<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Julie, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the initiative. </div><div class="">Please add my name to the list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Susan V. Poats, Ph.D.</div><div class="">Anthropologist, Quito, Ecuador</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 19, 2021, at 3:16 PM, Julie Gamble <<a href="mailto:jcgamble@gmail.com" class="">jcgamble@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Listmembers,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have now updated the letter so that you may sign directly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM/edit?usp=sharing" class="">here</a> or please email us back directly. If you have already replied we have added your name, but please feel free to double check. Thanks for the solidarity.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Julie and Nicholas</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:44 AM Julie Gamble <<a href="mailto:jcgamble@gmail.com" class="">jcgamble@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">***Please excuse cross-listing or reposting***</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">November 19, 2021</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Dear Ecuadorian LASA list members,</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">We hope this email finds you well during these times that continue to present uncertain realities. We write to you today out of dismay about recent events occurring at the University of Pennsylvania. We recently learned that Penn’s Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS) has appointed Ms. María Paula Romo as a Visiting Scholar for this 2021 Fall semester. As you can imagine, the news of this designation comes with shock and disappointment. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">We write to request your support by signing an op-ed that we have co-authored and plan to send to Penn’s student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian. Please review this<span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM/edit?usp=sharing" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">op-ed</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">we wrote about Ms. Romo’s appointment and Penn’s role in legitimating Ms. Romo’s perspective, since part of what Penn seems to be avoiding is English-language information about the appointment. </span></div><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""> </span></p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">As alumni of this institution, we have been in contact with CLALS Director Professor Tulia Faletti to gain insight into the decision-making around the appointment. We also corresponded with Prof. Faletti by presenting evidence that discusses Ms. Romo’s responsibilities as Minister of Government when she ordered the repression of those protesting President Lenín Moreno’s austerity measures. Ultimately, Professor Falleti informed us that she plans to uphold Ms. Romo’s appointment. Yet, despite corresponding with us, Prof. Faletti is simultaneously masking Ms. Romo’s status through having pulled down Ms. Romo’s Visiting Scholar page from CLALS’s website, refusing to respond to a<span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fp%2Fpennlaw-rechazo-a-la-asignaci%25C3%25B3n-de-mar%25C3%25ADa-paula-romo-como-profesora-en-la-universidad-de-pensilvania&data=04%7C01%7Cjulie.gamble%40trincoll.edu%7C555a70d35f314c26e35508d99c86da58%7Ca6cda06a52d94672ae1ff6f9c9f14e37%7C0%7C0%7C637712925278055734%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=CXvTiMSsLZKAkXXEYtLSKcY2RljJbkC6hOfvr8Oyc%2Bw%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">change.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><span class=""> </span>petition with more than 10,000 signers, and ignoring the active Twitter campaign against this appointment that has largely happened from Ecuador. The whole situation feels ambiguous and disingenuous. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">We write the listserv to see if others would be interested in signing before we send the petition to<span class=""> </span><i class="">The Daily Pennsylvanian</i>, the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper. We hope you are able to sign on. Also, please feel free to circulate this letter to other Ecuadorianist scholars that would potentially sign-on. If you need more information about our previous correspondences with the University, we’re happy to provide it. After reviewing the<span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM/edit" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">letter</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">, if you wish to sign on and support the letter, please email us back at Julie Gamble (</span><a href="mailto:julie.gamble@trincoll.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">julie.gamble@trincoll.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">) and Nicholas Limerick (</span><a href="mailto:nl2539@tc.columbia.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">nl2539@tc.columbia.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">) </span></div><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""> </span></p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Thanks very much,</span></div><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""> </span></p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Julie Gamble, Ph.D. & Nicholas Limerick, Ph.D.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">Julie Gamble, Ph.D.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">Assistant Professor of Urban Studies</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">Urban Studies Program</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">Trinity College</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:julie.gamble@trincoll.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">julie.gamble@trincoll.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">Pronouns: she/her</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""> </span></p></div>
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