22 thoughts on “Senior Scholar letter for Carole S. Vance”
Additional signatures on January 24:
Elazar Barkan
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Director, Human Rights Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs
Director, Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Ellen DuBois
Professor of History and Gender Studies
UCLA
Alice Echols
Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and
Professor of English and History
Chair, Gender Studies & Director, The Center for Feminist Research
University of Southern California
Kate Flint
Provost Professor of English and Art History
Chair: Department of Art History
University of Southern California
Jean Franco
Professor Emeritus English/Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Larry P. Gross
Vice Dean; School of Communication Director and Professor
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Lynn Hunt
Distinguished Research Professor
UCLA
Emily Martin
Department of Anthropology
Director, Institute for the History of Production of Knowledge
New York University
Kathleen A. McHugh
Director, Center for the Study of Women
Professor, Department of English
Program in Cinema and Media Studies
UCLA
Sally Engle Merry
Silver Professor
Department of Anthropology
New York University
Ilan H. Meyer, Ph.D.
Senior Scholar for Public Policy
Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
UCLA School of Law
OISHIK SIRCAR
Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Candidate
Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
I am shocked that Columbia would consider letting such a renowned scholar as Carole Vance go. I strongly urge President Bollinger and Columbia University to reinstate her position. She remains a cutting edge, nationally important theorist on art, censorship, human rights, gender and sexuality studies. Many scholars and artists are forever indebted to her for her activism, mentorship and her expertise on our behalf. It is doubtful that I would be a tenured professor at the University of Michigan had I not had her ongoing support for my research and activism.
Carol Jacobsen, Professor
The University of Michigan
Stamps School of Art & Design, Women’s Studies, American Culture and Human Rights
I join the petition to support Carole Vance and Kim Hopper. As a fellow of public psychiatry and a physician interested in using mental health to work against inequality, racism and poverty, it is shameful and enraging to see that profiting from research is more important for the institution than excellence in education. The work of Kim Hooper has been an inspiration to work with the homeless. I hope this decision is revoked.
Please add my name to the petition. Carol Vance has been enormously influential. Her dismissal constitutes a dismissal of an entire field of innovative thought and activism.
Vance has done so much for Columbia and her students there — let alone the influence of her ideas and work on scholars and activists around the world. Columbia has abdicated its mission as a university.
Petitions for Kim Hopper and Carole Vance 
Additional signatures on January 24:
Elazar Barkan
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Director, Human Rights Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs
Director, Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Ellen DuBois
Professor of History and Gender Studies
UCLA
Alice Echols
Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and
Professor of English and History
Chair, Gender Studies & Director, The Center for Feminist Research
University of Southern California
Kate Flint
Provost Professor of English and Art History
Chair: Department of Art History
University of Southern California
Jean Franco
Professor Emeritus English/Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Larry P. Gross
Vice Dean; School of Communication Director and Professor
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Lynn Hunt
Distinguished Research Professor
UCLA
Emily Martin
Department of Anthropology
Director, Institute for the History of Production of Knowledge
New York University
Kathleen A. McHugh
Director, Center for the Study of Women
Professor, Department of English
Program in Cinema and Media Studies
UCLA
Sally Engle Merry
Silver Professor
Department of Anthropology
New York University
Ilan H. Meyer, Ph.D.
Senior Scholar for Public Policy
Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
UCLA School of Law
Mona Ali, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
SUNY New Paltz
Thanks, Mona!
Sonia Corrêa, ABIA, Sexualitry Policy Watch, Brazil
Thanks, Sonia!
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Petitions for Kim Hopper and Carole Vance wrote:
> Sonia Corrêa commented: “Sonia Corrêa, ABIA, Sexualitry Policy Watch, > Brazil” >
Aziza Ahmed
Associate Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Marcos Nascimento, CLAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Suzanna Walters
Professor of Sociology and Director, WGSS Program
Northeastern University
OISHIK SIRCAR
Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Candidate
Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
I am shocked that Columbia would consider letting such a renowned scholar as Carole Vance go. I strongly urge President Bollinger and Columbia University to reinstate her position. She remains a cutting edge, nationally important theorist on art, censorship, human rights, gender and sexuality studies. Many scholars and artists are forever indebted to her for her activism, mentorship and her expertise on our behalf. It is doubtful that I would be a tenured professor at the University of Michigan had I not had her ongoing support for my research and activism.
Carol Jacobsen, Professor
The University of Michigan
Stamps School of Art & Design, Women’s Studies, American Culture and Human Rights
Derek Sayer
Professor of Cultural History, Lancaster University
Professor Emeritus (Canada Research Chair), University of Alberta
I’d like to add my name to the petition.
Henry Abelove
Osborne Professor Emeritus of English
Wesleyan University
With intellectual gratitude to Carol Vance and hope for Columbia’s future, I’d like to add my name to the petition.
Mary Baine Campbell
Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies
Brandeis University
Henry Abelove
Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English, Emeritus
Wesleyan University
Please add my name to this letter.
Julie Livingston
Professor of History
Rutgers University
I join the petition to support Carole Vance and Kim Hopper. As a fellow of public psychiatry and a physician interested in using mental health to work against inequality, racism and poverty, it is shameful and enraging to see that profiting from research is more important for the institution than excellence in education. The work of Kim Hooper has been an inspiration to work with the homeless. I hope this decision is revoked.
A terrible decision.
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Associate Professor of Human Ecology and of Africana Studies
Rutgers University
Kaining Zhang, Professor, Director of YHDRA, Yunnan, China
Please add my name to the petition. Carol Vance has been enormously influential. Her dismissal constitutes a dismissal of an entire field of innovative thought and activism.
Professor of Sociology Department,
Director of Institute of Sexuality and Gender,
Renmin University of China, Bei Jing, China
Vance has done so much for Columbia and her students there — let alone the influence of her ideas and work on scholars and activists around the world. Columbia has abdicated its mission as a university.
I would like to add my name:
Laura E. Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, mathematical biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850