Victims of Cancel Culture in American Higher Education The National Association of Scholars, [email protected] Updated July, 2020

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https://abc7news. Professor Hubbard allegedly asked com/society/exclusive- a Vietnamese-American student to oakland-student-told- Professor of "anglicize" her legal name because Placed on to-anglicize-name- 1 Matthew Hubbard Laney College Mathematics 6/20/2020 it sounds like an "insult in English." , xenophobia administrative leave speaks-out/6256459/ https://loyolamaroon. Harold E. Wirth com/10028406/news/a Eminent Scholar Professor Block is under fire for cademic/petitions-call- Chair in Economics; numerous statements on topics for-walter-block-to-be- Professor of including slavery and the "gender fired-given-a-raise-over- 2 Walter Block Loyola University New Orleans Economics 6/17/2020 pay gap." Racism, sexism, ableism Petition for firing academic-work/ Moloney was asked to resign after sending an email to MIT's Roman Catholic community, in which he https://newbostonpost. expressed doubt that the killing of com/2020/06/19/heres George Floyd was racially -what-the-m-i-t- Daniel Patrick Massachusetts Institute of motivated. He also criticized catholic-chaplain-got- 3 Moloney Technology Chaplain 6/16/2020 Floyd's character. Racism Forced resignation fired-over/ https://www. thecollegefix.com/blm- Senior Director and activists-target- Chief Academic Professor Kengor is accused of renowned- Fellow for The Center spreading "anti-Blackness," racism, conservative-professor- for Vision & Values; and through his paul-kengor-accuse- Professor of Political writing for Grove City College's him-of-white- 4 Paul Kengor Grove City College Science 6/15/2020 Institute for Faith and Freedom. Racism Petition for firing nationalist-rhetoric/

Professor Uhlig Tweeted two https://www. statements on the topic of race, chicagotribune. Bruce Allen and including saying the the Black Lives com/news/ct- Barbara Ritzenthaler Matter movement has "torpedoed university-of-chicago- Professor in itself, with its full-fledged support Under investigation; economist-black-lives- Economics and the of #defundthepolice." A 2017 blog placed on leave from matter-harald-uhlig- College; Head Editor, post by Uhlig has also resurfaced, role as lead editor of 20200613- Journal of Political which includes his views on Colin the Journal of Political hjqqlox7wjbz5iosdxkgo 5 Harald Uhlig University of Chicago Economy 6/8/2020 Kaepernick. Racism Economy e7ftq-story.html https://www.azcentral. com/story/news/local/a A group of Duhé's former students rizona- at Loyola University New Orleans education/2020/06/07/ claim that Duhé's remarks about asu-walter-cronkite- an African American student's journalism-dean- Dean of Walter hairstyle were racist. She also position-sonya-forte- Cronkite School of recently tweeted in support of the duhe-racism- Journalism police during Black Lives Matter accusations/317316000 6 Sonya Duhé Arizona State University (incoming) 6/7/2020 protests. Racism, pro-police Rescinded job offer 1/

Professor Hulbert has made multiple statements deemed controversial regarding topics such https://sdsubgsa. Professor of Biology as Black Lives Matter, immigration, Petition to revoke weebly.com/petition. 7 Stuart H. Hulbert San Diego State University Emeritus 6/7/2020 and globalism. Racism, xenophobia emeritus status html https://cen.acs. Professor Hudlicky'ś essay "Organic org/research- synthesis — Where now?" was integrity/ethics/Essay- published by the prestigious criticizing-efforts- German chemistry journal increase-diversity-in- organic-synthesis- Angewandte Chemie. In it, Hudlicky ́ deleted-after-backlash- Professor & Tier 1 expresses reservations about from- Canada Research preferential hiring on the basis of Article removed and chemists/98/web/2020 8 Tomaś ̌ Hudlický Brock University Chair, Chemistry 6/4/2020 race and sex in his field. Racism, sexism denounced /06 https://cornellsun. com/2020/06/05/as- Professor Collum Tweeted in students-protest-police- support of the Buffalo Police brutality-chemistry- Betty R. Miller Department officers who were professor-fans-flames- Professor of suspended without pay after an by-defending-cops-in- Chemistry & altercation with an elderly man on Denounced by Cornell incident-gov-cuomo- 9 David Collum Cornell University Chemical Biology 6/4/2020 6/4/20. Pro-Police president called-disgraceful/

