Tracking Cancel Culture in American Higher Education the National Association of Scholars, [email protected] Updated April, 2020
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Tracking Cancel Culture in American Higher Education The National Association of Scholars, [email protected] Updated April, 2020 Approx. Date of Action(s) in Approx. Date of Name Institution Position Question Cancellation Description of Incident Alleged Offense Response Source In an article for 4W, a "fourth-wave feminism" blog, Professor Hughes critiqued what she calls the "trans- sex fantasy." She writes, "The ‘gender identity’ movement is https://www. Professor of Gender canceling people’s free speech and insidehighered. and Women's Studies academic freedom for anyone who com/news/2021/03/25 & Eleanor M. and doesn’t fall in line, speaks out in /professor-odds-her- Oscar M. Carlson opposition, or even calls for the Condemned in university-over-gender- 1 Donna Hughes University of Rhode Island Endowed Chair 2/28/2021 3/23/2021 right to debate." Transphobia university statement identity https://www. nationalreview. com/corner/brown- professor-gets- hounded-off-twitter- for-article-saying-its- okay-to-take-your-kids- Professor Oster wrote an article in on-vacation/? The Atlantic titled "Your utm_source=recirc- Unvaccinated Kid Is Like A desktop&utm_medium Vaccinated Grandma," in which =article&utm_campaign she argued that, due to the low =right- risks of COVID-19 for children, rail&utm_content=top- Professor of parents should take them on Widely denounced on stories&utm_term=four 2 Emily Oster Brown University Economics 3/18/2021 3/18/2021 vacations this summer. COVID-19 heterodoxy social media th Professor Kindsvatter posted a video on YouTube titled “Racism https://www. and the Secular Religion at the sevendaysvt. University of Vermont,” in which Student petition for com/OffMessage/archiv he, among other things, critiqued firing, condemned by es/2021/03/16/uvm- the concept of "whiteness" and dean, students allowed professors-viral-video- Associate Professor expressed a feeling of ostracization to transfer out of prompts-calls-for-his- 3 Aaron Kindsvatter University of Vermont of Counseling 3/8/2021 3/13/2021 due to it. Racism courses resignation In a blog post, Professor Smith wrote, “If you believe that the coronavirus did not escape from the lab in Wuhan, you have to at least consider that you are an idiot who is swallowing whole a lot of Chinese cock swaddle.” He later clarified that “It appears that some https://www.cbs8. people are interpreting my com/article/news/local/ reference to ‘Chinese cock usd-professor-under- swaddle,’ as a reference to an investigation-for-racial- ethnic group. That is a Student petition for comments-in-a- misinterpretation. To be clear, I firing, denounced in blog/509-e5234427- was referring to the Chinese university statement, e645-461e-9c74- 4 Thomas Smith University of San Diego Professor of Law 3/10/2021 3/12/2021 government.” Racism under investigation 84a47be2ad0d In an online video meeting, Professor Sandra Sellers, one of https://www.nbcnews. Professor Batson's colleagues, com/news/education/g lamented that the lowest eorgetown-law- performing students in her classes professor-resigns-over- tend to be black. Batson did not Placed under insensitive-remarks- Adjunct Professor of denounce Sellers' statement investigation, about-black-students- 5 David Batson Georgetown University Law 3/2021 3/11/2021 during the meeting. Racism resignation n1261034 In an online video meeting, Professor Sellers lamented that the https://www.nbcnews. lowest performing students in her com/news/education/g classes tend to be black. She said, eorgetown-law- "I end up having this angst every professor-under-fire- semester that a lot of my lower Placed under comments-about-black- Adjunct Professor of ones are Blacks, happens almost investigation, students-performance- 6 Sandra Sellers Georgetown University Law 3/2021 3/11/2021 every semester." Racism termination n1260559 https://abcnews.go. Placed on com/US/wireStory/alab Professor Wood allegedly dressed administrative leave, ama-professors-leave- in a Confederate soldier's uniform student petition for insensitive-photos- 7 Bob Wood University of South Alabama Professor of Finance 2014 3/5/2021 during a 2014 Halloween party. Racism firing 76297701 https://abcnews.go. Placed on com/US/wireStory/alab Professor Sharland allegedly posed administrative leave, ama-professors-leave- Professor of with a whip and noose during a student petition for insensitive-photos- 8 Alex Sharland University of South Alabama Marketing 2014 3/5/2021 2014 Halloween party. Racism firing 76297701 https://abcnews.go. Placed on com/US/wireStory/alab Professor Weldy allegedly posed administrative leave, ama-professors-leave- Assistant Professor of with a whip and noose during a student petition for insensitive-photos- 9 Teresa Weldy University of South Alabama Management 2014 3/5/2021 2014 Halloween party. Racism firing 76297701 During the vice-presidential debate in October 2020 between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, Professor Burnett Tweeted “the moderator needs to talk over Mike Pence until https://www. he shuts his little demon mouth Disrupting institutional campusreform. 