Open letter to the Harvard Community
Covering Letter
To
President Claudine Gay and the Harvard University leadership
We attach an open letter for your consideration written on October 8, 2023, and signed by more than 350 faculty members at Harvard.
The drafters of the letter (listed below) welcome President Gay’s statement unequivocally condemning Hamas’s terrorism and distancing the university from the abhorrent statement approving it which had been issued by some student groups. We hope that all the academic leaders at the university will echo President Gay’s clear condemnation of mass murder. The dismaying statement today by the leaders of Harvard’s Religion and Public Life program in the Divinity School shows that there is still work to be done.
We believe the attached letter sends an important message to the Harvard community and beyond that the university rejects any support of terrorism or false equivalences between the targeted killing of civilians and collective self-defense. Only after terrorism is rejected can dialogue on the best path forward begin.
Sincerely,
Boaz Barak, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, SEAS
Jeffrey Flier, Professor of Medicine and former Dean, Harvard Medical School
Barbara Grosz, Higgins Research Professor of Natural Sciences, SEAS
Gabriel Kreiman, Professor, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, FAS
Rabbi David Wolpe – Divinity School
_________________________
Text of the Letter
Dated: October 8, 2023
We are faculty at Harvard who are deeply concerned about the events in the Middle East, as well as the safety of our students here on campus. On October 7th, Hamas launched a premeditated attack on the Israeli population. Hundreds of terrorists infiltrated Israeli towns and houses. Children were killed in front of their parents; entire families were executed. Grandmothers, mothers, and their babies were kidnapped. All in all, more than 900 Israelis were killed in a single day and the death toll is continuing to grow. There have also been deaths on the Palestinian side, including hundreds of terrorists and, tragically, civilians as well.
Every innocent death is a tragedy. Yet, this should not mislead us to create false equivalencies between the actions leading to this loss. Hamas planned and executed the murder and kidnapping of civilians, particularly women, children, and the elderly, with no military or other specific objective. This meets the definition of a war crime. The Israeli security forces were engaging in self-defense against this attack while dealing with numerous hostage situations and a barrage of thousands of rockets hidden deliberately in dense urban settings.
The leaders of the major democratic countries united in saying that “the terrorist actions of Hamas have no justification, no legitimacy, and must be universally condemned” and that Israel should be supported “in its efforts to defend itself and its people against such atrocities.“ In contrast, while terrorists were still killing Israelis in their homes, 35 Harvard student organizations wrote that they hold “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” with not a single word denouncing the horrific acts by Hamas. In the context of the unfolding events, this statement can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality. We’ve heard reports of even worse instances, with Harvard students celebrating the “victory” or “resistance” on social media.
As a University aimed at educating future leaders, this could have been a teaching moment and an opportunity to remind our students that beyond our political debates, some acts such as war crimes are simply wrong. However, the statement by Harvard’s administration fell short of this goal. While justly denouncing Hamas, it still contributed to the false equivalency between attacks on noncombatants and self-defense against those atrocities. Furthermore, the statement failed to condemn the justifications for violence that come from our own campus, nor to make it clear to the world that the statement endorsed by these organizations does not represent the values of the Harvard community. How can Jewish and Israeli students feel safe on a campus in which it is considered acceptable to justify and even celebrate the deaths of Jewish children and families?
We recognize that Harvard has students and community members from all regions, including from the Gaza Strip. These are not easy times, and we pray for the safety of all our members and their families. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a long and complex history. We hold varying opinions, but none of us endorses all of Israel’s past actions. However, the events of this week are not complicated. Sometimes there is such a thing as evil, and it is incumbent upon educators and leaders to call it out, as they have with school shootings and terrorist attacks. It is imperative that our academic leadership, whose good faith we do not doubt, state this clearly and unequivocally. Further, while individuals’ free speech should be protected, our leaders should make it clear that our community rejects any statements that excuse terrorist acts.
