This year, a supermajority of Penn’s graduate research and teaching assistants signed cards indicating their desire to form a union, and this April, they will finally have the chance to vote to do so. As Penn faculty, we affirm these student workers’ right to organize — a right explicitly recognized by the National Labor Relations Board. We affirm the value of the research and teaching they do, without which our university could not function. And we recognize that in building a union together, they are striving to make Penn a better, fairer, and more democratic university — one in which those who do the work of research and teaching have a voice in institutional policies that affect their lives, and in which working conditions are equitable. Today, graduate research and teaching assistants are unionized at virtually all of Penn’s peer institutions. Having a democratic voice at work has become a national norm for graduate student workers, and we support the efforts of graduate student workers at Penn to bring our university in line with this norm.
- Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Nikhil Anand, Daniel Braun Silvers and Robert Peter Silvers Family Presidential Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Jon Argaman, Lecturer in Critical Writing, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Shoshana Aronowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Health, School of Nursing
- Abdulhamit Arvas, Assistant Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Fabian Arzuaga, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Eiichiro Azuma, Professor, Department of History and Asian American Studies Program, SAS
- Cheikh Babou, Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Marlyse Baptista, Professor, Department of Linguistics, SAS
- David Barnes, Associate Professor, Department of History & Sociology of Science, SAS
- Caroline Batten, Assistant Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, Departments of English and Africana Studies, SAS
- Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SAS
- Gwendolyn Beetham, Associate Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, SAS
- Bridget Begg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Janice R. Bellace, Samuel Blank Professor Emerita of Legal Studies, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School
- Casey Benchimol, Lecturer, Women's Health NP and CNM Programs, School of Nursing
- Etienne Benson, Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Nancy Bentley, Professor of English, Department of English, SAS
- Brian Berkey, Associate Professor, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School
- Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English and Comparative Literature, SAS
- Siarhei Biareishyk, Senior Lecturer, Russian and East European Studies, SAS
- Julia Bloch, Director, Creative Writing Program, SAS
- Stephen Bonett, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Toni Bowers, Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Warren Breckman, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History, Department of History, SAS
- Sabina Bremner, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Ed Brockenbrough, Associate Professor, Learning, Teaching, and Literacies Division, GSE
- Kathleen M. Brown, David Boies Professor of History, Department of History, SAS
- Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Department of Religious Studies, SAS
- Alison M. Buttenheim, Professor of Nursing and Health Policy and Silverstein Endowed Term Chair in Global Women’s Health, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Scott Burkhardt, Lecturer, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, SAS
- Gerald Campano, Professor, Learning, Teaching, and Literacies Division, GSE
- Jean-Paul Cauvin, Lecturer, Program in Critical Writing, SAS
- Max Cavitch, Associate Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Brent Cebul, Assistant Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Mary Channen Caldwell, Associate Professor, Department of Music, SAS
- Marcia Chatelain, Professor, Department of Africana Studies, SAS
- Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Associate Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Paul M. Cobb, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, SAS
- Cindy Connolly, Professor, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Timothy Corrigan, Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
- Hardeep Dhillon, Assistant Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Frederick R. Dickinson, Professor of History and Director, Center for East Asian Studies, SAS
- Kate Dorsch, Associate Director, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Lecturer, History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Emma Dorsey, Lecturer, Women's Health NP and Midwifery Programs, School of Nursing
- Melanie Drolsbaugh, Lecturer, Penn Language Center, SAS
- Ivan Drpić, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, SAS
- Reyhan Durmaz, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, SAS
- Jamal Elias, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, SAS
- David Eng, Richard L Fisher Professor of English, Department of English, SAS
- Jim English, John Welsh Professor of English, Department of English, SAS
- Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Phillip Fackler, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Zahra Fakhraai, Professor, Department of Chemistry, SAS
- Huda Fakhreddine, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, SAS
- Emily Falk, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Associate Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Roquinaldo Ferreira, Henry Charles Lea Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Jami Fisher, Senior Lecturer and American Sign Language Program Director, Department of Linguistics/Penn Language Center, SAS
- Marc Flandreau, Howard S. Marks Professor of Economic History, Department of History, SAS
- Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director, Ian McHarg Center, Department of Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
- Kecia Fong, Lecturer, Department of Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design
- Kenneth R. Foster, Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering, SEAS
