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Attendees of Thursday's protest also included at least two faculty members. Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor of history and women, gender, and sexuality studies, said that layoffs were "not the only or the best option" to reduce costs at the University, and Brad Epps, a professor of romance languages and literatures and WGS, said he was "mad as hell" that workers had been laid off while senior faculty and administrators remain, to his knowledge, untouched...
Tomas O Cathasaigh, Tom Cummins, Cynthia Friend, Andrew Gordon, Jay Jasanoff, James Kloppenberg, James McCarthy, Christie McDonald, Ingrid Monson, Richard Moran, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Steve Owen, Judith Ryan, Kay Shelemay, Richard Thomas, Mary Waters, Jan Ziolkowski
Typically, Owen says, each regional area is allotted two professorships in the history department, but the Middle East has ended up with four. “We couldn’t possibly ask for more,” says Owen, who, along with Afsaneh Najmabadi, professor of history and women’s studies, is an expert on modern Middle East history...
Disturbed by these omissions, I talked to Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi, chair of the committee. “We don’t recognize our courses,” she told me, “from a point of view of ideological delineation.” Women’s studies, Najmabadi argued, is what the committee focuses on. But her argument cuts both ways. If the method for choosing books and articles for tutorials were truly devoid of ideology, it is downright puzzling why all of them would end up being liberal manifestoes on the topic...
...heart, “women’s studies is about a way of producing knowledge,” Najmabadi told me. And that is what is perhaps most disturbing about the field...