List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 903 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Other Humanities
Howard M. Swartz, D. Phil.

My father introduced me to the authorship question many years ago, and ever since I've been fascinated with the issue. I think Edward De Vere wrote the plays.

09/09/07
Lamberto Tassinari

Former Italian literature professor-Université de Montréal-Author- www.johnflorio-is shakespeare

11/03/08
Dr. Kirk Templeton, Ph.D.

Author

10/27/21
Ms. Ana Traversa, M.A.

A collaborative hypothesis is both intellectually and historically more satisfying than any single-author hypothesis. It also places the text above authorship.

07/24/11
Mr. Terje Tønnessen

Editor, publisher, Kulturforlaget BRAK

04/18/16
Dr. Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman, Ph.D.

Recipient of the Alberto Santos-Dumont medal for "Follow Your Dreams: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont."

05/21/07
Ms. Sarah Weinstein, M. Phil.

09/02/17
Dr. Don Whittemore

04/23/16
Prof. Philip F. Williams, Ph.D.

Montana State University

03/11/15
Prof. Eleanore Sarah Wootton

College humanities educator who has deeply explored best case evidence and concluded that Edward de Vere is the most likely author of the Shakespearean corpus

02/06/13
Charlotte K. Younger, Ph.D.

03/10/22
Amanda Zamuner, M.A.

Former Senior Lecturer of Cultural Studies at FaHCE, UNLP. Literary translator (Sp-It.-Eng) and English literature researcher.

05/22/20
Mr. Claudio Zimmermann, M.A.

Teacher of English literature with doubts about the authorship of William Shakespeare

02/01/20
Psychology
Mrs. Sharon Alperovitz, M.S.W.

07/28/14
Dr. G.A. Bradshaw, Ph.D.

Director, The Kerulos Center

11/04/08
Dr. Mary Louise Brown, Ph.D.

Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour - originally a Classicist from Oxford. I've always thought Shakespeare was a fabrication ever since childhood!

02/24/09
Andrew Crider, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

07/06/16
Miriam DeFant, Ph.D.

02/09/12
Dr. John Nathan Ignatius Dieter, Ph.D.

Former faculty, Emory University; current faculty, Texas A&M-CT; nearly 100 published papers and conference presentations

12/17/15
Dr. Danille S. Drake, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor Georgetown School of Medicine and George Washington University School of Professional Psychology; Former President, BW Society Psychoanalysis

07/28/14
Debbra A Ford, Ph.D.

Debbra A. Ford, PsyD, LP: clinical psychologist who thinks Robin P. Williams is right.

09/09/07
Richard C. Fritsch, Ph.D.

Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

08/18/14
Dr. Penelope Jane Goldsbrough, Ph.D.

Author

04/13/19
Dr. Clemens Hausmann

Psychologist, author

12/15/13
Dr. Charles F. Herr, Ph.D.

NY

06/01/18
Dr. James Houran, Ph.D.

Noted researcher on the psychology of celebrity

03/27/12
Dr. Bruce Hutchison, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Psychologist, Former Forensic Evaluator, author of "Love's Labor Lost, The Man Who Was Shakepeaere"

08/22/13
Prof. Lucia F. Jacobs, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

11/06/21
Dr. D. W. Kreger, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Author, and Scholar at the MacLauren Institute

11/12/11
Dr. Kerry Leddy Malawista

Psychoanalyst and author

07/30/14
Mr. Arseniy M. Maximov, Ph.D.

Psychoanalyst, Teacher, Translator

12/10/13
Mr. David J. Muskera, M.A.

Retired Psychologist

08/10/12
Mr. Chris James Reed, M.S.

07/18/16
Prof. Sandra Schruijer, Ph.D.

Professor of Organization Sciences at Utrecht University

10/29/07
C. Wayne Shore, Ph.D.

Scientist, Operational Technologies Corp

09/20/07
Dr. Ann-Louise Schlesinger Silver, M.D.

Founding President of ISPS-US (www.isps-us.org)

07/28/14
Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis; Sir Francis Galton Award for the Study of Creativity, 1996.

04/07/07
Dr. Kevin Simpson, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

04/30/07
Prof. Michael J. St. Clair, Ph.D.

Professor, Emeritus, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA

10/25/12
Miss Marie Steiner

06/17/09
Prof. Karl William Stukenberg, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Psychology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio

07/27/14
Mr. Mark J. Turner, M.Sc.

Jonathan Bond convinced me through his work "The De Vere Code."

11/18/09
Steve Weissman, M.D.

07/30/14
Dr. Louis Wynne, Ph.D.

Psychologist, author of books and articles

09/09/07
Victoria Gala Zinovieff

Psychotherapist

09/18/23
Social Sciences
Michael E. Abrams, Ph.D.

Professor of Journalism, retired, Florida A&M University. I also hold an M.Ed. in English Education; reporter, editor, teacher.

02/13/22
Aamir Ahmed, M.Sc.

The official Startfordian narrative does stand up to scrutiny.

01/29/22
Prof. Zachary Androus, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Dr. Vladislav Bajaja

I find it incredible that Mr. Shakspere was able to write the works of William Shakespeare.

06/12/11
Mr. Henry A. Baker, M.A.

05/27/14

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