These members of academia have joined our call for Congress to ensure that any new postal rate increases do not imperil small and independent publications and stifle public discourse in America.

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Henry Abelove
Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Gilbert Allen
Professor of English
Furman University

Edward A. Alpers
Professor of History
UCLA

Lynne Anderson-Inman
Associate Professor
College of Education
University of Oregon

Silvia M. Arrom
Jane's Professor of Latin American Studies
Brandeis University

Ronald R. Atkinson
Department of History and Director, African Studies Program
University of South Carolina

Guillaume Aubert
Assistant Professor of History and American Studies
Williams College

Sally Bachner
Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Judith Bainbridge
Professor of English
Furman University

Peter Baldwin
Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen M. Barber
Associate Professor
Department of English Literature
University of Rhode Island

Gillian Barker
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Bucknell University

Philip Barnard
Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor
Department of English
University of Kansas

James R. Barrett
Professor of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. John Barrington
Associate Professor
Department of History
Furman University

Jerome A. Barron
Harold H. Greene Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School

Sanjib Baruah
Professor of Political Studies
Bard College

Richard Bausch
Moss Chair of Excellence
Professor of English
The University of Memphis

Frank D. Bean
Chancellors Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy
University of California, Irvine

Calvin Bedient
Professor of English
UCLA

Derrick Bell
Visiting Professor
New York University
School of Law

Ilona D.Bell
Professor of English
Williams College

Patricia Bell-Scott, Ph.D.
Professor, Child and Family Development
University of Georgia

Thomas Bender
University Professor of the Humanities
Department of History
New York University

Lloyd Benson
Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor
Department of History
Furman University

Kimberly W. Benston
Francis B. Gummere Professor of English &
Director, Hurford Humanities Center
Haverford College

Edward Berenson
Professor of History
Director, Institute of French Studies
New York University

Carol L. Bernstein
Mary E. Garret Alumnae Professor Emerita and Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Bryn Mawr College

Richard J. Bernstein
Vera List Professor of Philosophy
New School for Social Research
New York, NY

Joseph Bernt
Professor of Journalism
Associate Director for Graduate Studies
E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University

John Beverley
Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh

Richard B. Bilder
Foley & Lardner - Bascom Emeritus Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School

Casey Nelson Blake
Professor of History and American Studies
Columbia University

Paul Blumberg
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Queens College, City University of New York

Susan Bordo
Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities
Professor of English
Gender and Women's Studies Program
University of Kentucky

Greg Bottoms
Associate Professor of English
University of Vermont

Anthony G. Bradley
Corse Professor of English
University of Vermont

Jonathan Brent
Editorial Director
Yale University Press

Geoffrey Brock
Assistant Professor of English
University of Arkansas

David Bromwich
Professor of English
Yale University

Jeffrey Brooks
Professor of History
The Johns Hopkins University

Carole H. Browner
Professor
Center for Culture and Health
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles

Jerome Bruner
University Professor
NYU School of Law

Louis J. Budd
James B Duke Professor of English, Emeritus
Duke University

James Burbank
Professor of English
University of New Mexico

Paulette M. Caldwell
Professor of Law
New York University School of Law

Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor
Department of English
University of Kansas

Tracy Campbell
Professor of History
University of Kentucky

Mary Baine Campbell
Professor
Department of English and American Literature
Brandeis University

William H. Chafe
Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History
Duke University

Oscar G. Chase
Russell D. Niles Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South

C. Ondine Chavoya
Assistant Professor of Art and Latina/o Studies
Williams College

David Christensen
Professor of Philosophy
University of Vermont

Anna M. Cienciala
Professor of History, Emeritus
University of Kansas

Jonathan Clark
Hall Distinguished Professor of British History
Department of History
University of Kansas

Dennis M. Clausen
Professor of English
University of San Diego

Mary Ann Clawson
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Robert Cohen
Professor of English
Middlebury College

David Collings
Professor of English
Bowdoin College

Tony Conrad,
Professor
Department of Media Study
SUNY at Buffalo

David Coombs
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
Cornell University

Joan Copjec
Distinguished Professor of English,
Comparative Literature, and Media Study
SUNY at Buffalo

Daniel Cottom
David A. Burr Chair of Letters
Department of English
University of Oklahoma

Ingrid Creppell
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
George Washington University

