106 Penn Faculty and AAUP-Penn | Letter in support of the RA unionization campaign

Penn's Resident Advisors and Graduate Resident Advisors are exercising their legal right to organize a union, a right that has been affirmed by the National Labor Relations Board.  Impressively, a supermajority has signed a petition expressing their desire to unionize.  As Penn faculty, we are committed to the well-being of our students and the university of which we are all a part.  We affirm that unions have a legitimate place in our university, and we affirm that these student workers have the right to organize in an environment free of intimidation.

We therefore call on our university administration to commit to neutrality during this union election process.  By remaining neutral, our university leadership can show that it respects the legal right of workers to organize, and it can lay the groundwork for a productive, mutually beneficial relationship with a union should the RAs and GAs vote to form one.

1. AAUP-Penn (American Association of University Professors, University of Pennsylvania Chapter)
2. Gerald Campano, Professor, Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division, GSE
3. Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Associate Professor, History, SAS
4. Suvir Kaul, A. M. Rosenthal Professor, English, SAS
5. Amy C. Offner, Associate Professor, History, SAS
6. Kevin Platt, Professor, Russian and East European Studies, SAS
7. Adolph Reed, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, SAS
8. Robert Vitalis, Professor, Political Science, SAS
9. Chi-ming Yang, Professor, English, SAS
10. Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor, English, SAS
11. Zachary Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor, English, SAS
12. Melissa E. Sanchez, Donald T. Regan Professor, English/Director GSWS/Director FQT Center, English
13. Caroline Batten, Assistant Professor, English, SAS
14. Emily Steinlight, Associate Professor, English, SAS
15. John Richetti, A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English, Emeritus
16. David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English
17. Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, SAS
18. Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, English / Comparative Literature
19. Justin McDaniel, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities, Religious Studies, SAS
20. Ann Kuttner, Associate Professor, History of Art
21. Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
22. Nancy Bentley, Donald T. Regan Professor of English
23. Shannon Mattern, Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies and the History of Art, SAS
24. Karen Tani, Seaman Family University Professor, History, SAS, and Law
25. Paul Saint-Amour, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, English, SAS
26. Kristen R. Ghodsee, Professor and Chair, Russian and East European Studies, SAS
27. Meta Mazaj, Senior Lecturer, Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
28. Eiichiro Azuma, Professor, History and Asian American Studies, SAS
29. Aurora MacRae-Crerar, Lecturer in Critical Writing (Biologist), SAS
30. Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor of City Planning (Weitzman) and Urban Studies, SAS
31. Roberta Rehner Iversen, Associate Professor Emerita, School of Social Policy & Practice
32. Rupa Pillai, Senior Lecturer, Asian American Studies, SAS
33. Walter Licht, Annenberg Emeritus Professor of History, SAS
34. Roquinaldo Ferreira, Henry Charles Lea Professor, History, SAS
35. Carol Ann Muller, Professor, Music, SAS
36. Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Religious Studies, SAS
37. Jonathan D. Katz, Associate Professor of Practice, History of Art and GSWS, SAS
38. Peter Holquist, Associate Professor, History, SAS
39. Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies
40. Gerald Prince, Professor, FIGS, SAS 
41. David Kazanjian, Professor, English and Comparative Literature
42. Yin Ling Irene Wong, Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice
43. Andrew T. Lamas, Faculty, Urban Studies, SAS, and Graduate Programs, SP2
44. Sheila Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, SAS 
45. Scott Burkhardt, Lecturer, Cinema & Media Studies, SAS
46. Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science
47. Johanna Greeson, Associate Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice
48. Siarhei Biareishyk, VAP, Russian and East European Studies, SAS
49. Rosemary Clark-Parsons, Lecturer, School of Social Policy & Practice
50. Karen Redrobe, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
51. Kathryn Hellerstein, Professor of Germanic Studies in Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies (SAS)
52. Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, SAS
53. Marcy Norton, Associate Professor of History, SAS
54. Projit Bihari Mukharji, Professor, History and Sociology of Science, SAS.
55. Reyhan Durmaz, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, SAS
56. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor, History of Art, SAS
57. Lisa Mitchell, Professor, South Asia Studies, SAS
58. Ramah McKay, Associate Professor of History & Sociology of Science, SAS
59. Benjamin Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor of History, SAS
60. Jennifer Ponce de León, Associate Professor of English, SAS
61. Warren Breckman, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History, SAS
62. Kate Dorsch, Associate Director, Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, SAS
63. Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Instructor and Associate Director, Creative Writing Program, SAS
64. Jessa Lingel, Associate Professor, Annenberg and GSWS
65. Jorge Téllez, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, SAS
66. Emilio A. Parrado, Professor, Department of Sociology, SAS
67. Emma Hart, Professor of History, Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, SAS
68. Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science, SAS
69. Rita Copeland, Rosenberg Professor of Humanities, Classical Studies and English, SAS
70. Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SAS
71. Lee Cassanelli, Associate Professor, History, SAS
72. Richard M. Leventhal, Executive Director of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center of the Penn Museum, Curator and Professor, Anthropology, SAS
73. Steve Viscelli, Associate Professor of Practice, Sociology, SAS
74. Nikhil Anand, Associate Professor, Anthropology, SAS
75. Josephine Park, Professor, English and Asian American Studies, SAS
76. Marie Gottschalk, Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor, Political Science, SAS
77. Michael Leja, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor, History of Art, SAS
78. D. Brian Kim, Assistant Professor, Russian and East European Studies, SAS
79. Jeremy McInerney, Professor of Classical Studies, SAS
80. Glenda Goodman, Associate Professor of Music, SAS
81. Mary Channen Caldwell, Assistant Professor of Music, SAS
82. Shaleigh Kwok, Lecturer in Critical Writing, SAS
83. Mary Summers, Lecturer, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program, SAS
84. Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science 
85. John Kehayias, Lecturer in Critical Writing, SAS
86. Cheikh Anta Babou, Professor of History, SAS
87. Teemu Ruskola, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS, and Professor of Law
88. Luis Moreno-Caballud, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, SAS
89. Gregory Goulding, Assistant Professor, South Asia Studies, SAS
90. S. Pearl Brilmyer, Assistant Professor of English, SAS
91. Valerie Ross, Senior Director, Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing
92. Elly R. Truitt, Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, SAS
93. Sonia M. Rosen, Associate Director, Independent School Teaching Residency, GSE
94. Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor, English and Cinema and Media Studies, SAS
95. Michael Nairn, Lecturer, Urban Studies, SAS
96. Charlotte Jacobs, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Division, GSE
97. Maria Murphy, Associate Director, Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, SAS
98. Michael Kokozos, Associate Director, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Division, GSE
99. Tulia G. Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Professor of Political Science, Director, Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
100. Brent Cebul, Assistant Professor of History, SAS
101. Heidi Voskuhl, Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, SAS
102. Kate Ledwith, Senior Lecturer, Master of Social Work Program, SP2
103. Roxanne Euben, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, Political Science, SAS
104. Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve, Senior Lecturer, Cinema and Media Studies and Creative Writing, SAS
105. Dagmawi Woubshet, Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English, SAS
106. Sara Jaffee, Professor of Psychology, SAS
107. Filippo Trentin, Lecturer, Cinema Media Studies, Italian Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, SAS