Radical History Sessions at the American Historical Society Annual Meeting
Sponsored and co-sponsored through the Radical History Review
With support from Historians for Peace and Democracy
January 4-7, 2024, San Francisco
“A mini-conference within the conference”
The following eighteen sessions were initiated, organized, and sponsored/co-sponsored via Radical History Review, an affiliate organization of the AHA. The purpose of these sessions as a “min-conference” within the AHA meeting is to augment the larger conferences offerings by promoting historical scholarship in a wide variety of fields, some that are often neglected, that speak broadly to pressing social concerns and their historical genesis, and that are “radical” in a number of meanings of that admittedly slippery but important word. Join us is what is, among other things, essentially an underlying discussion of what is “radical” in history and why it in of crucial importance.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4
Media and Movements in the American City, 1957–9
Thursday, January 4, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description: This panel offers a review of the changing relationship between the media landscape, racism, economics, social movements, and urban space in the United States over the second half of the twentieth century. Travis Boyce explores the medium of the televised interview in 1950s Mississippi and Washington, DC; Alex Beasley examines narratives of U.S. imperial decline in Houston in the 1970s and 1980s; and Jeannette Estruth studies the importance of the consumer internet in Silicon Valley amid the Clinton administration’s welfare cuts in the 1990s.
Chair: Jeannette Estruth, Bard College and the Harvard Berkman Klein Center
Papers:
An “Economic Pearl Harbor”: Foreign Real Estate Investment and Narratives of US Imperial Decline in the 1970s and 1980s
Alex Beasley, University of Texas at Austin
Senator James Eastland at the Intersection of Ethnic Studies and Historical Literacy: An Appraisal of His Televised Interview in 1957
Travis Boyce, San Jose State University
“Seeing Silicon Valley”: The Clinton Administration, Technology, and the Media in Silicon Valley,1991–99
Jeannette Estruth, Bard College and the Harvard Berkman Klein Center
Discussion of Margaret Power’s Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism
Thursday, January 4, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55)
Sponsor: Radical History Review; co-sponsor: Conference on Faith and History
Description:
Participants will critically discuss the key arguments and contributions of Margaret Power’s Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism. The book offers a new interpretation of the pro-independence party, twentieth-century Puerto Rican history, and U.S. colonialism by focusing on the hemispheric outpouring of solidarity with it, with Nationalist Party political prisoners, and with Puerto Rican independence. It highlights the transnational networks of anti-imperialist solidarity that stretched from Buenos Aires to New York City and the important role that Puerto Rican Nationalists played in them.
Chair:
Marisol Lebrón, University of California, Santa Cruz
Speaker:
Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Commentators: Lisa G. Materson, University of California, Davis; José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5
Reparations for US Colonialism in Puerto Rico: A Conversation on a Decolonizing Pathway
Friday, January 5, 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Chair:
Daniel Morales-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
Bárbara Abadía-Rexach, San Francisco State University
Marisol Lebrón, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, University of California, Berkeley
The United States and China: A Discussion
Friday, January 5, 2024: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description
This session gathers together US-based academics involved in the Critical China Scholars collective, a group born of the 2019-2020 pandemic-era scapegoating of China, and of the subsequent exponential rise of anti-Asian racism in the United States and elsewhere. We propose to take stock, in historical and current perspective, of the contemporary moment in US-China relations, as a repetitive discursive track (Cold War redux?) and as a new phenomenon arising out of intra-capitalist global competition and conflict. We will cover topics of ultra-contemporary interest through a lens critical of both the US and China.
Chair:
Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
Speakers:
Alexander F. Day, Occidental College
Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona
Covell Meyskens, Naval Postgraduate School
Aminda M. Smith, Michigan State University
As Above, So Below? Political Sousveillance and Data Sharing across the 20th-Century United States
Friday, January 5, 2024: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin I 88
Sponsor: American Historical Association; co-sponsor: Radical History Review
Description
This AHA session presents research examining the historical uses of surveillance as a method of creating knowledge about social and political conditions. While long dominated by histories of state security and its imperial entanglements, more recent scholarship on surveillance has demonstrated the ways that non-state actors also developed sophisticated surveillant systems to pursue a staggering variety of diverse goals. Some wedded information gathering to commerce, creating new forms of market research and surreptitious customer surveys, others rifled through wastebaskets and intercepted mail to reveal the activities of their political opponents, while still others deployed citizen surveillers onto the streets to see, know, and ultimately reform American cities and those who governed them.
