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Mary K. Gayne is an <a href="https://www.jmu.edu/history/people/all-people/gayne-mary.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of History</a> at James Madison University. Her areas of interest include World History, European History, French History, and Integrative General Education. She has written scholarly publications for outlets such as the Journal of Women’s History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne.
When Dr. Gayne isn’t teaching or writing for various journals, she can be found on Twitter <a href="https://www.breezejmu.org/news/jmu-history-professor-publicly-claims-republican-party-can-die-for-all-i-care/article_ddf2bb30-0e25-11eb-a4fc-57151a21b524.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bashing conservatives</a>. In a controversial tweet from 2020, Dr. Gayne says she wouldn’t care if conservatives died. She claimed conservatives didn’t care about the US Constitution, and “f#&amp;k ‘em all.” The tweet can be viewed below:
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After the tweet emerged, there was significant public outcry from students at James Madison University. Dr. Gayne quickly deleted the tweet, claiming that it was because of the “f-bomb.” In a statement, Dr. Gayne wrote, “I did choose to delete yesterday&#8217;s tweet. It became clear that the sensibilities of twitterites &amp; robots, that publicly identify themselves as MAGA adherents, were upset by my dropping of the ‘F-bomb’ in a political tweet on my personal twitter feed.” She also tried to claim she didn’t mean the people in the party, but the U.S. political party itself.
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Dr. Gayne went on to say she is not concerned about her students finding and viewing her personal Twitter feed. She writes, “I am no more worried about my students seeing my personal Twitter feed and discovering that I am a person who has dogs and political opinions, than I am about stumbling across their social media posts and discovering that they are people who play sports and have political opinions.” Contrary to this statement, however, her Twitter profile has become private.
When a Republican group on campus asked the University to look into the tweet, University spokesperson, Caitlyn Read, made a statement asserting that the University encourages individuals to have their own thoughts and opinions, but they do not condone or reflect the values expressed in the tweet. The University, however, did not give Dr. Gayne any consequences. As of Fall 2021, Dr. Gayne is still teaching at James Madison University.

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Mary K. Gayne is an <a href="https://www.jmu.edu/history/people/all-people/gayne-mary.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of History</a> at James Madison University. Her areas of interest include World History, European History, French History, and Integrative General Education. She has written scholarly publications for outlets such as the Journal of Women’s History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne.

When Dr. Gayne isn’t teaching or writing for various journals, she can be found on Twitter <a href="https://www.breezejmu.org/news/jmu-history-professor-publicly-claims-republican-party-can-die-for-all-i-care/article_ddf2bb30-0e25-11eb-a4fc-57151a21b524.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bashing conservatives</a>. In a controversial tweet from 2020, Dr. Gayne says she wouldn’t care if conservatives died. She claimed conservatives didn’t care about the US Constitution, and “f#&amp;k ‘em all.” The tweet can be viewed below:

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After the tweet emerged, there was significant public outcry from students at James Madison University. Dr. Gayne quickly deleted the tweet, claiming that it was because of the “f-bomb.” In a statement, Dr. Gayne wrote, “I did choose to delete yesterday's tweet. It became clear that the sensibilities of twitterites &amp; robots, that publicly identify themselves as MAGA adherents, were upset by my dropping of the ‘F-bomb’ in a political tweet on my personal twitter feed.” She also tried to claim she didn’t mean the people in the party, but the U.S. political party itself.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1768" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-1.50.26-PM.png" alt="" width="355" height="210" />

Dr. Gayne went on to say she is not concerned about her students finding and viewing her personal Twitter feed. She writes, “I am no more worried about my students seeing my personal Twitter feed and discovering that I am a person who has dogs and political opinions, than I am about stumbling across their social media posts and discovering that they are people who play sports and have political opinions.” Contrary to this statement, however, her Twitter profile has become private.

When a Republican group on campus asked the University to look into the tweet, University spokesperson, Caitlyn Read, made a statement asserting that the University encourages individuals to have their own thoughts and opinions, but they do not condone or reflect the values expressed in the tweet. The University, however, did not give Dr. Gayne any consequences. As of Fall 2021, Dr. Gayne is still teaching at James Madison University.

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<a href="https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/anthropology/profile/michael-alvard/">Michael Alvard</a> is an associate professor and Cultural Anthropology Program Coordinator at Texas A&amp;M University.
In June of 2020, Alvard was <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-professor-arrested-during-Saturdays-protest--571251361.html">arrested</a> while protesting at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue on campus. The Young Democratic Socialists of America at Texas A&amp;M posted his $3,000 bail which may have <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15230">violated</a> university rules on approved student organizations using personal banking accounts. Alvard <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-professor-arrested-during-Saturdays-protest--571251361.html">released a statement</a> to a local news station, KTBX, alleging that the statue represents “institutional racism” and Ross’ life “represented ethnic cleansing, violence, slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow racism.” In his statement, he also insinuated that police officers regularly harm and kill black Americans.
&#8220;I’m a white male of privilege. Yesterday, I knew that the police would not kill me or throw me to the ground or stomp on my neck. I can afford to post bail. I’m not the story. The story is the lives of black people and other people of color in our community who must suffer day-in and day-out with the institutional racism that the Ross statue represents.&#8221; 
Alvard liberally shares his views on his social media, connecting Mount Rushmore to white supremacy, sharing guides of how to tear down statues, and most strikingly, boasting how he lectures his students on how America is a systematically racist nation.
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<a href="https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/anthropology/profile/filipe-vieira-de-castro/">Filipe Vieira de Castro</a> is the Frederic R. Mayer Fellow II of Nautical Archaeology, an Anthropology professor, and the Director of the Ship Reconstruction Laboratory at Texas A&amp;M University. Castro is virulently anti-Israel, has expressed anti-Christian sentiments numerous times, slandered prominent conservatives, and confronted Turning Point USA students on campus.

As confirmed by a member of the TPUSA chapter at Texas A&amp;M, Castro approached and immediately began arguing with them while they were tabling at the Memorial Student Center (MSC). Posting about the event later, he stated that TPUSA students should have no place at a university and even joked in a reply to a comment that they should be sent to the gulag for “re-education.”

Castro, among other protestors at Texas A&amp;M University, advocated for the removal of a statue of Sullivan Ross, a Confederate General and former President of the university. When <a href="http://www.thebatt.com/news/protesters-voice-their-opinions-for-and-against-the-sul-ross-statue/article_6b24ced2-ade4-11ea-a872-875170880ccd.html">interviewed</a>, he stated that the statue represented “racism” and “exclusion.”

“Why do we want a statue that stands for racism and exclusion and hatred? Statues are just artifacts, they are not history...History is in the library. If you really want to know the history of the Confederacy, go to the library.” 

While protesting to take down certain statues, he is also an advocate for erecting one of convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg.

“With ups and downs, she has dedicated her life to fighting injustice. She deserves a statue.” 

As a self-described “rabid anti-Zionist,” Castro is a fierce opponent of the state of Israel. He regularly launches into antisemitic tirades on his personal social media account.

“Yes Israel is the world's largest open air lunatic asylum in the world and the raving lunatics happen to belong to the most educated (and thus resourceful) community in the world....they can, and probably will, kill us all.”

“But this is a genocidal war. Israel is fighting a genocidal war against Palestinians.”

“The Likud has been the Israeli Tea Party...It just takes the right guy...to energize it and channel it towards some easy target. That’s what Hitler did.”

His most incendiary rant was reserved for July 8th. Describing Jews as “savages” and “animals,” Castro compared the modern state of Israel to apartheid-era South Africa before castigating Jews for being insufficiently aware of their persecution in the Holocaust.

“Sadistic motherf******. Racist, savage creeps. The same hatred as in South Africa in the 1980s. Animals. And if it can be more shocking, these creeps should know how it feels to be dehumanized, insulted, beaten, assassinated for religious reasons. They ought to ask their grandparents how it felt to be persecuted.”

Castro’s ire is not only reserved for Jews. According to him, “superstitious” Christians only support Israel out of a subliminal admiration for Adolf Hitler;

“But the majority of Zionists are Evangelical Christians that want all the Jews to go to Israel so that God can bring about Armageddon or, in other words, end Hitler’s work. And their racism is stupid and violent and superstitious.”  

Castro regularly berates Christians, Jews, and other religions online.

“Certain forms of idiocy must be criminalized. America needs to go medieval on hate crimes. Police brutality on African Americans, crimes of antisemitism, Islamophobe, homophobia….Start with the instigators: pastors, imams, rabbis, nazi pundits, etc.”  

“I am always amazed with the hatred with which American Christians hate the world. They are always threatening a country (now it is Iran) or planning to invade a region, and blaming the victims for trying to defend themselves.” 

“Sure, Make the last rabbi eat the last priest and then hang him with the last entrails of the last imam. We would all prefer if there were no mosques, no churches, no synagogues, just libraries, and museums.” 

In one post, he commented that Christians should be allowed to die from COVID as the cost of attending services.

“They all want to go to church next Sunday, eat their god, or whatever they do. I think that they should be allowed to go, but before they should sign a paper and give up the write to a ventilator.”  

Prior to this, Castro seemingly celebrated that Liberty University students would potentially die from COVID:

“Christians thinning the herd :)”

Castro has gloated over prominent conservatives like Herman Cain and Louie Gohmert contracting and dying from COVID:

“And it is true: Covid kills the poor. It also kills some stupid, like Herman Cain, but it mostly kills the poor.” 

In other posts, he celebrated Rush Limbaugh’s cancer diagnosis, called Jordan Peterson a fascist, and claimed that Tucker Carlson is the “voice” of the Ku Klux Klan.   He wrote, “Is it horrible that I actually felt happy to learn that Rush Limbaugh is dying...I just have a nice warm feeling in my heart...?”

“Jordan Peterson doesn’t have the balls to come out as the misogynist fascist that he really is.” 

“So now, without his top writer cretin Tucker, something is not going to be the voice of the KKK anymore? Good to know.” 

He has also repeatedly attacked police officers, describing units as being “full of klansmen.”

Castro has recently received <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/19/texas-a-m-prof-filipe-castro-calls-trump-fat-klansman-hopes-he-gets-coronavirus/">widespread attention</a> for these and other incendiary remarks from various news outlets.

<a href="https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/anthropology/profile/michael-alvard/">Michael Alvard</a> is an associate professor and Cultural Anthropology Program Coordinator at Texas A&amp;M University.

In June of 2020, Alvard was <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-professor-arrested-during-Saturdays-protest--571251361.html">arrested</a> while protesting at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue on campus. The Young Democratic Socialists of America at Texas A&amp;M posted his $3,000 bail which may have <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15230">violated</a> university rules on approved student organizations using personal banking accounts. Alvard <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-professor-arrested-during-Saturdays-protest--571251361.html">released a statement</a> to a local news station, KTBX, alleging that the statue represents “institutional racism” and Ross’ life “represented ethnic cleansing, violence, slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow racism.” In his statement, he also insinuated that police officers regularly harm and kill black Americans.

"I’m a white male of privilege. Yesterday, I knew that the police would not kill me or throw me to the ground or stomp on my neck. I can afford to post bail. I’m not the story. The story is the lives of black people and other people of color in our community who must suffer day-in and day-out with the institutional racism that the Ross statue represents." 

Alvard liberally shares his views on his social media, connecting Mount Rushmore to white supremacy, sharing guides of how to tear down statues, and most strikingly, boasting how he lectures his students on how America is a systematically racist nation.

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<a href="https://www.tamus.edu/texas-professor-pleads-guilty-for-hiding-connections-with-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zhengdong Cheng</a> is a former Chemical Engineering Professor at Texas A&amp;M University and a former researcher for NASA. The FBI, with the help of Texas A&amp;M, recently conducted an investigation against Cheng. Cheng was arrested in 2020 “on charges of conspiracy, making false statements and wire fraud.”

The FBI (Houston, Texas branch) reports that he “pleaded guilty to lying to Texas A&amp;M University about his affiliations with Chinese entities to violate his agreements with NASA.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bcstx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bcstx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hounews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hounews</a> Zhengdong Cheng of College Station has pleaded guilty to lying to Texas A&amp;M University about his affiliations with Chinese entities to violate his agreements with NASA.
The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FBI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FBI</a> Bryan Resident Agency and <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAOIG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASAOIG</a> investigated. <a href="https://t.co/K1NLnrdiXy">pic.twitter.com/K1NLnrdiXy</a>
— FBI Houston (@FBIHouston) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIHouston/status/1573326882782810112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/state/former-texas-am-professor-pleads-guilty-after-hiding-connections-to-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Scorecard</a>, Cheng’s <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-txsd-4_20-cr-00455/pdf/USCOURTS-txsd-4_20-cr-00455-0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 arrest</a> disclosed his connections with “various entities or programs owned or operated either directly or indirectly by Chinese companies and/or the People’s Republic of China.” Findings from an investigation show that Cheng failed to report his employment as the “director of a soft matter institute at a technology university founded by China’s Ministry of Education.”

Additionally, <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/2022/09/23/former-texas-am-professor-nasa-researcher-takes-plea-deal-hiding-connections-with-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KBTX</a> reports that court documents say Cheng “willfully took steps to obscure his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese University and at least one Chinese-owned company for several years…” Cheng agreed to pay a fine of $20,000 and $86,876 to NASA. 

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You can contact Texas A&amp;M University at (979) 458-7700
Published — November 4, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/anthropology/profile/cynthia-werner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cynthia Werner</a> is a Professor of Anthropology and an Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&amp;M University. According to Werner’s university profile, her research has “shifted to projects that look at diversity, equity, and inclusion issues affecting faculty in higher education.” She is also part of a collaborative research team that looks at “fairness and bias in promotion and tenure review cases.” 

According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20506">Campus Reform</a>, Werner and a few other educators recently published an article, titled: “<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/promotion-rejected-your-record-may-not-be-the-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Promotion Rejected? Your Record May Not Be the Problem</a>.” The article was published by the <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/promotion-rejected-your-record-may-not-be-the-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>, also known as “The Chronicle.” In this publication, Werner and other educators elaborate on a study of fairness and bias in tenure and promotion which “suggests that some candidates are spurned for reasons beyond their control.” The study, “<a href="https://uh.edu/class/psychology/promotionandtenurestudy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fairness and Bias in Promotion and Tenure</a>,” is being conducted through the University of Houston with multiple educators and faculty members, including Werner. The website’s mission statement is to “Determine structural barriers around promotion and tenure limiting the advancement of minority faculty and ultimately the inclusion of all demographic groups in Science.” 

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The authors of this article argue, “People of color, especially women of color, are the most unlikely to receive promotions or get onboarded… [A]s a woman of color in an otherwise all-white or primarily white department, and particularly in a department that is also male dominated, you may have been at a disadvantage at the outset in terms of fit…” 
Published — November 3, 2022

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<a href="https://www.muhlenberg.edu/academics/soc-anth/facultyandstaff/maurafinkelstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maura Finkelstein</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College. She describes herself as an “anti-Zionist Jew” and teaches a course called “The Anthropology of Palestine.”
Finkelstein penned a 2021 article for <a href="https://www.academia.edu/64586569/May_Your_Classroom_Be_A_Sea_Of_Change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia</a> titled “May Your Classroom Be a Sea of Change: Further Thoughts on Teaching About Palestine.” She writes:
“When I teach my course on Palestine, I tell my students that this story is actually chillingly simple: when we turn on our televisions or open our newspapers, we are watching the unchecked oppression and violence of a settler colonial genocide play out before us, funded by the most powerful country in the world, the United States.” 
Finkelstein says students spend the first two weeks of her course reading about “settler colonialism” from North America before turning to Palestinian literature. She claims she is not interested in the course having a “both sides” discourse; rather, she is interested “in speaking truth to power.”
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After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Finkelstein took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share a photo of herself wearing a keffiyeh scarf and demanding a “stop [to] the ongoing genocide by the Israeli and American war machines.”
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On October 16, 2023, Finkelstein <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf/status/1713915166700503200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a Google doc</a> on X titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16yk29XClwa-icZPDZ4zTZAzFAKOfpz5T4qhW3flz6Pw/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Questions/Answers About the Gaza Genocide</a>” that she drafted for the university’s student newspaper. When asked “Who is Hamas and what is their goal,” Finkelstein’s response neglects to mention that Hamas is a globally-recognized terrorist organization, referring to them instead as a “liberation group”:
“Hamas emerged in the 1970s, as activists established charities, schools, and medical centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a response to Israel occupying both territories in 1967. It was officially established as a liberation group in 1987, alongside the First Intifada (the uprising). Hamas, who favored armed resistance, didn’t enter politics until 2005, in opposition to the Fatah party, which favored negotiations with Israel. In 2006, an armed conflict left Hamas in charge of Gaza and Fatah in charge of the West Bank. Hamas’s goal is Palestinian liberation.” 
Finkelstein writes that “Palestinians have been living under apartheid for decades” and defines Gaza as the “largest open-air prison in the world.” She claims most Gazans want peace, but “Israel has no intention of allowing this.” She then writes, “With such a reality in mind, it’s understandable that some people in Gaza &#8211; particularly members of Hamas &#8211; would feel they have nothing to lose. Hence, the attacks on October 7th.”
Finkelstein concludes her comments by stating:
“This is not a war, this is genocide. If the US continues to support Israel’s actions of revenge as ethnic cleansing, this catastrophe is our responsibility, as much as theirs.”
Other examples of posts on Finkelstein’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X account</a> include:
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Finkelstein’s comments on social media prompted a petition to circulate on <a href="https://www.change.org/p/muhlenberg-college-must-remove-professor-finkelstein-for-dangerous-pro-hamas-rhetoric?redirect=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Change.org</a> calling for her removal as a professor. The petition—started by the Muhlenberg College Alumni and Supporters—lists several alleged offenses committed by Finkelstein, including a history of “Glorifying Hamas, the Terrorists, and Vilifying Israel.” The alumni write:
“If this is not addressed, we will 1. Not donate to the college or provide any form of support. 2. We will send this document to every Jewish High School in America to ensure that they know Muhlenberg is not a safe place for Jewish students.” 
As of publication, the petition had over 6,000 signatures.
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<a href="https://www.muhlenberg.edu/academics/soc-anth/facultyandstaff/maurafinkelstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maura Finkelstein</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College. She describes herself as an “anti-Zionist Jew” and teaches a course called “The Anthropology of Palestine.”

Finkelstein penned a 2021 article for <a href="https://www.academia.edu/64586569/May_Your_Classroom_Be_A_Sea_Of_Change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia</a> titled “May Your Classroom Be a Sea of Change: Further Thoughts on Teaching About Palestine.” She writes:
“When I teach my course on Palestine, I tell my students that this story is actually chillingly simple: when we turn on our televisions or open our newspapers, we are watching the unchecked oppression and violence of a settler colonial genocide play out before us, funded by the most powerful country in the world, the United States.” 
Finkelstein says students spend the first two weeks of her course reading about “settler colonialism” from North America before turning to Palestinian literature. She claims she is not interested in the course having a “both sides” discourse; rather, she is interested “in speaking truth to power.”

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After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Finkelstein took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share a photo of herself wearing a keffiyeh scarf and demanding a “stop [to] the ongoing genocide by the Israeli and American war machines.”

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On October 16, 2023, Finkelstein <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf/status/1713915166700503200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a Google doc</a> on X titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16yk29XClwa-icZPDZ4zTZAzFAKOfpz5T4qhW3flz6Pw/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Questions/Answers About the Gaza Genocide</a>” that she drafted for the university’s student newspaper. When asked “Who is Hamas and what is their goal,” Finkelstein’s response neglects to mention that Hamas is a globally-recognized terrorist organization, referring to them instead as a “liberation group”:
“Hamas emerged in the 1970s, as activists established charities, schools, and medical centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a response to Israel occupying both territories in 1967. It was officially established as a liberation group in 1987, alongside the First Intifada (the uprising). Hamas, who favored armed resistance, didn’t enter politics until 2005, in opposition to the Fatah party, which favored negotiations with Israel. In 2006, an armed conflict left Hamas in charge of Gaza and Fatah in charge of the West Bank. Hamas’s goal is Palestinian liberation.” 
Finkelstein writes that “Palestinians have been living under apartheid for decades” and defines Gaza as the “largest open-air prison in the world.” She claims most Gazans want peace, but “Israel has no intention of allowing this.” She then writes, “With such a reality in mind, it’s understandable that some people in Gaza - particularly members of Hamas - would feel they have nothing to lose. Hence, the attacks on October 7th.”

Finkelstein concludes her comments by stating:
“This is not a war, this is genocide. If the US continues to support Israel’s actions of revenge as ethnic cleansing, this catastrophe is our responsibility, as much as theirs.”
Other examples of posts on Finkelstein’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X account</a> include:

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3258" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-02-at-2.25.43-PM-1024x894.png" alt="" width="640" height="559" />

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3259" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-02-at-2.25.49-PM-1024x643.png" alt="" width="640" height="402" />

Finkelstein’s comments on social media prompted a petition to circulate on <a href="https://www.change.org/p/muhlenberg-college-must-remove-professor-finkelstein-for-dangerous-pro-hamas-rhetoric?redirect=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Change.org</a> calling for her removal as a professor. The petition—started by the Muhlenberg College Alumni and Supporters—lists several alleged offenses committed by Finkelstein, including a history of “Glorifying Hamas, the Terrorists, and Vilifying Israel.” The alumni write:
“If this is not addressed, we will 1. Not donate to the college or provide any form of support. 2. We will send this document to every Jewish High School in America to ensure that they know Muhlenberg is not a safe place for Jewish students.” 
As of publication, the petition had over 6,000 signatures.

