Garrett Felber

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  7/30/2021
  

  Emails Show U of Mississippi Officials Concerned that Fired Historian Criticized Private Prison Ties, Upset Donors

  "Felber drew a line between the university’s history of slavery, its hand in the creation of the slave plantation-like Parchman Prison and one celebrated instructor’s financial ties to a private-prison corporation."

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  1/23/2021
  

  This Professor Protested a School’s Racism. Then He Lost His Job

  "The sudden termination of Felber sends a very strong and disturbing message. Felber was doing antiracist work and initiated programs that benefited the marginalized and disenfranchised."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/12/2020
  

  Ole Miss Doubles Down on Professor's Termination

  The University of Mississippi remained insistent that it was correct and justified in terminating the employment of history professor Garrett Felber. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  12/22/2020
  

  AHA Issues Letter Expressing Concern Regarding Termination of History Professor (December 2020)

  The AHA sent a letter to the chancellor and provost of the University of Mississippi expressing concern about the university’s decision not to renew the contract of Garrett Felber, assistant professor of history, and the possibility that Professor Felber’s activism relating to racism and incarceration might have affected a decision on his employment status.

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• SOURCE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
  12/18/2020
  

  FIRE Open Letter to the University of Mississippi, 12/18/2020

  The nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education asks University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce to reevaluate the decision to end Professor Garrett Felber's employment, raising the possibility that the decision was related to Felber's criticism of the university. 

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• SOURCE: Haymarket Books
  12/22/2020
  

  Solidarity: Defending Activism Within and Beyond the University: Tuesday 12/22, 5:00 PM EST

  A group of scholars will convene a virtual event to discuss the case of Garrett Felber at the University of Mississippi and the status of activist scholarship in the U.S. academy, including historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Elizabeth Hinton. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/17/2020
  

  His University Celebrated His Success. Then It Fired Him

  Historian Walter Johnson says the Garrett Felber controvery at the University of Mississippi reflects the fact that “there are a lot of energetic, critical activists, students and faculty on that campus, who are trying to hold the university to a different standard than that which it’s been held to before.” 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/17/2020
  

  Outspoken Out of a Job?

  Scholars pledge not to speak at University of Mississippi until it reinstates a colleague who publicly questioned why his chair rejected a grant, allegedly for political reasons.

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  12/15/2020
  

  UM Fires History Professor Who Criticizes ‘Powerful, Racist Donors’ And ‘Carceral State’

  University of Mississippi historian Garrett Felber was notified that his tenure-track position will be terminated in one year. His research addressed the politics of racism and mass incarceration and connected to activism on behalf of incarcerated people. Colleagues suspect that donors to the university pushed for his termination.