Dear President Bollinger,
On a number of occasions since becoming president of Columbia University you have expressed your views in public on questions of academic freedom in the Middle East. Yet you have remained silent on the actions by Israel that deny that freedom to Palestinians.
These actions include Israel's continuing blockade of Gaza, the imposing of barriers, checkpoints, and closures around and within the West Bank that make academic life unworkable, the denial of exit visas to Palestinian scholars offered fellowships abroad or invited to international conferences, including scholars invited to Columbia, and the recent three-week war against Gaza that included not only the bombing of Palestinian schools and colleges, with great loss of life, but the widespread destruction of the material and social fabric on which academic life depends.
We, as Columbia and Barnard faculty, ask you now to make public your opposition to these actions and your support for the academic freedom of Palestinians.
Faculty Signatures
1. Lila Abu-Lughod, Anthropology and IRWaG
2. Bashir Abu-Manneh, English
3. Nadia Abuelhaj, Anthropology
4. May Ahmar, MEALAC
5. Qais Al-Awqati, Medicine and Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
6. David Z Albert, Philosophy
7. Alexander Alland, Jr., Anthropology
8. Paul Anderer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
9. Gil Anidjar, MEALAC / Religion
10. Peter J. Awn, Religion
11. Zainab Bahrani, Art History and Archaeology
12. Peter Bearman, Sociology
13. Robert Beauregard, Urban Planning
14. Lee Anne Bell, Education
15. Elizabeth Bernstein, Sociology
16. Akeel Bilgrami, Philosophy
17. Brian Boyd, Anthropology
18. Richard W. Bulliet, History
19. Allison Busch, MEALAC
20. Partha Chatterjee, Anthropology and MEALAC
21. Yinon Cohen, Sociology
22. John Collins, Philosophy
23. M. Elaine Combs-Schilling, Anthropology
24. Susan Crane, English and Comparative Literature
25. Jonathan Crary, Art History
26. Louis Cristillo, International and Transcultural Studies
27. Zoe Crossland, Anthropology
28. Ayca Cubukcu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Committee on Global Thought
29. Hamid Dabashi, MEALAC
30. E. Valentine Daniel, Anthropology
31. Souleymane B Diagne, French
32. Mamadou Diouf, MEALAC and History
33. Madeleine Dobie, French
34. Karen Van Dyck, Classics
35. Brent Edwards, English and Comparative Literature
36. Mona El-Ghobashy, Political Science
37. Marwa Elshakry, History
38. Oguz Erdur, Anthropology
39. Elizabeth Esch, History
40. Gil Eyal, Sociology
41. Bernard Faure, Religion; EALAC
42. Ronald Findlay, Economics
43. Kenneth Frampton, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
44. Katherine Franke, Law School
45. Shawn-Marie Garrett, Theatre
46. Nicholas De Genova, Anthropology
47. Stathis Gourgouris, English and Comparative Literature
48. Victoria de Grazia, History
49. David A Greenberg, Biostatistics
50. Patricia E. Grieve, Spanish and Portuguese
51. Kim F. Hall, Africana Studies Program
52. Saskia Hamilton, English
53. Ross Hamilton, English
54. Saidiya Hartman, English and Comparative Literature and IRWAG
55. John Stratton Hawley, Religion
56. Angie Heo, Anthropology
57. Anne Higonnet, Art History
58. Clifford Hill, Teachers College
59. Marianne Hirsch, English and Comparative Literature, IRWaG
60. Scott Horton, Law School
61. Martha Howell, History
62. Andreas Huyssen, Germanic Languages
63. Elizabeth Irwin, Classics
64. Maire Jaanus, English & Comparative Literature
65. Janet Jakobsen, Women's Studies
66. Natalie Kampen, Women's Studies
67. Ousmane Kane, Department of International and Public Affairs
68. Joel Kaye, Barnard History
69. Nanor Kenderian, MEALAC
70. Rashid I. Khalidi, History
71. Philip Kitcher, Philosophy
72. Dorothy Ko, History
73. Brian Larkin, Anthropology
74. Owen Lewis, M.D., Psychiatry
75. Lydia Liu, East Asian Languages and Cultures
76. Sylvere Lotringer, French Literature
77. Mahmood Mamdani, Anthropology, Political Science, MEALAC
78. Gregory Mann, History
79. Sharon Marcus, English
80. Peter Marcuse, Urban Planning
81. Reinhold Martin, Architecture
82. J. Paul Martin, Human Rights Studies
83. Joseph Massad, MEALAC
84. Mark Mazower, History
85. Mary McLeod, Architecture
86. Christia Mercer, Philosophy
87. Brinkley Messick, Anthropology
88. Marc Van De Mieroop, History
89. Peter B. Milburn, MD, Dermatology
90. Monica Miller, English
91. Kavita Misra, Center on Medicine as a Profession
92. Timothy Mitchell, MEALAC
93. D. Max Moerman, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
94. Rosalind Morris, Anthropology
95. Mahmut Mutman, ICLS, Visiting Scholar
96. Mira Nair, Graduate Film School
97. Mae Ngai, History
98. Youssef Nouhi, MEALAC
99. Richard Peña, Film Division, School of the Arts
100. Gregory M. Pflugfelder, EALAC
101. Pablo Piccato, History
102. Peter G. Platt, English
103. Sheldon Pollock, MEALAC
104. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Anthropology & Gender Studies
105. Wayne Proudfoot, Religion
106. Noha Radwan, MEALAC
107. Anupama Rao, History
108. Sanjay Reddy, Economics
109. Bruce Robbins, English
110. Nathaniel Roberts, Anthropology
111. William R. Roff, History
112. Nan Rothschild, Anthropology
113. Carol Rovane, Philosophy
114. George Saliba, MEALAC
115. James Schamus, Film Division
116. David Scott, Anthropology
117. Karen Seeley, Anthropology
118. Joseph Slaughter, English
119. Herbert Sloan, History
120. Alisa Solomon, Journalism
121. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, English
122. David Stark, Sociology and SIPA
123. Anders Stephanson, History
124. Paul Strohm, English
125. Timea K. Szell, English
126. Neferti Tadiar, Women's Studies
127. Michael T Taussig, Anthropology
128. Mark C. Taylor, Religion
129. Kendall Thomas, Law
130. J. Blake Turner, Child Psychiatry
131. Nadia Urbinati, Political Science
132. Deborah Valenze, History
133. Paolo Valesio, Italian
134. Achille Varzi, Philosophy
135. Paige West, Anthropology
136. Tom Yarnell, Religion
137. Meyda Yegenoglu, ICLS
138. Rebecca M. Young, Women's Studies
139. Zeena Zakharia, Teachers College