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Published - November 6, 2023

Antisemitism

Terror Supporter

Maura Finkelstein

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<a href="https://www.umass.edu/economics/wolff">Dr. Richard Wolff</a> is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Wolff has been called the most prominent Marxist economist in America. He has authored and co-authored several books, including Capitalism, Hits the Fan, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Wolff has been an activist for Marxist economic policy for decades.

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<a href="https://www.umass.edu/economics/wolff">Dr. Richard Wolff</a> is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Wolff has been called the most prominent Marxist economist in America. He has authored and co-authored several books, including Capitalism, Hits the Fan, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Wolff has been an activist for Marxist economic policy for decades.

<a href="https://www.umass.edu/communication/people/profile/sut-jhally">Dr. Sut Jhally</a> is a Professor of Communication at UMass-Amherst. He is infamous for his politically loaded Twitter account. He has tweeted that “The New Republican party - American Terrorist,” and that “The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery.” He has also said that conservative Supreme Court justices are “frat-boy fascists” and that the media has demonized the late socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is an <a href="https://www.umass.edu/wgss/member/cameron-awkward-rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Students</a>, in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a member of the LGBTQ community and uses the pronouns he/him. 

Awkward-Rich conducts research in the areas of trans/feminist/queer theory, black studies, poetry, and experimental writing to explore transgender aesthetics and cultural production.

Awkward-Rich teaches “<a href="https://www.umass.edu/wgss/sites/default/files/assets/wgss/wgss_393t_-_awkward-rich_cameron_-_reading_transgender.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reading Transgender</a>,” a discussion-based course focusing on contemporary LGBTQ literature. Her course titled “<a href="https://www.umass.edu/wgss/sites/default/files/assets/wgss/297tc_intro_to_trans_studies_syllabus_-_awkward-rich.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to Transgender Studies</a>” is designed to answer questions such as: “What does trans mean and how has its meaning been shaped by regimes of gender, racism, colonization, ableism, and medical and legal regulations?”

Awkward-Rich is an author and spoken-word artist who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cameron+awkward-rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uses live monologues to air thoughts</a> on “white privilege,” sexual experiences, and LGBTQ issues. Awkward-Rich also hosts a personal website <a href="https://www.cawkwardrich.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawkwardrich.com</a> that connects readers to poetry communities.

Awkward-Rich joined another author to read poetry and answer questions in a <a href="https://youtu.be/II_wQSndZpI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtual book festival</a>. During the Q&amp;A, an attendee asked about the epigraph in Awkward-Rich’s book “Dispatch” — the inscription addresses <a href="https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-1785/#:~:text=Notes%20on%20the%20State%20of%20Virginia%2C%20by%20Thomas%20Jefferson%2C%20is,American%20book%20written%20before%201800." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia</a>. 

Awkward-Rich says, “I kept running into [a] quote [of his] over and over again. And at first it was like, obviously this is racist. But then I was like, how funny…and how great would it be if, in fact, one of the things that came out of being black was an inability for anybody to ever be able to read my feelings…"
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Published - October 14, 2022

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John O. Brennan is a <a href="https://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/about/leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distinguished Scholar</a> and <a href="https://www.strausscenter.org/person/john-o-brennan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior Advisor to the Intelligence Studies Project</a> at the <a href="https://www.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas-Austin</a>. Brennan also serves as a <a href="https://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org/fellows#john-o-brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distinguished Fellow for Global Security</a> for the Center on National Security at <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/site/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fordham University</a>.
Prior to both roles, Brennan served as the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) </a>from 2013 to 2017. His service and post-CIA career have been marred with controversies, including allegations of spying on political opponents, overseas clandestine operations, and incendiary comments towards conservatives and libertarians.
In 2014, the CIA was <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/03/11/289085076/feinsteins-cia-outrage-splits-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused by California Senator Dianne Feinstein of illegally accessing the computers of Senate staffers</a> investigating the use of “enhanced interrogation” against detainees. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/brennan-denies-claims-cia-hacked-senate-computers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan initially denied the allegations</a>, stating that, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Brennan was later forced to apologize when an Inspector General report found that <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213933-cia-admits-to-wrongly-hacking-into-senate-computers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate computers were in fact “hacked” by CIA officials</a>.
Brennan has been accused of arming radical Islamists during the Syrian Civil War. As The American Conservative documents, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-america-armed-terrorists-in-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The CIA—under Brennan&#8217;s direction—played a significant role in supplying deadly weapons to al-Qaeda affiliates</a> in an attempt to topple the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad.
In his final years as CIA director, Brennan played a prominent role in what later became known as “Russiagate.” During the 2016 general election, intelligence agencies attempted to determine whether or not then-presidential candidate Donald Trump coordinated with the Russian Government to <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/288883-wikileaks-posts-20000-dnc-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hack and release sensitive emails from the Democratic National Committee</a>. Special Counsel Robert Mueller later found that there was <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/mueller-report-found-no-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-justice-dept/a-48046468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence of any coordination between the Trump Campaign and the Russian Government</a>.
While investigating Trump, John Brennan relied on allegations in what became known as the “Steele Dossier”— <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545289362/researcher-behind-unverified-trump-dossier-meets-senate-investigators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of salacious allegations and potentially compromising information against Donald Trump</a> — compiled by British Intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/steeles-dossier-source-was-a-suspected-russian-spy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">source for the dossier was later found to be a suspected Russian Spy,</a> who likely <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/453384-fbis-spreadsheet-puts-a-stake-through-the-heart-of-steeles-dossier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exaggerated or falsified his information</a>.
Despite <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agents flagging the information as false</a>, the Steele Dossier was later used as the basis to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/09/ig-report-confirms-no-fisa-warrant-on-carter-page-without-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtain warrants to surveil members of the Trump campaign</a>. Initially pushing to include the information, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/09/brennan-lied-about-not-including-steele-dossier-in-intelligence-community-assessment-on-2016-russian-election-interference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan later lied under congressional oath, stating he did not include the Steele Dossier in intelligence briefings</a>.
Declassified, handwritten notes from Brennan further show that he assisted in <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/dni-releases-cia-documents-hillary-204337457.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">efforts to tie the Trump campaign to Russia</a> to benefit the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is consistent with testimony accusing <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/12/fox-news-john-brennan-russia-hillary-clinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan of suppressing intelligence that the Russian Government wanted Hillary Clinton to win</a> the 2016 presidential election.
Brennan continued to publically attack President Trump after the 2016 election, accusing <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/19/brennan_on_sunday_i_stand_by_accusing_president_trump_of_treason.html#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">him of “treason” against the United States on behalf of Russia</a>. Brennan <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/05/25/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-ive-seen-no-evidence-collusion-russia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admits that he has seen no evidence that Donald Trump colluded</a> with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.
Following the Capital Hill riots, John Brennan <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352007118392582148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1352007118392582148%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearechange.org%2Feven-libertarians-john-brennan-issues-list-of-ideologies-biden-intel-community-should-go-after%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has described libertarians as terrorists and white supremacists</a>.
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On his personal Twitter account, Brennan demands that conservatives need to publically recant their support of Donald Trump and admit that it was wrong to support the President of the United States.
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Anyone now seeking national redemption by claiming to no longer support Trump must acknowledge how wrong it was to ignore &amp; enable his corrupt, dishonest, &amp; divisive agenda.
Total denunciation of a despot’s legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy.
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1348051973174652928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with MSNBC, Brennan <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/fmr-cia-dir-brennan-republicans-will-continue-to-gaslight-the-country-101798469719" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> that many conservatives make him “embarrassed to be a white man.”
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Brennan has admitted in the past that he voted for the Communist Party in past elections. According to CNN, Brennan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounts</a> that he admitted to voting for the Communist Party Candidate, Gus Hall, in the 1976 general election. Brennan is reported <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> that voting for Hall was his way of “signaling his unhappiness of the system.”
As The Spectator <a href="https://spectator.org/john-brennans-president-remembering-comrade-gus-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Gus Hall was a four-time presidential candidate and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Throughout his career, Hall defended atrocities committed by the Soviet Union while secretly receiving tens of millions of dollars from the Kremlin.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas 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.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas-Austin</a> at (512) 471-3434
Updated &#8211; August 26, 2021

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Published – December 13, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) launched a new LGBTQ course in Fall 2024. “<a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to LGBT Studies</a>,” taught by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibeksahinler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Ipek Sahinler</a>, features assigned reading that promotes the sexualization of minors. The course description states:
“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”
Learning outcomes for the course include, but are not limited to:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate a strong understanding of LGBTQ+ studies and its historical context–both locally and globally,” </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate how gender intersects with race, class, ability, and other social constructs,” and </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Use and produce language to go beyond binaristic ways of thinking.”</li>
</ul>
Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 
In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:
“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”
The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” is only one hyper-sexualized course among several undergraduate credit hours available to students in the <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/wgss/courses/lgbtq-studies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBT Studies</a> and Women’s, <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lgbtq/undergraduate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> programs.
Send feedback on The University of Texas at Austin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/jennifer_adair">Dr. Jennifer Adair</a> is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Adair proposed indoctrinating children as young as kindergarten in racial issues, in order to ‘prevent another Ferguson.' One proposed project involved having the students make protest signs about racial injustice or other art projects about school integration or bus boycotts. Adair and the other professors working with her drew heavily from the philosophy of historian Howard Zinn in their effort.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jn324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Joan Neuberger</a>, a professor at University of Texas-Austin led anti-campus carry efforts, including a petition to bar students who conceal carry from entering classrooms, in violation of Texas law. A change.org petition organized by the same group said, “WE OPPOSE GUNS IN OUR CLASSROOMS AS A DIRECT ASSAULT ON OUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.” Despite her proclamations about the dangers of guns, Neuberger is not actually a statistician or criminal justice professor, but a Russian history professor.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/jt27">John Traphagan</a> is a Professor Emeritus in the Religious Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin.

In 2015, Traphagan wrote an opinion piece for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151014135802/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150518-john-traphagan-when-will-we-examine-our-heavily-armed-culture.ece">The Dallas Morning News</a> titled “When will we examine our heavily armed culture?” In his article, Traphagan calls for gun control measures and says “Americans do not seem to be able to handle gun ownership in a way that permits maintenance of a civil society.” He writes:
“There is simply no need for a civilized society to tolerate the type of gun-related violence that Americans seem to accept as normal. Other modern industrial countries have realized, in some cases long ago, that it is unnecessary for people in a free society to have easy access to guns.” 
Traphagan claims “the solution to gun-related crime is not further arming the public.” Rather, he argues:
“It involves enacting comprehensive gun control laws that prohibit many forms of gun ownership, significantly curtailing or eliminating access to and the ability to purchase guns, and implementing programs in which the government confiscates or purchases illegal guns already in circulation among the public.” 
Furthermore, Traphagan claims that “Americans need to recognize that one of the greatest threats to national security is their own heavily armed population.” To fix this problem, he writes, “Unfortunately, our proven inability to handle widespread gun ownership suggests strongly that the way to do this is to deeply restrict access to and ownership of most types of guns.”

He concludes his article by saying that people would be better off in a society with no guns because they would have “peace of mind and experience freedom from violence and the freedom to pursue their lives in safety and happiness rather than fear.”

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Updated - August 2024

<a href="http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/robert-jensen">Dr. Robert Jensen</a> is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin. In an essay on a social justice website, Jensen argued that rape is part of the larger violent, patriarchy. He told Campus Reform that, “I don’t believe there will be any serious progress toward eliminating men’s violence against women if we do not address the toxic notions about masculinity in patriarchy—masculinity understood as rooted in control, conquest, aggression.” Jensen also attacked a major anti-sexual assault group for blaming the perpetrators for rape, instead of focusing on the patriarchal culture as the main cause.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/sas347">Snehal Shingavi</a> is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.

While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Shingavi co-founded the anti-Israel group <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/sjp">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP) with Professor Hatem Bazian.  SJP is known for its vitriolic campaigns and aggressively confronting Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus. They are also known for their active role in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns on university campuses.

Snehal first generated controversy at UC Berkeley in 2002 for his <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/7789/hardball-interview-with-snehal-shingavi">course</a>, "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance." The course description alleged that Israel has “systematically displaced, killed and maimed millions of Palestinian people.”

The course also all, but outright barred conservative students from attending: “This class takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination. Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.”

Now teaching at UT Austin, <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Snehal_Shingavi">Shehal</a> is a regular at protests and events committed to demonizing Israel. During a 2014 lecture, he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGtcdPL244&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=13m15s">likened</a> Israel to Nazi Germany, claiming, “This is not me being hyperbolic…..Gaza is the biggest open air concentration camp in the world today and the condition of life in Gaza is not dissimilar to life in Auschwitz and Dachau.”

Thomas K. Hubbard was the James R. Dougherty Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190905194331/https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/354/thomas_k_hubbard_curriculum_vitae.pdf">who taught at the University of Texas-Austin from 1988 t0 2021</a>. Hubbard’s body of research included ancient pederasty – adult male sexual relations with underage boys  – which Hubbard calls the “<a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/17/ut-students-protest-professors-house-over-his-writings-on-sexual-relations-between-men-and-boys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">romantic courtship</a>” of teenage boys by older men.

Writing in the peer-reviewed Thymos Journal of Boyhood Studies, Hubbard detailed this position in an article titled, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276216200_Sexual_Consent_and_the_Adolescent_Male_or_What_Can_We_Learn_from_the_Greeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sexual Consent and the Adolescent Male, or What Can We Learn From the Greeks</a>. Hubbard <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/12/18/a-ut-professor-advocates-pedophilia-why-are-we-paying-for-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that there are great benefits to relationships between older men and teenage boys by appealing to the portrayal of these relationships in Greek artworks and myths.

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Hubbard also <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/12/18/a-ut-professor-advocates-pedophilia-why-are-we-paying-for-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that sexual relationships between teenage boys and adult men can replace the lack of intimacy that a boy might experience if the young man has an absent father.

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Hubbard utilizes his research on pederasty to buoy his advocacy for lowering the federal legal age for sexual consent. Hubbard also <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/17/ut-students-protest-professors-house-over-his-writings-on-sexual-relations-between-men-and-boys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decries age-of-consent laws</a>, calling them a “sad by-product” of the Victorian era that prevented sexual liberation.

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Hubbard made the distinction, in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200216112913if_/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGGrODNSdwudrF1G4uerU2DsRxcSx3DR1Nbn6JOd7ho/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted google document</a>, that he was speaking on behalf of pederasty and not pedophilia. He continues in the Doc by extolling several nations for having age-of-consent laws that were lower than the United States.

Hubbard’s work has been distributed and used by <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/17/ut-students-protest-professors-house-over-his-writings-on-sexual-relations-between-men-and-boys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">groups like the North American Man/Boy Love Association</a> (NAMBLA), which advocates for the abolishment of age-of-consent laws between children and adults.

The University of Texas-Austin’s administration reaffirmed Hibbard’s right to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/students-want-thomas-hubbard-fired-for-work-on-pederasty-but-university-of-texas-says-its-protected-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“explore controversial and offensive ideas</a>.” As of December 2020, <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2020/07/23/ut-professor-accused-of-promoting-pedophilia-sues-student-for-libel/42515639/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hubbard is suing a student and 10 others for libel</a> after they distributed flyers labeling him a pedophile.
UPDATE 
A university spokeswoman has informed the Professor Watchlist team that Thomas Hubbard is no longer employed at the University of Texas. As stated in their response, Dr. Hubbard announced his retirement in July of 2021 and is no longer associated with the University in any capacity.

Despite their written statement, <a href="https://cola.utexas.edu/european_studies/people/faculty/thubbard">Dr. Hubbard was still listed on the university website</a> as a professor in the Center for European Studies at the time of the university's letter

In a follow-up conversation with the university spokeswomen, Dr. Hubbard's profile was removed from the European Studies page and he is no longer listed as a faculty member with the University as of December 15th, 2021.

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Updated - December 15th, 2021

John O. Brennan is a <a href="https://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/about/leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distinguished Scholar</a> and <a href="https://www.strausscenter.org/person/john-o-brennan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior Advisor to the Intelligence Studies Project</a> at the <a href="https://www.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas-Austin</a>. Brennan also serves as a <a href="https://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org/fellows#john-o-brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distinguished Fellow for Global Security</a> for the Center on National Security at <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/site/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fordham University</a>.

Prior to both roles, Brennan served as the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) </a>from 2013 to 2017. His service and post-CIA career have been marred with controversies, including allegations of spying on political opponents, overseas clandestine operations, and incendiary comments towards conservatives and libertarians.

In 2014, the CIA was <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/03/11/289085076/feinsteins-cia-outrage-splits-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused by California Senator Dianne Feinstein of illegally accessing the computers of Senate staffers</a> investigating the use of “enhanced interrogation” against detainees. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/brennan-denies-claims-cia-hacked-senate-computers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan initially denied the allegations</a>, stating that, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Brennan was later forced to apologize when an Inspector General report found that <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213933-cia-admits-to-wrongly-hacking-into-senate-computers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate computers were in fact “hacked” by CIA officials</a>.

Brennan has been accused of arming radical Islamists during the Syrian Civil War. As The American Conservative documents, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-america-armed-terrorists-in-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The CIA—under Brennan's direction—played a significant role in supplying deadly weapons to al-Qaeda affiliates</a> in an attempt to topple the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

In his final years as CIA director, Brennan played a prominent role in what later became known as “Russiagate.” During the 2016 general election, intelligence agencies attempted to determine whether or not then-presidential candidate Donald Trump coordinated with the Russian Government to <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/288883-wikileaks-posts-20000-dnc-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hack and release sensitive emails from the Democratic National Committee</a>. Special Counsel Robert Mueller later found that there was <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/mueller-report-found-no-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-justice-dept/a-48046468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence of any coordination between the Trump Campaign and the Russian Government</a>.

While investigating Trump, John Brennan relied on allegations in what became known as the “Steele Dossier”— <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545289362/researcher-behind-unverified-trump-dossier-meets-senate-investigators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of salacious allegations and potentially compromising information against Donald Trump</a> — compiled by British Intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/steeles-dossier-source-was-a-suspected-russian-spy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">source for the dossier was later found to be a suspected Russian Spy,</a> who likely <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/453384-fbis-spreadsheet-puts-a-stake-through-the-heart-of-steeles-dossier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exaggerated or falsified his information</a>.

Despite <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agents flagging the information as false</a>, the Steele Dossier was later used as the basis to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/09/ig-report-confirms-no-fisa-warrant-on-carter-page-without-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtain warrants to surveil members of the Trump campaign</a>. Initially pushing to include the information, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/09/brennan-lied-about-not-including-steele-dossier-in-intelligence-community-assessment-on-2016-russian-election-interference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan later lied under congressional oath, stating he did not include the Steele Dossier in intelligence briefings</a>.

Declassified, handwritten notes from Brennan further show that he assisted in <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/dni-releases-cia-documents-hillary-204337457.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">efforts to tie the Trump campaign to Russia</a> to benefit the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is consistent with testimony accusing <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/12/fox-news-john-brennan-russia-hillary-clinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan of suppressing intelligence that the Russian Government wanted Hillary Clinton to win</a> the 2016 presidential election.

Brennan continued to publically attack President Trump after the 2016 election, accusing <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/19/brennan_on_sunday_i_stand_by_accusing_president_trump_of_treason.html#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">him of “treason” against the United States on behalf of Russia</a>. Brennan <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/05/25/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-ive-seen-no-evidence-collusion-russia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admits that he has seen no evidence that Donald Trump colluded</a> with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.

Following the Capital Hill riots, John Brennan <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352007118392582148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1352007118392582148%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearechange.org%2Feven-libertarians-john-brennan-issues-list-of-ideologies-biden-intel-community-should-go-after%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has described libertarians as terrorists and white supremacists</a>.

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On his personal Twitter account, Brennan demands that conservatives need to publically recant their support of Donald Trump and admit that it was wrong to support the President of the United States.
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Anyone now seeking national redemption by claiming to no longer support Trump must acknowledge how wrong it was to ignore &amp; enable his corrupt, dishonest, &amp; divisive agenda.
Total denunciation of a despot’s legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy.

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1348051973174652928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with MSNBC, Brennan <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/fmr-cia-dir-brennan-republicans-will-continue-to-gaslight-the-country-101798469719" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> that many conservatives make him “embarrassed to be a white man.”

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Brennan has admitted in the past that he voted for the Communist Party in past elections. According to CNN, Brennan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounts</a> that he admitted to voting for the Communist Party Candidate, Gus Hall, in the 1976 general election. Brennan is reported <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> that voting for Hall was his way of “signaling his unhappiness of the system.”

As The Spectator <a href="https://spectator.org/john-brennans-president-remembering-comrade-gus-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Gus Hall was a four-time presidential candidate and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Throughout his career, Hall defended atrocities committed by the Soviet Union while secretly receiving tens of millions of dollars from the Kremlin.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas 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.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas-Austin</a> at (512) 471-3434
Updated - August 26, 2021

Dr. Kevin Cokley is the <a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/kevin_cokley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology</a> as well as a Professor of African American Diaspora Studies and Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas - Austin. He is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and is published in many outlets, including Journal of Black Psychology, The Huffington Post, and The Hill. Dr. Cokley has taught many courses, some of which are Psychology of African American Experience and Multicultural Counseling.

Dr. Cokley is very openly pro-critical race theory. <a href="https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/2021/07/15/viewpoint-teaching-critical-race-theory-patriotic-not-anti-american/7982099002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an opinion piece for Courier &amp; Press</a>, Dr. Cokley claims that critical race theory is actually patriotic. He accuses conservatives of pushing a false narrative about critical race theory by claiming it’s “divisive, hostile, and anti-American… and teaches kids to hate each other” which is a “politicized misrepresentation.”

