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<a href="https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/cprender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine Prendergast</a> is a Professor of English and an affiliate of the Russian East-European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (REEEC). According to the <a href="https://reeec.illinois.edu/about/mission-and-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for the REEEC, the center serves as an “intellectual and institutional center for members of the university community and the public interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of Eurasia.”
In the book titled, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World</a>, Prendergast states that English is the first language of capitalism.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1300 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-1024x374.png" alt="" width="580" height="212" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-1024x374.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-300x109.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-768x280.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-1200x438.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
Prendergast claims in the same <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover">book</a> that the adoption of English by Slovakia’s citizens will result in them being “manipulated and controlled” in a capitalist economy by “more powerful players in more powerful countries” as the nation transitions to a free-market economy.
In a separate tweet, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that the reason that we do not have socialism in America is due to “racism.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1281" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.04.31-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="172" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.04.31-PM.png 618w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.04.31-PM-300x103.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a>
For more information on Prendergast&#8217;s stance on capitalism in developing countries, readers may view her research paper’s abstract to, ‘<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767720701855642?needAccess=true">We live and Learn’: English and Ambivalence in a new capitalist state</a>. According to her paper’s abstract, Prendergast argues that as Slovaks increasingly learn English, they increasingly embrace a Western, capitalist way of life.
Catherine Pendergast also refers to conservatives as Nazis. In light of this characterization,  she <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829">urges</a> white people not to vote for two election cycles.
<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1282" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.05.52-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="273" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.05.52-PM.png 618w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.05.52-PM-300x164.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a>
In the same thread of tweets, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609">refers</a> to conservatives and Trump supporters as “Nazis” that should not have a place in law enforcement.
<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1283" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.07.47-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="213" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.07.47-PM.png 618w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.07.47-PM-300x128.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a>
In reference to Pastor <a href="https://www.gracechurch.org/Leader/MacArthur/John">John MacArthur’s</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/pastor-macarthur-church-california/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defiance of California’s COVID regulations</a>, which limited worship services to 100 or less congregants, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293930470749732866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweets</a> that Christians will “kill us all” for gathering in a church to worship during a pandemic.
<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1284" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.08.42-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="265" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.08.42-PM.png 618w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.08.42-PM-300x159.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a>
Prendergast also <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacks</a> Turning Point USA students as “abusive bullies” in a tweet.
 <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1285" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.09.29-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="207" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.09.29-PM.png 618w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.09.29-PM-300x124.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a>
Additionally, when the Professor Watchlist team reached out to Prendergast for comment prior to the publication of her profile, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382046820516380677">launched into a tirade</a> against a staff member of the Professor Watchlist team. Prendergast also publicly <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382051991296348172">hurled slanderous claims</a> against a staff member and tweeted other <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382067461898571782">outrageous claims</a> against TPUSA.
<a href="https://twitter.com/login/error?username_or_email=ben.larrabee%40tpusa.com&amp;redirect_after_login=%2Fcjp_still%2Fstatus%2F1382067461898571782"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1302 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-1024x376.png" alt="" width="580" height="213" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-1024x376.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-300x110.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-768x282.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-1200x441.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM.png 1230w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" /></a>
Prendergast did not, however, choose to answer the Professor Watchlist team’s questions about her statements.
Prendergast briefly made her Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> private soon after our publication, but has since made the account public.
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Parents and Students may  contact the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at 
(217) 333-1000
Updated &#8211; Spring, 2021

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<a href="https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/cprender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine Prendergast</a> is a Professor of English and an affiliate of the Russian East-European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (REEEC). According to the <a href="https://reeec.illinois.edu/about/mission-and-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for the REEEC, the center serves as an “intellectual and institutional center for members of the university community and the public interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of Eurasia.”

In the book titled, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World</a>, Prendergast states that English is the first language of capitalism.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1300 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-1024x374.png" alt="" width="580" height="212" />

Prendergast claims in the same <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover">book</a> that the adoption of English by Slovakia’s citizens will result in them being “manipulated and controlled” in a capitalist economy by “more powerful players in more powerful countries” as the nation transitions to a free-market economy.

In a separate tweet, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that the reason that we do not have socialism in America is due to “racism.”

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1281" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.04.31-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="172" /></a>

For more information on Prendergast's stance on capitalism in developing countries, readers may view her research paper’s abstract to, ‘<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767720701855642?needAccess=true">We live and Learn’: English and Ambivalence in a new capitalist state</a>. According to her paper’s abstract, Prendergast argues that as Slovaks increasingly learn English, they increasingly embrace a Western, capitalist way of life.

Catherine Pendergast also refers to conservatives as Nazis. In light of this characterization,  she <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829">urges</a> white people not to vote for two election cycles.

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1282" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.05.52-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="273" /></a>

In the same thread of tweets, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609">refers</a> to conservatives and Trump supporters as “Nazis” that should not have a place in law enforcement.

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1283" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.07.47-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="213" /></a>

In reference to Pastor <a href="https://www.gracechurch.org/Leader/MacArthur/John">John MacArthur’s</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/pastor-macarthur-church-california/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defiance of California’s COVID regulations</a>, which limited worship services to 100 or less congregants, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293930470749732866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweets</a> that Christians will “kill us all” for gathering in a church to worship during a pandemic.

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1284" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.08.42-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="265" /></a>

Prendergast also <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacks</a> Turning Point USA students as “abusive bullies” in a tweet.

 <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1285" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.09.29-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="207" /></a>

Additionally, when the Professor Watchlist team reached out to Prendergast for comment prior to the publication of her profile, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382046820516380677">launched into a tirade</a> against a staff member of the Professor Watchlist team. Prendergast also publicly <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382051991296348172">hurled slanderous claims</a> against a staff member and tweeted other <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382067461898571782">outrageous claims</a> against TPUSA.

<a href="https://twitter.com/login/error?username_or_email=ben.larrabee%40tpusa.com&amp;redirect_after_login=%2Fcjp_still%2Fstatus%2F1382067461898571782"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1302 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-1024x376.png" alt="" width="580" height="213" /></a>

Prendergast did not, however, choose to answer the Professor Watchlist team’s questions about her statements.

Prendergast briefly made her Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> private soon after our publication, but has since made the account public.

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Parents and Students may  contact the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at 
(217) 333-1000
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://afro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/schajua" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sundiata Cha-Jua</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois. According to his university profile, Cha-Jua is also a founding scholar/trainer of the Policing in a Multiracial Society Program (PSMP.)

His biography states the “PMSP provides systematic anti-racial bias education and training for police recruits attending the University of Illinois’s Police Training Institute (PTI) and researches the racial attitudes of police and the effectiveness of anti-racist training.”

Professor Cha-Jua writes a bi-weekly op-ed column called “RealTalk: A Black Perspective” for The News-Gazette. He published a two-part series titled “White Supremacy in White and Black Face” where he discusses candidates for local elections. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221009143647/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-white-supremacy-in-white-and-black-face-part-i/article_1909e728-85e6-50c2-8905-45c65d995db5.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In part one, he maligns conservatives</a> while writing about Regan Deering, a candidate running for the 13th Congressional District.
“Like nearly the entire Republican party, Deering seeks to end democracy as we’ve known it. She opposes mail-in voting and supports racist ID laws. … She may not perform the Seig Heil or Nazi salute, but she marches in rhythm with the MAGA fascists.” 
Part two <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221023120559/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-white-supremacy-in-white-and-black-face-part-ii/article_b5a0e8f8-abea-5847-83e2-a3ff60ff462d.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focuses on the race for Champaign County Clerk,</a> between a black Democrat named Aaron Ammons and a black Republican named Terence Stuber. He begins the article by saying that the majority of black Republicans who run for office “are truly MAGA Black White supremacists who pursue neoliberal policies despite their negative impact on the majority of Black people.”

He compares Stuber to the “incompetent, subliterate and coonish Herschel Walker,” saying he too “reiterates “massa” Trump’s talking points.” <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/coon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dictionary.com</a> defines “coon” as “extremely disparaging and offensive” and describes it as a “contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.”

Cha-Jua ends his piece by writing:
“What kind of Black Republican is Stuber? His words and deeds indicate he’s a genuine MAGA Black White supremacist.” 
Cha-Jua has a history of controversial op-eds. In July 2022, he wrote a piece titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220703120602/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-the-fourth-of-july-is-not-my-independence-day/article_4a0fb847-7762-5fc0-a131-ea5e3645818f.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Fourth of July is not my Independence Day.”</a> He states:
“Though adolescents, we knew where the red, white, and blue flew in abundance - White neighborhoods - was dangerous territory for us.” 
He adds:
“As long as racial oppression and capitalist exploitation exist, I’ll pass on celebrating the Fourth of July.” 
Another op-ed, titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220110075511/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-we-are-all-to-blame-for-gun-violence/article_30a8ed11-beb9-5baf-9b95-8d35834b4aff.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“We are all to blame for gun violence,”</a> features more of Cha-Jua’s anti-capitalist sentiments. He argues that capitalists and police are to blame for gun violence, writing:
“The White capitalist class is guilty of operating an exploitative economic system built on a foundation of anti-Black racial oppression. Black folk and other racially oppressed people are kept in place by a well-armed network of police and private citizens.” 
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You can contact the Department of African American Studies by phone: 217-333-7781 or email: afro-public@illinois.edu.
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Published - November 3, 2022

<a href="https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/rochelle-gutierrez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rochelle Gutierrez</a> is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. According to Gutierrez’s university profile, her “scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning.” 

Her biography says she “builds upon Indigenous principles and has argued for a new form of mathematics where humans are no longer centered. This form of mathematics is referred to as living mathematx.” 

Gutierrez published a chapter in a 2017 anthology for math teachers titled, “<a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Building-Support-for-Scholarly-Practices-in-Mathematics-Methods" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods</a>.” <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports Gutierrez writes:  
“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.” 
Gutierrez believes that using terms such as “Pythagorean theorem” and “pi” gives the perception that math “was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.” She also argues, “If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned.” She claims there are many minorities who “have experienced microaggresions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.” 

Gutierrez also says all knowledge is “relational,” writing, “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.” 

In a statement to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, John Wilkin, Interim Provost at the time, stated: 
“As with all of our faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Prof. Gutierrez has the rights of academic freedom necessary to pursue scholarship and research on important subjects and to reach conclusions even if some might disagree with those conclusions.” 
He continued: 
“The issues around equity and access in education are real - with significant implications to our entire educational system. Exploring challenging pedagogical questions is exactly what faculty in a world-class college of education should be doing.”
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Published - March 31, 2023

<a href="https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/croseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a> is an Associate Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

In October 2023, Roseman and University of Notre Dame Professor Cara Ocobock penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> where they questioned the existence of only two genders. The op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—argued that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.” The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Roseman and Ocobock say the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”
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Published - October 31, 2023

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<a href="https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/aleejr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Alvin Lee</a> is an Employee Relations Specialist from <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a>. In 2016, Mr. Lee hosted a presentation in a business relationship class that labeled phrases such as, “American is a melting pot,” as “microaggressions.”
Harvard Professor Chester M. Pierce—who first coined the phrase—<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031073/what-are-microaggressions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines microaggressions as literal, “racial assaults” on minorities by white people</a>.
“These [racial] assaults to black dignity and black hope are incessant and cumulative. Any single one may be gross. In fact, the major vehicle for racism in this country is offenses done to blacks by whites in this sort of gratuitous neverending way. These offenses are microaggressions.“ &#8211; Chester M Pierce
Universities and public officials will often censor words or phrases they consider fit this definition. In 2018, the University of California <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/17/calling-america-land-opportunity-microaggression-says-university-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled the phrase, “America is the land of opportunity,” as a microaggression.</a> In 2021, administrators at Brandeis University <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelanguagelist_identitybased.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed phrases like, “policeman” and, “you guys,” under a University-sponsored “Oppressive Language List</a>.”
Due to a California law passed in 2017, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-law-allows-prison-using-wrong-gender-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failure to refer to a person’s preferred gender pronouns is now a jailable offense</a>. Those convicted may be sentenced for up to a year in jail.
Mr. Lee likewise <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/saying-america-melting-pot-microaggression-purdue-class-teaches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges students to curtail speech he considers to be microaggressions. </a>Several examples included the following:
&#8211; Asking a student, “Where are you from?”
&#8211; “You are so articulate.”
&#8211; “America is a melting pot”
&#8211; “There is only one race, the human race”
&#8211; “When I look at you, I don’t see color”
&#8211; “I’m not racist, I have several black friends”
&#8211; “I believe that the most qualified person should get the job.”
&#8211; “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough.”
&#8211; Using the pronoun, “he” to refer to all people.
During the same lecture, Mr. Lee claimed “hundreds” of active hate groups are operating in the United States today. He was referencing data compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-ordained civil rights <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> whose objective is purportedly the dismantlement of white supremacy.
Despite its mission statement, the organization effectively operates as a left-wing think tank. As City Journal notes, the SPLC operated “Hatewatch” exists to publish<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/demagogic-bully-15370.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> partisan attacks on groups with right-of-center positions</a>. Conservative groups are labeled as extremists, while destructive, Left-wing organizations like Antifa are virtually ignored.
Thanks to its prolific fundraising operations, the organization has successfully monetized its left-wing smear campaigns. The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-surpasses-half-billion-in-assets-121-million-now-offshore/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPLC’s assets exceed half a billion dollars</a> with $121 million residing in offshore bank accounts alone.
Mr. Lee’s goals, as written in his presentation, include, “teaching students to understand and accept people’s similarities and differences and learn to treat everyone with dignity and respect.” Following the presentation, The College Fix also reports that Mr. Lee assigned students an exercise titled “Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Class Bingo,” which aimed to highlight their differences.
Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a> at (765) 494-4600.
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Updated &#8211; August 19, 2021
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<a href="https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/aleejr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Alvin Lee</a> is an Employee Relations Specialist from <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a>. In 2016, Mr. Lee hosted a presentation in a business relationship class that labeled phrases such as, “American is a melting pot,” as “microaggressions.”

Harvard Professor Chester M. Pierce—who first coined the phrase—<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031073/what-are-microaggressions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines microaggressions as literal, “racial assaults” on minorities by white people</a>.

“These [racial] assaults to black dignity and black hope are incessant and cumulative. Any single one may be gross. In fact, the major vehicle for racism in this country is offenses done to blacks by whites in this sort of gratuitous neverending way. These offenses are microaggressions.“ - Chester M Pierce

Universities and public officials will often censor words or phrases they consider fit this definition. In 2018, the University of California <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/17/calling-america-land-opportunity-microaggression-says-university-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled the phrase, “America is the land of opportunity,” as a microaggression.</a> In 2021, administrators at Brandeis University <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelanguagelist_identitybased.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed phrases like, “policeman” and, “you guys,” under a University-sponsored “Oppressive Language List</a>.”

Due to a California law passed in 2017, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-law-allows-prison-using-wrong-gender-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failure to refer to a person’s preferred gender pronouns is now a jailable offense</a>. Those convicted may be sentenced for up to a year in jail.

Mr. Lee likewise <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/saying-america-melting-pot-microaggression-purdue-class-teaches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges students to curtail speech he considers to be microaggressions. </a>Several examples included the following:

- Asking a student, “Where are you from?”

- “You are so articulate.”

- “America is a melting pot”

- “There is only one race, the human race”

- “When I look at you, I don’t see color”

- “I’m not racist, I have several black friends”

- “I believe that the most qualified person should get the job.”

- “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough.”

- Using the pronoun, “he” to refer to all people.

During the same lecture, Mr. Lee claimed “hundreds” of active hate groups are operating in the United States today. He was referencing data compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-ordained civil rights <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> whose objective is purportedly the dismantlement of white supremacy.

Despite its mission statement, the organization effectively operates as a left-wing think tank. As City Journal notes, the SPLC operated “Hatewatch” exists to publish<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/demagogic-bully-15370.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> partisan attacks on groups with right-of-center positions</a>. Conservative groups are labeled as extremists, while destructive, Left-wing organizations like Antifa are virtually ignored.

Thanks to its prolific fundraising operations, the organization has successfully monetized its left-wing smear campaigns. The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-surpasses-half-billion-in-assets-121-million-now-offshore/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPLC’s assets exceed half a billion dollars</a> with $121 million residing in offshore bank accounts alone.

Mr. Lee’s goals, as written in his presentation, include, “teaching students to understand and accept people’s similarities and differences and learn to treat everyone with dignity and respect.” Following the presentation, The College Fix also reports that Mr. Lee assigned students an exercise titled “Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Class Bingo,” which aimed to highlight their differences.

Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a> at (765) 494-4600.

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Updated - August 19, 2021
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<a href="https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/bill-mullen.html">Bill Mullen</a> is a professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. As stated in his university profile, he specializes in “American Literature and Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, Working Class Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Marxist Theory.” Mullen also serves as a member of the organizing collective for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and is the co-founder of a national, campus-based ANTIFA organization. 

As part of the <a href="http://campusantifascistnetwork.com/">Campus Antifascist Network </a>(CAN), an ANTIFA-aligned group for university academics, Mullen <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/17/campus-group-proposing-broad-countermovement-against-white-nationalism-and-racism">described</a> his role as "to drive racists off campuses and to protect the most vulnerable from fascist attack.”

This sentiment is reflected in the <a href="http://campusantifascistnetwork.com/resources/">resources</a> listed on the CAN website. Not only does CAN declare that free-speech does not extend to “far-right” groups, it actively encourages students and faculty to confront groups on campus that they have labeled far-right, and lobbies universities to ban them. 

Mullen certainly believes that Turning Point USA should be banned from campus - he has previously <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/where-zionism-right/">described</a> TPUSA as an “alt-right” group. 

As Faculty Advisor for Purdue's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and part of the organizing collective for the Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Bill spends much of his time demonizing Israel as an Apartheid State and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/educators-cant-stay-silent-about-israeli-apartheid/10928">advocates</a> for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS). 

Mullen and SJP at Purdue both have a <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Bill_Mullen">history</a> of defending terrorists, with the latter <a href="https://purduesjp.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/myths_formated.pdf">writing</a> in 2009 that it is a "myth" that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Mullen has also lauded terrorists, as Ghassan Kanafi is featured prominently on his <a href="https://www.billvmullen.com/welcome">personal blog</a>. <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/presbyterian-peacemakers-omit-relevant-facts-about-ghassan-kanafani/">Kanafi</a> is a Marxist-Lennist Terrorist known for his role in the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1550/justice-for-the-victims-of-the-lod-airport-attack">Lod Airport Massacre</a> in Israel that tragically killed 26 innocent civilians and injured an additional 80. His blog itself is titled, "From the River to the Sea," a popular phrase used by those who want to wipe Israel off the map from the Jordan River to the Medditeranian Sea.

Mullen has also used his Facebook to call for the release of Khader Adnan, who is a convicted terrorist with Palestian Islamic Jihad.

<a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/cheryl-cooky.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cheryl Cooky</a> is a Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. According to her university profile, Cooky’s research focuses on “gendered media representations of sport; gender politics of sport and public policies; and how gender shapes sports experiences, cultural meanings, and organizational structures in sports.”

In March 2022, Cooky penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/we-should-be-celebrating-lia-thomas-we-did-jackie-robinson-ncna1292521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> arguing that Lia Thomas—the biological male who swam on the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swim team—”should be embraced in the history of progress that sports represent and recognized as the trailblazer that she is.” She says, “For anyone who cares about the advancement of sports, and women’s sports in particular, her win should be celebrated.”

Cooky believes the argument that transgender women have an unfair competitive advantage against biological women is not well founded. She claims, “There is a lack of scientific evidence that conclusively demonstrates a direct link between testosterone and athletic performance.” Rather, she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/lia-thomas-nbc-news-jackie-robinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attributes differences</a> in men’s and women’s athletic performances to factors such as “coaching and training, psychological makeup of an athlete, [and] access to resources and equipment.”

Cooky argues Lia Thomas’s “first” of winning the NCAA Division I championship as a transgender athlete is equivalent to Jackie Robinson’s “first” of playing in the MLB.
“There remains though a cultural investment in celebrating sports’ ‘firsts,’ whether that be Robinson as the first Black MLB player, the first openly gay active player in the NBA, the first nonbinary U.S. athlete to participate in the Winter Olympics or the first woman to score in a Power Five college football game.” 
She concludes:
“Part of what makes the ‘first’ stories so compelling is the resilience, determination and love for the sport exhibited by these athletes and their motivation to break down barriers, despite the naysayers. Thomas, as the first transgender athlete to win a Division I NCAA championship, deserves to be placed among the other firsts.”
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Published - December 4, 2023

<a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/aaron-dial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aaron Joseph Dial</a> is a <a href="https://www.disconetwork.org/fellowships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DISCO Network</a> Postdoctoral Research Fellow at <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/purdue-university-1827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a>. His profile on <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/a-joseph-dial-1430294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> states that his “expertise is in materialist and digital media studies, digital humanities, and cultural studies of technology and race. These areas of expertise inform my research and teaching interests, which, broadly sketched, are Black studies, affective labor, popular culture, urban spaces and temporal flows, and the nexus between sports and science and technology.”

In an April piece for The Conversation titled “<a href="https://theconversation.com/in-air-michael-jordans-silence-speaks-volumes-about-the-marketing-of-black-athletes-203824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In ‘Air,’ Michael Jordan’s silence speaks volumes about the marketing of Black athletes</a>,” Dial argued that the movie “Air” depicts what he deems is the exploitation of the black body by Nike in the creation of the Air Jordan basketball sneaker. 

‘“Air”’ becomes the story of how a struggling company created one of the most successful brands in the world on the back of a Black body, a tale as old as the nation itself,” Dial claims.

In the article, he reveals that he is “writing a book that explores the intimate connections between sneakers and Blackness. In it, I argue that the Black body’s long history of objectification and commodification undergirds the branding, mass consumption and culture of sneakers.”

Dial claims that the Air Jordan sneaker is an “extension” of the black body, which the film conveys (in his opinion):
“What ‘Air’ does better than anything else is to unbox a provocative, sobering truth about Jordans’ meteoric rise: They are cast as literal extensions of Black bodies. They represent the literal molding of a Black man’s feet, with their vulcanized rubber, leather and laces encapsulating Black athletic greatness and cool.”
According to Dial, this has been a part of Nike’s business agenda: “[S]ix years after the development of the air midsole, David Falk cracked the code of Nike’s transparent, little black box: Don’t market the technology. Market the body that wears it.”

Dial responded to Peter Moore's position in the movie, claiming that sneakers have "always existed." Dial stated, “What Moore cannot know is how right he really is. Deloris Jordan and those five buried generations have always been here.” 

He then compared that statement with his idea of the black body and its abuse by the United States historically and currently:

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In June, Dial published a piece titled “<a href="https://theconversation.com/ja-morant-shows-how-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-can-never-be-black-206161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ja Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black</a>.” This article is about the recent firearm debacle with NBA player Ja Morant, who has received much censure from within and without the NBA for being caught wielding a gun on camera on two separate occasions. 

Dial states, “I’m not looking to defend Morant’s behavior. It was careless, and he could have harmed himself and others. <a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/aaron-dial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">But as a scholar of Black popular culture</a>, I can’t help but wonder what the reaction would have been if Morant were white.”

He claims the gun culture prevalent in the United States has treated Morant with a double standard that a white person would not have been treated with:
“To many politicians and activists in the gun-obsessed U.S., the freedom to own and flaunt firearms is a sacred right. And yet throughout the nation’s history, gun ownership among Black Americans has elicited fear and recrimination. Even when folks who look like Morant innocuously and legally possess a gun, they find themselves too easily typecast as villains.”
Dial laments the “metaphor of guns” that is used to make nicknames, describe athletic actions in sports, or respond to an exciting play:
“The metaphor of guns also saturates the league in ways that <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reflect the country’s obsession with firearms</a>…The alias of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kirilenko">Andrei Kirilenko</a>…was ‘AK- 47.’ Fans anointed Lakers guard <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-guard-austin-reaves-wants-to-get-rid-of-ar-15-nickname/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin Reaves</a> with the nickname “AR-15”... NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/easymoneysniper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram handle</a> is ‘easymoneysniper.’ Watch Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Breen announce a game, and you’ll inevitably hear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtIx03UmiiE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his famous catch phrase</a>, ‘BANG.’”
Published - June 29, 2023

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Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

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Dr. <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/elisabeth-anker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Anker</a> is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at  <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Washington University</a> in Washington DC. The author of “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/ugly-freedoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ugly Freedoms</a>,” Dr. Anker has described freedom as a “slippery concept” that upholds patriarchy, <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2974/Ugly-Freedoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colonialism, ecological destruction, and white supremacy</a>.
In an article for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Dr. Anker <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-s-your-reaction-to-the-ottawa-standoff-and-the-border-blockades-1.6349636/why-the-word-freedom-is-such-a-useful-rallying-cry-for-protesters-1.6349865" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vilifies right-wing and conservative groups who utilize “freedom” as their rallying cry to remove COVID-19 restrictions</a>. Her comments were published just as the Canadian government began cracking down on the “Freedom Convoy” by using emergency police powers.
The Freedom Convoy was organized in the winter of 2022 to protest the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/trucker-freedom-convoy-set-to-protest-justin-trudeaus-vaccine-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian government&#8217;s enforcement of a vaccination mandate for truckers</a>. Participants parked their trucks in downtown Ottawa and halted traffic for weeks in front of the Canadian Parliament. Elsewhere, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/freedom-convoy-supporters-block-traffic-canadas-busiest-border-crossing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">truck drivers blocked vital points of entry on the US-Canadian border</a>.
After several weeks, the city police began <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/canadian-police-seize-fuel-trucker-covid-protest-court-silences-horns-rcna15294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seizing fuel and other supplies</a> from the convoy. The crowdfunding site, “GoFundMe,” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/ottawa-police-admit-to-lobbying-gofundme-to-withhold-funds-from-canadian-truckers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled a donation page from the truckers at the request of the Ottawa Police</a>. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau authorized the use of the “Emergencies Act” which grants the Canadian government extrajudicial powers in breaking up the blockade.
The <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/freedom-convoy-trucker-protests-organizers-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organizers of the protest were soon arrested</a> and <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-freedom-convoy-organizer-tamara-lich-denied-bail?utm_campaign=64483" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held without bail</a>. Individuals who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trudeau-announces-unprecedented-action-freezing-bank-accounts-of-freedom-convoy-protesters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated or donated to the convoy soon found their bank accounts frozen</a>. As police moved to clear the site of the protest, footage emerged of mounted units <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/woman-trampled-freedom-protest-indigenous-elder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trampling demonstrators, including an elderly woman in a mobility scooter</a>. Additional footage shows <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-rebel-news-journalist-assaulted-injured-by-police-at-freedom-convoy-protest-rebel-news-were-suing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police injuring reporters</a> and <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/02/18/ottawa-police-threatens-media-with-arrest-amid-crackdown-on-trucker-protests-n2603491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatening others with arrest for covering the protest.</a>
In the days leading up to the crackdown, Dr. Anker described the protests as a “violent” form of freedom and accused the “far-right” of abusing liberties to oppose equity.
“On the far right, [individual freedom] is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that’s trying to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination.”
She further laments how Canadians take advantage of the concept of freedom as a “national entitlement,” just as Americans do.
“It&#8217;s been taking a lot of people by surprise to see people in Canada, who often seem so much more accepting of social interdependence, to start pushing back against it with the language of individual freedom.”
In a previous article for the New York Times—titled, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220204102257/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/ugly-freedom-discrimination-racism-sexism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Exploitation of ‘Freedom’ in America</a>,”—Dr. Anker condemns Americans who cite their “ugly freedoms” to remove mask mandates and prohibit abortions.
“Each of these actions used the language of freedom to justify anti-democratic politics. These, then, are what I call “ugly freedoms”: used to block the teaching of certain ideas, diminish employees&#8217; ability to have power in the workplace, and undermine public health.
“These are not merely misunderstood freedoms, or even just a cynical use of the language of freedom to frame bigoted policies. They manifest, instead, a particular interpretation of freedom that is not expansive, but exclusionary and coercive.”
She goes on to write that the “long history of ugly freedoms” includes justifications for slavery, marital abuse, and segregation; freedoms in America, she argues, have suppressed “nonwhites, women, and workers,” and have been used to justify white supremacy.
As of publication, the Canadian Parliament has just voted <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canadian-parliament-votes-to-extend-emergencies-act-for-30-days/#slide-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to extend the Emergencies Act</a>. The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, has indicated that certain emergency powers will remain permanent.
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Trudeau’s deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent. <a href="https://t.co/g8JTCwzmqX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/g8JTCwzmqX</a>
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494852056145969155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents contact the <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/contact-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of American Studies</a> at George Washington University at (202) 994-6070 or at amst@gwu.edu
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Dr. Leana Wen is a <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/leana-wen-md-msc_faaem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research Professor of Health Policy and Management</a> at George Washington University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Wen is an emergency department medical doctor and a CNN Medical Analyst. She is also an op-ed columnist for a few different publications, and previously she was the President of Planned Parenthood - a tenure that lasted only eight months.

