We, the faculty of Ithaca College, condemn the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. And we recognize that condemnation is not enough.We support our students, colleagues, and community members who protest alongside the Black Lives Matter movement. And we know that words of support are insufficient.
For too long, we have cloaked ourselves in the language of allyship - language that is often unaccompanied by meaningful action. We have once again been given a chance to join the fight for justice, but we cannot fight to change what we refuse to name. We must begin by naming the anti-Blackness that permeates the United States and that is violently acted out on Black bodies across this country, and we must name the white supremacy that allows this violence to occur unabated.
We recognize that we have had many opportunities to join with our communities of color in the fight against oppression and injustice, and that too often we have failed to step up to the call. Anti-Blackness has been built into the fabric of Ithaca College, as with nearly every college in the United States. In 2019, Ithaca College had four Black women in full-time faculty positions. Four. This should send shockwaves of shame through our community. Furthermore, it was not until 2013 that Peyi Soyinka-Airewele became the first Black woman to be promoted to full professor at Ithaca College. Cynthia Henderson, the second Black woman and first African-American full professor at Ithaca College, was promoted in 2020. We have been unacceptably slow in supporting and recognizing the leadership, achievements, and advancement of our Black faculty.
In 2015, we had an opportunity to respond to student and faculty cries for systemic change at Ithaca College. We failed to seize that opportunity. That failure might echo in the minds of many in our community as they contemplate whether history is doomed to repeat itself. We, the faculty of Ithaca College, refuse to allow this opportunity for change, this moment in time, to be another failure.
White faculty must commit to disrupting the status quo that allows whiteness to remain invisible. To stay silent about the systems of white supremacy, from which white faculty benefit at this institution and beyond, is to be complicit in perpetuating its harms. We must begin by acknowledging our failures and identifying actionable ways to improve. This is a first step in what we hope will be a community-wide effort that will unite us in identifying our racist patterns, that will engage us in dialogues that lead to action, and that will reshape the future of Ithaca College.
To our students of color:
To faculty and staff of color:
· We commit to doing the work that is necessary to fully record the history of Black faculty at Ithaca College, drawing on College archives. In the short term, this work will take the form of a prominently featured website--in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement and as a tribute to our Black colleagues-- that will celebrate the achievements of current Black faculty members on the Ithaca College campus. The website should be completed in time for the start of the Fall 2020 academic year.
White faculty of Ithaca College must become uncomfortable; we must challenge our own positionality, unconscious biases, and our complicity in perpetuating a system of oppression that has deeply impacted our faculty, staff, and students of color. We will put our energy into doing this work, now.
Faculty members who have not signed and wish to can find a link in the June 28, 2020 email sent to all faculty.
Chris McNamara, Faculty Council Chair, Clinical Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Diane L Birr, Professor, Performance Studies
Chrissy Guest, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Claire Gleitman, Professor, English
Stan Seltzer, Associate Professor, Mathematics
Chris Holmes, Associate Professor and Chair, English
Eric Steinschneider, Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion
Samantha Brown, Assistant Director of Clinical Education/Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Mirit Bessire, Part-time lecturer, Hebrew
Ian Woods, Associate Professor, Biology
Anne Stork, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences
Keith Kaiser
Jake Brenner, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences
Richard Faria, Professor, Performance Studies
Vivian Bruce Conger, Professor, History
Steven Banks, Assistant Professor, Music, Performance Studies, saxophone
Carl Penziul, Adjunct Professor, Mathematics
Kathryn Caldwell, Associate Professor, Psychology
Craig Duncan, Professor, Philosophy & Religion
Aaron Weinberg, Professor, Mathematics
Rose Howard, Lecturer, Theatre Arts
Luke Keller, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Dyani Taff, Lecturer, English
Jean Hardwick, Charles Dana Professor of Biology
Sebastian Harenberg, Assistant Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Jaime Warburton, Assistant Professor, Writing
Patricia Hunsinger, Lecturer, Art Dept.
