Nafees Alam

Dr. Nafees Alam is an award-winning professor specializing in viewpoint diversity, open inquiry, and constructive disagreement in higher education. He has over 150 peer-reviewed and popular-press publications and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work, Research on Social Work Practice, and the Sport Social Work Journal. He has presented at conferences worldwide, including four keynotes. He aims to disseminate ideas through many public platforms as a contributor to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Heterodox Academy, Minding the Campus, Inside Sources, Psychology Today, Real Clear Education, Open Therapy Institute, ProSocial Workers, Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, the Academic Freedom Alliance, and the Institute for Liberal Values.

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Who are you? I am an educator, a scholar, and a firm believer in the importance of intellectual pluralism.

What do you do? I am a professor of social work, senior director of policy and research with the Institute for Liberal Values, senior scholar with ProSocial Workers, co-moderator of Heterodox Social Work, senior advisor with Open Therapy Institute, and author with Minding the Campus, Inside Sources, and Psychology Today.

What do you believe? I believe that the promotion of viewpoint diversity is necessary to maintain a healthy and effective academic discipline. I believe open inquiry is an essential and underrated component of contemporary social science education and researc