more letters concerning NYU student protest crackdown

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Dear President Mills and Provost Dopico,
 
I was one of the faculty who was violently arrested last night for trying to protect our students’ right to speech at Gould Plaza.  I believe I am owed an apology, as is the entire campus and surrounding community.   
 
Not only was the decision to send riot police to break up a peaceful expression of political opinion entirely at odds with what it means to be a university in the public service, the email your office sent out afterwards was disingenuous and unbecoming of university leadership.
 
Neither of you were at the encampment yesterday, so let me share with you what I experienced.
 
The encampment started in the morning and the day was mostly a joyous one.  There were children playing and there was singing and chanting at various points.  There was no expression of anti-semitism, bigotry, or any hate speech, and a number of Jewish faculty and students who were there can attest to that.  There was a Seder.   This is very important to establish as a fact.   Yes, there were expressions of political opinion critical of Israeli policies, and there were counter-protestors across the street with Israeli flags at various points.  But this all falls well within protected speech.
 
If anything, campus security was acting inconsistently and nervously throughout the day, arbitrarily changing the rules at times, such as about who could go in and out, bathroom trips and so on.  Campus security actively escalated the tension throughout the day, but it was faculty negotiation that kept the day going smoothly.    
 
Things got much worse in the evening. Shortly before 8 pm faculty were called to help protect the students because NYU staff announced they would be calling NYPD.  We were expecting that you or someone from the administration would come speak with us before calling the police.  I was one of about twenty faculty who arrived at the scene.  We came with the express purpose to protect students from arrest and violence, fulfilling our duty to our them and to protect the university’s mission.   I brought my faculty ID thinking it would offer me some protection.
 
 Riot police in full gear arrived on the scene during evening prayers, seeming to follow the directions of head of NYU security who was off to the side as they stormed in.  We the faculty formed a double line of faculty in the mistaken assumption we would be at least heard.    Although instructions were being played from a speaker at this point there was no way to disperse and no clear timeline.   When it was clear we were about to be assaulted I remembered to take off the lanyard around my neck as a choking hazard, and I am glad I did.  
 
I hope the you get to see the body cam footage to see the kind of treatment you visited upon your faculty yesterday.    Faculty were handled very roughly, in one instance being shaken and thrown around.  Another one was shoved.  Next to me was a visibly older faculty member.  He was very roughly handled and his hands were tied so tight he complained of not being able to feel his fingers, obviously harmful treatment.  I sat next to him and we complained about this for the next two hours until he was processed.  When I left the police facility many hours later, he was still there.  
 
I was upset and disappointed with the institution and the administration by the time I arrived home at 3:30am but only read your email this morning.  It is full of inaccuracies and disingenuous statements and the AAUP has already challenged those claims.   But most of all there was absolutely no “hate, disruption, and intimidation” at the student protest.  You understand that vague and false allegations like these expose faculty like me, who did not hide my face to doxxing and threats.    As a faculty member I feel completely unprotected by the university.  I worry in particular about my untenured and insecure colleagues who were there and about what kind of climate we will have at the university moving forward.
 
I have been a faculty here for ten years, and have been teaching for more than twenty, and was a student for a decade before that. I have never been so disappointed and ashamed of my administration as I am now.   You are not being called on to agree with the criticisms the students are leveling of Israeli aggression or of the colossal loss of life in Palestine.  You are being called on to defend academic freedom and the idea of a university as a place for debate and dissent.  This is one of the crucial roles of a university needs to play in a democracy and your actions yesterday have fundamentally undermined our confidence that NYU can play that role.  You need to work to earn our trust again.
 