https://www.cincinnati. com/story/news/2020/ 06/05/miami- university-professor- Professor Brooks allegedly called a accused-racist-remarks- Professor of group of Black Lives Matter following- 10 Douglas Brooks Miami University Education 6/4/2020 protesters "monkeys." Racism Petition for firing protests/3159056001/ Professor Negy is under investigation for "displaying bias and unfair treatment in the classroom." However, the investigation began merely one day after Negy Tweeted two https://www.nytimes. statements on the topic of race. com/2020/06/05/us/uc Associate Professor One contained the phrase "black f-professor-charles- 11 Charles Negy University of Central Florida of Psychology 6/3/2020 privilege." Racism Under investigation negy-race.html https://reason. com/2020/06/11/dema nds-that-cornell-fire- Clinical Professor and Professor Jacobson posted two clinical-law-prof- Director of the articles criticizing the Black Lives william-jacobson-for- Securities Law Clinic, Matter Movement on his blog, criticizing-black-lives- 12 William A. Jacobson Cornell University Cornell Law School 6/3/2020 Legal Insurrection. Racism Petition for firing matter-movement/

Professor Klein faced student http://losangeles. demands via email to award cbslocal. lenient grades to African-American Suspension; transfer of com/2020/06/10/ucla- students in the wake of George classes to different professor-on-leave- 13 Gordon Klein University of California, Los AngelesLecturer in Accounting 6/2/2020 Floyd's death. Klein declined. Racism faculty gordon-klein/

Professor Peris read a portion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter https://freebeacon. from Birmingham Jail" aloud in com/issues/university- class. The excerpt contained the N- to-investigate-lecturer- University of California, Los Postdoctoral Lecturer word. He also showed a Denunciation, call for for-reading-mlks-letter- 14 W. Ajax Peris Angeles in Political Science 6/2/2020 documentary about lynching. Racism firing from-birmingham-jail/

Professor Senjo Tweeted several statements supporting the police's role in combatting Black Lives Pressured to resign, https://www.sltrib. Matter protests, including at least resigned, and then com/news/education/2 Professor of Criminal two that may be perceived as rescinded his 020/06/01/weber- 15 Scott Senjo Weber State University Justice 6/1/2020 threats. Racism, pro-police resignation state-professor/

Professor Adams Tweeted on 5/29/20 that he was living in a "slave state" due to COVID-19 https://www. restrictions. He also referred to starnewsonline. North Carolina Governor Roy com/news/20200605/u Cooper as "Massa." Adams later Racism, sexism, ncw-community- University of North Carolina, Tweeted remarks on 6/2/20 homophobia, anti- Petition for firing, speaks-out-against- 16 Mike Adams Wilmington Professor of Criminology 5/29/2020 perceived as sexist. COVID-19 restrictions forced retirement professor-mike-adams https://www. Richard and Frances Professor McConnell said the N- stanforddaily. Mallery Professor of word while reading aloud from Denunciation by at least com/2020/05/30/law- Law; Director of the historical source material in class. twelve SLS student professor-criticized- Constitutional Law The quote he read was allegedly by groups and more than after-reading-racial- 17 Michael McConnell Stanford Law School Center 5/27/2020 Patrick Henry. Racism fifty SLS professors. slur-in-class/ https://www. stanforddaily. com/2020/04/29/profe Professor Salseda said the N-word ssor-reads-racial-slur- during a guest lecture while from-song-lyrics-in- Assistant Professor of reading aloud the lyrics from a csre-class-sparking- 18 Rose Salseda Stanford University Art History 4/28/2020 NWA song. Racism Denunciation backlash/ https: Professor Lowery is a self- //edmontonjournal. described "gender-critical com/news/local- feminist," that is, she does not news/u-of-a-professor- view biological sex as irrelevant to says-she-was- Associate Professor womens' issues as some segments dismissed-over-views- of Anthropology; of the LGBTQ movement do. She that-biological-sex- Associate Chair expressed these views in one of trumps-transgender- (Undergraduate) of her classes, provoking the ire of identity-for-policy- 19 Kathleen Lowery University of Alberta Anthropology 3/24/2020 her school. Transphobia Termination decisions

