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Follow-up email to administration, sent on September 4th:
Dear All,
Nearly 400 people (current students, former students, alum, faculty, and community members) have signed our Call to Action, in the 9 days since we sent it to you. Yet the University has not issued a public statement to address or even acknowledge our demands. Instead, faculty and staff on diversity committees have scanned the list of signatories and singled out individual students, asking them to meet one-on-one. The silence on the part of the administration and the individual emails sent by faculty and staff reflect one of the key points raised in the statement: that the University of Chicago fails to recognize how racism is endemic to the institution, as it relegates issues of race to small subcommittees and individual staff members. We are calling upon the administration to publicly respond to our Call to Action with details about how the University of Chicago plans to act on our demands.
Short of a public response, we can only assume that the University of Chicago does not value Black graduate students.
A Call to Action from University of Chicago Black Graduate Students
In response to the most recent (re)commitments by the University to racial justice, the faculty affiliates of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture issued a Call To Action highlighting several concrete ways the University has failed to confront its own racist and hierarchical practices. The faculty letter lays bare how the University has left the CSRPC to languish without proper support, most notably in the failure to secure a Director, while simultaneously touting the Center (and the work of the faculty, staff and students who comprise its body) as a site of progressive and cutting-edge research on race. Without properly examining how the University itself has maintained systems of racial disparity—both within its walls and in the surrounding South Side Chicago community—its consistently vague language of diversity and inclusion will continue to ring hollow.
As Black Graduate students at UChicago, we stand in solidarity with the faculty’s action, while also taking this moment to express concerns and needs unique to our position. But even our identification indicates a problem: absent the creation of a proper Critical Race Studies departments or formal space for Black Graduate students, the CSRPC has unfairly become the de facto centripetal force bringing us together. Among other obstacles, the University’s decentralized structure has inhibited the tasks of streamlining social support and mutual aid among its Black graduate students. As students associated with the Center, we are primarily located in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and cannot claim in full to represent the unique hurdles faced by Black students in the Biological Science Division, Physical Science Division, professional schools, or master’s programs.
If the University is to legitimately confront its own perpetuation of racial hierarchies, it must account for the difficulties faced by Black graduate students across its campus. Its rhetoric of diversity and inclusion is inadequate to redress the lived experiences of the 78 percent of Black UChicago community members who have been discriminated against and, per the 2016 Climate Survey, have “considered not recommending the University to a prospective member of our community.” The shortcomings of this inquiry aside, these numbers are higher than those for any other racial/ethnic group, and our call is for the University to address the detrimentally anti-Black campus climate not only for our own sake but also for Black people who may be affiliated with UChicago in the future.
We must also emphasize that Black people who have a relationship with this campus are not limited to students, faculty and staff of the University, but are also our neighbors in the Hyde Park and Woodlawn communities. With UChicago’s numerous building projects and aggressive physical expansion, many more people become ensnared by this campus unwillingly and as a result of University of Chicago Police Department’s enforcement of its encroaching borders. We call on the University to take the opinions, thoughts, and needs of this part of the campus community into account. If the University is truly committed to enacting sustainable changes that adequately reckon with its perpetuation of racial disparity, then it must attend to the concerns of the people who have been most brutally impacted by UChicago’s continuous projects of gentrification and policing.
Due to the lack of a coordinated team devoted to the issues of Black graduate students—and those of graduate students of color more broadly— we have had to improvise our own social and scholarly support systems. But without institutional support, these initiatives (e.g. the Transcending Boundaries Symposium, and various “peer mentoring” programs) lack the capacity to serve graduate students of color across campus. It is embarrassing that students at such a wealthy and prestigious university should have to hound departments for funds to recognize the research, work, achievements, and basic humanity of graduate students of color. The lack of robust staffing and dedicated funding, supplemented with vague language around diversity and inclusion, signals that the university does not value the work of the Black scholars on which it has become so heavily dependent. Even so, many of us have dedicated our time and energy to efforts we hope will improve the campus climate for Black students (graduate, undergraduate, and professional), both with and without the promise of pay or recognition. We have recruited students and mentored them because no one else would.