Over the last year and a half, the focus of Dr. Wen’s research and interest has been on COVID-19. She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/01/how-can-u-s-solve-problem-of-vaccine-hesitancy.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often speaks on the subject for CNN</a> and other news outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. In a video clip recently released by CNN, Dr. Wen compared unvaccinated Americans to drunk drivers. You can watch the clip below:

https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1436361021749334018

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In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/bidens-six-step-covid-strategy-does-not-go-far-enough-compel-vaccinations/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article published by the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Wen alleges that President Biden’s six-pronged strategy for COVID vaccination doesn’t go far enough. In her opinion, he is not doing enough to compel the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, and he needs to do even more. She argues that “the administration can and must go much further.”

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One of her many complaints is that President Biden has not mandated vaccinations for plane and train travel. Dr. Wen believes the government should use its power to implement this mandate in order to “make it clear that there are consequences to remaining unvaccinated.” Dr. Wen alleges that travel is a privilege, not a right.

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Dr. Wen is a huge proponent of vaccine passports. She notes that Israel and the European Union have vaccine verification methods, and the United States should as well.

Dr. Wen also thinks that all children over 12 years old should be required to be vaccinated, and the COVID vaccine should be added to the other immunization requirements for children. Dr. Wen explains how she would convince parents to vaccinate their children <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9W7IJdig7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this video</a>.

Dr. <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/elisabeth-anker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Anker</a> is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at  <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Washington University</a> in Washington DC. The author of “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/ugly-freedoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ugly Freedoms</a>,” Dr. Anker has described freedom as a “slippery concept” that upholds patriarchy, <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2974/Ugly-Freedoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colonialism, ecological destruction, and white supremacy</a>.

In an article for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Dr. Anker <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-s-your-reaction-to-the-ottawa-standoff-and-the-border-blockades-1.6349636/why-the-word-freedom-is-such-a-useful-rallying-cry-for-protesters-1.6349865" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vilifies right-wing and conservative groups who utilize “freedom” as their rallying cry to remove COVID-19 restrictions</a>. Her comments were published just as the Canadian government began cracking down on the “Freedom Convoy” by using emergency police powers.

The Freedom Convoy was organized in the winter of 2022 to protest the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/trucker-freedom-convoy-set-to-protest-justin-trudeaus-vaccine-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian government's enforcement of a vaccination mandate for truckers</a>. Participants parked their trucks in downtown Ottawa and halted traffic for weeks in front of the Canadian Parliament. Elsewhere, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/freedom-convoy-supporters-block-traffic-canadas-busiest-border-crossing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">truck drivers blocked vital points of entry on the US-Canadian border</a>.

After several weeks, the city police began <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/canadian-police-seize-fuel-trucker-covid-protest-court-silences-horns-rcna15294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seizing fuel and other supplies</a> from the convoy. The crowdfunding site, “GoFundMe,” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/ottawa-police-admit-to-lobbying-gofundme-to-withhold-funds-from-canadian-truckers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled a donation page from the truckers at the request of the Ottawa Police</a>. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau authorized the use of the “Emergencies Act” which grants the Canadian government extrajudicial powers in breaking up the blockade.

The <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/freedom-convoy-trucker-protests-organizers-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organizers of the protest were soon arrested</a> and <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-freedom-convoy-organizer-tamara-lich-denied-bail?utm_campaign=64483" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held without bail</a>. Individuals who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trudeau-announces-unprecedented-action-freezing-bank-accounts-of-freedom-convoy-protesters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated or donated to the convoy soon found their bank accounts frozen</a>. As police moved to clear the site of the protest, footage emerged of mounted units <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/woman-trampled-freedom-protest-indigenous-elder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trampling demonstrators, including an elderly woman in a mobility scooter</a>. Additional footage shows <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-rebel-news-journalist-assaulted-injured-by-police-at-freedom-convoy-protest-rebel-news-were-suing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police injuring reporters</a> and <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/02/18/ottawa-police-threatens-media-with-arrest-amid-crackdown-on-trucker-protests-n2603491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatening others with arrest for covering the protest.</a>

In the days leading up to the crackdown, Dr. Anker described the protests as a “violent” form of freedom and accused the “far-right” of abusing liberties to oppose equity.

“On the far right, [individual freedom] is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that’s trying to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination.”

She further laments how Canadians take advantage of the concept of freedom as a “national entitlement,” just as Americans do.

“It's been taking a lot of people by surprise to see people in Canada, who often seem so much more accepting of social interdependence, to start pushing back against it with the language of individual freedom.”

In a previous article for the New York Times—titled, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220204102257/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/ugly-freedom-discrimination-racism-sexism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Exploitation of ‘Freedom’ in America</a>,”—Dr. Anker condemns Americans who cite their “ugly freedoms” to remove mask mandates and prohibit abortions.

“Each of these actions used the language of freedom to justify anti-democratic politics. These, then, are what I call “ugly freedoms”: used to block the teaching of certain ideas, diminish employees' ability to have power in the workplace, and undermine public health.

“These are not merely misunderstood freedoms, or even just a cynical use of the language of freedom to frame bigoted policies. They manifest, instead, a particular interpretation of freedom that is not expansive, but exclusionary and coercive.”

She goes on to write that the “long history of ugly freedoms” includes justifications for slavery, marital abuse, and segregation; freedoms in America, she argues, have suppressed “nonwhites, women, and workers,” and have been used to justify white supremacy.

As of publication, the Canadian Parliament has just voted <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canadian-parliament-votes-to-extend-emergencies-act-for-30-days/#slide-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to extend the Emergencies Act</a>. The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, has indicated that certain emergency powers will remain permanent.
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Trudeau’s deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent. <a href="https://t.co/g8JTCwzmqX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/g8JTCwzmqX</a>
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494852056145969155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents contact the <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/contact-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of American Studies</a> at George Washington University at (202) 994-6070 or at amst@gwu.edu
Updated - February 22nd, 2022

<a href="https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/david-silverman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Silverman</a> is a Professor at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. 

According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, David Silverman criticized Thanksgiving, stating it presents Native Americans as a “caricature” and whitewashes the nation’s bloody founding and history. His comments came during a segment on NPR’s, “<a href="https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1057940813:1057940820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woke History</a>.” 

In the interview, Silverman characterizes Thanksgiving as the myth of “native people making friends with colonists and then bloodlessly granting their country to these newcomers.” He asks listeners to reflect on the “damage done to indigenous people in the classroom” by this narrative.  

He further alleges the holiday negatively impacts white children:

“...in sanitizing the bloodiness of colonial history, it doesn't allow them to understand where their privilege comes from, it doesn’t allow them to think critically about this country’s origins, and in turn, it handicaps them from thinking about our present and our future.”

Silverman added that football teams like the “Redskins” who play on Thanksgiving make a “caricature” out of Native People: 

“…they misrepresent the Native past and they make many Native people today uncomfortable and invisible to the larger public. It does a great deal of damage. This is not just innocent fun.”

Silverman also promoted  his book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Their-Wampanoag-Thanksgiving/dp/1632869241" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Land is Their Land</a>.” According to the description, Thanksgiving “celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States.” 

In the text, Silverman <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/11/27/george-washington-university-prof-thanksgiving-should-be-a-day-of-mourning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocates replacing the holiday</a> with a “National Day of Mourning” to reflect on the genocide of native Americans by white people: 

“The National Day of Mourning calls attention to the fact that white America’s triumphs have been borne on native peoples’ backs.” 

Despite his criticism, Silverman admitted to NPR that he still celebrates Thanksgiving. 

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<a href="https://psyd.columbian.gwu.edu/lara-sheehi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lara Sheehi</a> is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University (GWU).  Her biography states that she teaches “decolonial, liberatory, and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment.”

In January 2023, the pro-Israel organization “StandWithUs” <a href="https://www.jns.org/standwithus-files-complaint-against-george-washington-u-alleging-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint against GWU</a>, alleging that Sheehi maintains “a pervasive, hostile, and discriminatory environment for Jewish and Israeli students.”

<a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/jewish-students-reported-a-professor-for-anti-semitism-the-university-retaliated-against-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reports that during the first fall class of 2022, Sheehi asked each student to verbally affirm their ethnic identity. When one student announced that she was Israeli, Sheehi allegedly replied, “It’s not your fault you were born in Israel.”

For the remainder of the semester, the complaint states that Sheehi would berate and accuse Jewish students of racism. Fellow classmates were incited to exclude them at the direction of Sheehi. When students reported Sheehi, she allegedly retaliated against them.

George Washington University <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/29/gwu-professor-lara-sheehi-accused-of-antisemitism/">would later clear Sheehi of all wrong-doing</a>. The findings of an internal probe declared there is “no evidence that the discourse (in the class) crossed the line.”

On her personal social media account—which appears to <a href="https://twitter.com/blackflaghag">have been </a><a href="https://twitter.com/blackflaghag">deleted</a> as of publication—Sheehi expresses the same anti-Israel sentiments and support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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Much of Sheehi’s professional work demonizes Israel and recruits academics for the BDS movement. According to a report by <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/308321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arutz Sheeva</a>, Sheehi used her position as President of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility to advocate for the “decolonization” of Palestine. As President of the US Palestine Mental Health Network, Sheehi worked to boycott <a href="https://usapalmhn.org/about-dont-go/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli health conferences and mental health professionals.</a>

In 2022, she co-authored <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781138596207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine</a>” with William &amp; Mary professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/stephensheehi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Sheehi</a>.  During an <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a>, she described the piece as an examination of the ”profound psychic violence” Israel inflicts on Palestinians.

Sheehi characterizes herself in the same interview as a “life-long BDS activist.” She adds that it is crucial for Palestinians to resist Israel’s “eurocentric” practices that further “white supremacy and capitalist exploitation.” Despite their attempts to the contrary, Sheehi continues, Israelis will never be looked at as anything other than an “occupier, oppressor, and settler” toward Arabs.

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After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Sheehi shared posts to her private Instagram account that described the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs” and endorsed their “armed resistance.” In screenshots obtained by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/how-dare-you-slander-the-names-of-our-martyrs-inside-a-george-washington-professors-pro-hamas-tirade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a>, Sheehi praised a statement critical of “anyone condemning the Palestinians’ armed resistance.”

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She also expressed support for GWU’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, which described the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs.”

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The Washington Free Beacon provided images of Sheehi’s posts to George Washington University. The university declined to comment and directed the Free Beacon to the <a href="https://president.gwu.edu/thoughts-recent-campus-events-and-war-israel-and-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school’s statement</a> on “the war in Israel and Gaza.”

The statement “stressed the importance of coming together and caring for one another, especially those who are Israeli, Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, or connected to the region and this war.”

Sheehi remains under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after her <a href="https://www.jns.org/standwithus-files-complaint-against-george-washington-u-alleging-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">treatment of Jewish students</a> prompted StandWithUs to file a complaint against her in January 2023.

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<a href="https://elliott.gwu.edu/michael-barnett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Barnett</a> is a Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University.

Barnett participated in a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850253/George-Washington-University-Hamas-anti-Semitism-Israel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2023 faculty panel</a> titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine.” During the discussion, which was sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East Studies, Barnett argued Palestine has a “right of resistance,” saying:
“Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right of resistance.” 
After the panel, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Yolanda Haywood <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/gwu-med-faculty-panel-defended-hamas-right-of-resistance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized to the medical community</a>.
“The primary goal was to offer an experience that would result in thoughtful reflection and be a stimulus for broader, open communication. As the webinar proceeded, it became clear that this program was not a balanced presentation on this most divisive and difficult subject.” 
In his article titled “<a href="https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2023/06/02/the-responsibility-to-protect-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Responsibility to Protect Palestinians</a>,” Barnett claimed, “Israel has routinely violated international law, including that related to refugees, human rights, and occupation.” He believes the United States was willing to overlook these violations in the name of the “peace process.” However, he claims:
“The peace process has been dead for at least a decade and there is now a “one-state reality” from the river to the sea. In this one-state reality, Palestinians have few rights or protections and Jewish privilege is enshrined in various laws and rules that systematically discriminate against Palestinians, providing strong evidence for claims that Israel is now an apartheid state.” 
In response, Barnett says the United States needs to become a “guardian” to the Palestinians rather than an “enabler of the oppression.”
“The West might consider placing smart sanctions on Israel and leaders that benefit from Israel’s hold over the territories, or introducing trade restrictions.” 
In October 2023, Barnett penned an article for The Guardian titled “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-palestine-gaza-invasion-ceasefire-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">If Israel invades Gaza it will be a disaster for both Palestinians and Israelis</a>.” He writes:
“Many months ago I used the UN’s early warning indicators to see whether Israel should be put on a watch list for potential atrocity crimes, ethnic cleansing and possibly even genocide. Israel ticked all the boxes and perhaps all that was needed to trigger these crimes against humanity was an act that caused widespread torment and rage in Israel.” 
He further claims:
“Israel rules this state with force and apartheid-like measures - Gaza is governed by isolation, deprivation and violence, and the West Bank with a creeping annexation that imposes Jewish supremacy and the denial of basic human rights to Palestinians.”
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<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/callender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Callender</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Brandon prefers the pronouns he/him/his. His research interests include 19th and 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Callender’s list of courses taught includes ENG 15B — Black Joy. The description says the course “explores the exuberant and sometimes strained relationship between black people and joy.” His course EN 175B — Getting Behind in Black Gay Men’s Literatures is a study of “black queer men’s sexualities…[including] varying attitudes black queer writers have toward cruising and intimacy [and] falling behind at work or in life, because of certain sexual pursuits.”
In 2022, Callender <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/article/31/1/67/314953/The-Devil-Finds-UseBlack-Queers-Do-The-Exorcist?guestAccessKey=cad74655-0591-48e0-b1a5-8566a7481c26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> titled “The Devil Finds Use: Black Queers Do The Exorcist.” The piece explores a critique of The Exorcist (1973 film) in James Baldwin&#8217;s essay “The Devil Finds Work.” In the abstract, Callender says,
“Much of black horror studies today is premised on the assumption that true horror, for the black audience, is found not in the paranormal but in the normal and the systemic. It is now conventional, for instance, for scholars to preface their research with a personal anecdote that swaps out a supernatural on-screen threat for a more pressing — and more horrifying — social one.”
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“By swapping out superficial horrors for social ones, black subjects today enter into the horror genre as its rivals, if not its foils. Instead of reeling from horror’s intended ‘dreadful pleasures,’ they experience a horror that arises more traumatically, more personally, and more incidentally as a result of their racial consciousness.”
The Brandeis Department of English <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/podcast/callender-podcast.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a two-part podcast</a> with Callender as a special guest. The host asked Callender, “[W]hat were you like as a high schooler?” Callender said,
“My high school experience was largely spent, I think, trying to figure out who I was…There was a lot of racism that was pretty worn on the surface of our school…I have a deep difficulty rethinking what those years meant to me, because the same teacher who deeply inspired and moved me did not teach me anything about my experience as a black person, or as a queer person. That was not part of his agenda, his curriculum.”
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Dr. <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/gsas/admissions/contact.html">Kate Slater</a> is the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Brandeis University. On her personal website, Dr. Slater <a href="https://kateaslater.com/about">describes herself as a “white anti-racist scholar and educator.</a>” In this capacity, Dr. Slater writes that she studies how “white racial identity formation and how racism operates individually, organizationally, and systemically.”

In a now-highly-publicized post on her private Instagram page—obtained by The College Fix—Dr. Slater launched into a<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/brandeis-university-dean-yes-all-white-people-are-racist/"> racially inflammatory attack on white people and defended the teaching of Critical Race Theory</a>. Writing that, “all white people are racist,” she claims that American society conditions white people—including herself—to be racist, which justifies the need for critical theory in education.

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Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory, is an <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/">intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with and perpetuate white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of Critical Race Theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Slater’s website also <a href="https://kateaslater.com/trainings">offers anti-racism training and courses on Critical Race Theory for universities and K-12 institutions</a>. On the promotional page for one such lecture titled 4 Steps to Begin an Antiracist Education—<a href="https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2020/07/world-shaped-race">sponsored and promoted by the University of New Hampshire</a>—skin color is described as the determining factor for how successful one's life will be.

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In the lecture itself, Dr. Slater states that an antiracist worldview begins with the understanding that a <a href="https://media.unh.edu/media/In-Depth+on+InclusionA+4+Steps+to+Begin+An+Anti-Racist+Education/1_8lg7eccx">white person is never NOT racist in American society</a>. She further divides individuals into two categories: Those with a racist worldview, and those who take antiracist actions.

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Dr. Slater urges her white students to personally engage in antiracism throughout the lecture. She even encourages a teacher who was present at the lecture to discuss her stances on antiracism with her own students. At one point, Dr. Slater states that all white people are the “oppressors” and therefore cannot have opinions about racism.

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In addition to teaching, Dr. <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/how-be-anti-racist-what-new-steps-you-should-take-t208711">Slater frequently contributes articles to NBC</a> on topics such as antiracism, <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/defund-police-protests-call-abolish-reform-allyship-t183808">defunding the police</a>, and what she claims is <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-systemic-racism-t207878">systemic racism</a> in the country.
Note: A previous quote of Slater has since been updated to better reflect her remarks.
Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/about/contact.html">Brandeis University</a> at (781) 736-2000 or the <a href="https://www.unh.edu/">University of New Hampshire</a> at (603) 862-1234. 
Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=6c9f9a9f50eb4c90a05d153652a15549d6bc2f60" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Varun Chaudhry</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an Affiliate Faculty member in African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. Chaudhry’s profile says she is “a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on gender, race, sexuality, and class in the United States.” 

Chaudhry identifies with the trans community and prefers the pronouns “they/he.” She is listed as a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior and Distinguished Fellow of CATS</a> (The Center for Applied Transgender Studies). The organization's About page says, “We are an independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.” 

In August 2021, Chaudhry was featured in a <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/11/remove-male-and-female-from-birth-certificates-her/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spokesman-Review article</a> titled “Remove ‘male’ and ‘female’ from birth certificates? Here’s why [the] nation’s largest group of physicians recommends it.” The column discusses the American Medical Association’s [AMA] efforts to remove binary gender designation from identification documents. 

Citing a June report, Spokesman-Review said, “The AMA’s LGBTQ+ advisory committee advised the organization to push for removing sex labels from the public part of the birth certificate…But some [LGBTQ+ advocates] cautioned against celebrating the news too soon.”

Chaudhry stated, “People are still really committed to a binary sex model…The recommendation may say sex is not important for something like a birth certificate, but if people are still committed to a binary sex model, they find other ways to determine those things.”

Later that year, Chaudhry participated in <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/arts-sciences/core/critical-conversations/2021-22/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Brandeis Core</a> — a panel discussion for “community” and “critical conversations.” The discussion titled “<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/arts-sciences/core/critical-conversations/2021-22/videos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs’ of LGBTQ+ Community</a>” focused on “the limits and possibilities for [the] queer and transgender community on a global scale, particularly how gender, race, class and nation complicate what community can and does mean.” 

In a discussion on the use of trans community identifying language, Chaudhry said:

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<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/callender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Callender</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Brandon prefers the pronouns he/him/his. His research interests include 19th and 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Callender’s list of courses taught includes ENG 15B — Black Joy. The description says the course “explores the exuberant and sometimes strained relationship between black people and joy.” His course EN 175B — Getting Behind in Black Gay Men’s Literatures is a study of “black queer men’s sexualities…[including] varying attitudes black queer writers have toward cruising and intimacy [and] falling behind at work or in life, because of certain sexual pursuits.”

In 2022, Callender <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/article/31/1/67/314953/The-Devil-Finds-UseBlack-Queers-Do-The-Exorcist?guestAccessKey=cad74655-0591-48e0-b1a5-8566a7481c26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> titled “The Devil Finds Use: Black Queers Do The Exorcist.” The piece explores a critique of The Exorcist (1973 film) in James Baldwin's essay “The Devil Finds Work.” In the abstract, Callender says,

“Much of black horror studies today is premised on the assumption that true horror, for the black audience, is found not in the paranormal but in the normal and the systemic. It is now conventional, for instance, for scholars to preface their research with a personal anecdote that swaps out a supernatural on-screen threat for a more pressing — and more horrifying — social one.”

He continued,

“By swapping out superficial horrors for social ones, black subjects today enter into the horror genre as its rivals, if not its foils. Instead of reeling from horror’s intended ‘dreadful pleasures,’ they experience a horror that arises more traumatically, more personally, and more incidentally as a result of their racial consciousness.”

The Brandeis Department of English <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/podcast/callender-podcast.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a two-part podcast</a> with Callender as a special guest. The host asked Callender, “[W]hat were you like as a high schooler?” Callender said,

“My high school experience was largely spent, I think, trying to figure out who I was…There was a lot of racism that was pretty worn on the surface of our school…I have a deep difficulty rethinking what those years meant to me, because the same teacher who deeply inspired and moved me did not teach me anything about my experience as a black person, or as a queer person. That was not part of his agenda, his curriculum.”

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<a href="https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/profile/anita_hannig/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anita Hannig</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She teaches courses in the departments of Anthropology, Health, Science, Society, and Policy, as well as Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Hannig’s faculty profile says she specializes in “socio-cultural and medical anthropology; anthropology of death and dying; anthropology of religion, gender and the body; and medical assistance in dying.” In 2015, she “launched a long-term, ethnographic research project on medical aid-in-dying in the United States. This project asked how assisted dying is transforming the ways Americans die.”

On July 6, 2022, Hannig wrote an op-ed titled “‘<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/july/assisted-dying-hannig.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assisted suicide’ deserves a different name. Here’s why</a>” in which she offers expert insight into an emerging industry that allows physicians to kill patients legally. In the article, Hannig cited a statistic that says “more than 20% of Americans already live in a state with access to medically assisted death.”

Hannig continued,

“Despite this rapidly changing legal climate, the language for describing this new way to die remains surprisingly antiquated. The term that continues to dominate media coverage on the issue is ‘assisted suicide.’ The American Medical Associate uses the term ‘physician-assisted suicide.’”

“As a cultural anthropologist, I know that how we name something determines how we think about it. Until just recently, the primary term in the English language for the purposeful, voluntary death of oneself was ‘suicide.’ Besides martyrdom or sacrifice, there was no other way to refer to an intentional self-death.”

“Assisted suicide” is not a new way to die, as Hannig claimed. In 2011, a notorious suicide physician named Dr. Jack Kevorkian passed away. During his 50 years of medical practice, Kevorkian — known as “Dr. Death” — killed more than 100 terminally-ill patients and was eventually convicted of second-degree murder. Britannica says, he lobbied for medical experiments on death-row inmates and advocated for establishing suicide clinics.

In her book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Day-Die-Untold-Assisted-America/dp/1728244919/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EBE8BKOSTN2L&amp;keywords=the+day+i+die+anita+hannig&amp;qid=1670948560&amp;sprefix=the+day+i+die%2Caps%2C132&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=1728244919&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Day I Die</a>,” Hannig includes a Q &amp; A in the About the Author section. When asked how she became involved in assisted suicides, she said, “I actually fell into this subject by accident. I was showing How to Die in Oregon (the best documentary on assisted dying, I think) in one of my anthropology classes at Brandeis, and I became immediately hooked.” 

Hannig’s book also provides assisted suicide websites that help facilitate conversations and offers tools to assist patients and families plan for premature death. 

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Published - December 20, 2022

<a href="https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/profile/keridwen_luis/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keridwen N. Luis</a> is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. 

According to her faculty profile, Luis’s “current research, ‘Fan Bodies and Fan Performance: Community, Identity, and Intersecting Selves,’ is a fieldwork and interview project examining gender, sexuality, race, and disability in science fiction and media fandom, and a book on this research is under contract with Palgrave-MacMillan.”

In 2018, Luis published a <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Herlands/rip0DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;pg=PA2&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> titled “Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States.” The publisher’s description for “Herlands” states:

“Rooted in 1970s feminist politics, they continue to thrive in a range of ways, from urban households to isolated rural communes, providing spaces where ideas about gender, sexuality, and sociality are challenged in both deliberate and accidental ways. Herlands, a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also have an impact on broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living.”

The book addresses the author’s interactions with the “women’s land movement” phenomenon, along with “lesbian separatism,” “traveling dykes,” and other singular isolated communities of feminist-minded women. According to Luis, as of 2018, there are over 100 such communities in the US. 

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-university-summer-course-examine-disability-fat-studies/27651" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that Luis will be teaching a summer course titled “Sick, Fat, Ugly, Useless: Disability and Fat Studies.”

The <a href="https://coursebrowser.dce.harvard.edu/course/sick-fat-ugly-useless-disability-and-fat-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> description asks the following questions, chiefly concerning “fatness”: 

“We are now in the twenty-first century: why do we still have so much prejudice about bodies that differ from the so-called norm? What, indeed, is the norm and why is it so important to us? In this course, students are introduced to fat studies and disability studies in tandem to explore the politics of the body.” 

Moreover, the course aims to examine and link together different fields of study with fatness, including “fatphobia and racism.”

“We examine questions drawn from disability studies about bioethics, community organization, and the use of technology; and we examine questions drawn from fat liberation about the construction of aesthetics, the history of fatphobia and racism, and the way we layer symbolic meaning on the body.”

Stereotypes “of disabled and fat people in media studies” will also be examined in the course. 

This course may contribute to a “Social Justice Graduate Certificate,” along with a  Religion Master’s Degree at Harvard, among other degree programs.

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Brandon Callender

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<a href="https://communication.missouristate.edu/profile-display.aspx?p=bo443e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Ott</a> is a Professor of Communication at Missouri State University. According to his university profile, his research looks at the intersection of rhetoric and media.
Professor Ott published an op-ed in The New York Times titled, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221121133530/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/donald-trump-twitter-return.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“I Studied Trump’s Twitter Use for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.”</a> In his article, Ott claims, “&#8230;nothing Mr. Musk has done … is nearly as concerning as his decision to suddenly reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account.”
Ott says he has been studying Trump’s Twitter activity since before he became president, and adds:
“&#8230;I believe that his return would mean the heightened spread of both misinformation and disinformation, the proliferation of degrading and dehumanizing discourse, the further mainstreaming of hate speech and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions.” 
He also believes Trump’s return to Twitter could lead to political violence because he has “demonstrated a consistent willingness to invoke racially and sexually charged rhetoric that contains an implicit call to violence.”
This is not the first time Ott has spoken out against Donald Trump’s Twitter use. In 2019, he published a book titled, <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429054259/twitter-presidency-brian-ott-greg-dickinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage.”</a> This book looks at Trump’s “rhetorical style,” arguing that it “reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is rooted in authoritarianism, narcissism, and demagoguery.”
The abstract of his book describes Trump supporters as people who “feel aggrieved at the decentering of white masculinity” and argues that his rhetorical style “threatens democratic norms, principles, and institutions.”
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<a href="https://communication.missouristate.edu/profile-display.aspx?p=bo443e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Ott</a> is a Professor of Communication at Missouri State University. According to his university profile, his research looks at the intersection of rhetoric and media.

