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Signatories to the CAFT

As of September 22, 2022, the following 228 individuals have signed the Commitment to Academic Freedom and Tolerance. Signatories are listed alphabetically by first name. Double-asterisks have been placed next to the names of the first 25 signatories. Signatures indicate personal, and not employer, endorsement of the CAFT.

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If you are a professor, instructor, or staff member affiliated with an institution of higher learning and would like to sign the CAFT, you can do so here.

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Aaron Cromar
Instructor Faculty
Edison College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Arizona State University

Aaron Kindsvatter, Ph.D.**
Associate Professor
Graduate Counseling Program
University of Vermont

Abhishek Saha
Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London

Adam Rallo, RGD
Professor
Design
Sheridan College

Alan Charles Kors
Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History
University of Pennsylvania

Alan Silberberg**
Research Professor of Psychology
American University

Alejandro Drago
Associate Professor of Music
Department of Music
University of North Dakota

Alex Roberts, Ph.D.**
Adjunct Instructor
Public Policy
various institutions

Alex Simonelis
Researcher
Comp Sc Dept.
Dawson College, Montreal

Alexander Morrison
Fellow and Tutor in History
New College
University of Oxford

Alexander Weiss
Senior Lecturer
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
The University of Edinburgh

Allan C. Stam
University Professor
Professor of Politics and Public Policy
University of Virginia

Anatoly Khazanov
Ernest Gellner Emeritus Professor of Anthropoly
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andrew Grimshaw
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia

Andrew Irvine 
Professor
Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science
Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
University of British Columbia -- Okanagan

Andrew M. Gardner
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Puget Sound

Andy Gustafson
Professor, Business Ethics and Society
Heider College of Business
Creighton University

Annett Körner, PhD
Associate Professor
McGill University

Anthony Cannizzaro
Associate Professor
The Busch School of Business
The Catholic University of America

Ari Meerson
Principal Investigator
Nutrition
Migal Galilee Research Institute and Tel Hai Academic College, Israel 

Arif Ahmed**
Reader in Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Sallnow-Smith Lecturer in Philosophy
Gonville and Caius College

Aurelio José Figueredo, PhD**
Professor of Psychology, Family Studies and Human Development
Director, Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Laboratory
Department of Psychology, School of Mind, Brain, and Behavior
University of Arizona

Barbara D. Miller
Associate Professor of Spanish Literature Emerita
S. U. N. Y.  Buffalo State

Barry Smith
Professor
Department of Philosophy
University at Buffalo

Baruch Meerson**
Full Professor
The Racah Institute of Physics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bradley A. Janey, Ph.D., NCC, LPC
Professor & Counseling Program Coordinator
Department of Psychology & Counseling
Marywood University

Brian H. Bix
Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy
Law School and Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota

C. Stephen Evans
University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
Baylor University

Caitlin Smith Gilson 
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Humanities
University of Holy Cross

Catherine R. Pakaluk
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought
The Busch School of Business
The Catholic University of America

Cathy Cantwell
Associate Member of Faculty
Oriental Institute
University of Oxford

Cheryl Hudson, Ph.D.
Lecturer in US Political History
Department of History
University of Liverpool 

Chris Wonnell
Professor of Law
University of San Diego

Christopher Dummitt**
Professor, Canadian Studies 
Trent University

Christopher Flavin, PhD
Professor of English and Chair
Department of Languages and Literature
Northeastern State University

Claudie Bernard
Professor of French Literature
New York University

Clive Seligman
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
University of Western Ontario

Coel Hellier
Professor of Astrophysics
Keele University

Craig DeLancey
Professor
Department of Philosophy
State University of New York at Oswego

Dan Eisenberg
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Washington

Daniel Gilbert
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Harvard University

Daniel Klein
Professor of Economics
George Mason University

Daniel Rodger
Senior Lecturer
School of Health and Social Care
London South Bank University

Darrell Long
Distinguished Professor
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz

David Erdos
Senior Lecturer in Law and the Open Society
Faculty of Law
University of Cambridge

David Kwan
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Concordia University

David M. Romps
Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
University of California, Berkeley

David Perel
Director, Academic and Research Computing Systems
Information Services and Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology

David Potts
Professor
Social Sciences
City College of San Francisco

David R. Sweet
Associate Professor of Classics
Department of Classics
University of Dallas