Too often, Black graduate students have had our labor appropriated into causes meant to better our own conditions. We serve on search committees and diversity boards, mentor other graduate students of color, recruit prospective students, and even support faculty when they, too, become tired from doing many of these same forms of labor. In short, both with respect to CSRPC and beyond, Black graduate students have been asked to sustain the very systems, programs and people that were originally meant to sustain us.
Additionally, we condemn the termination of the Special Trustee’s Program, which provided central funding for under-represented minority doctoral students. This directly contradicts the University’s supposed commitment to diversity, and it jeopardizes not only the recruitment of graduate students of color, but also their retention. Many of us know at least one Black graduate student who did not complete their program primarily due to the stress and exhaustion of navigating this university. With the withdrawal of this pool of funding, the university has rescinded one of its few material measures of sustaining the work of its Black doctoral students.
We agree with and support the demands issued by CSRPC faculty affiliates; we recognize that the University also conscripts graduate students into forms of labor that conceal the gap between its stated ideals and practices. Standing in solidarity with the faculty, we further demand that the University:
standard admissions processes are often compromised by anti-Black bias, and that studying race and experiencing anti-Black racism are fundamentally different problems that require different commitments
We would withhold our labor from all diversity initiatives and pedagogical activities (e.g. teach Critical Race Studies or Black Studies courses, lead workshops, invite outside scholars for talks, serve on hiring committees, etc.) in pursuit of these demands, were it not for our material needs and precarious positions as Black graduate students. But, we have to navigate hierarchical power relations to faculty, on which our funding and matriculation is often dependent; we instruct and support undergraduates, whose time here is both crucial and especially short; we still need to build skills, experiences, and relationships in order to sustain our intellectual work. Our investments are complex, and the difficulty we experience in outlining action items underscores our precarity.
What we will do
This University has come to rely heavily on our unrecognized labor, and we will withhold the following if these demands are not met.
to be touted through UChicago channels
We are asking for more than the removal of a brick. We are seeking a shift in the foundation.
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Signed by:
Black Graduate Students at the University of Chicago
Avery LaFlamme, PhD Student, Department of Cinema & Media Studies
Marcus Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Cameron Cook, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Matthew Johnson, Alum, Divinity School
Tiant D’Andre Holloway, Alum, Divinity School
LaShaya Howie, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
W. Danielle Jones, PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature
Allen Louis Linton II, Current Graduate Student, Department of Political Science
Kelsye Turner, Former Student, Department of Anthropology
Zoë Smith, PhD student, Department of English
Hilary N. Tackie, Doctoral Student, Department of Comparative Human Development
Jordie Davies, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Kevin Irakoze, Current Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy
Jasmine H Benjamin, Alum, Department of Political Science
Paul Cato, PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought
Christy Monet, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Justin Scott Douglas, AM/MPP Student, SSA & Harris Public Policy
Eilin Perez, PhD Candidate, Department of History
Terri Smith, PhD student, Department of Political Science
Caine Jordan, PhD Candidate, Department of History
Andrew Stock, PhD student, Department of Music
Korey Williams, PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature
Jordan Kemp, PhD Student, Department of Physics
Angel Boulware, Current Graduate Student, Department of Human Development
Ashley Truehart, PhD Student, Department of Cinema & Media Studies
Joel Rhone, PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature
Kaila Scott-Charles, Graduate Student, Department of Psychology
Ayan Kassim, Former PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
Alysia Mann Carey, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science
Alex Haskins, Alum, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College
Guy Emerson Mount, Alum, Assistant Professor, Auburn University, Department of History (UChicago PhD '18)
Rachel Chery, PhD Student, Department of Music
Binta Ka, Current Graduate Student, MSW, School of Social Service Administration
Crystal Holmes, Alum, M.A. Department of Political Science
Durrell Malik Washington Sr., PhD Student, School of Social Service Administration
Jazmine Harris, Alum Graduate Alum/Teaching Fellow, Visual Arts
Vincent Haynes, Current Graduate Student, Department of Visual Arts
Danielle Wright, Master of Fine Arts Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts
Marcus Board, Alum Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, African American Studies
Kirah Nelson, Current Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
Darlington Nwaudo, MD Candidate, Pritzker School of Medicine
Chanel Prince, Alum, MAPSS
Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield, PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature
John Jacob Burns, Current Graduate Student, Harris School of Public Policy, The Divinity School
