U of T Faculty & Librarians, sign the statement here.
In the wake of the latest episodes of lethal anti-Black police violence – the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and D’Andre Campbell – The List stands in solidarity with Black faculty, staff and students, and communities in this city and across Turtle Island. We also mourn the killing of Chantel Moore, and condemn this and other episodes of brutal and systemic colonial state violence.
This is a moment of reckoning – though one that is long overdue. Even as we call for this reckoning today, we ask ourselves why we were not calling more loudly for it every single day before now. Many statements condemning anti-Black and colonial violence are circulating, and we add our voices to this growing chorus. But if these calls are to amount to more than the usual lip service, if they seek to go beyond self-congratulatory performance and the obligatory ‘check in’, and if they will honour and not simply absorb Black people’s long term labour for change, then this needs to be a moment of fulsome structural change in all of our departments and programs, in all our faculties and on all campuses across the University of Toronto.
We must stand beside and behind Black staff, faculty and students who have been dealing with racism at this institution every single day. As a group of primarily progressive faculty, we call on our administration to meet the demands and desires of our colleagues in the Black Faculty Group who have been working tirelessly, day in and day out, for change. We call on the U of T administration to commit to rigorous and systemic address of anti-Black racism and white supremacy on campus and beyond. And we demand a major investment of resources to support the flourishing of Black life and Black excellence at every scale of institutional life.
Deborah Cowen, Geography & Planning, UTSG
Natalie Rothman, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Bhavani Raman, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Alejandro I. Paz, Anthropology, UTSC
Atiqa Hachimi, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Mark Hunter, Human Geography, UTSC
Gavin Smith, Anthropology, UTSG
Audrey Macklin, Professor, Law, Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, UTSG
Sherry Lee, Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, Victoria College, UTSG
Rachel Silvey, Geography and Planning, UTSG
Chandler Davis, Mathematics, UTSG
Sherida Ryan, Adult Education and Community Development, UTSG
Daniel Tysdal, English, UTSC
Stephen Rockel, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Lynne Viola, University Professor, History and Munk School, UTSG
Matthew Farish, Geography & Planning, UTSG
Kanishka Goonewardena, Geography and Planning, UTSG
Andrea Charise, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Center for Health & Society, UTSC
Zaheer Baber, Sociology, UTM
Michelle Murphy, Professor, History, WGSI, Technoscience Research Unit, UTSG
Nicole Laliberte, Geography, Geomatics and Environment, UTM
Denise Gastaldo, Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing UTSG
Takashi Fujitani, Professor, History, UTSG
Joseph Carens, Political Science, UTSG
Jens Hanssen, History, Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, UTM
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Professor, Centre for Critical Development Studies & Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSC
Avery Slater, Assistant Professor, English, UTM
Lisa Yoneyama, Professor, East Asian Studies & WGSI, UTSG
Ken Derry, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Historical Studies, UTM
Ritu Birla, Associate Professor, History, UTSG
Bettina von Lieres, Centre for Critical Development Studies, UTSC
Susan Antebi, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UTSG
Katie Kilroy-Marac, Anthropology, UTSC
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, OISE/New College, UTSG
Michelle Silver, Associate Professor, ICHS, UTSC
James Deutsch, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UTSG
Kanta Murali, Associate Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Kiran Mirchandani, OISE, UTSG
Emily Gilbert, Canadian Studies and Geography & Planning, UTSG
Lucia Dacome, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, UTSG
Judith Taylor, Sociology/ WGSI, UTSG
Suzanne Sicchia, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, ICHS & DLSPH, UTSC
Rebecca Comay, Professor, Philosophy and Comparative Literature, UTSG
Rachel Goffe, Assistant professor, Human Geography, UTSC
Lynne Viola, University Professor, History and Munk School, UTSG
Nhung Tuyet Tran, Associate Professor, History, UTSG
Anup Grewal, Assistant Professor, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Paolo Frascà, Italian Studies, Sexual Diversity Studies, UTSG
Denise Réaume, Professor, Law, UTSG
Ananya Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
Peter Fitting, French/Cinema Studies, UTSG
Karina Vernon, Associate Professor, English, UTSC
Frances Garrett, Associate Professor, Study of Religion, UTSG
Tong Lam, Associate Professor, Historical Studies, UTM
Victor Li, Associate Professor (Emeritus), English and Comparative Literature, UTSG
Nestor E. Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese / Caribbean Studies Program, UTSG
Francis Cody, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Asian Institute, UTM
Cynthia Cranford, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UTM
Blake Poland, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
Bianca Dahl, Anthropology, UTSC
Miguel Torrens, University of Toronto Libraries, UTSG
Ben Akrigg, Classics, UTSG
Lisa Forman, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
David Hulchanski, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, UTSG
