn Gorski, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, AB ’14, AM ’18
Seth Nguyen, Student, The College, AB ‘22
Rosemarie Ho, University of Chicago AB ’18, Philosophy
Ángel, Undergraduate Student. University of Chicago, the College
Emily Marker, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University – Camden, History Department
Sue Shon, Assistant Professor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Culture and Community
Tamara Golan, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Art History
Liana Fu, AB’21, The College, Creative Writing and CRES
Zach Loeffle , Humanities Teaching Fellow, Music
Taylor Bailey, Grad student, UW-Madison, Afro-Am Studies/English
Elizabeth Lukehart, Lecturer, Northwestern University, Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Zach Samalin, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
Dana Castillo, Alum, University of Chicago AB’14 AM’ 15 (SSA)
Dominque Howse, Lifelong Education Advocate, New Orleans, LA
Stanislav Dikiy, Graduate Student, Weill Cornell Medicine, Immunology
Autumn Ni, BA ’15, EALC
Hayley Mirabile, Undergrad class of ‘23
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Art History
Renee Ridolfi, Alumna, The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Madeline Anderson, University of Chicago BA’18
Dan Wang, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Pittsburgh
Rick Prelinger, Professor, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
Beatriz Schaver, Undergraduate Alumna, University of Chicago, Public Policy
Cynthia de la Rosa, The College, c/o ‘13 Alum
Julie Orlemanski, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Department of English
Sophia Chen, Alum BA ’16, University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
Kim Meidenbauer, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology
Mercy Loyo, University of Chicago BA ’18
Maggie Sivit, PhD Student, Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago
Xaviera Simmons, Artist/ Xaviera Simmons Studio
Irena Huang, University of Chicago Alum, MAPH ’19
Beatriz Schaver Eizaguirre, Undergraduate Alumna, University of Chicago BA ‘19, Public Policy
Danbee Kim , Graphic Designer, Alum of UChicago
Aryeh Bernstein, Rabbi, Hyde Park resident
Kaila Scott-Charles, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago, Psychology
Forrest Stuart, Associate Professor, Stanford Sociology
Karla Espinoza , Residency Student, Uchicago, Urban Education Program (UTEP)
Laurence Ralph, Professor, Princeton University, Anthropology
Isaac Johnston, Alum 2019, The College, History and CRES
Yao Ong, PhD Student, University of Chicago, English
Blair Bainbridge, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Committee for Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and the Anthropology Department
Marissa Page, Former Hyde Park resident, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Alumnus (‘14)
Jana Greenslit, University of Washington (alum)
Frania Mendoza Lua, PhD Student, UChicago SSA
Sabrina Sternberg, Undergraduate student in the College, Cinema and Media Studies & Linguistics
Mikayla Williams, Undergraduate student, University of Chicago
Yao Ong, PhD Student, University of Chicago, English
Hannah Manshel, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai’i Manoa, English
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Graduate Program Director, Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Department
Elly McCarthy, BA’19, College, Statistics & Comparative Human Development
Andrew Way Leong, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of English
Emma Pask, UChicago PhD Student – CHSS and Anthropology
Leslie Wilson, Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts, Smart Museum of Art
Angie Epifano, PhD Student, Yale University, History of Art
Cynthia Dapogny, Assistant Director, UChicago, Alumni Relations and Development
Amy Qin, UChicago BA’ History 2018
Hilary Leathem, PhD candidate, UChicago – Anthropology
Gabriela Garcia, Second year, College
Madeleine Davison, Syracuse University B.S. in Journalism and Sociology ‘20 (Daughter of a UChicago alumnus)
Bahati Aimee, Student, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Alice May, Undergraduate Class of 2021, University of Chicago, English and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Eugenie Bang, Class of 2010, Northwestern University
Annie Geng, Alum of the College, A.B. ‘20, Philosophy
Alexandra Warren, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences Department
Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor of Sociology/University of Chicago
Zahra Nasser, Undergraduate, Philosophy and Art History
Felix Lecocq, BA’20, College, English and Creative Writing
Madison Thân, BA’22, University if Chicago, Statistics and English
Ashley Soong, University of Chicago, Class of ’18, Sociology
Amulya Mandava, Phd Candidate, Harvard University Dept of Anthropology
Vatsala Kumar, Current Student, University of Chicago, Law School and Harris School of Public Policy
Noah Feeman, MA ’17, Writing Instructor, Writing Program, University of Chicago
Laurie Merrell, M.S. in Analytics student at Northwestern University & University of Chicago Lab School Alum
Aneesah Ettress, MDiv Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Nikki Grigg, Graduate student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Gretchen Neidhardt, BA 2008, College, Psychology
Elena Barrera-Waters, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Kiana Amini, College graduate, the university of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Audrey Habermann, College class of 2009, former college admissions staff, Ssa class of 2015
Patrick Jagoda, Professor, English and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago
Daniel R. Hansen, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Uday Jain, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
Jainaha Srikumar, Alumna, the College
Komal Kawatra, BA’16, College, Economics
Apoorva Gundeti, University of Chicago AB’19 (Alum)
Danya Lagos, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; University of Chicago Alum (BA’12, MA ’16, PhD’20)
Ayomide Badmus, Incoming Freshman at The University of Chicago
Tammi Polingo, LCSW, AM ‘16 School of Social Service Administration
Deborah Nelson, Helen B and Frank L Sulzberger Professor of English and the College, UChicago
Benjamin Saltzman, Assistant Professor of English
Anirudh Pennathur, Alum, University of Chicago
Austin Feuer, 2L, University of Chicago Law School
Alexander Nye, Alum, University of Chicago BA/MA’17, Law, Letters & Society, Research Associate, Yale University School of Management
Norma Field, Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, EALC
Jon Davison, Alum MD2002
Denis Hirschfeldt, Professor, University of Chicago, Mathematics
Any Sternberg, Parent of current student
Chloe M. Pelletier, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Art History
Ezer Smith, Alumnus, University of Chicago, BA ‘17
Bart Schultz, Senior Lect. Philosophy and Director Civic Knowledge Proj.
