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<a href="https://www.grandviewcetl.org/cetl-staff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kevin Gannon</a> is a Professor at <a href="https://www.grandview.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand View University</a> in Des Moines, Iowa. He additionally serves as the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University.
In September of 2020, Dr. Gannon—along with University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Anthea Butler—<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?id=15566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized a general strike of university academics, lecturers, and professors in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement</a>.
According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>
In a letter posted on his personal Twitter account, Dr Gannon states the intent of the strike was to protest against what he characterized as <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1298790551207251970" target="_blank" rel="noopener">our nation’s ongoing “racialized violence, racism, and white supremacy,</a>” The letter urges university staff to walk off of their jobs in order to engage in “anti-racism.”
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All right, y&#39;all. It&#39;s on. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ScholarStrike?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ScholarStrike</a>. If you want to sign on in support: <a href="https://t.co/O7HqD2IJaG">https://t.co/O7HqD2IJaG</a> <a href="https://t.co/23Ys9CshRz">pic.twitter.com/23Ys9CshRz</a>
&mdash; Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1298790551207251970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a joint statement posted on Academe Blog, both professors claimed <a href="https://academeblog.org/2020/09/02/scholar-strike/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their summers were filled with stories of “those dying at the hands of police</a>.” They further claimed the “violence, murder, and racism” rendered them unable to complete their professorial duties.
As part of Dr. Gannon’s strike, professors were instructed to walk out of their jobs to highlight “racism, policing, and mass incarceration” and engage in some form of “antiracist” instruction instead. According to the publication Campus Reform, at least <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">800 professors across the country participated in the strike</a>.
To learn more, please <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/antheabutler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">view Anthea Butler’s profile on the Professor Watchlis</a>t.
In addition to his duties as the Director for the Center of Excellence in Teaching, one course that Dr. Gannon teaches is titled the “History of Capitalism.” <a href="http://www.thetattooedprof.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CapitalismSyllabus.Revised.2014.2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to a syllabus for the course</a>, Dr. Gannon teaches the “key ideas and historical events in the development in the history of capitalism,” and how capitalism “shaped both individual’s lives and the development of societies.”
On his <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1244280537239486470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, Dr. Gannon has bashed capitalism publicly, describing it as a “death cult” and connected it to slavery in a series of tweets included below.
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Capitalism doesn&#39;t care if you die, exhibit eleventy-billion <a href="https://t.co/yYKNcgkb1p">https://t.co/yYKNcgkb1p</a>
&mdash; Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1244280537239486470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Me: capitalism is a death cult You: that&#39;s a bit overwrought, don&#39;t you think? Me: <a href="https://t.co/quYpL3Su9L">https://t.co/quYpL3Su9L</a>
&mdash; Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1235786291297628161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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11. that slavery&#39;s brutality has shaped capitalism to the present day. In Magness&#39;s eyes, this is an attempt to &quot;enlist slavery as an explanatory mechanism for a long list of grievances he has against the Republican Party&#39;s positions&quot; today. ZOMG PRESENTISM THE HORROR OF IT ALL
&mdash; Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1210583667552206848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yeah, to an extent, but I would add that even in the transformations of the 30s, the legacies of slavery/Jim Crow meant that capitalism was still highly racialized. For example, Blacks were excluded from 95% of the Homestead Act&#39;s land cessions, as well as from home ownership+
&mdash; Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1208460996056096768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Parents and Students can contact Grand View University at (515) 263-2800.
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<a href="https://www.grandviewcetl.org/cetl-staff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kevin Gannon</a> is a Professor at <a href="https://www.grandview.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand View University</a> in Des Moines, Iowa. He additionally serves as the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University.

In September of 2020, Dr. Gannon—along with University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Anthea Butler—<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?id=15566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized a general strike of university academics, lecturers, and professors in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement</a>.

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

In a letter posted on his personal Twitter account, Dr Gannon states the intent of the strike was to protest against what he characterized as <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1298790551207251970" target="_blank" rel="noopener">our nation’s ongoing “racialized violence, racism, and white supremacy,</a>” The letter urges university staff to walk off of their jobs in order to engage in “anti-racism.”

https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1298790551207251970

In a joint statement posted on Academe Blog, both professors claimed <a href="https://academeblog.org/2020/09/02/scholar-strike/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their summers were filled with stories of “those dying at the hands of police</a>.” They further claimed the “violence, murder, and racism” rendered them unable to complete their professorial duties.

As part of Dr. Gannon’s strike, professors were instructed to walk out of their jobs to highlight “racism, policing, and mass incarceration” and engage in some form of “antiracist” instruction instead. According to the publication Campus Reform, at least <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">800 professors across the country participated in the strike</a>.

To learn more, please <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/antheabutler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">view Anthea Butler’s profile on the Professor Watchlis</a>t.

In addition to his duties as the Director for the Center of Excellence in Teaching, one course that Dr. Gannon teaches is titled the “History of Capitalism.” <a href="http://www.thetattooedprof.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CapitalismSyllabus.Revised.2014.2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to a syllabus for the course</a>, Dr. Gannon teaches the “key ideas and historical events in the development in the history of capitalism,” and how capitalism “shaped both individual’s lives and the development of societies.”

On his <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1244280537239486470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, Dr. Gannon has bashed capitalism publicly, describing it as a “death cult” and connected it to slavery in a series of tweets included below.

https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1244280537239486470

https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1235786291297628161

https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1210583667552206848

https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1208460996056096768

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Parents and Students can contact Grand View University at (515) 263-2800.
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<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:
“&#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.” 
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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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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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.
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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:

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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.”
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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...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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<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2854" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PWL-QUOTES-43-e1676504875763-1024x632.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="395" />

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>
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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

Terror Supporter

Antisemitism

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Peter Dreier

<a href="http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/peter-dreier">Dr. Peter Dreier</a>, a professor at Occidental College, has been a longtime activist for socialism in the U.S. He worked on a number of progressive projects and campaigns including the campaign of President Obama. He teaches a class called “Movements in Social Justice,” which requires reading the infamous A People&#8217;s History of the United States, authored by Marxist historian Howard Zinn. He also says the NRA has blood on its hands for supporting pro-gun rights legislation.

