Postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while locking in special privileges for bigger media companies.

Here's a list of academics who have sent a letter to James C. Miller III, chairman of the Postal Board of Governors, protesting the change:

We, the undersigned, share the concerns of independent publishers and categorically support and endorse the objectives and remedies expressed in this statement. As educators and scholars, we acknowledge and appreciate the significant contribution both to the academic community and to society in general made by smaller but influential magazines, periodicals and journals, and realize the inevitable consequences, which include the loss, permanently, of a large portion of the variety and individuality, and hence the freedom, of the nation's press, if these planned postal rate increases are indeed enacted.

Henry Abelove
Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Gilbert Allen
Professor of English
Furman University

Edward A. Alpers
Professor of History
UCLA

Sally Bachner
Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Judith Bainbridge
Professor of English
Furman University

Peter Baldwin
Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. John Barrington
Associate Professor
Department of History
Furman University

Calvin Bedient
Professor of English
UCLA

Lloyd Benson
Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor
Department of History
Furman University

Joseph Bernt
Professor of Journalism
Associate Director for Graduate Studies
E. W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University

Jeffrey Brooks
Professor of History
The Johns Hopkins University

Carole H. Browner
Professor
Center for Culture and Health
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles

Mary Ann Clawson
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Robert Dallek
Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA

Martin Dimitrov
Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Mary Ann Doane
George Hazard Crooker University Professor
Modern Culture and Media
Brown University

Alex Dupuy
Professor of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Daniel Fineman
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Occidental College

Robert J. Fogelin
Professor of Philosophy (emeritus)
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

Bryna Goodman
Professor
Department of History
University of Oregon

Janet Hadda
Professor of English Emerita
Department of English
UCLA

Thomas E. Hodges, Jr.
Associate Professor Emeritus of Journalism
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
Ohio University

Daniel Walker Howe
Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus
Oxford University, England
Professor of History Emeritus
UCLA

Niklas Hultin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Swarthmore College

Norris Hundley
Professor Emeritus of History
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles


Margaret C. Jacob
Professor of History
UCLA

Russell Jacoby
Professor in Residence
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Arthur Kaledin
Professor of History Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Indira Karamcheti
Associate Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Nikki Keddie
Professor Emerita of History
UCLA

Peter D. Kramer, M. D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University

Katherine A. Lancaster
Managing Editor, Ethnology
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh

Valerie J. Matsumoto
Associate Professor of History
UCLA

Wm. Duncan McArthur
Professor of English
Furman University

Fred G. Notehelfer
Professor of History
Director, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

Kathryn J. Oberdeck
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Barbara L. Packer
Professor of English
UCLA

Gayle Pemberton
Professor of English, African American Studies, American Studies
Wesleyan University

Claire Potter
Associate Professor of History
Wesleyan University

Hilary Putnam
Cogan University Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Harvard University

Joseph Rouse
Hedding Professor of Moral Science
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University

David W. Rutledge
Pitts Professor & Chair
Department of Religion
Furman University

Matthew Sharpe
Assistant Professor of English
Wesleyan University

Arthur Spears
Professor of Anthropology
City College, Graduate Center
City University of New York

Wayne Steffen
University Editor
Fresno Pacific University

Marla Stone
Professor of History
Occidental College

Magda Teter
Assistant Professor of History
Wesleyan University

Peter Travis
Professor of English
Dartmouth College

Jessica Wang
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in U.S. History
Department of History
University of British Columbia

Robert N. Watson
Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation
UCLA

Dora B. Weiner
Professor of the Medical Humanities and History
UCLA

Sarah Elise Wiliarty
Assistant Professor of Government
Wesleyan University

M. Norton Wise
Co-Director, Center for Society and Genetics
Distinguished Professor of History
Department of History
UCLA

Robert Wohl
Distinguished Professor of History
UCLA

Thomas Wortham
Chair and Professor
Department of English
UCLA

Raul Homero Villa
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Occidental College

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