List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 921 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Natural Sciences
Dr. Roland P. Schmitz, Ph.D.

Microbiologist at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

06/28/12
Dale Reynolds Snider, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

08/10/13
Prof. Peter A. Sturrock, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University; author, "AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question"

03/19/13
Lowell James Swank, Ph.D.

I wrote an article about Frederik Rosenkrantz and Knud Gyldenstierne, two Danish Noblemen who visited London in 1592. SOS Newsletter, 2003.

11/29/14
Prof. Frank Robert Tangherlini, Ph.D.

Retired physics professor; also poet with poem by "Puck" about authorship

02/16/10
John Taylor, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, University of Montana

02/10/12
Ms. Bonnie R. Thompson, M.A.

Glendale Community College, Chemistry Educator, Retired

01/03/14
Peter D. Usher, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State Universtity; author of "Hamlet's Universe" (2006)

04/16/07
Dr. Gary C. Vezzoli, Ph.D.

Research physicist; author of Shakespeare paper published in The Elizabethan Review, connecting the life of Edward de Vere to The Winter's Tale.

09/09/07
Dr. Wolfgang Willner

Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria.

12/31/16
Mr. Jonathan C. Wright, Ph.D.

California

04/15/16
H. Nicole Young, Ph.D.

I may one day be notable for being one of two determined female scientists who exposed the most truth about 9/11. See http://shoes4industry.blogspot.com

09/09/07
Other / Unspecified
Ms. Natasha Bauman, M.F.A.

Book coming out next summer -- may soon be famous author?!

09/09/07
Mr. Matthew P. Colton, M.Ed.

VA

11/21/14
Mr. Philip E. Crowley

10/23/12
Sarah Ellem

07/31/19
Dr. Leigh Dawes Farrell, Ph.D.

Ph.D in Comparative Literature

04/25/16
Stephen Fleming

Vice Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology

04/15/09
Mr. Tom Patrick Haddigan, M.Sc.

Edward de Vere wrote the Shakespeare canon of works.

08/29/21
Prof. Kimberly S. Hall, M.A.

Associate Professor of English, Harrisburg Area Community College

04/04/17
Mr. Øyvind Hansen

All in all, I find it incredible that Mr. Shakspere was alone behind the lyrics.

08/16/13
Mr. Henning Hornnæss

08/19/13
Dr. Richard F Huff, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Wade Keller, M.P.A.

A strong cases by Tom Regnier, several posted on YouTube

05/31/16
Mr. Allyne Knox

12/18/14
Dr. Johannes Kuechler

Former Professor, Theory and History of Landscape Development, Technische Universität Berlin

10/19/07
Mr. John C. Meeks, M.A.

Former faculty member of Emerson College, Sussex, England.

07/26/12
Mr. Alexander Nitzberg, M.A.

Austrian poet and translator of literature from Russian and English into German (e.g. the complete sonnets of Edmund Spenser, works of Anna Akhmatova etc.)

12/14/12
Prof. Emily Grace Nolan III, Ph.D.

Trust no one.

05/25/22
Mr. Eoghain W. Ormiston

English Language Teacher, University of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

01/11/16
Mr. Constantin Cristian Petrache

Just a curious mind.

03/22/20
Mr. Marcus V. Renner, M.S.

04/08/07
Mrs. Sandra Reynolds, M.S.

Senior chemistry teacher at The University of South Australia, and at University Senior College, Adelaide.

09/16/07
Mr. Amiel Moshe Schotz, M.F.A.

Retired teacher, author and poet, actor, student of theatre arts

07/23/19
Richard Toth

NY

08/02/09
Mr. William Turner

09/03/16
Mrs. Estelle Van Zyl, M.A.

Teacher and sceptic.

03/07/22
Karl P. Wiberg

I suppose there's no "smoking gun" (de Vere's Geneva Bible?); but the Everest of circumstantial evidence for Oxford is decisive -- freelance journalist.

11/16/10
Mr. Jinglin Zuo, M.A.

There is "room for doubt", and other reasonable scenarios are possible.

11/19/07
Other Humanities
Mr. Antonio Acuna, M.A.

Keeping Shakespeare's identity as it is only benefits those who make money off of it.

09/09/07
Prof. Peter Atterton, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, San Diego State University; Ph.D. from University of Essex, England.

04/09/18
Prof. Babette Babich, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, NYC

08/19/12
Nancy Jean Beach, M.A.

I harbor a reasonable doubt that the man from Stratford is the sole author of the sonnets and plays attributed to Mr. William Shakespeare.

04/23/22
Dr. Sandy Berkovski

Bilkent University

09/09/07
Mr. Robin Arthur Blick

Historian

03/20/21
Mr. John Kenyon Blossom, M.B.A.

Former Instructor of English, Western New England College; son of John E. Blossom, author of English textbooks and Shakespeare authorship agnostic

10/17/09
Mr. Rodney Morgan Brown, M.M.

Composer

06/02/16
Dr. Karen S. Buzzard, Ph.D.

Professor and former director, School of Art and Media Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University; expert in media audiences, esp. history of the ratings industry

11/16/19
Grant Christison, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Woosong University, South Korea

05/20/23
Mr. Steven Robert Cohen

Philosophy was my field, curiosity my passion.

03/28/20

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