Professor Steven Feld is a MacArthur Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was a member of the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) until his resignation in September 1995 as a direct result of UT's decision to name the new molecular biology building after Jim Bob Moffett.
Here is Feld's curriculum vitae, circa 1995.
Here are some eloquent and moving letters written by Professor Feld. - An open letter to Chancellor Cunningham, March 28, 1994 Previously printed in sub(TEX).
- Hey UT, Let's Call it Amungme Hall (March 1995)
- Resignation, September 11, 1995. Printed in Texas Observer, September 29, 1995, p. 3, with response by Chancellor Cunningham.
- To Cunningham: On visiting Irian Jaya, September 27, 1995. Excerpts in Texas Observer, November 10, 1995, p. 2.
- To Cunningham: On the significance of the OPIC letter, November 3, 1995
- To the Regents of the University of Texas, November 5, 1995
- To Freeport, November 7, 1995
- To OPIC, November 8, 1995
- To an editor, November 27, 1995
- To Freeport, concerning Freeport's threat of legal action, December 13, 1995
- Reply to Oppel, Febuary 6, 1996
- Feld on Freeport-OPIC Settlement