Professor Meriwether refused to https://thehill. refer to a male student by his com/blogs/blog- preferred, feminine pronouns, briefing- instead calling him "sir." room/news/416297- Meriwether cited his personal professor-sues- Professor of religious beliefs as an evangelical university-for-being- 20 Nicholas Meriwether Shawnee State University Philosophy 2020 Christian. Transphobia Censured punished-after-calling

MacDonald posted on Facebook https: doubting the historical veracity of //thegatewayonline. the Holodomor, a widely ca/2019/11/offensive- Assistant Lecturer, recognized genocide against the comments-by-u-of-a- Elementary Ukranian people by the Soviet Anti-Ukranian hate professor-spur-student- 21 Dougal MacDonald University of Alberta Education 11/20/2019 Union in 1932-33. speech Petition for firing backlash/

Crockford runs a popular blog, polarbearscience.com, in which she presents zoological research arguing that polar bears are not in https://www.martlet. fact threatened by global warming. ca/assistant-adjunct- She believes that her dismissal uvic-professor- Adjunct Assistant from the University of Victoria is a allegedly-fired-for- Professor of result of environmentalists taking Climate change politically-incorrect- 22 Susan Crockford University of Victoria Anthropology 10/28/2019 umbrage at the website. denialism Termination views-on-polar-bears/ Hecht wrote an op-ed published by the Sun titled "Can Social Trust and Diversity Co- Exist?" In it, he questions the merits of high ethnic diversity https://www.thestar. within a single country, com/calgary/2019/09/0 encouraging Canada to emulate 8/heated-arguments- other nations such as Denmark, among-mount-royal- Instructor, Earth & which he views as having low university- faculty-after- Environmental ethnic diversity and high "social Removal of article, instructors-op-ed- 23 Mark Hecht Mount Royal University Sciences 9/7/2019 cohesion." Racism, xenophobia possible firing opposing-diversity.html

Professor Duchesne frequently writes for a blog he co-founded called the Council of European Canadians. The views he expresses there and elsewhere are seen as https://globalnews. white nationalist and racist. He has ca/news/5351457/ricar also appeared on a podcast with do-duchesne-retire- Assistant Professor of right-wing commentator Faith Racism, xenophobia, Denunciation, forced white-nationalist- 24 Ricardo Duchesne University of New Brunswick Sociology 5/18/2019 Goldy. white nationalism retirement comments/

Professor Gerrard and a small Supporting free speech, https://www. group of Williams faculty circulated and therefore "racism, bloomberg. the "Chicago Statement," a free xenophobia, sexism, com/opinion/articles/2 speech policy statement written by anti-semitism, 019-09-09/free-speech- Committee on Freedom of homophobia, is-no-longer-safe- Professor of Expression at the University of transphobia, ableism, Cancelled speech, speech-at-today-s-elite- 25 Steven Gerrard Williams College Philosophy Sep-18 Chicago. and classism" denunciation colleges Professor Porter developed a survey to gauge views on academic freedom and hostile environments while teaching a course on Professor of industrial and organizational Retaliation against Suspension and https://davesfsc. 26 David B. Porter Berea College Psychology Feb-2018 psychology. school subsequent termination com/about