David Negrin, Assistant Professor, MASS, Cinema & Photo
Karin Wikoff, Electronic and Technical Services Librarian, Library
Ann-Marie Adams, Lecturer, Journalism
Maya R. Patel, Assistant Professor, Biology
Courtney Gray, Clinical Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Jenna Heffron, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
Dara Engler, Associate Professor, Art
Heidi Hopkins, Lecturer, Biology
Sarah Sutton, Associate Professor of Art
Anthony Di Renzo, Professor, Writing
Paula Ioanide, Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity
Joanie Groome, Lecturer, HPPE
Susan Salahshor, Assistant Professor, HSHP
Chrystyna Dail, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Leigh Ann Vaughn, Professor, Psychology
Gordon Rowland, Professor, Communications
Daniel Wilber, Lecturer, Writing
Mary Bentley Associate Professor HPPE
Lisa Farman, Assistant Professor, Strategic Communication
Amy Rominger, Clinical Associate Professor, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Martha Guth, Assistant Professor, Voice
Laurie Arliss, Professor, Communication Studies
Chris Hummel, Clinical Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Barney Beins, Professor, Psychology
Julian T Euell,[Dr.Only] Associate Professor of Sociology
Maria DiFrancesco, Modern Languages & Literatures
Lauren Britton, Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Michael Richardson, Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Jen Huemmer, Assistant Professor, STCM
Peter Silberman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Theory, History, and Composition
Regi Carpenter
Laura Johnsen, Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Rebecca Brady, Assistant Professor, Biology
Scott Thomson, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
John Barr, Professor, Computer Science
Nick Kowalczyk, Associate Professor, Writing
Rivka Green, Lecturer, Spanish
Mat Fournier, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literature
Michael Costello, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Judith M. Levitt, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Theatre Arts
Elizabeth Medina-Gray, Assistant Professor, Music Theory/History/Composition
Christopher Coletti, Assistant Professor, Trumpet
Peter Martin, Associate Professor, Education
Alex Estabrook, Instructor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Ellie Fulmer, Associate Professor, Education
Steve TenEyck, Professor, Theatre
Deborah Rifkin, Associate Professor, Music Theory, History, and Composition
Nancy Brcak, Professor, Art History
Andrew Utterson, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Susan Adams Delaney, Associate Professor of Writing and Director of the ICC
Raj Subramaniam, Professor, HPPE
Rebecca Lesses, Philosophy and Religion Department and Jewish Studies program
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Assistant Professor, Art
Joseph Christian Ungco, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
Jacob White, Assistant Professor, Writing
Robert Sullivan, Professor, Communication Studies
Wendy Dann
Christine Havens-Hafer, Assistant Professor, Education
Dawn Pierce, Assistant Professor, Music: Performance Studies
Kim Knight, Assistant Professor, Education
Carla Golden, Professor, Psychology (and Women’s and Gender Studies)
Mary Lourdes Silva, Associate Professor of Writing
Sharon Stansfield, Assoc. Prof. and Chair, Computer Science
David Turkon, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Cathy Crane, Associate Professor, Cinema
Jason Hamilton, Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences
Jana Waller, Clinical Assistant Professor, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Daniel Zimmerman, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Christopher Zemliauskas, Assistant Professor, Music
Christopher Matusiak, Associate Professor, English
Serge Grigoriev, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Jennifer Jolly, Professor, Art History
Jamie Rombach, Instructor, Mathematics
Barbara Adams, Associate Professor, Writing
Stephen D. Mosher, Professor, Communication Studies
Benjamin Rochford, Associate Director of Bands, School of Music
Michelle Bradshaw, Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in Occupational Therapy
Annette Levine, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
Matthew C. Sullivan, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Mary Holzhauer, Lecturer, Music Performance
Mehreen Khalid, Assistant Professor, Park School
Patricia R. Zimmermann, Professor, Screen Studies
Maki Inada, Associate Professor, Biology
Emilie Wiesner, Associate Professor, Mathematics
James Rada, Professor, Journalism
Annemarie Farrell, Associate Professor, Sport Management
Michelle C. Zarko PA-C, Principal Faculty, Physician Assistant Program
Catherine H. Michael, Communications Librarian, Library
Amy W. O'Brien, Assistant Professor of Dance, Theatre Arts
Yvonne Rogalski, Associate Professor, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Linda Heyne, Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies
Kelley Sullivan, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Elizabeth Miller, Clinical Instructor, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