Faith Hillis, Associate Professor of History
Zoë Woodbury High, PhD Student, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Margaret Lazarovits, University of Chicago BA ’18, PhD Student, University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Lastres, BA ’18 JD ’22
Robert L. Kendrick, William Colvin Professor, Music/RLL
Ana Lanier, University of Chicago, Psychology BA
Nadeen Issa, Alumn, College, Math
Claire Sampson, alumni class of 2019
Niall S Atkinson, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, dept. of Art History
Isabel Wade, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California, Department of Art History
Joanna Bak, N/A
Persephone Tian, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Na’ama Rokem, Director, The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
Nikhil Mandalaparthy, University of Chicago, BA ‘19 and MPP ‘20
Bradford Stephens, n/a
Max Lupin, AB in Biological Sciences 2017 University of Chicago
Calgary Haines-Trautman, BA’17 History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine / current staff member, University of Chicago
Tara Zahra, Homer J. Livingston Professor of History
Megha Bhattacharya, AB ‘19 Political Science Department
Ratul Esrar, Alum, Harris School of Public Policy
Caroline Séquin, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College, History
Andrew Malilay White, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Music
Anaceli Mejia, ‘21, University of Chicago, SSA
Jenny Harris, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Art History Department
Vrinda Agarwal, Alum, University of Chicago BA ‘19, Economics
Eli Winter, College, University of Chicago
Wendy Zheng, BA’20, Economics and CRES
Alainna Lynch, University of Chicago, BA ’06
Jessica Graham, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of History
Ellen Plonsky AM 2020, Alum University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Tovia Siegel, BA ’15, College, Sociology
Rowanne Dean, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Art History
Yali Amit, Professor
Crystal Beiersdorfer, MFA Candidate, The University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts
Claire Bowman, PhD candidate, Uchicago Anthropology
Maria Anna Mariani, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
Jacob Secor, PhD Student, UChicago Dept of Music
Laura Colaneri, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
S. Modur, AB ‘06, Political Science
Marie, Student, The College
Christine Wong, Alumni 2013, University of Chicago, Public Policy
Laresa Dern, AB ‘15, PhD Student at University of Nevada, Reno, Anthropology
James Skry, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Music Dept
Alana Cole, MS ’18, Tufts School of Medicine – Pain Research, Education and Policy & BA ’15, University of Chicago – Anthropology & Gender Studies
Anya Auerbach, Graduate student, University of Minnesota EEB
Gabriella Mulder, AB ’17, UChicago, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sociology
David Kretz, PhD student, University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies & Committee on Social Thought
Roxane Picard, Class of 2013 Alum, University of Chicago, The College
Isabela Fraga, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Alexander Bogatskiy, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Physics Department
Giovanna DeCastro, BA’19, College, Public Policy & Comparative Human Development
Daniela Palmer, PhD ’18, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield, Animal and Plant Sciences
Jennifer Wild, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures
Adriana Obiols, Phd Student, University of Chicago, Art History
Nicholas Marchio, Research Data Scientist, University of Chicago, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Rohan Dandavati, BS ’19, College, Mathematics, MS ’19, Computer Science
Charlie Sun, BA’14, College, Economics
Aisha Chaudhri, 05 Alum of MAPH program
Edward Zamborsky IV, SB Mathematics UChicago 2018
Bocar A. Ba, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine, Department of Economics
Ethan Chua, Undergraduate, Stanford University, Anthropology
Adam Fales, PhD Student, English, UChicago
Adriana Gonzales, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Jason Grunebaum, Instructional Professor, SALC, University of Chicago
Kelsey Rooney, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Maria Del Toro, MBA class of 2019, Booth School of Business
Lex Ladge, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Art History
Jonathan Gardner, BA’20, University of Chicago, Music
Michael Stablein, Jr., Joint-PhD Student, University of Chicago, English & Theatre and Performance Studies
Austin Lai, Alumni, UChicago, CHDV
Mimi Wilcox, University of Chicago Alum – BA Economics & Russian 2016
Jordie Davies, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Political Science
Charles morello, Ba philosophy 2011
Claire Jenson, MA ’15, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Lucas Beaufore, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Gregory Valdespino, Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago History Department
Tyler Williams, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Maren Christensen, AB 2006
Melody Janell Bell, Booth
Jorge E. Cuéllar, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College
Emily, Alumna, University of Chicago, English
Tien-Tien Jong, PhD student, Cinema and Media Studies
Thomas Hagan, Fourth Year Student in the College, University of Chicago, Philosophy and Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
Miguel Martinez, Associate Professor of Spanish, RLL
Noel Blanco Mourelle, Assistant Professor, UChicago, RLL
Caroline Hutton, AB’18, University of Chicago, Public Policy Studies
Benjamin Ruder, Manager, Film & Technical Operations, Film Studies Center
Jaleel Plummer, Joint PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Medical Anthropology
Bryce Henson, ACES Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor; Department of Communication; Texas A&M University
Anna Nathanson, University of Chicago BA’17, Harvard Law School JD’20
Jennifer Mosley, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, SSA
Kevin Swanson, SSA AM 2019
Mike van der naald, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Sarah Atlas, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, SSA
Mario Santana, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Amélie Ng Pavel, Alum, English and Creative Writing BA/MAPH 2020
Tiffany Wang, BA’17, University of Chicago, Psychology
Hoyt Long, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Daniel Raeburn, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts, The University of Chicago, Program in Creative Writing
Erin L. Sostock, MA, University of Chicago; JD, DePaul University College of Law (alum)
Delaney Coe, Alum, University of Chicago, SSA
Ian Warren, Incoming MPP student at Harris School of Public Policy
lauren Shockey, AB ’06
Sabrina Craig, Assistant Director, External Engagement Programs, UChicago Arts, University of Chicago
Raisa Kreek, University of Chicago BA ‘09
Seychelle Mikofsky, BA ’20, The College, Sociology
Anna Attie, Alumni of the College, Class of 2020
Sophie Fajardo, Sociology Preceptor, University of Chicago, Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences (MAPSS)
Andrew Dilts, Alum, University of Chicago (MA ’04, PhD ’08), Former Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago (’08-’11), Currently Associate Professor of Political Science, Loyola Marymount University
Hunter Kennedy, AB ’16, PhD student in Department of Anthropology
Siera Carusone, Graduate Student (MAPSS), University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Erin Venable, Assistant Director of Communications, University of Chicago, Arts + Public Life
Amber Love, BA’17, Anthropology & Cinema and Media Studies
Howard Ruan, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School and Social Service Administration
Anne Knafl, Bibliographer for Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, UChicago, Library
Stephanie Kung, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Indiana University
Stephanie Strother, PhD Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Isabelle Sohn, BA ’20, College, History and Human Rights, Alum
Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College
Wakanene Kamau, Alumnus, The College, SB’ 16
Rina Sugawara, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Music Department
Andrea Núñez, The College, AB’12 Romance Languages and Literature, International Studies
Keren Faling, alum (class of 1992); teacher at the Laboratory Schools
Joshua Mayer, PhD candidate, UCLA Department of Anthropology (UChicago MA ‘16)
Lily Ye, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Dept of Comparative Human Development
Emma Gilheany, PhD Student, UChicago Anthropology
Lilly Le, BA ’21, University of Chicago, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Sociology
Salman Safir, Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Venus Bivar, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of York, Department of History
Jessica Green, BA ‘ 14, MBA ’19
Erin R. Pineda, Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College and former Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar at CSRPC (2015-2017)