William Wagstaff, Current Graduate Student, G5, MSTP/ISTP/CCB
Jonathan D. Wegner, Current Graduate Student, Divinity
Haynes Stephens, Graduate research assistant, Department of Geophysical Sciences
Kristen Simmons, PhD Candidate, Indigenous Ally, Department of Anthropology
Kai Parker, Alum, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Religious Studies
Elaine Kouame, Current Graduate Student, Biological sciences Division
Resney Gugwor, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development
Dinayuri Rodriguez, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
Emily R. Bock, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Genevieve Bates, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Makina Moses, Graduate Student, Department English of English Language and Literature
Kaya Williams, Alum, Anthropology
Nova Smith, PhD Candidate, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Christina Roman, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Karma Frierson, Alum, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, African & African-American Studies
David Zegeye, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jalisha Jenifer, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology
Tiya Bolton, PhD Student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Christien Tompkins, Alum, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Anthropology
Zakiya Harris, Master’s Student, SSA
Jenn M. Jackson, Alum, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Department of Political Science
Margaret Beale Spencer, Professor, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Joash M. Lake, Biological Sciences Division
Aneesah Ettress, MDiv, University of Chicago, Divinity Student
Gabrielle Bozarth, JD-PhD Student, Department of Political Science
DeQuantarius Speed, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, BSD
Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Alum, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
Dilara K. Üsküp (Phd 2018 & PhD, 2018), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for HIV Prevention, Identification, & Treatment Services
Sharad Crosby, Program Administrator, University of Chicago, UChicago Global
Briahna Williams, AM Student, SSA
Foster J. Pinkney, PhD Candidate, Religious Ethics
Nathalie Barton, PhD Candidate, Department of History
Ashley J. Finigan, PhD Candidate, Department of History
Lauren Michele Jackson, Alum, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, English
James Skretta, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Music
Fern Ramoutar, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Julius L. Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Kellyn Lewis, MA, U Chicago Divinity School
Brandon Sherrrod, Alum, University of Chicago Alumnus, Department of Visual Arts
Marion Malcome, PhD Candidate, School of Social Service Administration
Michael Ralph, Alum, Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
Brooke Miller, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Neurobiology
Keshia Harris, Alum, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Boston University, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development (PhD '18)
Samra Girma, Divinity MA
Barbara Holt, Former Student, History
In Support and Solidarity
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour, PhD Student, UChicago, Departments of Anthropology & Comparative Human Development
Hanna Pickwell, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago Department of Anthropology
Agnes Mondragon, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Saadia Mirza, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Agatha Slupek, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Steven Schwartz, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Caroline Sequin, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College, History (UChicago PhD '19)
David Kretz, Ph.D. student, University of Chicago, Germanic Studies & Committee on Social Thought
Anne K. Knafl, Bibliographer for Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, Library
Ray Noll, Department of Political Science and Anthropology, UChicago
Rachel Howard, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Mathew Perez-Neut, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division
Sophia Rhee, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Amulya Mandava, Amulya Mandava, Harvard University Department of Anthropology
Samantha Scott, friend of a Black grad student at UChicago
Geneva Cole, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Owen Kohl, Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Chicago, Global Studies; Department of Anthropology alum
Larry Svabek, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
Samantha Pellegrino, PhD student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Tanima, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology
Kenzell Huggins, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Linsin Smith, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, GGSB
Anneilis Cunningham, Relative of alum
Lilly Judge, UChicago Department of Political Science
Gabby Mahabeer, Current undergrad student
Reyna Hernandez, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Grigory Gorbun, Department of Anthropology
Alfredo González, Alum, Assistant Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills, Chicana & Chicano Studies
Betsy Priem, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Walker Gunning, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Political Science
Eva Pensis, PhD Candidate, Music/Theatre and Performance Studies
Simon Shachter, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Sociology Department
Manisha Krishnan, Biological sciences Division