We stand with any member of the Harvard community who feels unsafe or alone and pledge to do what we can individually and collectively. We hold our hope for better days in the future. To quote President Obama, “As we support Israel’s right to defend itself against terror, we must keep striving for a just and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
Signatories
(List periodically updated, if you are a Harvard faculty or scholar, please consider signing this letter by contacting the organizers. For questions about this letter contact Boaz Barak, Jeffrey Flier, Barbara Grosz, Gabriel Kreiman, Steven Pinker, or David Wolpe.)
Martin Abrahamson – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Annah Abrams – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Joanna Aizenberg – Amy Smith Berylson Prof. Of Materials Science and Prof of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
George Alb – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
George Alba – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Laura Alfaro – Warren Alpert Professor, Harvard Business School
Abby Altman – Assistant Professor- Harvard Medical School
Mark Andermann – Professor of Medicine and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Anurag Anshu – Assistant Professor, SEAS
Pol Antras – Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics
Michael Apstein, MD – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Eva Ascarza – Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Fred Ausubel – Professor of Genetics Emeritus, HMS
Dany Bahar – Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Sarah Ballou – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mahzarin Banaji – Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Psychology
Oren Bar-Gill – Professor, Harvard Law School
Liron Bar-peled – Assistant Professor, HMS Medicine
Boaz Barak – Professor of Computer Science
Michael Baym – Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Lucian Bebchuk – Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School
Anke Becker – Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
David Bell – Professor, SEAS
Yochai Benkler – Professor, Harvard Law School
Susan E. Bennett – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Larry Benowitz – Professor of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Elika Bergelson – Associate Professor of Psychology, FAS
Shai Bernstein – Professor, Harvard Business School
Bradley Bernstein – Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Suzie Bertisch – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Peter Black – Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
Stephen Blacklow – Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor and Chair, Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Bonawitz – Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Graduate School of Education
Alan Bonder – GI faculty at BIDMC
George Borjas – Research Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Richard Born – Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Danielle Braun – Principal Research Scientist, HSPH/DFCI
Claire-Marie Brisson – Preceptor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard College
Olga R Brook – hMS, Associate Professor
Alan Brown – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Randy Buckner – Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, FAS / HMS
Oscar Bukstein, MD, MPH – Professor of Psychiatry; Children’s Hospital
Jeff Bussgang – Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Fernando Camargo – Professor, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Susan Carey – Psych Dept, Research Professor
Brendan Case – Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School
Sydney Cash, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Elliot Chaikof – Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chair of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Adam Cheifetz – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Marcy Cheifetz – Clinical Lecturer, Associate Site Director at Atrius Health for BIDMC HMS POM Course
Sitan Chen – Assistant Professor, SEAS
Raghu Chivukula – Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich – Professor of Economics
Stirling Churchman – Harvard Medical School
Mina Cikara – Professor, Department of Psychology, FAS
Rev. Francis X. Clooney, SJ – Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
Shaye J.D. Cohen – professor/NELC/
Adam E Cohen – Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics
Phil Cole – Professor of Medicine and BCMP, HMS
Robert B. Colvin – Benjamin Castleman Distinguished Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Amy Herman Comander – Harvard Medical School
Flynn Cratty – Lecturer on History, History Department
Matthew Crowson, M.D. – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Gary Curhan, MD, ScD – Harvard Medical School
Sharon Curhan, MD, ScM – Harvard Medical School
Paul Currier, MD, MPH – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Patricia D’Amore – Harvard Medical School, Professor
Victoria D’Souza – Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Kirk Daffner, MD – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Leemore Dafny – Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, HBS, and Professor of Public Policy, HKS
Alan Dershowitz – Felix Frankfurter Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Louis Deslauriers – Harvard University
Elliana DeVore – Resident, Mass Eye and Ear
Jules Dienstag – Carl W. Walter Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Judith Donath – Faculty associate Berkman-Klein Center
Catherine Dulac – Samuel W. Morris University Professor FAS