Professor Ott published an op-ed in The New York Times titled, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221121133530/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/donald-trump-twitter-return.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“I Studied Trump’s Twitter Use for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.”</a> In his article, Ott claims, “...nothing Mr. Musk has done … is nearly as concerning as his decision to suddenly reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account.”

Ott says he has been studying Trump’s Twitter activity since before he became president, and adds:
“...I believe that his return would mean the heightened spread of both misinformation and disinformation, the proliferation of degrading and dehumanizing discourse, the further mainstreaming of hate speech and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions.” 
He also believes Trump’s return to Twitter could lead to political violence because he has “demonstrated a consistent willingness to invoke racially and sexually charged rhetoric that contains an implicit call to violence.”

This is not the first time Ott has spoken out against Donald Trump’s Twitter use. In 2019, he published a book titled, <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429054259/twitter-presidency-brian-ott-greg-dickinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage.”</a> This book looks at Trump’s “rhetorical style,” arguing that it “reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is rooted in authoritarianism, narcissism, and demagoguery.”

The abstract of his book describes Trump supporters as people who “feel aggrieved at the decentering of white masculinity” and argues that his rhetorical style “threatens democratic norms, principles, and institutions.”

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Mr. Hayden Eller is a third-grade elementary school teacher at <a href="https://www.aimsk12.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AIMS College Prep Elementary School</a> in Oakland, California.
In a series of tweets uncovered by Post Millennial reporter, Katie Daviscourt and Editor, Andy Ngo, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-oakland-teacher-kill-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Eller called for the death of police officers and encouraged violence against American citizens</a>.
In one tweet—which has since been deleted—Mr. Eller urged his followers to “Kill your local police chief.”
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In a series of other tweets, Mr. Eller asked others to “kill + eat the rich,” and advocated for dismantling the United States.
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<a href="https://archive.ph/ji6Cm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1641 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM-1024x331.png" alt="" width="580" height="187" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM-1024x331.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM-300x97.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM-768x248.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM-1200x388.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM.png 1256w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" /></a>
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The Post Millennial additionally reports that despite being previously listed as an employee for AIMS College Prep, Mr. Eller no longer appears on the staff page for AIMS.  When the Professor Watchlist team reached out to AIMS College Prep for comment, the Communications department replied that Mr. Eller was no longer an employee of the school.
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Parents and Students may contact the AIMS College Prep School District at (510) 893-8701 or at communications@aimsk12.org.
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Mr. Hayden Eller is a third-grade elementary school teacher at <a href="https://www.aimsk12.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AIMS College Prep Elementary School</a> in Oakland, California.

In a series of tweets uncovered by Post Millennial reporter, Katie Daviscourt and Editor, Andy Ngo, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-oakland-teacher-kill-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Eller called for the death of police officers and encouraged violence against American citizens</a>.

In one tweet—which has since been deleted—Mr. Eller urged his followers to “Kill your local police chief.”

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<a href="https://archive.ph/4Qkgh" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1640 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.48.05-PM-1024x439.png" alt="" width="580" height="249" /></a>

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In a series of other tweets, Mr. Eller asked others to “kill + eat the rich,” and advocated for dismantling the United States.

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<a href="https://archive.ph/ji6Cm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1641 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.49.19-PM-1024x331.png" alt="" width="580" height="187" /></a>

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<a href="https://archive.ph/K1K26" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1642 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-4.52.41-PM-1024x369.png" alt="" width="580" height="209" /></a>

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The Post Millennial additionally reports that despite being previously listed as an employee for AIMS College Prep, Mr. Eller no longer appears on the staff page for AIMS.  When the Professor Watchlist team reached out to AIMS College Prep for comment, the Communications department replied that Mr. Eller was no longer an employee of the school.

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Parents and Students may contact the AIMS College Prep School District at (510) 893-8701 or at communications@aimsk12.org.
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Jonathan Marshall Tenbrink (sometimes spelled Ten Brink) is <a href="https://www.lcc.edu/academics/music/music/contact.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed as a Faculty member</a> in the Music Program at Lansing Community College (LCC). He is also recorded as a <a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/About-HLC/peer-review-rosters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roster member</a> of the Higher Learning Commission.
Tenbrink made headlines after he was arrested for agreeing to meet with a minor for sex. The “minor” was a police officer running a sting operation.
<a href="https://www.wlns.com/news/lcc-professor-charged-after-child-sex-sting-operation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WLNS 6 News said</a> Tenbrink “is charged with one count each of child sexually abusive activity and accosting a minor for immoral purposes, and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime.”
WLNS further reported, “An LCC official confirmed with 6 News that ‘a Lansing Community College employee has been placed on administrative leave July 18, 2024, following an arrest by the Lansing Police Department.’”
A live report from WLNS 6 News can be viewed below.
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As of publication, Tenbrink is still employed by Lancaster Community College.
The Professor Watchlist will update this profile as more information becomes available. Please send tips and updates on Professor Tenbrink to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Jonathan Marshall Tenbrink (sometimes spelled Ten Brink) is <a href="https://www.lcc.edu/academics/music/music/contact.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed as a Faculty member</a> in the Music Program at Lansing Community College (LCC). He is also recorded as a <a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/About-HLC/peer-review-rosters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roster member</a> of the Higher Learning Commission.

Tenbrink made headlines after he was arrested for agreeing to meet with a minor for sex. The “minor” was a police officer running a sting operation.

<a href="https://www.wlns.com/news/lcc-professor-charged-after-child-sex-sting-operation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WLNS 6 News said</a> Tenbrink “is charged with one count each of child sexually abusive activity and accosting a minor for immoral purposes, and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime.”

WLNS further reported, “An LCC official confirmed with 6 News that ‘a Lansing Community College employee has been placed on administrative leave July 18, 2024, following an arrest by the Lansing Police Department.’”

A live report from WLNS 6 News can be viewed below.

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As of publication, Tenbrink is still employed by Lancaster Community College.

The Professor Watchlist will update this profile as more information becomes available. Please send tips and updates on Professor Tenbrink to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 

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<a href="https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/deneen-brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeNeen Brown</a> is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland who has vowed to leave America over systemic racism and oppression.
In a Washington Post op-ed—titled, “<a href="https://archive.ph/Kxlhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism</a>”—Dr. Brown reveals that she grew up in the black power movement as she “never really felt at home in America.&#8221; She then recounts an alleged racial incident in elementary school in which she describes her white classmates as “oppressors” and vows never to internalize their racism.
This would later inspire her work as a journalist to document racism and Black people whom she claims still suffer under “economic, political, and cultural oppression.” This is reflected in another article in which Dr. Brown alleges that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-motivated lynchings are a regular occurrence, but provides no evidence to verify her claims</a>.
Dr. Brown explains she began looking for a new place to live abroad after state legislators across the county banned teaching critical race theory in schools. Further citing her concern over the eruption of “racist terror” embodied by January 6th “insurrectionists,” Dr. Brown expresses a desire to live in a country without “entrenched racism” where she has the freedom “to move among people who look like me.”
Dr. Brown further expresses a desire to live in a place where she will not have to discuss her nation’s racism. In a previous Washington Post op-ed, she lamented how<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/black-people-are-tired-trying-explain-racism/?itid=ap_deneenl.brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> black people at large are “exhausted” over explaining racism to white people</a>. In separate tweets, she further explains the burden of racism must be placed at the feet of white society and urges others to study radicals like Che Guevara to learn how to do so.
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Racism should not be the BURDEN of Black people to always explain. That burden should be placed on society, institutions and individuals who promote racism. Our history is full of Black leaders who’ve been trying to explain it since our ancestors landed on these shores in 1619. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275126538707652610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Study Jamaica’s hero Nanny of the Maroons, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, and Revolutionary Che Guevara. Study Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. They were masters at explaining Racism. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275133150818193410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Marxist revolutionary is known for installing the <a href="https://www.humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-year dictatorship in Cuba</a> and for his bigoted statements, such as: “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/el-che-the-crass-marketing-sadistic-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.</a>&#8221;
Comparing her fight against racism to “punching a brick wall,” she concludes that it’s far easier to leave the country entirely, as she can no longer stand being a black person walking through “white institutions.”
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Students and Parents may contact the Philip College of Journalism at (301) 405-2399 or at <a href="mailto:journalism@umd.edu">journalism@umd.edu</a>
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Published &#8211; October 11, 2022

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<a href="https://wgss.columbian.gwu.edu/ashwini-tambe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashwini Tambe</a> is a Professor of History at George Washington University. Her faculty profile says, “Dr. Tambe is a scholar of transnational South Asian history who focuses on the relationship between law, gender, and sexuality. She is also the Editorial Director of <a href="https://www.feministstudies.org/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Studies</a>, the oldest journal of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship in the United States.”

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Girlhood-India-Transnational-Maturity-ebook/dp/B081JQQLKX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XWJWVVP9KFFJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kgw37bJcX_xfYQjs5Tv8kg.CC4PMau89w_XcZ-qvCr4dEVPlZgjVc02HRvroaj47Z4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=defining+girlhood+in+india&amp;qid=1722029284&amp;sprefix=defining+girlhood+in+india%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B081JQQLKX&amp;revisionId=59439648&amp;format=3&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> titled “Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws,” Tambe answers the question, “At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices.” She claimed the book “focuses on legal standards for sexual maturity for girls in India and explores how and why these standards changed over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.” (The age of consensual sex in India is 18.)

In the introduction, she said:
“Strong views dictate the ages at which one can consent to sexual activity, or marry, or transact in sexual services … Sexual age laws are complex matters largely because they are meant to signal social standards for sexual maturity. Age is usually a blunt metric for measuring such maturity … Like legal standards on other sexual practices, such as same-gender marriage and widow remarriage, the age of marriage has come to serve as an index of moral hierarchies among nations.” 
In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNIVtu_hv0&amp;t=147s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with CGTN America</a>, Tambe discussed “rape culture” and levels of sexual violence among men. At one point, she appeared to suggest that women may play a role in these assaults, stating:
“I think the problem is also not one that is exclusive to men. Actually, I think people in general — women, mothers, mothers-in-law — do enforce certain ideas about what it means to be honorable, what it means to be respectable, notions of how to conduct oneself in public that are actually a part of the problem. So, I would also argue that we shouldn’t just be pointing fingers at men.”
Listen below for full context.

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When asked how sex education could help inform the public about violence against women, Tambe stated:

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Tambe <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Transnational_Feminist_Itineraries/2MQ1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=ashwini+tambe+lgbt&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored the introduction</a> to a book entitled “Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice.” The manuscript was published in 2021 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Tambe et al. said:
“We put the finishing touches on this book during a moment of remarkable civil protests against anti-[b]lack violence. The unprecedented scale of multiracial public demonstrations across large cities and rural areas in the United States revealed a swell in support for dismantling systemic racism … These protests also took place amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, an experience that has underscored a sense of connectedness across hierarchies of geopolitics.”
Send tips, updates, and information on Ashwini Tambe to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - July 29, 2024

<a href="http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Younus-Faheem/">Dr. Faheem Younus</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Dr. Younus became infamous for his comments on social media regarding the Charleston shooting. He blamed the shooting on former sniper Chris Kyle as well as Fox News, for creating a 'culture' that encourages mass shooting.

<a href="https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/deneen-brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeNeen Brown</a> is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland who has vowed to leave America over systemic racism and oppression.

In a Washington Post op-ed—titled, “<a href="https://archive.ph/Kxlhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism</a>”—Dr. Brown reveals that she grew up in the black power movement as she “never really felt at home in America." She then recounts an alleged racial incident in elementary school in which she describes her white classmates as “oppressors” and vows never to internalize their racism.

This would later inspire her work as a journalist to document racism and Black people whom she claims still suffer under “economic, political, and cultural oppression.” This is reflected in another article in which Dr. Brown alleges that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-motivated lynchings are a regular occurrence, but provides no evidence to verify her claims</a>.

Dr. Brown explains she began looking for a new place to live abroad after state legislators across the county banned teaching critical race theory in schools. Further citing her concern over the eruption of “racist terror” embodied by January 6th “insurrectionists,” Dr. Brown expresses a desire to live in a country without “entrenched racism” where she has the freedom “to move among people who look like me.”

Dr. Brown further expresses a desire to live in a place where she will not have to discuss her nation’s racism. In a previous Washington Post op-ed, she lamented how<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/black-people-are-tired-trying-explain-racism/?itid=ap_deneenl.brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> black people at large are “exhausted” over explaining racism to white people</a>. In separate tweets, she further explains the burden of racism must be placed at the feet of white society and urges others to study radicals like Che Guevara to learn how to do so.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Racism should not be the BURDEN of Black people to always explain. That burden should be placed on society, institutions and individuals who promote racism. Our history is full of Black leaders who’ve been trying to explain it since our ancestors landed on these shores in 1619. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275126538707652610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Study Jamaica’s hero Nanny of the Maroons, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, and Revolutionary Che Guevara. Study Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. They were masters at explaining Racism. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275133150818193410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Marxist revolutionary is known for installing the <a href="https://www.humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-year dictatorship in Cuba</a> and for his bigoted statements, such as: “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/el-che-the-crass-marketing-sadistic-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.</a>"

Comparing her fight against racism to “punching a brick wall,” she concludes that it’s far easier to leave the country entirely, as she can no longer stand being a black person walking through “white institutions.”

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Students and Parents may contact the Philip College of Journalism at (301) 405-2399 or at <a href="mailto:journalism@umd.edu">journalism@umd.edu</a>
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Published - October 11, 2022

<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/tatiana-chi-miranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a> is a Ph.D. Student and Spanish teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

During an interview with <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Chi-Miranda explained how she incorporates anti-racism into her curriculum. Although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, she admitted the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias:  

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

Chi-Miranda provided one module to The Diamondback in which her students pretend to dislike diversity. She said this was an example of xenophobia  and recited the following line:  

“I don’t want you to make friends with other cultures nor do I want you to enjoy the diversity of the world.” 

A sophomore who was interviewed by Diamondback  praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

Chi-Miranda’s comments were delivered in an article featuring six Spanish professors who also integrated anti-racist themes into their courses. One professor, Jose Magro, stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

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Published - December 8, 2022

<a href="https://www.arlis.umd.edu/caroline-orr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caroline Orr</a> is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland. According to her university profile, Orr studies misinformation, and disinformation, and how each contributes to “online extremism.”

Orr attributes most domestic violence and radicalization to the political right. On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, she claims the memes posted by these groups to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  
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I’m not a huge fan of 9/11 comparisons, but this actually does a pretty decent job of explaining how memes enable extremists to “hide in plain sight, disappearing into the clutter of innocent messages” — akin to “turning off the transponders on 9/11.”<a href="https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr</a> <a href="https://t.co/b1XahopBn8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/b1XahopBn8</a>
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602692678151454723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet accuses Elon Musk of encouraging 120 million people to join the “domestic terrorist movement” that is Q-Anon.  
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Elon Musk is now explicitly encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon.
Put differently, Elon Musk is encouraging his 120 million followers to join a domestic terrorism movement. <a href="https://t.co/W7O9nLuivh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/W7O9nLuivh</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602490533586378755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a substack article titled, “<a href="https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/violent-extremism-in-america-is-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Violent extremism in America is a far-right phenomenon</a>,” she writes that attacks by right-wing groups are “surging” and outpace left-wing and Islamist violence. Orr further claims that any who suggest otherwise are attempting to distract from the burgeoning connections between extremists and mainstream conservative groups:  

“Violent extremism is overwhelmingly a problem of far-right extremism, not far-left extremism, and it doesn’t help anyone to misrepresent the threat by turning it into a “both sides” issue when the sides are not even close to equal.”

Elsewhere, not only does Orr dismiss the existence of left-wing violence, she attempts to excuse it. In a separate article, titled “<a href="https://medium.com/arc-digital/in-defense-of-antifa-62c699d86dc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Defense of Antifa</a>,” she condemns conservatives for attempting to “vilify” the group:

“It’s easy to see why far-right extremists have worked so hard to vilify antifascists, who represent the most consistent opponents of far-right extremism and the most steadfast allies of those targeted by far-right violence.”

At first, Orr denies the existence of Antifa in her article, describing the group only as a “collection of tactics and philosophies.” She then pivots and praises Antifa for their “quieter activities” such as “research, monitoring, and surveillance of far-right extremist groups, community organizing, and advocating for historically marginalized populations.” Orr claims this is needed to stop “white supremacist” groups from organizing. 

Writing that activists must be intolerant of violent or bigoted speech, Orr claims that direct action is necessary to prevent the far-right from organizing. Comparing Antifa to Jews who resisted Nazi occupation, Orr argues that when violence from Antifa occurs, it's committed in the name of “self-defense:” 

“...consider the possibility that some violence is a regrettable but unavoidable part of preventing much greater violence by fascists.”

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Orr for comment prior to publication. Instead of responding, Orr posted the inquiry on her personal Twitter account and accused the author of committing libel. 
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/Ben_Larrabee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ben_Larrabee</a>,
Got your email, and in the interest of full transparency, I’m responding publicly. Your questions are based on miswording/misrepresenting my statements, and attributing false quotes to me would be libel.

Thanks for your inquiry.

Best,
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno <a href="https://t.co/NVmhdx5ovc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/NVmhdx5ovc</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1607809614481084416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published - December 27, 2022

<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/jose-magro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose L. Magro</a> is a Lecturer at the School of Languages, Literatures, &amp; Cultures at the University of Maryland. His research interests are listed as applied linguistics and critical race theory.  

In an interview with, <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Margo explained that he incorporates anti-racism into his curriculum. He stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

His comments were delivered following a presentation titled, “<a href="https://arhu.umd.edu/events/antiracist-pedagogy-spanish-language-teaching-theory-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antiracist Pedagogy for Spanish Language Teaching: From Theory to Practice</a>,” which featured six Spanish and Portuguese teachers and the anti-racist materials from their classrooms. 

A fellow professor, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tatianachimiranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a>, admitted that although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias: 

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

A sophomore interviewed by the paper praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/content/people/name-627864-en.html?&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christabel Cheung </a>is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her expertise and interests include “Psychosocial Oncology,” “Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)” and “Health Equity.”

On March 15, 2023, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-arguing-cancer-research-not-antiracist-comment-enough-christabel-cheung" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News featured</a> Cheung in an article titled “Professor argues cancer research not antiracist enough, offers antiracist approaches to patient engagement.” Fox reported, “Cheung’s presentation, ‘Antiracist Patient Engagement in Adolescent &amp; Young Adult Oncology Research and Advocacy,’ cited much of <a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/bio">Ibram X. Kendi</a>, the architect of antiracist ideology.”

Fox also said, “Cheung based her definition of antiracism through the lens of Kendi’s work, maintaining the notion that ‘there is no such thing as not being racist…the heartbeat of racism domestically in the United States has been a denial of racism, and the sound of that heartbeat has been the argument, ‘I’m not a racist.’”

<a href="https://youtu.be/AHknFfJHcMQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During the presentation</a>, Cheung further stated: 

“[Kendi] wants us [and] encourages us to take on the perspective that we’re either being antiracist—where we’re promoting equality—or we’re being racist in the sense of working within systems. [You’re] either being complicit or actually supporting racist approaches.” 

In November 2022, <a href="https://ascopost.com/issues/november-10-2022/how-to-advance-antiracist-approaches-to-patient-engagement-in-aya-oncology-and-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ASCO Post</a> featured Cheung in a publication where she also discussed the advancement of antiracist patient engagement with AYA. 

ASCO Post said Cheung “challenges researchers to make progress in engaging [BIPOC] AYAs in clinical studies to close the gaps in knowledge about racial and ethnic minority AYA patients and reduce disparities in their cancer outcomes.”

In response to ASCO’s question “how prevalent is racism in AYA clinical care and research [and] how is it manifested in this patient population?” Cheung said:

“The impact of systemic racism in medicine does not appear to manifest differently by age and starts from the design of the clinical trial. Implicit bias and systemic racism are woven into the fabric of the society we live in. Consequently, we all have some measure of implicit bias or unconscious prejudice that we bring to our work and must make extra efforts to address.”

She further declared,

“Antiracist policies call upon AYA oncology to depersonalize reactions to racism, acknowledge mistakes, and take corrective actions in a timely manner. We can dismantle and reorganize long-established systems in the development and testing of clinical trials, so racism does not continue to persist within these systems.”

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<a href="https://sph.umd.edu/people/jessica-fish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Fish</a> is an Assistant Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland (UMD). According to her faculty profile, Fish is a “human development and family science scholar whose research focuses on the positive development and health of LGBTQ+ people and their families.” 

Fish is also the director of UMD’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Health Research Group (SOGI Health). SOGI Health’s <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/laboratories-projects-and-programs/sexual-orientation-gender-identity-and-health-sogi-health-research-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main page</a> says, “The research group convenes faculty, students, and community partners in an effort to better understand and support the positive development and health of LGBTQ young people.”

In January 2022, Fish <a href="https://www.srcd.org/research/gender-affirming-policies-support-transgender-and-gender-diverse-youths-health">co-authored a report</a> titled “Gender-Affirming Policies Support Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth’s Health.” In the opening paragraph, Fish, et al. stated:
“Transgender and gender diverse youth (i.e., children and adolescents whose gender identity and/or expression differs from their sex assigned at birth) are more likely to experience poor health than their peers whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex at birth (i.e., cisgender youth) due to stigma and marginalization.”
Fish, et al. goes on to say:
“58% of [transgender youth] also report having been prevented from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity…states and schools can implement policies that protect [transgender youth] from these harmful experiences…Ultimately, [transgender youth] show more positive outcomes in school environments that implement and enforce policies and practices that affirm youth’s gender identity and protect them from discrimination.”
Fish’s <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJessicaNFish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media profile</a> and newsfeed are dedicated to LGBTQ ideologies and her work with the UMD Prevention Research Center. The Center’s <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/research-centers/university-maryland-prevention-research-center/umd-prc-about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“About Us” page</a> says, “In collaboration with LGBTQ+ partner organizations, we promote evidence-based training of students and mental health care providers in culturally sensitive and inclusive practices.”

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Published - September 18, 2023

<a href="https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/ray/rashawn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashawn Ray</a> is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland (UMD). Ray’s faculty profile says he “leads [UMD]’s Social Justice Alliance in collaboration with Bowie State University as well as the Anti-Black Racism Initiative housed in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.”

In May 2020, Ray co-authored a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/care-act-caste-act-jesse-jackson-rainbow-coalition-1502605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek op-ed</a> titled “The CARES Act Risks Becoming a Caste Act. Here’s How We Change That” to highlight an alleged disproportionate amount of black Americans affected by the pandemic. Ray et al. wrote:
“Black people are over three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than other racial groups…While everyone in America is facing hardships, these hardships collide on the bodies of black Americans in ways that are more substantial and longer lasting.’’
Ray et al. concluded by stating:
“To date, the United States has spent over $3 trillion on COVID-19 relief. Similar to the end of the Civil War and The Great Depression, the most oppressed and vulnerable Americans—black Americans—are being cast to the side and used as guinea pigs.”
In October 2023, Ray was featured in <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/183483/news/rashawn-ray-discusses-policing-implicit-bias-at-africana-studies-event/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Pitt News</a> after participating in a webinar titled “Rotten Trees: Racism and Bad Apples in American Policing.” Ray was quoted saying, “‘Implicit bias is deeply embedded in organizational culture and leads to structurally imposed racial disparities.”

The Pitt goes on to emphasize Ray’s claims that “studies and statistics demonstrate how policing disproportionately affects black people” and that “approximately 70,000 of all people stopped by police in 2011 were black, 56% of these stops involved frisks and only about 2% of stops led to the discovery of contraband…” Ray further claimed, “These statistics are about ‘blackness’ not compliance.”

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkmREGvtiM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a similar webinar discussion</a>, Ray used the following graph as an example of how police officers have racially profiled black Americans for the last two decades:

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In light of Ray’s beliefs and rhetoric, the U.S. Department of Justice released a <a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revised 2018 report</a> highlighting the following statistics:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“About 61.5 million residents had at least one contact with police.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Whites (26%) were more likely than blacks (21%), Hispanics (19%), or persons of other races (20%) to experience police contact.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“There was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of whites (12%) and blacks (11%) who experienced police-initiated contact.”</li>
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Please send any information regarding Rashawn Ray to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>
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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://history.umd.edu/directory/david-freund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Freund</a> is an Associate Professor of History and an Affiliate Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland (UMD). 

Freund has authored several publications including “Colored Property: State Policy &amp; White Racial Politics in Suburban America”—<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Property-Politics-Suburban-Historical/dp/0226262766/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZCGIPIR168HC&amp;keywords=colored+property+david+freund&amp;qid=1699309383&amp;sprefix=colored+property+david+freund%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=0226262766&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a book that examines</a> the racialization of housing developments and property rights. In the chapter titled The New Politics of Race and Property, he wrote:
“There is, nonetheless, considerable disagreement about the role that race per se played in fueling white vigilance. Many argue that while black people were clearly the targets of exclusionary practices, racism played little or no part in whites’ decision-making…
“The disagreement about postwar whites’ motivations is rooted, I argue here, in a conceptual assumption that informs most studies of racial conflict in the modern United States. Most commentaries treat white racism as something unchanging and as conceptually separate from other variables that fuel conflict between groups (including racial groups).”
In July 2023, Freund was featured in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News article</a> titled “Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race.” The publication discusses a Ukrainian-born American who “goes by the Japanese name Miyuki and listens to 'subliminals' that promise she will wake up and be Japanese.” 

NBC News further stated, “Freund…corroborates the idea that a ‘biological race’ does not exist [and] the modern concept of race is inseparable from the systemic racial hierarchy hundreds of years in the making. Simply put, changing races is not possible because ‘biological races’ themselves are not real.”

Freund also told NBC that “the idea of changing one’s race operates differently depending on a person’s racial background and that white people who seek to ‘transition’ to other races can often sidestep the harms of racism.”

