The Benson Center has not ever been intended to represent one particular party line. “That’s not what this position has been about. Eastman, this position has been considered a position for ideologues or people who take an extreme political view,” Kahan said. and found an opening with the Benson Center. He searched for an opportunity to spend a year in the U.S. Kahan wanted a re-introduction to American academic life and culture. He taught at Florida International University in Miami for 15 years before he and his wife moved to France, where he became a professor of British civilization at a French public university for the next 15 years. in history from the University of Chicago in 1987. He has a particular kind of practice, which would not necessarily be my cup of tea.” Building bridges “I’m a scholar, not a political activist. “We do radically different things,” Kahan said, in reference to himself and Eastman. Kahan - a historian, political theorist and author who teaches at the Université de Paris-Saclay - said he is quite different from Eastman and was encouraged to apply for the position because of those differences.įor one thing, Kahan said he believes Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States. We are proud of Alan Kahan, whose scholarship and temperament represent our vision for this position.” “However, some of the loudest voices at CU and in the press have used Eastman as a pretext to attack the Center for pursuing its mission of bringing intellectual and political diversity to the university. “In my opinion, Eastman is a crank who has espoused crackpot theories and acted irresponsibly, in ways that have harmed the Center,” Jacobson said in an emailed statement.
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He ended his term spotlit in national scrutiny with his public duties at CU stripped and his photo on the Benson Center’s website quietly taken down.Ĭoming into the position occupied by an election denier, who a federal judge said “likely committed crimes” in his efforts to overturn the presidency, Kahan said he had his work cut out for him repairing relationships between the Benson Center and a left-leaning faculty - all while doing his job teaching and hosting lecture series for the center, which stands as a conservative outpost on a liberal campus.ĭaniel Jacobson, director of the Benson Center, said neither he nor anyone in the current leadership of the Benson Center was involved in Eastman’s hiring and that Eastman was selected by a faculty committee “comprised of no one who self-identifies as conservative.” Kamala Harris was eligible to serve as vice president because of her immigrant parents.
Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĮastman began his 2020 tenure as CU Boulder’s conservative scholar denounced by Chancellor Phil DiStefano for publishing an essay questioning whether then-Sen.
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