Academics forced to flee US could become ‘new normal’, says Bray

Better support systems needed for scholars facing political threats, according to historian labelled ‘domestic terrorist professor’

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November 7, 2025

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November 7, 2025

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Mark Bray, a Rutgers assistant professor of history, waits in a hotel room in Newark, N.J., before a planned flight to Spain on Thursday, 9 October, 2025.

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by graff.... on November 9, 2025 - 12:27am

My sympathies are with Bray. But there are far too few opportunities for his example to become "the new normal."

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