Ward Churchill

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Ward Churchill speaking at the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair in May 2005

Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947 in Urbana, Illinois , USA ) is an American professor, writer and political activist of the American Indian movement .

Churchill studied communications . He was Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder until his discharge in 2007 for serious violations of the principles of scientific conduct .

Investigations into the misconduct began after Churchill's planned 2005 speech on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks sparked a nationwide scandal. Churchill brought several unsuccessful trials against his dismissal, and the university was found to be right.

background

Born in Urbana, Illinois , he grew up in Elmwood, Illinois after his parents divorced when he was two years old.

He was drafted into the United States Army in 1966 at the age of 19 and served, among other things, in the Vietnam War . Allegations of Churchill to the media that he had there, including as Fernspäher in a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP), paratroopers and PR served -Spezialist and specialized training received as bomb which he later the terrorist group Weathermen have provided proven by relevant research in 2005 as fictitious. The only special training Churchill received during his time in the military was that of a projectionist and pickup truck driver, and he was deployed accordingly.

Churchill had received a BA in communications engineering in 1974 and a masters degree in communications science from the University of Illinois at Springfield (then Sangamon State University) in 1975 . He then worked at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an employee for the affirmative action program. Later he also received a teaching position for Indian subjects.

As an associate professor, he was hired in 1990 without the often required doctorate . In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from Alfred University for his history lecture . In 1997 he was given a full professorship in Colorado. Churchill received this university position as part of a special opportunity position . Because of this, there has been some speculation, for example in the conservative-libertarian magazine National Review, that he sneaked the position because of a faked Indian descent. The university said no one was given a position because of their ethnicity. Internal documents from the university indicated that Churchill's appointment was controversial because of the lack of a doctorate. No advertisement would have been necessary for a special opportunity position , but the decision was nevertheless made to open the position to external candidates. In the end, however, the decision was made for Ward Churchill, partly because of his extensive experience at the University of Colorado.

Churchill has given different and contradicting statements regarding an alleged Indian descent. In 2003, for example, he claimed to be descended from the Muscogee and Creek Indians on his father's side and from the Cherokee on his mother's side , giving an eighth of a Creek and a sixteenth of a Cherokee ancestry. The Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians gave him honorary membership, but rejected claims that Churchill was of Native American descent. The origins of Churchill's ancestors were investigated in more detail by the 2005 Rocky Mountain News . They found no evidence of Native American ancestors.

Essay Controversy 2005

An essay called Some People Push Back , already available in 2001 , became the subject of controversy in January 2005. Churchill wrote a book from it in September 2003 called On the Justice of Roosting Chickens . The title borrows from a quote from a proverb ("Chickens who have flown out to sleep" in the sense of digging a pit ) by Malcolm X , who commented on the assassination of President Kennedy in the sense that he was responsible for it. Churchill described the employees in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmann" ( "little Eichmann ") and members of a "technocratic corps at the heart of American global financial empire". The attacks of September 11, 2001 were therefore an inevitable result of American foreign policy.

In January 2005, Churchill's scheduled speech at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York was canceled after death threats against him. In advance, the essay had become more widely known for the first time. The Chancellor of Colorado University, Phil DiStefano, also criticized him. Colorado Governor Bill Owens , some MPs and others have now called for Churchill to be dismissed. The sometimes violent attacks led to the resignation of the president of the university, who warned against a revival of McCarthyism . Shortly thereafter, Churchill resigned as dean of the Ethnic Studies department on the grounds that he could no longer represent the department in the current political climate.

Scientific misconduct and dismissal

In March 2005 the university opened an investigation into Churchill. In the investigation report of the University's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct it was admitted that he had been very active in his research (“atypical but impressive record”), but it was concluded that there were various scientific misconduct (“several forms of academic misconduct "). He was charged with a total of seven cases, including forgery and plagiarism .