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Later in the article, Dr. Cokley makes the claim that the first line of the U.S. Constitution, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…” suggests that even our founders believed America is a work-in progress. According to him, critical race theory reminds us that this is still very true.

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Dr. Cokley <a href="https://redstate.com/alexparker/2021/07/09/usa-today-runs-pro-critical-race-theory-piece-professor-says-crts-not-divisive-or-anti-american-n408847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines critical race theory</a> as an idea “which posits that racism is not simply acts of individual bias or prejudice, but rather is embedded in institutions, policies and legal systems.” While he states he has never explicitly taught critical race theory, he does teach ideas consistent with critical race theory by providing students with examples of how Black inferiority and racism are deeply woven into modern school practices. He asserts that conservatives who are against critical race theory are wanting to prevent any type of discussion around racism or putting America in a negative light. Dr. Cokley argues that there is nothing anti-American about acknowledging the fact that racism is woven into the fabric of the United States.

In June of 2021, Dr. Cokley appeared on a <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/video/690219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segment for Fox 7 News Austin</a> discussing racial injustices. The video shows violent riots after the death of George Floyd while Dr. Cokley justifies this behavior because of racial injustice in America. The clip can be viewed <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/video/690219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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Parents and Students can contact the University of Texas at Austin at (512) 471-3434.

<a href="\&quot;https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/emma_gargroetzi\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="\&quot;noopener\&quot;">Emma Gargroetzi</a> is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. Gargroetzi’s research focuses on identity, power, and educational justice in the mathematical lives of children and youth. Gargroetzi received her Ph.D. from Stanford University with a dual focus on race, inequality, and language in education and in mathematics education.
Gargroetzi has many <a href="\&quot;https://apps.jsg.utexas.edu/profiles/files/cv/Gargroetzi_UT_Profile_CV_2022.08_.01_.pdf\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="\&quot;noopener\&quot;">publications</a> such as:
“Exploring equitable pay for work. Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice in Grades 3-5…”
“Ethics and identity research in the field of mathematics education: Reflections. In Making visible the invisible: The promise and challenges of identity research in mathematics education…”
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She also co-authored an article: <a href="\&quot;https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=23740\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="\&quot;noopener\&quot;">“I Have Gotten Braver”: Growing and Sustaining Critical Mathematics Pedagogies Through a Teacher Community of Praxis</a>. A few statements from the publication are attached below:

“Rather than asserting one shared definition of critical mathematics pedagogy, we read widely and discuss a range of theory and approaches… Readings have focused on critical pedagogy, culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogies, math for social justice, racial justice, gender equity, the involvement of families and communities in classrooms, and questions of equity in mathematics more broadly.”

“Concerns about mathematics education quality in the United States tend to be oriented toward access to participation and success in a fast-paced, rapidly technologizing capitalist economy (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014).”

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Published — September 29, 2022

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/anthony_brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Brown</a> is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas - Austin. Professor Brown’s research focuses on “historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.” Brown is a director of the <a href="https://teachingtxslavery.education.utexas.edu/#/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching Texas Slavery Project</a> which “seeks to help teachers rethink the teaching of slavery and race within the context of the K-12 Texas history curriculum… The overall goal is to transform the teaching of slavery and race across the K-12 social studies curriculum.”

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Professor Brown has authored many publications, such as: 

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279741744_The_Illusion_of_Inclusion_A_Critical_Race_Theory_Textual_Analysis_of_Race_and_Standards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Illusion of Inclusion: A Critical Race Theory Textual Analysis of Race and Standards</a>. Harvard Educational Review, 82(3), 403–424: “In the case of this study, the subjective constructs of race are the ways in which issues of race and racism are rendered in the Texas standards… Racism plays out in schools through the context of unequal and oppressive social relationships among different racial groups (Omi &amp; Winant, 1994). For example, CRT scholars (e.g., Lopez, 2003) suggest that racially neutral macro-level educational laws and policies may dis-guise the salience and impact of racism in schools.” (407). “This is of particular concern because, as scholars note, White, middle-class teachers—who make up the majority of practicing and preparing teachers in the United States (Sleeter, 2008)—often resist addressing the topic of race and racism, a phenomenon related to their privileged and racially isolated social location (Brown &amp; Brown, 2010a; Epstein, 2009).” (420).</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680939.2010.533289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Economies of Racism: Grounding Education Policy Research in the Complex Dialectic of Race, Class, and Capital</a>. Journal of Educational Policy, 26(5), 595–619: “The authors maintain that in recent years educational theory and critical policy discourse have unintentionally become splintered in such a way that race and class theories are employed separately, without much analysis of the concomitant ways race and racism are both embedded in and productive of the material processes of production and exploitation that characterize capitalism... The authors propose the framework of economies of racism to make sense of the complex unity that brings white supremacy and capitalist accumulation together in a single dialectic.”</li>
</ul>
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Published — October 7, 2022

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/noah_de_lissovoy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noah De Lissovoy</a> is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas - Austin.

Professor De Lissovoy's research focuses on critical and emancipatory approaches to pedagogy, curriculum, and cultural studies. His interests are based on problems posed to educators by globalization and the intersecting effects of race, class, and capital in schools and society. Additionally, developing the theoretical resources for social movements and extending and rethinking the traditions of critical pedagogy and philosophy. 

According to <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/12/q-noah-de-lissovoy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Texas Tribune</a>, De Lissovoy participated in a Q&amp;A regarding his book: <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137375315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education and Emancipation in the Neoliberal Era</a>. This book “describes how neoliberalism as societal philosophy works to limit human potential in our school systems. Analyzing contemporary school reform and control, punishment, and pathologization in schools, this book outlines a theory of emancipation and a process by which pedagogy can build solidarity in classrooms and society more broadly.” 

“How does neo-liberalism limit potentials in schools?” 

De Lissovoy states: “It frames learning as an individual process, rather than a social and democratic process. In neo-liberalism, students are trained to understand themselves as in competition, always, with those around them and that their job is to advance themselves and to develop their own human capital and stock of skills against everyone else... It also limits potential because it reduces our collective understanding of what it means to teach and learn to those kinds of activities and understandings that can’t be measured by multiple-choice tests and standardized tests…”

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Professor De Lissovoy has authored many books, such as: 

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/capitalism-pedagogy-and-the-politics-of-being-9781350157453/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitalism, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Being</a>: This book “investigates the relationship between capitalism and coloniality in society and education and reconceptualizes emancipatory theory and pedagogy in response. De Lissovoy exposes a logic of violation at the heart of capitalist accumulation and argues that we need to attend to ontological and epistemological orders of domination within which subjectivity takes shape. Systematically bridging the theoretical traditions of Marxism, Latin American decolonial thought, and critical pedagogy, De Lissovoy shows how a new critical imaginary can reorder curriculum in schools…”</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230612976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation</a>: This book describes how “Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and conservative retrenchment. This book proposes a new framework for critical pedagogy that develops strategies for responding to the proceduralization of schooling and public life in general.” </li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Toward-a-New-Common-School-Movement/Lissovoy-Means-Saltman/p/book/9781612054414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toward a New Common School Movement</a> (Co-author): This book is a “bold and urgent call to action. The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.” </li>
</ul>
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Additionally, his work has been published in many journals and edited collections, including Harvard Educational Review, Curriculum Inquiry, Race Ethnicity and Education, Journal of Education Policy, and Educational Philosophy and Theory. 

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Published — October 5, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/elm377" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric McDaniel</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government, and Co-Director of the <a href="http://pre-lab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab</a> (PRE) at the University of Texas - Austin. A variety of courses are taught with PRE curriculum. For instance, McDaniel co-teaches “<a href="http://pre-lab.org/courses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Comparative Race and Ethnic Politics</a>,” which is based on four topics, such as: “Concept and Measurement,” “Political Behavior,” “Political Institutions,” and “Group Interactions and Intersectionality.”

Additionally, PRE offers several workshops for students. One is titled: “<a href="http://pre-lab.org/minority-representation-and-majority-grievances-radical-right-wing-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minority Representation and Majority Grievances: Explaining Radical Right-Wing Support</a>.”

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McDaniel has a variety of publications, such as:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/everyday-crusade/34A0EF92928EB4E3AC25B014B6DF0FFC#fndtn-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics</a> (2022 – w. Allyson Shortle and Irfan Nooruddin). This text “examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.” </li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.irfannooruddin.org/uploads/3/0/9/6/30962817/mcdanielnooruddinshortle.jrep2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics</a> (McDaniel, Eric, L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). “This paper provides the first scholarly analysis of changing dynamics in national attachment and their impact on conceptions of American identity. Our findings not only expand upon the research on White Anglo national identity attitudes, but also extend to the broader race and politics literature by illustrating the continued conflict when White Anglos repeatedly resist inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities within their historically segregated civic spaces (Bobo and Hutchings 1996; Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1984; Kinder and Sears 1981; Nelson 1972; Sidanius and Pratto 1999).”</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X10371300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divine Boundaries: How Religion Shapes Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants</a> (McDaniel, Eric L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). This text “argue[s] that religion affects immigration attitudes via a distinct religiously informed interpretation of America’s national identity, which we call Christian nationalism. Christian nationalists believe that America has a divinely inspired mission and link its success to God’s favor.”</li>
</ul>
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In an article titled “Talk of ‘Christian nationalism’ is getting a lot louder – but what does the term really mean?“ featured on <a href="https://theconversation.com/talk-of-christian-nationalism-is-getting-a-lot-louder-but-what-does-the-term-really-mean-192378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, McDaniel elaborates on white Christian nationalists. “Christian nationalism is a religious and political belief system that argues the United States was founded by God to be a Christian nation and to complete God’s vision of the world. In this view, America can be governed only by Christians, and the country’s mission is directed by a divine hand.”
Published — November 17, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/ahl568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Liu</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Co-Director of the <a href="http://pre-lab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab</a> (PRE) at the University of Texas - Austin. A variety of courses are taught with the PRE curriculum. For instance, Liu co-teaches “<a href="http://pre-lab.org/courses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Comparative Race and Ethnic Politics</a>.” The course is based on four topics, such as: “Concept and Measurement” “Political Behavior” “Political Institutions” and “Group Interactions and Intersectionality.”

Additionally, PRE offers several workshops for students; one is titled: <a href="http://pre-lab.org/minority-representation-and-majority-grievances-radical-right-wing-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minority Representation and Majority Grievances: Explaining Radical Right-Wing Support</a>. “What motivates electoral support for radical right-wing parties (RRP)? Existing literature argues that people vote for RRPs when majority groups are aggrieved by minority groups.”

Liu’s interests include ethnic, language, and migration politics. Her <a href="http://www.amyhliu.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> and <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/ahl568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a> display a variety of courses she teaches, such as
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">GOV 324J • Govs/Polit Of Eastern Europe. Part of the course description states: “we will examine how these institutional differences affected subsequent democratic transitions and government policies toward minorities. We will conclude by looking at how the European Union has redrawn Eastern Europe by opening up borders and the implications of these opened borders, namely the rise of right wing nationalism.”</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Comparative Race &amp; Ethnic Politics (Fall 2021). Part of the course description states: “The objective of this course is fourfold. The first is to acquaint students with the theoretical literatures on race and ethnic politics. The second is to familiarize students with the process of dataset construction. The third is to train students to carry out various types of writing assignments that political scientists – or social scientists more broadly – are frequently required to perform. And the fourth is to enable students to move towards a working paper – if not a dissertation project.”</li>
</ul>
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The tweet below shows Liu’s thoughts on non-binary pronouns:
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The politics of language evolution is like the academic equivalent of opening🎄🎁 !!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/languagesarefun?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#languagesarefun</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wannabelinguist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wannabelinguist</a> Q: How does one pronounce iel? Looking at you - especially ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ClaireAdida?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ClaireAdida</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MikeMikeMed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MikeMikeMed</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/kWQAHVpGwP">https://t.co/kWQAHVpGwP</a>
— Amy H. Liu (@dramyhliu) <a href="https://twitter.com/dramyhliu/status/1461375990836379656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://experts.utexas.edu/kathrynn_pounders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kate Pounders</a> is an Associate Professor at the Stan Richards School of Advertising &amp; Public Relations at the University of Texas - Austin. 

In an email obtained by <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ut-austin-research-program-teaches-white-4-year-olds-about-anti-black-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Kate Pounders and two other professors announced a study to learn how young children hold racist beliefs and attitudes. The endeavor is officially titled <a href="https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eqZcrUWQ1Sc7rDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOKAR!</a>, which stands for, “Kids Against Racism.” 

The letter states the researchers are interested in studying children who are 4-5 years of age and have not started kindergarten. The qualifications for applicants stipulate the “child and caregiver must both self-identify as white.” 

The program will gauge how caregivers may reduce racial bias and increase awareness around racism after engaging in dialogue about “anti-black racism” with children at home. 

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Participants will undergo Four weeks of engagement and one-on-one sessions with team members. Those who participate will be awarded a $25 gift card. 

The submission form obtained by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/19/university-texas-taxpayer-funds-anti-blackness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Caller</a> states that systemic racism exists and structurally benefits white people whether they are aware of it or not: 

“Generally, white people conceive of racism as prejudice, while people of color typically see racism as systemic or institutionalized…The reality is both of these forms of racism — individual, implicit biases and structural racism through policies and institutions — exist simultaneously.”

In the study’s citations section, there are numerous works by anti-racist and critical theorists such as <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/robindiangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robin DeAngelo</a> and <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X Kendi</a>. Readers may learn more about these professors on their respective profiles on the Professor Watchlist. <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/19/university-texas-taxpayer-funds-anti-blackness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">While the program was officially suspended in the fall of 2021</a> pending a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for  Civil Rights, the study soon began accepting applicants again.

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Published - December 5, 2022

Lyndon Gill is an Associate Professor of African and American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. According to his <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/lkg236" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a>, Gill’s interests include, “Queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity and community building.” 

His publication, “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/erotic-islands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean</a>,” analyzes “the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.” In this book, Gill focuses on “lesbian/gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political-sensual-spiritual lens through which to see self and society more clearly.”

Gill offers a variety of courses including, but not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li>“Sex &amp; Power in African Dysphoria</li>
 	<li>Black Queer Spirit Worlds</li>
 	<li>HIV/AIDS Activism/Heal Arts</li>
 	<li>Black Queer Art Worlds”</li>
</ul>
According to his <a href="https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/4763/Gill,%20Lyndon%20-%20CV%202018.04.10.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum vitae</a>, Gill has contributed to many peer-reviewed articles. A few are listed below:
<ul>
 	<li>“I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism &amp; the Queer Afterlife of Faith</li>
 	<li>Chatting Back an Epidemic: Trinidadian Gay Men, HIV/AIDS and the Uses of Erotic Subjectivity</li>
 	<li>Situating Black, Situating Queer: Black Queer Diaspora Studies and the Art of Embodied Listening”</li>
</ul>
According to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Gill joined a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> regarding “Black Queer Religions, Afro-Indigenous, and New Religions.” The panel examined queer and quare terminologies. They discussed how “quare is a derivative of queer;” and one speaker noted that the term quare means “to be black, queer, and religious in various ways.”

In regards to "quare’s etymology," Gill stated that it is a “regional vernacular redeployment of 'queer' in a North Carolinian, African American tongue of a certain generation.” Additionally, he noted how the words are “shades of each other” such as the colors “lavender and purple.” Quare “reminds us to resist the tempting universalizing impulse of 'queer.'"

You can view the panel below: 

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Published – July 14, 2023

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lgbtq/faculty/aha2343">Aaron Aceves</a> is a Provost Fellow in the LGBTQ Studies/College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His faculty biography includes he/him pronouns and records his sexual preference as “bisexual.”

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Aceves was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/while-universities-refuse-to-fire-anti-semites-the-private-sector-holds-them-accountable/24277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after adding his signature to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oU0LTAsKiGOMxfXnKcxpw-GJV6w5uiMP/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open statement</a> that said:
“We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of Israel and the violent settler colonial apartheid state. We strongly condemn the response of [W]estern media and political actors at all levels of government in their dissemination of misinformation and propaganda, intended to manufacture consent for the genocide of Palestinian people.”
The statement goes on to state:
“Islamophobic, genocidal, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian rhetoric are all rooted in the languages we use. It is our responsibility to lay bare how language has been used to obscure and preserve the ongoing settler colonial project outside Gaza…”
The signatories' list of political declarations includes:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” and </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the [W]est, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobia and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been taken down but remains accessible via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Please send any information regarding Aaron Aceves to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 2, 2023

<a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Vladeck</a> is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at UTA and is “a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national law, and military justice.”

On February 12, 2024, Vladeck <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230835881/texas-law-professor-says-influx-of-migrants-doesnt-meet-the-definition-of-invasi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in an interview</a> on KJZZ 91.5 titled “Texas law professor says influx of migrants doesn’t meet the definition of invasion.” According to the interview transcript, Vladeck described Texas authorities’ southern border security efforts as a “sort of slow escalation of first supplementing federal authority and increasingly trying to supplant it.”

When asked if border policies were the “federal government’s business,” Vladeck stated:
“[T]hat’s the basic argument, and it’s the one that has a lot of support in decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence. I mean, for better or for worse, immigration policy is the job of the federal government, not the states. [I]t really wouldn’t make a lot of sense if Texas and New Mexico and Arizona and California could all have different policies about how to police the U.S.-Mexico border. If it comes down to a policy dispute between the states and the federal government, it’s pretty clear who’s supposed to win those.”
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In January, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/22/texas-border-supreme-court-immigration/">The Texas Tribune</a> reported that the order from SCOTUS to allow federal border agents access to the Texas-Mexico border “did not explain [the] justices’ decision.” The source said, “For now, it effectively upholds longstanding court rulings that the Constitution gives the federal government sole responsibility for border security.”

However, the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt4-6-6-3/ALDE_00000239/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a>—which grants the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search and seizures” —does not permit immigrants to illegally enter the United States. The Amendment further states, “Under the ‘border search exception,’ federal officers may generally conduct routine warrantless searches of persons and items entering the United States without reasonable suspicion or probable cause of unlawful activity.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/topics/border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> states, “Protecting our borders from the illicit movement of weapons, drugs, contraband, and people, while promoting lawful entry and exit, and lawful trade, is essential to homeland security, economic prosperity, and national sovereignty.” DHS’s explanation under “<a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presumption of Lawful Admission</a>” does not clarify the current southern border crisis—namely, human smuggling and trafficking as well as the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rodas-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exploitation and disappearance of reportedly 85,000 minor children</a>.



Vladek told the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230835881/texas-law-professor-says-influx-of-migrants-doesnt-meet-the-definition-of-invasi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KJZZ 91.5</a> host:
“[T]here’s plenty of evidence from founding-era sources…that an invasion meant [an] armed attack by an organized party. But migrants crossing the border without authorization—that’s just never been understood to meet that definition. But even if it did, even the folks who don’t find that persuasive, the authority of the Constitution grants to states in circumstances in which they are…‘actually involved’...to defend themselves until the federal government is able to show up.”
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Please send information on Professor Stephen Vladeck to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mals/faculty/kc32638" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karma Chávez</a> is Chair and Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA). Her interests include “social movements, queer of color critique, abolition, rhetoric, and coalitions.” In her faculty profile, Chávez states:
“My scholarship is primarily informed by queer of color theory and women of color feminism. Methodologically, I am a rhetorical critic who utilizes textual and field-based methods. I am interested in studying social movement building, activist rhetoric, and coalition politics.” 
In 2019, Chávez published “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Palestine_on_the_Air/yqG0DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=palestine+on+the+air&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine on the Air</a>,” a book comprised of interviews she conducted among residents of Gaza. Chávez’s <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p084850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publisher</a>, the University of Illinois Press, said:
“Few doubt the pro-Israel bias of the Western media. It takes the form of overtly supporting Israel’s government policies, or of maintaining neutrality or silence on issues of Israeli violence, occupation, and settlement expansion. Scholar and activist [Chávez] collects eleven interviews that allow dissenting voices a forum to provide rarely heard perspectives on the Palestinian struggle for justice, land, and self-determination.”
In the book introduction, Chávez writes:
“A U.S. audience remains important in conversations about Palestine, not just so that people will make conceptual connections like ‘their walls are our walls,’ although such basic links are valuable. Instead, a U.S. audience is important because the United States is so deeply implicated in the ongoing occupation and apartheid conditions of Palestine/Israel.”
In an undated publication, Masters in Communication <a href="https://www.mastersincommunications.com/scholarly-interviews/dr-karma-chavez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Chávez about statements she made in her book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Borders_of_AIDS/Gwo1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Borders of Aids: Race, Quarantine and Resistance</a>.” The transcript shows Chávez was asked, “How do you view the alienating rhetoric surrounding HIV/AIDS that you trace [in your book] as relevant to understanding the current COVID-19 pandemic?” She responded:

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<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bedour Alagraa</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought at the University of Texas at Austin. According to Alagraa’s faculty profile, she is a self-described ‘wayward political theorist’ with primary interests in “Political theory, Caribbean political thought, Black Marxism(s), [and] African anti-colonial thought.”

Alagraa—a contributing author for ROAR Magazine—wrote two pieces covering the “black struggle” of the Sudanese and the liberation of black Americans. Alagraa penned an <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/now-is-the-time-black-struggle-from-sudan-to-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> titled “Now is the time: Black struggle from Sudan to the US” in which she called on readers to “reflect on the radical movements” like the George Floyd riots. 

While comparing the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g2EapP_sQ09FTDSVPdAA8YI_RieflH6n/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legitimate oppression</a> of Sudanese people and the 2018 political uprisings to alleged racism issues in 2020 America, Alagraa stated:

“The purpose here is not to conflate the struggles of the Sudanese people with other struggles…The point, rather, is to understand how [b]lack struggles globally are co-constitutive and kindred. This moment demands that we draw lessons and motivation from one another, and recognize that local ecologies of struggle hold the keys to a transnational and anti-national understanding of liberation.”