Freund supports awarding reparations to black Americans as a form of government compensation for past offenses. He told <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_race-america_reparations-can-money-absolve-sins-past/6208006.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voices of America</a>, “We can document systems, policies, also private practices that are constantly reproducing racial inequalities…[a]nd no one has been able to convince me otherwise.”
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Published - November 8, 2023

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<a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Johnathan Perkins</a> is the Director of Race and Equity for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California &#8211; Los Angeles.
In a series of tweets—<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uclas-race-and-equity-officer-who-wished-death-upon-clarence-thomas-once-admitted-to-staging-a-race-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first highlighted by the Post Millennial</a>—Mr. Perkins attacks Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, writing that he hopes Mr. Thomas dies in the hospital and accuses Mrs. Thomas of treason.
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At the time, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-supreme-151322076.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized for the flu</a>. The accusation directed at Ginni Thomas refers to her involvement in <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/jan-6-committee-likely-to-request-ginni-thomas-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity protests surrounding the 2020 general election</a>.
In the tweet, Mr. Perkins refers to Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Thomas.” The phrase is a racial slur used to accuse black people of selling out their race to white people.
Mr. Perkins is no stranger to racially-incendiary remarks. On his <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal blog, he writes about white privilege, systemic racism, and antiracist work</a> on a frequent basis.
In one article, he berates the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/10/1/an-open-letter-to-my-white-extended-family-ahead-of-november-3rd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative, white members of his family in an open letter posted prior to the 2020 general election</a>. He demands to know who plans to vote for a president who “incites white supremacist violence against black people” and vows to never associate with that family member again:
“If you, or any of your immediate family (spouses, children, children-in-law) are planning to vote for Donald Trump on November 3, I ask that you please contact me to discuss before that date. I hope that I never again have the unfortunate experience of discovering that someone in my own family has voted for a president who continues to incite white supremacist violence against Black people, violence and hate against the LGBTQ+ community, hatred and misogyny against women, and violent racist xenophobia against brown immigrants.
If, once again, we affected family members are forced to cope with this trauma, I regret that I, personally, will no longer be able to associate with the family member/voter in question. I will not attend family events where that member is present and will call out said family loudly whenever we interact from now on. I will no longer ignore the fact that my family members voted for all these things, against my humanity.“
<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/2/27/white-privilege-a-euphemism-for-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another post defines white privilege</a> as “the idea that white people enjoy a particular set of benefits, simply by virtue of their whiteness (despite the harmful costs).” Mr. Perkins further writes that this privilege is a “manifestation of white supremacy” and many white people may be regarded as virulently racist as a Klansman.
“I need to make something abundantly clear: white supremacy, like most harmful social constructs, exists on a spectrum. The Beverly Hills middle school English teacher who, intentionally or otherwise, does not include literature by black authors in her curriculum, is operating within the same fundamental system of beliefs, the same structure, as the Mississippi Klansman: whiteness as supreme, which by definition does not acknowledge blackness, which necessarily degrades it.“
In one article—published during ongoing riots in the summer of 2020—Dr. Perkins <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220328223757/https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/5/31/dont-talk-to-me-about-looting-an-open-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriates white people who might hold concerns about the continuous rioting and looting</a> that was occurring in cities across the country. Describing white people as the “original looters of this country,” he writes that America had been founded on looting and violence, and no meaningful civil rights movements can, or would take place without riots:
“America is the original looter. White people are the original looters in this country. The original colonizers looted the indigenous people of this land damn-near completely to death. The original colonizers stole us from our homes, brought us to this place, and continued to loot and terrorize us for the last 400 years.
Violence has been the American way since its inception. Looting and pillaging is as American as apple pie. You think the so-called Boston Tea Party was a party? It was a riot.
No meaningful civil rights advancement has taken place in this country without riots. I personally choose to never carry out or even promote violence. But police violence, government violence, is the only thing Black people have ever known in America.” 
The BLM-inspired riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>
Mr. Perkins <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-a-best-of-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously staged a race hoax while attending the University of Virginia.</a> He alleged that two police officers racially profiled him frisked him, and mocked him during detention. Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/964739540685101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later admitting that he fabricated the incident</a>, he now maintains the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/2/24/7-points-to-consider-about-the-jussie-smollett-ordeal-from-someone-whos-been-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI pressured him to recant his story</a>.
In his role at UCLA, Mr. Perkins describes himself as a “<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/8/17/g2t7llr5oviffi0gq4do7cqr2bn1k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-time professional practitioner of anti-racism”</a> who is dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/edi-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to its website, the purpose of The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> itself is based on the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mr. Perkins for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> at (310) 825-3935. 
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Updated &#8211; April 6th, 2022

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<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jonathan-m-zasloff/">Jonathan Zasloff</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zasloff was caught on social media in January of 2015 stating that Republicans were catering to their KKK core of old, angry, white Southern men with reactionary views on race.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist Team, Susan Pertel Jain is no longer listed as the Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at UCLA.*

<a href="https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/person/1366">Susan Pertel Jain</a> is a former Director of the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University. <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/confuciusinstitute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Confucius Institute</a> is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, the Confucius Institute at UCLA has closed.*
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<a href="https://www.confucius.ucla.edu/about-us/team">Scott L. Waugh</a> is the former Chair of the Confucius Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. The Confucius Institute is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberle-w-crenshaw">Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> is a Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at the <a href="https://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)</a>. She also teaches law as a professor at the <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia School of Law</a>.

Dr. Crenshaw is best recognized as a founding scholar of critical race theory and intersectionality. She has continued to make significant contributions to each field throughout her career. Both concepts have been widely adopted by the radical left as the basis for their activism and movements.

Dr. Crenshaw <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3Ad80f43d375e3f40179924f768317a237&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first defined intersectionality in a landmark paper published for the Stanford Law Review, titled, “Mapping the Margins.</a>” In it, she praises identity politics as necessary to the lived experiences of American minorities.

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However, Dr. Crenshaw then comments that identity politics does not go nearly far enough, countering that intersectionality is needed to successfully combat what she alleges is the systemic oppression minorities face in America.

Intersectionality is used by activists and academics to depict racial and sexual oppression as interconnected amongst various minority groups. For example in “Mapping the Margins,” Dr. Crenshaw claims that a black woman would suffer from both systemic racism and sexism in America. She further characterizes the theory as the link between <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/">contemporary politics and postmodernism</a>. Academic James Lindsay describes <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality as the “birthplace of wokeness.”</a>

Much of intersectionality’s academic framework was used by Dr. Crenshaw to develop concepts of critical race theory. She drew additional inspiration from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/kimberle-crenshaw-the-woman-who-revolutionised-feminism-and-landed-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical legal studies, which, like critical race theory, posits that no American law can truly be neutral or impartial.</a>

Ben Shapiro defines critical race theory—also referred to as critical theory—in an article for Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of critical race theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Crenshaw herself further defined the concept in an appearance on MSNBC in July of 2021, She characterized her theory as a method to understand how racial inequality is produced—or acts as a “conduit”—from laws, institutions, and historical oppression, all of which are referenced interchangeably with white supremacy. The full video may be viewed below.

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One such institution that Dr. Crenshaw targets are police departments and policing as a whole. In a <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet from September 2020</a>, she demanded that all police departments be defunded, a move deemed necessary for the full dismantlement of “white nationalism.”
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The call to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DefundThePolice</a> should be a mandate to dismantle the hyper-militaristic, racist functions of the police as the coercive power of white nationalism.
Defunding the police needs to be a call for the de-weaponizing of white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn</a>

— Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) <a href="https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crenshaw’s work and activism have been instrumental to school districts adopting critical race theory into their curriculums. One district in Illinois allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-illinois-school-district-forced-students-on-privilege-walks-compared-whiteness-to-the-devil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregated students by race during a “privilege walk</a>” and compared “whiteness” to the devil during class lessons. Another school district in Buffalo, New York taught students that<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical-race-theory-curriculum" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> America is, “built on racism,” and all Americans, “have an implicit racial bias.</a>”

Dr. Crensaw’s work has spawned other prominent critical race theorists like Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project. She has described <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-does-intersectionality-mean-2021-kimberle-crenshaws-podcast-must-listen-way-learn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jones work as “phenomenal” to the rethinking of the American founding</a>.

Dr. Jones <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England. <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/07/21/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has-the-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

Readers can visit the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile of Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a> to learn more.

Despite evidence to the contrary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a number of pundits on the left claim that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools</a>. However, Dr. Crenshaw herself has written that the theory may serve as a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?s=27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“catch-all” for race-based scholarship</a>.
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Well well well, if it's isn't Kimberlé Crenshaw, founder of critical race theory, telling us that the term "critical race theory" can be "used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue"—exactly as I've been saying all along. 👍<a href="https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GP7mLZAm9x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/GP7mLZAm9x</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact UCLA School of Law at (310) 825-4841 and Columbia Law School at (212) 854-2640
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Updated - September 21, 2021

<a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Johnathan Perkins</a> is the Director of Race and Equity for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California - Los Angeles.

In a series of tweets—<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uclas-race-and-equity-officer-who-wished-death-upon-clarence-thomas-once-admitted-to-staging-a-race-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first highlighted by the Post Millennial</a>—Mr. Perkins attacks Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, writing that he hopes Mr. Thomas dies in the hospital and accuses Mrs. Thomas of treason.

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At the time, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-supreme-151322076.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized for the flu</a>. The accusation directed at Ginni Thomas refers to her involvement in <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/jan-6-committee-likely-to-request-ginni-thomas-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity protests surrounding the 2020 general election</a>.

In the tweet, Mr. Perkins refers to Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Thomas.” The phrase is a racial slur used to accuse black people of selling out their race to white people.

Mr. Perkins is no stranger to racially-incendiary remarks. On his <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal blog, he writes about white privilege, systemic racism, and antiracist work</a> on a frequent basis.

In one article, he berates the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/10/1/an-open-letter-to-my-white-extended-family-ahead-of-november-3rd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative, white members of his family in an open letter posted prior to the 2020 general election</a>. He demands to know who plans to vote for a president who “incites white supremacist violence against black people” and vows to never associate with that family member again:

“If you, or any of your immediate family (spouses, children, children-in-law) are planning to vote for Donald Trump on November 3, I ask that you please contact me to discuss before that date. I hope that I never again have the unfortunate experience of discovering that someone in my own family has voted for a president who continues to incite white supremacist violence against Black people, violence and hate against the LGBTQ+ community, hatred and misogyny against women, and violent racist xenophobia against brown immigrants.

If, once again, we affected family members are forced to cope with this trauma, I regret that I, personally, will no longer be able to associate with the family member/voter in question. I will not attend family events where that member is present and will call out said family loudly whenever we interact from now on. I will no longer ignore the fact that my family members voted for all these things, against my humanity.“

<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/2/27/white-privilege-a-euphemism-for-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another post defines white privilege</a> as “the idea that white people enjoy a particular set of benefits, simply by virtue of their whiteness (despite the harmful costs).” Mr. Perkins further writes that this privilege is a “manifestation of white supremacy” and many white people may be regarded as virulently racist as a Klansman.

“I need to make something abundantly clear: white supremacy, like most harmful social constructs, exists on a spectrum. The Beverly Hills middle school English teacher who, intentionally or otherwise, does not include literature by black authors in her curriculum, is operating within the same fundamental system of beliefs, the same structure, as the Mississippi Klansman: whiteness as supreme, which by definition does not acknowledge blackness, which necessarily degrades it.“

In one article—published during ongoing riots in the summer of 2020—Dr. Perkins <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220328223757/https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/5/31/dont-talk-to-me-about-looting-an-open-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriates white people who might hold concerns about the continuous rioting and looting</a> that was occurring in cities across the country. Describing white people as the “original looters of this country,” he writes that America had been founded on looting and violence, and no meaningful civil rights movements can, or would take place without riots:

“America is the original looter. White people are the original looters in this country. The original colonizers looted the indigenous people of this land damn-near completely to death. The original colonizers stole us from our homes, brought us to this place, and continued to loot and terrorize us for the last 400 years.

Violence has been the American way since its inception. Looting and pillaging is as American as apple pie. You think the so-called Boston Tea Party was a party? It was a riot.

No meaningful civil rights advancement has taken place in this country without riots. I personally choose to never carry out or even promote violence. But police violence, government violence, is the only thing Black people have ever known in America.” 

The BLM-inspired riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Mr. Perkins <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-a-best-of-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously staged a race hoax while attending the University of Virginia.</a> He alleged that two police officers racially profiled him frisked him, and mocked him during detention. Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/964739540685101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later admitting that he fabricated the incident</a>, he now maintains the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/2/24/7-points-to-consider-about-the-jussie-smollett-ordeal-from-someone-whos-been-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI pressured him to recant his story</a>.

In his role at UCLA, Mr. Perkins describes himself as a “<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/8/17/g2t7llr5oviffi0gq4do7cqr2bn1k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-time professional practitioner of anti-racism”</a> who is dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/edi-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to its website, the purpose of The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> itself is based on the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mr. Perkins for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> at (310) 825-3935. 
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Updated - April 6th, 2022

<a href="https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Appel</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California - Los Angeles.

According to her university profile, Appel is “an economic anthropologist interested in transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements.” 

Appel is the Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin <a href="https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute on Inequality and Democracy</a>. According to its website, the mission of the Institute is “concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working in alliance with social movements and communities on the frontlines of struggle, the Institute seeks to abolish structures of inequality.”

According to the <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/23/protesters-occupy-then-vacate-dodd-hall-following-2nd-encampment-dispersal-at-ucla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Bruin</a>, Appel participated in a sit-in while police swept a campus encampment of protesters. 

Appel, who’s also a member of UCLA’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine group, stated that she anticipates an eventual “escalation” and a “deepening of the movement” as union members withhold grades and cancel discussion sections. She also explained her rationale for protesting and her efforts as a professor to support student protesters:
“When the university sees that folks are withholding grades, they get scared. They’re scared because we’re flexing our collective power, and optimally, that fear drives them to the bargaining table, and then we win.” 
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-professor-claims-not-allowing-food-water-into-pro-gaza-encampment-is-torture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, UCLA officials stated there was “reasonable cause to find that demonstrators’ activities – including erecting barricades, establishing fortifications and blocking access to parts of the campus and buildings – [were] disrupting campus operations.”

The College Fix also reports that Appel “accused the university of employing ‘torture’ tactics against the student activists” and expressed concern about the actions being deemed an unlawful assembly. Appel defended the actions of people providing water and food to the protesters despite the “unlawful protest” declaration by the university: 
“But here’s the thing: Even if this is unlawful which, of course, I don’t think it is […] you cannot deny people to send in water in an effort to get them to do something against their will.”
Published - May 30, 2024

<a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/experts/elana-redfield/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elana Redfield</a> is the Federal Policy Director with the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. The Williams Institute is focused on the following agenda:

“The Williams Institute is the leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. We ensure that facts — not stereotypes — inform laws, policies, and judicial decisions that affect the LGBTQ community.”

According to Redfield’s faculty profile, the professor “coordinates the Institute’s legal research and analysis related to federal and state policies that impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex people.”

On January 30, Redfield was interviewed by <a href="https://theconversation.com/a-federal-policy-expert-weighs-in-on-trumps-efforts-to-stifle-gender-affirming-care-for-americans-under-19-248646" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> in a piece titled “A federal policy expert weighs in on Trump’s efforts to stifle gender-affirming care for Americans under 19.”

During the interview, the professor expresses opposition to the restriction of “gender-affirming care” ensuing after an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order</a> was signed by President Trump on January 28 effectively banning it for minors. This Order demanded “that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

The professor is also a critic of the term “genital mutilation” and finds it to be an offensive and misleading phrase: 

“The executive order directs the Department of Justice to discourage doctors and hospitals from administering gender-affirming care to minors, characterizing it as <a href="https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/washington-state-becomes-41st-state-to-pass-law-against-fgm-c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genital mutilation</a>, which is a heinous-sounding offense. Even though this is an inaccurate comparison, it could have a chilling effect even in states where this form of care is legal.”

At the conclusion of the interview, Redfield cites a 2022 study claiming that gender-affirming care is beneficial for its recipients. According to the professor, the Executive Order rejects these alleged “benefits”: 

“So [the Executive Order] rejects the idea that gender-affirming care has health benefits, even though there’s robust, <a href="https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/integrity-project_cass-response.pdf">extensive evidence</a> <a href="https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equality/what-does-the-scholarly-research-say-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporting access to gender-affirming care</a>. Self-reporting by transgender individuals is overwhelmingly positive: 98% of trans people who had hormone therapy said it made their lives better, <a href="https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/2022%20USTS%20Early%20Insights%20Report_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey</a>.”

Redfield is optimistic for minors who seek gender-affirming care in light of the Executive Order because it is limited to federally funded institutions, which certain states can bypass:

“In other words, there are already barriers in place and checks and balances for minors if they want to access gender-affirming care.”
Published - February 4, 2025

<a href="https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty/peter-mclaren/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter McLaren</a> is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 

McLaren is considered one of the chief authorities in the field of critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy is <a href="https://online.wrexham.ac.uk/what-is-critical-pedagogy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> in the following manner by the North Wales Management School: 

“Critical Pedagogy is a philosophy of education that enables and encourages critical thinking in learners. With roots in <a href="https://www.simplypsychology.org/critical-theory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical theory</a>, it calls on teachers and students to explore their surroundings and the status quo to examine:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“power structures.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">patterns of inequality.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">oppressive acts and systems.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">social movements.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">political acts.”</li>
</ul>
In his book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_in_Schools/fmXvCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education</a>, McLaren wrote about what critical pedagogy means to him as a “struggle for a a socialist alternative to capitalism”: (See screenshot of book below) 

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3942" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-21-at-9.46.02 AM-1024x275.png" alt="" width="640" height="172" />

Peter McLaren is a frequent contributor to the <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/page/about-us">LA Progressive</a> and has written several articles for the publication. Most of his writing is politically themed and written from a blatantly left-wing perspective. 

In a February <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/saving-the-department-of-education">article</a> titled “Saving the Department of Education,” McLaren wrote in defense of the U.S. Department of Education and criticized President Trump’s agenda toward it, likening the president to a monarch. 

“Like a monarch sharpening his blade to sever the ties of a past he deems unworthy, Donald Trump has fixed his gaze on the towering citadel of the U.S. Department of Education, drafting an executive order that could spell its right-wing undoing. The ink has not yet dried, but the decree moves like a specter through the corridors of power, whispered in hushed tones among those who see its arrival as both inevitable and cataclysmic.”

McLaren wrote symbolically of the department and the lasting effect its programs will have even if it is axed by the current presidential administration: 

“Yet, even if the department falls, the programs it once housed may not vanish entirely. Like ruins repurposed by conquerors, some will be scattered across other federal agencies, reduced to mere fragments of their former grandeur.” 

He continued:

“The funding streams that once nourished the education of low-income students and children with disabilities predate the department itself—an ancient infrastructure woven into the very sinews of the nation. This foundation, dug deep into the soil of American policy, remains a resilient relic that even Trump may find difficult to entirely dismantle. Though the department may be erased from the map, these programs, like enduring monuments, may continue to pulse quietly in the background, their influence felt even in the absence of the institution that once gave them shape…”

McLaren’s most recent <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/a-tale-of-two-fascists">LA Progressive</a> article discusses the relationship between the U.S. and Russia and their “two fascist” leaders. 
Published - February 21, 2025

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<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Mainwaring</a> is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He’s also a faculty fellow at the <a href="https://kellogg.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellogg Institute of International Affairs</a>. According to his university profile, his research interests and teaching focus on “democratization and authoritarianism, political parties and party systems, and Latin American politics.”
In June 2021, Professor Mainwaring signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary &#8211; including suspending the filibuster &#8211; in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The news release says that Mainwaring “stresses that the overt attempts to suppress minority votes, the partisan manipulation of electoral administration and the refusal to accept Trump’s defeat are all harbingers of the demise of democracy.”
Notre Dame News quotes Mainwaring, writing:
“These practices represent a movement toward competitive authoritarian regimes, and they are a deep threat to democracy. As a student and scholar of democracy for more than 40 years, I am disheartened to see these practices.”
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Published &#8211; November 23, 2022

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University of Notre Dame

Tamara Kay is a <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/profile/tamara-kay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology</a> at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. She is also an ex-officio member of the Keough School’s Racial Justice Task Force.

<a href="https://irishrover.net/2022/10/keough-school-professor-offers-abortion-access-to-student/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Rover</a> reports that Professor Kay is helping students get abortions after an Indiana law banning abortions statewide took effect on September 15, 2022. She posted a sign on her office door that read: “This is a SAFE SPACE to get help and information on ALL Healthcare issues and access - confidentially with care and compassion.” The sign also contained her personal email address and a capital “J.”

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In a social media post, Kay explained: “We are here (as private citizens, not representatives of ND) to help you access healthcare when you need it, and we are prepared in every way. Look for the “J”, Spread the word to students!” The Rover reports that professors with the “J” on their doors offer help in obtaining Plan B “morning after” pills and “Plan C” abortion pills.

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/12/notre-dame-professor-offers-students-abortion-access-indiana-abortion-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Breitbart</a> reports that her Twitter account boasts about “important” organizations like “Abortion Finder” that provides information on how to get abortion pills online and get reimbursed for traveling out-of-state to obtain an abortion.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
It's SO IMPORTANT to use a vetted, verified, reliable organization for abortion health care information. <a href="https://twitter.com/Abortion_Finder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Abortion_Finder</a> is one: <a href="https://t.co/LQTgQLYMWz">https://t.co/LQTgQLYMWz</a>
— Dr. Tamara Kay: Abortion Rights &amp; Policy Scholar (@BuildSolidarity) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuildSolidarity/status/1580007466926215168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to The Rover, Professor Kay claims that her abortion advocacy is allowed because she’s “doing that as a private citizen,” saying, “that’s been cleared by the university … I talked to the dean and have also spoken to ND Media about policies.”

However, during the week of September 26, Kay changed her Twitter name from “Dr. Tamara Kay - Notre Dame abortion rights expert” to “Dr. Tamara Kay - Abortion Rights &amp; Policy Scholar.” She has also since deleted all tweets referencing abortions for students and removed the signs from her office.

Professor Kay has written many articles about abortion rights. One article, co-authored with Susan Ostermann, an assistant professor at the Keough School, is titled <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/05/04/forced-pregnancy-and-childbirth-are-violence-against-women--and-also-terrible-health-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Forced pregnancy and childbirth are violence against women - and also terrible health policy.”</a> The article argues that “forced pregnancy and childbirth is sexual abuse,” stating:
“Both require the sexual reproductive capacity of human bodies. Being forced to provide that capacity, and to endure the physical intrusion and penetration of the body that both pregnancy and childbirth require, is nothing less than sexual abuse.” 
The article argues that “abortion access is freedom-enhancing,” saying:
“Consistent with integral human development that emphasizes social justice and human dignity, abortion access respects the inherent dignity of women, their freedom to make choices and to evaluate medical and other risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth.” 
It concludes:
“Perhaps most important, abortion access also prioritizes and values women’s freedom from experiencing violence, sexual abuse and trauma through forced pregnancy and childbirth. When the state supports forced pregnancy and childbirth, it is complicit in this violence.”
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You can contact the Keough School by email:keoughschool@nd.edu or by phone: 574-631-3426
Published - October 14, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/luis-ricardo-fraga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luis Ricardo Fraga</a> is the Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C, Professor of Transformative Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. According to his university biography, he specializes in Latino politics, voting rights, immigration, and education.

In June 2021, Professor Fraga signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Fraga, listed as an expert on this topic, says that the United States is a “nation founded on the basis of slavery and its related racism.”

He explains:
“We have culture wars and our racist historical past and its lingering contemporary effects and immigration - particularly from Latin American - is identified as a threat to American identity and American ideals. Add to that people coming from Muslim countries, and this intensifies the culture wars.” 
He believes that the Republican Party wants to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/republicans-want-to-dehumanize-voters-who-threaten-white-identity-says-notre-dame-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“dehumanize” those who threaten “white identity,”</a> stating:
“All these things together have led to - and research backs this up - the importance of white identity. Working against this threatens the status of the Republican Party and spurs the gerrymandering/voting tricks. Their goal is to dehumanize the people who are the sources of that threat.” 
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://sites.nd.edu/michael-coppedge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Coppedge</a> is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

According to his university profile, he is a member of the highest decision-making body, the Principal Investigator Board, for the <a href="https://www.v-dem.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Varieties of Democracy</a> project. The project, also known as V-Dem, is a collaborative effort led by four principal investigators that has “produced new measures of hundreds of aspects of democracy and governance for nearly all countries since 1900.”

In June 2021, Professor Coppedge signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Professor Coppedge says that the V-Dem project demonstrates that there has been a “significant erosion of liberal democracy in the U.S. since 2016.”

V-Dem reports that no country in North America or Europe has advanced in democracy in the last decade and democracy in the U.S. has declined substantially. Coppedge states:
“A decline is already underway. If recent and pending state-level legislation erects more and more barriers to voting and makes the translation of votes into seats and electors even more distorted than it already is, I am sure this trend will worsen.” 
V-Dem’s 2021 report shows that the U.S. declined substantially on the Liberal Democracy Index from 2010 to 2020. Notre Dame News reports that the V-Dem researchers blame this decline on “former President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the media and opposition politicians, and the substantial weakening of the legislature’s de facto checks and balances on executive power.”
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Mainwaring</a> is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He’s also a faculty fellow at the <a href="https://kellogg.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellogg Institute of International Affairs</a>. According to his university profile, his research interests and teaching focus on “democratization and authoritarianism, political parties and party systems, and Latin American politics.”

In June 2021, Professor Mainwaring signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The news release says that Mainwaring “stresses that the overt attempts to suppress minority votes, the partisan manipulation of electoral administration and the refusal to accept Trump’s defeat are all harbingers of the demise of democracy.”

Notre Dame News quotes Mainwaring, writing:
“These practices represent a movement toward competitive authoritarian regimes, and they are a deep threat to democracy. As a student and scholar of democracy for more than 40 years, I am disheartened to see these practices.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/christina-wolbrecht/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Wolbrecht</a> is a Professor of Political Science and the C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty in the Gender Studies Program and a Faculty Fellow of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. According to her university profile, Wolbrecht’s expertise is in “American politics, gender/women and politics, political parties, and American political development.”

In June 2021, Professor Wolbrecht signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Wolbrecht, listed as an expert on this topic, stated: “Marginalized and intersectional communities have been crucial leaders in the contemporary struggle to defend and secure voting rights. Black women in particular have turned their commitment to community into sophisticated voter mobilization organizations.”

She added:
“It’s important to emphasize, however, that resisting and overcoming discriminatory voting rules requires time, energy and attention that these communities do not have in abundance and that distract from other work that advances human flourishing.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://keough.nd.edu/profile/anibal-perez-linan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aníbal Pérez-Liñán</a> is a Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs and Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. According to his <a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/anibal-perez-linan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile,</a> his areas of expertise include “democratization, political institutions, executive-legislative relations, and the rule of law.”

In June 2021, Professor Pérez-Liñán signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The article discusses how Pérez-Liñán “sees parallels in some Latin American countries to attempts by U.S. state Republican legislatures to restrict voting rules, thus securing long-term partisan control of their states.” He states:
“This strategy only works if federal legislation fails to enforce voting rights nationally. Students of Latin American politics call this phenomenon ‘boundary control.’ In Latin America, authoritarian governors are known to preserve power in their enclaves by fending off the influence of national governments.” 
Pérez-Liñán believes the filibuster is an “important maneuver that protects legislative minorities;” but adds,
“Paradoxically, however, some Republican senators are using this institution to disempower minorities in their own states. By blocking the adoption of federal legislation to defend voting rights, they sadly exercise boundary control to protect the adoption of restrictive voting laws.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://ftt.nd.edu/people/faculty/pamela-robertson-wojcik/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pamela Wojcik</a> is the Chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. According to her university profile, her research “focuses on American cinema with particular interest in examining the ways in which film negotiates and interrogates issues of modernity, gender, and cultural change.”

Wojcik is teaching a <a href="https://classsearch.nd.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fall 2023 course</a> titled, “What a Drag: Drag on Screen - Variations and Meanings.” The course description says it “provides an overview of the history of drag performance on screen.” Students will “be asked to read essays on drag, write weekly reflections, attend class discussions, and attend weekly screenings, as well as a symposium on drag and performance on November 3, 2023.”

Wojcik told <a href="https://irishrover.net/2023/09/drag-show-planned-at-notre-dame/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Rover</a> that the symposium will be on “efforts to ban drag” and confirmed it will include a drag performance. She said that drag “is a vital art form that has existed at least since Greek theater, through Shakespearean theater. There are currently claims about drag that seem ahistorical and confused about what it is. So I thought it would be helpful to have an informed, respectful conversation about it.”

