Our membership is drawn from faculty of all ranks and appointment types from across the university. Our seven-member Executive Committee coordinates our chapter’s activities and leadership. We also collaborate with other AAUP advocacy and collective bargaining chapters in Connecticut, through the Connecticut State Conference of the AAUP.
Join us now to advocate for academic freedom, faculty governance, and the public good.
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We are led by an Executive Committee of seven members:
President: Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Vice President: Laura Nasrallah, Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Religious Studies, and Yale Divinity School
Secretary: Tarren Andrews, Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration
Treasurer: Alessandro Gomez, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Member at Large: Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Member at Large: Jeff Wickersham, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Member at Large: Johanna Elumn, Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine in General Internal Medicine
And our Membership Committee is led by three Co-Chairs:
James Bhandary-Alexander, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Christopher McGowan, Lecturer in English & Humanities, Yale English Department
Alka Menon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
And our General Counsel is led by two Co-Chairs:
Muneer I. Ahmad, Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Marisol Orihuela, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
We have four working groups, which are active and open to all members.
To get connected with any of these groups, join the AAUP and contact Dan HoSang to express your interest.
Academic Freedom and University Governance
Yale and New Haven/CT
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Issues
Membership Committee
2024–2025
November 2024
We Established Our Chapter
We formally established the Yale AAUP advocacy chapter as a resource for collective governance, one that would uniquely bring together faculty from the university’s many departments, divisions, and schools.
February 19, 2025
We Rallied Against Research Funding Cuts
We rallied on the New Haven Green to protest federal funding cuts to research grants in the sciences, particularly in the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation. Faculty and academic workers in 15 other cities joined us as part of a national Labor for Higher Education day of action.
April 11, 2025
Delivered Our First Letter to Yale Admin
We delivered a letter to University President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Stroebel. The letter, co-authored with the Yale FAS-SEAS Senate, called on our administrative leaders to defend academic freedom and work collaboratively with our colleagues at other colleges and universities, and received over 1000 signatures.
April 17, 2025
"Hands Off Higher Education" Rally
Our chapter gathered roughly 500 people on Cross Campus for a rally to protect higher education against funding suspensions, deportations of international community members, and federal attacks on academic freedom.