A faculty member, selected as a finalist for a Fulbright chair, faced rejection from the U.S. Department of State, partly due to their focus on race in research. The author interprets this as symptomatic of a larger trend of restrictive ideological oversight in American higher education, particularly affecting those who address controversial topics such as race, colonial history, and state violence. The piece emphasizes the difficulty of securing external support for such inquiries, especially in the current political climate, suggesting a chilling effect on academic freedom.
"It wasn't a shock—race is at the center of my research. However, it's easy to see the move as part of a broader effort..."
"Studying the people who resisted it? That doesn't pass the ideological purity test. I wonder what took the State Department so long to reject my award."
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