This more recent scholarship invites us to re-evaluate the coherence of surveillance as a category of historical analysis. Perhaps the term should be reserved exclusively for histories of the state? We might then look for new descriptive language among scholars of contemporary surveillance studies, where theorists are grappling with a new vocabulary to capture the novel flows of knowledge and power in the digital era. From this group some historians have borrowed the term sousveillance, finding in it an apt inversion of the assumed direction of the state surveiller’s gaze. Might this then be a better term to describe the activities of citizens when they use these tools to interrogate, resist, or assist state power? Looking further afield, are there other terms that historians could use to historicize the changing ways that surveillance data has been turned into power?
The papers in this session explore these and related questions. Matthew Guariglia’s paper on the American Business Consultants connects Cold War politics to the expanding literature on surveillance capitalism, demonstrating the market value of personal data in an era of expanding background, “loyalty” and security checks. Oftentimes the subjects of political surveillance were Communist Party members and the “fellow travelers” who defended them, and Dolores Janiewski’s research uncovers how members of a California legal network were able to employ counter-surveillance strategies in the late 1930s to defend clients such as labor leader Harry Bridges, seen by his enemies as a lynchpin of the CP on the West Coast. Finally, Simon Judkins’ paper on civic reformers in 1930s Los Angeles shows that, as early as 1937, citizens recognized that technologies of vision such as photography could be used to record the activities of police officers who abused their power. As they further realized, such images could be woven into compelling disinformation narratives with the persuasive power to remake their city.
Our session will present these histories via focused, 15-minute research presentations followed by comments and discussion, suggesting new approaches for this growing and vital historiography.
Chair:
Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt University
Papers:
Not Just Spies Overhead but Also Underneath: Wastebasket Snoopers and Leftist Counter-Surveillance
Dolores Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington
The Blacklist Library: Power and Information in the Red Scare
Matthew Guariglia, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Citizen Sousveillance and Cinematic Disinformation, Hard-Boiled
Simon Judkins, University of Southern California
Comment: Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley
Race, Capitalism, and Geopolitics
Friday, January 5, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Golden Gate 7 (Lobby, Hilton Union Square) – sponsor: Radical History Review
Description
Across regions and fields — scholars have interpreted various notions of racial capitalism, or of a global capitalist world system, or of the ties that bind race and empire. In this roundtable, a range of scholars come together, to discuss how their own work links race and capitalism and geopolitics. They will also engage the audience in conversation, about what terms and concerns we might share, to approach these dynamic intersections.
Chair:
Ula Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University
Vaughn Rasberry, Stanford University
Priya Satia, Stanford University
Bernadette Pérez, University of California, Berkeley
Abortion, Repression, Justice, and Freedom
Friday, January 5, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
Today’s abortion controversy is not just about abortion. It encapsulates a wide variety of social and political controversies. The attack on abortion rights is tied to racism, the rise of the far Right, the spread of false information, censorship (especially of library and school materials), attacks on immigrants, gerrymandering, the partisan and corrupt Supreme Court, the rise of a surveillance state, invasions of privacy, and the legacy of slavery. Defending abortion rights involves protecting women’s rights (and men’s too), gay and trans rights, child welfare, free speech, health, and more. Two historians and two sociologists will make many of these connections from different perspectives, illustrating how abortion rights are fundamental matters of justice and freedom.
Chair:
Linda Gordon, New York University
Papers:
Enforcing Criminal Abortion Laws: Terror in the Name of Protection
Leslie J. Reagan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“We’re Not All Anti-choices”: How Controlling Images Shape Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy
Rocio R. Garcia, Arizona State University
Engaging Human Rights to Organize for Reproductive Justice
Zakiya Luna, Washington University in St. Louis
Abortion, Slavery, and the Archives of the Womb
Deirdre B. Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut at Storrs
Troubling Terms in the Sex Trades
Friday, January 5, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
Radical History Review proposes the roundtable, “Troubling Terms in the Sex Trades,” ahead of a related journal issue forthcoming in May 2024. Participants will include historians and sex worker activists who have contributed essays to the volume. In “lightning round” style, presenters will discuss terms, such as sex work, prostitute, harm reduction, and decriminalization in brief, 5-minute presentations. The presentations will highlight how these terms are historically shifting constructions, troubled by political and linguistic cultures of translation; and their differing contexts within academic research, activist strategies, or praxis such as healthcare, legal frameworks, policy making, or advocacy.