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Distinguished Professor emerita of Economics and of History
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Dorian S. Abbot
Associate Professor
Department of the Geophysical Sciences
The University of Chicago

Duke Pesta
Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Edward F. Gehringer**
Professor
Computer Science
North Carolina State University

Edward J. Groth
Professor Emeritus
Physics Department
Princeton University

Elisa Galgut, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Cape Town

Elisa Paganini
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Elizabeth Bogan
Senior Lecturer in Economics, (retired)
Department of Economics
Princeton University

Elizabeth Weiss
Professor
Department of Anthropology
San Jose State University

Erez Zadok
Professor and Graduate Academic Adviser
Computer Science Department
Stony Brook University

Eric Kaufmann
Professor of Politics
Birkbeck College
University of London

Evelyn Birge Vitz
Professor Emerita of French Literature, Thought and Culture 
New York University

Frances Widdowson**
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies
Mount Royal University

Fred Baumann
Professor of Political Science
Kenyon College

G. Robert Blakey
William J. & Catherine K. O'Neill Professor of Law Emeritus
Notre Dame Law School

Gabriel Egan
Professor of Shakespeare Studies
School of Humanities and Performing Arts
De Montfort University

Gad Saad, Ph.D.
Professor
John Molson School of Business, Marketing Department
Concordia University

Gale Macleod, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Moray House School of Education and Sport
University of Edinburgh

Gavin Poynter
Professor (Emeritus)
School of Social Sciences
University of East London

Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Professor in Management
Institute for International Management
Loughborough University London, UK

Gigi Foster
Professor
School of Economics
University of New South Wales

Gordon Klein
Lecturer
Anderson School
UCLA

Guy du Plessis
Adjunct Professor
School of Behavioral Sciences
California Southern University

Guy Madison
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Umeå University

Hannah Quirk
Reader in Criminal Law
The Dickson Poon School of Law
King's College London

Harald Uhlig**
Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor of Economics
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
The University of Chicago

Heiner Rindermann, Ph.D.
Professor for Educational and Developmental Psychology
Technische Universität Chemnitz

Howard S. Schwartz
Emeritus Professor
School of Business Administration
Oakland University

Hubert P. van Tuyll
Professor (Retired) of History
Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy
Augusta University

Ian Morris
Willard Professor
Department of Classics
Stanford University

J. Dmitri Gallow
Senior Research Fellow
Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Australian Catholic University

J. Mark Ramseyer
Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies
Harvard Law School

J.J. Moreso
Professor of Legal Philosophy
Law Department
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

James Bradfield, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Department of Economics
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

James E. Moore, II**
Professor
Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Public Policy, and Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southern California

James Orr
University Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion
Faculty of Divinity
University of Cambridge

James W. Muller
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Alaska, Anchorage

James W. Rector 
Professor of CEE 
University of California, Berkeley

Jan H. Blits
Professor Emeritus
University of Delaware

Jan Narveson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Philosophy
University of Waterloo, Ontario

Janice Fiamengo**
Full Professor of English (Retired)
University of Ottowa

Jason Lepojärvi, Ph.D.**
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Thorneloe University at Laurentian

Jay Bhattacharya, M.D. Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Stanford University

Jeffrey J. Poelvoorde
Associate Professor
Department of History and Politics
Converse University

Jeremy Seekings
Professor of Political Studies and Sociology
Director, Centre for Social Science Research
University of Cape Town

Jo Ann Cavallo
Professor
Department of Italian
Columbia University 

Joan G. Wexler
President, Dean and Professor of Law Emerita
Brooklyn Law School

Joe Phillips
Associate Professor, Justice & Civil Leadership
Yonsei University
Seoul, South Korea

Joel Nathan Rosen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Moravian University (nee Moravian College)

Joel W. Fish
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department
UMass Boston

John Bonnett
Assistant Professor of Digital History
Department History
Brock University

John Humphreys
Lecturer
School of Economics
University of Queensland (Australia)

John Mueller
Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Education
University of Calgary

John Shelton Reed
William Rand Kenan Jr Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

John Staddon**
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor, Department of Biology, Emeritus
Duke University

Jon Reisman**
Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy
University of Maine at Machias

