We, the undersigned faculty members and professors emeritae/i, have all attached our names to letters in the past strongly supporting our female full professor colleagues in their class-action lawsuit against the College due to long-standing, gender-based discrimination in salary. With District Judge Cathy Seibel’s recent denial of Vassar’s motion to dismiss and in line with the College’s commitment to equity and an “environment in which all members…are valued and empowered to thrive,” we vigorously renew our call upon President Bradley and the Vassar College Board of Trustees to settle the case amicably and promptly, providing fair compensation to remedy the gender-based financial inequities that have accrued over time as well as full remuneration for expenses connected with pursuing the lawsuit. Furthermore, we urge the administration to work closely and collaboratively with the faculty in examining our system of review in order to identify and rectify the structural factors that led to the pay gap.
Signed,
- Mark C. Amodio, Professor of English
- Sole Anatrone, Assistant Professor of Italian
- Tobias Armborst, Professor of Art
- Michael Aronna, Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Leah Isseroff Bendavid, Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Chris Bjork, Professor of Education
- Simona Bondavalli, Associate Professor of Italian
- Andy Borum, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Veronica Brownstone, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Kariane Calta, Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Amy Chin, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Asian Studies
- Randolph R. Cornelius, Professor Emeritus of Psychological Science
- Hiromi Dollase, Associate Professor of Japanese
- David Esteban, Associate Professor of Biology
- Megan Gall, Associate Professor of Biology
- Alberto Gelmi, Assistant Professor of Italian
- Katie Gemmill, Assistant Professor of English
- Brian Godfrey, Professor of Geography
- Hannah Gommerstadt, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Gordon Hall, Assistant Professor of Art
- Sophia Siddique Harvey, Associate Professor of Film
- Monika Hu, Associate Professor of Statistics
- Myra Hughey, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Luke Hunsberger, Professor of Computer Science
- Trevor Hyde, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Alison Keimowitz, Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Jennifer Kennell, Associate Professor of Biology
- Elizabeth Lastra, Assistant Professor of Art
- John Long, Professor of Biology and Cognitive Science
- Benjamin Lotto, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Adam Lowrance, Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Montserrat Madariaga-Caro, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
- John McCleary, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics
- Taneisha Means, Associate Professor of Political Science
- Daniel Mendiola, Assistant Professor of History
- James Merrell, Professor Emeritus of History
- Leonard Nevarez, Professor of Sociology
- Joseph Nevins, Professor of Geography
- Tracy O’Neill, Assistant Professor of English
- Barbara Olsen, Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies
- Sam Opondo, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies
- Justin Patch, Associate Professor of Music
- José Perillán, Associate Professor of Physics and STS
- Sidney Plotkin, Professor of Political Science
- Michaela Pohl, Associate Professor of History
- Allison Puglisi, Assistant Professor of History
- Z. Serena Qiu, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
- Shivani Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Ismail Rashid, Professor of History
- Christopher Raymond, Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Eréndira Rueda, Associate Professor of Sociology
- Jodi Schwarz, Associate Professor of Biology
- Jeff Seidman, Assoc. Professor of Philosophy
- Blevin Shelnutt, Assistant Professor of English
- Payton Small, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences
- Marc Smith, Professor of Computer Science
- Erica Stein, Associate Professor of Film
- Charles Steinhorn, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics
- Candice Lowe Swift, Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- David Tavárez, Professor of Anthropology
- Justin Touchon, Associate Professor of Biology
- Bryan W. Van Norden, Professor of Philosophy
- Nicolas Vivalda, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Associate Professor of Religion