CUNY Faculty Statement of Support

CUNY Faculty Statement of Support for Nov. 17 Student Strike in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

We faculty members of The City University of New York (CUNY) would like to express our solidarity with Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the nascent student movement it has helped galvanize at CUNY. We support the movement’s stand against the structural inequalities that lead to the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the few and against austerity measures taken during the recent economic downturn. The costs of this crisis and current social order constitute a harsh reality for many New Yorkers and especially CUNY students because our student body has always been the 99%: working-class people of all colors with a strong commitment to education and democracy. The increasing tuition costs and growing debt burden foisted upon students undermines not only CUNY’s institutional goals, but also our students’ very futures.

This is why we support the student strike organized by our students on Thursday November 17, along with the protests on November 21 against the prospect of tuition hikes to be decided on by the Board of Trustees.

To sign the statement, write to: NSmith@gc.cuny.edu

Signatures

Neil Smith (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Graduate Center)

Susan Buck-Morss (Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Graduate Center)

David Harvey (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Graduate Center)

Setha Low (Professor of Environmental Psychology and Geography, Graduate Center)

Cindi Katz (Professor of Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center)

Patricia Ticineto Clough (Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center and Queens College)

Kandice Chuh (Professor of English and American Studies, Graduate Center)

Peter Ranis (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Graduate Center)

Rebecca Mlynarczyk (Professor of English Emerita, Graduate Center)

Carol Smith (Associate Professor, SEEK program (retired), City College)

Renate Bridenthal (Professor of History (retired), Brooklyn College)

Ruth O’Brien (Professor of Political Science, Graduate Center)

John Gerassi (Professor of Political Science, Graduate Center and Queens College)

Alyson M. Cole (Professor of Political Science and Women Studies, Queens College and Graduate Center)

Linda Martín Alcoff (Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College and Graduate Center)

Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach (Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Graduate Center)

Stanley Aronowitz (Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, Graduate Center)

Ira Shor (Professor of English, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center)

David Chapin (Professor of Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center)

Marvin Carlson (Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies, Graduate Center)

Frank Kirkland (Associate Professor of Philosophy (Graduate Center and Hunter College)

Alex S. Vitale (Associate Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College)

Ashley Dawson (Associate Professor of English, Graduate Center, College of Staten Island)

Caitlin Cahill (Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Graduate Center, New Community College, and Kingsborough Community College)

Michael Friedman (Visiting Scientist, Sackler Laboratory for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, Medgar Evers College)

Kelly Anderson (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College)

Anthony Alessandrini (Associate Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College)

Eben Wood (Associate Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate Center)

Rosalind Petchesky (Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and Graduate Center)

Sarah Schulman (Distinguished Professor of English, College of Staten Island)

Michelle Fine (Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Graduate Center)

Sarah Benesch (Professor of English, College of Staten Island)

Siona Wilson (Assistant Professor, the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island)

Hester Eisenstein (Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center)

Vinay Gidwani (Associate Professor of Geography and Global Studies, University of Minnesota; Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography, CUNY Graduate Center)

Barbara Katz Rothman (Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center and Baruch College)

Kenneth Gold (Professor of Education, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center)

Cynthia Chris (Associate Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island)

David A. Gerstner (Professor of Cinema Studies and Media Culture, Graduate Center and College of Staten Island)

Maxime Blanchard (Associate Professor of French, City College and Graduate Center)

Dr. Maurya Wickstrom (Associate Professor of Theatre, Graduate Center, City University of New York and College of Staten Island)

Marianna Pavlovskaya (Associate Professor of Geography, Hunter College)

Sujatha Fernandes (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center)

Meena Alexander (Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and Graduate Center)

Ellen Belton (Professor of English, Brooklyn College)

Clarence Taylor (Professor of Modern African American, Religion and Civil Rights, Baruch College)

Corey Robin (Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

Roderick Watts (Professor of Psychology at Hunter School of Social Work and Graduate Center)

Ammiel Alcalay (Professor of English, Graduate Center and Queens College)

Saadia Toor (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, College of Staten Island)

Ben Lerner (Associate Professor of English, Brooklyn College)

Rose M. Kim (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College)

Mary Jeanette Moran (Assistant Professor of English, College of Staten Island)

Howard Lune (Director, Graduate Social Research Program, Sociology, Hunter College)

Tanya Pollard (Associate Professor of English, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center)

Andrew Reynolds (Program Assistant at CUNY School of Professional Studies)

Alyson Bardsley (Associate Professor of English, College of Staten Island)

Catherine Lavender (Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies Program, College of Staten Island)

Albert Burchsted (Retired Field Biologist, College of Staten Island)

Naja Berg Hougaard (Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College)

James D Hoff (Adjunct Lecturer, John Jay College and Brooklyn College, CUNY

Eleanor J. Bader (Adjunct Lecturer, Kingsborough Community College)

Stefanie A. Jones (Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College)

Lisa Freedman (Adjunct Lecturer, Kingsborough Community College)

Flannery Amdahl (Lecturer, Hunter College)

Owen Toews (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College)

Jessica Miller (Lecturer, Hunter College)

Katherine Wilson (Adjunct, LaGuardia Community College)

Ann E. Kottner (Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College)

Jason Schulman (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman College Department of Political Science)

Grant Maxwell (Lecturer, Baruch College and Lehman College)

Russ Morisi (Adjunct Lecturer, College of Staten Island)

Lisa Freedman (Lecturer, Kingsborough Community College)

Vincent Crapanzano (Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, Graduate Center)

Wythe Marschall (Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College Department of English)