Cynthia L. Caywood
Professor of English
University of San Diego

Robert Dallek
Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA

Colin Dayan
Robert Penn Warren Professor
in the Humanities
Vanderbilt University

Michael Denning
William R Kenan Jr Professor of American Studies
Yale University

Carolyn Dever
Professor of English
Vanderbilt University

Martin Dimitrov
Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Wai Chee Dimock
William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
Yale University

Mary Ann Doane
George Hazard Crooker University Professor
Modern Culture and Media
Brown University

John Donatich
Director
Yale University Press

Michael Donnelly
Professor of Sociology
Bard College

Don H. Doyle
McCausland Professor of History
Director, ARENA Association for Research on
Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas
University of South Carolina

Jennifer Doyle
Associate Professor of English
University of California-Riverside

Mara de Gennaro
Assistant Professor of English
Bucknell University

David King Dunaway
Professor of English
University of New Mexico

Alexander Dunlop
Associate Professor of English Emeritus
Auburn University

Alex Dupuy
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Stuart Dybek
Distinguished Writer in Residence
Northwestern University

Peter Elbow
Professor of English Emeritus
University of Massachusetts

Charles V. Eidsvik
Professor of Theatre and Film Studies
Univerity of Georgia

Elizabeth Evans
Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing Program
University of Arizona

Colin Dayan
Robert Penn Warren Professor
in the Humanities
Vanderbilt University

Carole Fabricant
Professor of English
University of California, Riverside

Alice Fahs
Associate Professor of History
University of California, Irvine

Frank Farmer
Associate Professor of English
The University of Kansas

Kirby Farrell
Professor of English
University of Massachusetts

Gordon Fellman
Professor of Sociology
Chair - Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies
Brandeis University

Michael M.J. Fischer
Andrew W. Carnegie Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roberta Fran
Douglas Tracy Smith Professor
Department of English
Yale University

Carl Freedman
Professor of English
Director of English Graduate Studies
Louisiana State University

Daniel Fineman
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Occidental College

Adam Flint
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Hartwick College

Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
Associate Director
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Northwestern University

Robert J. Fogelin
Professor of Philosophy (emeritus)
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

Richard C. Fording
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, and
Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
University of Kentucky

Douglas Foster
Associate Professor of Journalism
Medill School
Northwestern University

Daniela Garofalo
Assistant Professor of English
University of Oklahoma

David A. Gerber
UB Distinguished Professor
Department of History
University at Buffalo

Glenda Gilmore
Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor
Department of History
Yale University

Todd Gitlin
Professor of Journalism and Sociology
Graduate School of Journalism

James Given
Professor of History
University of California, Irvine

Nancy Glazener
Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh

Rebecca M. Gordon
Asst. Professor of English & Humanities
Reed College

Walter Goffart
Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer
Department of History
Yale University

Bryna Goodman
Professor
Department of History
University of Oregon

Richard Graham
Emeritus Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin

Maurine Greenwald
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh

Elinor Kelley Grusin, Ph.D.
Professor
Co-Editor, Newspaper Research Journal
Department of Journalism
The University of Memphis

Lillian Guerra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Caribbean History
Department of History
Yale University

Anil Gupta
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh

Janet Hadda
Professor of English Emerita
Department of English
UCLA

Jane Hale
Associate Professor of French & Comparative Literature
Brandeis University

Tona Hangen, Ph.D.
Lecturer in History and American Studies
Brandeis University

Charles Hardy III
Professor of History
West Chester University

Martin Harries
Associate Professor of English
New York University

William J. Harris
Associate Professor of English
University of Kansas

Andrew P. Haley, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
University of Southern Mississippi

Richard F Hardin
Frances Stiefel Professor of English
University of Kansas

Geoffrey Hartman
Sterling Professor of English (Emeritus)
Yale University

Alan Heineman
Professor of English
Director, Honors Program in the Humanities
University of San Francisco

Brian Henry
Associate Professor of English and Creative
Writing
University of Richmond

Cynthia Herrup
Professor of History and Law
University of Southern California

Michael B. Herzog
Professor of English
Gonzaga University

Raymond F. Hilliard
Chair: Department of English
Professor of English
University of Richmond

Thomas E. Hodges, Jr.
Associate Professor Emeritus of Journalism
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University

Curt Holleman
Deputy Director
Central University Libraries
Southern Methodist University

Stephen Holmes
Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law
NYU School of Law

Woody Holton
Associate Professor of History
University of Richmond

Robert Houston
Professor, English/Creative Writing
The University of Arizona

Daniel Walker Howe
Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus
Oxford University, England
Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA

