The New Blacklists
Leah Bowman
Chronicle of Higher Education
April 14, 2006
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Writing under a pseudonym, this assistant professor who teaches Middle East studies at a university in the South discusses the pressures of being a new faculty hire in Middle East studies–teaching, departmental responsibilities, maintaining an active research agenda and, much to her surprise, having to navigate the world of hate mail and personal attacks that are part of the every-day life of a scholar of the Middle East who holds views that some may find in opposition to their own. (Back to academic freedom)