Sincerely
 
Gianpaolo Baiocchi

 

 

Dr. Linda G. Mills 

President, New York University 

Dr. Georgina Dopico 

Interim Provost, New York University 

6 February 2024 

Dear President Mills and Provost Dopico, 

We the undersigned faculty and staff of New York University write to express our dismay at our  university leadership’s repression of pro-Palestine activism and our deep concern over the state of  academic freedom. This is of particular concern at this moment because, as the university attempts  to silence our calls for ceasefire and our grief for Palestinian lives, academic life and institutions in  Gaza are being deliberately decimated by the Israeli military. As noted by the Middle East Studies  Association, “Israeli forces destroyed the last remaining major university in Gaza” on January 17 and  “hundreds of faculty and staff and thousands of students and their families…have been killed in  military assaults.” We join our colleagues in MESA, alongside many other scholars and scholarly  organizations, in calling on our university leadership to take the moral stance: please condemn this  destruction of university life in Gaza, with all of its consequences for a whole generation of Palestinians. 

Not only have you as NYU leaders failed even to mention Gaza in your communications during the  nearly four months since the Israeli assault began—in stark contrast to your immediate  condemnation of the Hamas attack on October 7—but you have imposed new limits on faculty and  students who wish to draw attention to the massive loss of life there. Over the last several months  you have sent many letters to the NYU community affirming, in the words of your 10-Point Plan for  Student Safety and Wellbeing, “our university’s standing as a place of reflection, free expression,  shared respect and security.” But the university’s actions convey a different message: that those of us  who take a principled stand against this violent war will be reprimanded, threatened, and disciplined.  Last semester, three students brought a lawsuit against NYU that “seeks to require that NYU  terminate employees and suspend or expel students responsible for antisemitic abuse.” Although  you have acknowledged that the lawsuit is specious and packed with misinformation it seems  nonetheless to have inspired NYU leadership to portray anti-war and pro-Palestine speech as  inherently discriminatory. In your January 23 letter you exhort faculty and students engaging in  protest to avoid “sloganeering that employs phrases meant only to provoke or whose ambiguity is  meant to hide hateful intent.” While this exhortation is far from the “plain-spoken” speech you call  on us to abide by in the same letter, in the current context it insidiously reproduces the suit’s  assumption that pro-Palestinian protest is “hateful,” and its conflation of anti-Zionism with  antisemitism. We reject this conflation, and call upon the university to join us firmly and publicly in doing so. 

While you have not gone as far as some university presidents to explicitly prohibit specific words  and phrases based on their “ambiguity,” you have implied that it is within the power of the  university to do so. As we write, the university exercises its power through punitive disciplinary  measures toward students and faculty who have criticized Israel’s project of dispossession,  occupation, and apartheid in Palestine. The university has summoned students and faculty named in  the lawsuit for questioning, subjected some students to disciplinary proceedings for putting up pro Palestine flyers with scotch tape and suspended others for up to a year for removing pro-Israel  flyers. The university has also investigated students for writing the names of dead Palestinian 

children with chalk on a blackboard, hosting an on-line teach-in featuring Palestinian university  students, and for reading Palestinian poetry out loud (without amplification) for 20 minutes in the  lobby of Bobst library. Faculty are also increasingly at risk, as illustrated by the recent suspension of  adjunct professors Amin Husain and Tomasz Skiba for their extramural critiques of Israel. The  university has exerted its power over the right to teach, study, and protest in subtler form as well,  from censoring Palestine-related programming (by both faculty and students) at various schools, to  frequent reminders of (ever-changing) student conduct policies, to informal warnings to faculty  about our syllabi, publications, and political activity. These actions are an unacceptable violation of  academic freedom, and a departure from NYU’s practice with regard to every other form of political  speech. NYU must protect the space of expression for those on campus who condemn the US-funded Israeli assault  on Gaza, its people, and its educational and cultural institutions. 

