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Dr Frank Ellis is an author and former lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Leeds, who was suspended for alleged racism.
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- Dr frank ellis enoch powell centenary dinner traditional britain group
- Career
- Macpherson Report
- Leeds University
- Publications on Russia
- Other activities
- References
Career
Before entering academia, Ellis served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service (SAS). Prior to his appointment at Leeds University he taught at the University of Las Vegas (UNLV).
Macpherson Report
In 2000, Ellis came in for criticism after making plans to attend a conference hosted by American Renaissance, where he would deliver a speech attacking the findings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. Ellis had written for American Renaissance before the conference, and continued writing for it after. He subsequently published, in early 2001, his book The Macpherson Report - Anti-Racist Hysteria and the Sovietisation of Britain, with a Preface by Professor Antony Flew.
Leeds University
In February/March 2006, the university newspaper Leeds Student published an interview by Matt Kennard, a Leeds Student journalist, with Dr. Ellis, where he expressed his support for the The Bell Curve theory developed by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray that there are racial differences in average intelligence. Ellis's comments were widely condemned, particularly in the light of his endorsement of the British National Party. A campaign was launched by Hanif Leylabi, President of the Unite Against Fascism organisation, which called upon the university to sack Ellis. The story received coverage in The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Times Higher Education and various other national newspapers and radio stations as well as national and local television services. A statement was released by Leeds University Union calling for his dismissal. Leeds University condemned Ellis' views as "abhorrent".
Ellis was subsequently suspended by the Vice-Chancellor, Michael Arthur, pending disciplinary proceedings. The University issued a media release stating that it was investigating an alleged breach of its diversity policy. It also said Ellis's views were wholly at odds with the University's values, he had jeopardised the university's obligations under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, and that he had not apologised for his remarks. Ellis took early retirement in June 2006, pre-empting the outcome of the disciplinary action.
Publications on Russia
In 1994 his book Vasily Grossman: The Genesis and Evolution of a Russian Heretic came out and in 1998 his book From Glasnost to the Internet: Russia's New Infosphere was published by Palgrave MacMillan. In 2013 the University of Kansas published his huge work The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army.
Other activities
Ellis addressed the formal annual dinner of the Traditional Britain Group in 2012 on the subject of "Liberal Totalitarianism". In September 2017 he produced a long essay on the Group's website attacking and deconstructing Baroness Sayeeda Warsi's book The Enemy Within?: A Tale of Muslim Britain, entitled A Tale of Muslims in Britain or a Prophecy of a Muslim Britain?.