Following the recent wave of racist incidents on Boston College’s campus and an insufficient administrative response, some BC students have raised a question: “Where are the faculty?” Many BC faculty work individually and in existing groups to challenge racism on campus. A newly formed Faculty for Justice project called Faculty Advancing Racial Equity (FARE) commits to collaborating with student, faculty, and staff partners to establish clear and concrete actions aimed to disrupt and end patterns of racist behavior, identify and overturn white supremacist systems, and build new institutional and community structures that reflect true racial equity.
The 168 undersigned BC faculty endorse FARE with the following mission:
- To acknowledge that a history of white supremacy has shaped many cultural norms and institutional policies and practices, and to commit personally to active, ongoing, and anti-racist work to subvert them.
- To formalize our own and University-wide support for students, faculty, and staff of color.
- To craft justice-oriented, decolonized syllabi that offer equitable course policies.
- To push “upward” within the University so as to persuade decision-makers to radically revise institutional policies and practices toward racial equity.
- To center the perspectives of colleagues identifying as members of underrepresented communities, and to intervene if and when those perspectives are deprioritized.
Faculty and staff are invited to join us, and students are encouraged to communicate ideas and priorities. Please email fare4bc@gmail.com to acknowledge your commitment to active participation and to view our full mission statement, as well as a working list of critical anti-racism resources for faculty and administrators. We thank our students for their input over the last year, and we commit to working over the summer to develop concrete plans so that we may all return to a more equitable environment in the fall.
Endorsed by:
Hiba Hafiz, Boston College Law School
Eric Weiskott, English
M. Brinton Lykes, CDEP/Lynch and CHRIJ
Elizabeth Graver, English
Eileen Sweeney, Philosophy
Laura E. Hake, Biology
Michael Russell, MESA
Suzanne Berne, English
Martin Summers, History/AADS
James M. Weiss, Theology and Capstone Program
Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, History
Patrick McQuillan, Lynch
Aurelia Campbell, Art, Art History, and Film
Paula Mathieu, English
Kevin Lotery, Art, Art History and Film
Hilary Palevsky, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Marla De Rosa, English
Eve Spangler, Sociology
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, English
Anjali Vats, Communication, and African and African Diaspora Studies
Can Erbil, Economics
Marilynn Johnson, History
Suzanne Matson, English
Mary Troxell, Philosophy
Lynn DiBenedetto, Biology
Ismael Ben Fofana, Biology
Sarah McMenamin, Biology
Andy Crow, English Department
Conevery Bolton Valencius, History
Yonder Moynihan Gillihan, Theology
Lori Harrison-Kahan, English
Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM Theology
Mary Jo Iozzio, Ecclesiastical Faculty, School of Theology and Ministry
Katie Harster, Philosophy
Dacia Gentilella, English
Emrah Altindis, Biology
Christy Pottroff, English
Oliver Wunsch, Art, Art History, and Film
Stephanie C. Leone, Art, Art History, and Film
Robert Stanton, English
Robin Fleming, History
Michael Glass, History
Kevin O’Neill, History
Virginia Reinburg, History
Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Lynch
Heather Olins, Biology
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Romance Languages and Literatures, and African and African Diaspora Studies
Ángeles Picone History
Ellen Goldstein, Mathematics
Anne Homza, TCS, and Lynch
Michele Lauriat, Art
Lauri Johnson, ELHE, and Lynch
Rebecca Lowenhaupt, ELHE, and Lynch
Laura O’Dwyer, MESA and Lynch
Cherie McGill, Philosophy
Jane Cassidy, Art, Art History, and Film
Angela Ards, English
Kalpana Seshadri, English
Christopher P. Kenaley, Biology
David Scanlon, TCS, Lynch
Jon M. Wargo, TCS, Lynch
C. Shawn McGuffey, African and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology
Andrés Castro Samayoa, ELHE, Lynch
Tim van Opijnen, Biology