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Occidental College

<a href="https://lisa-wade.com/full-cv/">Dr. Lisa Wade</a> is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College. Dr. Wade called for abolishing all fraternities and sororities, although she allowed an exception for African-American fraternities and sororities.

<a href="http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/peter-dreier">Dr. Peter Dreier</a>, a professor at Occidental College, has been a longtime activist for socialism in the U.S. He worked on a number of progressive projects and campaigns including the campaign of President Obama. He teaches a class called “Movements in Social Justice,” which requires reading the infamous A People's History of the United States, authored by Marxist historian Howard Zinn. He also says the NRA has blood on its hands for supporting pro-gun rights legislation.

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Carol Lasser

<a href="https://www2.oberlin.edu/faculty/classer/cslbio.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carol Lasser</a> is a Professor of History at Oberlin College. Her faculty profile says:
“I am continuing scholarly work on abolitionism, women, and the public sphere, while also moving ahead in my project with Gary Kornblith, on the making of race in Oberlin, Ohio.”
RACIAL IDEOLOGY
Lasser partnered with Kornblith to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Elusive-Utopia-Struggle-Antislavery-Abolition-ebook/dp/B07JZTMY2Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19UJY9FHLZN8C&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ao7EhDg7riDXB6Qdm30m6ugScBzQAbVCGss-Z7AiWd_c5oBXcyrcyZ4paWkUebGbXr7UXQUCSAeGmD8Itc3UgiXfnKbT9DwrEnOG4II9BdB0SjEzMF_JdoY1Kau5aRSPlR8ftgt6d53YeCDZWdl4_tuOljUgOC5aJrQPx00dcCqOHXh7zjPh2nbefMyaJJ4I_2kMJQPul3XuZFVO6b9hRLBEg8uHoswb0o4cFX6fq2U.LWdkKNMR3cffMxZKWCSnbbJvInZcwtY8ClzsM53Cn-g&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=elusive+utopia&amp;qid=1721927826&amp;sprefix=elusive+utopia%2Caps%2C114&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publish a book</a> called “Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio” in which they discuss the abolition of slavery and the “changing perceptions of race” among Oberlin residents. 
In a book <a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/news/elusive-equality-conversation-carol-lasser-and-gary-kornblith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Oberlin Campus News</a>, Lasser was asked, “Did Oberlin’s commitment to racial equality change over time, and if so, how?” Lasser responded:
“The people who make up Oberlin change, and their understanding of their relationship to racial equality changes … After the Civil War, Oberlin needs to reevaluate its raison d’être, and it pulls back from that commitment to radical racial egalitarianism &#8230; Over time, the people who have come to inhabit the town [no] longer see that the job of eliminating prejudice falls to them … There’s a kind of amnesia and a supplanting of the original vision.”
Oberlin’s <a href="https://cityofoberlin.com/for-visitors/underground-railroad-center/information/#:~:text=Oberlin%20became%20a%20major%20focus,as%20the%20Oberlin%2DWellington%20Rescue." target="_blank" rel="noopener">history</a> confirms a strong Evangelical and abolitionist sentiment toward the freeing of slaves. The city’s main page states, “Every chance given they opposed the Fugitive Slave Act and did everything possible to make sure enslaved blacks were not returned to the south … After the Civil War, Oberlin [College] continued its tradition with admitting students ‘irrespective of color.’”
In the interview, Lasser and Kornblith hardly offer any statistical evidence that shows racial segregation, discrimination or violence increased toward black people over the last century. Instead, Lasser simply claims the white people who moved to Oberlin after the Civil War were “different” in that they were no longer “motivated by abolitionism.”
ANTI- 1ST AMENDMENT
In <a href="https://glc.yale.edu/i-am-professor-watchlist-carol-lasser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 2016 publication from Yale University</a>, Lasser discussed how she feels about finding her profile on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist. Following the 2016 Presidential Election, Lasser said, “As a member of Historians Against Slavery, I have followed the current post-election situation with great anxiety and much thought about what happens when the American political system is under stress.”
Lasser continued:
“As I learned earlier this week, I am on the ‘Professor Watchlist’ … Although I consider myself honored to be recognized for my lifelong efforts to teach against racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and many other varieties of oppression, I am deeply distressed by the Watchlist, not only because it may have a chilling effect on academic freedom, but also because it is, like so much in the Age of Trump, fact free, letting loose a barrage of hate based in manipulated emotion.”
Lasser also mentioned how Project Veritas exposed her while she served in her role as the “director of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Students at Oberlin.” The <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/hidden-camera-captures-college-officials-disparaging-and-shredding-constitution-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hidden camera</a> captured an Oberlin staff member shredding a copy of the U.S. Constitution after an undercover journalist claimed to be “triggered” by the document. Moments later, Lasser is recorded stating:
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<iframe loading="lazy" title="Hidden Camera Captures Officials Shredding Constitution at Vassar College as it &quot;Triggers&quot; Students" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3PZAzLTQlX8" width="910" height="512" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
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Send tips, updates, and information on Carol Lasser to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated &#8211; July 2024

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Oberlin College

<a href="https://www2.oberlin.edu/faculty/classer/cslbio.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carol Lasser</a> is a Professor of History at Oberlin College. Her faculty profile says:

“I am continuing scholarly work on abolitionism, women, and the public sphere, while also moving ahead in my project with Gary Kornblith, on the making of race in Oberlin, Ohio.”

RACIAL IDEOLOGY

Lasser partnered with Kornblith to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Elusive-Utopia-Struggle-Antislavery-Abolition-ebook/dp/B07JZTMY2Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19UJY9FHLZN8C&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ao7EhDg7riDXB6Qdm30m6ugScBzQAbVCGss-Z7AiWd_c5oBXcyrcyZ4paWkUebGbXr7UXQUCSAeGmD8Itc3UgiXfnKbT9DwrEnOG4II9BdB0SjEzMF_JdoY1Kau5aRSPlR8ftgt6d53YeCDZWdl4_tuOljUgOC5aJrQPx00dcCqOHXh7zjPh2nbefMyaJJ4I_2kMJQPul3XuZFVO6b9hRLBEg8uHoswb0o4cFX6fq2U.LWdkKNMR3cffMxZKWCSnbbJvInZcwtY8ClzsM53Cn-g&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=elusive+utopia&amp;qid=1721927826&amp;sprefix=elusive+utopia%2Caps%2C114&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publish a book</a> called “Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio” in which they discuss the abolition of slavery and the “changing perceptions of race” among Oberlin residents. 

