The Taskforce on Middle East Anthropology is pleased to announce a practical handbook for those facing politically motivated infringements on their teaching or scholarship:
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Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility after 9/11:
A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers
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Attempts to undermine professors' abilities to teach and do research are increasingly directed at scholars who seek to provide a contextualized and critical view of recent international developments and their interaction with US foreign policies and practices.
This handbook provides an overview of the range and nature of recent challenges to academic freedom and professional responsibility. It provides concrete suggestions for how to respond to such attacks and to avoid them in the first place. Utilizing research on institutions and interviews with academics, it considers the potentials and limitations of internal university structures, professional organizations, legal recourse, and media outlets. Finally, it contains useful pedagogical tools for dealing with difficulties in the classroom, and an informative bibliography of recent writings on academic freedom.
Please email us at taskforcehandbook@gmail.com if you would like to receive a free copy of the handbook.
Researched and written by: Tom Abowd, Fida Adely, Lori Allen, Laura Bier, Amahl Bishara, Christine Cuk, Rochelle Davis, Ilana Feldman, Rhoda Kanaaneh, Laurie King, Katayoun Sadeghi, & Jessica Winegar.
The Taskforce on Middle East Anthropology was founded in 2002. We are a group of anthropologists working to preserve a space for open discussion on the Middle East.