Statement of support for Dean Amaney Jamal from SPIA students and alumni

On Wednesday, Oct. 18, a truck with provocative images posted on it was seen on Nassau Street in Princeton falsely accusing the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) of “coddling antisemitism” and failing to condemn the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas in Israel.

These billboards are a demonstration of the harassment and vitriol Dean Amaney Jamal is exposed to as both Dean of a prestigious institution and a Palestinian-American and Muslim.

As current and former students from SPIA, we will not entertain the baseless and Islamophobic accusations leveled against Dean Jamal which deliberately ignore her clear, expressed stance on this issue. Dean Jamal has our full support as a professor and administrator, and her humanity is not up for debate.

Princeton University has been a place of community for many of us. In SPIA, we have learned to hone our skills and challenge ourselves as scholars and policy makers, and face difficult issues head on. But that is only possible when all of us feel safe and respected in our humanity. Our work as policy makers requires us to tackle deeply human, personal issues in our communities, countries, and world. Instead of dehumanizing each other and ramping up divisiveness, empathy must be at the core of our service to everyone. As Dean Jamal noted in her statement on Oct. 12, 2023, “empathy and care are not zero-sum.” Dean Jamal has shown us the way through her scholarship and commitment to working for peace, hand-in-hand with scholars and faith leaders from all backgrounds and nationalities.

SPIA, and Princeton University, must remain a safe and brave space for students, staff, and faculty to exist and grow.

We call on members of the Princeton University community to:

Protect academic and public spaces for sensitive discussions on public policy issues, including conflict and international affairs.

Openly condemn the targeting and harassment of Princeton students, faculty, and staff and operationalize processes in place to investigate such targeting and harassment.

Provide social-emotional support to all students and members of the Princeton community affected by the current tragedy and violence.

We believe in Dean Amaney Jamal’s resolve, capacity, and generosity in guiding our community in this time of turmoil and we stand wholeheartedly with her. We hope you will join us in doing so.

This list is as of 10 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2023. To view a full list of signatories, please see this continuously updated document. To sign the letter, please see this link.

Current Students

Aasha Shaik GS ’24, USA
Abiola Bolaji ’26, USA
Achinthya Sivalingam GS ’24, USA
Afsana Iffat Khan GS ’24
Agostina Dasso GS, Ph.D. Candidate, Argentina
Amana Abdurrezak GS ’25, USA
Andre Jimenez GS ’24, USA
Aogay Alozai Wardak GS ’25, Afghanistan
Ariel Munczek Edelman GS ’25, USA
Arika Hassan ’26
Ayushi Vig GS ’25
Ben Anderso GS ’24
Benjamin Harris GS ’25, USA
Brent Efron GS ’24, USA
Brian Lee GS, Ph.D. Candidate, USA
Brontë Forsgren GS ’24, USA
Bronte Nevins GS ’24, USA
Cara Khalifeh ’24, USA
Charlie Fraser GS ’24
Christian Perkins GS ’24, USA
Claire Fondrie-Teitler GS ’25, USA
Cydney Garner-Brown, GS ’25, USA
DeAisha Johnson ’24, USA
Dwaha Daud GS, Ph.D. Candidate, Kenya
Dylan Gates GS ’25, USA
Edmund Downie GS, Ph.D. Candidate, USA
Eleni Smitham GS ’25
Ellen Duval GS ’24
Eman Ali ’25
Evan Karl GS ’24, USA
Faiza Masood GS Ph.D. Candidate, USA
Fatima Diallo, ’25
Fatima Mumtaz GS ’25, India
Fawaz Ahmad ’25, USA
Fernando Pernas GS ’24, Dominican Republic
Frances Steele GS ’25, USA
Funke Aderonmu GS ’24,
Gabriella Chavarria ’26, USA
Gillian Tisdale, GS ’24, USA
Gisele Bisch ’25
Grace Morris ’24, USA
Hatoumata Camara ’27, USA
Hiba Siddiki ’25, USA
Isabela Salgado Pereira GS ’24, Brazil
Jack Aiello GS ’25, USA
Jason Hwang GS ’24, USA
Jeielle Habinam ’26, DR Congo
Jeremiah Chamberlin GS ’24, USA
Jessica Taylor GS, Ph.D., USA
Jonathan Barry GS, GS ’25
Julia Kaufman GS ’25, USA
Justin Schuster GS ’24,
Juyoung Lee GS ’24, Republic of Korea
Kate Hannick GS ’24, USA
Katie Deal GS ’25, USA
Keiana West GS, GS ’25
Kelso Brasunas GS ’24, USA
Leena Memon ’25, USA
Liam Maguire GS ’24, USA
Lilian L. Best GS ’24, Liberia
Liz Brown GS ’26, USA
Madeleine Granda GS ’25, USA
Madeline Davet GS ’25, USA
Maimuna Ahmad GS ’24, USA
Malini Nambiar Ph.D. ’24, USA
Maria Hanson GS ’24, USA
Mariem Elgendy ’26, USA/Egypt
Marlene Cardoza ’24, USA
Mary Grace Darmody GS ’24, USA
Matt Mleczko Ph.D. ’24, USA
Maya Woser GS ’24, India
Megan Verner-Crist Ph.D. ’27, USA
Melissa Tier Ph.D. ’25, USA
Michelle Zhang Ph.D. ’26, USA
Mikaylah Ladue ’20 GS ’24, USA
Mohammad Mohd ’24, USA
Nada Shalash GS ’25
Nathan McQuarrie GS ’25, USA
Ndeye Thioubou ’25
Noah Bardash GS ’24, USA
Omar Elhaj GS ’24, USA, Palestine
Peter Kirgis GS ’25
Rachel Morrow GS ’25, USA
Rias Reed GS ’25, USA
Robert Szirmai ’24, Hungary
Rosemary Newsome GS ’25
Sabrina Fields Ph.D. ’27, USA
Sajid Shapoo Ph.D. ’24, India
Sean Massa GS ’24, USA
Senna Aldoubosh ’26
Sergio Rodriguez Camarena GS ’24, Mexico
Sophie Bandarkar GS ’25, USA
Svyatoslav Karnasevych GS ’25, USA
Sylvia Skerry GS ’25, USA
T Nang Pan GS ’24, Myanmar
Tanat Chinbunchorn GS ’25, Thailand
Tanisha Hewanpola GS ’24, Australia
Tina Lee GS ’25, Canada
Tony Solís Cruz GS ’24
Mikaylah Ladue ’20 GS ’24, USA
Vaani Chopra, GS ’24, India
Zoha Khan ’26, USA