In response to the removal of a statue of John A. MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister, from Victoria, 's city https://www.cbc. hall, Professor Stevenson posted a ca/news/canada/hamilt Professor of Political series of Tweets criticizing Revokation of emeritus on/garth-stevenson- 27 Garth Stevenson Brock University Science Emeritus 8/15/2020 aboriginal Canadians. Racism status tweets-1.4781236 http://cuatower. Professor Tieso drew the ire of his com/2020/06/busch- employer and students after school-professor-under- posting allagedly racist Tweets Under investigation; investigation-for- The Catholic University of Adjunct Assistant criticizing former President Obama summer 2020 classes racially-charged- 28 John Tieso America Professor of Business 7/18/2018 and Senator Kamala Harris. Racism postponed tweets/

Professor Pyne conducted research on the popularity of disreputable https://vancouversun. academic journals among com/opinion/columnist academics trying to advance their s/b-c-economist- careers. He claimed that locked-in-grim-battle- administrators and faculty at his against-deceptive- Assistant Professor of own instutition had many articles Retaliation against scholarship? 29 Derek Pyne Thompson Rivers University Economics 7/17/2018 in some of these journals. school Suspension without pay video_autoplay=true In a Facebook post, Professor https://www.cbc. Laberge expressed his "disgust for ca/news/canada/montr homosexuals," calling eal/montreal-cegep- homosexuality a "primitive professor- Professor of reaction" that degrades male Suspension, homosexuality- 30 Jean Laberge Cégep du Vieux Montréal Philosophy 1/15/2018 sexuality. Homophobia, sexism investigation 1.4519870

Professor Mehta, a tenured professor and self-described "free speech advocate," expressed allegedly controversial views both in the classroom and on social https://www.cbc. media pertaining to topics such as ca/news/canada/nova- decolonization, immigration, and scotia/petition-calls-for- Associate Professor gender politics. He also called Racism, xenophobia, acadia-professor-to-be- 31 Rick Mehta Acadia University of Psychology 1/5/2018 "a scam." sexism Termination fired--1.4487142

While serving as a teaching assistant in a first-year Communications Studies class, https://www.therecord. Shepherd showed a video to com/news/waterloo- students featuring a debate region/2017/11/14/wlu Graduate Student in between and -censures-grad-student- Cultural Analysis & Nicholas Matte on the subject of Denunciation, called to for-lesson-that-used- 32 Lindsay Shepherd Wilfrid Laurier University Social Theory 11/1/2017 gender-neutral pronouns. Transphobia disciplinary meeting tvo-clip.html

Professor Wax published an op-ed https://www. in the Philadelphia Inquirer in insidehighered. which she argues that all cultures com/news/2018/03/15 are not equally equipped to thrive /penn-says-amy-wax- in an advanced economy. She also First-year classes will-no-longer-teach- Robert Mundheim criticized affirmative action in a transferred to different required-first-year-law- 33 Amy Wax University of Pennsylvania Professor of Law 8/9/2017 podcast. Racism faculty courses-after-more Professor Durden appeared on https://www. Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss insidehighered. issues relating to Black Lives com/news/2017/06/21 Matter. She supported the actions /college-allegedly- of BLM, including black-only suspends- Adjunct Professor of events, stirring controversy within communications- 34 Lisa Durden Essex County College Communications 6/6/2017 her institution. Racism Termination adjunct-comments- https://www.cbc.about-race-fox-news Potter wrote an op-ed published ca/news/canada/montr by Maclean's, in which he attempts eal/andrew-potter- to connect a massive snowstorm in mcgill-institute-for-the- Quebec to what he describes as study-of-canada- Director, Institute for the province's "mass breakdown in Retaliation against local Denunciation, resignation-macleans- 35 Andrew Potter McGill University the Study of Canada 3/20/17 the social order." government resignation 1.4037618 In a Facebook Post, Professor Hall suggested links between Israel and https://www.cbc. Professor of Liberal 9/11, and also expressed ca/news/canada/calgar Education and skepticism regarding certain events y/tony-hall-suspended- 36 Anthony Hall University of Lethbridge Globalization Studies 10/4/16 of the Holocaust. Anti-semitism Suspension, retirement lethbridge-1.3793294 Professor Peterson released a Youtube video titled “Professor against political correctness: Part I,” in which he critiqued Canadian https://www.thestar. laws protecting various forms of com/news/canada/201 gender expression. He also 6/10/05/protesters- expressed doubt about the Denunciation, letters of decry-u-of-t-professors- Professor of concept of the "gender spectrum" warning from university comments-on-gender- 37 Jordan Peterson Psychology 9/27/16 in general. Transphobia administration identity.html

