In April 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) became the first United States academic body to pass a resolution boycotting formal relations with Israeli universities. In December, the
Conor Tomás Reed and Gordon Barnes
Conor Tomás Reed has been a student, educator, archivist, and activist at the City University of New York since 2006. He is a co-founding participant of Free University-NYC since 2012, is on the research council of Lost and Found: A CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and is a member of CUNY for Palestine and NYC Solidarity with Palestine. His work focuses on social movement literatures and freedom schools.
Gordon Barnes is a doctoral student in history at the CUNY Graduate Center and is the editor-in-chief of the GC Advocate. He was formerly a digitization researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and his current research examines planter ideology, violence, and the post-emancipation experience in nineteenth-century Jamaica and Mauritius.