"Still on the Cliff's Edge: The Continuing Campus Aftereffects of 10/7"
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Haifa and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is 2024 co-recipient of the Campus Faculty Heroes Award from StandWithUs and Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism. His most recent book is Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024). He is presently completing Zionism Confronts the Abyss: The Impact of the October 7 Massacre in the Diaspora. He most recently published an essay in the Jewish Quartly called Mindless: What Happend to Universities?
Cary has also published a piece for the ISCA Beinner Family Research Series on Antisemitism, "The Future of Campus Antisemitism After October 7th."