My name is Graham Mooney (he/him) and I am delighted to serve as the AAUP JHU chapter treasurer. I am a co-author of the GROWTH platform and support the candidacies of Lisa Siraganian (president), Ahmed Ragab (vice president), and Siobhán Cooke (candidate for secretary). It is clear that in the face of unprecedented attacks from the federal government, the AAUP JHU chapter is poised for an increase in membership as our colleagues seek a space for solidarity and collective representation. The AAUP needs to be ready to harness its members’ energy to meet the current moment and respond to future challenges.

I have been at Hopkins since 2003, I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine in the School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Department of Epidemiology (BSPH) and History of Science and Technology (KSAS). I teach students in all three of these schools. My research interests are in the histories of liberal and neoliberal public health in the UK and USA; historical epidemiology and demography; and urban historical geography. I am an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and the Royal Society of Public Health (UK).

I bring a wealth of administrative and organizational experience to AAUP. I have held various departmental and school-wide service positions at JHU, including two terms as departmental representative on the SOM Faculty Senate. I was a member of the SOM Joint Oversight Committee for Faculty Development and Gender (2005-11), which, for the first time, collated divisional compensation plans and analyzed data on gender imbalances in compensation across all SOM divisions. The annual reports of this committee were used to implement and monitor the equalization of gender differentials in salary compensation. I was a co-founder and former director of the Online Program in the History of Medicine (2015), which returned a budgetary surplus within 24 months. I have filled these and other roles ethically and responsibly and will do the same for AAUP JHU if elected as Treasurer. 

Since 2015 I have delivered, alongside graduate student workers and faculty colleagues, various anti-oppression training and workshops across JHU and beyond. I view anti-oppression as a tool to resist the attacks on academic freedoms and threats to the status and safety of international students and scholars. Based on the assumption that the AAUP JHU chapter is, and will continue to be, anti-oppressive in its practice, I am particularly committed to transparent and accountable systems that are both self-reflexive and responsive to members’ concerns. To strengthen the collective basis of AAUP activities, I will seek to increase representation in AAUP of postdocs and adjuncts whose views tend to be less visible and influential in our community.