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Alumni

Abdelhamid Arbab ’23, USA
Abdul Samad Nizamani GS ’23
Abyssinia Lissanu ’16 GS ’21, USA
Aditi Bhowmick GS ’20, India
Adrienne Clermont ’09, USA
Ahsen Nimet Cebeci ’14, USA
Ajita Agarwala GS’ 22, India
Alejandra Herrera Chavez GS ’03, USA
Alejandro Abisambra Castillo GS ’19
Alex Hydrean GS ’21, USA
Alex Villec GS ’20, USA
Alessandra Brown GS ’18, USA
Alisa Laufer GS ’23, USA
Allison Blauvelt GS ’23, USA
Amber Forbes GS ’18
Aminata Binetou-Wahebine Seydi ’14, Senegal, USA
Ana Obiora GS ’19, USA
Anbinh Phan GS ’04, USA
Andom Ghebreghiorgis GS ’22, USA
Anh Ton GS ’20
Anne Kuhnen GS ’20, USA
Anurag Kumar GS ’19, USA
Ariza Francisco GS ’23, Philippines
Arthur Shemitz GS ’23
Ashley Semanskee GS ’20, USA
Auri Minaya GS ’23, Dominican Republic
Ayman Akkad GS ’22
Becky Swanson ’15, GS ’19, USA
Benjamin Jebb GS ’23, USA
Boris Strečanský GS ’19, Slovakia
Brendan Burns GS ’20
Caroline Corcoran GS ’20, USA
Chris Austin GS ’19, USA
Christian Keith GS ’23, USA
Christine Sturm GS ’89, USA
Christine Zizzi GS ’22, USA
Christopher Page GS ’16, USA
Chuin Siang Bu GS ’16, Malaysia
Claire Kaufman ’23, USA
Clarke Wheeler GS ’21
Claribel Vidal GS ’23, USA
Conor Hussey GS ’22
Daniel Edelman GS ’15, USA
Daniel Pontón Aronoff GS ’21, USA
Daniel Vonarburg GS ’23, USA
David Corcino Paulino GS ’20, Dominican Republic
David Kinsey GS ’71, USA
Dayna Valek ’20, USA
Djeniffer Melo GS ’20, USA
Dominick Tanoh GS ’23, USA
Dustin Palmer GS ’16
Elie Amkraut GS ’21, USA
Elisa Dickey GS ’23
Elise Doumergue, France
Ellen Swicord GS ’23
Emily Andrews GS ’20, USA
Emily Apple GS ’20, USA
Emily Audet GS ’22
Emily Chen ’17, GS ‘21, USA
Emily Ruskin GS ’17, USA
Evelyn Wong GS ’23, Malaysia
Fahd Nasser ’22, USA
Fatima Khan GS ’21
Fionnuala Seiferth GS ’20, USA
Francis Torres GS ’22
Francisca Vidal GS ’19, Chile
Francisco Javier Garcia Bellego GS ’23, Mexico
Gina Feliz ’22, USA
Gizem Keehn GS ’22, Turkey
Guillermo Herrera Nimmagadda GS ’22, India
Haley Lemieux GS ’23, USA
Hanna Kim ’15, GS ’19, USA
Hannah Ceja GS ’23, USA
Harrison Diamond Pollock GS ’19, Canada
Helena H. GS ’23
Henrietta Smith GS ’20, Australia
Hifsa Chaudhry ’22, USA
Hilary Landfried GS ’23, USA
Hope Jackson GS ’20, USA
Ileana Cruz-Marden GS’19, USA
Ishita Batra GS ’23
Ismael Catovic ’15, USA
Jasmine Pineda GS ’21, USA
Jeff Simon GS ’22, USA
Jeff Valdez GS ’20, Philippines
Jenice Robinson GS ’22, USA
Jenna Shaw ’20
Jennifer Faubion GS ’19, USA
Jennifer Johnson GS ’20, USA
Jessica Moore GS ’23, USA
Jessica Press-Williams GS ’23, USA
Jessica Sarriot GS ’18, USA
Jia Jun Lee GS ’22
Johana De la Cruz GS ’23, USA
Jordan Stoltzfus GS ’22, USA
Joscelyn Garcia GS ’22, USA
Jose Quinonez GS ’98, USA
Joshua Seawell GS ’22, USA
Juan Pablo Alvarez Enríquez GS ’22, Mexico
Juan Sebastián Leiva Molano GS ’23, Colombia
Julia Herrle ’19, GS ’23, USA