On June 26, 2006, interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced that Churchill wanted to remove his post. A university commission (Privilege and Tenure Committee) on the allegations rejected two of the seven cases as insufficient, but a majority recommended that Churchill be demoted. In July 2007, Churchill was fired from the university. Churchill complained against it. In April 2009, a jury in the first instance found that his dismissal was largely influenced by his political views and questioned the need for it. She did not decide whether the dismissal should be revoked and granted Churchill compensation of one symbolic dollar. There was much speculation about the meaning and connotation of this small amount, on which the jury initially did not comment. A jury member later said in an interview that Churchill and his lawyer had repeatedly emphasized that they were not about money but about justice, which is why they were taken at their word. In two other instances, on July 7, 2009 and November 24, 2010, Churchill's requests to withdraw the termination and for higher compensation were dismissed, as the decision of the university was within its legitimate discretion. In 2011, the Colorado Supreme Court accepted another petition for a review of the case and upheld the lower court decisions in September 2012.

Works

Books

  • Ward Churchill: Marxism and Native Americans . South End Press, Boulder (Colorado, USA) 1984, ISBN 0-89608-178-8 .
    • dt. Indigenous America and the Marxist Tradition: A Controversial Debate About Culture, Industrialism, and Eurocentrism ed. by Ward Churchill, translated by Regine Geraedts and Ilse Utz, Agipa-Press, Bremen 1993, ISBN 3-926529-03-2 .
  • Ward Churchill: Culture versus Economism: Essays on Marxism in the Multicultural Arena . Indigena Press, 1984.
  • Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall: Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement . South End Press, Boulder (Colorado, USA) 1988, ISBN 0-89608-294-6 .
  • Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall: The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret War Against Domestic Dissent . South End Press, Boulder (Colorado, USA) 1990, ISBN 0-89608-359-4 .
  • Ward Churchill: Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians . Common Courage Press, 1992, ISBN 0-87286-348-4 .
  • Ward Churchill: Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in America . Activism, Politics, Culture, Theory, Vol. 4. Maisonneuve Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-944624-17-3 . New edition: Ward Churchill: Politics of Imprisonment in the United States . AK Press , 2004, ISBN 1-904859-12-7 .
  • Ward Churchill: Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America . Common Courage Press, 1993, ISBN 1-56751-000-0 . New and revised edition: Ward Churchill: Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization . City Lights Publishers, San Francisco CA 2002, ISBN 0-87286-414-6 .
  • Ward Churchill: Indians Are Us ?: Culture and Genocide in Native North America . Common Courage Press, 1994, ISBN 1-56751-020-5 .
  • Ward Churchill: Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle for American Indian Liberation . Aigis Press, 1995, ISBN 1-883930-03-0 .
  • Ward Churchill: From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995 . South End Press, Boulder, Colorado 1996, ISBN 0-89608-553-8 .
  • Ward Churchill: Islands in Captivity: The International Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians . South End Press, Boulder CO 1997, ISBN 0-89608-567-8 . New edition: Ward Churchill, Sharon Venne: Islands in Captivity: The International Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians . South End Press, Boulder CO 2005, ISBN 0-89608-738-7 .
  • Ward Churchill, Mike Ryan: Pacifism as Pathology: Notes on an American Pseudopraxis. Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America . Worker Ring, 1998, ISBN 1-894037-07-3 (introduction by Ed Mead).
  • Ward Churchill: A Little Matter Of Genocide: Holocaust And Denial In The Americas 1492 To The Present . City Lights Books, San Francisco 1998, ISBN 0-87286-323-9 .
  • Ward Churchill: Draconian Measures: The History of FBI Political Repression . Common Courage Press, 2000, ISBN 1-56751-058-2 .
  • Ward Churchill: Acts Of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader . Routledge , 2002, ISBN 0-415-93156-8 .
  • Ward Churchill: Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law . City Lights Books, San Francisco 2002, ISBN 0-87286-411-1 .
  • Ward Churchill: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of US Imperial Arrogance and Criminality . AK Press, 2003, ISBN 1-902593-79-0 .
  • Ward Churchill: Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools . City Lights Publishers, San Francisco 2004, ISBN 0-87286-434-0 .
  • Ward Churchill: Speaking Truth in the Teeth of Power: Lectures on Globalization, Colonialism, and Native North America . AK Press, 2004, ISBN 1-904859-04-6 .
  • Ward Churchill: To Disrupt, Discredit And Destroy: The FBI's Secret War Against The Black Panther Party . Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-92958-X .
  • Ward Churchill, Natsu Saito: Confronting The Crime Of Silence: Evidence Of US War Crimes In Indochina . AK Press, 2006, ISBN 1-904859-21-6 .