In a book <a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/news/elusive-equality-conversation-carol-lasser-and-gary-kornblith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Oberlin Campus News</a>, Lasser was asked, “Did Oberlin’s commitment to racial equality change over time, and if so, how?” Lasser responded:
“The people who make up Oberlin change, and their understanding of their relationship to racial equality changes … After the Civil War, Oberlin needs to reevaluate its raison d’être, and it pulls back from that commitment to radical racial egalitarianism ... Over time, the people who have come to inhabit the town [no] longer see that the job of eliminating prejudice falls to them … There’s a kind of amnesia and a supplanting of the original vision.”
Oberlin’s <a href="https://cityofoberlin.com/for-visitors/underground-railroad-center/information/#:~:text=Oberlin%20became%20a%20major%20focus,as%20the%20Oberlin%2DWellington%20Rescue." target="_blank" rel="noopener">history</a> confirms a strong Evangelical and abolitionist sentiment toward the freeing of slaves. The city’s main page states, “Every chance given they opposed the Fugitive Slave Act and did everything possible to make sure enslaved blacks were not returned to the south … After the Civil War, Oberlin [College] continued its tradition with admitting students ‘irrespective of color.’”

In the interview, Lasser and Kornblith hardly offer any statistical evidence that shows racial segregation, discrimination or violence increased toward black people over the last century. Instead, Lasser simply claims the white people who moved to Oberlin after the Civil War were “different” in that they were no longer “motivated by abolitionism.”

ANTI- 1ST AMENDMENT

In <a href="https://glc.yale.edu/i-am-professor-watchlist-carol-lasser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 2016 publication from Yale University</a>, Lasser discussed how she feels about finding her profile on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist. Following the 2016 Presidential Election, Lasser said, “As a member of Historians Against Slavery, I have followed the current post-election situation with great anxiety and much thought about what happens when the American political system is under stress.”

Lasser continued:
“As I learned earlier this week, I am on the ‘Professor Watchlist’ … Although I consider myself honored to be recognized for my lifelong efforts to teach against racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and many other varieties of oppression, I am deeply distressed by the Watchlist, not only because it may have a chilling effect on academic freedom, but also because it is, like so much in the Age of Trump, fact free, letting loose a barrage of hate based in manipulated emotion.”
Lasser also mentioned how Project Veritas exposed her while she served in her role as the “director of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Students at Oberlin.” The <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/hidden-camera-captures-college-officials-disparaging-and-shredding-constitution-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hidden camera</a> captured an Oberlin staff member shredding a copy of the U.S. Constitution after an undercover journalist claimed to be “triggered” by the document. Moments later, Lasser is recorded stating:

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3738" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-3-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" />

<iframe title="Hidden Camera Captures Officials Shredding Constitution at Vassar College as it &quot;Triggers&quot; Students" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3PZAzLTQlX8" width="910" height="512" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3739" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-4-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" />

Send tips, updates, and information on Carol Lasser to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated - July 2024

<a href="https://canarymission.org/professors/joy-karega/">Dr. Joy Karega</a> is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Oberlin College. She posted a series of anti-Semitic Facebook posts in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks. In these posts, Karega placed the blame for the attacks on Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After being fired by the university for her comments in 2016, Karega sued and eventually <a href="https://chroniclet.com/news/200709/fired-professor-oberlin-college-settle-lawsuit/">settled</a> for an undisclosed amount.

<a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/mohammad-jafar-mahallati" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mohammad Jafar Mahallati</a> is a Professor of Religion and the Nancy Dye Chair in Middle East and North African Studies at Oberlin College. From 1987-1989, he served as the Ambassador to the United Nations on behalf of Iran. In that role, he is accused of covering up Iran’s executions of political prisoners and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel on the world stage.

As the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/iranian-diplomat-turned-us-professor-accused-of-crimes-against-humanity-645107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, a group of Iranian political prisoners and human rights activists sent a letter to the president of Oberlin College demanding that the college dismiss Mahallati for his role in Iran’s infamous 1988 mass executions. Over the course of several months of 1988, it is <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/taharboumedra/2021/01/19/pleading-for-justice-to-the-victims-of-1988-mass-executions-of-political-prisoners-in-iran-n2583360" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> that Iran executed as many as 30,000 political prisoners.

In a <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/iranian-diplomat-turned-us-professor-accused-of-crimes-against-humanity-645107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response</a> to the Jerusalem Post, Mahallati states that he had no knowledge of the massacres. He claims that his accusers have produced no evidence implicating him in the killings, and Mahallati “categorically” denies receiving any information regarding Iran’s mass executions while serving as an Ambassador.

“The accusers fail to provide a single solid document as evidence of my actual knowledge of these incidents. With no concrete evidence, they infer that I must have been informed and intentionally denied these atrocities. I categorically deny any knowledge and therefore responsibility regarding mass executions in Iran when I was serving at the United Nations.” - Mahallati

Mahallati, in his role as Iran’s ambassador to the UN, vocally downplayed and excused the executions. In a thread of Tweets, Iranian human rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz <a href="https://twitter.com/kshahrooz/status/1314261433291542532/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> that Mahallati not only <a href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=E/CN.4/1989/26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledges</a> the executions before the UN at that time, but attempts to excuse them as battlefield casualties or sensationalized propaganda from Iraq.

<a href="https://twitter.com/kshahrooz/status/1314261433291542532"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1257" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-08-at-10.56.54-AM-276x300.png" alt="" width="460" height="500" /></a>

During his two-year delegation to the United Nations, Mahallati frequently denied the right of Israel to exist and praised Palestinian terrorists. As Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/oberlin-professor-of-peace-iranian-ambassador-destruction-of-israel-1989-speech">reports</a>, Mahallati, who refers to Israel as a “Zionist entity,” states before the UN that Israel’s founding was a “violation of International law.”

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1255 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-08T104141.830-e1617903804528-1024x452.png" alt="" width="580" height="256" />

Praising the Palestinian uprising, known as the “Intifada,” Mahallati <a href="https://undocs.org/en/S/PV.2847">describes</a> the campaign as a “holy struggle against oppression and Zionism.” In a speech to the United Nations, he pledges support on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the “liberation of all of Palestine'' and the destruction of Israel.

