A Battle for the Soul of DePaul, and for the Future of Academia: An Open Letter to DePaul Faculty

"For now, a great victory has been handed to people who are essentially fascists. Why is it a great victory? Because, as with Germany in 1933, a decisive role was played by people who are liberals and even progressives. Even more, because a university that should have been one of the last places where something like this could happen is instead one of the first."

-Prof. Bill Martin (Philosophy, DePaul)

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Signed:

Gil Anidjar, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.

William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Derrick Bell, Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

Robert Brenner, History Department, University of California, Los Angeles.

George Caffentzis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine.

Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University.

Ward Churchill, Scholar at Large.

Dana Cloud, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Texas, Austin.

Drucilla Cornell, Professor in the Departments of Law and Political Science, Rutgers University.

Walter A Davis, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University.

Richard Delgado, University Distinguished Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Fellow, University of Pittsburgh.

Silvia Federici, Emeritus Professor, Hofstra University.

Ruth Hsu, Associate Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Christine Karatnytsky, Scripts Librarian, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Gary P. Leupp, Professor of History, Tufts University.

Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Bill Martin, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University.

Tom Mayer, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

E. Wayne Ross, Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia.

Henry Silverman, Professor and Chairperson Emeritus, Department of History, Michigan State University.

Natsu Taylor Saito, Professor of Law, Georgia State University.

Michael Vocino, Professor, University of Rhode Island.

Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Yale University.

Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston University.

(Affiliations for identification only)