Julieta Cuéllar GS ’19, USA
Kabira Namit GS ’16, India
Kacie Rettig GS ’23, USA
Kantheera Tipkanjanarat GS ’22, Thailand
Karel Chromy GS ’22, USA
Kat Phan GS ’23, USA
Katherine Elgin ’13, GS ’20, USA
Kathleen Comando GS ’23, USA
Katie Pannell GS ’23, USA
Katrina McLaughlin GS ’20
Kavita Ramdas GS ’88, USA, India
Kazim Habib GS ’23, Canada
Kevin Ward GS ’23, USA
Kujegi Camara ’16, USA
Lauren Knight GS ’20
Lea Hunter GS ’22, USA
Leah Hazard GS ’22, USA
Chang-Boong Lee GS ’22
Lina Saud ’15, GS ’19 USA
Linda McGinnis GS ’89, USA
Lindsey Andersen GS ’19, USA
Liza Paudel GS ’21, USA
Logan Hall Coleman ’15, GS ’19, USA
Lorraine Keeler GS ’20, USA
Luciana Debenedetti GS ’20
Lynne Archibald ’87, Portugal
Maggie Menold GS ’18, USA
Manna Selassie GS ’20, USA
Marcelo Norsworthy GS ’18,
María Alejandra Moscoso GS ’21, USA
María Luisa Zeta Valladolid GS ’22, Peru
Marissa Korn GS ’21, USA
Marta Cabral ’16
Matej Jungwirth GS ’19, Czech Republic
Maura Farrell GS ’19, United Kingdom
Maya Hardimon GS ’21, USA
Maya Pontón Aronoff ’19, USA
Meghana Mungikar GS ’21
Meryem Konjhodzic ’23
Meskerem Mulatu GS ’89
Mia Newman GS ’19, USA
Michael Thibert GS ’16, USA
Molly Brune GS ’21, USA
Muhsin Hassan ’12, GS ’16, USA
Nadine Lombardo-Han GS ’22, Canada
Nadir Noordin ’19
Nash Mepukori GS ’22, Kenya
Nathan Babb GS ’21
Nausheen Rajan GS ’22, USA
Nethaniah Josma GS ’22
Nicolas Choquette-Levy GS ’23, USA
Nourhan Ibrahim ’20
Osama Safeer GS ’23, Pakistan
Paulina Lopez Gonzalez GS ’19, Mexico
Peter Birke GS ’20, USA
Philippa Haven GS ’22, USA
Rabia Khan ’18, USA
Rachel Fehr GS ’22, USA
Rain Tsong GS ’23, USA
Raisa Chowdhury GS ’22, USA
Rebecca Gorin GS ’21
Rena Kashari ’23, Saudi Arabia
Rich André GS ’20, USA
Richard Sambasivam GS ’18, USA
Richard W. Roper GS ’71, USA
Riley Edwards GS ’21, USA
Rocio Rodarte GS ’20, USA
Rolando Cuevas GS ’22, USA
Ronit Sela GS ’19, Israel
Rouguiatou Diallo GS ’23, France
Ryan Klaus GS ’18, USA
Ryan Kuo GS ’19
Ryan Sasse GS ’23, USA
Saad Ayub ’23, USA
Sakari Ishetiar GS ’19, USA
Sarah Case GS ’22, Canada
Sean Cremin GS ’22, USA
Sebi Devlin-Foltz GS ’18, USA
Sepideh Soltaninia GS ’19
Sharon Holt GS ’89, USA
Sharon Lai GS ’23, USA
Shehab Chowdhury GS ’18, USA
Sherrod Smith GS ’22, USA
Shua-Kym McLean GS ’23, Jamaica
Sofia Alessandra Ramirez GS ’21, USA
Somya Bajaj GS ’19, India
Spogmay Ahmed GS ’20, USA
Sri Harshita Rallabhandi GS ’21, USA
Sujata Rajpurohit GS ’21, USA
Susan Ragheb GS ’22, USA
Swetha GS Balachandran ’18, United Kingdom
Talia Gerstle GS ’21, USA
Tatiana Forero GS ’23, Colombia
Taylor Nelson GS ’19, USA
Teresa Wolverton GS ’18, USA
Tiffany Minh Tran GS ’19, USA
Timothy Sell GS ’22, USA
Thomas Horn ’84
Tracy Pierce GS ’23, USA
Umer Siddique GS ’23, Pakistan
Varsha Gandikota GS ’19, India
Vincent Cauntay GS ’23, USA
Vivian Chang GS ’17, USA
Vyette Tiya GS ’23, Kenya, USA
Wendy Gomez GS ’21, USA
Zainab Amjad GS ’22, Pakistan