Niklas Hultin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Swarthmore College

Norris Hundley
Professor Emeritus of History
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Georg G. Iggers
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus
University at Buffalo

Wilma Iggers
Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus
Canisius College

Caren Irr
Associate Professor of English and American Literature
Brandeis University

Ray Jackendoff
Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
Tufts University

Margaret C. Jacob
Professor of History
UCLA

Travis B Jacobs
Fletcher D. Proctor Professor
Department of History

Matthew Frye Jacobson
Chair, American Studies
Yale University

Russell Jacoby
Professor in Residence
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Mark Jarman
Centennial Professor of English
Vanderbilt University

Dianne Johnson
Professor of English
University of South Carolina

Patricia A. Johnston
Editor, Vergilius
Professor of Classics
Brandeis University
Dept. of Classical Studies

Paul E. Johnson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in History
University of South Carolina

Suzanne Jones
Professor of English
University of Richmond

John T. Jost
Associate Professor of Psychology
New York University

Jonathan Judaken
Associate Professor of History
Director - Marcus Orr Humanities Center
University of Memphis

R. A. Judy
Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies
Department of English
University of Pittsburgh

Arthur Kaledin
Professor of History Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rodger Kamenetz
Professor of English
Louisiana State University

Indira Karamcheti
Associate Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Nikki Keddie
Professor Emerita of History
UCLA

Kathryn R. Kent
Associate Professor of English
Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Williams College

Randi Koeske, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Daniel J. Kevles
Stanley Woodward Professor of History
Department of History
Yale University

Karen Klein
Associate Professor Emerita of English and Interdisciplinary Humanities
Brandeis University

Gary F. Koeske
Professor of Social Work
Doctoral Program Director
University of Pittsburgh

Peter D. Kramer, M. D. < b />
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University

James Krippner
Associate Professor of History
Haverford College

Katherine A. Lancaster
Managing Editor
ETHNOLOGY
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh

Donna R. Leff
Professor of Journalism
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University

Irina Livezeanu
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh

Lokangaka Losambe
Professor and Chair
Department of English
University of Vermont

Ira C. Lupu
F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Professor of Law
George Washington University School of Law

Juliet Flower MacCannell
Professor Emerita
English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine

David A.J. Macey
Professor of History and Russian Studies
Middlebury College

Steven Mailloux
Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric
Department of English
University of California, Irvine

Neepa Majumdar
Assistant Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh

Wanda Martin
Associate Professor
English Language & Literature
University of New Mexico

David Mason
Associate Professor of English
The Colorado College

D. A. Masullo, Ph.D
Department of English
Program in American Studies
Vanderbilt University

Jack D. Marietta
Professor of History
University of Arizona

Valerie J. Matsumoto
Associate Professor of History
UCLA

Wm. Duncan McArthur
Professor of English
Furman University

Robert W. McChesney
Gutgsell Endowed Professor
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Todd McGowan
Associate Professor
Director of Film and Television Studies
University of Vermont

Gage McWeeny
Assistant Professor of English
Stetson Hall
Williams College

Elgin W. Mellown
Associate Professor of English, Emeritus
Duke University

John Merriman
Charles Seymour Professor of History
Yale University

Rajeswari Mohan
Associate Professor of English
Haverford College

Robert Mortimer
Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
Haverford College

Alyssa Mt. Pleasant
Assistant Professor of American Studies and History
Yale University

Fred Myers
Silver Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
New York University

Gaura Shankar Narayan
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Literature
Purchase College SUNY

Fred G. Notehelfer
Professor of History
Director, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

Kathryn J. Oberdeck
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Richard Oestreicher
Associate Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh

Barbara L. Packer
Professor of English
UCLA

Gayle Pemberton
Professor of English, African American Studies American Studies
Wesleyan University

Andrew Parker
Professor of English
Amherst College

Dr. Blaise Parker
Assistant Director of Women's Studies
University of Georgia

Bill Parton,
Director
Pendergraft Library
Arkansas Tech University

Karen Petrone
Associate Professor of History
University of Kentucky

Kenneth Pomeranz
Chancellor`s Professor of History
University of California, Irvine

Claire Potter
Associate Professor of History
Wesleyan University

James G. Pope
Professor of Law
Rutgers University School of Law

Joe Ashby Porter
Professor of English
Duke University

Noel Pugach
Professor of History
University of New Mexico

Hilary Putnam
Cogan University Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Harvard University

