...Ellen Willis Duke University Press 2002 The Post-Yeshiva Paradox FACULTY ORGANIZING AT NYU Even before its precedent-setting victory in the spring of 2001, the cam- Ellen Willis paign to unionize New York University’s graduate...

...Kitty Krupat; Laura Tanenbaum Duke University Press 2002 A Network for Campus Democracy REFLECTIONS ON NYU AND THE ACADEMIC LABOR MOVEMENT At 10:00 A.M. on the morning of 1 March 2001, undergraduates and fac- Kitty Krupat ulty members met at the offices of New York...

... (USAS). Unions Rising at New York University In 2001, our USAS affiliate at NYU focused much of its energy on forc- ing NYU to recognize and bargain with the Graduate Student Organizing...

... union, then return uptown to teach my afternoon class in NYU’s School of Edu- cation. When I entered the room where the hearing was to take place, it was easy to tell that the stakes were high. I already knew that NYU had hired the same high-profile law firm used previously by Yale and presently by...

... 2002 Contents Editorial: Rallying Social Text Brent Hayes Edwards and Randy Martin 1 The Post-Yeshiva Paradox: Faculty Organizing at NYU Ellen Willis 11 A Network for Campus Democracy: Reflections on NYU and the Academic Labor Movement Kitty Krupat and Laura Tanenbaum 27...

... University. She is the author of Migrant Imagi- naries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.SMexico Borderlands (NYU Press). Her second book, The Event without Witness: State Violence and Migrant Suffering on the Frontiers of North America (NYU Press, forthcoming), examines state policing...

... of intellectual life in the United States today? The ongoing NYU graduate employee/student struggle for a contract, for example, underlines the increasingly large percentage of those working in the acad- emy who do not enjoy academic freedom. How useful is academic free- dom as an...

... Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era (University of Minnesota Press). José Esteban Muñoz is associate professor and chair of performance stud- ies at New York University. His most recent book is Cruising Utopia: The Here and Now of Queer Futurity (NYU Press). His book Feeling Brown: Ethnicity, Affect, and...

.... student in anthropology at New York Univer- sity. As a student in NYU’s Program in Culture and Media, she recently completed a documentary film, Across Oceans, among Colleagues (New York University Program in Culture and Media), investigating the Com- mittee to Protect Journalists’ work in the Middle...

... the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press), coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford University Press), and coeditor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science (NYU Press). Claudia Fonseca is professor of...

...-blowing, convention-rattling feminists at the Voice when I started out there in the eighties. She gave me — and many writers of my generation (and more who came later, especially those who had the good fortune to be her students at NYU) — a heady sense of what we could claim as worthy subjects of...

... the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press), coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford University Press), and coeditor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science (NYU Press). Claudia Fonseca is professor of...

... history of Latin America. Randy Martin is professor and director of the graduate program in arts politics at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. He is author of An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management (Duke University Press). He has also recently coedited...

... forth- coming from Harvard University Press. Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. She is the author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latiniza- tion of American Culture (NYU Press), a 2004 Choice Outstanding Book; the editor of None of the Above...

... interest alongside the primary concern regarding the silencing of Putin’s opposition. 138 Browning ∙ This Balaclava Is Too Hot This response echoed many of the comments I had heard at another Pussy Riot panel that had been convened at NYU one week earlier, at the...

... take you seriously.”10 The NYU – Abu Dhabi transaction recalls the scenario of colonial conquest with a new twist. No longer just an easy or cheap source of labor, the affluent other is now in a position to solicit and pay for the cultural and...

... California at Santa Cruz and then Duke University), the New York collective became the de facto Social Text collective, and the core of the group began to be composed of scholars at CUNY, NYU, Rutgers, Princeton, and Columbia. Beyond its membership, the journal was deeply shaped by the intellectual...

... fighting the same fight against neoliberalism and glossed-over drone strikes with the new administration—not a new social and political formation that seemed to indicate a failure of even the neoliberal consensus. Where did we go wrong? Several weeks later we gathered in a smaller, somewhat overheated NYU...

... circumstances at Microsoft. NYU’s administrators and trustees are primarily responsible for this situation, but so are its humanist faculty. The stars of the philosophy department, for example, implemented this system in which term after...