Author Biographies
(In alphabetical order)
Ann E. Austin
Ann E. Austin is a Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at
Michigan State University, where she also serves as Director of the Global
Institute for Higher Education. Her scholarly interests focus on faculty
careers, roles, and professional development, work and workplaces in
academe, organizational change and transformation in universities and
colleges, reform in doctoral education, and the improvement of teaching and
learning in higher education. She also is Co-Principal Investigator of the
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), a
National Science Foundation Center focused on improving the preparation of
future faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics. She was a Fulbright
Fellow in South Africa (1998) and the 2001–02 President of the Association
for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Her recent publications include
Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative (authored
with J. Gappa and A. Trice, 2007), and Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for
Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty (co-edited with D. Wulff), as well as
work on doctoral education and higher education issues in developing
countries.
Ernst Benjamin
Ernst Benjamin is a senior consultant to the AAUP and a consultant member
of the AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Prior to his
retirement he served AAUP twice as General Secretary (2006–08 and 1984–
94) and as Director of Research (1995–2001). Benjamin taught at Wayne
State University from 1965 to 1984 where he was AAUP chapter chief
negotiator, chapter president 1975–79, and a director and dean (1981–84).
He was chair of the national AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress (1976–80)
and a member of the AAUP National Council. His publications include ”
Academic Freedom: An Everyday Concern” (with Don Wagner), 1994; and
Exploring the Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate Learning,
2004; and Academic Collective Bargaining (ed. with Michael Mauer), 2006.
Jan H. Blits
Jan H. Blits is professor, University Honors Faculty, at the University of
Delaware. He, along with Linda Gottfredson, received FIRE’s first Prometheus
Award for “uncovering and challenging the repressive residence life program
at the University of Delaware.” His most recent book is New Heaven, New
Earth: Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” (Lexington Books, 2009).
Nancy D. Campbell
Nancy D. Campbell, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of
Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a
historian of science and policy who specializes in the history of drug addiction
research, treatment, and policy in the 20th century United States. Her most
recent books were Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance
Abuse Research (2007) and, with co-authors JP Olsen and Luke Walden, The
Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts
(2008). She was elected Recording Secretary of the Rensselaer Faculty
Senate in April 2007.
Dan Colson
Dan Colson is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He studies American anarchism and anti-
democratic literature from the first half of the twentieth century.
Ashley Dawson
Ashley Dawson is associate professor of English at the City University of New
York’s Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is the
author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial
Britain (Michigan, 2007) and co-editor of three essay collections: Democracy,
the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge, 2009); Dangerous
Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (Michigan,
2009); and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New
Imperialism (Duke, 2007). He is also a member of the Social Text editorial
collective. He blogs at ashleyjdawson.com
Phillip Deery
Phillip Deery teaches American history and Cold War history at Victoria
University, Melbourne. In 2009 he was awarded a fellowship at the Frederic
Ewen Academic Freedom Center at New York University, where he conducted
research for this article. He has published widely on the early Cold War and is
currently completing a co-authored book on Cold War espionage to be
published in 2010.
John M. Elmore
John Elmore’s principal specialization is in the areas of critical pedagogy and
social justice issues in education and he primarily teaches in the foundations
of education courses. While originally from Kansas, Dr. Elmore spent five
years as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Medaille
College in Buffalo, NY before joining the faculty at West Chester University.
He has investigated and written on the corporate model of higher education
and is currently completing a manuscript that investigates the impact of
employing authoritarian education in a democratic society. Dr. Elmore holds a
BA degree in history education (1995) and a BS degree in psychology (1996)
from Kansas Wesleyan University, a MS degree in secondary education
(1997), a graduate certificate in women’s studies (1999), and a PhD in
Curriculum and Instruction (2000) from Kansas State University.
Robert P. Engvall
Robert Engvall is a professor of justice studies at Roger Williams University in
Bristol, Rhode Island. He holds PhD and JD degrees from the University of
Iowa, and a BA from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research
interests focus upon various marginalization, professionalization, and social
justice issues within higher education. He has written four books and
numerous articles and book chapters on similar topics. His most recent book,
The Corporatization of Higher Education, will be published by Hampton Press in
late 2009 or early 2010.
Judith M. Gappa
Judith M. Gappa has spent her career as an university administrator and
faculty member. She is currently Professor Emerita at Purdue University. She
served as Director of Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity at Utah State
University (1975–80); Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty at San
Francisco State University (1980–91); and Vice President for Human Relations
at Purdue University (1991–98). From 1998 to 2006 she was Professor of
Higher Education Administration in the Department of Educational Studies at
Purdue University. Her research and publications have covered equity and
faculty employment issues in higher education. She has co-authored two
books: The Invisible Faculty (1993) with David Leslie, and Rethinking Faculty
Work: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative (2007) with Ann Austin and
Andrea Trice.
Libby Garland
Libby Garland is Assistant Professor of History at Kingsborough Community
College, the City University of New York.