Timothy Steeves, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Sophie Fajardo, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Sociology
Kenneth Pass, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology
lauren beard, Department of Sociology
Paula Martin, PhD candidate, department of comparative human development, and alum of SSA
Karlia Brown, Graduate Student, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology
Christopher Williams, Graduate Student, Sociology
Hannah Eisler Burnett, PhD Candidate, UChicago Department of Anthropology
Maya Van Nuys, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
Kelsey Robbins, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development
Andrew Seber, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Bridgette Davis, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Abhishek Bhattacharyya, PhD candidate, SALC and Anthropology
Gregory Valdespino, PhD Candidate, History Department, University of Chicago
Wei Quan, Physics
Hunter Kennedy, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Yasser Ali Nasser, PhD Candidate, History Department
Lex Ladge, PhD Student, Department of Art History
Ji Yea Hong, Anthropology
Uday Jain, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
Silvia Fedi, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Damien Bright, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Christopher Stamper, PhD student, Biological Sciences Division
Ilana McQuinn, Alum, Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College, History
Janet Connor, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Anthropology and Linguistics
Roy Kimmey, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Corbin Page, PhD Candidate, History
Selena Zhong, PhD Student, Sociology
Robert Suits, PhD Candidate, History
Claire Hautot, PhD Student, Divinity School
Lisa Lin, Current undergraduate, Physics
Pratiti Deb, University of Chicago, Department of Physics
Carly KleinStern, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Physics
Liza Mulder, PhD Student, Department of Physics
Natalie Smith, Phd Candidate, University of Chicago History Department
Lucas Beaufore, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Kaeli Hughes, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Naa Asheley Ashitey, Undergraduate, 4th Year, The College, Creative Writing
Sarah Levenstam, PhD student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Stephanie Ternullo, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Zachary Klamann, Graduate Student, Political Science
A. Marie Houser, Current Graduate Student
Sasha Crawford-Holland, PhD student, University of Chicago, Department of Cinema & Media Studies
Basil Dababneh, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Yukun Zeng, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Jonathan Karsch, PhD student, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Sandy Hunter, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Katie Aracena, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Human Genetics
Matthew Knisley, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Leah Weiss, Postdoctoral Scholar, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Vincente Perez, Alum, PhD Student in Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
Bianca DiGiovanni, PhD Student, UChicago, Political Science
Nina Coyle, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Joshua Babcock, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Dylan Bellisle, Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Service Administration
Lily Ye, PhD candidate, UChicago, CHD
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD Candidate, Art History; ‘AB 2013
Kim Meidenbauer, Alum, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology
Barbara Veletegui, 44 year high school teacher, Bellevue Wa
Sophie Reichert, PhD candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Zoe Berman, PhD Candidate, UChicago, Comparative Human Development
Niklas Plaetzer, PhD student, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
Jacob Secor, PhD Student, UChicago, Music
Rowan Kelly, Alum, Masters of Social Sciences, Sociology
Noa Neumark, University of Chicago, Sociology
Jill Rosenberg, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division
DeNeatria Robinson, Employer Relations Manager, SSD MA Career Services
Umang Mehta, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Physics
Corinne Kasper, Linguistics
Brian Metzger, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Chicago, Ecology and Evolution
Sarah Zuniga, MDiv, Divinity School
Harini Kumar, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Salman Safir, Graduate Student, Divinity School
Taylor Mills, JD & PhD dual degree student, Michigan State University; Law & Philosophy
Samantha Maza, PhD Student, University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
Julia Rossi, PhD student, English Department
Arianna Gass, PhD Student, English and Theater & Performance Studies
Rina Sugawara, PhD Student, UChicago Dept. of Music
Natalie Dowling, PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Sneha Annavarapu, Postdoctoral fellow, UChicago, Sociology
Dave Burnham, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Shubham Shivang, PhD Student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies & Department of Anthropology
Matt Hubbell, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Zain Jamshaid, Cinema and Media Studies, PhD Candidate
Katerina Korola, PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies
Louis Varriano, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Department of Physics
Aurore Spiers, PhD Candidate, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Evan Wisdom-Dawson, PhD student, Department of English