Courtney Young, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Steven Novakovic, lecturer, finance/international business
Yvette Sterbenk
Karen Lomond, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Julie Dorsey, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
Justine Vosloo, Associate Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Jennifer Germann, Associate Professor, Art History
Brooks Miner, Assistant Professor, Biology
Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor/Chair, Health Promotion & Physical Education
Dmitri Novgorodsky, Associate Professor, School of Music
Paul R Geisler, Professor, Department of Exercise Science & Athletic Training
Vanessa R. Mirabito Gerner, Instructor, Physical Therapy
Matt Thomas, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Paul Dickson, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Laura Gras, Professor, Physical Therapy
Teresa Chen, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Laura Campbell Carapella, Associate Professor, HPPE
Catherine Weidner, Professor & Chair, Theatre Arts
Devan Rosen, Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Elizabeth Kaletski, Associate Professor, Economics
Camilo A Malagón, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
Jack Wang, Associate Professor, Writing
Jennifer Muller, Associate Professor & Chair, Anthropology
Ruth Barber, Instructor of Scenic Art and Design, Theatre Arts
Amy Frith, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
Elizabeth Bergman, Associate Professor & Chair, Gerontology
L. Leann Kanda, Associate Professor, Biology
Daniel Visscher, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Dave Brown, Professor, Math
Alicia Swords, Associate Professor, Sociology
Bill Hastings, Assistant Professor, Art
Gladys M. Varona-Lacey, Professor, DMLL
Ed Catto, Instructor, Management
Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, Professor and Chair, Physics and Astronomy
Paula Twomey, Spanish instructor, DMLL
Kristina Shanton, Music Librarian, Library
Sara Haefeli, Associate Professor, Music Theory, History, and Composition
Teresa Moore, Professor, Mathematics
Kari Brossard Stoos, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
Joshua Bonnetta. Associate Professor. MASS
Michael A. Malpass, Dana Professor in the Social Sciences, anthropology
Rachel Wagner
Janet Galván, Professor, music performance
Colin Stewart, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Darlynne Overbaugh, Lecturer, Currently
Te-Wen Lo, Associate Professor, Biology
Joan Marcus, Assistant Professor, Writing
Cyndy Scheibe, Professor, Psychology
Raul Palma, Assistant Professor, Writing
Tom Kerr, Associate Professor, Writing
Eleanor Henderson, Associate Professor, Writing
Catherine Taylor, Associate Professor, Writing, Co-Director Image Text MFA
Barbara Anger, Instructor Adjunct Theatre Dept.
Jim Stafford, Assistant Professor, Writing
Katie Marks, Assistant Professor, Writing
Arhlene Flowers, Associate Professor, Strategic Communication
Eric Machan Howd, Assistant Professor, Writing and Alum (H&S Class of 1990)
Amy Quan, Department of Writing
Harriet Malinowitz, Lecturer, Writing and Women's & Gender Studies
Jerry Mirskin, Professor, Department of Writing
James Miranda, Lecturer, Writing
Sandy Dutkowsky, Lecturer, Writing
Bradley Rappa, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Alex Chertok, Lecturer, Writing Department
Christine Kitano, Assistant Professor, Writing
Rachel Fomalhaut, Lecturer, Writing & Women's and Gender Studies
James Mick, Associate Professor, Music Education
Cory Brown, Professor, Writing
Nicholas Walker, Professor, Music
Janet Hunting, Associate Professor, Chemistry
Kenny Christianson, Lecturer, Economics
Mike Haaf, Professor, Chemistry
Kathleen Mulligan, Professor, Theater Arts
Megan Panek, Associate, Philanthropy and Engagement
Todd Lazenby, Clinical Professor, ESAT
Shaianne Osterreich, Associate Professor, Economics
Sara Levy, Associate Professor, Incoming Dept. Chair, Education
Bridget Bower, College Archivist, Library
Deborah King, Professor, ESAT
Barbara Ganzel, Associate Professor, Gerontology
Sarah Fishel, Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Stephen Tropiano, Professor, Screen Studies
Osman Yurekli, Professor, Mathematics
Jason Freitag, Associate Professor, History
Nicholas Muellner, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Image Text MFA
Tom Schneller, Lecturer, Music History
A. Adornato, Associate Professor, Journalism
Calvin Wiersma, Associate Professor, Violin and Chamber Music
Gavin Mayer, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Pranietha Mudliar, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences
Tina Caswell, Clinical Assistant Professor, SLPA
Jennifer Spitzer, Associate Professor, English
Sudan Allen, Professor, Environmental Studies and Sciences
Rachel Schaff, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Screen Studies
John Scott, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Allison French, Assistant Professor, Journalism
Jeff Lippitt, Accounting
Dann Coakwell, Assistant Professor, Voice, Music Performance Studies