Kris Trujillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Hopie Melton, UChicago, PBPL and SOCI
Hannah Landes, B.A. Anthropology, 2017
Lauren Dean, The College, A.B 2013
Sierra Meszaros, University of Chicago Divinity School
Annabelle Burns, BA ’22, College
Evan L. Eschliman, AB’17, PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Ann Li, MPP’16, UChicago Harris School of Public Policy (Alum)
Zain Jamshaid, Cinema and Media Studies, Phd
Sophia Salvato, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, CRES
Helen Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Sabrina de la Vega, Grad student, University of Chicago, Harris
Rachel Perry, Student, UChicago Urban Teacher Education Program
Quincy T. Mills, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of History
Desta Lissanu, MD Pritzker School of Medicine alumna c/o 2019
Angela Wang, BA ’20, College, English and Public Policy Major
Joshua Sanborn, Professor of History, Lafayette College
Brandy C. Williams, Ph.D. Student in English, University of Chicago
Kiku Hibino, Bibliographic Assistant, The Joseph Regenstein Library
Michael F. McGovern AB ’13 (HiPSS and Biology), PhD Candidate, Princeton University, Department of History
Renee Ridolfi, Alumna, The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Richard Neer, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College
Valentina Villarroel, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Physical Science
Cecilia Kennedy, BA ’19, University of Chicago College, Philosophy
Sophia Walker, PhD student, EALC/CMS
Renee Ridolfi, Alumna, The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Dept. of English
Paloma Ocola, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Physics
Darla Mottram, Former Adjunct Professor, Portland State University, English and Creative Writing
Gabriel Velez, Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Educational Policy and Leadership
Amy Bates, Alum, MAT 2014 Urban Teacher Education Program
Celeste Day Moore, Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, Department of History
Josh Stadtner, PhD Student, UChicago English
Traci Parker, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro American Studies (PhD ‘13)
Florian Klinger, University of Chicago
Rafaela Brosnan, BA/MA 2020, Art History & NELC
Pratiti Deb, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Emily Dupree, JD ’18 University of Chicago Law School; PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Philosophy Department
Sophia Abuabara, The College, BA‘22, Anthropology
Zakiya Harris, Graduate Student, SSA
Jasmine Lu, PhD student, UChicago, Computer Science
Heeyoung Sim, Alum, The University of Chicago BA ‘18, Global Studies
Janet Sedlar, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Spanish Language Program
Sarah Zuniga, Mdiv ’21, University of Chicago Divinity School
Alexa Diogenes Hamilton, AB 2006, University of Chicago, Psychology
Tucker Rae-Grant, MFA 2014, University of Chicago, DoVA
Heidi Siegrist, PhD student, University of Virginia, English
Anna Li, A.B. ‘19, Sociology
Mari Mirasol, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Sociology and Public Policy
Prof. John P. McCormick, Professor, Political Science, University of Chicago
Julio Luna-Piña, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Naa Asheley Ashitey, 4th Year Undergraduate at The University of Chicago, Creative Writing
Paloma Ocola, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Physics
Justin Williams, Project Manager and Archivist, University of Chicago, South Side Home Movie Project
Anna S. Mueller, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University and External Affiliate, Population Research Center, University of Chicago
Brendan Kahn, BA ’20, Political Science, Germanic Studies
Kristin Nordeen, MBA ’19, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Liat Spiro, Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, History
Matthew Borus, PhD student, SSA and Sociology, UChicago
Johanna Winant, Assistant Professor of English, West Virginia University
Kevin Gregory, Pastor, Master of Divinity ’20, Divinity School
Aimee González, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Music
Jacqueline Patterson, Northwestern PhD Student
LaCharles Ward, “Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Melanie Nadon, PhD Student, University of Chicago, SSA
Chandani Patel, PhD ‘15, Comparative Literature
Maggie Borowitz, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Art History
Mikhael Bortz, AB ’00 (Classical Studies)
SA Smythe, Assistant Professor, UCLA Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies
Caryssa Lim, BA’16, MS1, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
Brett Swinney, Community Art Engagement Manager, Arts + Public Life
Nadeen Issa, Alumn, College, Math
Gina Fedock, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Isabella Levy, Alumni, University of Chicago, Psychology
Dave Burnham, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Co-Executive Director, Georgetown University, Center on Poverty and Inequality
Samantha Lee, MA, University of Chicago, SSA, 2014
Brett Pepowski, BA Biology 2016
Kelly Holob, PhD student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Theodore Watler, BA ’17, Art History and Law, Letters, & Society
Nicola Lustig, Student, University of Chicago, Psychology and Comparative Human Development
Elizabeth Panetta, AM ’18, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Brady Smith, Humanities Teacher, Avenues: The World School, New York City
Spoorthi Nagasamudram, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Department of Physics
Benjamin Morris, Ph.D. Student, Psychology, University of Chicago
Marianna Karagiannis, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Environmental Science
Rachael Alfant, University of Chicago BA ’18, PhD Student, Rice University, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Linda Trey, Alum, the College, Environmental Science
Hagerah Malik, Student, University of Chicago, Interdisciplinary Medical Scientist Training Program at the Pritzker School of Medicine
Tori Ankel, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Sandra Park, Alum (AB ’13) and Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of History
Chinye Ijeli, Yale School of Medicine, MD Student
Natalie Sager, Social Service Administration Alum
Elisabeth del Toro, AB ‘16
Dominique Oppenheimer, AM Student, School of Social Service Administration
Jennifer Pitts, Professor, University of Chicago, Political Science and Committee on Social Thought
Cristian Molina, Undergraduate, University of Chicago
Gwendolyn Wiegold, BA ’16, Theatre and Performance Studies, former staff member at Court Theatre
Noor Shawaf, Mellon Diversity Fellow, University of Chicago Press
Amanda Liberman, Medical student, Yale School of Medicine
Anne Heminger, AB ‘08, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Tampa
Veronica Myers, Alum, University of Chicago, Art History and Sociology
Laura Ravinder, The Harris School of Public Policy
Clifton Ragsdale, Professor, Dept. Neurobiology, University of Chicago
Claire Stone, Education Specialist, University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division
Mikia Manley, MPP’16, Harris School
Sara Siddiqui, Class of ‘21, University of Chicago, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Amanda Watson, Librarian, New York University; UChicago A.B. ’97, English
Lornett B Vestal, SSA 11’ alum
Rosaley Gai, BA 2016 UChicago EALC (alum); current MA student at UBC
Araxie Cass, Student, University of Chicago, Creative Writing & Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Marissa Igunbor, Undergraduate in CHDV
Camille Morgan, Assistant Director, Leadership Development and Strategy
Samantha Jones, 2018 SSA Alum
Aviva Waldman, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, English
Shulamis Rouzaud, Community member
Natalie Smith, Phd Candidate, History Department
Cosette Bruhns, PhD ‘20, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures; Teaching Fellow MAPH
Jackson Overton-Clark, Student, The College ‘23
Sarah Spergel, AB ‘15 Comparative Human Development, AM ‘16 School of Social Service Administration
Carly B Boxer, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Art History
Daniel Morgan, Professor, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Kelsey Kilponen, SSA Alum, AM 2018
Paul Cato, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
Yarimar Bonilla Professor, Hunter College/The Graduate Center, CUNY (Chicago Phd 2008)
Anne Aydinian Perry, AB’03 History; M.Ed, University of Houston; Doctoral Candidate, University of Houston
Emma Pauly, B.A., The College, TAPS and Classics
Anna Aguiar Kosick, Alum, the College, Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies
Julia Aizuss, A.B. ’18, the College, English and Classics
Ana Silberg, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Neuroscience
Kai Parker, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies
Patchen Markell, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University; Uchicago faculty 1999-2018
Theo Grant-Funck, BA ’18, College, Public Policy/English
Caitlin Blankenship, Student, University of Chicago, Public Policy
Anil Sindhwani Alum, University of Chicago, Sociology
Rachel Constanzo, Alumni, University of Chicago, SSA
Camila Gonzalez, Bachelor of Arts, the College
