List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 948 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Social Sciences
Ms. Rose M. Frankfort, M.A.

Teach Shakespeare at New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning, Mesa Community College, Mesa AZ

09/11/08
Dr. Susana Garcia Cervero, Ph.D.

Economist, Financial Services Authority, UK

10/16/11
Prof. Jack A. Goldstone, Ph.D.

Sociologist/Historian; Hazel Professor of Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; author/editor of 13 books and 150 articles

07/28/20
Prof. Leonid M. Grigoryev

Tenured Professor, an author of the play about Roger Manners 5th lord Rutland

08/12/23
Emily Porter Hanchett, M.A.

09/09/07
Ms. Linda Hart

I was persuaded by Mark Twain's book, "Is Shakespeare Dead?" Everyone should read it.

03/10/19
Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson

D. Litt (Cambridge University), Academy of Social Sciences, Research Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.

09/17/07
Dr. William Garrett Jackson

Adjunct Professor, Law and Policy (Doctor of Law and Policy degree (LP.D))

06/18/25
Dr. Milo Jones, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor, IE University; co-author, "Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001," Stanford University Press, 2010.

04/03/18
Gillian Margaret Kent

07/07/11
Bruce Charles Koller, M.A.

As with any other question, I believe the issue should be open for discussion, argument, and debate.

11/15/21
Ekkehart R.A. Krippendorff, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Free University of Berlin; Shakespeare scholar, author of two monographs: "Politics in Sh's Dramas" and "Sh's Comedies"

04/20/10
Mr. André Pieter Kruijt, M.Sc.

D.E.E:C.O.D.I.N.G SHAKESPEARE by Alan William GREEN

12/18/19
Kathleen M. Kuba, M.A.

04/03/18
Dr. Vincent M. LaMotta, Ph.D.

professor, archaeologist

04/30/22
Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Ph.D.

Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Political Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

08/10/13
Ms. Annebel Victoria Lewis, M.A.

07/15/08
Ernest Llynn Lotecka, Ph.D.

Director, Alliances for Psychosocial Advancements in Learning (APAL)

10/29/07
Dr. Hugh Mason, Ph.D.

The geographical references in Shakespeare's works do not relate to the country in the vicinity of Stratford-upon-Avon.

03/30/13
Dr. Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

09/09/07
Dr. Saladin D. Meckled-Garcia, Ph.D.

Lecturer in Political Philosophy, Director: UCL Institute for Human Rights

11/06/11
Mr. Douglas S Mock, M.A.

09/09/07
Dr. Thomas J. Murphy, Ph.D.

11/30/13
Prof. Charles E. Orser Jr., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

05/19/11
Susan Petrakis, Ph.D.

Follow the evidence.

04/22/18
Dr. Nathan Willett Pino, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, Texas State University

04/05/13
Dr. Judith Pintar, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10/06/13
Mrs. Kimberly Lynn Reynolds, M.A.

Instructor in Communication Studies at California State University, Sacramento

06/16/10
Dr. Alan R. Rogers, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, University of Utah

08/02/23
Marvin Rosenberg, M.S.W.

04/23/08
Robert E Schlenker, Ph.D.

The evidence to doubt Shakespeare's identity appears overwhelming.

04/30/07
Dr. Alexander Schulenburg, Ph.D.

Senior Historical Research Officer, City of London Corp.; FRHistS; long-held assumptions can succumb to reasoned evaluations of contextual historical evidence

10/08/13
Mr. Steffen Ask Sleire

08/16/13
Ms. Sarah Frances Smith, M.A.

Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Delta College

07/07/19
Ms. Laura Swartz, Ph.D.

02/12/18
Orit Tamir, Ph.D.

Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico Highlands Univeristy

05/17/07
Prof. John Henry Tarini, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Dr. John William Tate, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Newcastle, Australia

06/24/24
Dr. Michael Tawanda, Ph.D.

06/06/16
Prof. Denny Taylor, Ed.D.

Professor Emeritus, Literacy Studies, Founder Garn Press

05/18/17
Prof. Hugh A. Thomas, Ph.D.

09/09/07
Mr. Sinan Toprak, M.A.

11/10/24
Dr. Ryan W. True, D. Phil.

English/World History Educator, Wentworth College

03/26/20
David Evans White, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Natural Resource Economics, West Virgina University

04/27/09
Theatre Arts
Prof. Thorvald Aagaard, M.F.A.

Dirctor of Theater, Pacific Union College

06/16/13
Aaron Adair, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Theatre/Honors Faculty, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

06/03/08
David Alberts, Ph.D.

Educator, author, director, and actor.

05/10/20
Prof. Gary Anderson, Ph.D.

08/30/24
Mr. Ted Bacino, M.S.

Author of the historical novel "XTOFER -- The Shakespeare-Marlowe Conspiracy" (TBacino@AOL.com)

04/22/09
Mr. James A Baffico, Ph.D.

09/14/07

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