Professor Persinger distributed a survey to his introductory psychology course, in which he asked students to sign off on the use of certain explitives in class, including "f*ck," "p*ssy," and "f*g." He claims that the use of https://www.cbc. these words is one of his ca/news/canada/sudbu pedagogical "techniques," as they Denunciation, class ry/persinger- Professor of provoke a particular reaction in Excessive profanity, transferred to different psychology-class- 38 Michael Persinger Laurentian University Psychology 1/4/16 those who say and hear them. homophobia faculty 1.3389410 https://www.cbc. ca/news/canada/toront o/prof-rick-coupland- Sharing a Facebook article about no-longer-at-st- rainbow flags, Professor Coupland lawrence-college-after- wrote "It's the queers they should alleged-homophobic- 39 Rick Coupland St. Lawrence College Professor of Business 7/21/15 be hanging, not the flag ...." Homophobia Termination remark-1.3161900

Professor Regnerus published an article in Social Science Research titled "How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings https://www.nytimes. from the New Family Structures com/2012/06/12/healt Study." It is alleged that Regnerus' Denunciation, under h/study-examines- Professor of study and findings are hateful investigation for effect-of-having-a-gay- 40 Mark Regnerus University of Texas at Austin Sociology 2012 towards LGBT groups. Homophobia scientific misconduct parent.html

Professor Khoury is alleged to have misreported income received during sabbaticals. He claims that his dismissal was also due to his https://www.latimes. Republican political views, com/archives/la-xpm- Lebanese heritage, and and 2012-jan-16-la-me-uc- Professor of advocacy for hiring minority prof-20120116-story. 41 Joseph Khoury University of California, RiversideInternational Finance 2012 professors. Misreporting income Forced retirement html

Professor Enstrom was terminated from his 34-year research professor position at UCLA because his colleagues retaliated against him for publishing peer-reviewed research findings that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) does not cause premature deaths in https://www.thefire. Research Professor, California, and for identifying legal org/letter-from-richard- University of California, Los School of Public violations by UCLA and UC faculty Climate change jackson-to-james- 42 James Enstrom Angeles Health (former) 2010 members and a CARB employee. denialism Termination enstrom-june-9-2010/

Hsu has been criticized for various https://statenews. blog posts, interviews, and com/article/2020/06/m podcasts on the topics of race and ichigan-state-geu-calls- sex from 2008-2020. One such to-remove-vp-research- podcast is with Stefan Molyneux, a administrator-stephen- Senior Vice figure Hsu claims was not hsu? President, Research controversial at the time but now Petition for firing, ct=content_open&cv=c 43 Stephen Hsu Michigan State University and Innovation 2008-2020 is. Racism, sexism resignation box_latest In a talk delivered at an economics conference, President Summers https://www. allegedly suggested that there may thecrimson. be more male scientists than com/article/2005/1/14/ female at elite universities due to summers-comments- "innate" differences between the on-women-and- 44 Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University President 1/14/2005 two sexes. Sexism Denunciation science/

https://www. Professor Thernstrom's views of thecrimson. slavery and Jim Crow laws com/article/1988/2/17/ expressed in class were seen as thernstrom-only- Winthrop Professor "racially insensitive" by some of his Student petition for provoking-original- 45 Stephan Thernstrom Harvard University of History 1988 students. Racism disciplinary action thoughts-pbtbhe/

Professor Wilson published a now- classic book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, in which he https://www. suggests that many social quantamagazine. tendencies may be attributable to org/edward-o-wilson- natural selection. This was finds-hope-in-selfless- perceived as supporting scientific ants-and-ecology- 46 Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Professor of Biology 1975 racism and genetic determinism. Racism Petition for firing studies-20190515/