Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Research Fellow
York College of Pennsylvania; Cato Institute; Heterodox Academy
Erec Smith is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania and Research Fellow at the Cato Institute. Although he has eclectic scholarly interests, his primary work focuses on the rhetorics of anti‐racist activism, theory, and pedagogy as well as the role of rhetoric in a free, pluralistic, and civil society. Smith is the author of A Critique of Anti‐Racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment (2020), a book in which he scrutinizes contemporary modes of anti‐racism in his field, and The Lure of Disempowerment: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of CRT, in which he tries to provide an alternative framework for DEI initiatives. He is a co‐founder of Free Black Thought, a nonprofit dedicated to highlighting viewpoint diversity within the black communities. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Intellectual Freedom Challenges in Higher Education: Perspectives from Four Organizations
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