As faculty members we support the statement, below, signed by 40 professors in the History Department.
As members of the History Department and the broader UNC campus community, we write to reaffirm our belief that the 1913 monument known as Silent Sam is a festering wound on the campus. Abundant historical research documenting its racist origins makes clear there is no place for such a monument on a campus that claims to welcome all of its diverse members. We support our student and colleague Maya Little and other members of the campus community who employ their right to use non-violent civil disobedience to protest this affront to the Carolina Way.
Altha Cravey, Geography
Sara Smith, Geography
Scott Kirsch, Geography
Andrew Curley, Geography
Betsy Olson, Geography
Sherryl Kleinman, Sociology (Emerita)
Neal Caren, Sociology
Trude Bennett, Public Health (Emerita)
Beth Moracco, Department of Health Behavior
Mara Buchbinder, Social Medicine
Barbara Friedman, School of Media and Journalism
Karen Booth, Women’s and Gender Studies
Tanya Shields, Women’s and Gender Studies
Ariana Vigil, Women’s and Gender Studies
Paul Jones, School of Information and Library Science
Beth Grabowski, Art
elin slavick, Art
Hong-An Truong, Art
Sabine Gruffat, Art
Victoria Rovine, Art and Art History
Cathy Zimmer, Odum Institute
Michael Palm, Communication
Rob Hamilton, Communication
Patricia Parker, Communication
Renée Alexander Craft, Communication & Global Studies
Natalia Chernysheva, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Priscilla Layne, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Eric Downing, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
George Noblit, School of Education
John McGowan, English
Maria DeGuzman, English
Elyse Crystall, English
Jennifer Ho, English
Inga Pollmann, Comparative Literature
Maxine Eichner, School of Law
Erika K. Wilson, School of Law
Deborah M. Weissman, School of Law
Patricia Sawin, American Studies
Sharon Holland, American Studies
Daniel M. Cobb, American Studies
Seth Kotch, American Studies
Glenn Hinson, Anthropology and American Studies
Arturo Escobar, Anthropology
Don Nonini, Anthropology
Margaret Wiener, Anthropology
Florence Babb, Anthropology
Chris Nelson, Anthropology
Jocelyn Chua, Anthropology
Townsend Middleton, Anthropology
Angela Stuesse, Anthropology, Global Studies, Latina/o Studies
Dylan J. Clark, Research Laboratories of Archaeology
Michal Osterweil, Global Studies
Allison DeMarco, FPG/School of Social Work
Deborah Barrett, School of Social Work
Anne Jones, School of Social Work
Josh Hinson, School of Social Work
Mary Anne Salmon, School of Social Work
Lauren Leve, Religious Studies
David Pier, African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Barbara Anderson, African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Maya Berry, African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Marc Lange, Philosophy
Gillian Russell, Philosophy
Susan Bickford, Political Science
Navin Bapat, Political Science
Rahsaan Maxwell, Political Science
Milada Anna Vachudova, Political Science and Global Studies
Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, Political Science
Frank R. Baumgartner, Political Science
Graeme Robertson, Political Science
Stephen Lich, Economics
Michael Behrent, History, Appalachian State University
