August 14, 2014

Office of the Chancellor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Swanlund Administration Building 601 E. John Street Champaign, IL 61820

Dear Chancellor Wise:

We the undersigned political scientists will not visit the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus until Professor Salaita is reinstated to the position offered him by the faculty and which he had accepted in good faith."

Sincerely,

Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon Stephen A. Nuño, Northern Arizona University Jessica Blatt, Marymount College Corey Robin, Brooklyn College Romand Coles, Northern Arizona University George Cicciarello-Maher, Drexel College Bruce Baum, University of British Columbia Joe Soss, University of Minnesota Adolph Reed, University of Pennyslvania Nancy Wadsworth, University of Denver

Jack Turner, University of Washington Edmund Fong, University of Utah James Johnson , University of Rochester Bella Mirabella, New York University Meredith Theeman, New York University Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University Shang Ha, Brooklyn College Anna Law, Brooklyn College Bonnie Honig, Brown University

Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College Jakeet Singh, Illinois State University Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alexander Livingston, Cornell University Aziz Rana, Cornell University Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College William Roberts, McGill University Jason Frank, Cornell University Robyn Marasco, Hunter College Jeannie Morefield, Whitman College

Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University Mark Major, Pennsylvania State University Onur Ince, Cornell University Christopher Skeaff, University of Michigan William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College Arash Abizadeh, McGill Universty Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts Boston Andrew Dilts, Marymount Loyola University Myles Jackson, New York University

Barbara Cruikshank, University of Massachusetts Robert Nichols, University of Alberta Nathan Widder, University of London Kristin Horton, New York University Melissa Michelson, Menlo College Arang Keshavarzian, New York University John Ehrenberg, Long Island University Jacob Levy, McGill University William Simmons, University of Arizona Jennie Ikuta, Brown University

Mark Ungar, Brooklyn College CUNY Graduate Center Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College Jennifer Lobasz, University of Delaware Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawai’i Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago Daragh Grant, University of Chicago Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research Renee Cramer, Drake University Anne Harrington, American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Neil Roberts, Williams College

Jason Kosnoski, University of Michigan, Flint Phil Klinkner, Hamilton College Lori Marso, Union College Asma Abbas, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Elizabeth Anker, George Washington University Sanford Schram, Hunter College Dan Mulcare, Salem State University Aletta Norval, University of Essex, UK Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon James Rowe, University of Victoria

Meredith Weiss, SUNY Albany Sean Parson, Northern Arizona University Ed Taylor, Missouri Western State University Nina Katchadourian, New York University Srirupa Roy, University of Goettingen, Germany Liza Featherstone, Brooklyn College Charmaine Chua, University of Minnesota Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois at Chicago Jonneke Koomen, Willamette University George Shulman, New York University

Ian Zuckerman, Stanford University Stuart White, Jesus College, Oxford University Jennifer Gaboury, Hunter College Daniel Butt, Oxford University Shirin Deylami, Western Washington University Scott Greer, University of Michigan Jon Hultgren, Northern Arizona University Vasuki Nesiah, New York University Anita Chari, University of Oregon Scott Lemieux, College of Saint Rose

Lida Maxwell, Trinity College Simon Glezos, University of Victoria Yves Winter, McGill University Robert Geroux, DePauw University Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, University of Massachusetts, Boston Vijay Prashad, Trinity College Christiane Wilke, Carleton University Sean Jacobs, New School University Susan Kang, City University of New York Uday Mehta, CUNY Graduate Center

Dara Z. Strolovich, Princeton University Michelle Smith, Barnard College Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, University of Hawai’i Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Brooklyn College Aaron Greenberg, Yale University Heather Pool, Denison University Harry Hirsch, Oberlin College Dennis Kobray, Rutgers University Newark Simona Sharoni, SUNY Plattsburgh Preston Smith, Mount Holyoke College

Mark Rupert, Syracuse University Alex Gourevitch, Brown University Samuel Farber, Brooklyn College Myisha Priest, New York University Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago Ming Chee Ang, Lund University, Sweden Althea Sircar, University of California at Los Angeles Shampa Biswas, Whitman College Tariq Thachil, Yale University Ayten Gundogdu, Barnard College

Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, University of San Francisco Sankaran Krishna, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Harshit Rathi, University of Minnesota David Watkins, University of Dayton Tareq Y. Ismael, University of Calgary Rex Troumbley, University of Hawai’i Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen Francois-Xavier Plasse-Couture, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Biana Isaki, University of Hawai’i

Nolan Bennett, Duke University Daniel Levine, University of Alabama Jack Jackson, Whitman College Glenn Mackin, Eastman School of Music R.W. Hildreth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Lara Slatkin, New York University Noelani Goodyear-Kapua, University of Hawai’i, Manoa Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University Dorian Warren, Columbia University Robbie Shilliam, Queen Mary University of London

Smita Rahman, DePauw University Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam Martin O’Neill, University of York

Cc: Robert Pahre, Acting Department Head, Political Science Evan McKenzie, Acting Department Head, Political Science UIC