In her <a href="https://roarmag.org/magazine/pendulum-swing-black-liberation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> titled “The Pendulum Swing of Black Liberation,” Alagraa further claimed:

“This piece focused on the activation of struggles, and less so on the reality that each movement for liberation was met with a deepening repression and political conservatism…Black people’s struggles have never been limited to ‘inter’ or ‘between’ nations, but oftentimes rather against, with total disregard for, the nation or the nation-state.”

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The description of Alagraa’s undergraduate course “<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Political Thought</a>” says, in part:

“Black political reflection is constituted by a distinctive and ongoing preoccupation with freedom. Conceived and practiced in and/or against the political evils of slavery, segregation, racial terror, and mass incarceration, these reflections rank among political theory’s most acute treatments of freedom and domination.”

Additional <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332#:~:text=BIOGRAPHY-,COURSES,-AFR%20370%20%E2%80%A2%20Political" target="_blank" rel="noopener">race-based courses</a> taught by Alagraa include:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Black Studies Theory” — Parts I of this course answer questions such as “What is race?” “What is blackness?” and “What is the relationship of slavery to capitalism, empire, war, and democracy?” Part II supposedly covers “[a]n in-depth exploration of…African diaspora social structures and cultural traditions.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Alienation and Freedom” — summarized a seminar “which focuses on the problem of alienation as a predicament for [b]lack radical anticolonal[sic] thought and politics.”</li>
</ul>
Please send tips and updates on Bedour Alagraa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/complit/gradstudents/is8543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibek Sahinler</a> is a Professor of rhetoric and writing at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Sanhinler—who posted she/her pronouns on her faculty profile—has multiple areas of interest, including, “queer theory,” “queer Global South,” and “writing and gender studies.”

Sahinler was named in an article by <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/longhorn-scorecard/ut-austin-course-promotes-lgbt-agenda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Scorecard</a> titled “UT-Austin Course Promotes ‘LGBT’ Agenda.” After pointing out the “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/native-land-whiners-should-match-words-deeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land acknowledgment</a>” on the first page of the <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a>, Scorecard wrote:

“[UT-Austin] is offering an ‘Introduction to LGBT Studies’ course this fall [2024]. A required course textbook promotes the sexualization of minors…The instructor is UT-Austin PhD candidate, Ibek Sahinler. The course’s general guidelines contain even more left-wing framing.”

The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” course description states:

“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”

Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 

In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:

“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”

Sahinler's faculty bio says, “She likes thinking about the intersections between the Middle East and Latin America, borderland studies, identity politics, rhetoric of failure, and linguistic queerness.” However, this professor has not published any books or peer-reviewed writings showing a legitimate contribution to higher learning. 

Send tips, updates, and feedback on Ibek Sahinler to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published – December 13, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) launched a new LGBTQ course in Fall 2024. “<a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to LGBT Studies</a>,” taught by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibeksahinler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Ipek Sahinler</a>, features assigned reading that promotes the sexualization of minors. The course description states:
“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”
Learning outcomes for the course include, but are not limited to:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate a strong understanding of LGBTQ+ studies and its historical context–both locally and globally,” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate how gender intersects with race, class, ability, and other social constructs,” and </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Use and produce language to go beyond binaristic ways of thinking.”</li>
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Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 

In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:
“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”
The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” is only one hyper-sexualized course among several undergraduate credit hours available to students in the <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/wgss/courses/lgbtq-studies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBT Studies</a> and Women’s, <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lgbtq/undergraduate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> programs.

Send feedback on The University of Texas at Austin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

Corruption

John Brennan

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<a href="https://american-studies.williams.edu/profile/mlk4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margaux L. Kristjansson</a> is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies at Williams College. Employed by the American Studies department and a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1pZR7n9-Q&amp;ab_channel=StandingRockSyllabus" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Standing Rock activist</a>, her courses include Indigenous Feminisms and Settler Colonialism, Care, Kinship, and Social Reproduction.
While the campus was visited by TPUSA representative Savannah Coelho to engage in civil discussion and distribute activism materials, Kristjansson burned many of Coelho’s flyers that she handed out nearby.<a href="https://williamsrecord.com/2020/09/conservative-student-group-representative-visits-campus-in-violation-of-covid-19-regulations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> In a response to The Williams Record</a>, Kristjansson justified her actions, alleging that TPUSA adopts “fascist politics.”
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<a href="https://president.williams.edu/about-the-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maud Mandel</a> is the President of Williams College. Her university profile says she’s “advanced educational work at Williams from the <a href="https://mellon.org/programs/higher-learning/just-futures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just Futures Initiative</a>…to the college’s decision to join the new Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. 

Just Futures is a humanitarian program that supports the communist movement, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter</a>. The Just Futures home page states,

“Driven by our belief in the leading role of the humanities to address the most difficult challenges of our time, the Mellon Foundation has created Just Futures, grants awarded through a competitive process to multidisciplinary, university-based teams across the US who are committed to racial justice and social equality.”

In October 2022, Mandel was <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/northern_berkshires/williams-college-monument-to-union-soldiers-defaced-by-vandals/article_438bead6-4982-11ed-8d45-57d031f87928.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Berkshire Eagle</a> after a monument outside of Griffin Hall was vandalized. The Eagle said, “Someone defaced a memorial to Union soldiers who served in the Civil War by painting a Confederate flag and the word ‘rebel,’ sparking a strong reaction from [Mandel].”

According to The Eagle, Mandel said,

“‘The Confederate flag and the world ‘rebel’ are commonly used as symbols by white supremacists and other extremist factions…The appearance of those marks is more evidence that we live in a world where people hold racist and otherwise hateful ideas. When someone defaces our campus — our own home — with symbols of those ideologies, it becomes especially personal.’”

Mandel called for an investigation of the incident and encouraged students who are “interested in helping the anti-racism efforts to visit the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Racial Justice <a href="https://diversity.williams.edu/racial-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">webpage</a>.” The investigation is still underway.

In November, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/anti-racist-task-force-at-williams-college-will-confront-racial-bias/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix featured Mandel</a> in an article titled “New ‘anti-racist task force’ at elite Massachusetts college will ‘confront’ racial bias.” College Fix said, “Mandel…announced the creation of the task force in an email that also appeared as a news release on the college’s website [on] November 10.”

In response to reports of racially-motivated disturbances on campus, The Fix also said, “There have been no suspects publicly identified in the three alleged racist incidents that occurred…at the private institution…The incidents include slurs scribbled in dust on cars.”

<a href="https://president.williams.edu/writings-and-remarks/letters-from-the-president/creating-an-ad-hoc-anti-racist-campus-task-force/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mandel’s email</a> — under the subject line of “Creating an Ad Hoc Anti-Racism Campus Task Force” — states:

“We have had multiple incidents this semester involving racist words and phrases written on college or personal property on campus…Today I am writing with the intention of moving Williams beyond incident reports to try and address the underlying problem.”

She continued,

“Effective immediately, [the] Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion…and I will convene a new [task force]. [We] are currently developing the charge, but at a high level the group will propose strategies for confronting and addressing race-based bias.”

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<a href="https://american-studies.williams.edu/profile/mlk4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margaux L. Kristjansson</a> is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies at Williams College. Employed by the American Studies department and a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1pZR7n9-Q&amp;ab_channel=StandingRockSyllabus" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Standing Rock activist</a>, her courses include Indigenous Feminisms and Settler Colonialism, Care, Kinship, and Social Reproduction.

While the campus was visited by TPUSA representative Savannah Coelho to engage in civil discussion and distribute activism materials, Kristjansson burned many of Coelho’s flyers that she handed out nearby.<a href="https://williamsrecord.com/2020/09/conservative-student-group-representative-visits-campus-in-violation-of-covid-19-regulations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> In a response to The Williams Record</a>, Kristjansson justified her actions, alleging that TPUSA adopts “fascist politics.”

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Feminism

Margaux L. Kristjansson

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<a href="https://www.siue.edu/education/teaching-and-learning/faculty-staff/jonesbio.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angel Jones</a> is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. According to her university profile, her areas of expertise include racial microaggressions, Racial Battle Fatigue, and gendered-racism.
Her work “is grounded in Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism and acknowledges the roles that race and racism play in the lives of Black students.” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-demands-black-people-special-paid-time-off-deal-fatigue-trauma-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> defines Critical Race Theory as “an ideology and lens that holds America’s institutions are systemically racist and views individuals in an oppressor vs. oppressed narrative.”
In February 2023, Jones published an article in <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/wheres-our-black-bereavement-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Times Higher Education</a> where she argued that black people should get special bereavement leave and counseling services to deal with systemic racism. Jones writes:
“I am a proud educator who loves what I do. But before that, I am a Black woman. A Black woman who is expected to return to ‘business as usual’ on Monday after seeing a member of my community murdered on Friday.” 
Jones believes universities <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/illinois-professor-angel-jones-urges-bereavement-for-black-educators-to-process-racism-trauma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">should offer counseling for black faculty</a> in order to fight “racial battle fatigue” (RBF), “a term coined by William Smith that refers to the psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism.” She writes:
“Free counseling services, by culturally competent counselors familiar with identifying and addressing RBF, should be available at all times, not just when our trauma has been televised.” 
She also believes black faculty should be given bereavement leave, saying:
“Some may have thought I was joking when I mentioned Black bereavement leave, but I wasn’t. We need space and time to grieve without having to explain or defend it.” 
Further, Jones says some people may just need a day off while others may need to work from home or have responsibilities taken off their plate completely.
After receiving <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11814043/College-professor-claims-black-workers-paid-time-black-person-killed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushback</a> for her article from several mainstream news outlets, Jones tweeted:
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Thousands of people are in their feelings because they’ve drawn clickbait conclusions about an article that I doubt they even read. 
Black bereavement is a mental health day to deal with the psychological consequences of anti-Black racism. 
Don’t like it? Then end racism 🤷🏽‍♀️
— Angel Jones, PhD (@AngelJonesPhD) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelJonesPhD/status/1632120634774790147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.siue.edu/education/teaching-and-learning/faculty-staff/jonesbio.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angel Jones</a> is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. According to her university profile, her areas of expertise include racial microaggressions, Racial Battle Fatigue, and gendered-racism.

Her work “is grounded in Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism and acknowledges the roles that race and racism play in the lives of Black students.” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-demands-black-people-special-paid-time-off-deal-fatigue-trauma-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> defines Critical Race Theory as “an ideology and lens that holds America’s institutions are systemically racist and views individuals in an oppressor vs. oppressed narrative.”

In February 2023, Jones published an article in <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/wheres-our-black-bereavement-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Times Higher Education</a> where she argued that black people should get special bereavement leave and counseling services to deal with systemic racism. Jones writes:
“I am a proud educator who loves what I do. But before that, I am a Black woman. A Black woman who is expected to return to ‘business as usual’ on Monday after seeing a member of my community murdered on Friday.” 
Jones believes universities <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/illinois-professor-angel-jones-urges-bereavement-for-black-educators-to-process-racism-trauma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">should offer counseling for black faculty</a> in order to fight “racial battle fatigue” (RBF), “a term coined by William Smith that refers to the psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism.” She writes:
“Free counseling services, by culturally competent counselors familiar with identifying and addressing RBF, should be available at all times, not just when our trauma has been televised.” 
She also believes black faculty should be given bereavement leave, saying:
“Some may have thought I was joking when I mentioned Black bereavement leave, but I wasn’t. We need space and time to grieve without having to explain or defend it.” 
Further, Jones says some people may just need a day off while others may need to work from home or have responsibilities taken off their plate completely.

After receiving <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11814043/College-professor-claims-black-workers-paid-time-black-person-killed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushback</a> for her article from several mainstream news outlets, Jones tweeted:
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Thousands of people are in their feelings because they’ve drawn clickbait conclusions about an article that I doubt they even read.
Black bereavement is a mental health day to deal with the psychological consequences of anti-Black racism.
Don’t like it? Then end racism 🤷🏽‍♀️
— Angel Jones, PhD (@AngelJonesPhD) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelJonesPhD/status/1632120634774790147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Angel Jones

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<a href="https://uncw.edu/chhs/shahs/about/johnson.html">Dr. Dan Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor for the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences at the University of North Carolina &#8211; Wilmington (UNCW).
On May 17, 2021, Dr. Johnson wrote a Facebook post—obtained by the site Campus Reform—that stated, “<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17701">Blow up Republicans</a>.”
No further explanation was given by Dr. Johnson for his animosity towards conservatives. After his post began receiving scrutiny, Dr. Johnson later wrote on his personal profile, “Time for my summer break from Facebook.”
In a statement to Campus Reform, the University stated they had “appropriately addressed” Dr. Johnson’s post. They later confirmed to the site that Dr. Johnson would still be teaching in the Fall 2021 semester.
Haylie Davis—a former student of Dr. Johnson’s—provided the following statement to Campus Reform: 
“Putting away any personal political preference aside, I think this matter should be addressed and dealt [with] in the same manner that it would be if the word &#8216;Republican&#8217; was replaced with any other word. If the post stated &#8216;Blow up women,&#8217; &#8216;Blow up homosexuals,&#8217; &#8216;Blow up Catholics,&#8217; etc.” 
She continued, “He not only represents a major university in the state of North Carolina, but he also represents a program of the university that prides itself in inclusivity. That statement is not something that represents an inclusive and accepting environment. In his position, political preference should not be expressed in such an aggressive manner that lacks the &#8217;empathy&#8217; that is expected and valued in today’s society and on college campuses.&#8221;
UPDATE: Through UNVW&#8217;s Office of University Relations, <a href="https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2021/06/30/uncw-professor-dan-johnson-apologizes-deleted-facebook-post/7811843002/">Dr. Dan Johnson has released an apology</a>, which is included below:
&#8220;I posted a poorly worded expression of political frustration on my now-deleted personal Facebook page. I profoundly regret it,&#8221; Johnson said in his statement. &#8220;This statement does not reflect my personal values or UNCW’s culture of civil and respectful discourse. My attempt to &#8216;blow off steam&#8217; understandably caused concern among many students, parents, alumni and other members of the UNCW community. I deeply care about the students, faculty and staff at UNCW, and I apologize to them and the university and Wilmington community.&#8221;
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Parents and Students may contact UNC &#8211; Wilmington’s <a href="https://uncw.edu/chhs/shahs/index.html">School of Health and Applied Human Sciences</a> at (910) 962-3250 or at <a href="mailto:shahs2@uncw.edu">shahs2@uncw.edu</a>.
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<a href="https://uncw.edu/chhs/shahs/about/johnson.html">Dr. Dan Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor for the School of Health and Applied Human Sciences at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington (UNCW).

On May 17, 2021, Dr. Johnson wrote a Facebook post—obtained by the site Campus Reform—that stated, “<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17701">Blow up Republicans</a>.”

No further explanation was given by Dr. Johnson for his animosity towards conservatives. After his post began receiving scrutiny, Dr. Johnson later wrote on his personal profile, “Time for my summer break from Facebook.”

In a statement to Campus Reform, the University stated they had “appropriately addressed” Dr. Johnson’s post. They later confirmed to the site that Dr. Johnson would still be teaching in the Fall 2021 semester.

Haylie Davis—a former student of Dr. Johnson’s—provided the following statement to Campus Reform: 

“Putting away any personal political preference aside, I think this matter should be addressed and dealt [with] in the same manner that it would be if the word 'Republican' was replaced with any other word. If the post stated 'Blow up women,' 'Blow up homosexuals,' 'Blow up Catholics,' etc.” 

She continued, “He not only represents a major university in the state of North Carolina, but he also represents a program of the university that prides itself in inclusivity. That statement is not something that represents an inclusive and accepting environment. In his position, political preference should not be expressed in such an aggressive manner that lacks the 'empathy' that is expected and valued in today’s society and on college campuses."

UPDATE: Through UNVW's Office of University Relations, <a href="https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2021/06/30/uncw-professor-dan-johnson-apologizes-deleted-facebook-post/7811843002/">Dr. Dan Johnson has released an apology</a>, which is included below:

"I posted a poorly worded expression of political frustration on my now-deleted personal Facebook page. I profoundly regret it," Johnson said in his statement. "This statement does not reflect my personal values or UNCW’s culture of civil and respectful discourse. My attempt to 'blow off steam' understandably caused concern among many students, parents, alumni and other members of the UNCW community. I deeply care about the students, faculty and staff at UNCW, and I apologize to them and the university and Wilmington community."

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Parents and Students may contact UNC - Wilmington’s <a href="https://uncw.edu/chhs/shahs/index.html">School of Health and Applied Human Sciences</a> at (910) 962-3250 or at <a href="mailto:shahs2@uncw.edu">shahs2@uncw.edu</a>.
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On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Associate History Professor <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a>. 
The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“&#8230;Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 
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<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 
Gill-Peterson’s faculty <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Please send information on Jules Gill-Peterson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; November 17, 2023
<a href="https://www.jgillpeterson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins University</a>. He has referred to the gender binary as “junk science” and advocated for allowing children to transition at any age.
In his substack—<a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/archive?sort=new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sad Brown Girl</a>—Peterson attacks conservatives as transphobic, denies there can be only two genders, and documents his life as a transwoman and activist. In one article, titled “The Cis State,” he claims the <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-cis-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender binary never existed historically in the medical community</a>. Rather, politicians and psychologists invented the concept 70 years ago in a nefarious attempt to control people.
“&#8230;[S]ex did not become cis until the invention of the concept of gender in the mid-twentieth century. Gender was invented by psychologists to bring order to the collapse of the sex binary in science and medicine.”  
During an interview with Scientific American, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/how-junk-science-is-being-used-against-trans-kids2/#Echobox=1649463388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peterson claims the idea of a gender binary is still weaponized by present-day scientists against trans people.</a> After being introduced by the host as a “science historian,” he again states that scientists had no idea what determined sex or gender until the mid-20th century.
Further on, Peterson asserts there is no consensus on what determines whether someone is male or female. He then compares any scientific attempts to do so with the “junk science” of the eugenics movement and inflicting harm on trans people.
The full interview may be viewed below:
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Peterson often addresses issues surrounding transgender children and berates critics who challenge that children can transition at a young age. On his <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, Peterson urges his followers to “champion” trans children, and even “to want there to be trans kids in the world.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
South Dakota has spent SEVEN YEARS working to pass this anti-trans bill. Trans people have had to organize against it for seven years—and now it passes. Chase is right, everyone needs to champion trans kids in progressive coalition. Kids can’t outrun seven relentless years alone. <a href="https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1488624230031933444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I believe more than ever that the way to end a child-hating culture where everyone is invested in children suffering is to learn to want there to be trans kids in this world. To relinquish the wish that we selfishly own them. To greet transness not as hypothetical but valuable. <a href="https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1501618969903570944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a separate thread, he calls for the “abolition” of the family to relieve the “bulwark” of protection that parents provide children.
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an underrated problem in the left’s neoliberal retreat from family abolition (shoutout again to <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reproutopia</a>) is that trans kids are left with a pitifully anemic option for care. the&#8230;family? we except the family to ideally care for trans kids? based on what evidence?!
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222843573383169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I am certainly heartened that many families do love and champion their trans kids. but I also want a political movement that relieves loving trans kids from a privatized, sentimental and normative politics of the family as bulwark against the various ends of the world underway.
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222847675359242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Peterson claims that <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/163113/behind-gop-strategy-outlaw-trans-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it’s false to “presume” that trans kids will be cared for by their families</a>. His comments appeared in an interview with The New Republic, where he depicted parents as an impediment to trans children. He attacks white women as segregationists who weaponize their status as mothers to fuel anti-trans legislation. “The figure of the mom is hanging over everything,” she states.
In a separate substack article, <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/we-the-abuser-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he further claims that “parental rights” are inhibiting minors from making fully autonomous decisions about their gender</a>.
“The slogan of ‘parental rights” is at the root of the fantasy that children are quasi-property, not people.”
Conservatives who object to transitioning children are <a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/from-gender-critical-to-qanon-anti-trans-politics-and-the-laundering-of-conspiracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">branded as QAnon-style conspiracy theorists</a> who are aiming to construct an “<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-trans-lobbys-real-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authoritarian Christian ethnostate.</a>”
Much of this ire is directed toward author Abigail Shrier author of, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Irreversible Damage.”</a> The book examines the exponential increase in rates of gender dysphoria among teenagers—of which Shrier attributes to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/how-peer-contagion-plays-into-the-rise-of-teens-transitioning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“peer contagion”</a>—and the negative, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-term health effects on teens who undergo gender transitions</a>.
Reacting to a Senate testimony delivered by Shrier on trans children, Peterson <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/abigail-shrier-goes-to-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labels her as a “TERF”</a> (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who is unqualified to speak on trans issues, in part because Shrier is not transgender herself. She accuses Shrier of flirting with white supremacy and peddling “pedophilic fantasies.”
“I invite you to join me in standing against the extreme sexual harassment, pedophilic fantasies, and torturous sadism of TERF and anti-trans rhetoric peddled by people like Shrier, backed up by an army of internet trolls and well-funded cultural tastemakers getting rich off pretending they are humiliated and canceled.“
Peterson is also the author of “History of the Transgender Child,” which maintains that <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/faculty-books/histories-of-the-transgender-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender children have been prevalent and well-documented over the last century</a>. He further serves as the General Editor of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly">Transgender Studies Quarterly</a>, of which the next issue will feature “Trans Marxist” authors and perspectives.
Students and Parents may contact the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University at (410) 516-7575 or at <a href="mailto:history@jhu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history@jhu.edu. </a>
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Published &#8211; October 14th, 2022 
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Dr. Allyn Walker is an openly transgender —preferred pronouns they/them—a postdoctoral fellow at the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a>. In June of 2021, Dr. Walker <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow">wrote a book titled</a>, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.

