Two universities have elected to end their institutional affiliations with the American Studies Association after the group’s membership
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Two universities have elected to end their institutional affiliations with the American Studies Association after the group’s membership voted to support a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, according to Tablet magazine, an online publication that focuses on Jewish news and culture. The institutions are Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg and Brandeis University. Simon J. Bronner, a professor of American studies and folklore at Harrisburg and a nonvoting member of the association’s governing council, has been a vocal critic of its boycott.
A statement posted on the website of the American Studies program at Brandeis said that the program viewed the boycott vote as a “politicization of the discipline and a rebuke to the kind of open inquiry that a scholarly association should foster. We remain committed to the discipline of American studies, but we can no longer support an organization that has rejected two of the core principles of American culture—freedom of association and expression.”
