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IPPS statement in support of Dorothy Kim

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Esther Cuenca
8 years ago

In solidarity.

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Christine Chism
8 years ago

RFB's posts are the actions of a bully and a gaslighter who is abusing her position to attack a junior scholar in another field, while demonstrating ignorance and contempt of the discussions on race theory she is rejecting. This is unconscionable.

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Catherine Wyatt
8 years ago

Shameful conduct , let's call out behavior that isn't helpful and actually support each other

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Tom Moritz
8 years ago

No! Completely unacceptable !

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Eleonora Belfiore
8 years ago

In solidarity of a colleague who should never have been the object of such a pubic aggressive and personal attack. This is not the robust but respectful and rigorous critique academia should be all about.

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Kavita Mudan Finn
8 years ago

In solidarity with Dorothy Kim, an excellent and courageous scholar who is under attack for telling the truth.

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Regina Psaki
8 years ago

Dr Kim has my admiration, gratitude, and unqualified support for her work as a medievalist who works to up the game and broaden the horizons of all medievalists.

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susan mchugh
8 years ago

Professor of English, University of New England, Biddeford, ME USA

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Hannah Boast
8 years ago

Dorothy Kim is an important voice not just in medieval studies, but in academia more widely, and I've learnt a lot from her scholarship.

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Laura Miles
8 years ago

Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway

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Laura Wright
8 years ago

Not a medievalist but knows enough to know the races mingled and not all were Caucasian. And mature enough to avoid ad hominem attacks in anything related to a professional forum

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Alex Gil
8 years ago

I have been watching the issues surrounding the work of Dorothy Kim and other PoC medievalists for a few years now, and can testify that this is a clear-cut case of manufactured abuse against a professional in good standing. At stake here is the protection of the freedom of speech of non-white academics in the United States. We have been recently hit with a spate of planned and mechanistic attacks from the so-called alt-right, and the results have been dismal. We need to reverse the trend ASAP, unless you really believe that the academy should go back to being all white-male in positions of authority, in which case, let me know so I can start packing my bags sooner rather than later, since I imagine this is what you would like of the country as well.

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Elizabeth Marlowe
8 years ago

Astonishing that it has come to this.

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Marian Toledo Candelaria
8 years ago

I applaud Professor Kim for standing for what is right and, as a medievalist of colour, fully agree and support her stance against white supremacist/racist/fundamentalist interpretations of the Middle Ages. That Fulton Brown used her privileged position as a tenured professor to attack a junior scholar is morally reprehensible and utterly unprofessional.

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Sarah Cantor
8 years ago

I am disgusted by Fulton Brown's attack on Dorothy Kim. I fully support Dr. Kim's advocacy and her bravery in speaking out against racism and bigotry.

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Elizabeth Hodgson
8 years ago Featured

As a full professor with white settler roots, I find it appalling that another female academic like myself would think it appropriate to attack a junior colleague of colour in this way. Or to defend her own white-imperialist past in this way.

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Dana Medoro
8 years ago

I have watched this unfold from its inception, with Dr. Brown publicly showing photos of Dr. Kim to 700+ followers and links to Milo Y, with his million+ followers, who then called Dr. Kim a fake scholar. It's been astonishing to see a tenured professor go after an untenured one this way, and relentlessly. I hope Dr Kim is okay and that you'll support her in whatever ways she requires. Dr. Dana Medoro Professor, U of Manitoba

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Ernesto Priego
8 years ago

The international scholarly community (well beyond medievalism and the United States) stands united against bigotry in all its forms and supports Dr Dorothy Kim, whose work is widely respected.

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Muireann Crowley
8 years ago

English Literature, University of Edinburgh

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Jim Lockhart
8 years ago

Seems that Brown has earned at least some raised eyebrows by the faculty at the University of Chicago in regards both to her attack and manner of that attack.