President Neil Rudenstine
Provost Harvey Fineberg
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138

Dear President Rudenstine and Provost Fineberg:

We, the undersigned faculty members, stand in strong support of the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. We agree that a $10/hour living wage should be granted to all employees and subcontracted employees of Harvard University. In light of the imminent passage of a $10/hour living wage ordinance by the City of Cambridge and the recent implementation of living wage policies in cities around the country, we feel Harvard must recognize the importance of paying its employees above poverty-level wages. As the wealthiest university in the world, Harvard can easily ensure that all employees are able to live and raise families in the communities in which they work.

With its tremendous influence and presitge, Harvard sets an example for employers across the world. As faculty members at this illustrious institution, we join employees, labor unions, and students in calling on Harvard to set an example of social responsibility by guaranteeing a basic living wage to all members of the University community.

• Ellen B. Aitken, Visiting Assistant Professor of the New Testament (Divinity School)
• Ala Alryyes, Lecturer on History and Literature
• William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
• Bridie Andrews, Assistant Professor of the History of Science
• Begona Aretxaga, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences (Anthropology)
• Mary Jo Bane, Thorton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School
• Melissa Barry, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law
• Sven Beckert, Assistant Professor of History
• Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Government
• Elaine Bernard, Executive Director, Harvard Trade Union Program
• Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art
• Francois Bovon, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, Divinity School
• George Brackett, Lecturer & Director, Technology in Education, Graduate School of Education
• Daniel Branton, Professor of Sociology
• Peter Burgard, Professor of German (Head Tutor)
• Carol A. Chetkovich, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
• Elizabeth S. Chilton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• Luis F. CiFuentes, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
• Sarah Coakley, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity
• Lizbeth Cohen, Professor of History
• Jennifer Cole, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• Harry A. Cooper, Lecturer on History of Art & Architecture, & Associate Curator of Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums
• Harvey G. Cox, Jr., Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Divinity School
• Christine Desan, Professor of Law
• Laurent Dubois, Visiting Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies (Michigan State University)
• John M. Duffy, Dumbarton Oaks Professorof Byzantine Philology & Literature (Director of Graduate Studies, Classics)
• George Field, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy
• Michael S. Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
• David Frank, Assistant Professor of Sociology
• Gerald E. Frug, Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law, Law School
• Marshall Ganz, Lecturer, Kennedy School
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
• Vladimir Y. Gitin, Senior Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literature
• Virginie Greene, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures & of History & Literature
• John D. Guillory, Professor of English
• Jo Ann Hackett, Professor of the Practice of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy (Director of Graduate Studies)
• David D. Hall, Professor of American Religious History & Bartlett Lecturer on New England Church History (Acting Chair, Divinity School)
• William Handley, Assistant Professor of Literature and of English and American Literature
• Stanley Hoffman, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
• Kaarina I.M. Hollo, Lecturer on Celtic Languages and Literatures
• John Huehnergard, Professor of Semitic Philology
• Lawrence Jackson, Visiting Professor to the W.E.B. DuBois Institute (Howard University)
• Biodun Jeyifo Visiting Professor of Afro-American Studies (Cornell University)
• Barbara E. Johnson, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law & Psychiatry in Society, English & Comparative Literature
• Gordon D. Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity (Emeritus)
• Alan Keenan, Lecturer on Social Studies
• Herbert C. Kelman Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics
• Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Law School
• Chris Killip, Professor of Visual & Environmental Studies (Chair)
• James Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
• Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities (Head Tutor, Music)
• David Lewin, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music
• Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew & other Oriental Languages (Head Tutor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
• Michael Mandler, Associate Professor of Economics and of Social Studies
• Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Instructor in History and Literature
• Ross S. McElwee, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual & Environmental Studies
• Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies
• Frank I. Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor of Law
• Thomas Mikelson, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Ministerial Studies, Divinity School
• Louis Miller, Associate Professor of History & Social Studies
• David Mitten, James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
• Richard Moran, Professor of Philosophy
• Glyn Morgan, Assistant Professor of Government & of Social Studies
• John T. O'Keefe, Instructor in History & Literature
• Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy, School of Education
• William Paul, Mallinckrodt Professor of AppliedPhysics & Professor of Physics
• Ann Pelligrini, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language
• Bernard Rands, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music
• Mark Renella, Lecturer on History and Literature
• Barbara Reskin, Professor of Sociology
• Cynthia Rosenberger, House Master, Winthrop
• David J. Roxburgh, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
• Henry S. Rubin, Lecturer on Social Studies
• Laura Saltz, Head Preceptor in Expository Writing
• Juliet Schor, Senior Lecturer on Women's Studies (Acting Chair)
• Libby Schweber, Assistant Professor of Sociology
• Alison Simmons, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Philosophy
• Alan K. Simpson, Lecturer, Kennedy School & Director, Institute of Politics & Former Senator, (R) Wyoming
• Joseph Singer, Professor, Law School
• Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies
• John Stauffer, Instructor in English & American Literature & Language, & in History & Literature
• Alan A. Stone, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law & Psychiatry
• Carola Suarez-Orozlo, Lecturer & Senior Research Associate, Human Development & Psychology
• Patricia Sullivan, Visiting Lecturer on Afro-American Studies (University of Virginia)
• Richard Thomas, Professor of Greek and Latin
• Andrea S. Walsh, Preceptor, Expository Writing
• Mary Waters, Professor of Sociology (Head Tutor)
• James L. Watson, John King & Wilma Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society (Head Tutor, Anthro.)
• Cornel West, Harvard University Professor and Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
• William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Malcolm Weiner Professor of Social Policy
• Robert Winters, Preceptor in Mathematics
• John Womack Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History & Economics