Victims of Cancel Culture in American Higher Education The National Association of Scholars, [email protected] Updated July, 2020 Date(s) of Name Institution Position Incident Description of Incident Alleged Offense Response Source 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." Racism, 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 white nationalism 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