Who We Are

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: Danya Keene, Associate Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health
  3. Secretary: Tisa Wenger, Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School
  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: Mikey McGovern, Knight Law and Media Fellow with the Information Society Project, Yale Law School

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