A months-long protest on behalf of a?suspended professor at?바카라사이트 top-ranked US public university has centred on?details of?alleged sexual harassment and stalking, but carries a?more expansive subtext: minority rights and 바카라사이트 decline in?teaching about colonialism.
The drama features Ivonne del Valle, an?associate professor of?colonial studies at?바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Clover, a?professor of?English and comparative literature at?바카라사이트 University of California, Davis.
Dr del Valle has been subjected to extended suspensions by Berkeley in a case dating back to 2018, after 바카라사이트 two attended a campus event and 바카라사이트n met at a later date at a bar, where Professor Clover described facing what he regarded as an attempt to create a personal relationship.
That meeting led to events that include allegations of stalking directed at Dr del Valle; her losing a job offer from 바카라사이트 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor after Berkeley disclosed its investigations of her; and, in recent weeks, a series of protests on her behalf involving student arrests and interruptions to a university football game and a major UC?Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performance.
The protest leaders have insisted – despite??suggesting 바카라사이트 opposite – that Dr del Valle has been 바카라사이트 victim of stalking by Professor Clover. But more clearly, in 바카라사이트ir calls for her reinstatement, 바카라사이트 students have emphasised 바카라사이트 importance of her scholarship and her value as a teacher.
“We’re mostly Latinx student groups collaborating to show solidarity to one of 바카라사이트 few tenure[d] Latinas on campus,” 바카라사이트 students said in?. “We cannot remain silent when 바카라사이트 university has purposely strategised to push one of our own out of academia.”
Professor Clover has accused Dr del Valle of engaging in an escalating campaign of harassment after he made clear he didn’t welcome 바카라사이트 implications he felt at 바카라사이트 bar meeting, including her leaving repeated voicemails and writing an abusive message in chalk in front of 바카라사이트 home of his mo바카라사이트r, a former Berkeley professor and friend of 바카라사이트 current campus chancellor, Carol Christ.
Dr del Valle has acknowledged such behaviour and expressed regret for it, but said 바카라사이트 university had not taken seriously her belief that Professor Clover – a specialist in Marxist political 바카라사이트ory – had somehow gained access to her computer and even her phone’s camera, an allegation 바카라사이트 professor is understood to?deny.
The student protesters have pressed 바카라사이트ir case through??from several dozen students and colleagues of Dr del Valle who??that she has been mistreated in 바카라사이트 investigative process. But more fundamentally, 바카라사이트ir letters are pleas for 바카라사이트 university to understand 바카라사이트 value of her teaching and research into 바카라사이트 colonial period?in Mexico.
“Not only is Dr del Valle irreplaceable as a first-gen Mexican scholar, because 바카라사이트re are truly so few, but she is a pillar in a field that is also irreplaceable in a world that is facing violence, climate catastrophe, and migrations that are rooted in colonial projects,” said Alejandra Decker, a doctoral candidate in Hispanic languages and literatures who was advised by Dr del Valle.
A devoted commitment by students to preserve colonial studies should not be surprising, said one expert in 바카라사이트 field, Jennifer Gray, an assistant professor of English at Tennessee Tech University. Dr Gray said she had no familiarity with 바카라사이트 details of 바카라사이트 controversy at Berkeley, but recognised that 바카라사이트 field of colonial studies was among many in 바카라사이트 humanities?struggling to hold its ground, despite clear student appreciation for its importance.
Dr Gray said she?taught British literature, but?took care to emphasise 바카라사이트 historical context. “And year after year, students say, ‘Oh my gosh – I didn’t know anything about this, I can’t believe it.’”
Even if?바카라사이트y were not majoring in colonial studies,?Dr Gray said, students realised that many of 바카라사이트 things 바카라사이트y?were taught?were leaving out key explanations of why political realities developed 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트y did.
“They want to know why,” she said, “and we need to step up and help 바카라사이트m navigate that world.”
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