Barbara Dworetzky – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Carol M. Ehrlich, MD – HMS
Ronald Eisenberg – Harvard Medical School, Professor of Radiology
Jared Ellias – Harvard Law School
Carolyn Elya – Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Florian Engert – Professor
Elizabeth C Engle – Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, HMS and BCH
Deb Erlich, MD – HMS
Myron Falchuk – Harvard Medical School
David Feinstein – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Shira Fischer – Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Eric Fischer – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Krisztina Fischer – Director of the MMSc in Medical Education Program, HMS
Naomi Fisher – Associate Professor of Medicine
Eric Fleegler – Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Gary Fleisher – Professor of Pediatrics, HMS/Children’s Hospital
Sara Fleiss – Harvard Business School, Senior Lecturer
Jeffrey Flier – Professor of Medicine and former Dean, Harvard Medical School
Sarah Flier – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Michael S. Flier – Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, FAS
Harold Fogel – Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Catherine Fortier – Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry HMS
Angela Frank, MD – Instructor in Medicine, HMS
Jonathan Frankle – Associate in Computer Science (SEAS)
Dan Freed – Professor of Mathematics
Steven Freedman – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Frances Frei – Professor, Harvard Business School
Jesse Fried – Professor, Harvard Law School
Jeffry Frieden – Stanfield Professor of International Peace, FAS, Department of Government
John A. Fromson, M.D. – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Ken Froot – Andre Jakurski Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Elizabeth Gaufberg – Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Eli V. Gelfand, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
Howard Georgi – Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, FAS
Samuel Gershman – Professor of Psychology, FAS
Nancy Gertner – Senior lecturer, Harvard Law School, retired federal judge
Alon Geva – Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Stephanie Gil – Assistant Professor SEAS
Daniel Gilbert – Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Dept of Psychology, FAS
Jordan Glicksman – Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
David Golan – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Rita Goldberg – Lecturer in Comparative Literature, FAS
Amit Goldenberg – Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Ari M. Goldminz – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Tessa Goldsmith – Speech Pathologist MGH
Paul Gompers – Eugene Holman Professor, Harvard Business School
Yannai A. Gonczarowski – Assistant Professor of Economics and of Computer Science
Allan H. Goroll, MD – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Gottlieb – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Jaap Goudsmit – Adjunct professor of Epidemiology and Immunity of Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Yonatan Grad – Associate Professor, HSPH
Jerry R. Green – Economics Department (FAS) and HBS
Michael E. Greenberg – Harvard Medical School
Jerome Groopman – Recanati Professor HMS
David A. Gross, MD, PhD – Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Interventional Cardiology
Laurie Grossberg – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Barbara Grosz – Higgins Research Professor of Natural Sciences, SEAS
Michelle Gurvitz – HMS
Johanna Gutlerner – HMS
John Haigh – Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Elizabeth Hait – Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
James Hankins – Professor of History
Omar Sultan Haque – Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Jessica Harder – Instructor, HMS
Stephen Harrison – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Oliver Hart – University Professor, Economics
Ricardo Hausmann – Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Nancy Hebben – Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School
Phillip Heiler – Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Elhanan Helpman – Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade
Joseph Henrich – Professor, FAS, HEB
Michelle Hirsch, MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Timothy Hla – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Konrad Hochedlinger – Professor, Department of Genetics
Jennifer Hochschild – Professor, FAS
Ann Hochschild – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Hanno Hock – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
William Hogan – Research Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Jill Hooley – John Lindsley Professor of Psychology
Daniel Horn – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Michael Horn – Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Maria Houtchens – Harvard Medical Schoo, Associate Professor of Neurology
Margo Hudson – Assistant professors of Medicine Harvard Medical School
Tony Hui – Assistant Professor, The T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rafael A Irizarry – Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Ayelet Israeli – Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Eric Isselbacher – Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS (MGH)
Johanna Iturrino – BIDMC MD
Stein B Jacobsen – Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Caron Jacobson – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Jafferis – Professor, department of physics