NYU has exacerbated and enforced the culture of fear about campus speech and activism through  its intensification of campus security and surveillance, directly in response to the war and subsequent  anti-war activity. Through the “10-point-plan” implemented in October, NYU has added “over  9,000 hours of additional, enhanced Campus Safety officer patrol and deployment activity…. We  have also strengthened our partnership with the NYPD, and benefited from the addition of more  than 1,300 hours of NYPD officer patrol shifts around campus.” We challenge your assertion that  armed police represent a “benefit” to the university; rather, the presence of NYPD on our campus  disproportionately endangers students of color, and intimidates and threatens all students, faculty,  and staff engaging in political protest and speech. In this new climate CSOs swarm peaceful protests  and gatherings, employing newly-installed video cameras and ID-swipe data from lobby computers  to identify and discipline students and faculty for peaceful protests. Fully-armed police collaborate  with the university in response to and anticipation of student protests, stationing themselves  adjacent to and inside campus buildings. This represents an abrupt departure from VP of Campus  Safety Fountain Walker’s reassurance, in a June 2020 statement to the community, that “As a rule,  the presence of the NYPD is not common in NYU’s midst; they have no standing presence here.”  We request that the university adhere to its previously agreed-upon memorandum of understanding about the NYPD  on campus, roll back the increase of campus safety hours, and refrain from surveillance of the political activities of  students and faculty. 

NYU is not alone among US institutions struggling to make space for free expression during this  perilous time. The repressive environment on our campus reflects a national crackdown on political  speech critical of Israel, the occupation, and the current war, manifest in congressional hearings,  fired university presidents, and canceled cultural events. To some degree this extraordinary sequence  of events reflects what many scholars and legal experts have called “the Palestine exception” to free  speech. At the same time, we must recognize the material continuity between the current turn of  events and the long-standing attack on Black Studies, critical race studies, and diversity, equity, and  inclusion initiatives at universities. (The right-wing, book-banning activists behind Claudine Gay’s  forced resignation from Harvard are but one example.) We are disappointed to see our university  leadership align itself with the same racist and repressive forces that seek to dismantle our shared  academic mission, values, and community. We had hoped that NYU, priding itself as it does on its  global educational network, would speak out against the demolition of universities and cultural  institutions abroad, along with the staggering destruction of infrastructure, ecology, and precious  human life. But even if you will not speak out, we will continue to do so. 

In the week that NYU gathers to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us  remember one of his most astute and controversial positions: his opposition to the Vietnam War. 

Speaking in Riverside Church in April 1967 he connected the dots between racial oppression and  poverty at home, and America’s financial and military involvement in a deadly war abroad. Citing a  statement from the “Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam,” who had invited him to speak,  he affirmed that “a time comes when silence is betrayal” and vowed to break his own silence on  Vietnam. He did so in part to maintain his “conviction that social change comes most meaningfully  through nonviolent action” a conviction which felt to him increasingly untenable in the midst of a  violent war. “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the  ghettos,” he wrote, “without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the  world today — my own government.” Our students and colleagues who take action against the war  in Gaza today both study and undertake civil disobedience in this tradition, disrupting business-as usual with a dignified demand for peace. As scholars, teachers, and people of conscience, we cannot  celebrate Dr. King and remain silent on Palestine. On the contrary, in order to take up his  multifaceted call for justice around the world, “we must speak. We must speak with all the humility  that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.” 

