Open Letter: No to Racist Pseudoscience at Cambridge

Over 1400 signatories (586 academics and 874 students) have called for an investigation into the appointment of Noah Carl to a research fellowship at St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge

We write to express our dismay at the appointment of Noah Carl to the Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellowship at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. A careful consideration of Carl’s published work and public stance on various issues, particularly on the claimed relationship between ‘race’, ‘criminality’ and ‘genetic intelligence’, leads us to conclude that his work is ethically suspect and methodologically flawed.

These publications, drawing on the discredited ‘race sciences’, seem nothing more than an expression of opinion on various social matters. As members of the academic community committed to defending the highest standards of ethical and methodological integrity in research and teaching, we are shocked that a body of work that includes vital errors in data analysis and interpretation appears to have been taken seriously for appointment to such a competitive research fellowship.

We are deeply concerned that racist pseudoscience is being legitimised through association with the University of Cambridge. This fellowship was awarded to Carl despite his attendance at, and public defence of, the discredited ‘London Conference on Intelligence’, where racist and pseudoscientific work has been regularly presented. Carl’s work has already been used by extremist and far-right media outlets with the aim of stoking xenophobic anti-immigrant rhetoric. In a context where the far-right is on the rise across the world, this kind of pseudoscientific racism runs the serious risk of being used to justify policies that directly harm vulnerable populations.

We are also concerned that the appointment process for this fellowship was not carried out with the degree of academic rigour, diligence and respect for principles of equality and diversity that we would expect from a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

We call on St Edmund’s College, the University of Cambridge, and the Newton Trust to issue a public statement dissociating themselves from research that seeks to establish correlations between race, genes, intelligence and criminality in order to explain one by the other.

We also call on the University of Cambridge to immediately conduct an investigation into the appointment process that led to the award of this fellowship. Such an investigation, which should be independent of St Edmund’s college, must involve recognised experts across relevant disciplines, and include a thorough review of the appointee’s body of academic work.

Signed

Prof Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster

Prof Arjun Appadurai, Media Studies, New York University

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Dr Michael Szpakowski, Writtle University College

Dr Preti Taneja, Faculty of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University

Dr Natasha Tanna, Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge

Dr Stuart Tannock, Institute of Education, University College London

Dr Hillary Taylor, University of Cambridge

Dr Kate Taylor-Jones, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield

Dr Sharika Thiranagama, Anthropology, Stanford University

Dr Nicholas Thoburn, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester

Dr Kerrie Thornhill, Health and Public Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Lisa Tilley, Birkbeck, University of London

Dr Laura Tisdall, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Saadia Toor, Faculty of Sociology, City University of New York

Dr Eric Tourigny, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Dr James Trafford, University for the Creative Arts

Dr John Tresch, Warburg Institute, SAS

Dr Thalia Trigoni, University of Cyprus

Dr Waqas Tufail, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University

Dr Kate Tunstall, French, University of Oxford

Dr Rory Turner, Goucher College

Naina Kent, UCU Black Members Standing Committee

Dr James Underwood, Education and Humanities, University of Northampton

Dr Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo, Cultural Fellow, University of Leeds

Dr Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade, Sociology, University of Southampton

Dr Collin VanBuren, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

Dr Rebecca Varley-Winter, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Dr Penny Vera-Sanso, Birkbeck, University of London

Drs Robbie Voss, Faculty of Social Science, Utrecht University

Dr Filip Vostal, Czech Academy of Sciences

Dr Khursheed Wadia, University of Warwick

Dr Kim Wagner, Queen Mary, University of London

Dr Erica Wald, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dr Scott Walter, Macquarie University

Dr Jo Walton, Digital Humanities Lab, University of Sussex

Dr Samantha Walton, Bath Spa University

Dr Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh

Dr Saskia Warren, Geography, University of Manchester

Dr Ruth Watson, History, University of Cambridge

Dr Steven Watson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Dr Daniel Weatherill, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Dr Isabella Weber, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dr Tom Webster, History, University of Edinburgh

Dr Harry Weeks, History of Art, the University of Edinburgh

Dr Tom White, Faculty of English, Oxford University

Dr Joey Whitfield, Cardiff University

Dr Erica Wickerson, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge

Dr Lauren Wilcox, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge

Dr Claire Wilkinson, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Dr Kalpana Wilson, Geography, Birkbeck University of London

Dr Aaron Winter, University of East London

Dr Mike Witcombe, Bath Spa University

Dr David Woken, University of Oregon

Dr Johannes Wolf, Faculty of English, University of Oxford

Dr Nicole Wolf, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

Dr Alison Wood, Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Dr Rosie Worsdale, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr John Yandell, Institute of Education, University College London

Dr Christine Yao, English, University College London

Dr Waseem Yaqoob, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Dr Zheng Yuan, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

Dr Andrew Zurcher, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

In addition to these 586 academics, 874 student signatories will also be presented to the Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge, the Director of Newton Trust, and the Master and Fellowship at St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge.

This letter was previously covered by The Guardian and Cambridge’s student newspaper Varsity. If you have any queries, or would like to add your name to the list of signatories, please email racescienceopenletter@gmail.com

UPDATE: Noah Carl was dismissed from his position on May 1, 2019 after an investigation by St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Click here for the official press release.