<img class="size-large wp-image-1254 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-08T103725.040-e1617903562513-1024x440.png" alt="" width="580" height="249" />

<img class="size-full wp-image-1258 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-08-at-11.00.03-AM.png" alt="" width="617" height="778" />

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In a response to a Fox News inquiry about Mahallati, Oberlin College spokesman Scott Wargo <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/oberlin-professor-of-peace-iranian-ambassador-destruction-of-israel-1989-speech">states</a>, “Professor Mahallati is a tenured professor and has seen a teacher at Oberlin since 2007. We have received the letter today expressing concerns about his statements during a meeting with the United Nations representatives more than 30 years ago. We are in touch with Professor Mahallati to gather additional information.”

In a letter sent to Oberlin President Carmen Twillie, and published in The Oberlin Review,  577 signatories <a href="https://oberlinreview.org/21828/opinions/hiring-mohammad-mahallati-against-oberlins-mission-and-vision/">call</a> for Mahallati to be “removed from his position” at Oberlin. The letter also states that his appointment is at “fundamental odds” with Oberlin’s stated values.

The Oberlin Review also reports that Mahallati is the <a href="https://oberlinreview.org/21855/news/religion-professor-denies-accusations-of-human-rights-abuses-cover-up/">founder</a> of the “Friendship Initiative.” According to the Friendship Initiative’s website, the <a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/friendship">goal</a> of the organization is to promote friendship as a “radical framework for developing international, interfaith, and intercultural justice and peace.” Mahallati also hosts Oberlin College’s annual “<a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/events/oberlin_friendship_festival_a_virtual_event">Friendship Festival</a>” which claims to celebrate interfaith peace and justice.

In further unearthed statements, Dr. Mahallati <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/oberlin-colleges-professor-peace-endorsed-fatwa-murder-salman-rushdie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed the "fatwa"—or sentence of death—leveled against author Salaman Rushdie for criticizing Islam. </a>

The fatwa was <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-fatwa-iran">issued by Iran's Supreme Leader—Ayatollah Kh0meini—in 1989, which called upon "all brave Muslims" to kill Rushdie</a> for authoring The Satanic Verses. It has never been rescinded.

When asked about the fatwa while serving as Ambassador, Dr. Mahallati responded: "I think all Islamic countries agree with Iran. All Islamic nations and countries agree with Iran that any blasphemous statement against sacred figures should be condemned."

He continued, "I think if Western countries really believe and respect freedom of speech, therefore they should also respect our freedom of speech. We certainly use that right in order to express ourselves, our religious belief, in the case of any blasphemous statement against sacred Islamic figures."

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mahallati for comment and has received the following response via email.

“Greetings! I am on sabbatical leave for the spring of 2021. I will respond back whenever I can. Thank you for contacting me. Warm Regards.” - Mahallati

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Parents and Students may contact Oberlin College at (440) 775-8121.
 Updated - August 18th, 2022

<a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/jennifer-blaylock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Blaylock</a> is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Oberlin College. Courses she has taught at Oberlin College include, but are not limited to, Introduction to African Cinemas and Feminist Media Histories.

According to her university profile, she is a “film and media historian with research interests in audio-visual archives, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and African studies.”

Blaylock recently taught a Winter Term project titled Decolonizing Cinema History. <a href="https://oberlinreview.org/30097/arts/bodies-are-fluid-film-screening-expands-on-amam-conversation-through-feminist-video-art/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Oberlin Review</a> reports the course “invited students with a variety of experiences and interest levels to participate and allowed them to explore feminist media and art film.”

Blaylock says the Winter Term project started from a few needs that she saw on campus, one being that the Cinema Studies department had a collection of 16-millimeter films. She adds:
“The other part of the project is that I’ve been writing a lot about archives recently, and so I was interested in thinking about a lot of new literature on film archives in particular that have to do with decolonizing institutions of archival memory.” 
She continues:
“How are archivists addressing neglect of certain histories based on race, gender, sexuality, [and] geographic parts of the world that have been left out from film memory?” 
Students in Blaylock’s course on decolonizing cinema <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/bodily-fluids-film-fest-hosted-by-oberlin-film-scholar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized a film fest</a> with archived pornographic footage. The films shown at the event “spanned a wide range of topics and forms, but were tied together by their focus on bodies and bodily fluids.” Blaylock shared her support for the event on her Twitter:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
I am so proud of my students for making this winter term project a reality. They put a lot of hard work into the publicity and curation process. The conversation with students and faculty after the screening was the best part. <a href="https://t.co/ptKmESz16s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/ptKmESz16s</a>
— Jennifer Blaylock (@jenn_blaylock) <a href="https://twitter.com/jenn_blaylock/status/1649747924367343617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Oberlin Review says attendees at the event had a variety of viewing opportunities which “included a film created solely with the artist’s mouth, a 1970s-era feminist film on menstruation, and a 16-minute-long recording of an intimate performance in which one artist shaves another’s lower body.”


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Published - May 10, 2023

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<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 &#8211; November 18, 2022

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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.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3766" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-8.39.23 AM.png" alt="" width="562" height="412" />

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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.”
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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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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>.
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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

<a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/dominique-adams-santos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dominique Adams-Santos</a> is the Associate Director of the Center for Racial Justice and Associate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

The <a href="https://racialjustice.umich.edu/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Racial Justice</a> “aims to foster deep relationships between research and advocacy to uncover the voices of the unjustly silenced, challenge us to live up to our democratic ideals, and offer sound policy prescriptions for a more equitable and just society.”

As part of her work with the center, Adams-Santos co-teaches a fall speaker series titled “<a href="https://racialjustice.umich.edu/programs-events/racial-foundations-public-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Foundations of Public Policy</a>.” This series is open to everyone and “focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action.”

According to her university profile, Adams-Santos’ research focuses on “questions of sexuality, intimacy, and belonging in the digital era.” Specifically, she is interested in “how individuals navigate the racial, gender, and sexual politics of digital and urban landscapes in their search for intimacy and community.”