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The book, which Dr. Walker describes as interview-based research, discusses non-offending pedophiles (or Minor-Attracted Persons, as Dr. Walker calls them). According to Dr. Walker, the book highlights people who are attracted to minors who don’t don’t commit violent crimes in order to challenge the “widespread assumption that those who are ‘preferentially attracted to minors’ are always predators and sex offenders.” The book details how those who don’t commit violent crimes against children navigate their feelings and attraction to minors.

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On November 11, 2021<a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> a series of videos on Twitter of Dr. Walker came to light</a>. In these videos, Dr. Walker tries to normalize the term “Minor-Attracted Person” (MAP) and destigmatize pedophilia. In the video, Dr. Walker claims that it is important to call a group by a name in which they want to be called. Dr. Walker states that groups are advocating for MAP as their name because it’s less stigmatized than the term pedophile, and they are doing nothing wrong if they aren’t committing violent crimes against children. Dr. Walker goes on to say that who a person is attracted to (in this case children) isn’t indicative of the morality of that person or that attraction. The video series can be viewed below:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21

After the video received a significant amount of backlash, <a href="https://www.wtkr.com/news/odu-releases-statement-after-assistant-professor-gives-controversial-interview-defending-people-attracted-to-children">Old Dominion University—Dr. Walker’s employer at the time—released a statement</a>, asserting that, as an academic community, it’s vital to be “willing to consider scientific and other empirical data that may involve controversial issues and perspectives.” They went on to claim that they don’t endorse or promote any crimes against children or any form of criminal activity.

Old Dominion University would later announce that Dr. Allyn Walker would <a href="https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/11/a_statement_from_old_dominion_university#.Yn343qjMI2w">resign at the expiration of his contract</a> in May 2022.

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Update - May 16th, 2022
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In a statement, <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/moore-center-for-the-prevention-of-child-sexual-abuse/">The Moore Center for Prevention of Child Abuse</a> at Johns Hopkins University announced Dr. Walker has been hired as a postdoctoral fellow. In a series of tweets, the center praised Dr. Walker for his expertise and “comprehensive public health approach” in child sexual abuse prevention.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Allyn Walker is a leader in the field of perpetration prevention research, which is essential for developing a comprehensive public health approach to addressing child sexual abuse and effective prevention programs. We are delighted to have Allyn Walker join our team. <a href="https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL">https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL</a>
— Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (@MooreCenter_JHU) <a href="https://twitter.com/MooreCenter_JHU/status/1525123391388278788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/contact-us">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> at (410) 955-3543

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Associate History Professor <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a>. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Gill-Peterson’s faculty <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Please send information on Jules Gill-Peterson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023
<a href="https://www.jgillpeterson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins University</a>. He has referred to the gender binary as “junk science” and advocated for allowing children to transition at any age.

In his substack—<a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/archive?sort=new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sad Brown Girl</a>—Peterson attacks conservatives as transphobic, denies there can be only two genders, and documents his life as a transwoman and activist. In one article, titled “The Cis State,” he claims the <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-cis-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender binary never existed historically in the medical community</a>. Rather, politicians and psychologists invented the concept 70 years ago in a nefarious attempt to control people.

“...[S]ex did not become cis until the invention of the concept of gender in the mid-twentieth century. Gender was invented by psychologists to bring order to the collapse of the sex binary in science and medicine.”  

During an interview with Scientific American, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/how-junk-science-is-being-used-against-trans-kids2/#Echobox=1649463388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peterson claims the idea of a gender binary is still weaponized by present-day scientists against trans people.</a> After being introduced by the host as a “science historian,” he again states that scientists had no idea what determined sex or gender until the mid-20th century.

Further on, Peterson asserts there is no consensus on what determines whether someone is male or female. He then compares any scientific attempts to do so with the “junk science” of the eugenics movement and inflicting harm on trans people.

The full interview may be viewed below:

<iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GOIWyP5uqgM" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Peterson often addresses issues surrounding transgender children and berates critics who challenge that children can transition at a young age. On his <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, Peterson urges his followers to “champion” trans children, and even “to want there to be trans kids in the world.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
South Dakota has spent SEVEN YEARS working to pass this anti-trans bill. Trans people have had to organize against it for seven years—and now it passes. Chase is right, everyone needs to champion trans kids in progressive coalition. Kids can’t outrun seven relentless years alone. <a href="https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1488624230031933444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
I believe more than ever that the way to end a child-hating culture where everyone is invested in children suffering is to learn to want there to be trans kids in this world. To relinquish the wish that we selfishly own them. To greet transness not as hypothetical but valuable. <a href="https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1501618969903570944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a separate thread, he calls for the “abolition” of the family to relieve the “bulwark” of protection that parents provide children.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
an underrated problem in the left’s neoliberal retreat from family abolition (shoutout again to <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reproutopia</a>) is that trans kids are left with a pitifully anemic option for care. the...family? we except the family to ideally care for trans kids? based on what evidence?!
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222843573383169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I am certainly heartened that many families do love and champion their trans kids. but I also want a political movement that relieves loving trans kids from a privatized, sentimental and normative politics of the family as bulwark against the various ends of the world underway.
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222847675359242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Peterson claims that <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/163113/behind-gop-strategy-outlaw-trans-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it’s false to “presume” that trans kids will be cared for by their families</a>. His comments appeared in an interview with The New Republic, where he depicted parents as an impediment to trans children. He attacks white women as segregationists who weaponize their status as mothers to fuel anti-trans legislation. “The figure of the mom is hanging over everything,” she states.

In a separate substack article, <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/we-the-abuser-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he further claims that “parental rights” are inhibiting minors from making fully autonomous decisions about their gender</a>.

“The slogan of ‘parental rights” is at the root of the fantasy that children are quasi-property, not people.”

Conservatives who object to transitioning children are <a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/from-gender-critical-to-qanon-anti-trans-politics-and-the-laundering-of-conspiracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">branded as QAnon-style conspiracy theorists</a> who are aiming to construct an “<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-trans-lobbys-real-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authoritarian Christian ethnostate.</a>”

Much of this ire is directed toward author Abigail Shrier author of, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Irreversible Damage.”</a> The book examines the exponential increase in rates of gender dysphoria among teenagers—of which Shrier attributes to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/how-peer-contagion-plays-into-the-rise-of-teens-transitioning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“peer contagion”</a>—and the negative, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-term health effects on teens who undergo gender transitions</a>.

Reacting to a Senate testimony delivered by Shrier on trans children, Peterson <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/abigail-shrier-goes-to-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labels her as a “TERF”</a> (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who is unqualified to speak on trans issues, in part because Shrier is not transgender herself. She accuses Shrier of flirting with white supremacy and peddling “pedophilic fantasies.”

“I invite you to join me in standing against the extreme sexual harassment, pedophilic fantasies, and torturous sadism of TERF and anti-trans rhetoric peddled by people like Shrier, backed up by an army of internet trolls and well-funded cultural tastemakers getting rich off pretending they are humiliated and canceled.“

Peterson is also the author of “History of the Transgender Child,” which maintains that <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/faculty-books/histories-of-the-transgender-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender children have been prevalent and well-documented over the last century</a>. He further serves as the General Editor of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly">Transgender Studies Quarterly</a>, of which the next issue will feature “Trans Marxist” authors and perspectives.
Students and Parents may contact the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University at (410) 516-7575 or at <a href="mailto:history@jhu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history@jhu.edu. </a>
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Published - October 14th, 2022 
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<a href="https://krieger.jhu.edu/africana/directory/shani-mott/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Mott</a> is a Lecturer of Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Her research interests “address how mid-twentieth century writers of both fiction and non-fiction strategically deployed racial language in American popular culture.”

Mott’s university profile also mentions a manuscript titled, “Saving the Soul of the Great Republic: Imagining Race and Writing Democracy.” According to the description, the book “argues that authors writing during the inter- and postwar years of the twentieth century relied on ‘literary racial transvestism,’ a practice wherein black authors wrote novels with predominantly white characters and [vice versa].”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/home-appraiser-countersues-professors-who-accused-him-of-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> featured Mott and her husband <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nathanconnolly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Connolly</a> (also a JHU professor) in the article, “Home appraiser countersues professors who accused him of racism.” The Fix said the couple filed a lawsuit alleging that a white appraiser valued their home differently after the couple removed evidence that would indicate their ethnicity.

Their <a href="https://wp-orep-cdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30175948/2020_Valuations_Maryland_complaint_70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit claims</a> the appraiser “dramatically undervalu[ed] their home in an appraisal because of their race and their home’s location adjacent to a black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.” When the couple’s white friend posed at the homeowner, the appraisal allegedly went from $472,000 to $750,000.

The College Fix said the countersuit mentions a home in the same neighborhood that sold within a month of Mott’s. The same company appraised the home for $7,000 less than the purchase price. Further, Mott and her husband did not provide their appraiser with documentation of any additional estimates showing a higher home value.

Mott and her husband appeared on ABC Live News to tell their side of the story:

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As of publication, both lawsuits are ongoing.
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/nathan-connolly/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Connolly</a> is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). His professor profile says, “I write about racism, capitalism, politics, cities and migration in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My work pays special attention to people’s notions of family, property and citizenship in the United States and the wider Americas.”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/home-appraiser-countersues-professors-who-accused-him-of-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> featured Connolly and his wife <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/shanimott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Mott</a> (also a JHU professor) in an article, “Home appraiser countersues professors who accused him of racism.” The Fix reported that the couple filed a lawsuit alleging a white appraiser valued their home differently after the couple removed evidence that would indicate their ethnicity.

Their <a href="https://wp-orep-cdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30175948/2020_Valuations_Maryland_complaint_70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit claims</a> the appraiser “dramatically undervalu[ed] their home in an appraisal because of their race and their home’s location adjacent to a black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.” When the couple’s white friend posed at the homeowner, the appraisal allegedly went from $472,000 to $750,000.

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2856" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PWL-QUOTES-44-e1676506038687-1024x632.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="395" />

The College Fix said the countersuit mentions a house in the same neighborhood that sold within a month of Connolly’s. The same company appraised the home for $7,000 less than the purchase price. Further, Connolly and his wife did not provide their appraiser with documentation of any additional estimates showing a higher home value.

Connolly and his wife appeared on ABC Live News to tell their side of the story:

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<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2857" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PWL-QUOTES-45-e1676506216125-1024x573.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="358" />

As of publication, both lawsuits are ongoing.
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/todd-shepard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Todd Shepard</a> is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are listed as “Modern France and French Empire,” “Decolonization” and “Gender and Sexuality.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a> (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Shepard.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3292 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Todd Shepard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 16, 2023

<a href="https://anthropology.jhu.edu/directory/naveeda-khan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naveeda Khan</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Department Chair at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include “nature philosophy and nature in Islamic theology, migration and memory.”

On November 3, 2023, <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-faculty-write-open-letter-in-solidarity-with-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins News-Letter</a> featured Khan and co-author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/clarahan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Clara Han</a> after they penned the “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Letter from JHU Faculty in Solidarity with Gaza</a>.” The News-Letter stated, “The letter condemns the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel, expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people and calls for an immediate ceasefire.”

The News-Letter further claimed, “The letter also emphasizes a commitment to upholding academic freedom in the context of the global dehumanization of Palestinian life in media cover and public discourse.” 

Khan told the News-Letter that “the letter is only a small step that joins forces with the various efforts organized by Hopkins students, such as the October 30 <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-community-partakes-in-walkout-in-solidarity-with-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walkout</a> and the October 23 <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/10/dissenters-at-johns-hopkins-university-organize-vigil-to-mourn-palestinian-lives-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candlelight</a> vigil organized by the Johns Hopkins Dissenters and Speak Out Now.”

On November 6, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming Khan’s statement signed by 24 Johns Hopkins faculty members. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Naveed Khan to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/people/clara-han-phd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clara Han</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Within the Johns Hopkins Center for the Humanities, Han also <a href="https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/people/clara-han/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serves</a> as the Co-Director of the <a href="https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/ric/about/#:~:text=The%20Racism%2C%20Immigration%2C%20and%20Citizenship,of%20democratic%20inclusion%20and%20social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program</a> on Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and as the co-organizer of the <a href="https://krieger.jhu.edu/wgs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program</a> on the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

On November 3, 2023, <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-faculty-write-open-letter-in-solidarity-with-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins News-Letter</a> featured Han and co-author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/naveedakhan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Naveeda Khan</a> after they penned the “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Letter from JHU Faculty in Solidarity with Gaza</a>.” The News-Letter stated, “The letter condemns the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel, expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people and calls for an immediate ceasefire.”

The News-Letter further claimed, “The letter also emphasizes a commitment to upholding academic freedom in the context of the global dehumanization of Palestinian life in media cover and public discourse.” 

On November 6, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming Han’s statement signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”

The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below.

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Clara Han to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/francois-furstenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Francois Furstenberg</a> is a Professor of History and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Johns Hopkins University 

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Furstenberg.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Furstenberg’s faculty <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/francois-furstenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> shows him on leave for the Fall 2023 semester.

Please send information on Francois Furstenberg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/2647/photini-sinnis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Photini Sinnis</a> is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Sinnis.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Photini Sinnis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/elizabeth-thornberry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Thornberry</a> is an Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests are listed as the “history of gender, sexuality, and law in Southern Africa.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Shepard.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Two days after signing the open letter, Thornberry tweeted in support of Congresswoman <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4298890-22-democrats-censure-tlaib-over-israel-criticism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> who was censured for antisemitic comments. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
We’re all writing in Rashida Tlaib for the democratic presidential primary next year, right?
— Liz Thornberry (@lizthornberry) <a href="https://twitter.com/lizthornberry/status/1722468801805983819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Please send information on Elizabeth Thornberry to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jessica-johnson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Maria Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. According to Johnson’s faculty profile, she is a “historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora” and an “internationally recognized digital humanist.”

Johnson is also a co-founder of the <a href="https://www.dslprojects.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diaspora Solidarities Lab</a> (DSL)—“a multi-national black feminist partnership that supports solidarity work in black and ethnic studies conducted by undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and community partners…” 

In February 2022, Johnson’s lab <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/02/03/jessica-marie-johnson-diaspora-solidarities-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received a $2 million grant</a> to “train DSL members in digital skills, support research initiatives and run incubators where members learn methods and theories for centering community and Indigenous knowledge practices.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Johnson.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Jessica Marie Johnson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/jeanne-marie-jackson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeanne-Marie Jackson</a> is an Associate Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Jackson.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Jeanne-Marie Jackson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/drew-daniel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Drew Daniel</a> is an English Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include “Early Modern Literature,” “<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Theory</a>” and “Aesthetics.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Daniel.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Drew Daniel to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/didier-gondola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Didier Gondola</a> is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests and publications include pop culture, gender, and postcolonial issues.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Gondola.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Gondola’s <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/didier-gondola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty profile</a> shows him on leave for the Fall 2023 semester.

Please send information on Didier Gondola to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/erin-aeran-chung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Chung</a> is the Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include “comparative politics,” “East Asian politics,” “international migration” and “comparative racial politics.” 

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Chung.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Erin Chung to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lester Spence</a> is a Political Science Professor at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include American Politics, Black Politics, Race and Politics, Urban Politics, American Political Behavior, and Public Opinion. On his <a href="https://lesterspence.com/">website</a>, Spence writes:
“Over the past 40-50 years we’ve seen a sharp rise in income inequality…[D]uring this period, not only has inequality within black communities increased, there’s more inequality within black communities than there is between black and non-black ones. It’s this dynamic I’ve sought to examine over the course of my career for both intellectual reasons and political ones…”
On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Spence.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Lester Spence to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 21, 2023
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<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/aamir-mufti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aamir Mufti</a> is a Research Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Mufti.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Aamir Mufti to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 21, 2023

<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/jesse-rosenthal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Rosenthal</a> is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include Victorian novels and Ethics and Literature.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Rosenthal.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Jesse Rosenthal to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 21, 2023

<a href="https://sais.jhu.edu/users/ymounk1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yascha Mounk</a> is a Professor of Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Mounk’s faculty profile says he is “a political scientist known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy.”

Mounk was outspoken on Twitter after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. Mounk wrote that Israel “has every right to defend itself” but that their response constituted “moral error” when Palestinians become casualties. However, Mounk did not acknowledge <a href="https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas’ use of human shields as a war tactic</a>. The militant group often stores its arsenal inside civilian structures (e.g. schools, hospitals, and mosques).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Hamas murdered over 1,400 people in an indescribably sadistic manner.

Its leaders have made it very clear that they will continue to murder Israeli civilians if given the chance.

Israel has every right to defend itself.

But that is all the more reason for Israel to operate in…
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1719768116756963781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

On February 7, 2024, <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/higher-education/johns-hopkins-professor-rape-allegation-H5NESC5J3FCG7E7CFLQDPVV7R4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Baltimore Banner</a> featured Mounk in an article titled, “Johns Hopkins University investigates rape allegations against professor.” The Banner writes, “[JHU] has opened an investigation into a prominent international affairs professor after a woman accused him of rape … Hopkins officials said they have referred the matter to the university’s <a href="https://oie.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Institutional Equity</a>.”

According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/05/atlantic-yascha-mounk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, Mounk said, “I am aware of the horrendous allegations against me. It is categorically untrue.” The Post also referred to <a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/after-rape-a-guide-for-the-tormented/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an essay</a> published by the victim that said, “When the shrieking stops … you will reach the phase at which all you can think and talk about is the rape.”

JHU has not publicly stated whether Mounk will remain in his faculty position. As of publication, <a href="https://sais.jhu.edu/users/ymounk1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his profile</a> does not show him on leave from the college.

Please send tips and information on Yascha Mounk to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - February 22,2024

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Dr. Abeer AbouYabis is a physician at Emory Winship Cancer Institute and an assistant professor at the Emory School of Medicine. According to her professional biography, AbouYabis specializes in “the treatment of hematologic disorders and malignancies.”
In October 2023, Dr. AbouYabis was <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/emory-physician-placed-on-leave-due-to-alleged-antisemitic-remarks-on-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placed on leave</a> pending an investigation by the university after she posted antisemitic comments on her social media profiles. After Israel was attacked by the terrorist group Hamas in October 2023, AbouYabis attended a pro-Palestinian rally with the Emory University group Students for Justice in Palestine and <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1714098926637257049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted on her social media</a>:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3280" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-08-at-10.48.19-AM-749x1024.png" alt="" width="640" height="875" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-08-at-10.48.19-AM-749x1024.png 749w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-08-at-10.48.19-AM-219x300.png 219w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-08-at-10.48.19-AM-768x1050.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-08-at-10.48.19-AM.png 870w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Dr. AbouYabis referenced the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/07/hamas-terrorists-paraglide-into-israeli-territory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas paragliders who attacked civilians</a> at an Israeli music festival saying, “They got walls we got gliders glory to all resistance fighters.”
Her social media profiles have since been made private and her university profile has been removed. Dr. AbouYabis told <a href="https://www.ajc.com/education/emory-professor-placed-on-leave-after-antisemitic-comments/VUP5H42T2BGH5IU7FWWLX2R7BU/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a> that she finds it difficult to respond to being placed on leave because she is unsure which comments led to the decision. She also said she has never advocated or endorsed “any kind of violence.”
Laura Diamond, a spokesperson for Emory University, released the following statement to <a href="https://www.ajc.com/education/emory-professor-placed-on-leave-after-antisemitic-comments/VUP5H42T2BGH5IU7FWWLX2R7BU/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>:
“We condemn such comments in the strongest possible terms and have immediately placed this individual on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.”
“As we navigate difficult conversations, our expectation is that all members of the Emory community continue to demonstrate empathy and treat each other with dignity and respect. There is no place in our community for language and behavior based in hatred, that incites violence, and that is counter to the values that unite us as educators and health practitioners.”
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Published &#8211; November 8, 2023

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<a href="https://philosophy.emory.edu/people/bios/yancy-george.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. George Yancy</a> is a Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.  A Red Alert Politics article states "Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a letter to white Americans calling them  racist. Make no mistake, if you are white, you are racist. As The Blaze pointed out, professor George Yancy called on white America to examine the 'racist poison that is inside of you.' And Yancy means all white America."

Dr. <a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carol Anderson</a> is the <a href="http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/bios/anderson-carol.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.emory.edu/home/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emory University</a> in Atlanta, Georgia. She has ascribed the passage of the Second Amendment to white supremacy, and accused conservatives of trying to make America a “whites only” nation.

Dr. Anderson is the author of, “<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/the-second" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America</a>.” The book alleges the true purpose of the Second Amendment is the denial of rights to African Americans.

In a subsequent interview with CNN, Dr. Anderson claims the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/second-amendment-guns-anti-black-anderson-blake/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_content=2021-06-01T03%3A42%3A56&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intention of the right to keep and bear arms was ultimately to empower militias to keep black Americans, “under the boot” of white supremacy</a>. At one point, she claims the second amendment is about “anti-blackness”, or antithetical to the well-being and rights of African-Americans:

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She further states that America’s gun culture is fueled by a “fear” of black people and that “anti-blackness” courses through our nation's history.

Dr. Anderson first rose to national prominence in 2014 for her Washington Post article attributing the Ferguson Riots to “white rage.”