Ruby Massey, Undergraduate, University of Chicago
Sarah Alison Tuohey, Alum, former CSRPC Student Administrator
Kate Spear, Alum, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Christian Dixon, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literature
Mical Nobel, MBA Class of 2019, Booth School of Business
Judy Hoffma, Professor of Practice in the Arts, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Jin Yoon, AB’21, The College, Sociology and CRES
Adrianna Torres-García, Graduate Student, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Heather Weller, BA’21, MPP’22, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Rami Kablawi, Student, Center for Middle East Studies “22
Shengxiao Yu, UChicago, AB’12
Corbin Page, PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
Jaclyn S. Wong, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina (Alum, PhD 2018)
Jee Sun Lee, Alum, BA ’18, Public Policy Studies
Norma Williamson Shaffer, Undergrad, UChicago
Allison Beaulieu, Visual Arts Teacher, Co-Chair of the Fine Arts Department, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Nancy Spiegel, Bibliographer for Art, Cinema and History, University of Chicago Library
Tim Allen, BA ‘06, MA ‘10
Elisabeth Akinwale, ‘05 A.M. School of Social Service Administration
Bridget Madden , AB 08 and Associate Director, Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Mahlet Yared, Alumna, University of Chicago, BA Political Science ‘14
LaToya Baldwin Clark, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Law
Allison Leon, BA’21, Public Policy and Human Rights
Taylor Robinson, Student, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Susan Mallaney, MPP’15
Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Claire Roosien, UChicago AB ’10, AM ’14, PhD ’19
Regina Favela, BA 2018, Anthropology and Romance Languages & Literature
Simon Jacobs, University of Chicago S.B. 2014, University of Chicago J.D. expected 2022
Alexandra Tabachnick, UChicago AB 2012; Current PhD Candidate at the University of Delaware, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Adrian Mandeville, Undergraduate Student, The College, Sociology
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor, Northwestern University, Sociology
Ah’Shaiyah Mitchell, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, English & Psychology
Mackenzie Tefft, SSA Alumni
Kimberly Hoang, Director of Global Studies
Aaron Smoot, MPP Candidate, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Maggie Woznicki, UChicago SSA Alum 2014
Eyal Hanfling, University of Chicago AB ‘17; PhD Student, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natalia Piland, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Committee on Evolution Biology
Narrelle Gilchrist, MA Student, Social Sciences Division
Samantha Pellegrino, MA (Divinity – Islamic Studies) ‘17, current PhD student (Divinity – Islamic Studies)
Sharad Crosby, Program Administrator, UChicago Global
Anastacia Hanus, AM, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Silvia Turney, AM ’20, School of Social Service Administration
Ellen Purdy, Alum, University of Chicago, B.S. Chemistry, 2019
Kirsten Ihns, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, English Department
Anna Her, BA 2018, Psychology and Economics
Deena Heller, AB ‘08, MAT ‘09
Afriti Bankwalla, AB ’19, UChicago
Francois Richard, Anthropology & Romance Languages and Literatures
Charlie Lovejoy, AB ’18, UChicago English Literature
Berit Ness, Assistant Curator for Academic Initiatives, Smart Museum of Art
Zachary Cahill, Director of Programs and Fellowships, University of Chicago, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Seth Brodsky, Associate Professor of Music, Director, Richard & Mary L. Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry
Rachel Scharff, Bachelor of Arts in English, class of 2018
Shehara Waas, MPP ‘16, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Stefanie Perez, A.M, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Kris Cohen (PhD, UChicago, 2010), Associate Professor of Art and Humanities, Reed College, Art Department
Cristina Esteves-Wolff, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
Clara Nizard, Graduate Student, UChicago, English/TAPS
Ben Read, Student, Reed College, Comparative Literature Interdisciplinary Program
Benjamin Kersten, PhD Student, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Art History
Esther Isaac, PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
Andrew Ferguson, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Zarena Aslami, Associate Professor, Department of English, Michigan State University
John Payne, BA 06, University of Chicago, Political Science
Katie Beardall, Graduate Student, Indiana University Sociology
Kayla Hartman, LMSW, UChicago SSA
Veronica Portillo-Heap, BA 2015, The College, History & Gender & Sexuality Studies
Kathryn Yin, BA’19, Anthropology and Economics
Meghan McDonell, MA ‘19, School of Social Service Administration
Amanda Mendoza, AM ‘18 U Chicago, SSA
Lauren Pett, MPP 2015, Harris School of Public Policy
Lauren Smith, The University of Chicago BA 2018 Comparative Human Development, JD 2023
Colleen Lanier Christensen, AB’09, MPH Columbia University, PhD Candidate Harvard University
Tae Yeon Kim, Pediatric Resident at The University of Chicago, UChicago alumnae (BA 2013, MD 2019)
Joseph Dumont, AB07 Geophysical Sciences
Josh Pilz, AM ‘18, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Vanessa Camacho, MA in SW student at School of Social Service Administration
Timothy Harrison, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
Jessica H. Darrow, Assistant Instructional Professor, School of Social Service Administration, AB 2005, AM 2007, PhD 2015
Rachel Dec, Graduate student, Harris
Julia Bodson, BS ‘16, Statistics
Eram Lickfett, Research Dept. Staff; NORC at the University of Chicago
Vanessa Camacho, MA in SW student at School of Social Service Administration
Christine Head, AM ‘18, The University of Chicago, The School of Social Service Administration
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, Professor of History, Co-Director of Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Columbia Univ. Former faculty in history and founding member of CSRPC, U-Chicago
Esther Isaac, PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
Mya Dudley, Student, UChicago, Biological Sciences
John E Ellis MD, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care. Pritzker ’82.
Aimy Tien, Alum, BA ’13, History, Philosophy, and the Social Studies of Science and Medicine
Sahana Prasad, SSA ‘18
Elan Hope, Associate Professor, NC State University Department of Psychology
Rachel Murphy, Current Student, University of Chicago, Law School
Finn Jubak, BA 2018
Christine Schmidt, AB 2017, Public Policy
Rasha Abdulhadi, BA, X’03 International Studies
Ajay Batra, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
Alida Bouris, Associate Professor, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Thomas Comerford, Lecturer, Cinema and Media Studies, Division of the Humanities
Sahana Prasad, SSA ‘18
Katie Schergen, AM Grad ’18 School of Social Service Administration
Patrick Lewis, Anthropology, PhD Candidate
Sharlene Guiriba, Current Student, University of Chicago, Booth and Harris (MBA/MPP)
Kit Ginzky, AB ‘15; AM/PhD Student, SSA
Basil Dababneh, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Jordan Cooper, Student ’21, The College, Anthropology & Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Kelsey Shipley, Chicago Resident and Standardized Patient Employee
Malia Hu, Northwestern University B.S. ’14, Kellogg School of Management M.S. ’16
Samuel Catlin, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, University of Chicago
Emily Stevens, BA ’20, University of Chicago, English
Angus Reid, PhD Student, UC Berkeley English
Emily Zheng, BA/BS’17, The College, Economics and Statistics
Ryan Campagna, Grad student at UChicago in English
Madeline Meyers, Alum, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology
Nadeen Issa, Alumn, College, Math
Esther Angulo Foiles, University of Chicago AB ‘06 MAT ‘07
Ben Austen, Lecturer, University of Chicago, Creative Writing
Angelike Koniaris, Student, The College at the University of Chicago, Class of 2023
Tania Yunez, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Public Policy & Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Olivia Wine, Current MPP Student, University of Chicago, Harris
Elisabeth del Toro, AB ‘16
David Goodman-Edberg, BA ‘16, College, Theater and Performance Studies
Lorenzo Granada, PhD student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Joshua Falk, Alum (MA ’15, MS ’18)
Ritika Kaushik, PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Esther Isaac, PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
James Ekstrom, University of Chicago, BA Political Science ‘14
Olivia Wine, Current MPP Student, University of Chicago, Harris
Eleanor Carpenter, AB ‘17, Psychology
Adrianne Dues, PhD Candidate at University of South Carolina, Sociology and Grad Research Assistant
Margaret Gray, University of Chicago Graduate
Jessica Kadish-Hernandez, University of Chicago AB ‘11 Theater and Performance Studies
Andres Cruz Leland, BA ’20, Anthropology
Lydia Sum, AB ’19, College, Public Policy and Psychology