Chair:
Heidi E. Tinsman, University of California, Irvine
Speaker(s):
Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Katy M. Hemphill, University of Arizona
Kate Marquez, COYOTE
Eva Payne, University of Mississippi
Rachel Schreiber, New School
Judith R. Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
Christina Carney, University of Missouri.
Secrets and Lives: A Roundtable Discussion of Biography and History in the Cold War Americas
Friday, January 5, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Co-Sponsors: Radical History Review; Conference on Latin American History
Description:
This roundtable will bring together five historians to begin a discussion of the practice of biography and the place of individual lives in the history of the Cold War across the Americas. Our first speaker, Teresa Meade, will look at the Cold War–era activism of the Warsaw-born Jewish refugee Mia Truskier, who from her adoptive home of Berkeley campaigned on behalf of Central Americans fleeing violent counterrevolution in their home countries, repression that was sponsored by the U.S. government under President Ronald Reagan. The next contributor to our roundtable, Daniela Spenser, will discuss the Mexican labor leader and politician Lombardo Toledano, focusing on his trajectory beginning in the later 1940s with the outbreak of the Cold War, as his influence in Mexico was eroded and his Soviet sponsors increasingly turned their backs on him. Speaking third, Barbara Weinstein will trace the ideological trajectory of historian and social theorist Frank Tannenbaum, focusing on his increasingly tense relationships with friends and colleagues in Latin America (and particularly in Mexico) as anti-Americanism intensified during the Cold War. Next, James Woodard will introduce the legendary Brazilian thinker and militant Darcy Ribeiro, and in particular how his experience of the Popular Unity years in Chile (1970-1973) affected his larger scholarly and ideological trajectory, between his avowed radicalism of the 1960s and the social-democratic positions that he increasingly took in the late 1970s and after. The session will be chaired by A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, an accomplished historian of modern Colombian history currently at work on a biography of the sociologist Gabriel Restrepo (1946-). Thus, five individual lives provide geographic coverage spanning the Americas, from the United States to Chile, with additional connections farther afield, before, during, and after the Cold War. By bringing together the so-called biographical turn with the new history of the Cold War (heavily oriented to Asia, Africa, and Europe to date), the panel will speak directly to the interests of these two sizeable communities of scholars, as well as historians of the modern United States, Latin America, several individual Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico), and Central America. Comment from and debate with the audience should make for a lively 90-minute session, and for ensuing informal discussion among participants, in person, over email, and on social media.
Chair:
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Western Washington University
Panel:
Teresa A. Meade, Union College
Daniela Spenser, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Barbara Weinstein, New York University
James P. Woodard, Montclair State University
Radical History Strategy Meeting: Supporting Progressive Change during a Reactionary Racist Upsurge
Friday, January 5, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsored by Radical History Review
Chairs: Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Van E. Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6
America’s Cold Wars: Past and Present
Saturday, January 6, 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
By November 1989, it appeared that the tragic and costly Cold War had ended and a new era of peaceful international relations had begun. Yet 25-years later, US-Russian and US-Chinese relations had deteriorated, and we now appear to be in a new Cold War, different but perhaps more dangerous than the previous one. In this Roundtable we will examine the relationship between the two Cold Wars, considering whether aspects of the original Cold War might shed light on the present crisis
Chair:
Mary Nolan, New York University
Speaker(s):
Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
Peter J. Kuznick, American University
Is the United States Turning toward Fascism?
Saturday, January 6, 2024: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Parc 55, Market Street
Sponsor: American Historical Association; co-sponsor: Radical History Review
Description: Abstract for “Is the United States Turning Towards Fascism?”
In the latter half of the twentieth century, the word “fascism” was little more than a political epithet in everyday discourse and a category assigned to certain regimes, with long-running but arid debates over which governments met that standard besides Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. More recently, critics such as Umberto Eco have stressed that “fascism had no quintessence” but should be understood as “a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage… a beehive of contradictions.”
This roundtable recognizes that fascism is not a fixed category which may or may not apply to a particular historical instance. What matters is that the past decade has seen a remarkable revival of governments and movements displaying many of the tactics and tropes associated with fascism, including appeals to violence, contempt for legal and constitutional requirements, and xenophobic blood-and-soil nationalism. Sociological, philosophical, and journalistic analyses have proliferated about this new model of far-right politics in Hungary, India, Brazil, Turkey, the Philipines, Israel, and Russia, alternatively dubbed illiberal democracy, white nationalism, or authoritarian populism. In the United States, scholars have relied on the concept of white (or white Christian) nationalism to characterize the rise of Donald Trump, while pundits and journalists simply use the shorthand of “MAGA.”