The unrest stemmed from an altercation involving Michael Brown and police officer Darren Wilson. Brown had been pulled over by Wilson over suspicion of his involvement in a strong-arm robbery in a nearby convenience store. During the stop, witnesses testified that <a href="https://nypost.com/2014/08/19/witnesses-say-ferguson-teen-attacked-cop-before-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown attempted to grab Officer Wilson’s gun</a> before turning and running away. When ordered to halt, Brown turned and charged Officer Wilson, who then fatally shot Brown in self-defense.

Although Wilson was later exonerated for his actions,<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Black Lives Matter activists promoted the false narrative that Brown was shot with his hands up while attempting to surrender.</a> After a grand jury declined to indict Officer Wilson, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850383/A-town-ravaged-anger-pictures-extent-damage-buildings-Ferguson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rioters and looters burned stores and restaurants across the city of Ferguson</a>, Missouri.

In the piece, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insinuates that riots are effective as the only method that residents of Ferguson can utilize to make their voices be heard.</a> Stating the “real rage” is represented in the attempts by conservative movements and police to disenfranchise African-Americans. She dismisses the destruction as not a product of “black rage”, but rather the “latest outbreak of “white rage.”

The article was later expanded into the book, “<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/white-rage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Rage, The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide</a>.” When Emory University featured the book on their website, Dr. Anderson further defined white rage as, “<a href="https://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/05/upress_white_rage_anderson/campus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policymakers and a series of courts systematically undercut the advancement of African Americans</a>.” Dr. Anderson would go on to author an article for Time Magazine accusing “patriots” who are afflicted with "white rage" 0f <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170421064019/https://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trying to make America a “whites only” county</a> and attempting to revive a “Jim Crow nation.”

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Dr. Anderson regularly lectures at colleges and universities across the country. In 2021, it was discovered that Dr. Anderson’s work had been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/gop-army-vet-congressman-seeks-answers-critical-race-theory-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a lecture by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point University</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Carol Anderson 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="http://college.emory.edu/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> at <a href="http://college.emory.edu/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emory University</a> at (404) 727-6069 or at <a href="mailto:college@emory.edu">college@emory.edu</a>.
Updated - September 14th, 2021

The Professor Watchlist received an exclusive message in which Roxana Chicas—Assistant Professor from Emory University—asks students not to capitalize the word “white” when describing white Americans, but to capitalize the word “Black” when referring to black Americans. 

The announcement was posted on a message board for her Public Health and Nursing course as advice for acceptable writing. Chicas states that capitalizing the “B” conveys a shared racial and ethnic identity among the “African diaspora”: 
“I encourage you to capitalize the “B” when referring to the Black population. Black in a racial, ethnic, or cultural sense, conveys an essential and shared sense of history, identity, and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa.” 
Chicas then writes that whites do not share the same history or culture as black Americans.  She then alleges that capitalizing the “w” when referring to white people would legitimize white supremacy:
“I encourage you to not capitalizing [sic] the “w” when referring to the white population because white people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. Furthermore, capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.”
Chicas further advocates against using the term “nonwhite” as it “centers whiteness”:
“I encourage you to not describe people of color with the term “Non-white races.” A designation like “nonwhite” is often criticized because it makes white people a kind of neutral default from which other people might deviate. In other words, it centers whiteness.”
The full message can be viewed below: 

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According to her<a href="https://www.nursing.emory.edu/faculty-staff/roxana-chicas#Section-6"> university profile,</a> Chicas is an award-winning scientist who has been featured in national publications. Her family <a href="https://www.iamanimmigrant.com/stories/roxana-chicas/">immigrated illegally to the United States</a> when Chicas was 4-years old, but she has since received a <a href="https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/health/meet-roxana-chicas-immigrant-nurse-scientist/0kqpZo4GjDVil4KOpCD5LO/">green card via her marriage</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Chicas for comment but has not received a reply by publication.

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Published - November 7, 2022

Dr. Abeer AbouYabis is a physician at Emory Winship Cancer Institute and an assistant professor at the Emory School of Medicine. According to her professional biography, AbouYabis specializes in “the treatment of hematologic disorders and malignancies.”

In October 2023, Dr. AbouYabis was <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/emory-physician-placed-on-leave-due-to-alleged-antisemitic-remarks-on-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placed on leave</a> pending an investigation by the university after she posted antisemitic comments on her social media profiles. After Israel was attacked by the terrorist group Hamas in October 2023, AbouYabis attended a pro-Palestinian rally with the Emory University group Students for Justice in Palestine and <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1714098926637257049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted on her social media</a>:

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Dr. AbouYabis referenced the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/07/hamas-terrorists-paraglide-into-israeli-territory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas paragliders who attacked civilians</a> at an Israeli music festival saying, “They got walls we got gliders glory to all resistance fighters.”

Her social media profiles have since been made private and her university profile has been removed. Dr. AbouYabis told <a href="https://www.ajc.com/education/emory-professor-placed-on-leave-after-antisemitic-comments/VUP5H42T2BGH5IU7FWWLX2R7BU/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a> that she finds it difficult to respond to being placed on leave because she is unsure which comments led to the decision. She also said she has never advocated or endorsed “any kind of violence.”

Laura Diamond, a spokesperson for Emory University, released the following statement to <a href="https://www.ajc.com/education/emory-professor-placed-on-leave-after-antisemitic-comments/VUP5H42T2BGH5IU7FWWLX2R7BU/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>:
“We condemn such comments in the strongest possible terms and have immediately placed this individual on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.”
“As we navigate difficult conversations, our expectation is that all members of the Emory community continue to demonstrate empathy and treat each other with dignity and respect. There is no place in our community for language and behavior based in hatred, that incites violence, and that is counter to the values that unite us as educators and health practitioners.”
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Published - November 8, 2023

Dr. Abeer AbouYabis

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Diana Sokol is a<a href="https://contacts.mesacc.edu/diana.sokol"> Dual Enrollment Instructor</a> at Mesa Community College. She also serves as an English teacher at<a href="https://rmhs.mpsaz.org/staff?page_no=5"> Red Mountain High School</a> within Mesa Public Schools. 
The Watchlist team intercepted an English Composition assignment (see below) that Sokol presented to students on the second day of class. The writing exercise asks students to consider ideas of “structural racism,” “white indifference,” and “reparations for black Americans.”
On<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> pages 429-430</a>, the author Shelby Steele, asks, &#8220;The victims of the Nazi Holocaust have received monetary reparations from the German government. Should the United States government, in a similar fashion, pay monetary reparations to the descendants of slaves?&#8221;
<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> Page 431 says</a>: “White Americans today aren’t guilty of carrying out slavery and segregation. But whites have a moral and political responsibility to acknowledge the continuing burden of history’s structural racism.” 
<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive">Page 436-437 claims</a>, &#8220;[T]he greatest problem black America has had over the past 30 years has been precisely a faith in reparation uplift &#8211; the idea that all the injustice we endured would somehow translate into the means of uplift.&#8221;
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The Professor Watchlist team reach out to Professor Sokol for comment. This profile will be updated accordingly.
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Published &#8211; August 8, 2023

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Diana Sokol is a<a href="https://contacts.mesacc.edu/diana.sokol"> Dual Enrollment Instructor</a> at Mesa Community College. She also serves as an English teacher at<a href="https://rmhs.mpsaz.org/staff?page_no=5"> Red Mountain High School</a> within Mesa Public Schools. 

The Watchlist team intercepted an English Composition assignment (see below) that Sokol presented to students on the second day of class. The writing exercise asks students to consider ideas of “structural racism,” “white indifference,” and “reparations for black Americans.”

On<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> pages 429-430</a>, the author Shelby Steele, asks, "The victims of the Nazi Holocaust have received monetary reparations from the German government. Should the United States government, in a similar fashion, pay monetary reparations to the descendants of slaves?"

<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> Page 431 says</a>: “White Americans today aren’t guilty of carrying out slavery and segregation. But whites have a moral and political responsibility to acknowledge the continuing burden of history’s structural racism.” 

<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive">Page 436-437 claims</a>, "[T]he greatest problem black America has had over the past 30 years has been precisely a faith in reparation uplift - the idea that all the injustice we endured would somehow translate into the means of uplift."

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The Professor Watchlist team reach out to Professor Sokol for comment. This profile will be updated accordingly.
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Published - August 8, 2023

Diana Sokol

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<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 &#8211; July 18, 2024

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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

Anti-2nd Amendment

James Alan Fox

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<a href="https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/baradaran/">Mehrsa Baradaran</a> is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. According to her <a href="https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/baradaran/">university bio</a>, Baradaran previously served as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, focusing on diversity and inclusion efforts. Baradaran is the author of “<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286061">How the Other Half Banks</a>,” and, “<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237476">The Color of Money</a>.”
Identity Politics 
Baradaran equates capitalism with white supremacy. In addition to advocating for defunding police departments, Baradaran believes that reparations to the black community are the only way to address racism in America.
In an <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-needs-reparations-black-americans_n_5ede5dfbc5b6fb8854dd8d00">interview with HuffPost</a>, Baradaran details her stance on reparations for the black community.  As noted in the article, Baradaran was asked by a Twitter user what her solution would be to solve racial unrest, in which she responded, “Reparations.” Baradaran had previously used her <a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran">Twitter account</a> to advocate for reparations and urge presidential candidates, including Vice-President Kamala Harris, to adopt them as a policy.
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40MehrsaBaradaran%20zero-sum&amp;src=typed_query"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1182 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.34.14-AM-e1616171672780.png" alt="" width="486" height="221" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.34.14-AM-e1616171672780.png 486w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.34.14-AM-e1616171672780-300x136.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px" /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1144426365166342144"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1181 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.31.26-AM.png" alt="" width="490" height="141" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.31.26-AM.png 490w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.31.26-AM-300x86.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px" /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1109038431026450432"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1183" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.37.49-AM.png" alt="" width="501" height="575" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.37.49-AM.png 617w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.37.49-AM-261x300.png 261w" sizes="(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px" /></a>
In the same interview with HuffPost, Baradaran states that America “broke a contract with black America,” and thus reparations are the only way to provide relief to minorities. When asked what this would look like, Baradaran references her previous proposal, the <a href="https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/document/21st-century-homestead-act/">21st Century Homestead Act</a>. The act would implement, among other things, a “progressive” tax system, school reform, regulating corporations, the “wholesale transfer” of land to black men and women, and monetary reparations.
The interview continues with Baradaran describing the act of policing as deeply racist and based on “policing black freedom” in the South during the Jim Crow era. Before comparing police and police departments to cancer, Baradaran advocates for the complete defunding of police.
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In a separate thread of tweets, Baradaran <a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1157704441950167040">equates</a> capitalism with white supremacy.
<a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1157704441950167040"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1185 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-10.01.40-AM.png" alt="" width="486" height="278" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-10.01.40-AM.png 486w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-10.01.40-AM-300x172.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px" /></a>
In addition to her position, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16192">appointed</a> Baradaran to the Department of the Treasury agency review board.
The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Mehrsa Baradaran regarding our assessment that she states that reparations will heal America’s “original sin of racism,” that she urged major presidential candidates to adopt reparations, that she’s stated capitalism in based on white supremacy, and that she stated that the “cancer” in police departments must be treated to stop police killings.
Baradaran&#8217;s response:&#8220;The first two statements are a bit of a misreading of my statements, but the last two statements are not statements I’ve ever made. That last statement—I don’t even think that so I am sure I never said it.&#8221; -Baradaran
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Parents and Students may contact the University of California-Irvine at (949) 824-5011 
Updated Spring, 2021

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University of California - Irvine

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, Symanski is no longer listed as a Senior Lecturer at UC-Irvine." 
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Richard Symanski is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. In one of Symanski's introductory-level Biological Science courses, Symanski was caught on film telling the class that they should all get on the bandwagon to get guns outlawed in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.

<a href="https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/baradaran/">Mehrsa Baradaran</a> is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. According to her <a href="https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/baradaran/">university bio</a>, Baradaran previously served as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, focusing on diversity and inclusion efforts. Baradaran is the author of “<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286061">How the Other Half Banks</a>,” and, “<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237476">The Color of Money</a>.”
Identity Politics 
Baradaran equates capitalism with white supremacy. In addition to advocating for defunding police departments, Baradaran believes that reparations to the black community are the only way to address racism in America.
In an <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-needs-reparations-black-americans_n_5ede5dfbc5b6fb8854dd8d00">interview with HuffPost</a>, Baradaran details her stance on reparations for the black community.  As noted in the article, Baradaran was asked by a Twitter user what her solution would be to solve racial unrest, in which she responded, “Reparations.” Baradaran had previously used her <a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran">Twitter account</a> to advocate for reparations and urge presidential candidates, including Vice-President Kamala Harris, to adopt them as a policy.

<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40MehrsaBaradaran%20zero-sum&amp;src=typed_query"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1182 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.34.14-AM-e1616171672780.png" alt="" width="486" height="221" /></a>

<a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1144426365166342144"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1181 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.31.26-AM.png" alt="" width="490" height="141" /></a>

<a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1109038431026450432"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1183" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-9.37.49-AM.png" alt="" width="501" height="575" /></a>

In the same interview with HuffPost, Baradaran states that America “broke a contract with black America,” and thus reparations are the only way to provide relief to minorities. When asked what this would look like, Baradaran references her previous proposal, the <a href="https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/document/21st-century-homestead-act/">21st Century Homestead Act</a>. The act would implement, among other things, a “progressive” tax system, school reform, regulating corporations, the “wholesale transfer” of land to black men and women, and monetary reparations.

The interview continues with Baradaran describing the act of policing as deeply racist and based on “policing black freedom” in the South during the Jim Crow era. Before comparing police and police departments to cancer, Baradaran advocates for the complete defunding of police.

<img class="size-large wp-image-1184 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-19T095857.120-e1616173187985-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" />

In a separate thread of tweets, Baradaran <a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1157704441950167040">equates</a> capitalism with white supremacy.

<a href="https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1157704441950167040"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1185 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-19-at-10.01.40-AM.png" alt="" width="486" height="278" /></a>

In addition to her position, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16192">appointed</a> Baradaran to the Department of the Treasury agency review board.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Mehrsa Baradaran regarding our assessment that she states that reparations will heal America’s “original sin of racism,” that she urged major presidential candidates to adopt reparations, that she’s stated capitalism in based on white supremacy, and that she stated that the “cancer” in police departments must be treated to stop police killings.

Baradaran's response:"The first two statements are a bit of a misreading of my statements, but the last two statements are not statements I’ve ever made. That last statement—I don’t even think that so I am sure I never said it." -Baradaran

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Parents and Students may contact the University of California-Irvine at (949) 824-5011
Updated Spring, 2021

<a href="https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Adriana Villavicencio</a> is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. According to her university profile, “[h]er research is focused on K-12 educational policy and school practice that deepen or disrupt inequities for minoritized communities of students and families.” It also “includes mixed-method studies on turnaround middle schools, small high schools in NYC, schools serving newly arrived immigrant English Learners, and a racial justice program embedded in culturally diverse elementary schools.”

In 2021, Villavicencio published <a href="https://www.dradrianav.com/am-i-my-brothers-keeper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Am I my Brother’s Keeper?”</a>, which is a book about “educational opportunities for black and brown boys.” 

According to the publisher’s description, “Am I my Brother’s Keeper?” “highlights the ways that school districts can embed educational equity into the principles and policies that guide their work with students, in contrast to implementing stand-alone initiatives that may come and go.” 

The publisher also states that “Am I my Brother’s Keeper?” includes the “voices of students, teachers, and administrators, [and] informs the implementation of other large-scale district-community partnerships designed to improve opportunities and outcomes for young people who have systematically been denied both… the book provides policy, practice, and research recommendations to inform the next generation of work with this student population.”

In October, Villavicencio, Dana Conlin, and Olga Pagan co-wrote an article titled <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08959048221130353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate”</a>. The authors state: 
“The myth of apolitical education research becomes even clearer when conducting research on racism and the systemic oppression of marginalized communities. This is especially true in a political climate wherein the very definition of systemic racism and its impact on Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous people are constantly contested.”
In an article titled, <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-schools-going-back-to-normal-wont-work-for-students-of-color-192228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Why schools’ going back to ‘normal’ won’t work for students of color”</a>, Villvicencio wrote the following arguments: 
— “Research shows <a href="https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/causal-effects-cultural-relevance-evidence-ethnic-studies-curriculum">students do better overall</a> when their teachers and <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84024">the books students read</a> reflect their race, ethnicity and cultures. Yet statistics show that seldom happens.”
—“Children’s books <a href="https://readingspark.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/picture-this-diversity-in-childrens-books-2018-infographic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">depict nonhuman characters</a>, like dogs and bears, almost three times as often as they <a href="https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">depict characters who are Black</a>, four times as often than Asian characters, five times as often than Hispanic characters, and nearly 30 times as often than Indigenous characters.”
Published -- December 6, 2022

<a href="https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/goodwin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michele Goodwin</a> is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

In a May 2022 article titled “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/05/24/abortion-slavery-reproductive-freedom-13th-amendment-constitution-black-women-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Urgency for Reproductive Freedom: From Slavery to the New Jane Crow</a>” Goodwin shares her thoughts on “reproductive justice”. She writes:
“If the Supreme Court dismantles Roe v. Wade and its legacy of jurisprudence, it will bring significant harm to all women and all people capable of pregnancy in anti-abortion states, while imposing a death sentence for Black and Brown women.” 
Goodwin also states that the “Fugitive Slave Acts” are the predecessors of Texas Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions after six weeks. She claims that the bill “incentivizes private individuals to spy upon, surveil and interfere with others who are asserting fundamental human and constitutional rights such as bodily autonomy, privacy and freedom.” Goodwin continues by writing, “state lawmakers force their [reproductive people] bodies into the service of state interests.”

Goodwin adds, “Texas, Mississippi and other states with “trigger” bans make clear that the essences of chattel bondage and the draft have returned—but only for women, girls and pregnant-capable people.”

Finally, Goodwin argues, “Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, and this period marks the New Jane Crow.” The New Jane Crow is a play on words designed to associate with <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-jim-crow-laws/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Crow laws</a> which enforced racial segregation.

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Published - December 28, 2022

Mehrsa Baradaran

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<a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/faculty-and-staff/maulana-karenga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Maulana Karenga</a> is Chair of <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Africana Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.csulb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California State University &#8211; Long Beach</a>. Dr. Karenga was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s and 1970s, during which time he founded the holiday, “Kwanzaa.” Prone to extremity and paranoia, Dr. Karenga was convicted for the imprisonment and torture of two women he falsely suspected of poisoning him.
Born Ronald McKinley Everett, Dr. Karenga founded <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/767.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kwanzaa as a pan-African holiday</a> in 1966. Despite that most American blacks are descended from West Africa, the name and traditions are based on East African Swahili. He would further <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/kwanzaa__a_madeup_holiday_.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state the holiday’s proximity to Christmas was intentional, as otherwise it wouldn&#8217;t be noticed</a> by the black community.
People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods [blacks] would be partying!
Dr. Kerenga intended for Kwanzaa to replace Christian and Jewish holidays. As he wrote in his book—Kawaida Theory—Western faith, “denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and achievement.&#8221; In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who&#8217;ve sinned and brought the wrath of an angry God on every generation&#8217;s head.”
Dr. Karenga adopted his current name after embracing black nationalism while living on the West Coast in the 1960s. He would go on to found his own group—titled, <a href="https://www.us-organization.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US</a>—as a more radical alternative to his rivals in the Black Panther Party.
<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Black Panthers</a>—known officially as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense—was a black-nationalist and Marxist organization that operated largely in California during the 1960s and 1970s. Known for their violent tactics and enforcement of party discipline, members would<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pour boiling water over suspected </a>police informants. Co-founder, Huey Newton, is <a href="https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected to have taken part in multiple murders</a> committed by the Panthers.
Dr. Karenga’s organization frequently clashed with the rival, Black Panthers. Following a dispute over who would lead the Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA, <a href="https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/600011/posts?page=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US members shot two Black Panthers to death on the campus in 1969</a> which set off a series of shootings across Los Angeles that summer. The incident caused Dr. Karenga to fall into paranoia and suspect his own followers of plotting to kill him.
On the evening of May 9th, 1970, Dr. Karenga and several of his followers confronted two women who were staying at his home. He accused both of placing poison “crystals” in his food and water. According to court testimony, the women were then stripped naked, bound, and ordered to confess. Dr. Karenga tortured both women over the next two days, beating each with an electrical cord, and then branded them with a soldering iron.
While awaiting trial, Dr. Karenga’s mental health continued to deteriorate. The court-appointed psychologist found him to be schizophrenic, and reportedly caught Dr. Karenga speaking to hallucinations in his jail cell:
“Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to a hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.” 
The court later sentenced him to one to ten years in jail for two counts of felonious assault, and one count of false imprisonment. However, he was granted parole in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1975 thanks to a letter-writing campaign by his followers.</a>
While in jail, Karenga converted his ideology from Black Nationalism to explicit Marxism. In 1978, just a few years after his release, Dr. Karenga was hired as the Chair of the African Studies department, where he now resides as of March 2022.
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to the College of Liberal Arts for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may reach out to the <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Liberal Arts at California State University &#8211; Long Beach</a> at (562) 985-538 
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California State University - Long Beach

<a href="https://www.csulb.edu/office-of-the-president/president/about">Dr. Jane Close Conoley</a>, is the current President of California State University - Long Beach. In an op-ed from 2014, Conoley stated that if you are “light-skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege.” Moreover, these privileged individuals show distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” of those with another skin color.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, Michael Park is no longer listed as an instructor at California State University-Long Beach.*
Michael Park is an instructor at California State University-Long Beach. He used a media law class to disparage Tea Partiers and conservatives as being birthers. In an assignment, he implied that opposition to President Obama is based on a belief that he is not a "true American". This is similar to a class taught by Christopher Knap, a fellow CSULB professor that assigned a homework assignment implying Trump is homophobic/sexist.