- Michael Gamer, Professor of English; British Academy Global Professor of English and Drama, Department of English, SAS
- Knar Gavin, Lecturer, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
- Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, Senior Lecturer, Policy, Organizations, Leadership, & Systems (POLS) Division, GSE
- TJ Ghose, Associate Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice
- Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, SAS
- Glenda Goodman, Associate Professor, Department of Music, SAS
- Robert A. Gorman, Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law Emeritus, Penn Carey Law, and former President, AAUP
- Marie Gottschalk, Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, SAS
- Gregory Goulding, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asia Studies, SAS
- Johanna Greeson, Associate Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice
- Elizabeth Grice, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine
- Michael Hanchard, Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor, Department of Africana Studies, SAS
- Hanne Harbison, Senior Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Emma Hart, Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Zehra Hashmi, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Amy Hillier, Associate Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice and Weitzman School of Design
- Sukaina Hirji, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Peter Holquist, Associate Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Roberta Iversen, Associate Professor emerita, Department of Social Work & Social Policy, School of Social Policy and Practice
- Sara Jacoby, Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Sarah Jackson, Presidential Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Charlotte Jacobs, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Learning, Teaching, & Literacies Division, GSE
- Sara Jaffee, Professor, Department of Psychology, SAS
- Paul Janmey, Professor, Department of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine
- Andi Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Nick Joseph, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Instructor & Associate Director, Creative Writing Program, SAS
- Joe Kable, Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, SAS
- Carol R. Kalin, Lecturer (On Leave), EB General, SAS
- John Kanbayashi, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Megan Kassabaum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Jonathan D. Katz, Associate Professor of Practice, Art History and GSWS, SAS
- Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor, Department of English, SAS
- David Kazanjian, Professor, Department of English, SAS
- John Kehayias, Lecturer in Critical Writing, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Rafael Khachaturian, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- D. Brian Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and East European Studies, SAS
- Michael Kokozos, Associate Director of Teaching & Learning, Division of Learning, Teaching, and Literacy, GSE
- Melanie Kornides, Associate Professor of Nursing, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Harun Küçük, Associate Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Ada Kuskowski, Assistant Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Ann Kuttner, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, SAS
- Shaleigh Kwok, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Corine Labridy, Assistant Professor, Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, SAS
- Andrew T. Lamas, Urban Studies (SAS) / Graduate Programs (SP2)
- So-Rim Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS
- Michael Leja, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor of History of Art, Department of History of Art, SAS
- Yphtach Lelkes, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Zachary Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Richard M. Leventhal, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Penn Museum, SAS
- Jessa Lingel, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Rebecca Lipperini, Lecturer, Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing, SAS
- Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, Department of English, SAS
- Daniele Lorenzini, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Heather Love, Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Joseph E. Lowry, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, SAS
- David Lydon-Staley, Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Julia Lynch, Professor, Department of Political Science, SAS
- Kristina Lyons, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Aurora A. MacRae-Crerar, Lecturer in Critical Writing, Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing, SAS
- David Mandell, Professor and Director, Center for Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
- Rahul Mangharam, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, SEAS
- Bakirathi Mani, Penn Presidential Compact Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Letícia Marteleto, Penn Compact Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, SAS
- Carolyn Marvin, Professor Emerita, Annenberg School for Communication
- Shannon Mattern, Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
- Serena Mayeri, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, Penn Carey Law
- Meta Mazaj, Senior Lecturer, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, SAS
- Travis McGaha, Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science, SEAS
- Jeremy McInerney, Professor, Department of Classical Studies, SAS
- Ramah McKay, Associate Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Lisa Mitchell, Professor, Department of South Asia Studies, SAS
- Luis Moreno-Caballud, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SAS
- Kathleen Morrison, Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Jennifer Morton, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Rahul Mukherjee, Associate Professor of TV & New Media, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
- Carol Muller, Professor, Department of Music, SAS
- Justin Mullikin, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Emily Ng, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Christopher Noetzel, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Anne Norton, Stacey and Henry Jackson Presidents Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, SAS
