AAUP Yale

We bring together the Yale faculty, across schools and ranks.

Join us now to advocate for academic freedom, faculty governance, and the public good.

The Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) exists as an independent voice for faculty of all ranks across the university. We organize and advocate for the needs and interests of Yale faculty, in connection with students and members of the profession nationally, and in service to the public.

We are dedicated to advocating for our shared interests and concerns as they relate to working conditions, faculty governance, and academic freedom – the things that unite us as a profession – and we are collaborating with other AAUP chapters across Connecticut and nationally to realize our goals. We welcome members from all disciplines and schools at Yale, and we encourage membership from faculty and instructors with permanent, contingent, and adjunct appointments alike. Our chapter advocates for transparency in administration, faculty involvement in decision-making processes, the creation of conditions and policies that protect academic freedom and promote the mission of higher education, and the fair treatment of all workers at Yale.

Our First Year: 2024-2025

  • In November 2024, 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.

  • On February 19, 2025, 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.

  • On April 11, 2025, 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.

  • On April 17, 2025, 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.

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 CT state conference of the AAUP.

We have four working groups, which are active and open to all members:

  1. Academic Freedom and University Governance
  2. Yale and New Haven/CT
  3. Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Issues
  4. Membership Committee

To get connected with any of these groups, join the AAUP and contact Dan HoSang at daniel.hosang@yale.edu to express your interest.

We are led by an Executive Committee of six members:

  1. President: Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
  2. Vice President: Laura Nasrallah, Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Religious Studies, and Yale Divinity School
  3. Secretary: Tarren Andrews, Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration
  4. Treasurer: Alessandro Gomez, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
  5. Member at Large: Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  6. Member at Large: Jeff Wickersham, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
  7. 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:

  1. James Bhandary-Alexander, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
  2. Christopher McGowan, Lecturer in English & Humanities, Yale English Department
  3. Alka Menon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

And our General Counsel is led by two Co-Chairs:

  1. Mike Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law, Law School
  2. Marisol Orihuela, Clinical Professor of Law, Law School