Juan Jiménez – Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Vickie Jo – Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Caroline Jouhourian, MD – HMFP
Nate Jowett – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Harald Jueppner – Professor of Pediatrics
Jonathan C. Kagan – Marian R. Neutra, PhD Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Director of Basic Research and Shwachman Chair in Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Barbara Kahn, MD – George Minot Professor, Harvard Medical School
Stacy A. Kahn – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Kahne – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Naama Kanarek – BCH, Assistant Professor
David Kanarek – MGB Associate Professor of Medicine
Ann Kao, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor in Medicine & Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Robert S Kaplan – Senior Lecturer and Professor, Emeritus; Harvard Business School
Tamara Kaplan – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Katz – Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School
Michael Kaufman – Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Efthimios Kaxiras – Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Joshua Kertzer – John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government
Philip Kim – Professor in FAS
Marc Kirschner – John Enders University Professor Harvard Medical School
Allon M Klein – Associate Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Vidyasagar Koduri – HMS instructor
Isaac Kohane – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Kohane – Professor
David Kolin – Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Scott Duke Kominers – Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Paul Konowitz – Mass Eye and Ear
Petros Koumoutsakos – Professor, SEAS
John Kovac – Professor of Astronomy and of Physics
Boris Kozinsky – Associate Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Baruch Krauss – Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Gabriel Kreiman – Professor, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Josh Krieger – Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Eyal Krispin – Assistant Professor of Surgery Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Andrew Kruse – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Jonathan Kruskal – Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Ann LaCasce – Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Medical Oncology
Galit Lahav – Professor and Chair of Systems Biology, HMS
Courtney Bickel Lamberth – Lecturer
Bruce Landon – Professor, Harvard Medical School and BIDMC
Ellen Langer – Professor of Psychology FAS
Andrew Lassar – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Frank H Laukien – Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
Robert Lawrence – Professor Harvard Kennedy School
Daniel Leffler, MD – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Lisa Lehmann – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Maria Lehtinen – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Emily Broad Leib – Clinical Professor, Harvard Law School
Jon D. Levenson – List Professor of Jewish Studies, Divinity School
Margo Levine – Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Applied Math, SEAS
Robert A. Levine, MD – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dan Levy – Associate Professor, HMS
Nomi Levy-Carrick – Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, HMS
Harry Lewis – Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science, SEAS
Shengwu Li – Associate Professor, Economics
Jenifer R. Lightdale, MD, MPH – Associate Chief, Boston Children’s Hospital, HMS
Jonathan Lipton – Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Diana Litmanovich – Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Ofrit Liviatan – Lecturer, FAS Department of Government
Avi Loeb – Baird Professor of Science, Director of Institute for Theory & Computation, Harvard University
Joseph Loscalzo – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Richard Losick – Professor , Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yue M. Lu – Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics
Jonathan Ludmir – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Mikhail Lukin – Friedman University Professor, Physics Department
Peter Machinist – Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, FAS
Calum MacRae – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Kevin Madigan – Winn Prof. of Ecclesiastical History, HDS
Bertha Madras – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Joseph Madsen – Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Patrick Mair – Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Psychology
Harvey C. Mansfield – Research Professor of Government, FAS
Eleftheria Maratos-Flier – Professor Emerita, Harvard Medical School
Joshua Margolis – Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Gad Marshall – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Eric Mazur – Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics/Academic Dean of Applied Sciences and Engineering (SEAS)
Megan McBride – Research Associate, HSPH
Jessica McCannon – Instructor, HMS
Paul McIntyre – Massachusetts General Hospital
Richard J McNally – Professor, FAS
Simon C. Robson MD, PhD. – Professor of Anesthesia and Medicine
Douglas Pleskow MD – Harvard Medical School
Brian Eisner MD – Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology), Harvard Medical School
Alexander Melamed – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
David Álvarez Melis – Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Marc Melitz – Professor of Economics, FAS
