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The essays collected in this book honor H. Chandler Davis (1926-2022), a University of Michigan faculty member who became a symbol of principled dissent when suspended and fired in 1954 for refusing to testify about his political affiliations to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Invoking academic freedom and First Amendment protection, Davis was convicted of contempt of Congress. He served six months in prison before moving to Canada, where he established himself as a brilliant mathematician, prolific writer, and ardent and much beloved advocate for justice.
At a time when a new McCarthyism has come roaring back to threaten free inquiry everywhere, the 12 contributors to this book argue against censorship, the suppression of protest, the policed and surveilled campus, the self-silencing of "institutional neutrality," and other enemies of academic freedom. Also included in this volume is posthumously published work by Davis and by his late wife, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, which reflects on the importance of facing, and not accepting, authoritarian threats.
Inspired by Chandler Davis' courage, integrity, and devotion to the struggle against oppression, injustice, and the persecution of speech, these essays offer crucial insights into the importance of defending intellectual independence, institutional autonomy, and the right to free expression.
Contents
Contributors' Biographies
Introduction
Chapter 1 | A Professor's Fight Against McCarthyism Resonates Today
Chapter 2 | Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after Inquisition
Chapter 3 | U- M Faculty Political Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
Chapter 4 | No More Chandler Davises! Academic Freedom Needs Collective Action, Not Heroes
Chapter 5 | Gender Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Autumn of 2024
Chapter 6 | On Further Investigation: The AAUP Affiliation with the AFT
Chapter 7 | Academic Freedom and Moral Courage: North Carolina's Speaker Ban
Chapter 8 | Campus Activism in Images: Past and Present
Chapter 9 | Into the Gray Future, or: The University Is Dead
Chapter 10 | Schoolbook Censorship: Untangling the Pico Paradox
Chapter 11 | Choice, Responsibility, and Neutrality
Chapter 12 | The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom and Palestine
Chapter 13 | The Other Israel- Gaza Conflict: On Campus
Chapter 14 | An Ann Arbor Appeal
Notes
Appendix
List of Davis Markert Nickerson Speakers