<a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/faculty-and-staff/maulana-karenga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Maulana Karenga</a> is Chair of <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Africana Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.csulb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California State University - Long Beach</a>. Dr. Karenga was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s and 1970s, during which time he founded the holiday, “Kwanzaa.” Prone to extremity and paranoia, Dr. Karenga was convicted for the imprisonment and torture of two women he falsely suspected of poisoning him.

Born Ronald McKinley Everett, Dr. Karenga founded <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/767.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kwanzaa as a pan-African holiday</a> in 1966. Despite that most American blacks are descended from West Africa, the name and traditions are based on East African Swahili. He would further <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/kwanzaa__a_madeup_holiday_.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state the holiday’s proximity to Christmas was intentional, as otherwise it wouldn't be noticed</a> by the black community.

People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods [blacks] would be partying!

Dr. Kerenga intended for Kwanzaa to replace Christian and Jewish holidays. As he wrote in his book—Kawaida Theory—Western faith, “denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and achievement." In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the wrath of an angry God on every generation's head.”

Dr. Karenga adopted his current name after embracing black nationalism while living on the West Coast in the 1960s. He would go on to found his own group—titled, <a href="https://www.us-organization.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US</a>—as a more radical alternative to his rivals in the Black Panther Party.

<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Black Panthers</a>—known officially as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense—was a black-nationalist and Marxist organization that operated largely in California during the 1960s and 1970s. Known for their violent tactics and enforcement of party discipline, members would<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pour boiling water over suspected </a>police informants. Co-founder, Huey Newton, is <a href="https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected to have taken part in multiple murders</a> committed by the Panthers.

Dr. Karenga’s organization frequently clashed with the rival, Black Panthers. Following a dispute over who would lead the Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA, <a href="https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/600011/posts?page=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US members shot two Black Panthers to death on the campus in 1969</a> which set off a series of shootings across Los Angeles that summer. The incident caused Dr. Karenga to fall into paranoia and suspect his own followers of plotting to kill him.

On the evening of May 9th, 1970, Dr. Karenga and several of his followers confronted two women who were staying at his home. He accused both of placing poison “crystals” in his food and water. According to court testimony, the women were then stripped naked, bound, and ordered to confess. Dr. Karenga tortured both women over the next two days, beating each with an electrical cord, and then branded them with a soldering iron.

While awaiting trial, Dr. Karenga’s mental health continued to deteriorate. The court-appointed psychologist found him to be schizophrenic, and reportedly caught Dr. Karenga speaking to hallucinations in his jail cell:

“Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to a hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.” 

The court later sentenced him to one to ten years in jail for two counts of felonious assault, and one count of false imprisonment. However, he was granted parole in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1975 thanks to a letter-writing campaign by his followers.</a>

While in jail, Karenga converted his ideology from Black Nationalism to explicit Marxism. In 1978, just a few years after his release, Dr. Karenga was hired as the Chair of the African Studies department, where he now resides as of March 2022.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to the College of Liberal Arts for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may reach out to the <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Liberal Arts at California State University - Long Beach</a> at (562) 985-538 
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Update - March 30, 2022
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<a href="https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-education/teacher-education/page/noah-asher-golden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noah Golden</a> is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at California State University, Long Beach. According to his university profile, his work “engages socio-cultural and critical approaches to literacy education, and centers on issues of equity and opportunity.” When asked about his research interests, Golden writes:
“My scholarship investigates the social positioning of minoritized students as well as these students’ endeavors to (re)position themselves along desired storylines and life trajectories. This research agenda includes the factors and sets of conditions that support student (re)positioning, including critical literacy practice, justice-oriented teacher education and activism, and responsive, strength-based teaching and learning.” 
Golden wrote an <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523987.2017.1391523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Critical digital literacies across scales and beneath the screen” in which he claimed that computer software helps perpetuate “systems of privilege and oppression” against minority children. In this piece, Golden wrote:
“Software plays a central role in maintaining separate and unequal educational opportunities for marginalized youth.” 
He claims software “converts lived realities, learner strengths, and communal needs into a number, cluster grouping, or other data points,” which can “produce or reproduce systems of privilege and oppression.”

He further argues that when schools use this software, “educational access and deservingness is outsourced to algorithms” that help in “maintaining racial and class privilege and contributing to the oppression of marginalized learners.”

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/computer-software-perpetuates-systemic-racism-prof-finds/10006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, reporting on the article, stated:
“To fight this, Golden argues that professors of digital literacy must further explore how algorithms and software can be used to perpetuate privilege and oppression, optimistically concluding that ‘there are possibilities for interrupting these hegemonic processes.’”
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Updated - August 2024

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Susan Douglas

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/people/regular-faculty/sdoug.html">Dr. Susan Douglas</a>, a professor at University of Michigan, publicized her hate for Republicans in an article from In These Times. She says, “I hate Republicans. I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal ‘personhood.’”

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University of Michigan

<a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/betsey-stevenson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betsey Stevenson</a> is a Professor of Public Policy and a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Her list of courses taught includes “Microeconomics for Public Policy” and “Economics of the Public Sector.” She also served as Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011.

In 2018, Stevenson partnered with <a href="https://jdp.princeton.edu/people/hanna-zlotnick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Zlotnick</a> to research gender ratios in economic textbooks. The university <a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2018/econ-textbook-study-stevenson-zlotnick-highlights-gender-bias-against-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> — titled “Econ textbook study by Stevenson, Zlotnick highlights gender bias against women” — that said: 

“The work, which has already garnered significant media attention, exposes an underrepresentation of women in American economics textbooks. Stevenson contends that remedying this issue could be key in closing the field’s stubborn gender gap … Excluding economists from their analysts, Steven and Zlotnick found that 70 percent of people referenced were men.”

The publication <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tIVrw2di5wqiMjoZTp0VDpLrBgwqQWja/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked to a textbook presentation</a> authored by Stevenson and Zlotnick. A few examples are found below.

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Stevenson also uses social media to malign conservatives and push unconstitutional sentiments.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Betsey Stevenson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - August 2, 2024

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/jrcole.html">Dr. Juan Cole</a> is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He believes right-wing Jews and an “Islamophobic network” were “a key influence” to the shooting that killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. He has also argued that recognizing Israel as a state is racist.

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/stats/people/faculty/fink.html">Nadiya Fink</a> is a statistics lecturer at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. After a conservative activist satirically changed his preferred pronoun to "His Majesty", Fink threatened to punish any student who mocked the preferred pronoun system.

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/people/regular-faculty/sdoug.html">Dr. Susan Douglas</a>, a professor at University of Michigan, publicized her hate for Republicans in an article from In These Times. She says, “I hate Republicans. I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal ‘personhood.’”

Assistant Professor of Education, <a href="https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/charles-hf-davis-iii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles H.F. Davis III</a>, once appeared on the Jesse Lee Peterson podcast to discuss race relations in America and the pro-Palestinian movement that was taking place on college campuses. 

In the following discussion from 2018, the host pointed out how Davis included several hashtags (#) on his <a href="http://hfdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, such as #FreePalestine and #FreethePeople. When asked why he did not include #FreetheJews on that list, Davis replied: 
“Well, I guess we could talk about in a particular context, and I think we have to think about what Jews we’re talking about. I’ve chosen to take those particular political stances based on the historical record, based on the social and political context that we find ourselves in today … 
“Just to be clear I’m very much opposed to anti-semitism in any particular form or fashion, but I wouldn’t want to conflate any of the [hashtags] that you just mentioned to suggest otherwise.”
<iframe title="'DESTROY WHITENESS': Black Men Whining Like Little Girls: Charles HF Davis III, PhD, an INTELLECTUAL" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPflNs_kPEI" width="1159" height="652" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Davis’ <a href="http://hfdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> —which now includes #BlackLivesMatter and #PoliceFreeCampus — contains several short essays and articles calling for an end to campus policing. In a publication co-authored with <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/kamariabporter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaria B. Porter</a>, entitled <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/6578c9261d9df2675a7329d4/1702414630458/Davis+%26+Porter+%282023%29+%E2%80%93%C2%A0A+Case+for+Abolishing+Campus+Police.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Case for Abolishing Campus Police</a>, Davis wrote:

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Davis spreads anti-American and anti-white ideologies through his course “Race, Racism and Anti-Blackness,” in which he says, “[The] course is a deep dive into understanding how systemic racism and structural racism function in society and in higher education contexts.”

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For years, Davis’ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hfdavis/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> feeds have been full of racial ideology as well as anti-Jewish and anti-police rhetoric. Using the <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter handle</a> “Palestine Will Be Free,” he also posted support for the pro-Palestinian campus protests that started in April 2024.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
I don’t have adequate language (or theological expertise) to describe the levels of blasphemy for racist, murderous institution like the NYPD to host a gospel festival.
This is almost as bad as the FBI recognizing MLK Day. <a href="https://t.co/VwGPP5wsVh">https://t.co/VwGPP5wsVh</a>

— Palestine Will Be Free 🍉 (@hfdavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis/status/1787886515906818439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When <a href="https://youtu.be/JPflNs_kPEI?t=104" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> if Jewish people should be freed from radical Islamic terrorism, Davis responded:

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When asked if he wanted to “eliminate whiteness,” Davis said, “I want to destroy whiteness to be more specific.” When asked to define whiteness, he declared:
“Whiteness is an ideological construct … it’s a set of behaviors, beliefs, and practices that not only normalize the white way of seeing the world but white way of doing society. That structure has proven to be violent towards people of color … 
“So, I think that needs to be destroyed in order for the liberation of the people of color from white supremacy to take place. Now, to be sure, that is not to conflate whiteness with white people — although all white people do benefit from whiteness.”
Please send updates and information on Charles H.F. Davis III to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Updated - May 8, 2024
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Charles H.F. Davis is an Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. He previously taught at the University of Southern California. According to his university biography, Davis’s research and teaching focuses on, “race and racism, systems of oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education and its social contexts.”

Davis previously rose to notoriety in 2017 for a series of <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">racially inflammatory tweets</a>. As reported by <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-professor-defends-tweet-promoting-violence-whiteness/">The College Fix</a>, he tweeted that “whiteness” must be destroyed and alluded to the necessity of violence in confronting it.

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The background photo of his Twitter account at the time featured a black woman pointing a gun at a pig that clearly represents a caricature of a police officer. 

When contacted <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-professor-defends-tweet-promoting-violence-whiteness/">The College Fix</a> over his remarks, Davis responded, “To be clear, I am decidedly against whiteness as a social and political ideology, which systematically marginalize and disenfranchise people of color from opportunities for societal advancement. In addition, I am against the institution of policing, which has historically and continuously enacted racial terror, sexual violence, and economic exploitation against racial minorities, women and LGBTQ communities, and economically disadvantaged working-class people.”

When asked if any of these tweets might make students uncomfortable, Davis <a href="http://hfdavis.com/blog/an-interview-with-a-conservative">responded</a> that any discomfort experienced by his white students is a result of their “white fragility.” 

Davis had previously advocated for the right of students to disrupt conservative speakers on campus. In the wake of <a href="https://badgerherald.com/news/2016/11/17/conservative-pundit-ben-shapiro-lectures-to-turbulent-crowd-on-safe-spaces-freedom-of-speech/">protesters heckling</a> Ben Shapiro’s lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison, school regents approved a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-university-of-wisconsin-protest-punishment-20171006-story.html">policy</a> to suspend or expel students that purposefully disrupt events. Davis’s subsequent <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-university-of-wisconsin-protest-punishment-20171006-story.html">op-ed</a> at Inside Higher Ed argued that this only reinforced white supremacy: “To be clear, it is a decision that reinforces institutionalized white supremacy -- and other oppressive forms of systemic power.” Davis argues that conservative speakers like Shapiro have hijacked the First Amendment to push “white supremacist agendas.”  

Davis’s website, which is listed by the University of Michigan on his biography, <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/5edaf71d1ab0434751b2e960/1591408468354/HF+Davis+%E2%80%93%C2%A0EPK.pdf">advertises </a>that he has taught the issues of “ race, racism, and systemic oppression in education and society” to over “7,000 students, educators and institutional leaders.” The <a href="http://hfdavis.com/">home page</a> of the site also features links to organizations that advocate for the Black Lives Matter movement, abolishing the police, and boycotting the nation of Israel.

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ac/people/faculty/jchl.html">John Cheney-Lippold</a> is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on Internet Studies, Cultural Studies, and Algorithm Studies.

Lippold made<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11317"> headlines</a> for his blatant discrimination against a pro-Israel student at Michigan. After agreeing to the initial request, he refused to write a letter of recommendation for her to study abroad in Israel due to his adherence to the academic boycott of the nation. In a now released email exchange, Lippold replied to the student’s request:

“As you may know, many university departments have pledged an academic boycott against Israel in support of Palestinians living in Palestine. This boycott includes writing letters of recommendations for students to study there.” 

In a<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/professor-draws-ire-after-declining-to-help-student-study-in-israel/"> statement</a> released by <a href="https://palestinelegal.org/">Palestine Legal</a>, he only proceeded to double-down and even compared Israel to Apartheid-era South Africa:

“I support the Palestinian boycott call because I am appalled at Israel’s continuing violation of Palestinian rights, and our government’s support for those violations...If a student had wanted to do a study abroad at an institution in Apartheid South Africa, I would have declined to write a letter for her as well.”

Professor Silke-Maria Weineck wrote a September 6, 2022, op-ed for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled <a href="https://archive.ph/GBDq6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Colleges Must Stop Trying to Appease the Right.”</a> The article begins by criticizing a university dean who had a conversation with a professor after a parent complained about one of the professor’s tweets. Weineck calls on her peers to stand up to Republicans, writing:
“Under the circumstances, it is not merely acceptable to denounce the GOP - clearly, loudly, profanely. It is our ethical and professional duty.” 
She goes on to say that the Republican Party has a “longstanding contempt for knowledge and expertise” in the fields of “history, public health, climate change, or ecology.”

She argues that colleges have an obligation to protect their faculty, staff, and students, saying:
“They must clearly insist on our people’s right not to be forced into pregnancy, not to be demeaned or disadvantaged due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and to have all of their histories studied and told.” 
She finishes her opinion piece by quoting Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance when he said that “professors are the enemy.” Weineck responds: “He is correct. He is our enemy, and we must be his. I welcome his hatred. As a modest start, I suggest that we no longer respond to Republicans who complain about professional tweets with anything other than a short form letter. I would be happy to draft it.”

This is not Weineck’s first anti-Republican opinion piece. In May 2021, she wrote another op-ed for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210520190416/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-tenure-denial-of-nikole-hannah-jones-is-craven-and-dangerous" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Tenure Denial of Nikole Hannah-Jones is Craven and Dangerous.”</a> She argues that Nikole Hannah-Jones was denied tenure at the University of North Carolina because of Republicans and the “governors and trustees within the UNC system in particular.” She writes:
“Universities hire faculty members who work on the history of racism and share Hannah-Jones’s broad convictions and investments all the time, and regents, trustees, and governors do not get involved. Nikole Hannah-Jones is different because she drove the conversation into places where it could not be belittled or contained.” 
Dr. Weineck believes <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah-Jones</a> is overqualified for tenure, saying: “The woman has a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur grant, and she spearheaded what is probably the most effective public-history effort in the history of the country, “The 1619 Project.””

The 1619 Project, originally a series of essays published in the New York Times and later developed into a book, “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” It argues that America was not founded in 1776 but in 1619, when the first enslaved Americans were brought to the Virginia colony, now the state of Virginia.

Weineck states that: “across the country, the GOP and its lickspittles have decided, in part precisely because of the success of “The 1619 Project,” that the correct way to address systemic racism is not only to deny its existence but to legally mandate this denial.” She argues that “universities are imperfect institutions, far more conservative than their reputation, and not nearly the force for good they imagine themselves to be.”

Silke-Maria Weineck is a <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/german/people/faculty/smwei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature</a> at the University of Michigan.

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You can contact the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures by email: germandept@umich.edu or phone: 734-764-8018.
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Published - October 7, 2022

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/erin-cech.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Cech</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Professor by courtesy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Professor Cech authored a study titled “<a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo1558" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The intersectional privilege of white able-bodied heterosexual men in STEM</a>.” In this paper, she <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-studies-intersectional-privilege-of-white-able-bodied-heterosexual-men-in-stem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared the experiences of “white able-bodied heterosexual men (WAHM)”</a> in the STEM fields to 31 other intersectional groups. Her study concludes that “...members of all other 31 intersectional groups experience significantly less social inclusion in their STEM jobs on average than WAHM experience….”

In a <a href="https://news.umich.edu/privileges-confirmed-for-straight-white-men-working-in-stem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan News</a> press release, Cech said: “The findings show the importance of encouraging white men to recogize the privileges they may have access to, and commit to serving as allies to fight for change at the organizational and structural level.”
“It is everyone’s responsibility - advantaged and disadvantaged alike - to fight for more equitable climates and practices in STEM.”  
Cech wrote a study in June 2017 titled “<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023117712395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rugged Meritocratists: The Role of Overt Bias and the Meritocratic Ideology in Trump Supporters’ Opposition to Social Justice Efforts</a>.” Her work aimed to determine “whether and why Trump supporters are more likely than other Americans to oppose social justice efforts.”

She concludes that “Trump supporters are indeed more opposed to social justice efforts.” She says that Trump supporters “express greater overt race, class, and gender bias, yet this bias does not explain their opposition”:
“Rather, many Trump supporters are “rugged meritocratists” who oppose these efforts because they believe U.S. society is already fair. To expand support for social justice efforts, rugged meritocratists must first be convinced that systemic inequalities still exist.” 
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You can contact the Department of Sociology by email: sociology.department@umich.edu or by phone: 734-764-6324
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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://soe.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/deborah-loewenberg-ball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deborah Loewenberg Ball</a> is the William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education and former dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan. According to her university profile, Ball says her research focuses on “leveraging the power of teaching to disrupt racism, marginalization, and inequity.”

Bell was featured in a July 2021 episode of the <a href="https://gsehd.gwu.edu/edfix-ts-ep23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EdFix Podcast</a>, where she argued that mathematics is racist. She claims that math is a “Harbor for whiteness” and said,
“...what’s also very difficult is to get people to see how the very nature of the knowledge and who’s produced it, and what has counted as Mathematics is itself also dominated by whiteness and by racism.” 
To provide an example of this racism, she states:
“This is really important because we do see patterns about who succeeds in Math in this country and it’s overwhelmingly white and Asian. It’s overwhelmingly still male once you get on with Mathematics.” 
She continues:
“So how about noticing that and being willing to open ourselves up to the question of how racism has permeated Mathematics and the way it’s represented in school and take the time to unfold that and to figure out what that would mean for looking at a better way of a curriculum and the pedagogy of Math in school.” 
Professor Ball wrote a March 2021 op-ed for the Detroit Free Press titled, <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2021/03/21/why-school-isnt-safe-place-every-child/6937638002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Why school isn’t a safe place for every child.”</a> In this article, she argues that schools are often unsafe for children of color and that COVID provided an opportunity for “many Black and Brown children to be out of the white gaze of punishment and deficit views” which “was a welcome respite from fear and control.”

She also argues that the curriculum in schools has been “unsafe,” writing:
“The images, knowledge, people and values that permeate history, science and art, as well as mathematics, language and text are harmful. They distort the experiences of Indigenous people, of Black communities and of immigrant groups. They reinscribe whiteness, heteronormativity and English as normal and desirable.” 
She concludes her op-ed by stating that schools need to “take a fuller view of the safety needed to dismantle anti-Blackness and white supremacy in our educational systems” as students and staff return to in-person schooling.

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You can contact the University of Michigan School of Education by phone at: 734-764-9470.
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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/fleming-paul.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Fleming</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior &amp; Health Education at the University of Michigan. According to his university profile, his work focuses on strategies to address the root causes of racial inequities.

Fleming is outspoken about his pro-choice beliefs. In a University of Michigan News article titled, <a href="https://news.umich.edu/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-u-m-experts-available-to-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: U-M experts available to discuss,”</a> he states:
“Abortion is health care and part of a person’s right to choose if and when to have a child. Overturning Roe v. Wade will cause harms that are entirely preventable and increase inequities we see in health and other outcomes.” 
His <a href="https://twitter.com/flemingpaulj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> features several posts discussing Prop 3, an initiative to restore Roe v. Wade, on the Michigan ballot this November.
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Psst…did you text your MI friends if they have a voting plan?
And ask if they’ve heard of Prop 3? <a href="https://t.co/DngRYn8HMl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/DngRYn8HMl</a>
— Paul J. Fleming (@FlemingPaulJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlemingPaulJ/status/1583488870662180864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Check out this thread of easy actions you can take to support Prop 3 in Michigan to restore Roe and ensure reproductive freedom for all. <a href="https://twitter.com/mireprofreedom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@mireprofreedom</a> 👇🏼 <a href="https://t.co/GuH6YIxnR4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/GuH6YIxnR4</a>
— Paul J. Fleming (@FlemingPaulJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlemingPaulJ/status/1582547277117214720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Public health awakened supports prop 3 because abortion access is a health equity issue! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteHealth2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#VoteHealth2022</a> <a href="https://t.co/5q967MCvj4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/5q967MCvj4</a>
— MI Chapter Public Health Awakened (@MI_PHAwakened) <a href="https://twitter.com/MI_PHAwakened/status/1582504507052679170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Fleming teaches a course titled <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIEuh5p_UmqbBMoRbiBpndPyFIdjcc8foBmHPdWy-O4/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Historical Roots of Health Inequities.”</a>  A reading list for the course includes publications such as “America Wasn’t a Democracy Until Black Americans Made it One” by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, and chapters from <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi’s</a> book “Stamped from the Beginning.” Other recommended titles include: “No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” “The Case for Reparations,” and “The Police Are Not Here to Protect You.”