Valentina Napolitano, Professor, Anthropology, UTSG
Kari Dehli, Professor Emerita, Social Justice Education, OISE, UTSG
Tania Li, University Professor, Anthropology, UTSG
Girish Daswani, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UTSC
Lena Mortensen, Anthropology, UTSC
Sarah Hillewaert, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UTM
Nicholas Sammond, Professor and Director, Cinema Studies Institute, Centre for the Study of the United States, UTSG
Sara Saljoughi, Assistant Professor, English, UTSC
Ted Sammons, Asst. Prof. (CLTA), Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, UTSG
Katharine Rankin, Geography and Planning, UTSG
Danny Heap, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, UTSG
Vannina Sztainbok, Social Justice Education, UTSG
Manuel Ramirez, Spanish & Portuguese, UTSG
Jennifer Jenkins, Associate Professor, History, UTSG
Victor Rivas, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, UTSG
Rosa Sarabia, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UTSG
Whitney Kemble, Librarian, UTSC Library, UTSC
Steve Easterbrook, Director, School of the Environment, UTSG
Andrea Muehlebach, Associate Professor, Andrea Muehlebach, UTM
Krista Maxwell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UTSG
Susannah Bunce, Associate Professor, Human Geography, UTSC
Jesook SONG, Professor, Anthropology, UTSG
Sarah Wakefield, Professor, Geography and Planning, UTSG
Tanya Titchkosky, Prof. Social Justice Education, UTSG
Katherine Larson, Professor, Department of English, UTSC
Natalie Oswin, Associate Professor, Geography, UTSC
Russell Kazal, Associate Professor, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Andre Sorensen, Geography and Planning, UTSC
Anne McGuire, Associate Professor, Equity Studies, UTSG
Kajri Jain, Associate Professor, Visual Studies/Art History, UTM
Daniel Grace, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
Marney Isaac, Associate Professor, Physical and Environmental Sciences, UTSC
Manuela Scarci, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Italian Studies and Renaissance Studies UTSG
Carles Muntaner i Bonet, Bloomberg FON and Dalla Lana, SPH, UTSG
Joseph Berkovitz, Associate Professor,, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, UTSG
S. Trimble, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, WGSI, UTSG
Obidimma Ezezika, Assistant Professor, Interdiscplinary Centre for Health & Society, UTSC
Paul Downes, Professor, English, UTSG
Naomi Morgenstern, Professor, English, UTSG
Sanda Munjic, Associate Professor, Dept. of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, UTSG
Daniel Bender, Professor, Culinaria Research Centre, Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
Martin Klein, Professor Emeritus, History and African Studies, UTSG
Kathy Liddle, Sociology, UTSC
Beatrice Jauregui, Assistant Professor, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, UTSG
John Noyes, Professor, German, UTSG
Dan White, Professor, English & Drama, UTM
Michelle Daigle, Assistant Professor, Centre for Indigenous Studies and Geography & Planning, UTSG
Abigail Bakan, Professor, OISE, UTSG
Waqas Butt, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UTSC
Ayobami Laniyonu, Assistant Professor, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, UTSG
Nada Moumtaz, Assistant Professor, DSR & MMC, UTSG
Smaro Kamboureli, Professor, English, UTSG
Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Associate Professor, Sociology, UTM
Smaro Kamboureli, Professor, English, UTSG
Scott Prudham, Geography and Planning; School of the Environment, UTSG
David Galbraith, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, UTSG
Teresa Kramarz, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, UTSG
Abdel-Khalig Ali, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, UTSG
John P. Portelli, Professor, SJE/OISE, UTSG
Melanie Newton, Associate Professor, History, UTSG
James Cahill, Associate Professor, Cinema & French, UTSG
Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, Associate Professor, WGS, UTM & WGSI UTSG
Alice Maurice, Associate Professor, English, UTSC
Rajyashree Reddy, Geography, UTSC
Theresa Enright, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Naisargi Dave, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UTSG
Eric Cazdyn, Professor, East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, UTSG
Jennifer Harris, Associate Professor, Study of Religion, UTSG
Melissa Williams, Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Elspeth Brown, Professor, Historical Studies, UTM
Emily Nacol, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UTM
Amaya Perez-Brumer, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
Martha Balaguera, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UTM
Rania Salem, Assistant Professor, Sociology, UTSC
Jennifer Nedelsky, Professor (retired), FAculty of Law and Department of Political Science, UTSG
Janice Boddy, Professor, Anthropology, UTSG
Marcelo Vieta, Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE/UT, UTSG
Neera Singh, Geography & Planning, UTSG
Chester Scoville, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, English and Drama, UTM
Amaya Perez-Brumer, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
Dale Turner, Associate Professor, Political Science and Centre for Indigenous Studies UTSG
James Robert Brown, Professor (emeritus), Philosophy, UTSG
George Elliott Clarke, Professor, English, UTSG
Nancy Bertoldi, Associate Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Michael Widener, Geography and Planning, UTSG
María Cristina Cuervo, Spanish & Portuguese, and Linguistics, UTSG
Pamela Klassen Professor, Study of Religion, UTSG