Zoë Benjamin, Student, University of Chicago, Sociology Class of 2023
Ipsita Chatterjea AB 91, AM 95., AB 91 History Department, AM 95 Divinity School PhD. (Vanderbilt)
David Mendieta, Public Policy AB ’21
James Zhang, M2, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Natalie Wang, BA ‘22, College, Political Science
Tess Moran , Alum, BA ‘16
Kiran Sonty, Student, Booth
Sabreen Akhter, BA ‘98 English Language and Literature
Ilqua Lutfi, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Matt Hubbell, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Kirill Shmilovich , PhD student, UChicago, Prizker School of Molecular Engineering
Jill J. Tan, Alum, MAPSS; PhD student, Yale University, Anthropology
Vincente Perez, PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Theater, Dance, Performance Studies. University of Chicago BA’16
Jennifer M. Bean, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington-Seattle
Aneesa Patwary, Alum, Harris School of Public Policy
Patrick Lou, Alum, University of Chicago, AB ’19
Katherine Day, Alum, UChicago, English Language and Literature
MJ Chen, AB ‘17, University of Chicago, The College
Ravi Ramasamy, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; 2018 graduate of The University of Chicago Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Darian Huffman, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Nicholas Wilkins, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies
Michael L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Coordinator of Africana Studies, Susquehanna University
Steph Bond, Dr., UCMC, Plastic Surgery
Emily Katzenstein, Junior Research Fellow in Political Theory, St John’s College, University of Oxford (UChicago Alum, PhD ’20)
Michal Lynn Shumate, AB’09, Art History
Hector Cordero-Guzman PhD (1995) AM (1989), Professor, CUNY, MSPIA
Thalea Stokes, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago, Department of Music
Tami Williams , Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Anna Searle Jones, Associate Director, 3CT, University of Chicago
Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor/Harvard U./History and AAAS
Shane DuBay, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mandy Bunte, Academic Specialist, University of Chicago Laboratory School
Bruce Mannheim, Professor of Anthropololgy, University of Michigan
Molly McKenzie, Director of Regional Development, The Wharton School/former University of Chicago staff
Julianne Lorndale, Alum, UChicago, the College
Brian Sargent, Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst, Sociology
Rachel Dec, Graduate student, Harris
Katie Bart, B.A. ‘18, University of Chicago, Public Policy Studies
Hayley Doner, AB ‘13 (Anthropology)
Laura Doto, MA, University of Chicago, Latin American Studies; Learning Coordinator for University of Chicago Laboratory High School
May Makki, BA ‘18
Reem Hamoda, M2, Pritzker School of Medicine
Julie Saville, Associate Professor Emerita, University of Chicago, History Department
Erin Carreon, 2013 Alum of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Melissa Wender, PhD 1999, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chi-ming Yang, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of English
Quenna L. Barrett, EdD Candidate, NYU Steinhardt
Don Harmon, UChicago, BA ‘22, Classics/Philosophy
María Isabel Mejia , BA, The University of Chicago, Philosophy and Comparative Human Development
Sarah Mering, Incoming MPP, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Bryn Adams, BA ’12, Environmental Studies and Law, Letters, and Society
Miho Matsugu, Ph.D 2005, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Jessica Palumbo, 3rd grade teacher, University of Chicago Lab School
Jesse Sinaiko, N/A
Sophie Cohen, MPP 2016, Harris School of Public Policy
Mary Zerkel, Administrative Assistant, Division of Humanities
Kiran Sonty, Student, Booth
Matt Epperson, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Joshua Zenker, University of Chicago Class of 2007
Jessica Hanzlik, Middle School Assistant Principal, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Bastien Craipain, PhD ‘20 Romance Languages and Literatures
Corynn Ginnow, AB’17, Comparative Human Development, AM’19, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Emily Masghati, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Social Sciences, History Department
Magda Glotzer, Uchicago graduate 2019, BA in Art History and REES
Jeremy A. Siegman, PhD, UChicago, Political Science & Anthropology
Michael Sun, MD ‘23, University of Chicago Pritzker SOM
Julianna St. Onge, AB ’16, College, Sociology
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor, Art History
Melissa Wender, PhD 1999, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Anna Martine Whitehead, Adjunct, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Practices
Hannah Norwood, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, SSA
Paul Liffman, Profesor-Investigador, El Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios Antropológicos
Marissa Fenley , PhD Candidate, English and TAPS
Martha Feldman, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Music
Hope Houston, Undergraduate student 2023
Thomas Siafa Jr., 4th year undergraduate student, The College
Atif Osmani , Mr, University of Chicago, Public Policy
Layne Friedman, Student, Undergraduate in the College
Hussein Ali Agrama, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Jordan Chaplik, Alum, University of Chicago SSA 2018
Stacey Reimann, BA ’18, the College, Law Letters and Society
Chase Woods, University of Chicago BA ‘17, Public Policy Studies
Alexis Ayala , 4th yr Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Sociology
Woo Chan Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Music
Luis Rubio, A.B. ’22, University of Chicago, Linguistics
Molly Weiner, BS ’19, Biological Sciences
Aneesa Sonawalla, BA Physics ‘16
Bella Mendoza, BA ’23, University of Chicago
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Postdoc, Yale University, African Studies
Malic White, Alum
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Kelsey Brown, University of Chicago, Chemistry BA
Hannah MacDougall, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Ashley Davis, Alumnae, University of Chicago AB’06 Political Science
Malak Arafa , Undergraduate, University of Chicago
Angel Zhang, Second-Year Undergraduate Student, The College
Paul Liffman, Profesor-Investigador, El Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios Antropológicos
Linda Pantale, MBA Booth student
Sahana Kribakaran, MD/PhD Student, Yale University, Yale School of Medicine
Aneesa Patwary, Alum, Harris School of Public Policy
Danielle Bice, N/A
Yazud Brito-Milian, Student, The University of Chicago, Undergraduate
Rena Nishijima, Alum, Booth School of Business
Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art, University of Chicago
Margaret Gray, University of Chicago Graduate
Anya Metzer, MA, Humanities
Sireen Irsheid , Phd Student
Thomas Patrick Pringle, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Alisha Nadkarni, Student at UChicago
Brenna Rice, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
Jancey Wickstrom, Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
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Julia Hanson, PhD student, Univsersity of Chicago, Computer Science
Maniza Ahmed, Project Administrator, Race and Capitalism Project
Katherine Arfken, Assoc. Professor, Indiana University Northwest & Hyde Park resident
Danielle DeLano, MA, 2017, The Divinity School at The University of Chicago
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Sarah Levenstam, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Joshua Beirich, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Claire Stewart, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Alum (‘02)
Sara Rosenau, BA ’19, Linguistics
Geoff Wodtke, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
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Itzel Blancas, Alum, BA ’17, Comparative Literature, Theater and Performance Studies
Patricia Posey, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Political Science
Chloe Blackshear, Humanities Teaching Fellow, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Kelsey Shaw, Alum, MAPH ’16
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Caleb Butler, Associate Director of Digital Marketing and UX Design, Harris School of Public Policy
Caroline Wooten, AB ’12, Religious Studies
Scott J Hunter, Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, UChicago Medicine & Biological Sciences
Isaac Rand, University of Chicago, Geographical Sciences
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Monica Moore, PhD Student, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration; AM ’19
Avery LaFlamme, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
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Paula Martin, Phd Candidate, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Anneliese Merry, English
Allison McCaffrey, AB ‘12, University of Chicago
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Briana Davis Schlesinger, A.M. ’18, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Neil Verma, Assistant Professor in Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University, PhD ’08.