Sincerely,  

  1. Andrea Adomako, Assistant Professor, English, FAS 
  2. Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga, Assistant Professor, Gallatin 
  3. Khaled Al Hilli, Clinical Faculty, MEIS 
  4. Neveen AlQasas, Research Associate, WRC, NYUAD 
  5. Bedoor AlShebli, Assistant Professor, NYUAD 
  6. Guillermina Altomonte, Assistant Professor, Sociology 
  7. Jens Andermann, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese 
  8. Jane Anderson, Associate Professor Anthropology and Program in Museum Studies 9. Samuel Mark Anderson, Senior Lecturer of Writing, NYUAD 
  9. Prince Steven Annor, Associate Instructor of Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi 11. Ahmed Ansari, Assistant Professor, NYU Tandon 
  10. Sinan Antoon, Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  11. Emily Apter, Silver Professor of Comparative Literature and French 
  12. John M. Archer, Professor, English 
  13. Mirene Arsanios, Expository Writing Program 
  14. Laure Assaf, Assistant Professor, NYUAD 
  15. Robert Ausch, Adjunct, Psychology, SPS, GSAS and Steinhardt 
  16. Elaine Ayers, Visiting Assistant Professor, Gallatin 
  17. Minju Bae, Assistant Professor, Gallatin 
  18. Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor, Gallatin and Sociology 
  19. Abigail Krasner Balbale, Associate Professor Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and  History 
  20. Chris Barker, Associate Director, Institute of Human Development and Social Change 23. Alex Barnard, Assistant Professor, Sociology 
  21. Miriam Basilio Gaztambide, Art History & Museum Studies 
  22. Mohamad Bazzi, Associate Professor and Director, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern  Studies 
  23. Gordon Beeferman, Adjunct Professor, Music 
  24. Elizabeth Benninger, Adjunct Faculty, Gallatin 
  25. Howard Besser, Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies 
  26. Emanuela Bianchi, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
  27. Jamie “Skye” Bianco, Clinical Associate Professor, Media Culture and Communication 31. Federico Bokser Sor, Clinical Assistant Professor, International Relations, Clinical  Assistant Professor 
  28. Caroline Bowman, Postdoctoral Lecturer, Philosophy 
  29. Lindsay Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Steinhardt 
  30. Leila Buck, Alumna and Adjunct faculty, Gallatin 
  31. Roxane Caires, Project Managing Director, Steinhardt (IHDSC) 
  32. Dilara Caliskan, Assistant Professor, The Gallatin School 
  33. Marisa Carrasco, Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science 38. Michelle Castañeda, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies 
  34. Dean Chahim, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies 40. Paula Chakravartty, James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media Studies, MCC  and Gallatin 
  35. Anastasia Chiu, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Division of Libraries 42. Talya Cooper, Research Curation Librarian, Division of Libraries 
  36. Lou Cornum, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis 
  37. Aimee Meredith Cox, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology 45. Honey Crawford, Assistant Professor, English 
  38. Marie Cruz Soto, Clinical Associate Professor, Gallatin School 
  39. Robyn d’Avignon, Associate Professor, History 
  40. May Al-Dabbagh, Associate Professor, NYUAD 
  41. Kimberly DaCosta, Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  42. Mohammed Daqaq, Professor, Engineering Division, NYUAD 
  43. Ethiraj Dattatreyan, Anthropology 
  44. Matthew Daunt, PhD Candidate, Department of Physics 
  45. Arlene Davila, Professor, Anthropology/SCA 
  46. Subah Dayal, Assistant Professor, Gallatin 
  47. Vanessa Deane, Assistant Clinical Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service,  Wagner School of Public Service 
  48. Patrick Deer, Associate Professor, English 
  49. Pierre Depaz, Lecturer of Interactive Media, NYU Berlin 
  50. Dipti Desai, Professor, Art and Art Professions, Steinhardt 
  51. Anne DeWitt, Clinical Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  52. Hasia Diner, Emerita, History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies 
  53. Rossen Djagalov, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, FAS 62. Lorraine Doran, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program 63. Lisa Duggan, Professor, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 
  54. Stephen Duncombe, Professor, Galatin School and MCC Steinhardt 65. Zaynab El Bernoussi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD
  55. Mona El-Ghobashy, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies 
  56. Hebah Emara, Librarian for Open Innovation, DoL 
  57. Kathy Engel, Associate Arts Professor, Dept of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School 69. Jessica Enriquez, Program Administrator, the LatinX Project 
