Grant Andrea Smith Tenure

To:  Provost, University of Michigan

To: Teresa Sullivan, Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs,


LSA, University of Michigan, tsull@umich.edu


Lester Monts, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, LSA, University of Michigan, lmonts@umich.edu


Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan, PresOff@umich.edu








We write to express our firm belief that Andrea Lee Smith should be granted tenure at the University of Michigan. After a thorough review of Smith’s research, teaching and service, the University of Michigan’s Program in American Culture voted in favor of granting Smith tenure. We are deeply troubled by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts' recommendation of February 22, 2008 that the University deny her tenure. This decision is an affront to academic standards of excellence and to the principles of fairness and equity. Andrea Smith’s peer reviewed journal articles, numerous book chapters and her books Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide (South End Press) and Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke University Press) evidence groundbreaking, interdisciplinary analyses of gendered violence, contemporary colonialism, religion and politics. We find this work to be of exceptional value. We call on the Provost to uphold the Program in American Culture's positive review of Smith's case and thus to restore a sense of integrity to the tenure process at the University of Michigan.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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