Adams-Santos wrote a paper titled, “<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460720902720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Something a bit more personal’: Digital storytelling and intimacy among queer Black women</a>.” In her work, she describes the importance of coming-out stories but claims “much of the extant literature on coming-out stories examines narratives by white, middle-class gay men and lesbians.”

She believes that “critical inquiry into coming-out stories told by privileged and queer subjects points to the formulaic and normative characteristics of their narratives, where sexual difference is downplayed or challenged.”

Her paper looks at whether queer black women “conform to or depart from the ‘coming-out formula story.’” She argues that queer black women “complicate the coming-out formula” with their use of “intimate candor - the performative and discursive strategy of publicly revealing interior, often sexually explicit, aspects of the self.”

Adams-Santos is also a Postdoctoral Fellow with the <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/antiracism-collaborative.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Collaborative</a> at the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. The collaborative is part of the provost’s Anti-Racism Initiative. One aspect of this initiative is a “faculty cluster hiring program that prioritizes scholarly expertise on racism - at systemic, institutional, and/or interpersonal levels.”

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Published - December 29, 2022

<a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/tenure-track/curetona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashley Cureton</a> is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and the School of Education at the University of Michigan. According to her university profile, Cureton’s research “explores the educational and mental health needs and outcomes of refugee and migrant children and youth and their families.” 

In November 2021, Cureton received a grant <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-michigan-professor-receives-anti-racism-grant-to-study-algorithmic-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from the University of Michigan’s Anti-Racism Collaborative</a> located at the National Center for Institutional Diversity. The <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/antiracism-collaborative.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Collaborative</a> was “created to facilitate University of Michigan community engagement around research and scholarship focused on racial inequality, racial justice, and anti-racist praxis.” 

The collaborative <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/collaboratives-grants-advance-anti-racism-research-scholarship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded nearly $111,000 in grant money</a> to proposals that focused on “marginalized, grassroots and collaborative forms of anti-racist action with the potential to transform resistance to structural racism.” Cureton’s project is titled, “More Allies Than Adversaries: An Exploratory Qualitative Study on Allyship and Racial Solidarity between Latinx Immigrant and Black Youth in Baltimore.” 

Cureton’s project will include “[p]ushing back on anti-Black racism that permeates Latinx communities and drawing on an intersectionality framework.” Her <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">proposal description states:</a> 
“Moreover, this study explores the possibility of existing or potential solidarity and allyship between these two marginalized groups as a mechanism to develop collaborative forms of anti-racist action.” 
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Published - December 30, 2022

<a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/celeste-watkins-hayes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Celeste Watkins-Hayes</a> is the interim dean of the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, founding director of the school’s Center for Racial Justice, and the Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy.

According to her university profile, she is “widely credited for her research at the intersection of inequality, public policy, and institutions, with a special focus on urban poverty and race, class, and gender studies.”

In an article announcing the launch of the <a href="https://racialjustice.umich.edu/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Racial Justice</a>, Watkins-Hayes <a href="https://www.michigandaily.com/government/i-think-its-long-overdue-ford-school-launches-new-center-for-racial-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laid out her vision for the initiative</a>:
“When we talk about the Center for Racial Justice, there’s a decidedly intersectional lens. We are thinking about social justice more broadly. We’re thinking about gender and sexuality and religion and class and immigration status because we know that none of us are one thing, and systems don’t operate on just one dimension of inequity.” 
According to the Center’s website, the organization “aims to foster deep relationships between research and advocacy to uncover the voices of the unjustly silenced, challenge us to live up to our democratic ideals, and offer sound policy prescriptions for a more equitable and just society.”

As part of her work with the center, Watkins-Hayes co-teaches a speaker series titled “<a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/course/fall/2022/pubpol-750003-topics-racial-foundations-public-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Foundations of Public Policy</a>.” This series is open to everyone and “focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action.”

The course description says, “Participants in this series will develop the skills needed to discuss, understand, and inquire about formal and informal racial structures and institutions in which policy is formulated, implemented, and experienced.”

Watkins-Hayes is also an <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/antiracism-collaborative.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Collaborative</a> research and community impact fellow. The collaborative is part of the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity and the provost’s Anti-Racism Initiative. According to the website, the collaborative was created “to recognize, honor, spotlight, and elevate the work of our current research community related to racism and racial justice.”

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Published - March 27, 2023

<a href="https://smtd.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/antonio-cuyler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antonio Cuyler</a> is a Professor of Music in Entrepreneurship &amp; Leadership at the University of Michigan. He was hired as part of the Office of the Provost’s <a href="https://provost.umich.edu/initiatives/anti-racism/faculty-hiring-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Hiring Initiative</a>.

In October 2022, the University of Michigan announced that they had hired five faculty members with <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/five-join-faculty-through-anti-racism-hiring-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expertise in inequality and structural racism</a> as part of the initiative. According to a press release, the initiative’s main goals are to “deepen U-M’s expertise in research, scholarship, creative practice, teaching and engagement on issues of race and racial justice and tangibly impact education and society, all while building on the knowledge and work of current faculty.”

Provost Laurie McCauley stated:
“The importance of this work, building deeper knowledge of systemic inequities and fostering engagement with equity and anti-racism, is very clear. I am eager to welcome the new colleagues the initiative will bring to campus, and to learn more about how all the activity it supports will unfold.” 
In February 2022, Cuyler <a href="https://news.umich.edu/black-history-month-discussion-the-role-of-the-arts-in-the-blacklivesmatter-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted a webinar</a> featuring black artists discussing, “The role of the arts in advancing the #BlackLivesMatter movement.” In a press release, Cuyler says:
“I felt compelled by this work because seven generations from now, I don’t want people to be having the same conversations about race. I am committed to doing my part today so that that does not happen.” 
He added:
“For some artists, Blackness is kind of constraining and an encumbrance. So I want to hear from these artists - if they see it as a restrainer or do they see it as a creative wellspring that has yet to even be tapped for all of the creative resources it could be?” 
Cuyler is also the Founder and Principal Consultant of <a href="https://cuylerconsulting.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cuyler Consulting, LLC</a>, “a Black-owned arts consultancy that partners with cultural organizations to maximize their performance and community relevance through access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI).” The organization’s “Theory of Change” states:
“WE believe that discrimination, marginalization, oppression, and subjugation have negatively impacted cultural organizations’ performance and community relevance costing them millions if not billions in annual revenue. With rigorous evidence-based coaching and education, cultural organizations can transform into anti-oppressive and people-centered cultural organizations committed to creative justice.”
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Published - March 31, 2023

<a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/leo/jgalura#1265-publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Galura</a> is a lecturer in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts as well as an advisor and educator for the undergraduate minor in Community Action and Social Change at the University of Michigan.