  58. Gregory Erickson, Clinical Professor, Gallatin
  59. Jacob Faber, Associate Professor, Wagner School of Public Service and Department of  Sociology 
  60. Elisabeth Fay, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program
  61. Liza Featherstone, Adjunct Professor, Journalism 
  62. Sibylle Fischer, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, History, CLACS 75. Jameson Fitzpatrick, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program, College of  Arts & Science 
  63. Nicole R. Fleetwood, James Weldon Johnson Professor, Department of Media, Culture,  and Communication, NYU Steinhardt 
  64. Juliet Fleming, Professor, Department of English 
  65. Finbarr B. Flood, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine  Arts & Dept. of Art History 
  66. Valerie Forman, Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  67. Rosalind Fredericks, Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  68. Hannah Freed-Thall, Associate Professor of French 
  69. Elaine Freedgood, Professor, Dept of English, FAS 
  70. Tania Friedel, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program 84. Sharon Friedman, Gallatin 
  71. Ifeona Fulani, Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies 
  72. Andrea Gadberry, Associate Professor, Gallatin and FAS (Dept. of Comparative  Literature) 
  73. Toral Gajarawala, Associate Professor, English, CAS 
  74. Ola Galal, Faculty Fellow, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 89. Alexander R. Galloway, Professor, MCC 
  75. Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor, Anthropology 
  76. Brett Gary, Associate Professor, MCC 
  77. Benjamin Gassman, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program 93. Charles Gelman, Adjunct Professor, Gallatin 
  78. Michael Gilsenan, Emeritus, Meis and Anthropology 
  79. Meira Gold, Faculty Fellow, Gallatin 
  80. Martín Gómez, ‘10 CAS Alum & IT Manager, NYU Stern 
  81. Sophie Gonick, Associate Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis 
  82. Jeff Goodwin, Professor, Sociology 
  83. Gayatri Gopinath, Professor, Dept of Social and Cultural Analysis 
  84. Hannah Gurman, Clinical Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  85. Steven Hahn, Professor of History 
  86. Hala Halim, Associate Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle  Eastern and Islamic Studies 
  87. B. Colby Hamilton, Chief Communications Officer, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy  and Research 
  88. Yukiko Hanawa, Clinical Associate Professor, East Asian Studies 
  89. Lynne Haney, Professor, Sociology 
  90. Lennie Hanson, Asst. Professor, English 
  91. Ellie Happel, Adjunct Professor, School of Law 
  92. April M. Hathcock, Director of Scholarly Communications & Information Policy, Division  of Libraries 
  93. Pato Hebert, Associate Arts Professor, Department of Art & Public Policy 110. Radha Hegde, Professor, MCC 
  94. Phyllis Heitjan, Reference Associate, Division of Libraries 
  95. Caroline Hiott, Research Scientist, Institute of Human Development and Social Change, Steinhardt
  96. David W Hogg, Professor of Physics and Data Science 
  97. Karen Hornick, Clinical Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  98. Kristin Horton, Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin 
  99. Amin Husain, adjunct faculty, Steinhardt and Social and Cultural Analysis 117. Hafeezah Hussein, Instruction Assessment Associate, Libraries 
  100. Asli Igsiz Associate Professor MEIS 
  101. Yeshim Iqbal, Senior Research Scientist, Steinhardt 
  102. Misho Ishikawa, Assistant Professor, English 
  103. Natasha Iskander, Professor, Wagner School of Public Service 
  104. Amal Ismail, Research Fellow, Marine Biology Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi 123. Asmaa Jrad, Postdoctoral Associate, NYUAD WRC 
  105. Harini Kannan, UX Analyst, Division of Libraries 
  106. Marion Kaplan, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History 
  107. Rebecca E Karl, Professor, History Department 
  108. Nina Katchadourian, Clinical Professor, NYU 
  109. Marion Katz, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 
  110. Rosanne Kennedy, Assistant Clinical Professor, Gallatin 
  111. Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic  Studies, FAS 
  112. Erich J Kessel Jr, Assistant Professor of Black Diaspora Arts, IFA 132. Dipti Khera, Associate Professor, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts 133. Roozbeh Kiani, Associate Professor, Center for Neural Science 
  113. John King, Associate Adjunct Professor, SPS/DAUS, member Joint Council ACT-UAW  local 7902 
  114. Eugenia Kisin, Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  115. Ilya Kliger, Associate Professor, Russian and Slavic 