Sophie Downes, AB 2017, The College, English
Phillippa Paisley, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Corbin Allardice, BA 2018, Jewish Studies
Lisa Yun Lee, Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum
Isis Ferguson, Associate Director of City & Community Strategy, University of Chicago, Arts + Public Life
Precious Graham, AM’ 18, University of Chicago, SSD
Teniya Lacy, Writing Specialist, The College, Writing Program
Scott J Hunter, Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, UChicago Medicine & Biological Sciences
Helen Wei, Medical Student, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
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Nicole Rosner, Postdoctoral Scholar & Fellow, The University of Chicago, Anthropology and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
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Rossy Natale, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Organismal Biology & Anatomy
Jack Demchak , University of Chicago (Undergrad)
Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, Postdoctoral Scholar & Fellow, The University of Chicago, Sociology and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Ruth Ellen Wellin, AB ’16
Dylan Sosa, Grad Student, University of Chicago, Department of Ecology & Evolution
Chelesa Fearce, MD/PhD Student, Yale School of Medicine
LaShaya Howie, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Grigory Gorbun, PhD student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Guilherme Baratho, Student, University of Chicago, MAPSS
Molly Robinson, BA ’17, MA Candidate, UC Berkeley, Folklore Program
Megan Resener , Development Associate, University of Chicago, Laboratory Schools
Alexis Dudden, Professor, University of Connecticut, Department of History
Ainsley LeSure, Assistant Professor, Brown University, Africana Studies
Elizabeth Alvarado, PhD graduate (2020)
A. C. Melamed, MA, University of Chicago, Sociology
Cintia Preciado Hinojosa, PhD Student, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Behavioral Science
Lisette Gonzalez, Undergraduate, AB ‘21 Sociology
Noa Levin, Student, The College, Political Science
Tami Williams, Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Yasmeen Mekawy, Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
Erica Concors, MPH, MD, Resident Physician, Department of Medicine
Carly Offidani-Bertrand, Professor, California State University San Marcos, Human Development
Justin S. Douglas, Student, UChicago, SSA/Harris
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Rebeca Velasquez, PhD Student, University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
Marielle Harrison, PhD Candidate UChicago Divinity School
Eilin R. Perez, PhD Candidate, Department of History at the University of Chicago
Kelsey Brown, University of Chicago, Chemistry BA
Solveig Nelson, Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Time-based Media, Art Institute of Chicago; Alumni, Art History Department, PhD, University of Chicago
Cassandra Mendoza, AM ’17, University of Chicago SSA; AB ‘12, University of Chicago
Kathy Hall, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education
Jesus Albarran, AB’13 University of Chicago
David Kazanjian, Professor, University of Pennsylvania, English and Comparative Literature
Cara Ugolino, LCSW, former SSA student at U of C
Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor of English
Itamar Francez , Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Chicago
Samuel Perry, Assoc Professor, Brown University, East Asian Studies
Jordan Labuda, Student, University of Chicago
Lili Baldwin, MDiv ’20, The Divinity School
Tracy Zhang, BA ’15
Hanna Kime, BA ’18, College, English Language and Literature
Ms. Eli Johnson, U of C Lab School
Scott J Hunter, Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, UChicago Medicine & Biological Sciences
Sarah Goldberg, AB ’13, Classics
Quenette L. Walton, AM ’04 (SSA), Assistant Professor, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
William Koval, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Ecology and Evolution
Fernanda Ponce, Undergraduate student, University of Chicago
Bonnie Kanter, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Grace Lyons, Student, UChicago, EALC Major
Inna Gertsenshteyn, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, Medical Physics
Khoa Phan Howard, PhD Student, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology
Andrew Longwell, AB 2019
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Stephen Carrig, Hyde Park native and University of Chicago student late 1970s.
Anthony Verdino, PhD Student, School of Social Service Administration
Reed McConnell, PhD student, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Celina Doria , PhD student, School of Social Service Administration
Kate Connors, The College, 2020
Sarah Levenstam, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Derek Nettingham , SSA
Anthony Santiago, Theater and Programs Manager, Arts + Public Life
D. N. Rodowick, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in the College and Division of Humanities, Departments of Cinema and Media Studies, and Visual Arts
Omar Salinas, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Chemistry and Biological Sciences
Isabel Olive, Musician, University of Chicago BA ’13
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Department of History
Z Yan Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Alum PhD ’18, Committee on Neurobiology)
Sara Partridge, Postdoctoral Lecturer, New York University, Core Curriculum
Vanessa Guigon, Undergraduate Student, UChicago
Kirsten Collins, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of English
Elijah Bender, Assistant professor, Concordia College History Department
Caroline Leffert, MA in Social Sciences ’20
Matthew Lang, AM ’16, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press
Mattias Darrow, BA ’12, University of Chicago
Caroline Apple, Undergrad Student
Evelyn Kessler, PhD Candidate, UChicago, History Department
Gabriel Moreno, Manager of Design Programs, The University of Chicago, Arts + Public Life
Sarah McDaniel, PhD Candidate, UChicago, English
Sharvari Sastry, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages and Civilizations/Theater and Performance Studies
Nootan Bharani, Associate Director of Design and University Partnerships; Humanities Division Lecturer
Claudio Sansone, PhD Candidate, Comp Lit and Classics, UofChicago
Jorge Luis De Avila, Medical Student, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Soo Young Lee, Doctoral student, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Yasmine Krings, Graduate Student, UCLA ALC
emily howe, Graduate student researcher, University of Pittsburgh, School of Education
Maria D Hernandez Limon, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences
Eugene Raikhel, Associate Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Ryan Carson, MPP ’19, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Christina Stiles, Medical Student, Pritzker School of Medicine
David Rapach, Visiting Professor of Finance, Washington University in St. Louis; Professor of Economics, Saint Louis University
David Simon, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Kenzo Esquivel, BS ’17, PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science
Rachelle Li, MPP’22
Susan Gal, Professor, Univ. of Chicago, Anthropology and Linguistics
Ermioni Prokopaki, PhD Student, UChicago, Philosophy
Alexandra D. Long, MA, University of Chicago AB ’11, Cinema and Media Studies
Steven Binns, Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago, Public Health
Felipe Bomeny, A.B. ’19
Mashaune Hardy, Assistant Director of Partnerships and Strategy, Community Arts at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Sophie Lemisch, MPP, U Chicago Harris
Ryan Eisenman, AB ‘17, Art History; PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania, Art History
Sadie Gelman, MAPH Alum 2020, Art History
Margaret Ross, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Creative Writing
Sharvari Sastry, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages and Civilizations/Theater and Performance Studies
Emily Minehart, AB ’13, History
Lally Johnson, BA ’22, University of Chicago, Economics
Kimya Loder, PhD Student, Stanford University, Sociology
Amy Sheahan, none – Chicago resident
Molly Weiner, BS ’19, Biological Sciences
Julianne Grasso, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Music
Olivia Leiter, Graduate Student, University of California, Riverside, Visual Art
Diana Petty, Associate Director, University of Chicago, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Laura L Downs, Chair, History of Gender and Sexuality, Department of History, European University Institute
Asa Mendelsohn, BA University of Chicago ‘12
Eden Elieff, AB, University of Chicago, 1979
Ellenor Riley-Condit, Uchicago Alum and former employee
Emily Espinel, AB ’17, History & Law, Letters, and Society
Alex Jarman, Alum, The college ‘17
Melissa Boasm, AB ‘17, Political Science
Rebekah A McFarland, University of Chicago A.B. 2009
Basil Bastaki, MA student, Committee on International Relations
Paola Del Toro, BA ’20, University of Chicago English Department
Emily Lord Fransee, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, History & International Studies
Nadya Ali, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Morgan Moroney, AB ’10; PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins, Near Eastern Studies
Sana Saiyed, PhD Student, University of Notre Dame, Anthropology
Alex Seeskin, Director, To&Through Project; Chief Strategy Officer, Urban Education Institute
Sobenna Worrill, Member of the community.