Ralph Metson – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey Meyerhardt – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine
Matthew Meyerson – Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Thomas Michel, MD, PhD – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
William Milberg – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey Mito – Instructor – Harvard Medical School
James Moran – Professor, emeritus, FAS (astronomy dept)
Raul Mostoslavsky – Professor of Medicine, HMS
Anthony Samir MD MPH – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Venkatesh N. Murthy – Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, FAS
Matthias Nahrendorf – Professor of Radiology, HMS
Ramesh Narayan – Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Astronomy (FAS)
Sergey Naumenko – Research Associate, Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core
Kamila Naxerova – Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor
Dan Needleman – Professor, SEAS and MCB
Eric Nelson ’99 – Robert M. Beren Professor of Government, FAS
David R. Nelson – Departments of Physics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Charles Nesson – H’60, HLS’63, Professor of Law
Isabel Neuringer, MD – Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Alice Newton, MD – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Reuth Nir – Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Sahar Nissim – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Daniel G. Nocera – Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy
Martin November, MD, MBA – Harvard Business School, Mt Auburn Hospital
Roni Nowarski – Assistant Professor, BWH
Samuel Nurko – Professor of Pediatrics. Director Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Boston Children’s Hospital
Luke J. O’Connor – Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Walter J. O’Donnell, MD – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Karin Oberg – Professor of Astronomy, FAS
Darren Orbach – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Stuart H Orkin, MD – Harvard Medical School
Louis Ostrowsky, MD – Harvard Medical School
Jodie Ouahed – Physician BCH
Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Alon Oyler-Yaniv – Lecturer in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Umut Ozcan – Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital/HMS
Sonia Paban – Senior Lecturer, Physics
Phillip Pearl – Faculty, HMS
Maria Pearl – Faculty, HMS
Richard Peiser – Professor, GSD
Eliezer Peli – Professor HMS
Peter Perdhsn – Professor Emeritus. Seas and fas
Lev Perelman – Professor, HMS
Norbert Perrimon – Harvard Medical School
Rabbi Jonah Pesner – Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School
Gerald Pier – Professor or Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Steven Pinker – Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology
Yury Popov – Associate Professor of Medicine (HMS and BIDMC)
Olivier Pourquie – Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Mark C Poznansky – Professor of Medicine
Sridhar Prasad – Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Frederic Preffer – Professor of Pathollogy Harvard Medical School
Eric Protzer – Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
John A. Quelch – Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Adminisiration Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Benjamin Raby – Boston Children’s Hospital, Chief of the division of Pulmonary Medicine
Rod Rahimi – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Rod Rahimi – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark Ramseyer – Professor, Harvard Law School
Lisa Randall – Physics
Yogesh Rathi – Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey F Rayport – Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Susan Redline – Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Faculty
David Reich – Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Julie Reimann – Assistant professor, Harvard Medical School
Fernando Reimers – Ford Foundation Professor of the practice of international education
Christopher J. Richards, MD – Instructor Harvard Medical School
Jeremy Richmon – MD, school of medicine
Barak Ringel – MD, Harvard Medical School
Elena Rivas – Senior Research Fellow, FAS
Alicia Rizzo – Harvard Medical School, Instructor of Medicine
Edward K Rodriguez – Chief of Orthopedics, BIDMC
Jan Philipp Röer – Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School
Michael S. Rogers – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Rogoff – Professor FAS
Evan Rosen – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Sara Rosenbaum – Attending Physician, Pediatric Gastroenterology
Alexander Rotenberg – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Rotenberg – School of Medicine
Alexander Rotenberg – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Lee Rubin – Professor, FAS
Jonah Rubin, MD – Instructor in Medicine, HMS
Eitan Rubinstein – Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
James R. Russell – Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Emeritus, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Gary Ruvkun – Professor of Genetics
Subir Sachdev – Professor of Physics, FAS
Robert Sackstein, MD,PhD – Professor Emeritus, HMS
Philip Sadler – FAS, Senior Lecturer in Astronomy
Peter Sadow – Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Raffaella Sadun – Professor, Harvard Business School
Jeffrey E. Saffitz – Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Yael Hoffman Sage, MD MPH – Instructor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Matt Sampson – Associate Professor Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s