Galura teaches a course titled “<a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/courses/understanding-social-issues-of-our-time/sw200/001/20233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Understanding Social Issues of Our Time</a>.” According to the course objectives, students will be able to:
-“Explain why diversity, empowerment, and strengths-based perspectives are critical to the way social workers approach social problems”
-”Reflect on how social justice principles and processes are reflected in the readings and their lives and how this can be strengthened” 
The <a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/sites/default/files/documents/course-outlines/20233/W23SW200001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> says the course will have an “intensive focus on PODS” which is described in the “Curricular Themes” section:
“The PODS (Privilege, Oppression, Diversity and Social Justice) lens will be applied to practice situations and students will have an opportunity to discuss relevant field issues related to the diversity dimensions (ability, age, culture, economic class, ethnicity, family structure, gender, gender identity and expression, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation).” 
The syllabus also states:
“Social Justice and Social Change issues will be addressed by helping students to critically assess their commitment to and skills for enacting change towards social justice goals.” 
A journal assignment for the course asks students to describe how they “self-identify with regard to race and/or ethnicity” and relate it to the course’s “developing narratives about Race, Racism and Anti-racist practices.”

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Published - May 1, 2023

<a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/leo/ayeshag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ayesha Ghazi Edwin</a> is a lecturer and program manager for the School of Social Work’s ENGAGE initiative at the University of Michigan. She is also an Ann Arbor City Council member and serves as the Governor Whitmer-appointed chair of the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission.

Professor Ghazi Edwin teaches a course titled “<a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/courses/advanced-topics-in-community-change/sw759/001/20232" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advanced Topics in Community Change</a>.” One of the listed objectives for this course is to “gain in-depth understanding of structural and systemic barriers to equity and barriers and facilitators to social justice.”

According to the syllabus, students are <a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/sites/default/files/documents/course-outlines/20232/F22SW759001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required to attend</a> all live ENGAGE virtual discussions. Discussion <a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/sites/default/files/documents/course-outlines/20223/W22SW759001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">topics</a> from <a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/sites/default/files/documents/course-outlines/20213/W21SW759001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous semesters</a> include, “Social Justice Through the Arts,” “Defunding the Police in our Public Schools,” and “Undocumented Immigrants in Detroit: The Untold Story.”

Ghazi Edwin participated on a panel for an April 2023 ENGAGE discussion titled “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ztll_OSvg8&amp;t=3518s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exclusion by Design</a>.” The event examined how government-issued ID requirements “were … adopted to prevent those without a government-issued ID from accessing an array of basic resources and services.”

In a recording of the event, Ghazi Edwin says voter ID laws “were purposefully implemented because they disenfranchise the black and brown vote.” She also argues ID laws come from “hysteria” over undocumented immigrant fraud.

<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=22269" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports, “Ghazi Edwin later describes IDs ‘as an excuse’ for incarceration and deportation, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will deport undocumented immigrants if police officers conduct a traffic stop and find them without valid IDs.”

In an emailed interview with <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2022/07/22/getting-to-know-ann-arbor-city-council-candidate-ayesha-ghazi-edwin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click on Detroit</a>—in response to the question, “What could Ann Arbor do better?—Ghazi Edwin replied:
“Ann Arbor must be a city that prioritizes racial equity in all that we do. Due to structural racism, and historic and ongoing discriminatory housing policies and practices, we have become one of the most economically segregated cities in the nation.”
Further, she adds:
“From our climate change efforts, housing, policing, social service programs, city governance and services, we must make equity of all marginalized groups a priority that we evaluate and track in a measurable and meaningful way. Furthermore, we must make sure that city staff, and those that reach leadership positions, reflect the diversity of our city.”
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Published - May 22, 2023

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/ayoun.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alford Young, Jr.</a> is the Associate Director of the Center for Social Solutions and a Professor of Sociology and AfroAmerican Studies at the University of Michigan. According to his university profile, he has “pursued research in three general areas, all of which concern the phenomenon of race or the social experiences of African Americans, and all employ ethnographic, interview-based research methods.”

The <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/social-solutions/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Social Solutions</a> has a vision statement that reads, “We envision a world without social inequity and systemic disenfranchisement, where opportunities and resources are more evenly distributed.” The Center focuses on four program areas: “Diversity and Democracy; Slavery and Its Aftermath; Water, Equity and Security; and The Future of Work.”

As part of its Slavery and Its Aftermath project, the Center keeps a <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/social-solutions/history-and-slavery/reparations-accountability-and-responsibility-index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reparations Accountability and Responsibility Index</a>. The description says,
“Using publicly available financial, environmental, and employment data for the Fortune 500, the Reparations Accountability and Responsibility Index (RARI) makes transparent the actions, not words, of corporations to address racial equity in the world.” 
The Center states their goal for this project is “not to simply identify corporate irresponsibility but to offer offending corporations a path towards transparency and repair, with the hopes of creating a coalition of socially conscious corporations.”

Young was featured in a <a href="https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/01/pushback-against-critical-race-theory-rooted-misconceptions/5430923001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holland Sentinel</a> article titled, “Is the pushback against ‘critical race theory’ rooted in misconceptions?” He believes that much of the criticism against critical race theory (CRT) is “direct opposition to calls for racial justice made in the wake of [George] Floyd’s murder.” Young says:
“Here where I live, I witnessed at least two public marches, where you could count on one hand the number of Black folks marching. They were Black Lives Matter marches, engaged by white Americans, and I think that triggers more than anything else anxiety, because this did not become yet another one of those moments where African Americans expressed indignation about what happened to them at the hand of the police.
“...It became a moment of national consideration. That’s what this past year was all about. Those that are more aggressive about stopping so-called critical race theory, stopping the teaching of racism in schools, in large part, that’s a response to the recognition that America invested in this racial moment.” 
Young was interviewed for a <a href="https://news.umich.edu/u-m-expert-change-wont-happen-overnight-to-improve-race-relations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan News</a> article titled, “Change won’t happen overnight to improve race relations.” He believes that black parents have to warn their children about being killed in regular situations by white citizens. When asked, “Why is this moment different for black children and black parents,” Young states:
“There have historically been conversations in the home with black children, in particular black boys, about how you handle yourself in difficult situations, whether it’s with the police, whether it’s in threatening or dangerous situations. Now the concern is being out in public and how you might handle yourself in everyday business on the street corner, in neighborhoods and in communities.”
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Published - May 22, 2o23

<a href="https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/camille-m-wilson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Camille Wilson</a> is a Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership &amp; Policy in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.