Maggie Sivit, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Sophia Walker, PhD student, Departments of Cinema & Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Moira O'Shea, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Ryan Campagna, PhD Student, UChicago, English
Miriam Midoun, Doctoral Student, Department of Comparative Human Development
K. Bellamy Mitchell, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought and Department of English
Gary Kafer, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Tien-Tien Jong, Graduate Student, Cinema and Media Studies
Shekinah Thornton, Staff, Department Assistant, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Tyler Schroeder, Humanities Teaching Fellow, Cinema and Media Studies
Madison Chapman, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of English
Judy Hoffman, Professor of Practice in the Arts, University of Chicago, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Ritika Kaushik, PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies
Marcus McGee, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
Pedro Noel Doreste, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Leslie Wilson, Alum, Curatorial Fellow at Smart Museum, and Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY Purchase
Jenisha Borah, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
C. Alex Jones, Research Assistant, Getty Research Institute, Modern and Contemporary Collections
Sarah-Gray Lesley, PhD Student, UChicago English
Sophie Lynch, PhD Student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Jenny Harris, Phd Student, University of Chicago, Department of Art history
Yao Ong, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Department of English
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Graduate Program Director, Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Department
Samuel Baudinette, PhD Candidate, University or Chicago Divinity School
Wally Hilke, Former Student, BA 2011
mariah webber, phd student, ucsb, feminist studies
Kelly Holob, PhD student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Laura Caicedo, PhD student, Cornell University, English Lit&Lang Department
Margaret Love, Assistant Professor, North Carolina Wesleyan College, English (MAPH graduate)
Bradley Hansen, Divinity School
Marisa Mercurio, PhD Student, Michigan State University, English Department
Wolfgang Boehm, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Caroline Leffert, Former Student, Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Sociology
Nikki Grigg, PhD Student, UChicago, Anthropology
Natalia Piland, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Niuniu Teo, PhD at University of Chicago, History
Benjamin Blanchard, Alum, Committee on Evolutionary Biology
Amélie Ng Pavel, Alum, English and Creative Writing BA/MAPH Class of 2020
Ella Wilhelm, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Germanic Studies
Virginia J. White, PhD Student, Divinity School
Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Communications Studies
Enrique Dávila, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Brenda (Bz) Zhang, MArch ‘19, University of California, Berkeley, Architecture
Sabrina Craig, Assistant Director, External Engagement Programs, UChicago Arts
Sophie Lynch, PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies
Erin McCullugh, PhD Candidate, Department of History
Francesca Lambert, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Nicole Morse, PhD 2018, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Emma Gilheany, Anthropology Dept
Emma Pask, Doctoral Student, Uchicago, CHSS/ANTH
Zachary Yost, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Matthew Borus, PhD student, Department of Sociology and School of Social Service Administration
Richard Hooper, MAPH alum, University of Chicago, School of the Humanities
Brianna, citizen
Lauren Sutherland, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Micere Keels, Associate Professor, UofC, Comparative Human Development
Rita Rodriguez, Master of Divinity Candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School
Jacqueline Stewart, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Dominique Bluher, Lecturer. Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Graham Steffen, PhD Student, university of Chicago, Comparative Human Development
Santiago Herrera, PhD Candidate, Ecology & Evolution
Daniel Morgan, Professor, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Anthony Santiago, Theater and Programs Manager, Arts and Public Life
Luke Clohisy, Alum, A.M. Social Work, 2020; A.B. Psychology 2018
Emily Verburg, MSW, School of Social Service Administration
Anna B. Gatdula, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Music
Liliana Schiller, Master's Student, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Zach Loeffler, Faculty, HTF, Music
Rebekah Rosenfeld, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School
Xiang-yu Ma, PhD student, University of Chicago, Sociology
Claudia Sandoval, Alum, Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Political Science Department
Sean Guynes, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University, Department of English
Lee Jasperse, PhD Student, U Chicago, English
Mood Sudcharoen, Anthropology
Virginia J. White, PhD Student, Divinity School
Xaviera Simmons, Artist, Xaviera Simmons Studio
D. N. Rodowick, Cinema and Media Studies, and Visual Arts
Sean Batton, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Chris Taylor, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, English
Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor, English, University of Chicago
Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Meike Lobb-Rabe, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, BSD
