opinion
THE END OF PROTEST?
American University’s new, draconian policies on campus protests and activism show that DEI, Inc. is a dead-end.
Amna Khalid is a Professor in the Department of History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She specializes in modern South Asian history, the history of medicine and the global history of free expression. She speaks frequently on academic freedom, free speech, and campus politics at colleges and universities as well as at professional conferences. Her essays and commentaries on these same issues have appeared in outlets such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic and Washington Monthly. She hosts a podcast and accompanying blog called Banished, which explores censorship in the past and present. Amna was a Fellow at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement during the 2022-2023 academic-year, along with her Carleton colleague Jeffrey Aaron Snyder. They focused on threats to academic freedom in Florida, the state at the epicenter of the conservative movement to encourage state intervention in public school classrooms.