Her research “explores the intersections of school-family-community engagement, urban educational reform, and transformative leadership.” According to her <a href="https://poverty.umich.edu/research/faculty-experts/camille-m-wilson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a>, her work “addresses how racial and economic inequality intersect in education and explores ways that youth and families of color impacted by poverty can be politically empowered to challenge systemic education inequity.”

Wilson teaches a Doctoral-level course titled, “<a href="https://marsal.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2020-07/Educ%20732%20Syllabus%20-%20Winter%202020.Wilson.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Methodologies</a>.” The syllabus says, “This course is designed to introduce principles, philosophies, and strategies of critical race methodologies - methodologies that consider the interrelated nature of race, knowledge, power, inclusiveness, representation, and the educative value of research.” Required readings include:
-“<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2013.822619" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You can’t erase race!</a> Using CRT to explain the presence of race and racism in majority white suburban schools”
-”<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107780040200800107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory</a>, Latino critical theory, and critical raced-gendered epistemologies: Recognizing students of color as holders and creators of knowledge”
-”<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Racist-Activism-Theory-Methods-and-Research/Blee/p/book/9781138699793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White on white</a>: Interviewing women in U.S. white supremacist groups” 
In 2020, Wilson founded the School of Education’s <a href="https://sites.soe.umich.edu/create/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CREATE</a> (Community-based Research on Equity, Activism, &amp; Transformative Education) Center. According to its website, the Center:
“Fosters and networks equity-driven scholars and education advocates and activists who are committed to conducting and/or leveraging research that helps catalyze transformative public education for children, families, and communities highly impacted by the injustices of systemic racism and poverty.” 
Affiliates of the Center are “part of an action-oriented, scholarly community that advances equitable and anti-racist educational practice, policy, and inquiry.” <a href="https://sites.soe.umich.edu/create/community-engaged-speaker-series/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Previous events</a> held by the CREATE Center include “Ethnohistorical” workshops, a discussion on “Researching and Organizing for Educational and Racial Justice,” and a speaker series dedicated to “Inspiring Justice-Driven Educational Research Through Critical History and Storytelling.”
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Published - July 11, 2023

<a href="https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/creary-melissa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Creary</a> is an Assistant Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Michigan. Her four areas of research interest are “bounded justice, biocultural citizenship, making institutions antiracist, and sickle cell and global health.”

Creary teaches a graduate-level course titled “Culture and Health.” The <a href="https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/instructor.php?InstructorID=mcreary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course syllabus</a> states that students “will critically examine aspects of health and health policy from the state and federal perspective, along the axes of race, ethnicity, culture, and place.” Topics covered in the class include reproductive justice, environmental inequalities, and the social constructions of health.

One of the course requirements is “Remaking and Undoing: The Antiracist Research Project.” For this requirement, “Students will independently choose, develop, research and analyze a topic of their choice to (re)design a project based on a relevant topic inspired by class - guided by Chandra Ford’s praxis for antiracism research.”

In August 2023, Creary and two other researchers received one of seven <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/umich-funds-research-on-anti-racist-health-departments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-racism grants</a> from the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President for Research. Trachette Jackson, the associate vice president for research, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, told Michigan News:
“These grants allow interdisciplinary teams of U-M researchers to extensively study the effects of structural racism across southeast Michigan, which has far-reaching implications for communities across the country.” 
This grant will fund Creary and her co-workers' project—titled “Pilot Testing the <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/ovpr-anti-racism-grants-awarded-to-seven-research-teams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Justice Impact Assessment Tool</a> in a Local Health Department”—and the project goal reads:
“In the first phase of this project, funded by the 2021 cycle of OVPR anti-racism grants, researchers partnered with the Washtenaw County Health Department to identify key opportunities and limits on anti-racist institutional transformation within local health departments. In this next funded phase, the team will pilot and evaluate the co-created Racial Justice Impact Assessment tool and training created as a result of their research.” 
This is not the first project focused on anti-racism that Cleary has been a part of. In 2021, Cleary and co-worker Paul Fleming “began work on a multi-part faculty <a href="https://sph.umich.edu/news/2021posts/faculty-team-galvanizes-anti-racism-in-public-health-education.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training initiative</a> aimed at confronting racism at the institutional level.” Part of their initiative is an online course known as “Health Equity via Anti-Racist Teaching,” or HEART.

The goal of the course is “to train public health instructors on how to implement anti-racist teaching principles and reduce barriers to anti-racist teaching methods.” Creary said, “When we take the purposeful steps to acknowledge harms associated with the unfair disadvantages and unfair advantages of racist practices, we allow our students of color to be more wholly seen.”

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Published - November 15, 2023

<a href="https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/april-baker-bell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Baker-Bell</a> is an Associate Professor in the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on “Black Language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and antiracist/pro-Black language pedagogies.”

In November 2023, Baker-Bell <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/niu-hosts-seminar-on-ending-white-linguistic-hegemony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a presentation to faculty and graduate students</a> at Northern Illinois University titled “A Workshop Focused On: Linguistic Justice - Moving From Theory to Praxis.”

During the virtual event, Baker-Bell said black students should not be penalized for using “Black Language” and courses should interrogate “white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism.” She claimed the way black language is “devalued in classrooms reflects how Black lives are devalued in the world.”
“Similarly, the way we think about this notion of standard mainstream English is directly connected to the invisible way that White culture is often deemed normal, neutral, and superior in the world.” 
Baker-Bell distributed a workbook to participants that defined “Anti-Black Linguistic Racism”—a term she coined—as “the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization that Black language-speakers experience in schools and in everyday life.”