Natacha Nsabimana, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Kaneesha Parsard, Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
Sophia Azeb, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Tanya Desai, PhD student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
M Vanderpoel, Teaching Fellow, University or Chicago, Divinity School and the College
Maria Smith, University of Chicago Department of Mathematics, B.S. 2016
Jamie Countryman, PhD Candidate, UChicago, Anthropology
Emma Morris, former Receiving and Rapid Cataloging Assistant, Regenstein Library
Rivky Mondal, University of Chicago, Department of English
Joel Sutherland, PHD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
Rachel George, PhD Student, The University of Chicago, Anthropology
Anita Maddali, MDiv student, University of Chicago Divinity School
Ian Blaise Cipperly, PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
Zoya Sameen, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Department of History
Laura L. Sullivan, Ph.D. Student, University of Memphis, Department of Communication
Julia Teel
Sthira Bhattacharya, PhD student, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Camille Debreczeny, AM, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Thomas Lamarre, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Nahomi Esquivel, PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
Leora Auslander, Professor, University of Chicago, History
Solveig Nelson, PhD, University of Chicago, Art History
Merril Doty, MA, DePaul, Education
James F. Lastra, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and English
Yuanyuan Zhang, Postdoc Associate, University of Chicago, KICP
Kyra Auslander, AM Student, UChicago School of Social Service Administration
James Annis, Parent of two alums, Senior Scientist, Fermilab
Robert Vargas, Associate Professor, UChicago sociology
James Bridgeforth, PhD student, University of Southern California, Urban Education Policy
Camille Morgan, Asst. Director, University of Chicago, Leadership Development and Strategy
Paul Williams, Undergraduate Alum, Physics AB 2015, PhD Candidate, Northwestern, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Won Joon (Kevin) Lee, Alum, A.M. University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administrations
Ben Zucker, PhD candidate, Northwestern University, Music
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Courtney Gray, Former Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago
Imeña Valdes, Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Haley Carter, PhD student, Plant Biology and Conservation, Northwestern University
Sofia Smith, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Political Science
Ana Rosado, Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University, History
emily howe, A.B. 2011; Current Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh
Victoria Abou-Ghalioum, PhD student at Ohio State University
Sarah McDaniel, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Department of English
Andrea Oranday, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
j. greenbaum, Alum, graduate student, uc berkeley, political science
Matthew Lang, Alum, University of Chicago Press
Michael Stablein, Jr., Joint-PhD Student, University of Chicago, TAPS/English
Hannah Norwood, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration
Shannon Sheu, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences
Neomi Rao, PhD Student, Department of Political Science
Anya Metzer, Alum, MAPH 2016
Alyson Paige Warren, Faculty at Loyola U., Columbia College, Adjunct Instructor, English/Writing, LUC, CCC
Gregory Montoya-Mora, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Hilary Strang, senior lecturer & director of MAPH
Talia Gordon, Talia Gordon, PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
Josh Stadtner, PhD Student, English
Jason McGraw, Alum, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University
Jonathan Schoots, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Sociology Department
Denis Hirschfeldt, Professor, University of Chicago, Mathematics
Dominique Oppenheimer, MA Student, The University of Chicago, SSA
Esha Bandyopadhyay, PhD, University of Chicago, Human Genetics,
Liz Chavez, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Sociology
Fiona Boyd, PhD Student, Department of Music
Mercy Loyo, Alum, University of Chicago, Public Policy
Alexandra Warren, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences
Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Chicago
Benjamin Ruder, Manager - Film & Technical Operations, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center
Maggie Hennefeld, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Brett Swinney, Community Art Engagement Manager, UChicago, Arts + Public Life
Caroline N. Bayne, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
Joshua Yumibe, Professor, Michigan State University
Honey Crawford, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies
Judy Hoffman, University of Chicago, Professor of Practice in the Arts, Cinema and Media Studies
Will Cabaniss, AB '18, University of Chicago, History
Andrew Johnston, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Assistant Professor, Divinity
Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
Sandra Park, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Gina E Miranda Samuels, School of Social Service Administration
Deborah Nelson, Professor of English, University of Chicago
Tomal Hossain, PhD Student, UChicago, Music
Claire Bowman, PhD candidate, University of Chicago department of anthropology
Jack Chelgren, PhD Student, English / GSU Member
Dinayuri Rodriguez, PhD student, Department of Anthropology
Michael van der Naald, PhD Student and GSU Organizer, University of Chicago, Physics
Adam Fales, PhD Student, UChicago, English