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Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Number of Published Articles by Field*
*Current MIT Faculty Between 2004-2023 Some works may be counted in multiple fields classifications Fields as classified by OpenAlex Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Letters
The Real Price of Pre-Emptive Budget Cuts To the FNL Editorial Board: The reckless actions of a malign US government are causing irreversible damage – in this country and abroad...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Candidates for Election to the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board
For more than 35 years, the MIT Faculty Newsletter has served as an independent platform representing the voices and perspectives of MIT faculty across all five Schools of the Institute....
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
New Home for the MIT Music Program
The Music Program within the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences serves more than 1,500 MIT students who enroll in music classes each academic year. More than 500...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
MIT AAUP Chapter on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
MIT has been invited by the federal government to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The Introduction to the Compact concludes: “Institutions of higher education are...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
Statement by Some Members of the MIT Council on Academic Freedom on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
As members of The MIT Council on Academic Freedom, we generally support the Compact as an opportunity for the MIT administration to promote its obligations of intellectual diversity, non-discrimination, institutional...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
How Kafka, Not Newton, Saved My Life
I carry the burden of an imperial name: Franz-Josef. Austro-Hungarian, obsolete, mildly ridiculous. But this is the story of how a different Josef – Josef K., Kafka’s protagonist fromThe Trial...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Lecturing in China
In the fall of 1987, released from teaching by a Guggenheim Fellowship and invited to China to lecture as an American feminist intellectual, I visited there for two months, lecturing...