10 Lora Burnett Collin College Professor of History 10/7/2020 2/25/2021 up.” working environment Termination org/article?id=17021 Professor Machelidon used the N- word several times in a lecture. The exact context is currently unknown. When students raised Placed under https://abc11. Professor of World concerns, she defended herself by investigation, com/meredith-college- Languages and claiming that she is not American condemned in college veronique-machelidon- Cultures; and that many from other statement, student racism-culture- 11 Veronique Machelidon Meredith College Department Head 11/2020 2/23/2021 countries do not know the word. Racism petition for firing class/10364883/ Professor Ramseyer published an article, titled “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War,” in the International Review of Law and Economics. In it, he claims Korean and other women during WWII willingly prostituted themselves to https://www.nytimes. Japenese soldiers, contradicting Petition for article com/2021/02/26/world Mitsubishi Professor the more common narrative that retraction, demand for /asia/harvard- of Japanese Legal these women were kidnapped and apology, investigated by professor-comfort- 12 J. Mark Ramseyer Harvard University Studies 12/2020 2/18/2021 forced into sex slavery. Support for sex slavery journal women.html Ms. Hargrove wrote the following phrase on a whiteboard during a class session: "Never Ignorant https://www.wvlt. Getting Goals Accomplished," tv/2021/02/07/ut- which, when made into an student-organizations- acronym, spells out a form of the call-for-termination-of- N-word. This was in reference to a Condemned by professor-accused-of- The University of Tennessee, Lecturer in Africana Tupac Shakur song of the same department, student writing-racial-slur-on- 13 Melissa Hargrove Knoxville Studies 2/3/2021 2/3/2021 title. Racism petition for firing whiteboard/ Professor Gunter created a video titled “Three Myths About Poverty,” in which he "attempted to debunk three myths concerning poverty—that poverty is mostly a matter of race, poverty is a https: generational curse, and the poor //thebrownandwhite. have no agency." This prompted Lecture removed from com/2021/02/08/econo backlash from many students, who university YouTube mics-professor-faces- Professor of claim that he handled the issues of channel, widely criticism-over-op-ed- Economics; Senior race and poverty poorly and denounced on social titled-three-myths- 14 Frank Gunter Lehigh University Fellow, Foreign Policy 1/29/2021 2/2021 selectively. Racism media about-poverty/ Professor Parker was to teach a new course titled Data Fusion in Complex Systems: A Case Study. In it, he planned to use data analysis to assess the effectiveness of Counter-Criminal Continuum policing, or C3, in Springeifld, IL. C3 https://www.wgbh. was originally developed in org/news/education/20 Afghanistan and is an effective 21/01/26/harvard- Tarr Family Professor method. Students allege that this cancels-course-on- of Bioengineering course "supports violence against policing-techniques- 15 Kevin Kit Parker Harvard University and Applied Physics 12/2020 1/24/2021 marginalized communities." Racism Course canceled after-uproar Professor Farrow has come under fire for several of his publications, including Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage and https://docs.google. Theological Negotiations, in which com/document/d/1IqQ he expresses an orthodox Christian Petition for removal of PS3SlagV7KBkoJK5FE2b Professor of view of human sexuality and Homophobia, Farrow's books from CoX1Oj9SR9WZRwurM 16 Douglas Farrow McGill University Theology and Ethics 2007-present 1/21/2021 gender. transphobia university library OKU/edit Professor Eastman spoke at President Trump's Washington, D. C. rally on 1/6/2021. When asked if he supported the riot and violence that took place, he said “What a ridiculous question. Of course I do https://www. not condone the violence at the insidehighered. capitol. But it was not a riot. It was com/quicktakes/2021/0 Henry Salvatori perhaps a hundred thugs out of a 1/11/chapman-faces- Professor of Law & quarter-million or half-million Pro-Trump, inciting Petition for firing by pressure-fire-professor- 17 John Eastman Chapman University Community Service 1/6/2021 1/9/2021 people.” violence colleagues who-spoke-trump-rally Following the events in Washington, D.C. on 1/6/21, Professor Hypes allegedly posted on Facebook in support of the protest/riot, including the language “War is coming!” and “Finally, just maybe we will have the bloodshed that is needed to fix https://triblive. this country.” He denies posting com/local/westmorelan said statements, claiming that his d/seton-hill-severs-ties- account may have been hacked. with-adjunct-professor- Adjunct Professor of Previous posts indicate a support Pro-Trump, inciting over-facebook-posts- 18 Gary Hypes Seton Hill University Accounting 11/2020-1/2021 1/8/2021 for President Trump. violence Terminated which-he-denies/ In a question on a civil procedure https://www.change.