The Scholarly Communications Roundtable had a discussion on scholar-activism at our event on Fri. Oct. 27th. Here is an article on threats to scholars online, with some advice on what to do if you are targeted:

This excerpt by Coleen Flaherty originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2017

“Our goal here is to think sociologically about this problem,” Grollman said, noting that marginalized scholars—people of color, women and LGBT scholars—are disproportionately targeted. “These attacks are not isolated incidents, but they’re actually part of a larger conservative assault on higher education, and it’s not limited to what we call our extramural utterances … There are scholars who’ve been attacked for what they teach in the classroom, for the type of research they do.”

Read the full article.