Robert Davidson, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, UTSG
Jason Spicer, Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning, UTSG
Juan Carlos Rocha, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, UTSG
Ricardo Sternberg, Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese, UTSG
Courtney Jung, Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Francesco Guardiani, Professor Emeritus, Italian Studies, UTSG
Maureen FitzGerald, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, UTSG
Uahikea Maile, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Paul Hamel, Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, UTSG
Scott Richmond, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, UTSG
Nathan Sanders, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Linguistics, UTSG
Patrick Keilty, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, UTSG
Dan Zuberi, Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, UTSG
Ken Kawashima, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies/History, UTSG
Natalie Zemon Davis, C.C. Professor, History, UTSG
Yoonkyung Lee, Sociology and Centre for the Study of Korea, UTSG
Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor, Political Science/Study of Religion, UTSG
Mike Ekers, Human Geography,UTSC
Matthew Hoffmann, Professor, Political Science, UTSC
Torrey Shanks, Associate Professor, Political Science, UTSC
Peter Rosenthal, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, UTSC
Ellen Berrey, Associate Professor, Sociology, UTM
Barbara Havercroft, Associate Professor, Department of French/Centre for Comparative Literature, UTSG
Kathleen Scheaffer, Learning and Research Librarian, ICCIT, UTM
Scott Rayter, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Sexual Diversity Studies/English, UTSG
Kate Neville, Assistant Professor, Political Science and School of the Environment, UTSG
Christopher Krupa, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UTSC
Nakanyike Musisi, Associate Professor, History, UTSG
angela miles, Emerita, Adult Education and Community Development Program, UTSG
Hülya Arik, Assistant Professor, Human Geography, UTSC
Jennifer Harris, Associate Professor, Study of Religion, UTSG
Mary Nyquist, Professor, English and Comparative Literature, UTSG
Melissa Levin, Lecturer, African Studies, New College, UTSG
Ahmed Allahwala, Human Geography, UTSC
Mark Meyerson, Professor, History/Medieval Studies, UTSG
Elisa Sze, Librarian, Metadata Services, Robarts Library, UTSG
Siobhan O’Flynn, Canadian Studies UTSG, English & Drama, UTM
Kathy Bickmore, Professor, Curriculum Teaching and Learning, Comparative International and Development Education, OISE, UTSG
Matthew Walton, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UTSG
Anabela Rato, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, UTSG
Nina Bascia, Professor, OISE, UTSG
Dana Seitler, Professor, English and Sexual Diversity Studies, UTSG
Tom Coyle, Assoc. Prof., Applied Science & Engineering, UTSG
Jennifer Brant, Assistant Professor, CTL, OISE, UTSG
Robert Lewis, Professor, Geography and Planning, UTSG
Nicole Mideo, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UTSG
Peter Donnelly, Professor, Kinesiology and Physical Education, UTSG
Hilary Inwood, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE, UTSG
Peter Eliot Weiss, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, UTSG
Stephen Johns, Applied Science & Engineering, UTSG
Bruce Kidd, Professor, Kinesiology and Physical Education, UTSG
Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor, EEB, UTSG
Melissa Fernandes, Mental Health Programs Officer, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, UTSG
Wanja Gitari, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning – OISE, UTM
Simon Darnell, Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Physical Education, UTSG
Kass Banning, Cinema Studies Institute, UTSG
Victoria Wohl, Professor, Classics, UTSG
Joseph Flessa, Associate Professor, LHAE/OISE, UTM
Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, UTSG
Rupaleem Bhuyan, Asssociate Professor, Social Work, UTSG
Kerry Rittich, Professor, Law and Women and Gender Studies, UTSGMeghan Sutherland, Associate Professor, Visual Studies/Cinema Studies, UTM
Donald Kingsbury, Lecturer, Political Science and Latin American Studies, UTSG
Izumi Sakamoto, Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work & Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ), UTSG
Charmaine Williams, Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, UTSG
Martha Shaffer, Professor, Law, UTSG
Lisa Austin, Professor, Faculty of Law, UTSG
Jane Wolff, Associate Professor, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, UTSG
Joan Simalchik, Women and Gender Studies, UTM
Andreas Motsch, Associate Professor, French; Victoria College, UTSG
Andrea A. Cortinois, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UTSG
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Professor, History, Historical Studies & Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, UTM
Anna Su, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UTSG
Angela Henshilwood, Engineering Librarian, Engineering & Computer Science Library, UTSG
Olivier St-Cyr, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Faculty of Information, UTSG
Kelly Lyons, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, UTSG
Julie Chen, Assistant Professor, ICCIT, UTM
Nadia Caidi, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, UTSG
Markus Dirk, Dubber, Law, Centre for Ethics, CrimSL, UTSG
Jas Rault, Assistant Professor, ACM (UTSC), Faculty of Information (UTSG), UTSC
Nalini K. Singh, Librarian, User Services, Robarts Library, UTSG
Mikhail Burke, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, UTSG
the-list.ca 