Heather Rowan-Kenyon, ELHE, Lynch
Welkin E. Johnson, Biology
David Burgess, Biology
Wen Fan, Sociology
Franziska Seraphim, History
Stacie Kent, History
Karen K. Miller, History and African and African Diaspora Studies
Hanne Eisenfeld, Classical Studies
Natalia Sarkisian, Sociology
Mariela Páez, TCS, Lynch
Stephanie Stigliano, Art, Art History, and Film
Dayton Haskin, English
Andrew Jorgenson, Sociology and Environmental Studies
Maggi Price, School of Social Work
Eric Folker, Biology
Elizabeth Sparks, Graduate Student Services
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., History
Noah Snyder, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Danny Bowles, Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies
Allison Adair, English
Catherine M. Mooney, School of Theology and Ministry
Ernesto Valiente, School of Theology and Ministry
Laura Tanner, English
John Christianson, Psychology and Neuroscience
Mattitiyahu Zimbler, Psychology and Neuroscience
Kristina Moore, Psychology and Neuroscience
Andrea Heberlein, Psychology and Neuroscience
Elizabeth Kensinger, Psychology and Neuroscience
Sharon Beckman, Boston College Law School
Stacee Santos, Psychology and Neuroscience
Scott Slotnick, Psychology and Neuroscience
Emily Gates, MESA, Lynch
Michael Graf, Physics
Sean MacEvoy, Psychology and Neuroscience
Michael A. McDannald, Psychology and Neuroscience
Brooke Magnus, Psychology & Neuroscience
Rebecca Dunn, Biology
Reena Parikh, Boston College Law School
Lisa Nelson, Biology
Emilie Clucas Leaderman, Woods College of Advancing Studies, Psychology and Neuroscience
Kevin Newmark, Romance Languages and Literatures
Seung Hee Jeon, Easter, Slavic, and German Studies
Stephen Pfohl, Sociology
Sandra Waddock, Carroll School of Management
Hosffman Ospino, School of Theology and Ministry
Paul Tremblay, Boston College Law School
Sara Cordes, Psychology & Neuroscience
Liane Young, Psychology & Neuroscience
Vladimir Ivkovic, Psychology & Neuroscience
Mary Holper, Boston College Law School
Daniel Daly, School of Theology and Ministry
Holly VandeWall, Philosophy
Yajun Mo, History
Daniela Urosa, Boston College Law School; Romance Languages and Literatures
Daniel Fox, Chemistry
Celeste Wells, Communication
Jennie Purnell, Political Science
Julia DeVoy, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students and Programs, ERA First-Year Program Director, Lynch
Melissa Kelley, School of Theology and Ministry
Cal Halvorsen, School of Social Work
Audrey Friedman, TCS and UCTC, Lynch
Zygmunt Plater, Boston College Law School
Monica O’Reilly-Jacob, CSON
Sherri St. Pierre, CSON
Christina Matz, School of Social Work
Ethan Baxter, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Thomas Crea, Global Practice, School of Social Work
Rocío Calvo, Latinx Leadership Initiative, School of Social Work
Tara Pisani Gareau, Environmental Studies & Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dunwei Wang, Chemistry
Nate Hartmann, Chemistry
Melissa Brown, School of Social Work
Angie Johnston, Psychology and Neuroscience
Gorica Petrovich, Psychology and Neuroscience
Lisa Goodman, Lynch
Meghan Sweeney, Theology Department and PULSE Program
Jessica Johnson, School of Social Work
Lynne O’Connell, Chemistry
Kathleen Flinton, School of Social Work
Brian Zimmerman, English
Scott Seider, Lynch
Jim Morken, Chemistry
Babak Momeni, Biology
Maureen Ritchey, Psychology and Neuroscience
Jane Ashley, CSON
Andréa Javel, Romance Languages and Literatures
Fang Lu, Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies
Theresa O’Keefe, School of Theology and Ministry
Eranthie Weerapana, Chemistry
Eric Dearing, CDEP and Lynch
Douglas Warner, Biology
Emine Fetvaci, Art, Art History, and Film
David Miele, CDEP and Lynch
Hiram Brownell, Psychology and Neuroscience
Summer Hawkins, School of Social Work
Angela Kim Harkins, School of Theology and Ministry
Franklin T. Harkins, School of Theology and Ministry
Kendra Eshleman, Classical Studies
Xiao Chen, Physics
Dan Farbman, Boston College Law School
Richard Jackson, TCS and Lynch
Kelsey Werner, School of Social Work
Michael Resler, Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies
Ilija Zeljkovic, Physics
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