Larry Gerber
Larry G. Gerber, Professor Emeritus of History, Auburn University, is now
serving for a second time as chair of the AAUP Committee on College and
University Governance. He also previously served three terms as First Vice
President of the AAUP. He is the author of two books, The Limits of Liberalism
and The Irony of State Intervention and numerous articles on twentieth
century United States policy history and college and university governance.
Gerber obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and
taught for the University of Maryland, University of Arizona, and Brown
University before going to Auburn. He has also been a visiting professor at
Lakehead University in Canada and the Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu
in Finland.
Jean Gregorek
Jean Gregorek is currently a Morgan Fellow at the newly-independent Antioch
College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and is working towards the College’s re-
opening in the fall of 2011. Jean was an Associate Professor of Literature and
Cultural Studies at Antioch College, where she taught for fourteen years.
When the College was closed she became one of the many founders of the
Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute. She can be reached at jean.gregorek@gmail.
com.
Jane Koretz
Jane F. Koretz is a Professor in the Department of Biology, and the
Biochemistry and Biophysics Program. She received her PhD in Biophysics
from the University of Chicago, and was a MDAA Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
MRC Biophysics Unit, King’s College, London, before joining the faculty at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has been awarded a Fulbright to the
University of Oxford and a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service
Award from NIH for her work on the human focusing process and the
development of presbyopia. She was a member of the Palazzo/Kagan
Committee, and is active in the New York State AAUP conference as a
member of the state Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and co-
chair of Committee T on Governance.
Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson was elected the 49th president of the AAUP in 2006 and
reelected in 2008. He is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book is No
University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom (New York University Press,
2010). Last year SUNY Press published Cary Nelson and The Struggle for the
University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession, with twenty contributors
discussing his career and its impact.
Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Schrecker is a professor of history at Yeshiva University and has written
extensively on McCarthyism and academic freedom; among her publications
are Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998) and No Ivory Tower:
McCarthyism and the Universities (1986). The former editor of Academe, the
magazine of the American Association of University Professors, her most
recent book, The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Academic Freedom,
Corporatization, and the Assault on the University will appear in the summer of
2010.
Eben Wood
Eben Wood holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently a fellow in Non-fiction
Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he teaches literature,
creative writing, and composition at Kingsborough Community College, The
City University of New York. He also serves on the Committee on Academic
Freedom, the University Faculty Senate, CUNY.
(In alphabetical order)
Ann E. Austin
Ann E. Austin is a Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at
Michigan State University, where she also serves as Director of the Global
Institute for Higher Education. Her scholarly interests focus on faculty
careers, roles, and professional development, work and workplaces in
academe, organizational change and transformation in universities and
colleges, reform in doctoral education, and the improvement of teaching and
learning in higher education. She also is Co-Principal Investigator of the
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), a
National Science Foundation Center focused on improving the preparation of
future faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics. She was a Fulbright
Fellow in South Africa (1998) and the 2001–02 President of the Association
for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Her recent publications include
Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative (authored
with J. Gappa and A. Trice, 2007), and Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for
Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty (co-edited with D. Wulff), as well as
work on doctoral education and higher education issues in developing
countries.
Ernst Benjamin
Ernst Benjamin is a senior consultant to the AAUP and a consultant member
of the AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Prior to his
retirement he served AAUP twice as General Secretary (2006–08 and 1984–
94) and as Director of Research (1995–2001). Benjamin taught at Wayne
State University from 1965 to 1984 where he was AAUP chapter chief
negotiator, chapter president 1975–79, and a director and dean (1981–84).
He was chair of the national AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress (1976–80)
and a member of the AAUP National Council. His publications include ”
Academic Freedom: An Everyday Concern” (with Don Wagner), 1994; and
Exploring the Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate Learning,
2004; and Academic Collective Bargaining (ed. with Michael Mauer), 2006.
Jan H. Blits
Jan H. Blits is professor, University Honors Faculty, at the University of
Delaware. He, along with Linda Gottfredson, received FIRE’s first Prometheus
Award for “uncovering and challenging the repressive residence life program
at the University of Delaware.” His most recent book is New Heaven, New
Earth: Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” (Lexington Books, 2009).
Nancy D. Campbell
Nancy D. Campbell, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of
Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a
historian of science and policy who specializes in the history of drug addiction
research, treatment, and policy in the 20th century United States. Her most
recent books were Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance
Abuse Research (2007) and, with co-authors JP Olsen and Luke Walden, The
Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts
(2008). She was elected Recording Secretary of the Rensselaer Faculty
Senate in April 2007.
Dan Colson
Dan Colson is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He studies American anarchism and anti-
democratic literature from the first half of the twentieth century.
Ashley Dawson
Ashley Dawson is associate professor of English at the City University of New
York’s Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is the
author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial
Britain (Michigan, 2007) and co-editor of three essay collections: Democracy,
the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge, 2009); Dangerous
Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (Michigan,
2009); and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New
Imperialism (Duke, 2007). He is also a member of the Social Text editorial
collective. He blogs at ashleyjdawson.com
Phillip Deery
Phillip Deery teaches American history and Cold War history at Victoria
University, Melbourne. In 2009 he was awarded a fellowship at the Frederic
Ewen Academic Freedom Center at New York University, where he conducted
research for this article. He has published widely on the early Cold War and is
currently completing a co-authored book on Cold War espionage to be
published in 2010.