Wojcik further told <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> the course would help educate students on drag:
“[B]ecause the national conversation about drag has this distorted view, it really is just trying to give students the opportunity to learn about something in a rational, intellectual environment, rather than through this sort of hysteria of Republicans trying to ban something that they don’t understand.” 
Professor Wojcik <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/notre-dame-professor-doesnt-see-any-conflict-with-drag-programs-and-university-mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not see any conflict</a> with the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution, hosting a drag show on campus. She stated, “There is no evidence of drag ever hurting anyone and I don’t think it’s counter to the teachings of the Church, I don’t think it’s counter to the teachings of Notre Dame.”

In March 2023, Pope Francis condemned gender ideology as “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations. He described gender ideology as “dangerous” because it “blurs differences and the value of men and women.”

The upcoming symposium will be sponsored by the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Gender Studies, Department of Music, Department of American Studies, and the Initiative on Race and Resilience. It is unclear at this time if the event is open to the public.

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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://anthropology.nd.edu/people/faculty/cara-ocobock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cara Ocobock</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame. Her research program “integrates human biology and anthropology, with a focus on the interaction between anatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment.”

In October 2023, Professor Ocobock and Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/charlesroseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a>, of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> in which they questioned the existence of only two genders. In the op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—they argue that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.”

The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Ocobock and Roseman state that the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”

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Published - November 3, 2023

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<a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/danielle-allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Allen</a> is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allen’s profile says “she is Founder and President for Partners In Democracy, where she continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy and drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all.”
In 2016, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moment-of-truth-we-must-stop-trump/2016/02/21/0172e788-d8a7-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html">published an opinion editorial</a> authored by Allen. She titled the piece “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” She starts the article by stating:
“Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany. Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.”
She further parallels former President Trump and Hitler, writing:
“To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German-Jewish  émigré philosopher <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437565/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0142437565&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=PQAKLU5NRJOETRXB%22%3EThe%20Portable%20Hannah%20Arendt%20(Penguin%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thewaspos09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Arendt</a> and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can understand themselves as ‘just doing their job,’ yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3753" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10-1024x791.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10-300x232.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10-768x594.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10-1200x927.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Allen was <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/03/harvard-kennedy-professor-danielle-allen-discusses-justice-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> in The Brown Daily Herald wherein the author covered a speaking engagement connected to the release of Allen’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Means-Democracy-Danielle-Allen-ebook/dp/B0BVC2FX2S/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VqxGd4owAqzRflOXiBODXN17y4JJUJ1SVHYoRKSEDi6q-l886siA49NkC9H1kQpqVTCFXCSP_tdMncZOaeI8qZRoOQSHNELNFHZcBBT7HIHiT1vCs5-ECUpnUkPX8MrgUwMYyWF99EapLhAECkgLZTSghDVrj8oaZbf6drUcWGl3zoSJputR0fYZybjA7eJTxgZ6VHZUCs4sELHMdEbmsJXcA3rlY8ymu77DAiOkKPg.jTBse05m42CEISz-twypjIyY7S93TNNoT9Q_KLXmonU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;gad_source=1&amp;hvadid=693980244929&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15248354058227898116--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=15248354058227898116&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1965987004000&amp;hydadcr=22158_13517514&amp;keywords=justice+by+means+of+democracy&amp;qid=1722025745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BVC2FX2S&amp;revisionId=f2ca3fa9&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice by Means of Democracy</a>.” The writer said, “Allen argued that American democracy has prioritized negative liberties over positive ones for too long, resulting in those with power ‘not listening to the people who are affected by policies’ being enacted.”
In the book, Allen asked, “What is the relationship between political economy, political philosophy, and a theory of justice?” She then states:
“As economic theorists from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith/The-Theory-of-Moral-Sentiments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Smith</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Marx</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/John-Maynard-Keynes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Maynard Keynes</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/F-A-Hayek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Hayek</a> have recognized, any given economic system is built out of a set of underlying rules of human interaction … All recognized that the rules of the game structuring human interaction and those generating particular forms of economy embodied distinctive sets of social ideals and could be redesigned.” 
She also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/26/allen-permissible-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> contrasting “academic freedom” with “free expression.” She said, “Harvard’s values statement contains two guidelines that help distinguish between good and bad speech … Scholarly standards and longstanding norms from the art of rhetoric make concrete how to live by these values.”
The following chart was included under the heading Speech Distinctions — Regime, Quality, Permissibility.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3754" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-10.55.32 AM.png" alt="" width="594" height="487" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-10.55.32 AM.png 594w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-10.55.32 AM-300x246.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px" />
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<a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/danielle-allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Allen</a> is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allen’s profile says “she is Founder and President for Partners In Democracy, where she continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy and drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all.”

In 2016, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moment-of-truth-we-must-stop-trump/2016/02/21/0172e788-d8a7-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html">published an opinion editorial</a> authored by Allen. She titled the piece “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” She starts the article by stating:
“Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany. Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.”
She further parallels former President Trump and Hitler, writing:
“To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German-Jewish  émigré philosopher <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437565/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0142437565&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=PQAKLU5NRJOETRXB%22%3EThe%20Portable%20Hannah%20Arendt%20(Penguin%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thewaspos09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Arendt</a> and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can understand themselves as ‘just doing their job,’ yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.”
<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3753" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-10-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" />

Allen was <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/03/harvard-kennedy-professor-danielle-allen-discusses-justice-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> in The Brown Daily Herald wherein the author covered a speaking engagement connected to the release of Allen’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Means-Democracy-Danielle-Allen-ebook/dp/B0BVC2FX2S/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VqxGd4owAqzRflOXiBODXN17y4JJUJ1SVHYoRKSEDi6q-l886siA49NkC9H1kQpqVTCFXCSP_tdMncZOaeI8qZRoOQSHNELNFHZcBBT7HIHiT1vCs5-ECUpnUkPX8MrgUwMYyWF99EapLhAECkgLZTSghDVrj8oaZbf6drUcWGl3zoSJputR0fYZybjA7eJTxgZ6VHZUCs4sELHMdEbmsJXcA3rlY8ymu77DAiOkKPg.jTBse05m42CEISz-twypjIyY7S93TNNoT9Q_KLXmonU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;gad_source=1&amp;hvadid=693980244929&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15248354058227898116--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=15248354058227898116&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1965987004000&amp;hydadcr=22158_13517514&amp;keywords=justice+by+means+of+democracy&amp;qid=1722025745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BVC2FX2S&amp;revisionId=f2ca3fa9&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice by Means of Democracy</a>.” The writer said, “Allen argued that American democracy has prioritized negative liberties over positive ones for too long, resulting in those with power ‘not listening to the people who are affected by policies’ being enacted.”

In the book, Allen asked, “What is the relationship between political economy, political philosophy, and a theory of justice?” She then states:
“As economic theorists from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith/The-Theory-of-Moral-Sentiments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Smith</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Marx</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/John-Maynard-Keynes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Maynard Keynes</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/F-A-Hayek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Hayek</a> have recognized, any given economic system is built out of a set of underlying rules of human interaction … All recognized that the rules of the game structuring human interaction and those generating particular forms of economy embodied distinctive sets of social ideals and could be redesigned.” 
She also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/26/allen-permissible-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> contrasting “academic freedom” with “free expression.” She said, “Harvard’s values statement contains two guidelines that help distinguish between good and bad speech … Scholarly standards and longstanding norms from the art of rhetoric make concrete how to live by these values.”

The following chart was included under the heading Speech Distinctions — Regime, Quality, Permissibility.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3754" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-10.55.32 AM.png" alt="" width="594" height="487" />

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<a href="https://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/faculty/jonathan-l-walton/">Dr. Jonathan L. Walton</a>, Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University and formerly of Harvard University, called the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization". In a sermon on campus after the Las Vegas mass shooting, Walton, who has a Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton, blamed "Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries [for] eating away at the soul of this nation," Walton later calls President Donald Trump a "Madman" who "embodies the worst aspects of our country's cultural disease."

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/mark-tushnet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Tushnet</a> is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. According to Tushnet’s faculty profile his research interest “includes students of constitutional review in the United States and around the world and the creation of other ‘institutions for protecting constitutional democracy.’”

In May 2016, the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/10/harvard-professor-start-treating-christians-nazis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Times</a> featured Tushnet in an article titled “Harvard professor: Start treating Christian conservatives like Nazis.” The Times said: 
“Mr. Tushnet said liberals should stop being so hesitant to advance their agenda through the judiciary, saying a majority of federal judges have been appointed by Democrat presidents, and they need not worry ‘reversal by the Supreme Court now that former Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is dead.”
Tushnet wrote a <a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/05/abandoning-defensive-crouch-liberal.html">blog post</a> that same year where he challenged readers to “abandon defensive-crouch liberalism” and to “aggressively exploit the ambiguities and loopholes in unfavorable precedents that aren’t worth overruling.” 

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3140" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1694464755411-1024x680.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="425" />

On August 1, 2023, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23715" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform reported</a> that Tushnet sent an open letter to the Biden Administration wherein he “labeled the [SCOTUS] conservative majority as ‘MAGA justices,’ implying the judges have a political relationship to former President Donald Trump…”

Campus Reform noted how Tushnet “used the recent ruling on affirmative action as an example and proposed that Biden could emphasize that the ruling applies only to certain college institutions, while still vigorously pursuing affirmative action in other contexts…”

<a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-biden-administration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In the letter</a>, Tushnet states: 
“We do not believe that President Biden should simply ignore every MAGA ruling. The President should act when MAGA justices issue high-stakes rulings that are based on gravely mistaken constitutional interpretations…Such actions could help contain the grave threat posed by MAGA justices.”
He continues:
“In this particular historical moment, MAGA justices pose a grave threat to our most fundamental commitments because they rule consistently to undermine democracy and to curtail fundamental rights, and because many of their rulings are based on misleading and untrue claims.”
<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3141" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PWL-QUOTES-2-e1694464782651-1024x696.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="435" />
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Dr. Michelle Morse is an internal medicine and public health doctor who, according to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-morse-251a0ba1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> biography, “works to achieve health equity through global solidarity, social medicine and anti-racism education, and activism.” Her <a href="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty biography</a> describes her position as “an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founder of the EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium.”

Morse has several, notable publications, including “<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33640157/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission,</a>” and “<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2789583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Act Upon Racism- not Race- as a Risk Factor</a>.” The former publication, regarding reparations, made the claim that the United States should pursue racial-justice interventions, including reparations payments, to ameliorate racial disparities that originated through COVID-19.

According to a report by <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23630" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Morse was featured as a keynote speaker for a medical residency graduation ceremony. <a href="https://onebrooklynhealth.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Brooklyn Health</a>, a New York-based network of hospitals, held its ceremony on June 7, 2023, that included Dr. Michelle Morse as the keynote speaker for the second consecutive year.

Morse began her speech by mentioning contributors to what she called “scary times,” including:

“Misinformation about what is contained in COVID vaccines, misinformation about the ways public school teachers instruct students about our country’s violent founding and enslavement, settler colonialism, patriarchy, structural racism, or what really happened on January 6.”

She recalled her experiences during the AIDS epidemic and how it motivated her to become an “even more radicalized student activist,” and that she returned to the United States to “do more direct activism for social justice during residency.” Within the speech, she also asserted that “the current state of our country is unfair and unjust towards people of color, period.”

After the speech, a graduate attendee shared some thoughts with a Campus Reform reporter, saying that many students are discontent with the rise of woke ideology in the medical field, but are afraid to speak up because they feel as though they are “slaves to debt,” and cannot afford to risk losing their jobs by speaking out.
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<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/michelle-evelyn-morse">Michelle Evelyn Morse</a>, M.D. is a Instructor of Medicine and an Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University.  She is also co-founder of the <a href="http://www.socialmedicineconsortium.org/campaign-against-racism/">Campaign Against Racism</a>, which describes itself as an organization that seeks to “dismantle structural racism and its effects on health around the world.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-06-02/health-care-part-systems-oppression-says-harvard-medicine-professor">The World</a>, Morse outlined what she believes is structural oppression in the healthcare field. She explained how the Coronavirus is exposing divides caused by racism:

“And I think what we're seeing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on communities of color is that these are the fault lines that have existed for generations. And the sources are the very social arrangement that puts white people on top and black and brown people on the bottom.” 

 Morse has admitted that the long-term goal of her organization is to destroy capitalism, saying, “...the systems of racial capitalism and structural racism that we're trying to impact and upend and break down are going to take much, much longer” 

Morse is also very candid about utilizing the coronavirus pandemic to accomplish her organization’s ambitions of fundamentally transforming the country: 

“We have to seize on this moment. We have to make sure that health workers are not just assumed to be the heroes of COVID-19, that we actually do the work of upending the sources of oppression that have led to these inequities and that we recognize that that takes time and that that takes constant pressure.”

<a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/people/cornel-r-west">Dr. Cornel West</a> is a former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and a Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. West is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and has used the organization’s platform to <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/cornel_west_endorses_bernie_sanders/">endorse</a> Bernie Sanders for president.  

West is known for his vocal opposition to Donald Trump, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14389">describing</a> him at a rally for Bernie Sanders as a “neo-fascist gangster.”

West is also notable for his mistrust of the official narrative of 9/11. As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5054">reported</a> by Campus Reform, he relayed his suspicion when asked if 9/11 was an inside job during the Million Muslim March in Washington D.C. “At this point, I’m still uncertain. I think there might be a possibility but my hunch is that with Bin Laden’s definitive investment, he must have had something to do with it,” explained West.

Among West’s other peculiar beliefs, he is an avowed socialist that has served as an honorary chair for the DSA. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYAH-BZZTs">interview</a> with Laura Flanders, he praised Karl Marx for having an “indispensable” analysis of America, declaring that American capitalism forces people to live in “wage slavery.” When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuc6C2_Txmw">challenged</a> by Tucker Carlson for his support of Socialism, most notably for its repeated and abysmal failures, West deflected and accused the US of interfering in preventing the implementation of authentic socialism in places like Venezuela.

Perhaps the most disturbing example of Dr. West’s radical beliefs is his sustained relationship and defense of notorious Nation of Islam (NOI) leader, Louis Farrakhan. 

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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"...there were many Israeli’s and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"The Jews have control over those agencies of government. When you want something in the world, a Jew holds the door."</li>
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Despite a bevy of disgusting remarks, Dr. West continues to collaborate with and defend Farrakhan. He most recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfC-z80GCSk">appeared</a> with him at an event in Chicago, hosted by PBS, to discuss issues in the black community. Numerous other academics and community leaders were present. His association with Farrakhan goes back decades, as is exhibited in a lecture given at Harvard University where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KwhXPXjjMw">flouted</a> his agreement with him that white supremacy is ingrained in America. In another lecture,  Dr. West openly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmuSqlvWE4">admitted</a> that he works with Farrakhan. 

When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwhYShH-pE">pressed</a> by Roland Marted about his relationship with Farrakhan, West refused to disavow him. West responded that “people need to stop lying about my brother,” and denied that Farrakhan had ever made anti-Semitic remarks. West went on to praise Farrakhan for his “consistency” on white supremacy.   

Dr. West has also openly embraced ANTIFA. <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/1/cornel_west_us_moment_of_reckoning">Appearing</a> on Democracy Now!, Dr. West claimed that ANTIFA “saved his life” when protesting in Charlottesville and lambasted the Trump administration's decision to label ANTIFA a terrorist organization:

“...ANTIFA saved my life in Charlottesville. There’s no doubt about it, that they provided the security, you see. So the very notion that they become candidates for a terrorist organization, but the people who were trying to kill us — the Nazis, the Klan — they’re not candidates for terrorist organization status — but that’s what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a Trump-led neofascist backlash and clampdown on what is going on. We ought to be very clear about that. The neofascism has that kind of obsession with militaristic imposition in the face of any kind of disorder. And so we’ve got to be fortified for that.”

Cornel West is a vocal critic of Israel. In 2014 - though aware that terrorist group Hamas was launching thousands of rockets into Israeli civilian areas - he nonetheless <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFVnRfpj7w&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=281">accused</a> Israel of state-sponsored terrorism and urged “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinians.

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet">Elizabeth Bartholet</a> is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard University. Bartholet’s work is primarily centered around child welfare. She <a href="https://bartholet.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/children.pdf">believes</a> that “poverty and social justice are the root causes of most child maltreatment” and that early childhood intervention by social services is needed to prevent abuse. 

Bartholet is a vocal and visceral opponent of home-schooling, describing it as “near-absolute parental power” and “inconsistent” with the human rights of children. In a <a href="https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf">paper written for the Arizona Law Review</a>, she advocates for an outright ban on homeschooling. Bartholet sees homeschooling as a danger to society, and accuses parents who decide to remove their children from public schools of promoting segregation and misogyny:  

“...parents can now keep their children at home in the name of homeschooling free from any real scrutiny as to whether or how they are educating their children. Many homeschool because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to our democracy, determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Abusive parents can keep their children at home free from the risk that teachers will report them to child protection services. Some homeschool precisely for this reason.”

Bartholet repeats and expands on her position, claiming that homeschooling may lead to child abuse: 

“Parents can choose to teach that biblical truth trumps all, that all science is false science, that women should be educated to be subservient to men, that people of color are inferior to whites, that people with nontraditional sexual orientations or gender identities should be “cured” or condemned. Parents can choose to put their children to work, notwithstanding child labor laws. Parents can choose to beat their children, starve them, or chain them up…”

Bartholet then critiques the inability to enact any legislation due to the “outdated nature of the Constitution, 

“The U.S. Constitution with its negative rights structure is an anomaly, outdated and inadequate by the standards of the rest of the world Negative rights— rights to be free from state intervention—are particularly inadequate for children...The U.S. Constitution’s focus on negative rights represents an older western constitutional tradition, “increasingly out of step with emerging constitutional norms…”

Bartholet’s hostility towards homeschooling appears to stem from the fact that a disproportionate amount of these parents are conservative Christians and not progressives: 

“It is the religious ideologues who dominate the homeschooling movement...Nor is there any other significant advocacy organization designed to represent the views of the highly educated nonreligious homeschoolers, the descendants of the John Holt progressive wing of the homeschooling movement.”

Bartholet had been slated to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14850">appear</a> at a Harvard-sponsored summit that was described as an “anti-homeschooling conference.” Titled “<a href="https://cap.law.harvard.edu/homeschooling-summit-june-18-19-2020/">Homeschooling Summit: Problems, Politics, and Prospects for Reform</a>,” it has since been postponed after receiving fierce backlash.

Dr. David R. Williams is a <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenured professor at Harvard University</a>. He specializes in several subjects, including Public Health, Sociology, and African American Studies. Dr. Williams has also delivered many lectures and written a substantial number of publications that discuss discrimination and racism in the United States, particularly in healthcare, and the negative health impact conservatives have on Democrats and minorities.

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In 2016, Dr. Williams appeared in a TED Talk titled, “<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick/transcript?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Racism Makes Us Sick</a>”. In this 16 minute video, he discusses how stereotypes in the subconscious minds of healthcare professionals lead to lesser quality care for minorities. He attributes this to implicit biases and explains how it’s an unconscious process that occurs “even among the most well-intended individuals.” According to Williams, when a person of color is being treated by a non-minority medical professional, that provider holds unconscious and inherent biases that cause them to unknowingly provide lesser quality healthcare.

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A topic Dr. Williams discusses often, particularly on Twitter, is white privilege and supremacy in politics. In an <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/davidrwilliams/files/williams_medlock_nejm_elections_and_health_2017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article published by the New England Journal of Medicine</a> in 2017, Dr. Williams alleges that President Donald Trump’s candidacy reignited pre-existing hostile attitudes towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. He goes on to describe how Democrats in particular experienced negative health effects after the 2016 election, as they feel they are direct targets of hostility and discrimination, particularly white American conservatives.

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He further accuses the conservative-run Tea Party, which materialized after the election of Barack Obama, of increasing racial animosity in the United States. Dr. Williams claims a large uptick in racism on social media occurred after Obama’s election, as well as a resurgence of historically racist stereotypes. He attributes all of this to the Tea Party.

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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tea-Party-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tea Party</a> is an organization that was created in response to the 2008 financial and housing crisis in the United States. Outraged by the Obama administration’s policies - such as the mortgage bailouts in 2009 - the Tea Party was born. <a href="https://www.teaparty.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to their website</a>, the Tea Party claims to have millions of members nationwide, consisting of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents alike.

Dr. Williams is also credited with developing the “<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/node/32397" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Everyday Discrimination Scale</a>” that is widely used as a measure of subjective experiences of discrimination in order to measure feelings of racism. This scale is used in schools to measure students’ perceived level of discrimination in their everyday lives. On the flip side, if students score very low on the scale, teachers and professors want to know why students think they aren’t being discriminated against. This typically boils down to the color of their skin.

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The scale is used in several major universities, particularly in healthcare studies. The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies uses the scale to measure “subjective experiences of daily discrimination against the minority population.” Further details about their use of the scale <a href="https://elcentro.sonhs.miami.edu/research/measures-library/daily-discrimination-scale/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be found here</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Williams for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health</a> at (617) 495-1000.

On January 2, 2024, <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/harvard-president-reigns-following-refusal-to-condemn-antisemitism-on-campus?utm_campaign=Advancement%20TPUSA%20Weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=2&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--hFolse9exN61ocxk6aL6gdlUpP75ptHE-ZLqrTXQI95H-6YArBFTPfeu0TanyhMWv4WtUHY6V6HslQ9IKwMkXpVSvSA&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_source=hs_email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TPUSA Live reported</a>, “Harvard President Claudine Gay, who has received public backlash for her refusal to adequately denounce antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, has issued a letter of resignation.”

As of January 11, over 10,000 people <a href="https://www.change.org/p/resist-the-call-for-the-resignation-of-claudine-gay-as-harvard-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed the Change.org petition</a> calling for Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. The shift away from public support started after Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/oklC-xpSOWc?list=TLPQMTIxMjIwMjOdO_R_5s2NVQ">congressional testimony</a> where she refused to condemn anti-Jewish protests on campus. 

During the December 5, 2023 hearing, New York Representative Elise Stefanik <a href="https://youtu.be/lwu3rBAWvOQ">asked</a> Gay whether inciting violence and genocide against Jews violated Harvard’s rules on bullying or harassment. Gay said, “It can be, depending on the context.” When grilled further about the context, Gay explained, “[When it’s] targeted at an individual.”

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After the October 7 Hamas terrorist invasion that killed over 1,000 Jewish citizens, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/6/unrecognized-student-group-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 30 pro-Palestine student groups</a> began protesting on Harvard’s main campus. The Crimson reported that 33 student groups also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/psc-statement-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement of responsibility</a> wherein Israel is solely blamed for the attack.

In November, at the height of pro-Hamas protests on campus, Gay released a statement:
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views. But that’s a far cry from endorsing them. It’s in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters, and we reveal the character of our institution.…”
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On December 11, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-president-claudine-gay-accused-of-plagiarizing-sections-of-her-ph-d-dissertation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> broke the story on Gay in an article titled, “Harvard President Claudine Gay accused of plagiarizing sections of her Ph.D. dissertation.” Quoting <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo’s report</a>, The College Fix said, “‘First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s paper, ‘Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment,’ while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language…’”

​​Gay’s resignation also came amid growing controversy surrounding plagiarized publications throughout her career. Gay initially <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/news/claudine-gay-denies-newly-surfaced-plagiarism-accusations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied all allegations</a> of plagiarism and<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-rallies-behind-president-claudine-gay-amid-calls-for-resignation-2023-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> garnered support</a> from more than 500 faculty members.

On December 12, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/billionaire-confirms-harvard-president-was-dei-hire-as-dozens-more-plagiarism-accusations-emerge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay appeared</a> in The College Fix again. The source said, “Billionaire hedge fund founder Bill Ackman said on [Twitter] he has confirmed that Harvard University’s selection of [Gay] for president was a decision based on diversity, equity and inclusion principles.”

Despite Gay’s lack of integrity and unethical practices, <a href="https://youtu.be/CNXPq6OppJE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The National Desk</a> announced that she will remain a professor at Harvard University and will keep her nearly $900,000 salary.

Please send updates and information on Claudine Gay to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Claudine Gay is the Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University — which is the largest division of the university. She’s also a Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and African and African-American Studies.

<a href="https://www.fas.harvard.edu/pages/dean-claudine-gay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Gay’s university profile</a> states, “[S]ince 2006, Gay has studied political behavior, considering issues in her research such as: how the election of minority officeholders affects citizens’ perceptions of their government…how neighborhood environments shape racial and political attitudes among black Americans…and the consequences of housing mobility programs for political participation among the poor.”

<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/cgay/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay’s personal statement</a> says, “I bring many of these interests to my undergraduate and graduate advising and teaching, including my courses on Post-Civil Rights Black Politics; Democratic Citizenship; and Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration.” 

In a publication titled <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/cgay/files/political_behavior_vol_36_p99-124.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-pressures and Black Partisanship</a>, Gay states, in part, “Political observers have long recognized the socially conservative tendencies of the Black mass public. In stark contrast to their views on racial and social welfare, African Americans are firmly anchored to the political right of whites (and other minorities) on a range of moral and cultural issues, including abortion, gay rights, and women’s role in society.”

Professor Gay is also affiliated with <a href="https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Inequality in America program</a> – “a multidisciplinary effort to elevate and energize teaching and research on social and economic inequality and to use what we learn to inform the public debate and public response to these challenges.” 

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/8/gay-thrilled-taeku-hire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Gay’s enthusiasm for expanding the school’s ethnic studies program as she welcomed a new faculty recruit. The article says, “Following more than four decades of lobbying by Harvard students and alumni for an ethnic studies concentration, Gay launched a search for faculty specializing in Asian American, Latinx, and Muslim studies in June 2019.”

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Dr. Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=7287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair</a> of the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative. Ely’s research focuses on race and gender relations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.

A <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/race-gender-equity-initiative.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Newsroom press release</a> described the initiative as “both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work done to understand…racial equality in organizations and business…”

Dr. Ely said, “Our faculty pursue research in a wide range of fields related to equity, creating knowledge that helps leaders drive change in their organizations and the world,” according to Harvard Newsroom.

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Ely has published several books and journal articles. In 2018, she co-authored an article titled <a href="https://hbr.org/2018/03/beating-the-odds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women</a> in which she claimed, “Too often we see business leaders struggle to advance members of underrepresented groups because they model their development strategies on their own paths to success.”

The article concludes by stating, “When African-American women are underrepresented in an organization’s senior leadership roles despite robust academic credentials and work experience, their struggles often suggest a broader problem: a workplace that fails to offer every employee equal access to opportunities for growth.”

In a 2018 symposium, Race, Work &amp; Leadership: Learning About &amp; From Black Experience, Ely said, “[I] take an intersectional approach with the Gender Initiative…I think this is where the energy in the world is right now…gender really shape[s] the lives and livelihoods of people and also our workplaces.”

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Published in 2022

<a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/faculty/susan-farbstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Farbstein is a Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School</a> (HLS) and the Director of the International Human Rights Clinic. Her work and research focus on human rights in South Africa and socio-economic rights and racial justice in the United States. She has also served as a human rights attorney for South African Apartheid Litigation and other “transitional justice” cases.

In 2017, Farbstein gave <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlU7yaWoCjs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an informal talk to male and female HLS students</a>. She opened the meeting by stating she was “happy to celebrate and acknowledge all [they] had achieved as women while being mindful of the many ongoing struggles [for equality] across all spheres – political, economic, social, and cultural in the U.S. and around the world.”

She also said, “We know and feel the many ways that women are under attack,” while acknowledging the women sitting in the room were “comparatively privileged.”

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<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-celebrates-women-inspiring-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Law Today reported</a> that Farbstein received recognition during an International Women’s Day celebration in 2018. She received recognition alongside “the creator of the ‘Me Too’’ movement, the first openly transgender woman of color elected to public office in the United States,” and women’s advocates from the Middle East. 

