The following letter was sent to senior leadership and the Board of Trustees on January 11th encouraging them to rescind Giuliani’s 2005 honorary degree from Middlebury immediately.
We the undersigned members of the Middlebury AAUP believe it is extremely important to rescind the honorary degree awarded to Rudolph Giuliani in 2005. Both as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and as a political figure, Giuliani has helped to foment a fascistic movement that has undermined a fair and free election and recently attempted a violent takeover of the Capitol. We stand in solidarity with the members of the Middlebury Campus editorial board who are asking for the same.
It is imperative that Middlebury College distance itself from all leaders of this attempted coup as well as any entities that have helped to fund it.
Sincerely,
Laurie Essig, Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Peter Hans Matthews, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics
Marion A. Wells, Henry N. Hudson Professor of English and American Literatures
Christian Keathley, Walter J Cerf Professor of Film & Media Culture
Gloria Estela González Zenteno, Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies
Linus Owens, Associate Professor of Sociology
Karin Hanta, Director of the Feminist Resource Center at Chellis House
Mark Spritzer, Associate Professor of Biology
James Chase Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Priscilla Bremser, Nathan Beman Professor of Mathematics
Kevin Moss, Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages and Literature
Ellen Oxfeld, Professor of Anthropology
Antonia Losano, Professor of English and American Literatures
Kerstin Wilsch, Director of School in Jordan
Ellery Foutch, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Maggie Clinton, Associate Professor, History Department
Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies
David Miranda Hardy, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Culture
Jacob Tropp, Professor of History and John Spencer Professor of African Studies
Sarah Rogers, Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Olga Sanchez Saltveit, Assistant Professor of Theatre
Andrew Fieldhouse, Assistant Professor of Economics
Hemangini Gupta, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Michael Sheridan, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies
Justin Doran, Assistant Professor of Religion
William Poulin-Deltour, French & Francophone Studies
Carolyn Craven, Associate Professor of Economics
Pamela Berenbaum, Professor of the Practice of Global Health
Natalie Figueroa ‘18, Admissions Counselor
William Pyle, F. C. Dirks Professor of International Economics
Brandon Baird, Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies & Linguistics
John Spackman, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Otilia Milutin, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies
Robert Cohen, Professor of English and American Literatures
Shelby Kimmel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Holly Allen, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Matthew Walker, Assistant Professor of Russian
Tanya Byker, Assistant Professor of Economics
David Dorman, Professor of Mathematics
Louisa Burnham, Professor of History
James L. Fitzsimmons, Professor of Anthropology
Hedya Klein, Fletcher Professor of the Arts, Studio Art
James E. Berg, Associate Professor of English and American Literatures
Erin Eckhold Sassin, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Matthew Lawrence, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Julie Hoyenski, Assistant Manager, Event Management
Katie Gillespie, Associate Director for Research Compliance
James Calvin Davis, George Adams Ellis Professor of Liberal Arts & Religion
Julia Berazneva, Assistant Professor of Economics
Eilat Glikman, Frank Winkler Professor of Astrophysics
Erin Eggleston, Assistant Professor of Biology
Carrie Anderson, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Jenn Ortegren, Assistant Professor of Religion
Patricia Zupan, C.A. Dana Professor of Italian
Ananya Das Christman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Charlotte X. C. Sullivan, Social Entrepreneurship Associate
Jamie McCallum, Associate Professor of Sociology
Michael Olinick, Professor of Mathematics
Amy Holbrook, Academic Coordinator, Economics Department
Greg Pask, Assistant Professor of Biology
Amy Tondu, Associate Director School in France
Genie Nicole Giaimo, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Florence Feiereisen, Associate Professor of German
Tara L. Affolter, Associate Professor of Education Studies, Director of Education Studies
Roberto Lint Sagarena, Professor of American Studies, Director of AFC/CCSRE
Nicolas Poppe, Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies
Daniel F. Silva, Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Director of Black Studies,
Director of Twilight Project
Héctor J. Vila, Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric, Director of Privilege & Poverty
Danielle Stillman, Rabbi and Associate Chaplain
David Wick, Associate Professor of International Education Management, Middlebury Institute
Melissa A. Hammerle, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies
Lisa Gates, Associate Dean for Fellowships and Research
Jonathan Isham, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
Jim Butler, Professor Of Studio Art
Michelle Leftheris, Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Molly Costanza-Robinson, Anderson Professor of Environmental and Biosphere Studies, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Chair of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Susan DeSimone, Associate Laboratory Professor of Biology
Cynthia Packert, Christian A.Johnson Professor, History of Art
Rebecca Kneale Gould, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Linda White, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
Jeffrey Carpenter, James Jermain Professor of Political Economy
Joyce Mao, Associate Professor of History
Michele Dubé, Laboratory Instructor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Dept.
Tracy Himmel Isham, Associate Director, Center for Careers & Internships
Sam Liebhaber, Associate Professor of Arabic
Lynn Eisler-LeBeau, Facilities
Eliza Garrison, Professor, Department of History of Art & Architecture
Yumna Siddiqi, Associate Professor of English and American Literature
Akhil Rao, Assistant Professor of Economics
Heidi Grasswick, Professor of Philosophy
Daniel Chiu Suarez, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Laurel Jenkins, Assistant Professor and Chair of Dance
Andrea Vaccari, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Guntram Herb, Professor and Chair of Geography
Rebecca Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History
Paula Schwartz, Lois B. WatsonProfessor of French and Francophone Studies
Fernando Rocha, Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies
Brenda Ellis, Sr. Research & Instruction Librarian
Terry Simpkins, Library, Director of Discovery and Access Services
Catharine Wright, Associate Professor Writing & Rhetoric and GSFS
Kemi Fuentes-George, Associate Professor Political Science