Jonathan Anomaly
Associate Director and Senior Lecturer
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan Gallant
Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

Jonathan M. Smith
Pompa Professor, Professor of CIS
University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan P. Roth
Professor
History
San Jose State University

Jonathan Zimmerman
Berkowitz Professor in Education
Professor of History of Education
University of Pennsylvania

Jörg Schroth
Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Philosophisches Seminar
University of Göttingen

Joseph Cesario
Professor
Psychology Department
Michigan State University

Joseph Paul Forgas
Scientia Professor
School of Psychology
University of New south Wales

Joshua Schwartz
Associate Professor
Dept. of Engineering Science
Trinity University

Joshua Tasoff
Associate Professor
Department of Economic Sciences
Claremont Graduate University

Justin Kalef
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Philosophy
Rutgers University

Karen Taliaferro
Assistant Professor
School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership
Arizona State University

Katherine Weiss
Associate Dean
College of Arts and Letters
California State University, Los Angeles

Keith E. Stanovich**
Emeritus Professor
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
University of Toronto

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Keith Horner 
Emeritus Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging
Division of Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences
The University of Manchester

Kenneth Boyce
Associate Professor
Philosophy
University of Missouri

Kenneth G. Elzinga
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics
University of Virginia

Kevin D. Hoover
Professor of Economics
Professor of Philosophy
Duke University

Klaus Ostermann
Professor of Computer Science
University of Tübingen

Larry Alexander
Warren Distinguished Professor
University of San Diego School of Law

Lee Jones
Reader in International Politics
School of Politics & International Relations
Queen Mary University of London

Linda S. Gottfredson
Professor Emerita
School of Education
University of Delaware

Luigi Bradizza
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science and International Relations
Salve Regina University

Lyell Asher
Associate Professor of English
Lewis and Clark College
Portland, Oregon

M. D. Allen**
Professor of English
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Fox Cities

Manuel García-Carpintero
Departament of Philsophy
Universitat de Barcelona

Marc A.Forman, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Tulane University School of Medicine

Margaret L. King
Professor of History Emerita
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York

Mark Fabian
Research Associate
Bennett Institute for Public Policy
University of Cambridge

Mark Grabowski
Associate Professor
Communications
Adelphi University

Mark LeBar
Professor of Philosophy
Florida State University

Marshall DeRosa, PhD
Professor
Department of Political Science
Florida Atlantic University

Martin Drapeau
Full Professor
McGill University

Martin Neil
Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London

Matthew H. Kramer FBA
Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy
Fellow of Churchill College
University of Cambridge

Matthew Tedesco
Professor of Philosophy
Beloit College

Max Visser
Associate Professor of Management, Accounting & Organization
Nijmegen School of Management
Radboud University

Maximilian Werner
Associate Professor/lecturer
Writing and Rhetoric Studies
University of Utah

Melissa M. Murray
Senior Lecturer in Music Theory
Associate Director of the Division of Music
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University

Michael Ben-Gad
Professor
Department of Economics
City, University of London

Michael Huemer
Professor
Philosophy Department
University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Nevradakis
Adjunct Instructor
Communication
Various institutions

Michael Pakaluk, Ph.D.
Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy
The Tim and Steph Busch School of Business
The Catholic University of America

Michael Pirson
William Loschert Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Humanistic Management
Fordham University 

Michael Rectenwald
Professor
Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies
New York University

Michael Tooley
College Professor of Distinction
Department of Philosophy
University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Wesley Suman
Senior Continuing Lecturer
Department of Communication
The University of California, Los Angeles

Mitchell B. Langbert**
Associate Professor
Department of Business Management
CUNY--Brooklyn College

Mónica Capra
Professor
Economic Sciences
Claremont Graduate University

Murray Miles
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Brock University

Naomi Farber
Associate Professor
College of Social Work
University of South Carolina-Columbia

Nat Queen
Lecturer
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham, UK

Neil Thin, PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh

Nicholas H. Wolfinger
Professor
Department of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology
University of Utah

Nicholas J. Moberly, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
University of Exeter

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center

Nicoli Nattrass
Professor of Economics
University of Cape Town

Nigel Biggar
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Faculty of Theology & Religion
University of Oxford

Nora Laiken, PhD
Lecturer
Division of Medical Education
UC San Diego School of Medicine