Kristofer Petersen-Overton (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Lehman College)

Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein (Lecturer, Hunter College)

Jennifer Corby (Lecturer, City College of New York)

Kathleen Haley (Assistant Professor of English, Brooklyn College)

Katherine Verdery (Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center)

Angelica Nuzzo (Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center and Brooklyn College)

Mary M. Reda (Associate Professor of English & Director of Writing, College of Staten Island)

Susan Opotow (Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College and Graduate Center)

Carly Smith (Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College)

Robert Reid-Pharr (Professor of English, Graduate Center)

Conor Tomás Reed (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Baruch College)

Duncan Faherty (Associate Professor of English & American Studies, Queens College and Graduate Center)

Hope Parisi (Associate Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College)

Ricardo Miranda (Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, Hunter College)

James Blair (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College)

Charles Post (Professor of Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College)

Jim Fleming (Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College)

Bernard L. Stein (Professor of Journalism, Hunter College and Graduate School of Journalism)

Megan Paslawski (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens College)

Yuri Cantor (Lecturer, Queens College)

Martyna Starosta (Lecturer in the Film and Media Department, Hunter College)

Lyn Di Iorio (Associate Professor of English, City College of New York & Graduate Center)

Mike Owen Benediktsson (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and City University of New York)

John MacMahon (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, Hunter College)

Rayya El Zein (Lecturer, Department of Theater, City College)

Conor Tomás Reed (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Baruch College)

Malav Kanunga (Teaching Fellow at Baruch College, Dept of Anthropology and Sociology; Assistant with the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change)

David Nasaw (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, Graduate Center)

Isabel Pinedo (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College)

Jackie DiSalvo (Associate Professor Emerita of English, Graduate Center and Baruch College)

Celina Su (Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College)

Steven Alvarez (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens College)

Julia Sneeringer (Associate Professor of History, Queens College & the Graduate Center)

Velina Manolova (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of English, City College)

Martin Lucas (Lecturer, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College)

Susan O’Malley (Professor of English, KCC, Professor of Liberal Studies, GC, retired)

Rainer J. Hanshe (writer/editor, Contra Mundum Press/Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics)

Gary Wilder (Associate Professor in Anthropology, Graduate Center)

Penny Lewis (Assistant Professor, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, SPS)

Noe Dinnerstein (Adjunct, Art and Music, John Jay)

Cynthia Tobar (Assistant Professor/ Metadata Librarian, Graduate Center)

Wayne Koestenbaum (Distinguished Professor of English, Graduate Center)

Blanche Wiesen Cook (Professor of History, John Jay and Graduate Center)

Alison Powell (Graduate Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College)

Jean Graham-Jones (Professor of Theatre and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center)

Paisley Currah (Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College)

Rupal Oza (Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of Women’s Studies, Hunter College, Graduate Center)

Shifra Sharlin (Distinguished Lecturer, MALS, Graduate Center)

Valerie Tevere (Associate Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island)

Elizabeth Bidwell Goetz (Adjunct Instructor, English, Graduate Center, Hunter College, Borough of Manhattan Community College)

Lily M Hoffman (Director, Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy Sociology, CCNY & Grad Center)

Tom Buechele (Adjunct Lecturer at Brooklyn College Dept of Sociology; Fellow at the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, CUNY Graduate Center Brooklyn College)

Jean Maude Anyon (Professor of Urban Education, Graduate Center)

Alison Powell (Adjunct Lecturer / Graduate Teaching Fellow English Department, Hunter College)

Peter Hitchcock (Professor of English, Baruch College and the Graduate Center)

Jennifer Sloan (Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Queens College)

Katherine Hazzard (Adjunct Assistant Professor,  English Medgar English / Medgar Evers College)

Bilal Khan  (Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, John Jay College)

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY)

Celina Su (Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College)

Kenneth Gould (Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College)

David E Lavin (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Graduate Center and Lehman College)

A Martini (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Political Science, Lehman College)

Carolina Bank Munoz (Associate Professor of Sociology Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center)

Vilna Bashi  Treitler (Associate Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center; Department of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College, CUNY)

Stephen Boatright (Adjunct Lecturer of Geography, Hunter College)

John L Hammond (Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and Graduate Center)

Maritsa Poros (Associate Professor of Sociology, City College of New York)

Richard Alba (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center)

Katie Gentile (Associate Professor of Counseling, John Jay College)

Peter  Kwong (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center)

Andrew Alan Beveridge (Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY)

Pyong Gap Min (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center)

Victoria Pitts-Taylor (Professor of Sociology, Queens College and Graduate Center)

Rafael de la Dehesa (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center; Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, College of Staten Island, CUNY)

William Kornblum (Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY)

Sophia Catsambis  (Professor of Sociology, Queens College Sociology and Educational Psychology, Graduate Center, CUNY)

Ruth Milkman (Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY)

Barbara Katz Rothman (Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies; Baruch, GC and SPS)

John  Torpey (Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY)

Roger Hart (Professor of Psychology and Geography, Graduate Center of CUNY)

Patrick Sweeney (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Psychology, Hunter College)

Carla Betancourt (Architect, Urban Design, City College)

Einat Manoff  (Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College)

Christine Caruso (Adjunct Instructor, Social Science and Humanities at Laguardia Community College; School of Continuing Ed at The New School)

Jennifer Tang   (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Psychology Department, Hunter College)

Sruthi  Atmakur (Adjunct Lecturer, Children and Youth Studies)

Tommy Wu (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens College)

Melissa Phruksachart (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College)

David Sorkin (Distinguished Professor of History, Jack H. Skirball Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Center)