Valorie Thomas, Phebe Estelle Spalding Professor of English, Pomona College
Hope Mailing, BS ’22, University of Chicago, Mathematics
George Chauncey, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University; former Professor, U of Chicago
Sujata Mahajan, Asst. Instructional Professor, University of Chicago, SALC
Kaushal Addanki, Research Support Staff, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Center for Decision Research
Nia Sotto, BA ’14, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and English Language & Literature
Jamie Countryman, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Colin Aitken, Phd Student, University of Chicago Mathematics
Sam Nitkin, Uchicago 22’, Econ
Varshini Narayanan, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Music and TAPS
Jennifer Ciok, Middle Grades Network Coach, University of Chicago, To&Through Project
David Myer Temin, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Political Science
Alice Goff, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, History
Jordan Reece, BA ’12 (English and Gender and Sexuality Studies), MAT ’14 (Urban Teacher Education Program)
Rita Rodriguez , M. Div Candidate 2021, University of Chicago Divinity School
Ashli Watts, UChicago SSA AM ’15
Artesha Williams, UChicago SSA AM ’15
Durrell Washington, PhD Student, University of Chicago SSA
Margaret Ross, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Creative Writing
Bowman, Associate Professor
Alex Seeskin, Director, To&Through Project; Chief Strategy Officer, Urban Education Institute
Rosa Williams, PhD ’13, Assistant Professor of History and African Studies, St. Lawrence University
Rachel Willis, MA student, University of Michigan, Transcultural Studies
Miranda Zhang, Rising Third-year, The University of Chicago, The College (New Collegiate Division/Social Sciences)
Madeline Brigell, Alum AM SSA 2010
Talia Ratnavale, Class of 2021 Undergraduate, UChicago, Chemistry and Anthropology
Jaime Ding, Digital Publishing Fellow
Brianna Lawrence, SSA Alumni
Brenan Yack, MA, University of Chicago, Religious Studies
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Visiting Scholar, Race and Capitalism Project, University of Chicago; Assistant Professor, Carleton College
Ting Ting Shi, Student, The College, Public Policy Studies
Abigail Henkin, Student, University of Chicago, Theater and Cinema
Anita Chikkatur, Associate Professor, Carleton College, Educational Studies
Vivienne Hayes, PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology
Juliana Locke, BA 2014
Grant Bartolomé Dowling, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, Philosophy (AB UChicago ’13)
Jennie Ikuta, AB ‘07 (Political Science)
Deborah Beckwin, BA ’04, The College, Psychology
Rachel Kyne, PhD 2017, Department of English
Kaitlin Roche Hughes, BA ‘09
Teresa Montoya, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
RL Watson, Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College, English and African American Studies
Stephanie Ban, University of Chicago AB’18, History
K. Bellamy Mitchell, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
Patrick Beckhorn, PhD student, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology
Peter Sporn, MD, Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Kennan Cepa, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Sociology
Feven Enkuselasse Berhanu, Graduate student- MAPSS, U of Chicago
Kiana Amini, College graduate, the university of Chicago, department of sociology
George Aumoithe, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Africana Studies; former “sham” candidate (‘diversity and inclusion’) for UChicago search in the Department of History
Dhyana Taylor, AB’17 English
Rich Rines, Postdoctoral Scholar, UChicago department of computer science
Sarah Brouillette, Professor, Department of English, Carleton University
Shivani Dixit, Alum of The College
Katy O’Donnell, BA 09, UChicago
Swagato Chakravorty, UChicago Alum (MAPH 2011) and PhD Candidate, Yale University, History of Art and Film and Media Studies
Daragh Grant, Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
Corey Snelgrove, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, Political Science
Noah Tesfaye, Undergraduate Student, UChicago, Political Science and History
Tim Barker, PhD Candidate, History, Harvard
Alex Haskins, Assistant Professor, Wheaton College, Department of Politics and International Relations
Ricardo Novaes de Oliveira, Alum, University of Chicago, Political Science & Creative Writing
Monica L. Mercado, Assistant Professor, Colgate University Department of History
Emily Madden, Masters Candidate and Teaching Assistant, UMass Amherst, Labor Studies
jake devirgiliis, teacher, murrell dobbins
Natalia McCormick, Undergrad 21’, UChicago, English and Economics
Madi Norman, AB’20, Political Science and Philosophy
Petra Johnson, The University of Chicago, AB ’10 Anthropology
Kate-Laurel Agnew, AM ’14, Classics (PAMW), University of Chicago
Amanda Fink, A.B. ‘12
Dani Brecher Cook, AB ‘10, The College
Hyojin Cho, PhD Student, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Sara O’Bryon, Adjunct Lecturer, Harold Washington College, Humanities – UChicago Alum
Parul Kumar, Class of 2022, University of Chicago, Law, Letters, and Society
Scott Richmond, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto (PhD CMS 2010)
Brian White, PhD Candidate, UChicago, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Catherine Skeen, AB’91, MA’02, PhD’03 (English); former Lecturer
Erica J. Peters, Ph.D. 2000, Director, Culinary Historians of Northern California
Nadia Chana, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Music
Estelle Ostro, AB ’16, University of Chicago, Physics
Mahjeed S. Marrow, Alum, University of Chicago, Philosophy and Computer Science
James Bradley, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of History
Patrick Kimutis , PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of English
Arianna B Gass, PhD Student, University of Chicago, English and Theater and Performance Studies
Annie Williams, Humanities
Isabelle Balaban, Undergraduate Student, The University of Chicago
Colin Cooper, Undergraduate student, UChicago
Maren Robinson, Associate Director, MAPH, University of Chicago, AM ‘03
Joseph Greenbaum, PhD Student, University of California Berkeley, Political Science
Vaughn Rasberry, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Department of English
David Astaire Evans, UChicago, MAPH 2008
Vo Ram Yoon, BA’ 16, Public Policy Studies
Rachel Tay, PhD student, Duke University
Brooke Fisher, AM, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Willie “C.J.” Harmon Jr., AM’ 08, SSA, Doctoral Candidate, Texas A&M University
Margaret Miller, MTh, University of Edinburgh
Carole Emberton, AB ’97 African & African-American Studies (Alum)
William McDade, MD ’90, PhD ’88, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer ACGME
Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of US History, Director of African & African American Studies, Stanford University
Adrienne Nguyen, Graduate Student, New York University, Teaching and Learning
Margaret Glazier, BA in English Literature from The Univeristy of Chicago 2019, 2nd year medical student at National University of Ireland, Galway
Thomas Noriega, University of Chicago History
Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Graduate School of Education (Ph.D., UofC, 2010)
Thomas J Calhoun Jr, Independent Consultant
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Megan Mellee, SSA Alum 2016
Madison Chapman, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of English
Anelise Hanson Shrout, AB 2006, Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bates College
Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
Alex Aslam Ahmed, Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science
Dexter Braithwaite, Teacher, NYC Department of Education
Bench Ansfield, PhD Candidate, Yale University, American Studies
Gail Ana Gomez, Exhibitions and Publications, Smart Museum of Art
Noa Levin, Student, The College, Political Science
Anthony Petro, Associate Professor, Boston University, Religion and WGSS
Issa Lampe, Director, Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, Smart Museum, UChicago
Brian McCammack, Associate Professor, Lake Forest College, Environmental Studies
Tom Fouché, Pritzker School of Medicine M2, Student at UChicago
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Charlotte Rosen, PhD student in History, Northwestern University
Maryn Carlson, Graduate student, University of Chicago, Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology
Marjorie Wood, Instructor, Hudson County Community College, Social Sciences Division
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Michael Dango, Assistant Professor, Beloit College, University of Chicago PhD (English)
Abigail Bazin, BA ‘20, University of Chicago Alum
David Ferguson, Former Graduate Student Coordinator of Race Workshop at CSRPC
Willie “C.J.” Harmon Jr., AM’ 08, SSA, Doctoral Candidate, Texas A&M University
Z Nicolazzo, Associate Professor, Trans* Studies in Education, University of Arizona
Chris Dingwall, PhD ’15, Lecturer, Oakland University
Heather Sarsons, Neubauer Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Mitchell Cram, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
