Dear Professor Rankin,

As a graduate student who benefited from your scholarship, both the SIGCIS meeting talk (via YouTube) and your brilliant new book, I'm truly horrified by what you have gone through. I admire the strength you displayed in the process and want to thank you for sharing the story and, for one thing, showing the young scholars how one can possibly face and survive such heinous harassment _and_ institutional betrayal. If it's possible, I was hoping to share your article with other young scholars concerned with MeToo in academia.

Thank you,
Bo

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PhD Candidate, 
East Asian and Media Studies
Yale University

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:24 PM Megan Finn <megfinn@uw.edu> wrote:

Dear Joy,


I'm appalled by what you have been through and like Miriam and others wish you support and community. Thank you for writing this and giving your incredible talk at 4S in Boston. I like that *you* have fired Michigan State and given all of us the opportunity to learn from "utter institutional failure." I've shared it with my colleagues and students so that we can all bear witness to your amazing courage and your -- and all of our -- struggle.


Best,

Megan



From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Sweeney, Miriam <mesweeney1@ua.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 1:10:39 PM
To: drjoy; members@lists.sigcis.org
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] What happened on the list last year
 
Dear Joy, 

Thank you for sharing this devastating account of your experiences with harassment. Your story is so important to me and to other women in the academy, for whom experiences like these are familiar.  Your intertwined stories about MSU and Dear demonstrate the systemic nature of harassment and the multiple ways it plays out institutionally and individually. I wish you continued courage, community, and solidarity as you navigate the fallout of all of this.  (And I hope that MSU received some renewed scrutiny and accountability as a result.) 

Many congratulations on your book and your outstanding contributions to the field. 

Sincerely,
Miriam 

Miriam E. Sweeney

Assistant Professor , School of Library and Information Studies 

The University of Alabama 
527 Gorgas 
Box 870252
Tuscaloosa , AL
office 205-348-1522 
mesweeney1@ua.edu | https://slis.ua.edu/                                 





On Nov 28, 2018, at 1:51 PM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@iit.edu> wrote:

Joy (and all)--

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. 

Thank you.

Best,

Mar 

______________________
Marie Hicks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL USA
mhicks1@iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
www.programmedinequality.com

On Nov 28, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Barbara B Walker <bbwalker@unr.edu> wrote:

Dear Joy,
 
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.
 
Sending warmest regards and support, Barbara
 
Barbara Walker
Associate Professor
Department of History/308
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno NV 89557
 
Office phone: 775-784-4303
 
 
From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of drjoy <drjoy@joyrankin.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM
To: "members@lists.sigcis.org" <members@lists.sigcis.org>
Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] What happened on the list last year
 
Hello SIGCIS Colleagues,
 
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.
 
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. 
 
 
SIGCIS as an organization did the right thing, and for that, I'm grateful.
Regards,
Joy 
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