Hormoz Movassaghi, Professor, Finance and International Business
Ivy Walz, Assistant Dean, School of Music
Wonyul Bae, Associate Professor, Sport Management
Kari Smoker, Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
Vicky Mejia Yepes, Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Katie Sheehan, Clinical Instructor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Amie Germain, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
Cory Young, Associate Professor, Director Honors Program, Strategic Communication
Matthew Price, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Diane Long, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
Seth Soulstein, Lecturer, Theatre Arts
Colleen Moorman, Lecturer, Spanish and Linguistics
Tamara Fitzwater, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Rhonda Vanover, Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
Gordon Stout, Professor Emeritus, Music
Pamela Drix, Lecturer, Art
Lee Byron, Professor, Theatre Arts
Austin Jones, Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Alison Whah, Assistant Professor, Music
Beatrice Olesko, Assistant Professor, Music Education
Laura Amoriello, Assistant Professor of Piano, Performance Studies
Anna Larsen
Peter Johans, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Studies and Sciences
Michael Caporizzo, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies
Dean Robinson, Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Patti Capaldi, Assistant Professor, Art Department
Jason Cherry, Clinical Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Christine D. Bataille, Assistant Professor, Management
Scott Biter, PA-C, MSHS, Physician Assistant Program
Alexis Kellner Becker, Assistant Professor, English
Xinxin Li, Assistant Professor, Finance and International Business
William Kolberg, Associate Professor, Economics
Marlena Grzaslewicz, Assistant Professor, MASS
Robert Ziomkowski, Lecturer, Dept. Of Modern Languages and Literatures
David Diggin, Assistant Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Arzu Karaduman, Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies
Edd Schneider, Associate Professor, Communication Management and Design
Julie Carr, Lecturer, Music Education
Patrick O. McKeon, Associate Professor, Exercise Science and Athletic Training
Jennifer Herzog, Lecturer, Theatre Arts
Mary Turner DePalma, Professor, Psychology
Lauren O'Connell, Professor, Art History
Abraham Mulugetta, Dana Professor, Finance and International Business
Susan Witherup, Professor, Biology
Nicole Koschmann
Davis Earll, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies
Vinita Prabhakar, Assistant Professor, Writing
Zenon Wasyliw, Professor, History
Andrew Torelli, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Evgenia IIieva, Associate Professor, Politics
Saviana Condeescu, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Tatiana Patrone, Associate Professor
Wendy Herbener Mehne, Professor, Music
Aaron Witek, Assistant Professor, Music
Mike Titlebaum, Associate Professor and Director, Jazz Studies
Nicholas Bennett, Lecturer, Media Art, Science and Studies
Jeff Holmes, Professor, Psychology
Elizabeth Bleicher, Professor, English
Mitch McCabe, Assistant Professor, Park School
Rachel Schultz, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies
Jennifer McKeon, Associate Professor, Exercise Science & Athletic Training
Don Tindall, Professor, Theatre Arts
S. Alexander Reed, Associate Professor, Music
Alexander Shuhan, Professor, Music
Faten Houissa, Lecturer, Modern Languages and Literatures
Hilary Greenberger, Professor, Physical Therapy
Jason Harrington, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
David L. Barry, Lecturer, Modern Languages and Literatures
Craig Cummings, Professor, Music Theory
Jeff Theiss, assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Albert Alexander, Adjunct Instructor, Economics
Christina Steinorth, Clinical Educator, SLPA
Deborah Montgomery, Professor, Music
Tamara Acosta, Assistant Professor, Music
Stephen Sweet, Charles Dana Professor, Sociology
David Salomon, Associate Professor, Art History
Daisy Rosas Vargas, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Kayleigh Plumeau, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Lynne Hewitt, Professor, SLPA
Narges Kasiri, Associate Professor, Management
Marcy Sutherland, Instructor, Education
Melinda Cozzolino, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
Patrick Lewis, Assistant Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies
Dan Breen, Associate Professor, English
Kip Opperman
Jerome Fung, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Megan Martinez, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Paula Murray Cole, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
Ann Byrne, Instructor CMST
Kelly Hallisy, Social Sciences Librarian
Linda Price, Lecturer, Art
Angela Rulffes, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
John Winslow, Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
Hugh Stephenson, Associate Professor, Psychology
Toby Dragon, Associate Professor, Computer Science
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