items

Audio and video

  • Doing Time: The Politics of Imprisonment , audio CD of a lecture, recorded at the Doing Time Conference at the University of Winnipeg , September 2000 (AK Press, 2001, ISBN 1-902593-47-2 )
  • Life In Occupied America (AK Press, 2003, ISBN 1-902593-72-3 )
  • In A Pig's Eye: Reflections on the Police State, Repression, and Native America (AK Press, 2002, ISBN 1-902593-50-2 )
  • US Off The Planet !: An Evening In Eugene With Ward Churchill And Chellis Glendinning , VHS video recorded on July 17, 2001 (Cascadia Media Collective, 2002)
  • Pacifism as Pathology: Notes on an American Pseudopraxis | Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left , 2003 Audio CD recorded at an AK Press warehouse in Oakland (AK Press Audio)

Web links

Audio and video

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dave Curtin, Howard Pankratz and Arthur Kane: Questions stoke Ward Churchill's firebrand past . In: Denver Post . Retrieved December 14, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Denver Post 1987
  3. ↑ Questions stoke Ward Churchill's firebrand past , Denver Post, February 13, 2005.
  4. ↑ Jefferson Dodge: Churchill's personnel files released by CU-Boulder . In: Silver & Gold Record , February 24, 2005. Archived from the original on September 22, 2006. 
  5. ^ Charlie Brennan, Stuart Steers: Red-flagged career: Churchill's tenure at CU marked by warnings of trouble . In: Rocky Mountain News , February 17, 2005. Retrieved December 14, 2011. 
  6. ^ Ward Churchill, An American Holocaust? The Structure of Denial. In: Socialism and Democracy 17, No. 2 (2003), pp. 25-76.
  7. ^ Marie Annette Jaimes (ed.): The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance. South End Press Boston 1992, ISBN 0-89608-424-8 , pp. 123-138.
  8. ↑ Tribe snubs prof Cherokee band says Churchill's claim of membership a fraud Charlie Brennan. In: Rocky Mountain News. May 18, 2005.
  9. ↑ Kevin Flynn: The Churchill files; Are Ward Churchill's claims of American Indian ancestry valid? ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rocky Mountain News. June 9, 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.frontpagemag.com
  10. ↑ Essay Some People Push Back
  11. ^ Der Spiegel: University President resigns , March 9, 2005
  12. ^ Ward Churchill Resigns Administrative Post ( September 24, 2006 memento on the Internet Archive ), University of Colorado at Boulder, January 31, 2005
  13. ^ Marianne Wesson, Robert Clinton, José Limón, Marjorie McIntosh, Michael Radelet: Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill . University of Colorado at Boulder, May 9, 2006, p. 6, 94 ( PDF, online ). PDF, online ( Memento from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Denver TV channel report on the recommendation to dismiss Churchill
  15. ↑ Jefferson Dodge: Regents dismiss Ward Churchill . In: Silver & Gold Record , July 26, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2008. 
  16. ^ Johnson, Kirk & Seelye, Katharine Q .: Jury Says Professor Wrongly Fired , NY Times . April 3, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2009. 
  17. ^ Aguilar John: Churchill wins his case, awarded $ 1 in damages Reinstatement at CU to be decided at future hearing. Archived from the original on April 5, 2009. In: Daily Camera . April 2, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
  18. ↑ Juror Bethany Newill talks about the Ward Churchill trial. Michael Roberts. Denver Westword Blogs. Friday Apr 3 2009 @ 2:52 PM. [1] .
  19. ^ Ward Churchill loses appeal to win back CU job. Denver Post dated September 10, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Churchill, Ward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Churchill, Ward LeRoy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, academic, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Urbana , USA