Faculty, Staff, and Allies

Adam Goldstein, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public and International Affairs
Alison Isenberg, Professor of History
Ameet Doshi, Head of Stokes Library
Anastasia Mann, Lecturer and Founding Director of SPIA
Anne McClintock, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Arun Hendi, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Aysenur Cam, Ph.D. candidate, Religion Department
Barbara Nagel, Associate Professor of German
Behrooz Ghamari, Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Betsy Levy Paluck, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Carlos Brody, Professor of Neuroscience
Daniel Garber, Professor of Philosophy
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics
Eldar Shafir, Professor in Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Elke Weber, Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Erika A. Kiss, Director of the University Center for Human Values Film Forum and Research Film Studio; Lecturer, Comparative Literature and European Cultural Studies
Hal Foster, Professor of Art and Archeology
Hamza El-Asaad, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program on Science and Global Security
Hye Young You, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Irene Small, Associate Professor of Art & Archaeology Contemporary Art and Criticism, Co-Director of the Program in Media & Modernity
Jennifer Jennings, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Jenny Greene, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Keith Wailoo, Professor of History and Public Affairs
Kim Lane Scheppele, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Assistant Professor of Politics
Lital Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Lorgia García Peña, Professor in the Department of African American Studies and Effron Center for the Study of America, Director of the Program in Latino Studies
Mallika Ramdas, Princeton graduate alum in Russian Studies
Margaret Clark
Margaret Hiebert Beissinger, Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Mark Beissinger, Professor of Politics
Marta Tienda, Professor in Demographic Studies and Public and International Affairs
Melissa Lane, Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values
Meredith Martin, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Humanities
Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology and Executive Vice-Dean of SPIA
Nancy Coffin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Arabic Language Program
Nareman Amin GS ‘22, Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Culture, Society and Religion
Nymisha Herrera Nimmagadda, Princeton Mutual Aid Member
Rachael DeLue, Professor in American Art and Chair of the Art and Archaeology Department
Rafaela Dancygier, Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Rob Nixon, Professor of English
Ruha Benjamin, Professor of African American Studies
Sara Al-Sayed, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program on Science and Global Security
Sarah Pachman, Director of Research and Policy at the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Satyel Larson, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Susan Sugarman, Professor Department of Psychology
Tali Mendelberg, Professor of Politics and Director of the Program on Inequality at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Tera W. Hunter, Professor of American History and African American Studies
Udi Ofer, John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor and Lecturer, SPIA
V. Mitch McEwen, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Vivian Slee, Associate Director of Graduate Admissions, SPIA
Wendy Belcher, Professor of African Literature