  116. Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, CAS 138. Michael S Landy, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science 
  117. Toby Lee, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies 
  118. Karen Lepri, Associate Clinical Professor, Expository Writing Program 141. R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Associate Professor, Applied Statistics, Social Science and  Humanities, Steinhardt 
  119. Tatiana Linkhoeva, Associate Professor, History 
  120. Julie Livingston, Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis 
  121. Zachary Lockman, Professor, MEIS and History 
  122. Ying Lu, Associate Professor, Steinhardt 
  123. David Ludden, Professor, Department of History 
  124. Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  125. Beth Boyle Machlan, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program 149. Samer Madanat, Professor, NYUAD 
  126. Chase Madar, Adjunct Professor, NYU Gallatin 
  127. Rachel Mahre, Audiovisual Processing Archivist, Division of Libraries 152. Jane B Malmo, Teacher (retired) Dept of Drama TSOA 
  128. Amita Manghnani, Associate Director, Asian/Pacific/American Institute 154. Michele Matteini, Associate Professor, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts 155. John Maynard, Emeritus Professor, Department of English 
  129. Anna McCarthy, Professor, Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts 157. Maureen N. McLane, Professor, Dept. of English, FAS
  130. Prita Meier, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts 
  131. Maria Mejia, Open Scholarship Librarian, Division of Libraries 
  132. Eve Meltzer, Associate Professor of Visual Studies, Gallatin 
  133. Danny Mendelson, Division of Libraries 
  134. Sienna Merope-Synge, Adjunct Professor of Law, School of Law 163. Mary Mezzano, Undergraduate Program Administrator, English 
  135. Duja Michael, Data Scientist, Steinhardt (IHDSC) 
  136. Mara Mills, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication,  Steinhardt 
  137. Ali Mirsepassi, Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Gallatin/MEIS 167. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor, MCC. 
  138. Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor, History 
  139. Mostafa Mobasher, Assistant Professor, NYUAD Engineering 
  140. Jorge Montalvo. Advanced Manufacturing Workshop Manager. Engineering 171. Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor, SCA & History 
  141. Sara Murphy, Clinical Associate Professor, Gallatin 
  142. Bernadette Myers, Faculty Fellow, Gallatin 
  143. Andrew Needham, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Native Studies  Forum 
  144. Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice, The Gallatin School 
  145. Danielle Nista, Assistant University Archivist, NYU Special Collections 177. Mary Nolan, Professor of History emerita 
  146. s.o. O’Brien Operations Manager, Division of Libraries 
  147. Gerard O’Donoghue, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program, FAS 180. Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, NYU Special Collections 181. Sana Odeh, Clinical Professor, Computer Science, NYU 
  148. Elayne Oliphant, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Religious  Studies 
  149. Noah Ortega, Adjunct Lecturer, Tisch Drama 
  150. David Palmer, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, CAS 185. Chrysa Papadaniil, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Brain Imaging 186. Crystal Parikh, Professor, FAS 
  151. Robert Parthesius, Associate Professor Heritage and Museum Studies NYUAD 188. Asli Peker, Clinical Professor, FAS 
  152. Ann Pellegrini, Professor, Performance Studies, TSOA 
  153. Ren Pepitone, Assistant Professor, History 
  154. Roxane Pickens, Community Engagement Librarian & Head, External Engagement,  Division of Libraries 
  155. Amira Pierce, Associate Clinical Professor, Expository Writing Program 193. Maurice Pomerantz Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads NYUAD 194. Jillian Porter, Visiting Associate Professor, Russian and Slavic Studies and Comparative  Literature 
  156. Sonya Posmentier, Associate Professor, English 
  157. Myisha Priest, Gallatin 
  158. Sara Pursley, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 198. Mohammad A. Qasaimeh, Associate Professor of Engineering, NYUAD 199. Ramin Rahni, Postdoctoral Associate, Biology 
  159. Arvind Rajagopal, Professor, Media Studies
  160. Vicky Rampin, Librarian for RDM & Reproducibility, Division of Libraries 202. Mitra Rastegar, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies 
  161. Michael Rectenwald, Professor, Liberal and Global Liberal Studies (Retired) 204. Dara Regaignon, Associate Professor, English 
  162. Timothy J Reiss, Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature 
