Over 5000 Scholars Boycotting the UIUC

Tomorrow is Steven Salaita’s day. Just so that he—and the rest of the world—will know how many of us in academe are standing with him, there are now 5098 scholars boycotting the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until the University reinstates Salaita.

Here’s the breakdown:

General, non-discipline-specific, boycott statement: 1819*
Philosophy: 567
Political Science: 306
Sociology: 292
History: 93*
Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies: 78
Communications: 105
Rhetoric/Composition: 63
English: 360
Contingent academic workers: 295
Anthropology: 177
Women’s/Gender/Feminist Studies: 54*
Library and Information Science: 180
Natural sciences: 34
Graduate students: 675

*These are numbers I have had to pull from older reports; they could be higher.