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Martin Nowak is a <a href="https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/martin-nowak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Mathematics and Biology at Harvard University.</a> His university profile says he “works on the mathematical description of evolutionary processes” including research on HIV, HBV, and cancer treatment.

In 2021, Nowak was censured by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/claudinegay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay</a>, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences after it was revealed that he had connections to Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker who allegedly committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.

<a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/03/martin-nowak-sanctioned-for-jeffrey-epstein-involvement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Magazine said</a>, “In an email sent to faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in the department of mathematics and organismic and evolutionary biology…Gay announced disciplinary actions against Nowak…stemming from his connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”

Harvard Magazine continued, “[B]etween 1998 and 2008, Epstein made gifts of $6.5 million to the Program of Evolutionary Dynamics, which was run by Nowak.” Despite Gay initially announcing Nowak would no longer hold his positions at Harvard, it was later confirmed that he would “remain on the faculty of the mathematics department, but Gay listed two-year limits that would be placed on his advising and research activities.”

<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-punishes-professor-who-had-ties-jeffrey-epstein-n1262187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News reported</a> that Nowak “gave Epstein ‘unrestricted’ access to campus…[and] an office in Nowak’s campus research center, along with a building key card, and allowed Epstein to visit even after [his] 2008 sex crimes conviction.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Yanilda Gonzalez is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School</a>. She teaches Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times, as well as Policing, Citizenship, and Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Both courses offer guidance for analyzing systemic inequalities and injustice in American society.

According to her university profile, Professor Gonzalez focuses her research on “policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes.” She has also published several scholarly articles and one book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Authoritarian_Police_in_Democracy/afwAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=authoritarian+police+in+democracy&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America</a>.”

The book explores why “police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law [and] the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization.”

In a <a href="https://youtu.be/CkGBLBCHaXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School video discussion</a> of her book, Gonzalez said her inspiration for the publication started when she was a “young and impressionable college student who was starting to learn about democracy as a political science major.” After witnessing alleged human rights abuses during 9/11, working for the <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/forces-against-progress-are-gathering-new-york-must-lead-way-forward">New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)</a>, and studying post-dictatorship policing in South America, Gonzalez came to wonder “how can democratic systems perpetuate authoritarian practices.”

The NYCLU’s is a non-profit organization that focuses on racial justice, voting reform, transgender rights, and the rights of incarcerated people. The group’s legislative goals include lowering incarceration rates among Blacks by decriminalizing minor drug possession and eliminating “taxes on poverty” — these are court fees and fines collected by local governments as a “major source of funding.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Aminta Ossom is a <a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/faculty/aminta-ossom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law</a> at Harvard University. Her research interests and teaching consist of equality, inclusion, economic and social justice, as well as human rights diplomacy and the role of identity in advocacy.

Ossom was featured in a 2020 Harvard Law Today article titled “<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/event-series-explores-racial-justice-and-human-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Event Series Explores Racial Justice and Human Rights</a>.” She hosted a series of talks “between students, scholars, and practitioners on the role that race plays both in the practice and substance of international human rights work.” When asked what inspired her to convene the event series, Ossom said,

“The series is inspired most directly by the ongoing discussions about systemic racism that have accompanied protests for racial justice around the world…Observations about human rights practice can spark ideas that lead to great legal scholarship.”

In the wake of the high-profile deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Ossom co-authored <a href="https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=229087098105069064000019124018110099098073020038068011091083024111002018074073066027060118002034019104038016068000078089071026020039005023014121118068002073064111119010065042002003091113006102093092118006112003102116125029086103080105100088068072110090&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toward an Antiracist Clinical Community, Pedagogy, &amp; Practice</a>. The research paper “is intended to serve that goal [of antiracist work], turning the focus inward to interrogate how the status quo of a clinic’s structure, practices, and teaching methods might contribute to racial inequities in the learning environment and legal field.”

During a <a href="https://youtu.be/zRG0pQ_pzio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtual discussion</a>, “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Ossom joined a panel of social justice activists to discuss the legacy of slavery, race violence, and police brutality. Ossom primarily served as the moderator but joined the conversation to share thoughts on the “defund the police” movement:

“I’m also hearing, too, that issues of trust aren’t just issues of trust for the police. They’re also issues of trust for systems of education, nutritional security, water and sanitation, [and] in other systems...But I should also point out that there’s also distrust among other institutions because of the fact that they failed to provide for Black American communities.

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Published - October 20, 2022
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John Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster <a href="https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/john-comaroff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology</a> at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include crime, policing, and democracy in postcolonial politics. 

In June 2022, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/6/29/comaroff-amended-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Harvard Crimson</a> as an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault crimes on campus. The Crimson said, “Comaroff is facing new allegations of sexual harassment in an <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.242149/gov.uscourts.mad.242149.35.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended lawsuit</a> that includes accounts of unwanted touching, kissing, and sexual remarks during his three decades as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he allegedly engaged in multiple sexual relationships with students.”

When accusations resulted in a lawsuit against the college, Comaroff was placed on unpaid administrative leave in January. Comaroff’s colleagues immediately rallied in support with nearly 40 faculty and staff adding signatures to <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/pdf/2022/02/04/1353924.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open letter</a>. The letter states:

“Harvard’s Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) found that Comaroff had ‘engaged in verbal conduct that violated the FAS Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment Policy and the FAS Profesional Conduct Policy. Although Comaroff had been accused by three students, only one allegation was found by Harvard's ODR to have any merit.”

“We the undersigned know John Comaroff to be an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen who has for five decades trained and advised hundreds of Ph.D. students of diverse backgrounds…We are dismayed by Harvard’s sanctions against him and concerned about its effects on our ability to advise our own students.”

By February 10 — when details of the lawsuit became public — the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/10/comaroff-faculty-letter-retraction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crimson reported</a>, “Almost all of the Harvard professors who signed an open letter that questioned the results of misconduct investigations into professor Comaroff have retracted their support.” In turn, “some of Harvard’s most prominent scholars signed a letter of retraction” and one sent an email to recant their support.

According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/10/harvard-sexual-misconduct-comaroff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washinton Post</a>, “The reversal came after three Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit accusing the university of ignoring sexual harassment allegations against Comaroff…Attorneys for Comaroff said he categorically denies ever harassing or retaliating against any student…The lawsuit characterized Harvard’s response to complaints as ‘deliberate indifference…’”

As of September, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/09/accused-harasser-john-comaroff-returns-harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from administrative leave</a> and allowed back in the classroom. The lawsuit against Harvard and Comaroff is ongoing.

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Published - November 3, 2022

Sandra Susan Smith is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/sandra-susan-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice</a> and Faculty Director for the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School. Part of her research interests is focused on racial inequality in pretrial detention and diversion. Smith believes criminal offenders — particularly those in black communities — who are monitored electronically incur unfavorable psychological, social, and economic injuries.

<a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/parole/electronic-monitoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electronic monitoring (EM)</a> is an incarceration alternative that allows pretrial offenders to avoid bail payments or extra time behind bars while awaiting court hearings.

Harvard Kennedy School published an article featuring Smith titled <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/fairness-justice/san-francisco-has-fewer-pretrial-detainees-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“San Francisco has few pretrial detainees in jail. But at what cost?”</a> Smith’s research into pretrial detainees revealed that “more than 40% were black, despite black people making up only about 5% of San Francisco’s population.” In the article, Smith argues:

“Reforms like pretrial EM, while presumably meant as a move toward lower incarceration, end up trapping participants in cycles of interaction with the criminal legal system even before they’ve been convicted of a crime. EM, like incarceration itself, reproduces inequalities by race and class and prevents participants from becoming full members of society.”

Essentially, Smith advocates that the mental health of offenders who are monitored is a greater risk than the probability of them committing further crimes while awaiting trial. She “hopes that as reforms continue to happen in the criminal justice system…and that San Francisco will substantially scale back its use of pretrial EM,” according to Harvard Kennedy School.

Smith teaches Section A: Exploring Institutions and Modes of Racial Domination of a course called “<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/race-and-racism-public-policies-practices-and-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives</a>.” The section description says, 

“This module…[examines] power and oppression in the contemporary American context. We will explore key theoretical and empirical insights from the social sciences to highlight the role of institutions of racial domination have played in producing durable racial hierarchies…”

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Published - November 3, 2022

Cornell Williams Brooks — a former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — is the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice. 

His <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/cornell-william-brooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School profile</a> states he was a visiting professor of social ethics, law, and justice movement at Boston University’s School of Law and School of Theology. On the Gloria Purvis Podcast, Brooks discussed how “black” churches in America should respond to social justice issues. He said the church was “tremendously consequential” in his life and his decision to become a minister.

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<a href="https://sacobserver.com/2022/10/the-reparations-debate-continues-as-advocates-push-for-broader-societal-acceptance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Brooks supports reparations for the descendants of African slaves.</a> In October 2022, Brooks’s thoughts were included in The Observer article titled “The Reparations Debate Continues as Advocates Push for Broader Societal Acceptance.” The article states, “Although African-Americans were purportedly freed by President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, they have never been totally free from being under the boot of white domination and supremacy.”

Brooks told The Observer,

“‘There are a great many studies about harm and repair [that are] [sic]regular and routine…Data suggests that reparations is [sic] commonplace. For example, veteran’s injuries, losing property, bad vaccines and when farmers lose their crops. Reparations is not aberrational but is a customary means of redress.”

In May 2020, Brooks was featured in an NPR publication titled “<a href="https://www.delawarepublic.org/national-headlines/2020-05-31/former-naacp-head-cornell-brooks-blames-derek-chauvin-for-violence-at-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Former NAACP Head Cornell Brooks Blames Derek Chauvin for Violence at Protests.</a>” At the height of the controversy — when netizens and politicians were blaming Antifa and far-left radical extremist groups, Brooks said he thought “the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck should be blamed for violent protests, too.”

NPR quoted Brooks saying,

“In these marches and demonstrations, there are anarchists and white supremacists and others who show up…[b]ut to be clear: There would be no protests, there would be no demonstrations, had Derek Chauvin not killed George Floyd.” 

“[Chauvin] should also be charged with looting, with arson, and with sowing the seeds of chaos and dissension in our public. He is an accomplice, he is a co-conspirator [and] a co-participant in the destruction were are experiencing as a country.”
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Rioters may have burned Minneapolis &amp; Atlanta—but matches were supplied by Derek Chauvin &amp; Donald Trump. Who supplied or lit matches won’t matter to a Black mother who loses her child to a fire or bullet.
Don’t give them a victory—or our lives. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/atlantaprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#atlantaprotest</a> <a href="https://t.co/LrWYh5DzGe">pic.twitter.com/LrWYh5DzGe</a>

— Rev. &amp; Prof. Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) <a href="https://twitter.com/CornellWBrooks/status/1266573016923869186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 3, 2022
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Marks serves as a <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/zoe-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.</a> Her professor profile says her “research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of conflict and political violence.” Her work also explores race, gender, and equality.

She teaches International and Intersectional Approaches to Race and Racism — this is “section C” of a class titled “Race and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives.” The <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/race-and-racism-public-policies-practices-and-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> says, 

“Students will confront legacies and explore key frameworks, from caste to global antiblackness, for understanding and redressing how racism shapes our lives and our world. Each student will build a personal toolkit of intersectional policy analysis skills and concepts…we will work toward concrete policy and advocacy solutions to system racism.”

Zoe Marks is an outspoken supporter of pro-abortion policies, social justice, and women’s rights. In an opinion titled “Breaking the Silence,” she told <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/fairness-justice/roe-v-wade-has-been-overturned-what-does-mean#zoe-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School News</a>,

“The Supreme Court’s decision to let state legislatures control people’s access to abortion care is the latest chapter in a decades-long conversation that most Americans have been reluctant to have…As a historical reference point, it’s useful to remember there is no record of women being discussed at the Constitutional Convention…”

She continued,

“For millions of enslaved women, who were held as property and legally denied bodily autonomy and personhood, sharing knowledge of birth control and abortifacients was a way to claim their sovereignty and resist white capitalist violence.”

Marks co-authored an article titled “<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2022-02-08/women-rights-revenge-patriarchs?check_logged_in=1&amp;utm_medium=promo_email&amp;utm_source=lo_flows&amp;utm_campaign=registered_user_welcome&amp;utm_term=email_1&amp;utm_content=20221101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women</a>” in which she discusses the role of women throughout world history and politics. From Marks’ perspective, “Countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders, such as Brazil, Hungary, and Poland, have seen the rise of far-right movements that promote traditional gender roles as patriotic while railing against ‘gender ideology.’”

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In the same publication, Marks also said,

“Even the United States has experienced a slowdown in progress toward gender equity and a rollback of reproductive rights…During his presidency, Donald Trump worked with antifeminist stalwarts…to halt the expansion of women’s rights around the world.”

“And despite the Biden administration’s commitment to gender equity at the national level, Republican-controlled states are attempting to reverse the constitutional right to abortion, which is now more vulnerable than it has been in decades.”

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Published November 3, 2022

Erica Chenoweth is <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/beyond-roe-mutually-reinforcing-nature-misogyny-and-autocracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described by Foreign Affairs</a> as “one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of civil resistance, mass movements, and political repression.”

According to her <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/erica-chenoweth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School profile</a>, Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

Chenoweth is an active member of the LGBT+ community who prefers the pronouns “they/them/their.” Her publications include several books and articles focused on civil, “nonviolent resistance.”

In her paper “<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erica-Chenoweth/publication/256063007_Terrorism_and_Democracy/links/5d9eb26992851cce3c910876/Terrorism-and-Democracy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terrorism and Democracy,</a>” Chenoweth explores links between terrorism and democratic societies. In response to research findings, she states,

“Democracies with low levels of legitimacy, poor human rights practices, intermediate levels of political and economic development, and unresolved conflict among ethnic and political groups experienced the most terrorism.”

As the director of <a href="https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/non-violent-social-movements?_gl=1*1q1l377*_ga*NjQ4MTM2OTgyLjE2NjQ5MDU5MTg.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTY2NzM0NDUzOS43LjEuMTY2NzM0NDU0Ni4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Nonviolent Action Lab</a>, Chenoweth leads a cause that “produces and disseminates up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure.” In 2020, the Lab featured an article she co-authored titled “<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/20/erica-chenoweth-and-jeremy-pressman-black-lives-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter protesters were overwhelming peaceful, our research finds.</a>” She defends the “mostly peaceful protests” narrative and cites data from a Homeland Threat Assessment:

“[T]he report misleadingly added that there had been ‘over 100 days of violence destruction in our cities,’ referring to the anti-racism uprisings this past summer. In fact, Black Lives Matter uprisings were remarkably nonviolent.”

“Only 3.7% of the protests involved property damage or vandalism…our data suggest that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7% of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.”

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Published November 3, 2022

<a href="https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/jesse-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse McCarthy</a> is an Assistant Professor of English as well as a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His interests include African American Literature, Modernism, and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

McCarthy authored a collection of essays entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Will-Pay-Reparations-Soul-ebook/dp/B08D1K6354/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+will+pay+reparations+on+my+soul+essays&amp;qid=1668008114&amp;sprefix=who+will+pay%2Caps%2C279&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B08D1K6354&amp;revisionId=5b7726f8&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?</a>” in which he argues “for the central role of art and intellection culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis,” according to the publisher’s summary. In his introduction, A Note on Style and Usage, McCarthy says,

“Pride in culture and rooted history have always been important to our struggles. Historically, W.E.B. Du Bois and others fought to have the word ‘Negro’ capitalized for this very reason. In that case, ‘the Negro’ became a demonym specifically denoting US racial blackness. The word ‘Negro’...reflects and will always be associated with the history of black Americans under the racial regime of Jim Crow.”

When <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/06/jesse-mccarthy-discusses-his-new-essay-collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Gazette asked McCarthy</a>, “Where does the title of the collection come from?”, he said, 

“The title is an homage to Gil Scott-Heron…a writer, a poet, and a musician who used his art as a vehicle for ideas and politics and critical thinking…I’m more interested in asking and provoking questions than providing answers.”

He continued,

“This isn’t a prescriptive book — you can’t open it and find an answer to the question of reparations for racial injustice in America or anywhere else. But hopefully, you can open the book and it will provoke you to think about those problems in new ways and raise a bunch of new ones too.”

In 2021, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/review/jesse-mccarthy-who-will-pay-reparations-on-my-soul.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured McCarthy discussing his collection of essays</a> in an article titled To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition is Resistance. Regarding McCarthy’s target audience for the book, the commentary says, “Some potential readership came of age in the period bookended by the police killings of Michale Brown, in 2014, and both Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, in 2020 — the same period during which McCarthy wrote the essays…”

The New York Times continued, “[McCarthy] mainly hopes to convey ‘the basic premise that nothing is outside our purview, that there are no limits to the ideas, realms of knowledge, creative traditions or political histories that we can lay claim to and incorporate…[McCarthy] convincing explained [his] personal decision to resist the trend of capitalizing ‘Black’ in reference to the community to which he happens to belong.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/bobo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence D. Bobo</a> is the Dean of Social Science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His faculty profile also says he served as the Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies, and his research focuses on the “intersection of social psychology, social inequality, politics, and race.”

In June 2020, <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/lawrence-d-bobo-examines-police-killings-of-black-men/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Gazette published a Q &amp; A</a> titled “The Fire This Time.” The subheading says, “[Bobo] dissects police killings of Black men and the history and cognitive forces behind racial bigotry and violence, and why he sees signs of hope.”

The Gazette asked, “In the majority of police-related killings of Black people, the assailants are white. Is that enough to conclude that racism is the cause, or are their other causes also at work?” Bobo responded,

“Certainly racism, and both the historic legacy of racism and the long, deeply etched legacy of racism in terms of our current social conditions and circumstances…have been profoundly distorted by racism.”

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“It’s really important to recall that what slavery did…was to forge a tight link between our social class structure and a kind of racial hierarchy. It created a bottom rung of people who were racially stigmatized and in the deepest economic disadvantage and poverty.”

Bobo co-authored a book entitled, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Attitudes_in_America/mPOWMEEKpY0C?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Racial+Attitudes+in+America&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations</a>.” Chapter 3: Trends in White Racial Attitudes discusses six questions surrounding trends “of how white racial attitudes changed over the past half-century.” Regarding affirmative action, Bobo et al., stated,

“The first affirmative action steps had been attempts to eliminate what came to be called ‘institutional racism’...A second, more active type of affirmative step was to devote government funds to improving the lives of black Americans…Finally, a third and still more dramatic step was to give preference to blacks in employment and educational situations, as a way of…accelerating the move toward equality of outcomes.” 

Bobo was named among the “Top 10 Black Sociologists from the last 30 Years” in a publication from <a href="https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/black-scholars/sociologists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academic Influence</a>. Bobo’s profile is dated from 1900-present [sic], ranks him #79,953 “Most Influential Person,” and links to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_D._Bobo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob’s Wikipedia page</a>. Harvard’s Department of Sociology issued a “wholehearted endorsement” of <a href="https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/sociology/files/george_floyd_and_our_times.pdf?m=1591301322" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bobo’s statement on the death of George Floyd</a> in which Bobo said he was “encouraged by the level of mass mobilization and civil protest[s]” that took place across the United States and around the world.

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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/marcella-alsan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcella Alsan</a> is a Professor of Public Policy and Faculty affiliate in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alsan/files/cv_alsan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to her CV</a>, she’s taught in the fields of medicine, health research and policy, and economics since 2013.

From 2021 to 2022, Alsan served on the Committee on Improving the Representation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Clinical Trials and Research at NASEM (<a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine</a>). According to the About page, NASEM is a nonprofit institution that “works to shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.”

Alsan and her committee <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/improving-the-representation-of-women-and-underrepresented-minorities-in-clinical-trials-and-research#sectionPublications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a study</a> that concluded, “While progress has been made with the representation of white women in clinical trials and clinical research, there has been little progress in the last three decades to increase participation of racial and ethnic minority population groups.”

Alsan also co-authored a paper titled “<a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24787/w24787.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence From Oakland</a>.” Citing previous studies, the introduction says,

“African-American men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States and live on average 4.5 few years than non-Hispanic white men. Reasons for this disparity are multifactorial and include lack of health insurance, lower socioeconomic status, and structural racism.”

Alsan et al., further state,

“There are several ways in which racial diversity could play a role in medicine, specifically as it relates to the patient-doctor relationship. Taste-based discrimination on the part of the patient or doctor could imply that individuals are averse to interacting with those who do not share their racial background. On the other hand, internalized racism…could lead to the opposite phenomenon…” 

In 2020, Alsan <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/wiener-conference-calls/marcella-alsan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined a Weiner Conference Call</a> to talk about the “economics of infectious diseases” where she discussed the Covid-19 virus, vaccines, and some research conducted by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s — the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) who was <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed for allegedly covering up origins of the Covid-19 pandemic</a>.

During the questions section, the moderator asked on behalf of a student, “‘Very open the terms ‘minorities’ and ‘marginalized communities’ are used interchangeably…During Covid-19, has it been important or relevant to make a distinction between the two groups from a policy point of view?’” 

Alsan gave a hesitant, incoherent response, “I think what…I work mostly in the United States and I think it’s important to think about who is historically disadvantaged, and, um, who might need…who [is] particularly vulnerable. Because simply being less than the majority doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be equally vulnerable.”

On October 17, 2022, the National Academy of Medicine <a href="https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-100-new-members-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced Aslan as a newly elected member</a>. The announcement says she was elected for “her scholarly insights on understanding the origins of medical mistrust and the role it plays in understanding health disparities. Her work has shaped policy in addressing disparities…and improving messaging in reaching historically marginalized and vulnerable populations.”
Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://oge.harvard.edu/people/shirley-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shirley Greene</a> is the Associate Dean of Students at the Harvard Extension School. She’s also a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - <a href="https://edib.harvard.edu/DCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Division of Continuing Education</a>. Her profile says she’s “dedicated to furthering diversity, inclusion, and belonging” at Harvard.

Dr. Greene’s primary role is the Title IX Resources Coordinator — a position that gives her unrestricted access to all complaints of sexual discrimination, as well as reports of retaliation or system issues that may continually raise once complaints are processed.

Dr. Greene is an affiliate and ally of Harvard’s <a href="https://oge.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office for Gender Equity (OGE)</a>. The organization provides “professional training” to recognize, report, investigate and appeal sexual misconduct. The About page states, 

“The [OGE] empowers and supports the Harvard community to advance a climate of gender equity and inclusion through evidence-based educational initiatives, excellence in research and practice, and delivery of direct services.”

In a video titled “<a href="https://youtu.be/yCb5bUnfzMI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Brief History of Juneteenth,</a>” Dr. Greene begins her talk by asking, “What does Juneteenth mean to you?” She follows up by giving her interpretation of the holiday and says,’

“Juneteenth marks the day slavery officially ended in the United States on June 19, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to enslaved people in the Confederate states on January 1, 1863, following the four-year Civil War.”

She continued,

“However, it was a full two and half years before all states were compelled to honor this executive order, effectively freeing the 250,000 people still being held under slavery in Texas. We join you in giving this holiday the national recognition it deserves, while acknowledging that many members of the African-American community continue to struggle for the dignity, access, equality, equity, and inclusion that was envisioned by the Emancipation Proclamation.”
Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/crystal-s-yang/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal S. Yang</a> holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is the Bennett Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her areas of interest include civil rights, law and equity, poverty law and economic justice.

Yang’s faculty appointment was announced in a 2019 article from <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/crystal-yang-13-named-professor-of-law-at-harvard-law-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Law Today</a>. The report says,

“Yang’s recent empirical projects focus on the effects of the bail system on defendants’ short and long-term outcomes, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the spillover effects of deportation fear, and the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system.”

Yang co-authored a study titled “<a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/133/4/1885/5025665?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Bias in Bail Decisions</a>.” The abstract states, 

“We motivate our analysis using <a href="https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-gary-becker-saw-the-scourge-of-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[Gary] Becker’s model of racial bias</a>, which predicts that rates of pretrial misconduct will be identical for marginal white and marginal black defendants if bail judges are racially unbiased. In contrast, marginal white defendants will have higher rates of misconduct than marginal black defendants if the bail judges are racially biased…”

Yang et al., continued,

“We find suggestive evidence that racial bias is driven by bail judges relying on inaccurate stereotypes that exaggerate the relative danger of releasing black defendants.”

Yang was also featured in the Winter 2019 issue of Harvard Law Bulletin in an article titled “<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/crystal-yang-an-empirical-approach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal Yang: An Empirical Approach: Making the Case for Criminal Justice Reform</a>.” The author said, “While pretrial detention is often justified as a crime deterrent, Yang and her colleagues found that it actually has a criminogenic effect.” Yang was credited with researching and developing “tools that judges could use to make more-informed decisions.”

In 2021, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-economic-costs-of-pretrial-detention/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brookings reported</a> Yang’s research on bail disparities led her to co-author a study that led to the conclusion of how “reducing pre-trial detention…would generate significant economic returns for accused individuals…their families and communities.”

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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/alejandra-caraballo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandra Caraballo</a> is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Cyberlaw clinic. Caraballo is a transwoman — a biological male at birth who identifies as female — and prefers feminine pronouns. His Harvard University profile says,

“Alejandra previously served as the Secretary of the LGBTQ Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association and was appointed as the first openly trans community board member in Brooklyn. Alejandra's areas of interest include the intersection of technology and disability rights, [prostitution], and the implications of quantum computing on encryption.”

In July 2022, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19822" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform featured Caraballo</a> in a piece titled “Harvard Law instructor: ‘It is our civic duty to accost’ the ‘6 justices who overturned Roe.’” The article cites several Twitter posts, most of which are no longer available on his public profile:

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In November 2021 Caraballo was <a href="https://clinics.law.harvard.edu/blog/2021/08/meet-the-first-trans-women-of-color-to-teach-at-harvard-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a Harvard Law publication</a> titled “Meet the first trans woman of color to teach at Harvard Law.” He joined another man who identifies as a trans woman to discuss their positions at HLS. Harvard Law said, 

“Both instructors, who identify as Latina…are excited to start a new chapter at Harvard after dedicating years to LGBTQ+ legal and advocacy work. They are also both familiar with the unique pressure and emotional weight of their presence in the legal field — where systematic hurdles still block trans people from entry…”

Harvard Law continued,

“Requirements when taking the bar in some states…only allow applicants to be addressed with ‘Mr.’ or ‘Ms’ honorifics...The depth of details that students need to disclose before taking a bar exam…has historically ‘been a problem for trans people who wanted to break into the law...You’re essentially forced to out yourself to a bar committee,’ [Caraballo] said.”

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There is no moral difference between a business turning away a gay couple or an interracial couple. Both rely on refusing to do business because of their immutable identities. I can't see any rule that can differentiate between the two.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1600128137534533632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/diane-l-rosenfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Rosenfeld</a> is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Rosenfeld teaches a course titled <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/courses/bonobo-sisterhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bonobo Sisterhood</a>. A description for the class promises to explore “the power and potential of female alliances to disrupt patriarchal systems.” 

She has also written a book titled, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bonobo-Sisterhood-Revolution-Through-Alliance/dp/0063085070" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Bonobo Sisterhood Revolution Through Female Alliance</a>.” The description states that Rosenfeld will “harness the power of the #MeToo movement into a road map for sex equality” by analyzing the social relations of bonobo monkeys.

In the book, <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/19/diane-rosenfeld-bonobo-sisterhood-female-alliance-patriarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she writes</a>, “Racism and sexism go hand in hand…Each is based on white male supremacy and reflects a foundation in law authored by and judged over by, overwhelmingly, white men. White supremacist patriarchy places white men above everyone else.” 

Rosenfeld <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/20/bonobo-sisterhood-primate-ancestors-patriarchy-diane-rosenfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims these monkeys have no patriarchal roles</a>, “Evolutionarily, they have eliminated male sexual coercion.” Rosenfeld states, “A new idea of the bonobo sisterhood is to think about equality among women, not measuring our equality solely in relation to men.” 