John M. Elmore
John Elmore’s principal specialization is in the areas of critical pedagogy and
social justice issues in education and he primarily teaches in the foundations
of education courses. While originally from Kansas, Dr. Elmore spent five
years as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Medaille
College in Buffalo, NY before joining the faculty at West Chester University.
He has investigated and written on the corporate model of higher education
and is currently completing a manuscript that investigates the impact of
employing authoritarian education in a democratic society. Dr. Elmore holds a
BA degree in history education (1995) and a BS degree in psychology (1996)
from Kansas Wesleyan University, a MS degree in secondary education
(1997), a graduate certificate in women’s studies (1999), and a PhD in
Curriculum and Instruction (2000) from Kansas State University.
Robert P. Engvall
Robert Engvall is a professor of justice studies at Roger Williams University in
Bristol, Rhode Island. He holds PhD and JD degrees from the University of
Iowa, and a BA from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research
interests focus upon various marginalization, professionalization, and social
justice issues within higher education. He has written four books and
numerous articles and book chapters on similar topics. His most recent book,
The Corporatization of Higher Education, will be published by Hampton Press in
late 2009 or early 2010.
Judith M. Gappa
Judith M. Gappa has spent her career as an university administrator and
faculty member. She is currently Professor Emerita at Purdue University. She
served as Director of Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity at Utah State
University (1975–80); Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty at San
Francisco State University (1980–91); and Vice President for Human Relations
at Purdue University (1991–98). From 1998 to 2006 she was Professor of
Higher Education Administration in the Department of Educational Studies at
Purdue University. Her research and publications have covered equity and
faculty employment issues in higher education. She has co-authored two
books: The Invisible Faculty (1993) with David Leslie, and Rethinking Faculty
Work: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative (2007) with Ann Austin and
Andrea Trice.
Libby Garland
Libby Garland is Assistant Professor of History at Kingsborough Community
College, the City University of New York.
Larry Gerber
Larry G. Gerber, Professor Emeritus of History, Auburn University, is now
serving for a second time as chair of the AAUP Committee on College and
University Governance. He also previously served three terms as First Vice
President of the AAUP. He is the author of two books, The Limits of Liberalism
and The Irony of State Intervention and numerous articles on twentieth
century United States policy history and college and university governance.
Gerber obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and
taught for the University of Maryland, University of Arizona, and Brown
University before going to Auburn. He has also been a visiting professor at
Lakehead University in Canada and the Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu
in Finland.
Jean Gregorek
Jean Gregorek is currently a Morgan Fellow at the newly-independent Antioch
College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and is working towards the College’s re-
opening in the fall of 2011. Jean was an Associate Professor of Literature and
Cultural Studies at Antioch College, where she taught for fourteen years.
When the College was closed she became one of the many founders of the
Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute. She can be reached at jean.gregorek@gmail.
com.
Jane Koretz
Jane F. Koretz is a Professor in the Department of Biology, and the
Biochemistry and Biophysics Program. She received her PhD in Biophysics
from the University of Chicago, and was a MDAA Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
MRC Biophysics Unit, King’s College, London, before joining the faculty at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has been awarded a Fulbright to the
University of Oxford and a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service
Award from NIH for her work on the human focusing process and the
development of presbyopia. She was a member of the Palazzo/Kagan
Committee, and is active in the New York State AAUP conference as a
member of the state Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and co-
chair of Committee T on Governance.
Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson was elected the 49th president of the AAUP in 2006 and
reelected in 2008. He is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book is No
University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom (New York University Press,
2010). Last year SUNY Press published Cary Nelson and The Struggle for the
University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession, with twenty contributors
discussing his career and its impact.
Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Schrecker is a professor of history at Yeshiva University and has written
extensively on McCarthyism and academic freedom; among her publications
are Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998) and No Ivory Tower:
McCarthyism and the Universities (1986). The former editor of Academe, the
magazine of the American Association of University Professors, her most
recent book, The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Academic Freedom,
Corporatization, and the Assault on the University will appear in the summer of
2010.
Eben Wood
Eben Wood holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently a fellow in Non-fiction
Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he teaches literature,
creative writing, and composition at Kingsborough Community College, The
City University of New York. He also serves on the Committee on Academic
Freedom, the University Faculty Senate, CUNY.
Editor Cary Nelson University of Illinois AAUP President Managing Editor Gwendolyn Bradley AAUP Communications Director Copyeditor Jennifer Salopek Editorial Board Ernst Benjamin Past AAUP General Secretary Michael Bérubé Pennsylvania State University Matthew Finkin University of Illinois Mary Gray American University Jordan Kurland AAUP Associate General Secretary Anita Levy AAUP Associate Secretary Debra Nails Michigan State University Robert Post Yale University David Rabban University of Texas Adolph Reed University of Pennsylvania Gary Rhoades University of Arizona AAUP General Secretary Ellen Schrecker Yeshiva University Cat Warren North Carolina State University |
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