Over the past few weeks, we have been asked to give our opinion on the cluster hire. We want to be honest with students, community members, and candidates about our position. We have been clear about our demands in the past: the need for an Ethnic Studies department; the critical…

To sign onto the statement, please click here. — *To sign onto the statement, please click here. Anyone is welcome to sign. * We are in the middle of two global pandemics. One, COVID-19, has wrought over 120,000 deaths in the U.S. alone, disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities. The second, centuries-old anti-Black systemic racism, continues devastating communities through police brutality, mass incarceration, and unequal healthcare and treatment access. Thousands of people…

A little over three weeks ago, Harvard publicly proclaimed that it was suspending its search for “faculty specializing in ethnic studies” as part of a University-wide hiring freeze; their immediate and proclaimed reason for doing so — COVID-19 and the shocks it has wrought across many, if not all, global…

(This letter was not written by our coalition, but by the undersigned group of faculty at Harvard. We are publishing it here with their permission to facilitate its widespread sharing.) Dear members of the Harvard community: We write as FAS ladder faculty who work and teach in Asian American Studies…

On December 2nd, 2019, we, the Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition, launched our latest campaign for Ethnic Studies at Harvard with a sit-in at University Hall. …