What an admirable demonstration of academic freedom by the incoming chair of the history department at Columbia University. Camille Robcis doesn’t offer a treatise about the principle of academic freedom. Instead, she demonstrates her own commitments to academic freedom and honest inquiry from her description of what she views the intellectual goals of history to be, and she describes her own expertise and teaching in the area of gender studies without even glancing at the thunder on the right about this field. Bravo Professor Robcis!

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