- Marcy Norton, Associate Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Zita Nunes, Associate Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Amy C. Offner, Associate Professor, Department of History, SAS
- Mitchell Orenstein, Professor, Department of Russian and East European Studies and Political Science, SAS
- Josephine Park, Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Adriana Petryna, Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Victor Pickard, C. Edward Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, Annenberg School for Communication
- Rupa Pillai, Senior Lecturer, Asian American Studies Program, SAS
- Kevin M. F. Platt, Professor, Department of Russian and East European Studies, SAS
- Kaitlin Pomerantz, Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design
- Jennifer S. Ponce de León, Associate Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Jennifer Punt, Professor of Immunology, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Rand Quinn, Associate Professor, Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems Division, GSE
- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Phyllis R. Rackin, Professor Emerita, Department of English, SAS
- Karen Redrobe, Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
- Adolph Reed, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, SAS
- Daniel K. Richter, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History, Emeritus, Department of History, SAS
- Simon Richter, Professor of German, Department of Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies, SAS
- Lauren Ristvet, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Dustyn Roberts, Practice Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), SEAS
- Gareth Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, SAS
- Akira Drake Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
- Wendy Roth, Professor, Department of Sociology, SAS
- Teemu Ruskola, Professor of Chinese Law and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS, and Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
- Paul Saint-Amour, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Department of English, SAS
- Melissa E Sanchez, Donald T. Regan Professor, Director of GSWS, Director of FQT, Department of English, SAS
- Carlos Santana, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Beatrice Santorini, Senior Fellow, Department of Linguistics, SAS
- Donovan Schaefer, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, SAS
- Anna Schapiro, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, SAS
- Ariel Schwartz, Lecturer, Nonprofit Leadership Master's Program, School of Social Policy and Practice
- Nicholas Seewald, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Amy Sepinwall, Associate Professor, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School
- Fatemeh Shams, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, SAS
- Sunny Shin, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine
- Taije Silverman, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing, SAS
- Daniel J. Singer, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Harry Smith, Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science, SEAS
- Laura Starbird, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing
- Emily Steinlight, Associate Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Mary Summers, Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program, SAS
- Meredith Tamminga, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, SAS
- Andy Tan, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Kok-Chor Tan, Professor, Department of Philosophy, SAS
- Karen Tani, Seaman Family University Professor, Department of History, SAS, and Penn Carey Law
- Michelle Taransky, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Jorge Tellez, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, SAS
- Tariq Thachil, Madan Lal Sobti Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, SAS
- Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, SAS
- Julia Ticona, Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Ye Tian, Chinese Language Program Director; Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS
- Henry Towsner, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, SAS
- Whitney Trettien, Assistant Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Eve Troutt Powell, Professor, Departments of History and Africana Studies, SAS
- Elly R. Truitt, Associate Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve, Senior Lecturer, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
- Ginny Vanderslice, Lecturer, Organization Dynamics, SAS
- Andy Vaughan, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Beans Velocci, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science & GSWS, SAS
- Julia Verkholantsev, Associate Professor, Department of Russian and East European Studies, SAS
- Steve Viscelli, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Sociology, SAS
- Robert Vitalis, Professor, Department of Political Science, SAS
- Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
- Heidi Voskuhl, Associate Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
- Keahnan Washington, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, SAS
- Scott Weinstein, Professor of Philosophy, and of Computer and Information Science, and Mathematics, SAS
- Steven Weitzman, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, SAS
- Emily Wilson, Professor, Department of Classical Studies, SAS
- Yin Ling Irene Wong, Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice
- Dagmawi Woubshet, Associate Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Aaron Wunsch, Associate Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design
- Charles Yang, Professor of Linguistics and Computer and Information Science, Department of Linguistics, SAS, and SEAS
- Chi-ming Yang, Professor, Department of English, SAS
- Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, SAS and Annenberg School for Communication
- George Ygarza, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, SAS
- Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication
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