Teddy Sandler, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Elaine Hadley, Professor of English
Abby Erdmann, AB 17′, Psychology and Art History
Elliott H. Powell, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, American Studies
Nev Turon, AB 07
Korey Williams, PhD student, University of Chicago, English
Michele Friedner, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development
Tessa Murphy, UChicago Phd; Assistant professor, history, Syracuse University
Kate Schlachter, Assistant Director of Strategic Planning and Programs, Arts + Public Life, UChicago
Harini Srinivasan, Undergraduate alum, Political Science and CRES
Joan Wolkerstorfer, University of Chicago, AB ‘06, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Toya Mitchell, Alumna
Peter Forberg, Undergrad, UChicago, Sociology
Lara Perez-Felkner, Associate Professor, Florida State University, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Ph.D. in Comparative Human Development (UChicago ’09)
Carolyn Ownbey, Associate Director of Research Initiatives, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, The University of Chicago
Isabel Sen, UChicago BA ‘14
Marla Anderson, Student, The College, Anthropology
Samuel Galloway, Assistant Professor, Purchase College (SUNY), Political Science
Adam Spanos, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities
Bill Hutchison, Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow
Patrick Reilly, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt, History
Sabrina de la Vega, Grad student, University of Chicago, Harris
Nanosh Lucas, Graduate student, University of Oregon, Department of History
Michael Dunn, The College ’13 SSA ’17
Amanda Paz, Alum, SSA AM ‘11
Tom Boyle, Assistant Teacher, Laboratory Schools
Zeray Alemseged, Professor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Rachel Kim, B.A. UChicago 2019, Sociology
Maia Otermin, BA ’16, Economics
Davarian Baldwin, Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
Madeline Meyers, Alum, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology
Julian Stuart-Burns, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts & Creative Writing
Alison Lefkovitz, Associate Professor, NJIT-Rutgers, History
Joyce Pieretti, Integrative Biology, PhD ’16
Kelsey Brown, University of Chicago, Chemistry BA
Leilani Douglas, University of Chicago
Ada Palmer, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Department of History
Joseph Janizek, AB ‘16, Biological Sciences
Virginia J. White, PhD student, University of Chicago Divinity School, M.Div. 2018
Frederic Atwood, AB ‘17, History and Germanic Studies
Jane Bohnsack, Campus and Student Life
Briana Finegan, AB ‘11, English Language & Literature and Theater & Performance Studies
Emily Kang, Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago, Departments of English Literature and Art History
Theon Hill, Associate Professor, Wheaton College, Communication Department
Lauren M Jackson, Assistant professor, Northwestern University, English
Amber Lubera, Ph.D. Student, University of Arizona: Linguistics Department
Selin Oh, Undergraduate student, UChicago
Jonathan Karp, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Neil Roberts, Professor, Williams College
Samantha Gartner, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Integrative Biology
Mohammed Bashier, BA ’20, University of Chicago, Chemistry
Lauren Botha, Student, UChicago, CS
Grace Linhares, Undergraduate Student, The College
Ruby Schnirman, Student, the College
Cynthia Gao, PhD Student, New York University, Social and Cultural Analysis
Ed DeLeon, BA ‘05, Economics
Mary Rambaran-Olm, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Toronto, Dept of English & Drama
Jenn M. Jackson, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Political Science
Susan Gzesh, Senior Lecturer in the College, Univ. of Chicago
Bryan Duff, Class of 2009
Sherry Guo, Miss, UChicago, The College
Shirley Yan, Behaivor Change Research Manager
Jessica Viñas-Nelson, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, School of Social Transformation
Tyler Stovall, Professor and Dean of the Graduate School, Fordham University
Linda Hess, Senior Lecturer Emerita, Religious Studies, Stanford
Moises Rodriguez Cruz, BA’20, College, CRES & GNSE
Melaina Leung, Undergraduate, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Kelsey Brown, University of Chicago, Chemistry BA
Bryant Timmons Ragan, Professor, Colorado College, History
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Rashi Rohatgi, Associate Professor of English and World Literature, Department of Education and the Arts, Nord University
Katherine Greenleaf, AB ’09, TAPS
Manaeha Rao, Second Year Undergrad
Tania Islas, McGill University
Scott Blinder, Associate Professor, UMass Amherst, Political Science; UChicago Phd 2004
Martha Biondi, Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and History, Northwestern
Michael McIntyre, Assoc Prof, Intl Studies, DePaul Univ
Kelly J. Shannon, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative, Florida Atlantic University
Maxwell Kay, Undergrad at the College
Connor Yu, Student, University of Chicago
Grace Fauquet, AB ’14
Britt Williams, University of Chicago, BS ‘14 Biological Chemistry
Rebecca Wixted, University of Chicago undergraduate, Neuroscience and Psychology major
William C. Ayers, Adjunct faculty, Creative Writing Program
Anjali Dhillon, BA’19, History
Joseph N Mastron, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan, LSA Chemistry
Evan Cholerton, BA ’24 Computer Science, BA ’24 Political Science
Andrew Weiner, Asst Prof of Art Theory, NYU-Steinhardt Dept of Art and Art Professions
Allyson Ettinger, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Linguistics
Casey Lurtz, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, UChicago PhD
Mamiko Suzuki, Lecturer, University of Houston, Modern and Classical Languages
Sadie Seddon-Stettler, Undergraduate student, University of Chicago, Department of Physics
Amaia Gabantxo, Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Creative Writing
Andrea Pinkney, Associate Professor, South Asian Religions, McGill University
Grey Moszkowski, Student, the College, Political Science
Claire Oberon Garcia, Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty, Colorado College
Delio Vásquez, University of Chicago (BA ’07); Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Dennis McEnnerney, Associate Professor, Colorado College, Department of Philosophy
Shannon Lee Dawdy, Professor and CSRPC Affiliate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Carissa Temerson , Alumna, The University of Chicago, Political Science & Spanish
O’Brien, Officer, Thinkpol
Zenani Greenwell, Program Coordinator, Northwestern University, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (Office of the Provost)
Walter R. Allen,MA ’73, Ph.D. ’75, Distinguished Professor, UCLA, Education-Sociology-African American Studies
Rashauna Johnson, Associate Professor, U of C, History Department
Katherine Shen, University of Chicago, BA’ 17 (alum)
Nina Coyle, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Physics
This is an interesting chapter from the BLM strategy plan, as it seeks to apply its demands in higher education. It is fascinating that the university and college campuses are spared the disruption and violence in the civic public spaces that have marked BLM/Antifa tactical methods. Apparently you don’t attack and pillage your own ‘base camp.’ As for the signatory’s demands, they are largely centered in a “reparations’ philosophy. That philosophy is anchored in some key ways in scholarship and historicism that has grown and been nurtured in many leading history departments, especially Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, UCLA and others. It advances a “colonialism” and “empire” thesis from economic history, and then modifies it into political and racial dimensions to include a general “oppression” narrative that can be monetized into a reparations public policy platform whose thematic elements are centered in guilt, election mechanics, or merely in the expediencies of suppressing social contention and violence, by a kind of “fine” or penalty. It obviously fits well into the modern election political realm, as is evident in the identity of BLM and the DNC.
Unfortunately the entire “reparations” concept rests on faulty scholarship. As even professor Gabriel Paquette has shown in his “The European Seaborne Empires,” the colonialism phenomenon was a product of “chaotic pluralism” or of such random private enterprise, that tying it to any particular nation–or campus–is impossible, or highly speculative, and therefore illogical and illegitimate. As for other matters here including the UCPD, it is unlikely to be significantly changed as the crime parameters from black gangs in Hyde Park demands campus security for the larger community–and that crime has exploded. No UCPD, no student or faculty safety. As for UC’s “slave” basis in history, that, along with the entire reparations construct, is merely political opportunism. The letter is otherwise signed by a very small minority of UC constituents from Humanities largely, and from the College, who are most likely to be found redundant vis-a-vis the professional schools and sciences, going forward. Reparations, indeed. Regards, 96, The University of Chicago
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