She states that “Bonobos offer us a model for female sexuality outside of patriarchy,” but claims it will only work if “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/19/diane-rosenfeld-bonobo-sisterhood-female-alliance-patriarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white women get on board</a>.” Rosenfeld hopes to “let men know that stepping outside the harmful tropes of masculinity will be liberating and better for all.” 

Rosenfeld continues, “This calls for a serious reckoning—especially among white women—about racism and white supremacy. My hope is that this can contribute to a huge leap forward for humankind.” 

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Published - December 29, 2022
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Former CNN correspondent Brian Stelter is the <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/fellowships/walter-shorenstein-media-democracy-fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Shorenstein Media &amp; Democracy Fellow</a> at the Harvard Kennedy School. Stelter joined the university’s Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy in the Fall of 2022. Details of Stelter's position were featured in a <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/stelter-shorenstein-fellow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard press release</a>:

“As the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media. These discussions with media leaders, policymakers…and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance.”

Stelter received the Walter Shorenstein appointment shortly after being terminated from his position as the host of CNN’s Reliable Sources (RS). The show ran for 30 years with Stelter at the helm from 2013 until its cancellation in August 2022. According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harvard-taps-journalism-expert-brian-stelter-for-teaching-gig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, "Stelter was let go by CNN after its new chairman and CEO, Chris Licht, took the reins from Jeff Zucker, who encouraged Stelter to make criticism of right-wing media the focus of his show…”

In a video announcing his departure, Stelter said,

“As most of you know, CNN has a new owner. Warner Brothers Discovery is making big changes across the company. And there’s going to be more change all across the company including here at CNN. And I’m sad I won’t be here to cover it.”

He continued,

"This entire hour is a special hour and it's about change. It's about change all across the media world. What's changing, what might change, and what must never change about the accountability function of journalism. You know I love this show, this small but mighty show that punched above its weight for so many years."

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In August 2020, Stelter <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hoax/PKv5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a book</a> titled“Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.” Publishers said the novel includes “never before reported details [that expose] the media personalities who, though morally bankrupt, profit outrageously by promoting the President’s propaganda and radicalizing the American right.”

Under the section subheading, The Cult, Stelter wrote,

“The MAGAsphere targeted journalists who pointed out Trump’s falsehoods and flubs. Fox’s truth-tellers faced some of the most vociferous attacks because they were perceived to be turncoats.“

He continued later in the chapter,

“Once unbound from the shackles of truth, Fox’s power came from what it decided to cover — its chosen narratives — and what it decided to ignore. Trump’s immature, erratic, and immoral behavior? His sucking up to Putin? His mingling of presidential business and personal profit? Fox talk shows played dumb and targeted the ‘deep state’ instead.”
Published January 11, 2023

<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/jason-bryan-silverstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Silverstein</a> is a Global Health and Social Medicine Lecturer and the Co-Director of Math of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical School. In May 2022, one month before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, Silverstein submitted a narrative to <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a39970410/abortion-saved-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men’s Health Magazine</a>. The article retells the story of a woman who underwent an abortion procedure that allegedly saved her life. Silverstein introduced the publication by stating, 

“While many states will make exceptions for the life of the mother, medical emergency exceptions are not as clear as they may seem—how close to death does a woman have to be before an abortion is legal isn’t black-and-white…What is clear is that many women are alive today because they could have an abortion…”

The woman that Silverstein wrote to Men’s Health about was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy —a potentially life-threatening condition caused by a fertilized egg growing outside the uterus (i.e. in the fallopian tubes). The abnormality can cause severe internal bleeding and laparoscopic surgery (which usually results in terminating the pregnancy) is often required to successfully treat the issue.

In September of the same year, Men’s Health <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a34044035/covid-19-need-real-lockdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a Silverstein article with the title, “We Can’t Beat COVID-19 Without a 6-Week Lockdown.” Under the heading, “Why a lockdown is a reasonable move,” Silverstein said,

“By now the evidence is clear: lockdowns work. We know that strict lockdowns worked in China, slowing down how fast the virus spreads. In Wuhanm, the unprecedented 76-day lockdown, in which people were barred [from] leaving the city or their homes for once every three days for food, stopped new infections by two-thirds.”

After praising lockdown policies in Italy, France and New Zealand, he continued,

“The lack of any real lockdown plus patchwork of state policies feels like a strategy designed by the COVID virus itself…Just as cases started to surge in the summer, states decided to relax what orders they had…[B]ecause the first lockdowns were half-assed, now the need for a second may be a death sentence for some small businesses…

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Published January 30, 2023
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<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/people/alex-keuroghlian-md-mph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Keuroghlian</a>, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Faculty Advisor for the LGBTQ+ and Allies at Harvard Medical School (<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAHMS</a>). Keuroghlian’s faculty profile says “[h]is clinical practice and research focus[es] on sexual and gender minority health.”

Keuroghlian is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-transgender-infants-intersex-540241339130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Keuroghlian’s course in a publication titled, “Harvard med school class isn’t about ‘trans infants.’” The source said, “Claim: A class at Harvard Medical School trains students to teach transgender infants. AP’s assessment: False. The Harvard class…discusses intersex infants in the context of their physical development…The portion of the course that focuses on infants does not cover gender identity or sexual orientation…”

The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Keuroghlian currently works as the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/search?Text=alex%20Keuroghlian&amp;Start=1&amp;MaxResults=10&amp;summary=context&amp;MethodName=getglobal&amp;PageNumber=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; he’s accepting new patients in his clinic. 

Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surgical</a> Program. The former “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The latter “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”

Keuroghlian is the Director of the Division of Education and Training at Boston’s Fenway Institute in Boston. <a href="https://fenwayhealth.org/we-must-replace-psychiatric-gatekeeping-with-informed-consent-for-gender-affirming-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a newsletter</a>—titled “We must replace psychiatric gatekeeping with informed consent for gender-affirming surgery”— the organization reflected on gender-affirming surgical protocols: 

“The prior standard requiring assessment of suitability for surgery by a mental health care professional was designed to prevent regret about undergoing surgical procedures [but]...regret for gender-affirming surgical procedures is very rare, and there is no evidence that presurgical mental health screening reduces rates of regret.”
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Alex Keuroghlian, MD MPH <a href="https://twitter.com/FenwayHealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FenwayHealth</a> on threats toward youth pursuing gender-affirming care, their families, and medical providers. <a href="https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q">https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q</a> <a href="https://t.co/yW2K1nuWSI">pic.twitter.com/yW2K1nuWSI</a>
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Published January 31, 2023

Alberto Puig is the <a href="https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/people/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Dean</a> for Undergraduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/18740/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the Clinician Educator Service in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

Puig’s MGH profile shows he’s a hospitalist who treats adults. However, Puig is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. 

The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program">Surgical</a> Program. 

The health program “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The surgical program  “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/team/gaurab-basu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaurab Basu</a> is a physician and co-founder of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy as well as an instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS). His university profile also says he co-directed a social medicine course and served on an anti-racism task force.

Basu is an outspoken proponent of climate change who advocates for removing gas powered appliances from modern homes.

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No gas into the house. Gas meter removed! <a href="https://t.co/bSqPC3GOST">pic.twitter.com/bSqPC3GOST</a>
— Dr. Gaurab Basu (@GaurabBasuMDMPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaurabBasuMDMPH/status/1620206106562936832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Heating rooms and water cause the greatest emissions so heat pumps and a water heater heat pump is best to start. But yes the stove causes most indoor pollution. I should have an op Ed coming out next week to say more! Boston Standard company is great and coordinated everything.
— Dr. Gaurab Basu (@GaurabBasuMDMPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaurabBasuMDMPH/status/1620219734091522049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, Basu <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/united-nations-climate-change-report-heat-east-coast-20210810.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial titled</a>, “Amid devastating climate report and heat waves coming our way, we need courage.” In the article, Basu said he sympathized with students who described their emotions toward climate change as “doom, fear, hopelessness, and paralysis.”

He stated, “As a doctor, I live with the clear understanding that as climate change bears down upon us, it will continue to threaten my patients’ health…Our planet is in a precarious situation…More importantly, activists worldwide have galvanized attention to climate change.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/3/hms-climate-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a>, "Harvard Medical School voted [in January 2023] to embed climate change into the school’s curriculum…The effort was led by Basu…and a group of students from the HMS organization Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine."

The Crimson also said, “The curriculum change aims to integrate climate change themes throughout students’ medical school education rather than creating new courses specifically around climate change.”

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Published February 16, 2023

<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sogie/sogie-team/tishelman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Tishelman</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She’s also the Director of Clinical Research in the Behavioral Health, Endocrinology and Urology Program, and Gender Multispecialty Service at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Tishelman’s HMS profile says she was “selected by the World Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) to be the international lead developing new global standards of care for prepubescent children.”

Tishelman, along with several “transgender specialists,” authored WPATH’s “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8</a>.” The publication was intended to “provide clinical guidelines for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort…”

Addressing gender identity in minor patients, Tishelman et al., stated:

“Our understanding of gender identity development in adolescence is continuing to evolve…For some youth, gender identity development appears fixed and is often expressed from a young age, while for others there may be a developmental process that contributes to gender identity development over time.”

The authors’ “Statement of Recommendation”  for healthcare professionals includes:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“...possess a general knowledge of gender diversity across the lifespan.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">…develop expertise in autism spectrum disorders and other neurodiversity or collaborate with an expert with relevant expertise when working with autistic/neurodivergent, gender-diverse children.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">...respond supportively to children who desire to be acknowledged as the gender that matches their internal sense of gender identity.”</li>
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According to Tishelman et al., “At present, no clinical cohort studies have reported on profiles of adolescents who regret their initial decision or detransition after irreversible affirming treatment.”

Tishelman was a panel speaker during WPATH’s <a href="https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Upcoming%20Conferences/2022/WPATH%202022%20Prospectus%20Final.pdf?_t=1649279057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27th Scientific Symposium</a> in September 2022. WPATH’s stated goal is to work to “further the understanding of the range of interventions, modalities, medical and surgical gender-affirming treatments” while providing “opportunities for professionals to…communicate with each other in the context of research and treatment of gender incongruence…”

A portion of Tishelman’s Symposium presentation—where she admitted to manipulating age restriction information to avoid industry lawsuits— was leaked to social media:

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Published - July 5, 2023

<a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.T. Roane</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. Roane’s faculty profile shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. His research interests include “black geographies,” “black ecologies,” “black gender and sexuality studies” and “African American and African Diaspora History.” Roane is also listed as a <a href="https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jt-roane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Fellow</a> at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

In June 2023, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interviewed Roane about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Agoras-Insurgent-Social-Politics/dp/1479847674/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MANUVSI36NU&amp;keywords=dark+agoras&amp;qid=1699479018&amp;sprefix=dark+agoras%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B09X2GLKKH&amp;revisionId=fb4c3c45&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place” in which he “investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.”

Roane introduced the book by stating:
“Dark <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=agoras+meaning&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1021US1022&amp;oq=agoras+meaning&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIJCAYQABgKGIAEMg0IBxAuGMcBGNEDGIAEMgcICBAAGIAEMgkICRAAGAoYgATSAQkxNTU1MGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agoras</a> emerged under slavery through the active reinvention of African socialities and consciousnesses about place, identity, kinship, and belonging as the negation of the spatial and temporal features associated with domination and slave mastery…”
He goes on to state:
“Connections within the sites constituting dark agoras, as well as encounters across them and movement between them, underwrote a distinctive black working-class phenomenology of the city, the basis of what I term black queer urbanism…Black queer urbanism refers to a critical approach that views nonnormative forms of black social-geographic life…”
During the <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interview, Roane responded to the question: “In your book, you argue that the stoop stands as one of the places that constitute the underground. How does this domestic exterior transform into a vital place for sociality?” Roane said:
“The stoop has a whole genealogy. The black uses of the stoop emerge out of the uses of the quarters in the context of the plantation…that was integrally related to their geographic position to the side of the major formation of the plantation—the big house—and to the spaces of labor, the field...
“When black communities get displaced during the Jim Crow enclosures…they don’t just relinquish those values.”
Roane was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/watch-profs-discuss-spirituality-of-non-binary-vaginas-femme-penises-and-black-queer-religions/21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after participating in the <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> “Black Queer Religions Afro-Indigenous &amp; New Religions.” Among the topics covered, panelists discussed “the reality of non-binary vaginas and biologically femme penises.”

Roane is an outspoken supporter of Palestine. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, he <a href="https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> defending pro-Hamas rallies at Harvard University. The letter states, 
“The case of Harvard University is only one of many examples of the attacks that those who express solidarity with the Palestinians struggle face; attacks that are rapidly escalating at this time. Likewise, violent hate crimes against Palestinians are taking place around the country.”
Roane posted on X, formerly known as Twitter—
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The ongoing bombardment of Gaza is genocidal and ecocidal. The relentless ethnic clearing is going along with stuff like bombing fisheries. This will not strictly be contained to one place/ one people. The logics will spread as will their effects. Ceasefire Now!
— J.T. Roane (@JTRoane) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTRoane/status/1721858110485155992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Please send information on J.T. Roane to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>
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Published - November 9, 2023

<a href="https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Johnson</a> is the Winthrop Professor of History and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Johnson’s focus areas are “slavery, capitalism and imperialism in the nineteenth century.” His <a href="https://college.harvard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty-spotlights/walter-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Spotlight</a> profile states: 

“As Johnson approaches his work, he is fueled not only by <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/michael-brown-killed-by-police-ferguson-mo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events in Ferguson</a> and his work in St. Louis but also the current reckoning over American racism and the Black Lives Matter movement.”

In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/17/west-is-relevant-our-long-history-anti-blackness-not-just-south/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post op-ed</a> titled “The West is relevant to our long history of anti-blackness, not just the South,” Johnson wrote:
“While we commonly think of slavery, sharecropping and segregation in the South as driving anti-blackness in American history, the process of western expansion, with the attendant notion of ‘the white man’s country,’ that undergirded the development of cities such as St. Louis and the United States, is equally essential to explaining the power and persistence of anti-blackness today.”
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On November 15, 2023, Johnson was featured in <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/15/faculty-condemn-president-gay-statement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> publication titled “More than 100 Harvard Faculty Sign Letter Criticizing President [Claudine] Gay’s Censure of Pro-Palestine Slogan.” The Crimson stated:

“[Johnson], a History professor and the first listed signatory on the letter, confirmed in an email that the letter was referring to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/11/thayer-proctor-relief-of-duties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elom Tettey-Tamaklo</a>, a Harvard doctor who was relieved of his position after appearing in a video confrontation at a “die-in” supporting Palestine at Harvard Business School.”

The letter, “Harvard Faculty Statement In Support of Academic Freedom,” claims Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/HDI2P4dOsJ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on November 9</a> contained “outright racism” and that there “must be room on a university campus for debate about the actions of states, including the State of Israel.”

According to Johnson et al.:
“[T]he phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” has a long and complicated history. Its interpretation deserves, and is receiving, sustained and ongoing inquiry and debate. Singling it out as necessarily implying removalism or even eliminationism…is imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send information on Walter Johnson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 27, 2023

<a href="https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/kirsten-weld" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirsten Weld</a> is a Professor in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research “explores 20th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.” 

On November 9, 2023, Weld took to X/Twitter to protest Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s notice condemning antisemitism. In response to Gay’s criticism of the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” —which overtly calls for the extermination of Jewish people—Weld said she “Can't recall any prior instance of a contested phrase/idea receiving official condemnation…”
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Via email from the president of <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>, my employer. Can't recall any prior instance of a contested phrase/idea receiving official condemnation like this, or having one singular "specific historical meaning" imputed to it, in my 11 years on this campus. <a href="https://t.co/NlW5V0AoQB">pic.twitter.com/NlW5V0AoQB</a>
— Kirsten Weld (@kirstenweld) <a href="https://twitter.com/kirstenweld/status/1722731996818842097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Weld is listed as the second signatory of more than 100 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/harvarduniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard professors</a> who <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter</a> demanding that Gay “[resist] calls to suspend and/or decertify the Palestinian Solidarity Committee in retaliation for its public statements and advocacy…” 

The letter, “Harvard Faculty Statement In Support of Academic Freedom,” claims Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/HDI2P4dOsJ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on November 9</a> contained “outright racism” and that there “must be room on a university campus for debate about the actions of states, including the State of Israel.”

According to Weld et al.:
“[T]he phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” has a long and complicated history. Its interpretation deserves, and is receiving, sustained and ongoing inquiry and debate. Singling it out as necessarily implying removalism or even eliminationism…is imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Weld’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the Fall 2023 term.

Please send information on Kirsten Weld to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 27, 2023

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/jennifer-hochschild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Hochschild</a> is a Professor of Government and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her faculty profile states, “Hochschild studies and teaches about the intersection of American politics and political philosophy—particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration—as well as educational and social welfare policies.”

On January 13, 2024, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/harvard-professor-forced-to-awkwardly-backtrack-after-denigrating-harvard-grads-in-attempted-own-on-conservative-writer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite News wrote</a>, “Professor [Hochschild] faced major backlash to a message she posted on [Twitter] about writer and activist Christopher Rufo, who was a key figure in the revelations about now-ousted Harvard president <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/claudinegay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay’s</a> past plagiarism.”

Despite Hochschild’s work being reportedly plagiarized by Gay, Hochschild made no attempts to point out the former Harvard president’s lack of integrity.
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On Rufo: what do integrity police say about his claim to have “master’s degree from Harvard,” which is actually from the open-enrollment Extension School? Those students are great - I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students
— Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2/status/1743135440729694434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Does Chris Rufo have a 2nd agenda, beyond pushing Pres. Gay out of Harvard presidency?
"I think the entire corporation needs to resign as well as President Gay," Rufo said in an interview. "I would be happy to join the corporation to help turn it around."
-- Wall St J., 12.29/23
— Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2/status/1741124183088664601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/13/harvard-extension-hochschild/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Hochschild in an undated article titled “Harvard Prof. Hochschild Apologizes For Comments on Rufo Extension School Degree.” The Crimson said, “In a series of posts earlier this month, Hochschild…suggested that [Rufo]…had misrepresented his master’s degree from the [Harvard] Extension School.”

On <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her Twitter page</a>, Hochschild ranted about courses at the Harvard Extension School (HES). She also expressed “regret” that her posts “dragged” colleagues and students “into a dispute.”

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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/13/harvard-extension-hochschild/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to The Crimson</a>, “The Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) appeared to address Hochschild’s remarks in a statement, writing that they ‘are deeply concerned and disappointed by the recent comments made by [Hochschild]...Generalizations that denigrate HES students do more than unjustly diminish individual achievements; they erode the foundational values of diversity, respect, and academic rigor that are essential to the fabric of Harvard University…”

Hochschild has since issued an apology to HES students prompting this response from Rufo:
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This is awesome. You dumped on your own school in an attempt to delegitimize my degree, then turned around and said it is, in fact, a wonderful, rigorous, and bona fide Harvard degree. You made a fool of yourself not once, but twice. That takes commitment. 🫡
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1745925508616061093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Please send information on Jennifer Hochschild to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - January 23, 2024

<a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=271812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Francesca Gino</a> is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Gino’s faculty profile shows her on administrative leave with no return date listed.

Gino made headlines after she was accused of falsifying research data. Gino’s lawyer has publicly stated that Harvard lacked evidence for its allegations.

On March 16, 2024, <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/harvard-honesty-professor-allegedly-tampered-data-and-should-be-fired" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just The News</a> featured Gino in an article entitled “Harvard honesty professor allegedly tampered with data and should be fired, according to probe.” Just The News said, “[Gino], considered a star behavioral scientist … allegedly tweaked observations in four of her studies to boost her hypothesis.”

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/harvard-professor-of-honesty-tampered-with-data-and-should-be-fired-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported on the university’s findings, stating, “The university report detailed that Harvard began a preliminary investigation of Gino’s work in October 2021 after the Data Colada researchers brought their concerns about the papers’ sketchy data to the school.”

The Post continued, “A full probe was conducted in 2022 and 2023, with three [Harvard] faculty members interviewing Gino and people who worked with her on the papers, in addition to reviewing her data, emails, and papers’ manuscripts. An outside forensics firm also was hired to analyze her studies’ data.”

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/15/gino-harvard-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> reported that the university’s report recommended Gino’s termination. The source said, “The report says that Gino asserted that ‘an unknown actor with malicious intentions was a more plausible explanation than honest errors or intentional data falsification by herself.’”

The source said, “The investigation concluded that Gino had ‘significantly departed from accepted practices of the relevant research community and committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly.’”

Gino has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard Business School claiming that she has undergone “reputational damage along with loss of income and career opportunities,” according to the New York Post. 

The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring this story. Please send tips and information on Francesca Gino to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 18, 2024

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/timothy-patrick-mccarthy">Timothy Patrick McCarthy</a> is a Lecturer on Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

According to his faculty profile, McCarthy “is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration.” He also “teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters.” 

McCarthy is an “award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/fire-professors-who-oppose-gender-affirming-care-harvard-faculty-chair-says/">The College Fix</a>, McCarthy was interviewed by <a href="https://nyunews.com/features/news/2025/02/24/affiliates-tied-to-anti-trans-practices/">Washington Square News</a> and stated that professors who oppose “gender-affirming” care should be “removed and stripped of their academic titles.”

In the interview, McCarthy stated “there’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world.”

The College Fix wrote to McCarthy for further information. His response was confrontational:

“I see what you’re doing here—it’s a tired, ancient playbook—and I hope you know that you have picked a fight with the wrong veteran of these culture wars,” McCarthy responded.

McCarthy told Washington Square News, those who question the validity of gender-affirming care “poison the waters” around the practice of “transgender” care. 

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote an <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/14/harvard-professor-calls-for-the-firing-of-any-faculty-not-supporting-gender-affirming-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> criticizing the comments of McCarthy. According to Turley, the professor “was targeting two professors at NYU who are affiliated with groups critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.” 

In 2017, McCarthy made the following comments about the play <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-timothy-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Crimson</a> “Hamilton”, alleging that the US founding was a matter of whiteness and masculinity. Certain characters based on US Founders are considered queer: 

“[T]his is a very masculine play, and the traditional reading of the founding is not just white but also male. The two characters that are most queer include Thomas Jefferson, who is widely criticized as a slave owner and a hypocrite and this Prince-like, purple-clad dandy who returns from Paris and asks, ‘What did I miss? What did I miss?’ and prances across the stage. The other queer character in ‘Hamilton’ is King George III, who shows up every once in awhile to bring a little sass and strut his stuff, and then leaves.” 
Published - March 17, 2025

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<a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/shahid-alam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shahid Alam</a> is a professor of economics at <a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northeastern University</a> in Boston, Massachusetts. After immigrating to the United States from Pakistan, Dr. Alam began working for Northeastern in 1988 where he serves as the academic advisor for the group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Infamous for sympathy towards Islamic terrorism in his work, Dr. Alam has authored pieces justifying suicide bombers, compared the 9/11 highjackers to America’s founding fathers, and repeated antisemitic libels while supporting the BDS movement.
BDS—which stands for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions—is an international movement with a singular focus on boycotting, divesting, and levying sanctions against the world’s sole Jewish state. The movement’s co-founder—Omar Barghouti has admitted that once <a href="https://www.israellycool.com/2020/06/02/watch-bds-co-founder-omar-barghouti-admits-their-goal-is-destruction-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these planks are implemented, they will destroy Israel</a>.
In a piece for the site, CounterPunch, Dr. Alam pens a <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/07/29/the-academic-boycott-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-throated defense of BDS</a> as a necessary tactic to confront Israel. While characterizing the Jewish state as not a “normal country,” he falsely accuses Israel of constructing an “apartheid state” to commit genocide against Arabs.
Dr. Alam uses his accusation as justification for <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/07/29/the-academic-boycott-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">then-ongoing waves of suicide bombers in Israel</a>, writing, “dispossession is implemented by force-unless this project is aided by pathogens; and, it follows, that resistance to the colonizer must be violent.”
An “intifada”—Arabic for “uprising”—refers to a series of Palestinian insurrections within Israel. From 2000-2005, the Second Intifada—known as the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-al-aqsa-intifada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Al-Aqsa Intifada</a>,”—claimed over 1,100 lives. During this period, terrorist groups like Hamas deployed <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suicide bombers and gunmen to target civilians in crowded areas to maximize casualties</a>.
In a separate piece, Dr. Alam again praises suicide bombers, <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/04/03/thomas-friedman-s-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing that they seek to become martyrs in order to bring “honor” to their nation:</a>
“The Oxford English dictionary defines a suicide as “one who dies by his own hand.” This definition is clearly inadequate. In the absence of a motive, we cannot distinguish between (i) a person who takes his life because he wants to die and (ii) a person who takes his life because this will save her soul-or her honor, her family, her friends, her community, or her country. The first suggests suicide; the latter is ordinarily regarded as a martyr. Judge for yourself then whether the Palestinians are suicides or martyrs.” 
This is not a solitary instance of which Dr. Alam has sought to justify Islamic terrorism. In an article from 2004, he <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/12/29/seeking-parallels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared the 9/11 hijackers to America’s Founding Fathers</a>. 
“The colonists had a dream worth pursuing. They were prepared to die for this dream ­and to kill. They did: and they won…On September 11, 2001, nineteen Arab hijackers too demonstrated their willingness to die — and to kill — for what they believed was their dream. They died — so they thought — because they wanted their people to live, free and in dignity.” 
The prior year, Dr. Alam wrote that <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/02/why-9-11-and-why-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the attacks themselves were not in any way unique, and in fact, paled in comparison to the atrocities committed by the United States</a>.
“[The 9/11]  attacks pales into insignificance when compared to the worst terrorist acts perpetrated by states, not excluding United States, over the past five-hundred years.”
In further articles, Dr. Alam depicts Jews in explicit, antisemitic terms. He accuses Jews of using their religion to justify genocide, manipulating the media, possessing dual loyalty, citing the Holocaust for sympathy, and directing America to launch foreign wars on Israel’s behalf:
&#8211; One article for CounterPunch decries <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/05/israelization-of-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Jewish money” swaying elections on behalf of Israel.</a>
&#8211; Another piece <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/21/zionism-an-quot-abnormal-quot-nationalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses Jews of seeking to “compensate” for the absence of a messiah</a> by launching a colonial, genocidal project in Palestine with the assistance of American Christians.
&#8211; One accuses <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/07/unvarnished-truths-about-the-us-and-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish organizations of policing and directing the media to proliferate “Israeli lies.”</a>
&#8211; Dr. Alam’s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230614841/thewisdomfund?pldnSite=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli Exceptionalism</a>, accuses <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/zionisms-destabilizing-force-israeli-exceptionalism-reviewed/3569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jews and Zionists of partnering with the Nazis</a> prior to World War 2.
&#8211; The same book describes <a href="http://www.twf.org/News/Y2010/0623-Review.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neoconservatives as a “mostly Jewish elite” who shape America’s institutions for Israel’s benefit</a>.
&#8211; Yet another article accuses <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/19/israel-s-proxy-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Jews and Israel of directing the United States to invade Iraq</a> to distract the world from their alleged genocide of the Palestinians.
&#8211; Dr. Alam goes so far as to accuse <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/04/18/a-colonizing-project-built-on-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jews of weaponizing the Holocaust</a> to elicit sympathy and distract the world from their own human rights abuses.
&#8211; In an op-ed for the Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram, Dr. Alam <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070601183749/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/846/op5.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses Jews of using their Judaism—or what he mocks as their “chosenness” by God—to excuse racism and ethnically cleanse Palestine</a>.
Rather than hide or justify his views, Dr. Alam seems delighted by accusations of antisemitism. In a leaked lecture, Dr. Alam can be heard advising students to wear allegations of antisemitism “as a badge of honor.” 
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The video—published by <a href="https://www.peaceandtolerance.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Americans for Peace and Tolerance</a>—is part of an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mmOilcDA4&amp;ab_channel=apeacet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposé of the Middle Eastern Studies Department at Northeastern</a> led by professor Dennis Sulivan.
Readers can learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/denissullivan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denis Sullivan by visiting his profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.
Under his direction, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Northeastern is notorious on campus for demonizing Israel and glorifying terrorism. One event even <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/01/northeastern-u-students-for-justice-in-palestine-promotes-terrorist-pflp-doubles-down-after-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a US-designated terror group</a>. The group itself was <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/03/anti-israel-student-group-suspended-at-northeastern-for-vandalism-intimidation-disruption/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended by the University for the 2014 academic year for repeated instances of intimidation, vandalism, and disrupting pro-Israel events</a> on campus.
The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Alam for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication
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Students and Parents may contact the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University at (617) 373-5173 or at <a href="mailto:college_of_social_sciences_and_humanities@northeastern.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CSSHDean@northeastern.edu</a>
Updated &#8211; February 22nd

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Dr. <a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/graduate/bio/denis-sullivan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denis Sullivan</a> is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at <a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northeastern University</a> in Boston, Massachusetts. He additionally serves as the co-Director of the <a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/internationalcenter/middle-east/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Center</a>, a branch of <a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/internationalcenter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northeastern’s International Center</a>. Dr. Sullivan is known for including anti-Israel elements into his curriculum, and for his defense of the terrorist organization Hamas.