This roundtable goes beyond these topical analyses to ask a more elemental question: is fascism, however defined, now a real possibility in the U.S., and if so, what are its historical origins? That a large, highly mobilized movement has pulled the Republican Party sharply to the right is indisputable. Whether that movement is moving towards fascism is an open question.
Our roundtable will interrogate this question as a series of related questions, including but not limited to:
- How did we get to the point that the rule of law is so seriously threatened?
- Is there a legacy of fascism rooted in the Jim Crow South, as W.E.B. Du Bois asserted in the 1930s?
- What is the historical relationship between white settler colonialism and herrenvolk democracy, in the U.S. and elsewhere, to fascism?
- Over the past century, the United States has seen a range of explicitly fascist organizations develop—what have been their connections or alliances with mainstream conservatism, whether of the Old or New Rights?
- How would a fascist United States actually function, versus current norms of electoral democracy, independent jurisprudence, and free speech?
- Did the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress embody a fascist impulse, however disorganized?
- Does fascism produce distinctive patterns of gender relations, and how have those developed inside U.S. society?
- If the U.S. turns further to the right but not fascist, how should we characterize it?
- Are there or will there be clear tipping points by which one could conclude the answer to our question is “yes,” or is this a process overdetermined by history, to be known only in retrospect?
The presenters and co-chairs are scholars with a deep engagement with these questions, and we expect an audience drawn from all parts of the discipline.
Chairs:
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Mary Nolan, New York University
Panel:
Carol Anderson, Emory University
Linda Gordon, New York University
David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley
Open Meeting: How Can Historians Defend Honest History?
Saturday, January 6, 2024 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55)
Labor Struggles in Contemporary Higher Education
Saturday, January 6, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description
Higher education is a dramatically growing arena of struggle around basic working conditions for a complex work force, around adequate resources for schools to teach to the needs of the society, and around the quality and accessibility of education for a diversity of students. These struggle are occurring in the face of a nihilistic, racist, and sexist right-wing offensive that is attempting to crush academic freedom, intellectual curiosity, and all that’s democratic in current education.This session explores a range of union and worker activism in higher education in the US, in a range of locations, and among a range of constituencies in this dire historical context,
The panelists are all activist leaders and intellectual commentators in various fields of higher educational struggle.
Chair:
Andor D. Skotnes, Russell Sage College
Presentations:
The Broad Sweep of Organizing in Higher Education Today
Helena Worthen, University of Illinois Labor Education Program, National Writers Union, and Higher Education Labor United
The Importance and Variety of Contingent Organizing
Joe Berry, City College of San Francisco and University of Illinois
Resisting the Culture Wars against Oklahoma Education
Marc C. Goulding, American Association of University Professors and the University of Central Oklahoma
Faculty Strikes in Higher Ed at Rutgers and Beyond
Donna Murch, American Association of University Professors, American Federation of Teachers, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Key Features of Educational Unionism in California
Charles Toombs, San Diego State University and California Faculty Association
Key Features of Educational Unionism in California
Theresa Montaño, California State University, Northridge, and California Teachers Association
Is Israel Turning Fascist?
Saturday, January 6, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Golden Gate 6 (Lobby, Hilton Union Square)
Sponsor: American Historical Association; co-sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
Extreme right-wing forces now rule Israel. Both the Israeli government and Israeli citizens have stepped up their attacks against Palestinians in the occupied territories as well as within Israel itself. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has simultaneously threatened the rights of Israeli citizens by, for example, undermining the power of the Supreme Court and bolstering that of the legislature where the Right exercises control. What do these developments mean? Do these changes represent a break with the past or a continuation or some of both? Is Israel turning toward fascism? This panel will address these questions by examining Israel’s past to understand the present.
Chair:
Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Papers:
Secular Roots of Jewish Messianist Fascism
Joel Beinin, Stanford University
The Past of the Present: A Historically Informed Mizrahi Perspective on the Current Political Moment in Israel
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Unexamined Roots of the Israeli Right
Liora R. Halperin, University of Washington, Seattle
How the Question of Palestine Exposes the Hollowness of Contemporary Western Morality
Ussama S. Makdisi, University of California, Berkeley
Teacher Educators, Teachers, and Activists Speak on Teaching Difficult Subjects in Contentious Times
Saturday, January 6, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
This roundtable brings together K-12 teachers, academics and school activists to discuss strategies for creating socially responsible curriculum (ones that can meet various state standards and be taught in public schools), finding ways to connect schools and the academy, to find innovative ways to contest the attack on public education, Social Studies and History education as well as how to organize and fight for greater support for public education.
