Tracking Cancel Culture in American Higher Education The National Association of Scholars, [email protected] Updated March, 2020 Approx. Date of Action(s) in Approx. Date of Name Institution Position Question Cancellation Description of Incident Alleged Offense Response Source 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- 1 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- 2 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- 3 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- 4 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- 5 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 6 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- 7 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- 8 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. exam, Professor Kilborn included org/p/dean-dickerson- the N-word and the word "bitch" in and-chancellor-michael- a case description, which he Petition for removal amiridis-insensitive- specified as being pejoratives for from academic affairs and-racist-content-on- African American men and women, committee, sensitivity uic-john-marshall-law- 9 Jason J. Kilborn University of Illinois, Chicago Professor of Law 12/2/2020 1/2021 respectively. Racism training school-exam Professor Ghassemi came under fire after posting numerous Tweets perceived as antisemitic. One of them is an image of "The Zionist https://www.jweekly. Teaching Professor of Brain," displaying many Jewish com/2020/12/29/uc- Civil and stereotypes as different parts of a merced-opens-inquiry- Environmental brain, and he frequently refers to Placed under into-professors- 10 Abbas Ghassemi University of California, Merced Engineering 6/2020-12/2020 12/29/2020 Israel as "Israhell." Antisemitism investigation antisemitic-tweets/ In September, Weiss and Springer published a book titled Repatriation and Erasing the Past (University Press of Florida). In it, they are critical of repatriationism, which they define as "any law, practice, or ideology that seeks to give Native Americans or their presumed spokesmen the power Denounced by https://www. to censor anthropological research colleagues, petition for mindingthecampus. by controlling access to withdrawal from open org/2021/01/25/schola archaeological remains or by access, apology from rship-versus-racial- Elizabeth Weiss & Professor of limiting topics of research and director of UPF, calls for identity-in- 11 James W. Springer San Jose State University (Weiss) Anthropology (Weiss) 9/1/2020 12/19/2020 publication on those remains." Racism outright ban. anthropology/ Professor Domingos expressed his concern that the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (an event dedicated to new artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies) was rejecting papers for failing "ethics reviews." He Tweeted, “How do we guard against https://www.geekwire. ideological biases in such reviews? com/2020/retired-uw- Since when are scientific computer-science- conferences in the business of Denounced by UW professor-embroiled- Professor Emeritus of policing the perceived ethics of Concern about administration, twitter-spat-ai-ethics- 12 Pedro Domingos University of Washington Computer Science 12/8/2020 12/12/2020 technical papers?” ideological bias colleagues cancel-culture/ In a document titled "Open Letter Demanding the Overhaul of McGill's Statement of Academi Freedom," eight McGill student associations called for greater restrictions on academic freedom and freedom of expression on campus. They cited Professor Salzman's writings as an example of academic freedom gone wrong. Describing his offenses, they write, "Salzman goes on to condemn multiculturalism, immigration, https://ssmu. gender parity, cultural equality, ca/blog/2020/11/open- social justice, and the Black Lives letter-demanding-the- Matter movement, along with Racism, sexism, Student petition for overhaul-of-mcgills- Professor Emeritus of dismissing the existence of rape xenophobia, revocation of emeritus statement-of-academic- 13 Philip Carl Salzman McGill University Anthropology 2016-2020 11/30/2020 culture and systemic racism." Islamophobia, etc. status freedom/ In a staff meeting, Professor Brennan called the COVID-19 pandemic a "leftist stunt to overthrow the United States https://www.mlive. government and destroy our [civil] com/news/grand- liberties.” He also posted at least rapids/2020/11/ferris- one Tweet involving the N-word, Placed on state-professor-who- "to try to neutralize its power," administrative leave, called-covid-19-leftist- and Tweeted that some Jewish condemned in stunt-allegedly- Professor of Physics elites are part of a globalist, COVID-19 skepticism, university statement, tweeted-slurs-placed- 14 Thomas E. Brennan Ferris State University & Astronomy 11/18/2020 11/23/2020 technocratic conspiracy. racism, antisemitism terminated on-leave.html In a series of YouTube videos on his public channel, Professor Abbot https://www. questioned the merits of academic thecollegefix. "diversity hiring," namely, favoring com/uchicago-refuses- women or ethnic minorities over to-punish-professor- others who may be more qualified protested-for- Associate