<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Joy, </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your Medium article. I'm not looking forward to being on the job market soon, but I'm glad that SIGCIS has been a source of support. You're a hero to at least one young scholar here. </div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#444444" face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Corinna J. Kirsch<br><a href="http://art.stonybrook.edu/person/corinna-kirsch-mcdonald/" target="_blank">PhD Candidate in Modern Art History, Criticism, and Theory</a></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Stony Brook University, State University of New York</font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Phone: +1 (936) 697-1902</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><img src="http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/email/images/SBU_signature.gif" alt="Stony Brook University logo"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">****************************************************************************************************************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">*****************************************************************************************************************</div></div><div><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="2"><br></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:51 AM M. Hicks <<a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu">mhicks1@iit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Joy (and all)--</div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature">I am appalled by what you've been through and I want to commend you on your honesty and strength. As Barbara notes, accounts like this are a critical part of our history as a field, as a discipline, and as a (highly imperfect) knowledge-producing endeavor. Thank you for all the work you have done, including your pathbreaking book. I am sorry we couldn't make things work out better. But I look forward to your future work--whatever form that may take--because you have an insightful, courageous voice, and the way you use it enriches us all. </div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature">Thank you.</div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature">Best,</div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_8863587888328672342AppleMailSignature">Mar <br><br><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">______________________<br></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Marie Hicks, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor, History of Technology<br>Illinois Institute of Technology<br>Chicago, IL USA<br><a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu" target="_blank">mhicks1@iit.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.mariehicks.net/" target="_blank">mariehicks.net</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/histoftech" target="_blank">@histoftech</a><br><i>Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing</i><br><a href="http://www.programmedinequality.com/" target="_blank">www.programmedinequality.com</a></span></div></div><div><br>On Nov 28, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Barbara B Walker <<a href="mailto:bbwalker@unr.edu" target="_blank">bbwalker@unr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Joy,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for writing out this important piece of professional and institutional history, painful though it must be to relive these experiences and to share them. It is a valuable read because of its thoughtful exploration of the context
and implications of the very disturbing events in your recent professional life.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sending warmest regards and support, Barbara<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">University of Nevada, Reno<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Website: <a href="https://www.unr.edu/history/history-people/barbara-walker" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of drjoy <<a href="mailto:drjoy@joyrankin.com" target="_blank">drjoy@joyrankin.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] What happened on the list last year<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello SIGCIS Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First, thank you for your many on- and off-list messages of congratulations and support for my book. I deeply appreciate them, especially in the context of what I'm about to share.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Those of you who were on the list last spring saw my work savaged by a man named Brian Dear. Even then, I received on- and off-list messages of support for my scholarship. But what happened publicly was only one piece of a terrible, terrible
year. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a fuller picture: <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40drjoy%2Fwhy-im-firing-michigan-state-sexual-harassment-online-harassment-and-utter-institutional-6663a6bde68e&data=01%7C01%7Cbbwalker%40unr.edu%7C2d18d2fe7bff48d57fdc08d655623e71%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=6br6xCXaZnuVqbC%2F0FxNA6VlB%2F%2BdXtSuqBVjGc5E78k%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@drjoy/why-im-firing-michigan-state-sexual-harassment-online-harassment-and-utter-institutional-6663a6bde68e</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SIGCIS as an organization did the right thing, and for that, I'm grateful.<u></u><u></u></p>
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