NYU Faculty Statement of Support for Nov. 17 Student Strike in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
We, the undersigned faculty members of New York University (NYU), stand in opposition to Mayor Bloomberg’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment on Monday night, and support those students who are walking out on Thursday to express their solidarity with the movement.
We protest the mayor’s suppression of free speech by breaking up the camp at Zucotti Park. Occupy Wall Street has stimulated a widespread and previously neglected discussion across the country about growing inequality and the effect of concentrated corporate power on our political and economic systems. Regardless of our political views, as university professors committed to developing critical, independent, and civic thinking skills among our students, we appreciate how OWS generated a conversation about the trajectory of our society.
This is why we support the student walkout organized by our students on Thursday November 17, which will converge on Union Square to meet students from across thecity at 3pm.
To sign the statement, write to: nyu4ows@gmail.com.
Signed (list in formation),
Arlene Davila, Professor of Anthropology, Social & Cultural Analysis
Lisa Duggan, Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis
Faye Ginsburg, Professor, Anthropology, Director, Center for Media, Culture and History
Jeff Goodwin, Professor, Sociology
Christine Harrington, Professor of Politics and Affiliate Faculty Member of NYU Law School
Steven Lukes, Professor, Sociology
Randy Martin, Professor and Chair, Department of Art and Public Policy
Dana Polan, Professor, Cinema Studies
Vincent Renzi, Professor, Foundations of Contemporary Culture
Avital Ronell, Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English
Andrew Ross, Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis
Richard Sieburth, Professor, French & Comparative Literature
Nikhil Singh, Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis, History
Judith Stacey, Professor of Sociology and Social & Cultural Analysis
Daniel Walkowitz, Professor of History and Metropolitan Studies
Michael Westerman, Associate Professor of Psychology
Hannah Gurman, Clinical Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Thomas A. Abercrombie, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Diana Turk, Associate Professor and Director of Social Studies Education, Steinhardt
Patricia Crain, Associate Professor of English
Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair and Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies
Mary Nolan Professor of History
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History
Sinclair Thomson, Professor of History
Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History
Craig Calhoun, University Professor, Sociology
Hartry Field, Professor of Philosophy
Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History
Nick Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
Joy Connolly, Associate Professor of Classics, Director of the MAP
Patrick Deer, Director of College Honors, CAS; Associate Professor of English
Ada Ferrer, Professor of History
Walter Alvarez, Silver School of Social Work
Mark Crispin Miller, Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication
Tom Looser, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor East Asian Studies, History
Vasuki Nesiah, Professor, Gallatin
Rayna Rapp, Professor, Anthropology
Karen Shimakawa, Department of Performance Studies
Stephen Duncombe, Associate Professor Gallatin School; Media, Culture & Communications
Marilyn Young, Professor of History
George Shulman, Professor Gallatin School
Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History
Marita Sturken, Professor and Chair, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Emily Apter, Professor of French, Comparative Literature
Julia Keydel, Retired Associate Professor, UGFTV
Linda Gordon University Professor of the Humanities, Florence Kelley Professor of History
Herrick Chapman, Associate Professor, History and Institute of French Studies
Angela Zito, Professor of Anthropology/Religious Studies
David Ludden, Professor of History
Gabriel Abend, Professor of Sociology