  163. Erica Robles Anderson, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication,  Steinhardt School of Human Development 
  164. Sahar Romani, Clinical Assistant Professor, Expository Writing Program 208. Sophia Roosth, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study 209. Andrew Ross, Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis 
  165. Jess Row, Clinical Professor, English 
  166. Everett Rowson, Emeritus Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 212. Martha Rust, Associate professor, English 
  167. Lara Saguisag, Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning 
  168. Avgi Saketopoulou, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 215. María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Professor, CLACS and the Department of Social &  Cultural Analysis 
  169. Michael Salgarolo, Faculty Fellow, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 217. Zach Samalin, Assistant Professor, English Department 
  170. Sabrina Sanchez, Administrative Aide, Office of the Provost 
  171. Alex Santana, CAS ’14 Alum, currently The Latinx Project at NYU 220. Suroor Seher Gandhi, PhD candidate, GSAS 
  172. Camille-Mary Sharp, Faculty Fellow, Program in Museum Studies 222. Normandy Sherwood, Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program 223. Mari Shiratori, PhD Candidate, GSAS Biology Department 
  173. Habibat Shittu, Student Success Specialist, Office of Student Success 225. Ella Shohat, Professor, Art and Public Policy 
  174. George Shulman, Professor Emeritus, Gallatin School 
  175. Dina M. Siddiqi, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies 
  176. Denise Ferreira da Silva 
  177. Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History 230. John Victor Singler, Professor Emeritus, Linguistics 
  178. Laura Slatkin, Professor, Gallatin 
  179. Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Associate Professor, Department of Art & Public Policy 233. Carol Anne Spreen, Associate Professor, ASH, Steinhardt 
  180. Sreshtha Sen, Clinical Assistant Professor, EWP 
  181. Robert Philip Stam, University Professor based in Cinema Studies 236. Juliet Stanton, Associate Professor, Linguistics 
  182. Justin Stearns, Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, NYUAD 
  183. Ruby Steedle, researcher, Cash Transfer Lab 
  184. Corinne Stokes, Senior Lecturer of Arabic, Arabic Studies Program 240. Lisa M. Stulberg; Associate Professor; Applied Statistics, Social Science and Humanities;  NYU Steinhardt 
  185. Pacharee Sudhinaraset, Assistant Professor, English 
  186. Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor, MCC & MEIS 
  187. Diana Taylor, University Professor, NYU 
  188. Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English 
  189. Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor, History
  190. Sinclair Thomson, Associate Professor, History Department 
  191. Simón Trujillo, Associate Professor, English 
  192. Thuy Linh Tu, Professor, SCA 
  193. James S. Uleman, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, FAS 
  194. Benjamin Wainwright, Program Coordinator, NYU Grossman School of Medicine 251. Yijun Wang, Assistant Professor, history 
  195. Lia Warner, Alum (Gallatin ‘21 and GSAS ‘23), Reference Associate, Division of Libraries 253. Bryan Waterman, Associate Professor, English 
  196. John Waters, Clinical Associate Professor, English and Irish Studies 
  197. Andrew Weiner, Associate Professor, NYU-Steinhardt Dept of Art and Art Professions 256. Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History 
  198. Jerome Whitington, Clinical Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study  and Liberal Studies 
  199. Elizabeth Witwer, Research Manager, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and  Human Development 
  200. Susanne Wofford, Professor, English and Gallatin 
  201. Amy Zhang, Anthropology, FAS 
  202. Angela Zito, Associate Professor Anthropology & Religious Studies 

(Signatories as of February 12, 2024, in alphabetical order) 

CC: Debra Furr-Holden, Dean of the School of Global Public Health 

Sherry Glied, Dean of the Wagner School of Public Service 

Allyson Green, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts  

David K. Irving, Chair, T-FSC 

Jack Knott, Dean of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Jelena Kovačević, Dean of the Tandon School of Engineering 

Antonio Merlo, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science 

Noelle Molé Liston, Chair, C-FSC 

Julie Mostov, Dean of Liberal Studies 

Jason B. Pina, Senior Vice President for University Life 

Rafael Rodriguez, Associate Vice President and Dean of Students 

Victoria Rosner, Dean of the Gallatin School for Interdisciplinary Studies  

Fountain Walker, Vice President of Global Public Safety