Aravinthan Samuel – Professor of Physics, FAS
Joshua R Sanes – Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Clifford Saper – Professor, HMS
Giorgio Saponaro – Research Associate, Department of Economics
Todd W. Sarge – Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Dimitar Sasselov – Phillips Professor of Astronomy – FAS
David Scadden – Professor of Medicine, HMS; Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, FAS
Jeremy D. Schmahmann – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Naomi Schmelzer, MD, MPH – Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey Schnipper – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Paul Schoenfeld, MD – Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Sara Schutzman – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD – Harvard Medical School, Professor of Medicine
Thomas Schwarz – Professor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
Ralph Scully – Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
James K. Sebenius – Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Arthur Segel – Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice, Poorvu Family Professor, , Harvard Business School
Ayellet Segre – Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Giulia Semeghini – Assistant Professor, SEAS
Matthew D. Shair – Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Eugene Shakhnovich – Roy G Gordon Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology FAS
Irwin Shapiro – University Professor, FAS
Arlene Sharpe – Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology
Barry Shea – Member of the Faculty of Medicine, HMS
Michal Sheffer – Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Shepsle – Markham Research Professor of Government, FAS
Steven Shoelson – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jack Shonkoff – Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health & Development (HSPH, HGSE, HMS)
Noah Siegel – MD, Harvard Medical School
Pamela Silver – Professor, Harvard Medical School
Isaac Silvera – Professor of Physics
Michael Silverman – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Christine Smith – Robert C. and Marion K. Weinberg Professor of Architectural History, Graduate School of Design
Jeffrey Smith – Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Jordan W. Smoller – Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Scott Snapper – Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (BCH); Professor of Medicine/Pediatrics (HMS)
Tamar Sofer – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Haim Sompolinsky – Professor of Physics and of Neuroscience (in Residence)
Larissa Steigmann – Lecturer, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Jessica Stern – Senior Fellow, HSPH
Andrew Strominger – Gwill E. York Professor of Physics
Jack Strominger – Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus
Lawerence H. Summers – Charles W. Eliot University Professor, President Emeritus
Cliff Tabin – Professor and Chair of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Talmor – HMS Edward Lowenstein Professor of Anaesthesia
Cliff Taubes – Professor of Mathematics, FAS
Polina Teslyar, MD – Clinical Instructor HMS
Laurence H. Tribe – Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
James Tulsky – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Naoshige Uchida – Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science
Tomer Ullman – Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
David Van Vactor – Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Salil Vadhan – Professor of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Tzippora Vogel – MGH
Berenika Voskoboynik – Faculty , Children’s Hospital
Alex Vuckovic, MD – Medical Director, The Pavilion at McLean
Shlomit Wagman – Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Gerhard Wagner – Professor Harvard Medical School
Suzanne Walker – Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School
Charles CY Wang – Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Daniel Weinstock – Director for Master’s Education, SEAS
David Weitz – Professor, Dept. of Physics and SEAS
Justin Werfel – Senior Research Fellow, SEAS
Christopher Winship – Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Fred Winston – Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Ruth Wisse – Prof emerita NELC and Comp Lit
Jacqueline Wolf – Associate Professor of Medicine; Harvard Medical School
Jeremy Wolfe – Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology, Havard Medical School
Rabbi David Wolpe – Divinity School
Alexandra Wong, MD – Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Clifford Woolf – Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology Harvard Medical School
Amir Yacoby – Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Xi Yin – Professor of Physics
David B. Yoffie – Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, HBS
Kerstin Zanger – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Paul Zei – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mark Zeidel – HMS
Our Choices – A Message from President Claudine Gay to the Harvard Community
October 12, 2023
A Statement from President Claudine Gay
October 10, 2023
As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas. Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.
Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.
We will all be well served in such a difficult moment by rhetoric that aims to illuminate and not inflame. And I appeal to all of us in this community of learning to keep this in mind as our conversations continue.
Claudine Gay
President, Harvard University
