An Honest Living Valerie Sherer Mathes Assistant Professor and Graduate Chair

Assistant Professor and Graduate Chair

transformed African American literature and Black studies

and 2nd place

and why immigration cannot be reduced to security or legal issues alone

An Honest Living Valerie Sherer Mathes Assistant Professor and Graduate ChairAn exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he landed a job in Lebanon, but that too, ended badly. With no other recourse, Salaita found himself trading his successful academic career to an hourly salaried