Gail Radford
Associate Professor of History
SUNY?Buffalo

Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Irvine

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Global Distinguished Professor
Department of English
New York University

Herbert Reid
Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky

Joan Retallack
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities
Bard College

Jaime E. Rodr�guez
Professor of History
Editor, Mexican Studies
University of California, Irvine

Jack Rollwagon
Professor Emeritus
Suny College at Brockport
New York University

Randall Roorda
Associate Professor of English
University of Kentucky

Emily S. Rosenberg
Professor of History
University of California, Irvine

Joseph Rouse< br/>
Hedding Professor of Moral Science
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University

Ruben G. Rumbaut
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Irvine

Frederick H. Russell
Associate Professor of History
Rutgers University

Thomas Russell
Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing
University of Memphis

David W. Rutledge
Pitts Professor & Chair
Department of Religion
Furman University

Darrell Sabers
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
University of Arizona

Mark E. Sandberg, Ph.D.
Dean Emeritus
College of Business Administration.
Rider University

Andrea Stevenson Sanjian
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Bucknell University

Pancho Savery
Professor of English, Humanities, and American Studies
Reed College

Stuart B. Schwartz
George Burton Adams Professor of History
Yale University

Richard A. Schwartz
Professor of English
Florida International University

Michael Schudson
Distinguished Professor
Dept of Communication
University of California, San Diego

Helen Scott
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Vermont

Sharon Cadman Seelig
Professor of English
and Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities
Smith College

Mary Segers
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University

Elayne Shapiro
Chair, Department of Communication Studies
University of Portland

Matthew Sharpe
Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Lytle Shaw
Assistant Professor of English
New York University

Erik Simpson
Associate Professor of English
Grinnell College

Shanti Marie Singham
Professor of History
Williams College

Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Duke University

Gaddis Smith
Larned Professor of History Emeritus
Yale University

Mark M. Smith
Carolina Distinguished Professor
General Editor, Southern Classics Series
Department of History
University of South Carolina

Angela Sorby
Associate Professor of English
Marquette University

Arthur Spears
Professor of Anthropology
City College, Graduate Center
City University of New York

Roderick Stackelberg
Professor of History Emeritus
Gonzaga University

Gustavus T. Stadler
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of English
Haverford College

Susan Staves
Professor Emerita
Department of English and American Literature
Brandeis University

Wayne Steffen
University Editor
Fresno Pacific University

J. David Stevens
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
University of Richmond

Robert Stevenson
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Leadership & Policy
SUNY - Buffalo

Marla Stone
Professor of History
Occidental College

Richard P. Sugg
Professor of English & Humanities
Florida International University

Karen Swann
Professor of English
Williams College

Heidi Swarts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University-Newark

Marcia G. Synnott
Professor Emerita of History,
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Andreas Teuber
Chair and Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Brandeis University

Cecelia Tichi
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English
Vanderbilt University

Virginia Tiger, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of English
Rutgers University

Magda Teter
Assistant Professor of History
Wesleyan University

Carol B. Thompson
Research Chair, Association of Concerned
Africa Scholars (ACAS)
Professor, Political Economy
Northern Arizona University

Helen Thompson
Associate Professor of English
Northwestern University

Dr. Bruce Torrence
Professor of Mathematics
Randolph-Macon College

Peter Travis
Professor of English
Dartmouth College

Judith Treas
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Irvine

Irene Tucker
Associate Professor of English
University of California, Irvine

Brian Turner
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Randolph-Macon College

Carole-Anne Tyler
Associate Professor of English,
and Film and Visual Culture
University of California ? Riverside

Gayle Wald
Professor of English
George Washington University

Jessica Wang
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in U.S. History
Department of History
University of British Columbia

Chris Waters
Professor of History
Williams College

Robert N. Watson
Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation
UCLA

Dora B. Weiner
Professor of the Medical Humanities and History
UCLA

Barbara Weinstein
Professor of History
New York University

Robert Westbrook
Professor of History
University of Rochester

Alan White
Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy
Williams College

John Whittaker
Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Louisiana State University

Sarah Elise Wiliarty
Assistant Professor of Government
Wesleyan University

Richard Dien Winfield
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Georgia

Philip K. Wion
Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh

M. Norton Wise
Co-Director, Center for Society and Genetics
Distinguished Professor of History
Department of History
UCLA