Olivier Massin**
Professor
Institute of Philosophy
University of Neuchâtel

Pedro Domingos
Professor Emeritus
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Peter Martin
Senior Lecturer
Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science
The University of Manchester

Peter Zizler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Computing
Mount Royal University, Calgary

Philip Carl Salzman
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
McGill University

Philip Hammond
Professor of Media & Communications
London South Bank University

Philip Reed
Professor of Philosophy
Canisius College

Rachel H. Adler
Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The College of New Jersey

Richard Kenney
Dept. of English
University of Washington

Richard Klein
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Touro Law Center
Central Islip, New York

Richard Lowery
Associate Professor
Finance
University of Texas at Austin

Richard M. Sorrentino, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Psychology Department
University of Western Ontario

Richard Vedder
Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus
Ohio University

Rob Jenkins**
Associate Professor
English
Georgia State University - Perimeter College

Robert D. Benne, PhD
Jordan Trexler Professor Emeritus
Research Associate
Religion and Philosophy
Roanoke College

Robert Newman
Professor
Dept of Economics
Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge

Robert Singh
Professor of Politics
Department of Politics
Birkbeck, University of London

Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania

Ron Thomson**
Professor
Applied Linguistics
Brock University

Russell Blackford
Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Newcastle, Australia

Sally Satel MD
Lecturer
Yale University School of Medicine

Sander Beckers
Postdoctoral Fellow
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
LMU - Munich

Scott Aaronson**
David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

Scott Kim
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
University of Michigan

Sean C. Rife
Associate Professor
Psychology
Murray State University

Sergiu Klainerman
Higgins Professor of Mathematics
Princeton University

Shaun Lovejoy
Professor
Physics
McGill University 

Shlomo Engelson Argamon
Professor of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology

Sir Partha Dasgupta
Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics
Faculty of Economics
University of Cambridge, UK

Stanley Dubinsky
Professor of Linguistics
Department of English Language & Literature
University of South Carolina

Stanley G. Payne
Professor of History Emeritus
History
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Stephen Kershnar
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Philosophy
State University of New York at Fredonia

Stephen Porter
Professor of Higher Education
Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development
North Carolina State University

Stephen Quilley
Associate Professor
School of Environment Resources and Sustainability
University of Waterloo, Ontario

Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D.**
Professor of Philosophy
Rockford University, Illinois, USA

Steve Lupker
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Western Ontario

Steven Ambler
Professeur associé (retired Full Professor)
Département des sciences économiques
Université du Québec à Montréal

Steven D. Smith
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
University of San Diego

Steven DeLay
Tutorial Fellow
Ambrose College
Woolf University

Steven Pinker
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Stuart H. Hurlbert
Professor  Emeritus
Department of Biology
San Diego State University

Stuart Reges
Teaching Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Taner Edis
Professor of Physics
Truman State University

Theodore James Sherman
Professor
Department of English
Middle Tennessee State University

Theodore Turnau, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Journalism, Media, and Visual Arts
Anglo-American University, Prague

Thomas K. Hubbard
James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics
University of Texas at Austin

Thomas Kelly
Professor of Philosophy
Princeton University

Thomas P. Gallanis
Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law
University of Iowa

Todd K. Shackelford
Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology
Director, Center for Evolutionary Psychological Science
Oakland University

Todd Kapitula
Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin University

Torben Spaak
Professor of Jurisprudence
Department of Law
Stockholm University

Trevor L. Williams
Emeritus Professor of English
Department of English
University of Victoria, Canada

Victoria Sandberg, PhD
Instructor
Department of Biology
Normandale Community College

Vladimir Hinich
Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Haifa

Vladimir Mandelshtam
Professor
Chemistry Department
University of California, Irvine

W. Douglas McMillin
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Economics
Louisiana State University

Walter Block**
Professor of Economics
Loyola University - New Orleans

Warren Treadgold
NEH Professor of Byzantine Studies and Professor of History
Saint Louis University

Wesley Morriston
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
University of Colorado Boulder

William Fisher
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Research Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Western Ontario

William von Hippel
Professor
School of Psychology
University of Queensland

Yi-Zen Chu**
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
National Central University, Taiwan

Žiga Turk
Professor
University of Ljubljana

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