Chair:
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Papers:
Teaching Difficult Truths
Alan Singer, Hofstra University
What We Are Teaching versus How Can We Teach?
Claire Meade-Skotnes, Bushwick Leadership High School for Academic Excellence
Teaching “Wokism” in DeSantis Land
J. Michael Butler, Flagler College
Responding to Public Pressure
John Staudt, Hofstra University and the Wheatley School
Educational Gag Orders and the Battle for Public Education
Jacqueline Allain, PEN America
DEI Means Meeting the Emotional and Educational Needs of All Students
Erin Hayden-Baldauf, Purdue University Fort Wayne
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
Working People’s Struggles against Capitalist Hegemony: Lessons from the Past to Better Understand the Present and Shape the Future
Sunday, January 7, 2024: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55) – Sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
This session examines 20th century working peoples’ struggles in the United States against capitalist hegemony with implications for understanding class and class conflict in the 21st century including worker and trade unions victories between 1934-1938; the rise and collapse of militant class-consciousness in the bituminous coalfields of Central Pennsylvania; the use of film to promote union activism and class-consciousness in the post-World War II period; and creative ways initiated by communists and socialists in the 1930s in unemployment work, community organizing, legal defense campaigns, cultural work, and perhaps most important of all and often overlapping the others, antiracist work.
Chair and Comment:
John Staudt, Hofstra University and the Wheatley School
Papers:
The People’s Front, the CPUSA, and the Great Working Class Upsurge, 1934–38
Norman Markowitz, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Class Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania during the 1920s
Alan Singer, Hofstra University
The Fight to Level the Playing Field In the Courts — From Haymarket to Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Michael Meeropol, Economist and Social Analyst.
Race and Class Struggles in the Early Depression-Era United States
Andor D. Skotnes, Russell Sage College
Washington State Resistance: Solidarity Politics and Racial Dynamics in the Pacific Northwest
Sunday, January 7, 2024: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Divisadero (Second, Parc 55)
Chair
Diana Johnson, California State University, San Bernardino
Papers:
Seattle in Mozambique: Third World Solidarity and the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO)
Diana Johnson, California State University, San Bernardino
Challenging Patriarchy within Black Power: The Leadership of Johnetta B. Cole at Washington State University in the Late 1960s
Marc Arsell Robinson, California State University, San Bernardino
Unsettled City: Migrant Workers and Seattle’s Urban Landscape
Megan Asaka, University of California, Riverside
Revolutionary Feminists: Women’s Liberation in Seattle
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Political Repression and Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future
Sunday, January 7, 2024: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Parc 55, Mission II
Sponsor: American Historical Association; co-sponsor: Radical History Review
Description:
With the 2024 election looming, conservative pundits and politicians are campaigning against supposedly “woke” universities. Nothing new here. For over a century, from the Gilded Age plutocrats’ crackdown on some professors’ support for labor unions to McCarthyism’s anti-communist blacklists to today’s war on higher education, the attacks on academia invariably center on the nation’s most explosive issues, targeting the professors who, it was feared, might threaten the status quo.
Our session will engage with the main issues the current wave of censorship presents as historians and citizens. Besides addressing Lenin’s still relevant question: “What Is To Be Done,?” our panelists will also ask:
How have America’s long-term struggles over racism, patriarchy, and economic inequality manifested themselves in the recurring campaigns to censor its classrooms?
How has the university invoked academic freedom to contend with political repression? And how does that concept relate to the First Amendment’s freedom of speech?
Finally, how does academic freedom, a century-old set of norms dependent on tenure, deal with such structural changes within the university as the introduction of collective bargaining and the growth of insecure faculties, 75% of whose members hold temporary and non-tenure track appointments?
The roundtable participants are all scholars and activists, deeply concerned about the above issues. Irene Mulvey is the president of the American Association of University Professors, while Donna Murch, the author of a prize-winning study of African American urban higher education, leads one of the AAUP’s most innovative collective bargaining chapters. Our other panelists, Valerie C. Johnson, an expert on D.E.I., Ruth, an authority on academic freedom, and Schrecker, who studies universities and political repression, are the co-editors of The Right to Learn: Resisting the War on Higher Education in an Endangered Democracy, a volume of essays to be published by the Beacon Press in 2024.
Chair:
Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College
Panel:
Valerie C. Johnson, DePaul University
Irene Mulvey, American Association of University Professors
Donna Murch, American Association of University Professors and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jennifer Ruth, Portland State University