He elaborated on his belief that “police do not produce safety” in a May 2022 tweet:
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Police do not produce safety, policing has been shown to harm public health.
Reducing poverty, providing safe housing, high quality education, addressing trauma, paying a living wage, etc. This is how we make our community safe.

COVID relief $ should NOT go to more police. <a href="https://t.co/y3BoZyQL7c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/y3BoZyQL7c</a>

— Paul J. Fleming (@FlemingPaulJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlemingPaulJ/status/1525210362659975170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Fleming, along with the help of two other University of Michigan professors, put together a free online course titled <a href="https://online.umich.edu/courses/structural-racism-causes-of-health-inequities-in-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Structural Racism: Causes of Health Inequities in the U.S.”</a> The course description says that “racial health disparities … are rampant in the U.S.” By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
-”Describe the impact of structural racism on individuals.” 
-”Identify policies and events that shaped current racial health inequities.”
-”Describe how inequities in institutions like schools, businesses, and policing contribute to current racial health inequities.”
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You can contact the University of Michigan School of Public Health by phone at: 734-764-5425.
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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/barbara-l-mcquade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara McQuade</a> is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. According to her university profile, her interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, data privacy, and civil rights. She was appointed by President Obama and served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017.

McQuade has been outspoken about her belief that former President Trump should be charged with manslaughter for the events that took place on January 6, 2021. On July 16, she wrote an op-ed for MSNBC titled, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/did-trump-commit-manslaughter-jan-6-committee-doj-should-find-n1297314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The case for charging Trump with manslaughter.”</a>

In this article, McQuade argues that the “loss of life was predictable in light of the size of the mob, their emotional state and their use of force.” She believes Trump knew the crowd was armed and said, “Unlike most members of the public who have no duty to take action to prevent a crime, a president has a constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.””

She concludes her comments by writing:
“Donald Trump once said he could “stand in the middle [of] Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose any voters. Can he also cause the deaths of five people and not lose his liberty?” 
She tweeted a link to her op-ed on October 25, 2022 with the caption, “Here is my analysis of involuntary manslaughter charges for Trump. This theory is probably a bridge too far for DOJ, but failing to a [sic] call off the mob when he knew they were armed and angry makes the resulting deaths at the Capitol reasonably forseeable.”
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Here is my analysis of involuntary manslaughter charges for Trump. This theory is probably a bridge too far for DOJ, but failing to a call off the mob when he knew they were armed and angry makes the resulting deaths at the Capitol reasonably foreseeable. <a href="https://t.co/GekzfDbo2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/GekzfDbo2C</a>
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1584851924570054659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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McQuade is also outspoken about her beliefs on gun control. In an <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/america-s-gun-infatuation-threat-supreme-court-could-make-it-n1283362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC op-ed,</a> she wrote “America’s infatuation with guns is a national security threat.” She states: “I was one of 30 former national security officials to sign on to an amicus brief arguing that unrestricted access to concealable firearms poses a great threat to public safety.” She ended the piece by claiming, “...like all rights, those described in Second Amendment are not absolute.”

In a TIME article, titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220204035713/https://time.com/6122142/kyle-rittenhouse-verdict/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Makes Us All Less Safe,”</a> she poses the question:
“Looking at this case broadly, how can it be that our laws permit a teenager to escape criminal liability after he travels from out of state to a scene of civil unrest, violates a curfew specifically designed to keep people off the streets, and ostentatiously carries with him an assault weapon that results in deadly harm?” 
She goes on to argue that Rittenhouse will become the “poster boy for right-wing extremists and politicians.” She justifies this statement by saying, “Rep. Matt Gaetz has already stated that Rittenhouse would make a good congressional intern.”

She claims the Rittenhouse verdict will “be a larger message to society that we should embrace vigilante justice” and will “promote irresponsible use of assault weapons under the banner of the Second Amendment.” Therefore, she believes the verdict makes everyone “less safe.”

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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/wgs/en/people/core-faculty/akirklan.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Kirkland</a>, J.D., Ph.D., is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She also served as the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) from 2017 to 2022.

Professor Kirkland is very outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs. In response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she was featured in a <a href="https://news.umich.edu/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-u-m-experts-available-to-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Michigan News</a> article titled “Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: U-M experts available to discuss.”

She stated that “abortion access is about to be dramatically restricted across large swaths of the United States.” She said that people will be forced “to give birth against their will” and that some “will die from pregnancy complications.” She added:
“This is by far the most radical right-wing majority we have ever seen on the Supreme Court, and so I am wondering whether and when they will take further steps like declaring that a fetus is a person, making all abortions illegal no matter what the state would like to do, or removing rights of access to same-sex marriage or contraception.” 
Kirkland has also been outspoken about her beliefs that everyone should get the COVID vaccine. In a Michigan Advance article titled, <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2021/03/02/how-the-anti-covid-vaccine-movement-mobilized-in-michigan-before-anyone-ever-got-their-first-shot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“How the anti-COVID vaccine movement mobilized in Michigan before anyone ever got their first shot,”</a> she states:
“I do see some new things [about the anti-vaccine movement], and that is the move from a feminized, mother-focused, natural living focus to this highly masculinized, anti-mask, gun rights mobilization.”
She further argued that the anti-vaccine movement has an “inner core that’s probably realistically unreachable” and is dominated by “overwhelming whiteness” and “fundamentally led by the right-wing.”

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You may contact the Women’s and Gender Studies Department by email at: wgsoffice@umich.edu.
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Published - November 2, 2022
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<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/hssp/people/professional---office-staff/lhharris.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lisa Harris</a> is the F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Health, and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/post-roe-task-force-launched-by-university-of-michigan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Harris is also the medical director for a regional Planned Parenthood.

Dr. Harris performs late-term abortions in which the baby is brutally dismembered. <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionist-lisa-harris-dismembering-sad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Action</a> reports that in an article written for <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18772087/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reproductive Health Matters</a>, Dr. Harris recounts performing an abortion while pregnant with her own daughter. She writes:
“[I] was more interested than usual in seeing the fetal parts when I was done, since they would so closely resemble those of my own fetus. I went about doing the procedure as usual, removed the laminaria I had placed earlier and confirmed I had adequate dilation. I … picked up my forceps and began to remove the fetus in parts, as I always did. I felt lucky that this one was already in the breech position - it would make grasping small parts (legs and arms) a little easier.” 
“With my first pass of the forceps, I grasped an extremity and began to pull it down. I could see a small foot hanging from the teeth of my forceps. With a quick tug, I separated the leg. Precisely at that moment, I felt a kick - a fluttery “thump, thump” in my own uterus. It was one of the first times I felt fetal movement. There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a “thump, thump” in my abdomen. Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes … Doing second trimester abortions did not get easier after my pregnancy; in fact, dealing with little infant parts of my born baby only made dealing with dismembered fetal parts sadder.” 
In a <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionist-lisa-harris-dismembering-sad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video recorded at the National Abortion Federation convention</a>, Dr. Harris was asked a question from a pro-choice activist about pictures of aborted babies. She responded:
“[I] actually think that we should be less about denying the reality of those images. More about acknowledging, that yeah, that’s kind of true. … we might actually both agree that there’s violence in here, ask me why I come to work every day. Let’s just give them all, the violence, it’s a person, killing - let’s just give them all that.” 
In June 2022, the University of Michigan announced the <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/university-creates-task-force-to-focus-on-abortion-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">creation of a task force to focus on abortion access.</a> Dr. Harris, who will co-chair the group, said in a press release that she is concerned about an increased birthrate in the post-Roe era:
“We can also expect to see an increase in the birthrate in the state - some estimates are as high as a 17% increase - and it is not clear that we or others have capacity to manage a dramatic shift like this.” 
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/urology/dee-ellen-fenner-md" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Dee Ellen Fenner</a> is the Director of Gynecology, the Director of Surgical Services, and a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Fenner is co-chair of the University of Michigan’s task force on abortion-care access. The goal of the task force is to make “plans to manage in a post-Roe v. Wade environment, by determining how an abortion ban could affect clinical care, educational instruction, student health and more.”

In a<a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/university-creates-task-force-to-focus-on-abortion-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> university press release,</a> Dr. Fenner said:
“Existing racial disparities in health outcomes and in student educational outcomes will likely be exacerbated. Overturning Roe is a health, gender and racial equity issue. We need careful planning to mitigate its most serious potential effects.” 
An October 2022 article titled,<a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/task-force-focused-on-abortion-access-continues-planning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “Task force focused on abortion access continues planning,”</a> says that the task force has been “closely monitoring the multiple court rulings that have made abortion status in the state uncertain over recent months. Dr. Fenner states:

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Dr. Fenner is also outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs on her Twitter account:
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Proud to continue our care and dedication to reproductive services including abortion. Proud our University is standing up for women and families. <a href="https://t.co/D3VPgdwf8I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/D3VPgdwf8I</a>
— Dee Fenner MD (@Dee_Fenner_MD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dee_Fenner_MD/status/1540494548182384640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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What will Prop 3 do?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Proposal3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#Proposal3</a> is a middle-ground solution that makes Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban unenforceable. It’s the ONLY WAY to protect women’s reproductive health care this Election Day. Vote <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YesOn3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#YesOn3</a> Nov. 8th. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RestoreRoe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#RestoreRoe</a> <a href="https://t.co/uhFHEOTkrU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/uhFHEOTkrU</a>
— Reproductive Freedom for All (@mireprofreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mireprofreedom/status/1586085771009744897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.si.umich.edu/people/oliver-haimson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oliver Haimson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. According to his university biography, he conducts “social computing research focused on envisioning and designing trans technologies, social media content moderation and marginalized populations, and changing identities on social media during life transitions.”

In 2021, Haimson was the lead author of a study that looked at what types of social media users have “content and accounts removed more frequently than others.” The results showed three types of users have <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3479610" target="_blank" rel="noopener">content removed more frequently than others</a>: political conservatives, transgender people, and black people. However, Haimson concludes:
“Conservative participants’ removals often involved harmful content removed according to site guidelines to create safe spaces with accurate information, while transgender and Black participants’ removals often involved content related to expressing their marginalized identities that was removed despite following site policies or fell into content moderation gray areas.” 
Haimson was quoted in a November 2022 article titled, <a href="https://www.them.us/story/elon-musk-twitter-right-wing-death-spiral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“After Two Weeks, Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Already in a Right-Wing Death Spiral.”</a> He alleged conservative users “tend to post more hate speech and misinformation” than other users and claims:
“Trans and queer people face substantial levels of online harassment. In the absence of well-enforced moderation policies that consider the unique challenges that trans people encounter online, harassment is likely to increase and make the site uninhabitable for many trans users.” 
Professor Haimson was also <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2019.1678505" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outspoken on Tumblr’s 2018 decision to ban nudity</a> and “adult” content. He argued Tumblr had been a trans technology because it “allowed erotic content needed for intersectional trans community building.” After Tumblr’s policy change, Haimson stated: “Tumblr’s ban sent a clear signal to trans communities that they were no longer welcome.”

Haimson is also a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>, “the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender lives.” According to the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">center’s website</a>, their mission is to inform “policy-making and public discourse in ways that improve quality of life for the transgender community.”

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Published - December 6, 2022

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/people/diversity-scholars-directory/apryl-williams.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apryl Williams</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication &amp; Media and the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. According to her university profile, her research focuses on “critical algorithm studies and cultural studies of race, gender, popular culture and identity in digital spaces.”

Professor Williams is outspoken about her disdain for white women. In an article for The Guardian titled <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/27/karen-race-white-women-black-americans-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The year of Karen: how a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism,”</a> she wrote: “We as a culture have adopted this stance that white women are more virtuous and not complicit in upholding racism in particular.” She then provides guidelines for how white women can “avoid being a Karen:”
-”Recognize the privilege and history of being a white woman in this society”
-”Avoid calling the police on people of color unless someone is in imminent danger of harm”
-”Understand that it’s just not always about you, period. People are not out to get you for the most part, people are not trying to hurt you or harm your property or make you uncomfortable. You’re not that special, Karen. You’re not that special.” 
Williams authored a paper titled, <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120981047" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Black Memes Matter: #LivingWhileBlack With Becky and Karen.”</a> She writes, “The summer of 2020 highlighted the inability to live while Black in the United States.” She adds:
“In this article, I argue that White women engage an extralegal type of patrolling, policing, and surveillance to regulate Black bodies in public spaces and uphold White supremacist notions of law and order.” 
She further argues that white women use “polite and empty apologies … to evade racial guilt and the stigma associated with open racism.”

Williams was also featured in an article for Mic titled <a href="https://www.mic.com/life/are-your-dating-preferences-racist-82343271" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Are your dating preferences racist?”</a> She argues “a lot of our social behaviors are deeply rooted in ideologies about race, even if it’s very implicitly, even if you’re not thinking about it.”

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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/lopez-william.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Lopez</a> is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and a Faculty Associate in the Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Michigan.

According to his university profile, he teaches a course titled “Health Impacts of Law Enforcement Violence in the U.S.” This course “focuses on the harms of law enforcement on the individual, family, and community levels and asks what we, as researchers and advocates, can do to address it.”

In November 2021, Lopez and fellow professors Paul Fleming and Daphne Watkins, <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/news-events/all-news/antiracism-collaborative/arc-funding-resources/antiracism-precedents-for-action-grant-announcement-2021.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received a grant</a> from the University of Michigan’s <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/antiracism-collaborative.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Collaborative</a>. Their project proposal was titled, “Anti-Racist Action by Cities and Communities to Respond to Racial Police Violence.” They described the project as a “mixed methods study of the implementation of a municipal resolution to develop an unarmed crisis response program to reduce the interactions between armed police and community members.”

Lopez is also a founding member of the <a href="https://www.reenvisionoursafety.org/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coalition for Re-Envisioning Our Safety (CROS)</a>, a “multiracial group” that “care[s] deeply about transformative justice and building care-based safety in our community.” The group says they “fully support a non-police/unarmed response” and claim they have written an “effective proposal” to accomplish this goal.

The <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/police-can-make-a-crisis-worse-the-public-needs-alternatives-in-an-emergency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main aspects of the CROS plan</a> include that the:
-”Unarmed response plan program be supported politically and funded by city government”
-”Be separate from law enforcement and the criminal legal system” 
-”Include a public phone number separate from 911” 
Speaking on behalf of CROS, Lopez told <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/7-in-depth/michigan-coalition-aims-to-provide-community-led-non-police-response-to-public-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WXYZ</a>:
“When a gun is present, there’s always the capacity for it to escalate to violence. And no matter how much you want to reduce the odds that might happen, it is still possible when that gun is there and not possible when it is not.” 
Lopez has also spoken out about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In an article for <a href="https://news.umich.edu/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-u-m-experts-available-to-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan News</a>, Lopez states:
“Public health research is clear that access to abortion is part of a full suite of reproductive health care. Eliminating abortion access will increase cycles of poverty, criminalize pregnancy, and unquestionably lead to maternal mortality. As is the case with all regressive health care policies, the burden of morbidity and mortality will be born most heavily by people of color.”
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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/shobita-parthasarathy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shobita Parthasarathy</a> is a Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the University of Michigan.

In September 2021, the Texas Heartbeat Bill took effect, banning abortion once a heartbeat is detected. In a <a href="https://news.umich.edu/texas-near-total-abortion-ban-u-m-experts-can-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan News</a> article, Parathasarathy was outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs, stating:
“The Supreme Court’s recent decision on abortion is likely to exacerbate inequalities at a time when we are supposed to be trying to enhance equity in our public policymaking.” 
She continued:
“With this law, more privileged women will still be able to access abortions by traveling out of state, while those without the means will likely be forced to have children. They will also have to bear the psychological and financial burdens of this, and so, too, will their families and succeeding generations.” 
Parthasarathy believes banning abortions after six weeks is “likely to entrench poverty and inequality.”

In November 2022, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy announced that Parthasarathy would be <a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2022/u-m-online-course-centers-equity-and-justice-technology-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching a new course she created, titled “Justice and Equity in Technology Policy.”</a> This course will study “how injustices can become embedded in technology and associated policies” because “technologies reflect and reinforce social biases towards women, people of color, disabled people, and other marginalized communities.”

Parthasarathy commented:
“Technology and technology policy have crucial roles to play in making the world equitable and just. But to achieve this, we need new generations of technologists, policymakers, and civil society advocates who understand technology in a nuanced way and know where and how to produce change.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/harlow-sioban.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sioban Harlow, Ph.D.,</a> is a Professor of Epidemiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan. She is Editor-in-Chief of <a href="https://womensmidlifehealthjournal.biomedcentral.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women’s Midlife Health</a> and Director of the <a href="https://midlifescience.umich.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Midlife Science</a>.

Professor Harlow is  outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Harlow was quoted in a <a href="https://news.umich.edu/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-u-m-experts-available-to-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan News</a> article:
“The Supreme Court decision reflects a woeful misrepresentation of history and disregard for the context of many women’s lives.” 
She claims:
“Recent laws banning abortion place in danger the health and lives of women who miscarry and are without access to safe abortion. These laws will lead to an increase in maternal morbidity and mortality, they will not stop abortion.” 
Harlow believes that <a href="https://news.umich.edu/25-years-of-research-shows-insidious-effect-of-racism-on-black-womens-menopausal-transition-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">structural racism explains the health disparities</a> between black and white women. She led a study that looked at 25 years of research from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) and compared menopausal transitions for black women and white women. She writes:
“Our analysis suggests that the enduring influence of structural racism - differential access to the goods, services and opportunities of society by race - is a major contributor to the health disparities between Black and white women in the midlife.” 
Harlow says it’s “clear that discrimination and structural racism play an important role in health broadly but getting the full story is difficult.” She claims that black women have harder experiences with menopause and attributes it to:
“...greater probability of hot flashes but less probability of treatment for hot flashes, greater risk of hypertension but less treatment for hypertension, greater risk of depression but less treatment for depression.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/jonathan-t-overpeck-phd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Overpeck</a> is the William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education and Samuel A. Graham Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan.

According to his university biography, Overpeck has published over 220 papers on climate and the environmental sciences. He served as a lead author for the 2007 and the 2010-2014 climate assessments published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In an op-ed for <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596066-a-shift-to-clean-energy-would-halt-russias-petro-thuggery-and-more/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>, he wrote, “Fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change and increased climate hazards.” He claims:
“We know this with high confidence: Eliminating fossil fuels from all we do is the most important step toward halting climate change.” 
Overpeck serves on Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/appointments/oma/all/1/council-on-climate-solutions#:~:text=The%20Council%20on%20Climate%20Solutions,%2C%20Great%20Lakes%2C%20and%20Energy." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council on Climate Solutions</a>. The council acts in an advisory capacity to the governor and is in charge of formulating and overseeing the implementation of the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/egle/about/organization/climate-and-energy/mi-healthy-climate-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MI Healthy Climate Plan</a>.

According to <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2022/11/23/as-cop27-falls-short-u-s-policies-position-michigan-to-meet-healthy-climate-goals-expert-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Advance</a>, the plan “calls for achieving economy-wide carbon neutrality in the state, reducing Michigan’s greenhouse gas emissions to zero by no later than 2050.” Overpeck says the plan is the “<a href="https://www.michiganbusiness.org/news/2022/12/climate-stability-and-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive climate action needed</a> to stave off climate change disaster in Michigan.”

Overpeck has described climate change as the “<a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/climate-change-and-michigan-challenges-and-opportunities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defining global problem of the 21st century</a>.” He was quoted in an Associated Press article titled, “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/science-business-congress-climate-and-environment-government-politics-8357e7d993b5e1a1144eb2643b786a33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans tout benefits of fossil fuels at climate talks</a>.” He stated:
“To solve the climate crisis we have to stop emitting carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. The production and use of natural gas does both, so we have to stop using natural gas as soon as we can.”
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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/people/regular-faculty/jpasek.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Pasek</a> is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media and Political Science at the University of Michigan. He serves as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science. According to his university profile, his research “explores how new media and psychological processes each shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors.”

After the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, Pasek <a href="https://twitter.com/jmping/status/1521511737249484800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> it was “likely to be a healthcare disaster and a slippery slope for the courts.”
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Today's news is likely to be a healthcare disaster and a slippery slope for the courts. But even though the effect will be increased policing of women's bodies (by men), the line that "this is an attempt by men to oppress women" is unpersuasive. A quick data 🧵 on why:
— Josh Pasek (@jmping) <a href="https://twitter.com/jmping/status/1521511737249484800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Pasek was quoted in a Michigan News article titled, “<a href="https://news.umich.edu/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-u-m-experts-available-to-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: U-M experts available to discuss</a>.” He said the decision is likely to put “Republican legislatures in conflict with the majority of Americans, who generally think abortion is a complicated issue and should be legal under at least some circumstances.”

He adds there’s a “growing perception that the courts are partisan actors” and “one major effect of the decision will be a loss of perceived governmental legitimacy at both the state and federal levels.”

Professor Pasek was featured in an October 2022 article titled, “<a href="https://beltmag.com/henry-ford-donald-trump-and-mass-marketing-bigotry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henry Ford, Donald Trump, and Mass Marketing Bigotry</a>.” The author of the article writes that Ford and Trump are “two self-involved sore losers, both inclined to find scapegoats for America’s problems, neither inclined to take responsibility for their own words and deeds.” Pasek adds to this by saying:
“There is and has long been a virulently racist and xenophobic element to American electorate. Ford wanted to tap into that. It is clear to me Trump has found leverage in the same forces.” 
In June 2021, Pasek 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.”
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Published - December 28, 2022