Founded as the offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip, Hamas is an Islamist terrorist organization. The organization’s <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel and the death of all Jews</a>.

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The group has ruled the Gaza strip since 2005 and explicitly targets Israeli civilians while using its own <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citizens as human shields during military operations</a>. <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/prelude-to-war-palestinian-terrorists-fire-hundreds-of-rockets-at-israel-from-and-to-civilian-areas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas regularly fires rockets</a> and <a href="https://palwatch.org/page/18217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directs suicide bombers into crowded areas</a>. The organization is <a href="https://www.fdd.org/in_the_news/2021/05/26/faq-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responsible for the death of thousands of Israelis and at least 25 Americans</a>.

In a lecture dated to 2009, Denis Sullivan can be heard <a href="https://vimeo.com/127604352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trivializing Hamas atrocities during a lecture about foreign relations with Israel</a>. In the clip, captured by the organization <a href="https://canarymission.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canary Mission</a>, Dr. Sullivan begrudgingly admits that Hamas is a terrorist organization, but proceeds to praise them for having “great healthcare and kindergartens."

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Further in the same lecture, while discussing peace negotiations, Dr. Sullivan claims that it’s irrelevant that Hamas will not recognize the right of Israel to exist.

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According to reports from the group <a href="https://www.peaceandtolerance.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT)</a>, Dr. Sullivan <a href="https://www.peaceandtolerance.org/2014/02/26/northeastern-universitys-islamists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regularly assigns extreme anti-Israel materials in his class</a>. One text is, “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/233020/the-holocaust-industry-by-norman-g-finkelstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Holocaust Industry</a>,” by author and former professor, Norman Finkelstein. The book alleges that Israel uses the Holocaust to shield itself from criticism when committing war crimes on par with that of the Nazis.

“The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world’s most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a “victim” state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.” - Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry

Another assigned text is titled, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine</a>'' by IIan Pappe. The book falsely charges Israel with committing mass genocide and ethnic cleansing of the region’s Arabs during the nation’s founding.

Dr. Sullivan has directed numerous university-sponsored trips to introduce students to meet Syrian and Egyptian officials. As APT has documented, his students met with at least one Egyptian minister <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mmOilcDA4&amp;ab_channel=apeacet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who believes in the antisemitic conspiracy that Jews manipulate and control the world economy</a>.

In addition to his duties in the Middle East Center, his biography lists him as a member of the organization, “Human Rights Watch.” The group has been <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/experts-slam-human-rights-watch-for-biased-and-inaccurate-report-accusing-israel-of-apartheid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused by a number of watchdog organizations of publishing slanted and falsified information about Israel</a>. The organization has become so maligned, that its founder, Robert Bernstein, once lambasted his organization for <a href="https://archive.ph/b1E3q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focusing its efforts solely on Israel while ignoring actual authoritarian regimes</a>.

The full investigative report by Americans for Peace and Tolerance may be viewed below.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Social Sciences and Humanities</a> at Northeastern University at (617) 373-5173 or at CSSHDean@northeastern.edu. 
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Updated - November 30, 2021

<a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/shahid-alam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shahid Alam</a> is a professor of economics at <a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northeastern University</a> in Boston, Massachusetts. After immigrating to the United States from Pakistan, Dr. Alam began working for Northeastern in 1988 where he serves as the academic advisor for the group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Infamous for sympathy towards Islamic terrorism in his work, Dr. Alam has authored pieces justifying suicide bombers, compared the 9/11 highjackers to America’s founding fathers, and repeated antisemitic libels while supporting the BDS movement.

BDS—which stands for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions—is an international movement with a singular focus on boycotting, divesting, and levying sanctions against the world’s sole Jewish state. The movement’s co-founder—Omar Barghouti has admitted that once <a href="https://www.israellycool.com/2020/06/02/watch-bds-co-founder-omar-barghouti-admits-their-goal-is-destruction-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these planks are implemented, they will destroy Israel</a>.

In a piece for the site, CounterPunch, Dr. Alam pens a <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/07/29/the-academic-boycott-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-throated defense of BDS</a> as a necessary tactic to confront Israel. While characterizing the Jewish state as not a “normal country,” he falsely accuses Israel of constructing an “apartheid state” to commit genocide against Arabs.

Dr. Alam uses his accusation as justification for <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/07/29/the-academic-boycott-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">then-ongoing waves of suicide bombers in Israel</a>, writing, “dispossession is implemented by force-unless this project is aided by pathogens; and, it follows, that resistance to the colonizer must be violent.”

An “intifada”—Arabic for “uprising”—refers to a series of Palestinian insurrections within Israel. From 2000-2005, the Second Intifada—known as the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-al-aqsa-intifada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Al-Aqsa Intifada</a>,”—claimed over 1,100 lives. During this period, terrorist groups like Hamas deployed <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suicide bombers and gunmen to target civilians in crowded areas to maximize casualties</a>.

In a separate piece, Dr. Alam again praises suicide bombers, <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/04/03/thomas-friedman-s-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing that they seek to become martyrs in order to bring “honor” to their nation:</a>

“The Oxford English dictionary defines a suicide as “one who dies by his own hand.” This definition is clearly inadequate. In the absence of a motive, we cannot distinguish between (i) a person who takes his life because he wants to die and (ii) a person who takes his life because this will save her soul-or her honor, her family, her friends, her community, or her country. The first suggests suicide; the latter is ordinarily regarded as a martyr. Judge for yourself then whether the Palestinians are suicides or martyrs.” 

This is not a solitary instance of which Dr. Alam has sought to justify Islamic terrorism. In an article from 2004, he <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/12/29/seeking-parallels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared the 9/11 hijackers to America’s Founding Fathers</a>. 

“The colonists had a dream worth pursuing. They were prepared to die for this dream ­and to kill. They did: and they won…On September 11, 2001, nineteen Arab hijackers too demonstrated their willingness to die — and to kill — for what they believed was their dream. They died — so they thought — because they wanted their people to live, free and in dignity.” 

The prior year, Dr. Alam wrote that <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/02/why-9-11-and-why-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the attacks themselves were not in any way unique, and in fact, paled in comparison to the atrocities committed by the United States</a>.

“[The 9/11]  attacks pales into insignificance when compared to the worst terrorist acts perpetrated by states, not excluding United States, over the past five-hundred years.”

In further articles, Dr. Alam depicts Jews in explicit, antisemitic terms. He accuses Jews of using their religion to justify genocide, manipulating the media, possessing dual loyalty, citing the Holocaust for sympathy, and directing America to launch foreign wars on Israel’s behalf:

- One article for CounterPunch decries <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/05/israelization-of-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Jewish money” swaying elections on behalf of Israel.</a>

- Another piece <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/21/zionism-an-quot-abnormal-quot-nationalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses Jews of seeking to “compensate” for the absence of a messiah</a> by launching a colonial, genocidal project in Palestine with the assistance of American Christians.

- One accuses <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/07/unvarnished-truths-about-the-us-and-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish organizations of policing and directing the media to proliferate “Israeli lies.”</a>

- Dr. Alam’s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230614841/thewisdomfund?pldnSite=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli Exceptionalism</a>, accuses <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/zionisms-destabilizing-force-israeli-exceptionalism-reviewed/3569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jews and Zionists of partnering with the Nazis</a> prior to World War 2.

- The same book describes <a href="http://www.twf.org/News/Y2010/0623-Review.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neoconservatives as a “mostly Jewish elite” who shape America’s institutions for Israel’s benefit</a>.

- Yet another article accuses <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/19/israel-s-proxy-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Jews and Israel of directing the United States to invade Iraq</a> to distract the world from their alleged genocide of the Palestinians.

- Dr. Alam goes so far as to accuse <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/04/18/a-colonizing-project-built-on-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jews of weaponizing the Holocaust</a> to elicit sympathy and distract the world from their own human rights abuses.

- In an op-ed for the Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram, Dr. Alam <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070601183749/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/846/op5.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses Jews of using their Judaism—or what he mocks as their “chosenness” by God—to excuse racism and ethnically cleanse Palestine</a>.

Rather than hide or justify his views, Dr. Alam seems delighted by accusations of antisemitism. In a leaked lecture, Dr. Alam can be heard advising students to wear allegations of antisemitism “as a badge of honor.”
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The video—published by <a href="https://www.peaceandtolerance.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Americans for Peace and Tolerance</a>—is part of an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mmOilcDA4&amp;ab_channel=apeacet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposé of the Middle Eastern Studies Department at Northeastern</a> led by professor Dennis Sulivan.

Readers can learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/denissullivan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denis Sullivan by visiting his profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Under his direction, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Northeastern is notorious on campus for demonizing Israel and glorifying terrorism. One event even <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/01/northeastern-u-students-for-justice-in-palestine-promotes-terrorist-pflp-doubles-down-after-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a US-designated terror group</a>. The group itself was <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/03/anti-israel-student-group-suspended-at-northeastern-for-vandalism-intimidation-disruption/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended by the University for the 2014 academic year for repeated instances of intimidation, vandalism, and disrupting pro-Israel events</a> on campus.
The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Alam for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication
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Students and Parents may contact the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University at (617) 373-5173 or at <a href="mailto:college_of_social_sciences_and_humanities@northeastern.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CSSHDean@northeastern.edu</a>
Updated - February 22nd

<a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/james-fox/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Alan Fox</a> is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University. 

According to his university profile, Fox “has published 18 books, dozens of journal and magazine articles, and hundreds of freelance columns in newspapers around the country, primarily in the areas of mass murder, serial murder youth crime, school and campus violence, workplace violence, and capital punishment.”

Fox was featured in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240714040128/https:/news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/13/donald-trump-shooting-rally/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northeastern News Service</a> article about the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump. Much of Fox’s commentary emphasized gun control measures. The professor implied how the lack of such measures may be the cause of the attempt. According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/northeastern-university-prof-said-trump-assassination-attempt-help-republicans-reconsider-gun-control/25893" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, the following quote from Fox was removed from the article:

“The Republican party has been rather reluctant to back sensible gun control measures. Their party leader has been shot. Fortunately, he didn’t get mortally wounded, but it certainly should help them reconsider some of their stances on sensible gun safety measures.” 
Fox even made the following statement to Campus Reform, echoing the statements he previously made on gun control measures. He alluded to the relevance of <a href="https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/brady-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brady Law</a>, a gun control measure enacted after the assassination attempt on a newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981: 
“As to whether it is an appropriate issue to raise, the assassination attempt on Reagan and the severe injury to his aide James Brady eventually inspired a significant gun control measure (Brady Law). Besides, the assassination attempt on Trump was a shooting, and so raising the issue of gun control is clearly relevant. Republicans are entrenched in their pro-gun stance. I would welcome but not expect some movement.”
Please send information on James Alan Fox to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - July 18, 2024

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Terror Supporter

Shahid Alam

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Eric Clanton

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, Eric Clanton is no longer listed as an instructor at Diablo Valley College.*
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-clanton-a8b87013b">Eric Clanton</a> is a former philosophy instructor at Diablo Valley College. He has been charged with assaulting a protester during a clash between pro-Trump and anti-Trump protesters. He struck a participant in the rally with a bike lock, and was later sentenced to three-years of probation.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, Eric Clanton is no longer listed as an instructor at Diablo Valley College.*
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-clanton-a8b87013b">Eric Clanton</a> is a former philosophy instructor at Diablo Valley College. He has been charged with assaulting a protester during a clash between pro-Trump and anti-Trump protesters. He struck a participant in the rally with a bike lock, and was later sentenced to three-years of probation.

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<a href="https://nataliegosnell.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natalie Gosnell</a> is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Colorado College. According to her university profile, Gosnell uses the pronouns “she, her, and hers.” Her research focuses on “understanding the stories of binary stars.”
Gosnell said “As an astrophysicist, I’m a product of institutions that are steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/individualism-is-example-of-white-supremacy-in-astrophysics-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>. She also claims her field of study has issues with “‘violent’ and ‘hypermasculine’ bias.”
A piece published by the <a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2023/professor-gosnell-combines-art-and-science-in-immersive-art-piece.html#.Y8Go1ezMITU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado College</a> paper shares her thoughts on “The tenants of white supremacy that show up [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism… it’s either-or thinking, and there&#8217;s no subtlety, there&#8217;s no gray area.” 
Additionally, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/astrophysics-racist-woke-professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>, Gosnell claims there are “systematic issues within science.” To address these issues, including systematic racism and hypermasculinity, she changed her approach to teaching astrophysics. “The Gift,” is an art piece that exemplifies what “was missing for Gosnell in the sharing of science: creativity.&#8221;
Gosnell told the source affiliated with Colorado Colege that the experience of the dying star phenomenon has usually been looked at through a &#8220;hypermasculine lens&#8221; or labeling “the mass-receiving star as the ‘bad boys’ of the universe.”
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Published: January 18, 2023

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<a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/leza_christina.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Leza</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado College and a <a href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/yoeme.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yoeme-Chicana activist</a> scholar. 

RACIAL IDEOLOGY

According to her university profile, Leza’s research interests include Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous rights, discourse and identity, racial and ethnic discourses, grassroots activism, cognitive anthropology, the U.S.-Mexico border, and more. 

Additionally, her “major interests” include racist discourses, ethnic and racial identities, etc.

She has written many publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/divided-peoples" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border</a> (University of Arizona Press). The description states: “This work further addresses the complex identity construction of Native Americans with cultural ties to Mexico, and conflations of race and nationality that result in distinct forms of intra-community racism.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=laWSDwAAQBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PA69&amp;dq=info:_iZUds4yFkUJ:scholar.google.com&amp;ots=HSiQV0YJbS&amp;sig=u2AH0dmKAFfGQ-JlG8rkGwLbAeo#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hip Hop is Resistance: Indigeneity on the U.S.-Mexico Border</a>” in the edited volume Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America (Wesleyan University Press). The description states: “‘Hip-Hop Is Resistance’ is the movement slogan for Shining Soul, a hip-hop group based in Phoenix, Arizona…. Shining Soul promotes hip-hop as a force for resistance, emphasizing hip-hop’s origins among the disenfranchised of black urban America.”</li>
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Her regular classes are listed below:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">AN105: Language and Culture</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">AN256: Language Socialization</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">AN260: Language and Gender</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">AN262: Studying Language as Social Action</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">AN311: Language in Culture and Mind: Cognitive Anthropology</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">AN312: The Language of Racism</li>
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Leza also teaches <a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/academicprograms/fyp/cc100-cc120/course-listings/thematic-clusters/dynamics-of-power.html#white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC100: Language, Power and White Supremacy</a>. 

The course description states: “This course addresses the role of language in shaping and maintaining unequal relationships of power in societies, with an emphasis on the ongoing impacts of colonialism and white supremacy…. [T]he course will also critically explore the relationship between Western scientific paradigms and colonialism….”

CORRUPTION; ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION 

In 2020, Leza <a href="https://indianz.com/News/2020/07/16/what-is-the-usmexico-border-to-indigenou.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> entitled “Christina Leza: What is the U.S.-Mexico border to Indigenous People who have lived there?” In her discussion on the land rights of illegal immigrants, Leza said:
“For Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the U.S.-Mexico border is increasingly a symbol and tool of genocide. When this border was created, Indigenous peoples of the region were divided … Indigenous people tend to understand and talk about the U.S.-Mexico border in different terms from those who understand the border to be an agreement between governments, often describing the border as artificial or ‘imaginary.’”
Leza explained how multiple “grassroots Indigenous organizations” were working to dissolve both the northern and southern borders of the United States while advocating for the “development of comprehensive legislation” that would decriminalize illegal immigration. She reasons the sovereignty of the border should rest with tribal governments and landowners without regard to federal regulations and laws.

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Send tips, updates, and information on Christina Leza to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated — July 2024
Published — October 20, 2022

<a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/kumar_rushaan.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rushaan Kumar</a> is an Assistant Professor of Feminist &amp; Gender Studies at Colorado College. According to his university profile, Kumar is the “founder and coordinator of the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ Oral History Project…” He is also “a board member of the Society for Queer Asian Studies (SQAS).”

Kumar teaches a variety of courses, including LGBTQ Social Movements in the U.S. The course “Conducts interdisciplinary examinations of the development of LGBTQ social movements in the U.S. by linking the context, goals, and outcomes of movements to the dynamics of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, immigration status, and geography.”

Kumar is a fellow at the “<a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/kumar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies</a>” (CATS), an organization that features professors, Ph.D. candidates, and faculty from universities nationwide. CATS is an “independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.”

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3gThzMFiUY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch the video below</a> where Kumar elaborates on his transition, transgenderism, and gives his viewpoint on the lack of awareness towards the issue: 

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Published — December 5, 2022

<a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/lewis_heidi-r.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heidi R. Lewis</a> is an Associate Professor of Feminist &amp; Gender Studies at Colorado College. Her main areas of research focus on feminist theory, hip pop culture, politics, black feminism, and critical media studies. 

One of the classes she offers is called “<a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/catalog/courses/fg110.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to Gender &amp; Feminist Studies</a>.” In this course, Lewis discusses feminist and gender studies theories and critical practices. Examples of critical practices include “interrogations of power, inequality, and privilege along the lines of sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, and other social, cultural, and political markers.”

Lewis has a variety of publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> <a href="https://femgeniuses.com/audresfootsteps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Audre's Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk</a> “The text primarily relies on Black and Transnational Feminist theoretical frameworks and methodologies to amplify the resistive and generative personal and professional experiences of women of color educators, artists, activists, and scholars…”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/683773" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Damn, I Love the Strippers! A Black Feminist Analysis of Rihanna’s “Pour It Up”</a> This article addresses “objectification, subjectivity, sex work, and Black feminist theories in order to argue that ‘Pour It Up’ is a vehicle through which audiences can more effectively understand the ontological and epistemological complexities of Black women exotic dancers.”</li>
</ul>
Lewis was interviewed by Act Out, a platform on <a href="https://thefeministwire.com/2015/07/act-out/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Feminist Wire</a>. In the episode #INeedFeminismBecause, Lewis discusses her viewpoint on what feminism really means:

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Published — December 6, 2022

<a href="https://nataliegosnell.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natalie Gosnell</a> is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Colorado College. According to her university profile, Gosnell uses the pronouns “she, her, and hers.” Her research focuses on “understanding the stories of binary stars.”

Gosnell said “As an astrophysicist, I’m a product of institutions that are steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/individualism-is-example-of-white-supremacy-in-astrophysics-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>. She also claims her field of study has issues with “‘violent’ and ‘hypermasculine’ bias.”

A piece published by the <a href="https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2023/professor-gosnell-combines-art-and-science-in-immersive-art-piece.html#.Y8Go1ezMITU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado College</a> paper shares her thoughts on “The tenants of white supremacy that show up [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism… it’s either-or thinking, and there's no subtlety, there's no gray area.” 

Additionally, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/astrophysics-racist-woke-professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>, Gosnell claims there are “systematic issues within science.” To address these issues, including systematic racism and hypermasculinity, she changed her approach to teaching astrophysics. “The Gift,” is an art piece that exemplifies what “was missing for Gosnell in the sharing of science: creativity."

Gosnell told the source affiliated with Colorado Colege that the experience of the dying star phenomenon has usually been looked at through a "hypermasculine lens" or labeling “the mass-receiving star as the ‘bad boys’ of the universe.”

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Published: January 18, 2023

Natalie Gosnell

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<a href="https://education.sdsu.edu/directory/lashae-collins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor LaShae Collins, M.A</a>., is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies at San Diego State University. 
<a href="https://newsone.com/4425479/san-diego-state-fake-slave-persona/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsone reports</a> that in October of 2022, Collins has “come under fire” for having her students complete an assignment that requires them to “create a slave persona.” An anonymous student claims that Collins wanted them to write diary entries using “broken English” in order to make their persona “historically accurate.” The same student also said that Collins wanted her students to “wear tattered clothing to illustrate the slave experience.” 
However, the Africana Studies Department Chair, <a href="https://thedailyaztec.com/111463/news/sdsu-africana-studies-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adisa Alkebulan, told The Daily Aztec</a> that “there was never a requirement (for students) to dress as slaves or speak in ‘broken English’ as has been falsely reported in some news outlets.” The assignment description, which was posted on Instagram by student Amari Jackson, seems to corroborate the Department Chair’s statement, as broken English and tattered clothing are mentioned nowhere on it (see image below):
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2385" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-14-at-8.45.23-AM.png" alt="" width="605" height="597" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-14-at-8.45.23-AM.png 605w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-14-at-8.45.23-AM-300x296.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px" />
Yet, SDSU student Robbie Jackson stated Collins told her students that dressing as a slave was optional for the assignment. Another student said that Collins told her class that past students of the course came to class dressed as slaves for the assignment, which seemed to the student imply that they could get a better grade if they did so. Another anonymous student sent The Daily Aztec a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjllD9ZvH1s/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF file</a> containing actual slave narratives which was provided to the students as a resource for the assignment. The narratives are full of broken English, which made the student think that Collins was recommending her students to use such language in the assignment. 
According to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjjI-SlvcpN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=455c6dba-0246-45e2-8fd6-0ab7e0fd3518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amari Jackson</a>, Collins canceled “in-class presentations where she wanted us to act and dress in our personas.”

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San Diego State University

Diddy and &#8220;Baby Oil&#8221; Costumes Worn by San Diego State Students
Two students at San Diego State University have come under fire for their choice of Halloween costumes. 
One of the students, a white male, dressed up as defamed music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. His costume featured a black sport jacket, white pants, and a pink collared shirt with a red bowtie. His countenance was also covered in blackface. His partner’s costume was a simple pink outfit with a Johnson’s baby oil logo attached to her shirt. She also held a bottle of baby oil to add to the effect of her costume.
Since Combs’ arrest in September, baby oil has been associated with his name after it was discovered to be a prominent feature at his secret “freak-off” parties. Federal agents also <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1408795/diddy-allegedly-laced-baby-oil-with-date-rape-drug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> 1,000 baby oil bottles — allegedly laced with Rohypnol (GHB), a date rape drug — in Combs’ Miami residence after it was raided earlier in the year. 
The costumes first came to attention through a video posted on social media titled 
“How the group chat dressed for Halloween.” The video was deleted after the woman who posted the video, a fellow student, deactivated her social media accounts. (See image below, taken from <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14010741/influencer-slammed-diddy-blackface-baby-oil-halloween-costume.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>).
At the time of this publication, the names of the students in costume are unknown to the public.
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A spokesperson for SDSU, concerned with the students’ costumes, told the Daily Mail:
“Our team is working to confirm information, to include the location and the names and affiliations of the individuals involved.
“We appreciate the willingness of people who have come forward to share information with the university. 
“The use of blackface and any actions making light of sexual assault are deeply offensive and have no place in a respectful, caring community.&#8217;”
Published &#8211; November 5, 2024

Diddy and "Baby Oil" Costumes Worn by San Diego State Students
Two students at San Diego State University have come under fire for their choice of Halloween costumes. 

One of the students, a white male, dressed up as defamed music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. His costume featured a black sport jacket, white pants, and a pink collared shirt with a red bowtie. His countenance was also covered in blackface. His partner’s costume was a simple pink outfit with a Johnson’s baby oil logo attached to her shirt. She also held a bottle of baby oil to add to the effect of her costume.

Since Combs’ arrest in September, baby oil has been associated with his name after it was discovered to be a prominent feature at his secret “freak-off” parties. Federal agents also <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1408795/diddy-allegedly-laced-baby-oil-with-date-rape-drug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> 1,000 baby oil bottles — allegedly laced with Rohypnol (GHB), a date rape drug — in Combs’ Miami residence after it was raided earlier in the year. 

The costumes first came to attention through a video posted on social media titled 
“How the group chat dressed for Halloween.” The video was deleted after the woman who posted the video, a fellow student, deactivated her social media accounts. (See image below, taken from <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14010741/influencer-slammed-diddy-blackface-baby-oil-halloween-costume.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>).

At the time of this publication, the names of the students in costume are unknown to the public.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3867 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-05-at-9.00.23-AM.png" alt="" width="600" height="782" />

A spokesperson for SDSU, concerned with the students’ costumes, told the Daily Mail:
“Our team is working to confirm information, to include the location and the names and affiliations of the individuals involved.
“We appreciate the willingness of people who have come forward to share information with the university. 
“The use of blackface and any actions making light of sexual assault are deeply offensive and have no place in a respectful, caring community.'”
Published - November 5, 2024

<a href="https://education.sdsu.edu/directory/lashae-collins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor LaShae Collins, M.A</a>., is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies at San Diego State University. 

<a href="https://newsone.com/4425479/san-diego-state-fake-slave-persona/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsone reports</a> that in October of 2022, Collins has “come under fire” for having her students complete an assignment that requires them to “create a slave persona.” An anonymous student claims that Collins wanted them to write diary entries using “broken English” in order to make their persona “historically accurate.” The same student also said that Collins wanted her students to “wear tattered clothing to illustrate the slave experience.” 

However, the Africana Studies Department Chair, <a href="https://thedailyaztec.com/111463/news/sdsu-africana-studies-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adisa Alkebulan, told The Daily Aztec</a> that “there was never a requirement (for students) to dress as slaves or speak in ‘broken English’ as has been falsely reported in some news outlets.” The assignment description, which was posted on Instagram by student Amari Jackson, seems to corroborate the Department Chair’s statement, as broken English and tattered clothing are mentioned nowhere on it (see image below):

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2385" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-14-at-8.45.23-AM.png" alt="" width="605" height="597" />

Yet, SDSU student Robbie Jackson stated Collins told her students that dressing as a slave was optional for the assignment. Another student said that Collins told her class that past students of the course came to class dressed as slaves for the assignment, which seemed to the student imply that they could get a better grade if they did so. Another anonymous student sent The Daily Aztec a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjllD9ZvH1s/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF file</a> containing actual slave narratives which was provided to the students as a resource for the assignment. The narratives are full of broken English, which made the student think that Collins was recommending her students to use such language in the assignment. 

According to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjjI-SlvcpN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=455c6dba-0246-45e2-8fd6-0ab7e0fd3518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amari Jackson</a>, Collins canceled “in-class presentations where she wanted us to act and dress in our personas.”