The workbook included multiple exercises intended to give participants the “opportunity to think through how [they] might be complicit in the reproduction of anti-Black racism and anti-Black linguistic racism through curricula, language instruction, pedagogies, practices, and language policies.”

It also provided a model of a linguistic justice course that would help students develop “linguistic consciousness” and “write for linguistic justice.” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/niu-hosts-seminar-on-ending-white-linguistic-hegemony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> reports:
“Suggested assignments for the model linguistic justice course include a TikTok or digital animation project on how white linguistic hegemony, anti-black linguistic racism, or black linguistic appropriation are perpetuated by the media.” 
Baker-Bell co-authored a 2020 document, along with five other professors, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/english-professsors-demand-higher-ed-reject-standard-english-language-put-some-respeck-on-black-language/15554" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling to abolish “White Mainstream English.”</a> The document—titled “This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!”—used the term “white linguistic supremacy” and suggested English is a language stemming from racism. The document states:
“Socially constructed terms like academic language and standard English are rooted in white supremacy, whiteness, and anti-Blackness and contribute to anti-Black policies (e.g., English only) that are codified and enacted to privilege white linguistic and cultural norms while deeming Black Language inferior.” 
The professors <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/demand-for-black-linguistic-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list the following demands</a>: <img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3373" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-03-at-12.03.39-PM-1024x779.png" alt="" width="640" height="487" />

The authors conclude by quoting the three “dreamers/fighters” who created #BlackLivesMatter:
“Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black folks’ humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.”
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Published - January 4, 2024

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<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 &#8211; December 9, 2022

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Shobita Parthasarathy

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<a href="https://cal.msu.edu/news/college-welcomes-41-new-faculty-and-staff-members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shlagha Borah</a> is listed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University (MSU). However, her profile information is missing from the directory page. 
Borah’s poem and profile on the <a href="https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/shlagha-borah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooklyn Poets website</a> confirms her self-proclaimed identity as a “queer immigrant” woman. The site also contains the transcript of a podcast interview wherein Borah discussed her ethnic roots.
On November 6, 2024, Borah was featured in a Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/msu-prof-cancels-class-grieve-trump-win-queer-immigrant-woman-colour-report/26739" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “MSU prof cancels class to ‘grieve’ Trump win as ‘queer, immigrant woman of colour.’” The Reform included the viral social media post from the “End Wokeness” Twitter account.
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MSU Professor: &#8220;As a queer, immigrant, woman of color, I cannot just go on&#8221;
Class has been canceled <a href="https://t.co/OEsDfFAnjJ">pic.twitter.com/OEsDfFAnjJ</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1854245769483547062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Borah’s original post (pictured below) is sourced from End Wokeness.
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Since posting that she was canceling class to “grieve the presidential election results,” Borah appears to have deleted or removed access to her <a href="https://x.com/shlaghaborah?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media page</a> and <a href="https://www.shlaghaborah.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a>.
The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education. 
Please send tips, updates, and information on Shlagha Borah to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; November 12, 2024
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<a href="http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/william-penn/">William Penn</a> teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Michigan State University. Penn was recorded complaining in one of his creative writing classes about “dead white Republicans” who “raped his country.” As a student videotaped his rant, Penn antagonized students and asked, “You look like you’re frowning. Are you frowning?”.

Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews is a <a href="https://education.msu.edu/people/carter-andrews-dorinda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chairperson and Professor</a> at Michigan State University in the College of Education. Her research interests include racial justice and educational equity. Dr. Andrews has published articles for many media outlets and journals and has given two <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3N23MXsow8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TED Talks</a> in relation to critical race theory and racial gaps in education.

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In an <a href="https://www.hourdetroit.com/education-schools/a-critical-race-theory-expert-on-how-something-benign-became-toxic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article for Hour Detroit</a>, Dr. Andrews accuses conservatives of “gaslighting” by being against critical race theory. Dr. Andrews alleges conservatives “cry CRT” any time an educator teaches something from America’s history that puts them in a “bad light,” even if it’s true. She goes on to insinuate that conservatives don’t want educators teaching black history at all.

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Dr. Andrews has lectured all over the nation about critical race theory. In the video below from June 2021, she identifies as a critical race theorist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIOWFdt-Os

In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrgf3wTUbo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TED Talk given in 2014</a>, Dr. Andrews discussed racial inequity in the education system. She argues that the education system was founded in white supremacy,  making it nearly impossible for students of color to get ahead. She claims that students of color and poor students are already behind the curve before they even step foot into the classroom, and it’s unfair to expect the same levels of success for them compared to white students.

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When Dr. Andrews isn’t teaching, lecturing, or writing publications, she often takes to Twitter to discuss CRT, racial equity, and anti-white rhetoric. Some examples are below:

https://twitter.com/DrDorindaCA/status/694285220351217664

https://twitter.com/DrDorindaCA/status/1062013677040132099

https://twitter.com/DrDorindaCA/status/1367512182443954178

Dr. Andrews is a critical race theorist who pushes anti-white rhetoric in the classroom. In her opinion, racism is so deeply embedded into our education system that students of color have no chance of getting ahead if critical race theory isn’t taught in the classroom. In her eyes, conservatives are only against critical race theory because they fear it paints them in a negative light.

Carla Pfeffer is an <a href="https://socialwork.msu.edu/directory/pfeffer-carla.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Social Work</a> and Director of the Consortium for Sexual and Gender Minority Health at Michigan State University.

Professor Pfeffer is outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs. She was quoted in an MSU Today article titled: <a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2022/Roe-V-Wade-decision-MSU-experts-discuss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Roe v. Wade overturned: Michigan State University experts discuss.”</a> Pfeffer stated:
“Consistent governmental inaction in regard to protecting all children from poverty, gun violence, and police violence reveals the hypocrisy of legally restricting abortion. Rather than protecting children, banning abortion is about governmental power and control over marginalized bodies and crass political maneuvering to appease a conservative base.” 
She continued:
“In discussions about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, people who are lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary tend to be left out of the conversation.”
She finished her statement by claiming that members of the LGBTQ community “often face disproportionately higher rates of unintended and unwanted pregnancy” and that abortion access is “critical for ensuring physical and mental health.”

In September 2022, Pfeffer wrote an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-men-and-nonbinary-people-are-asked-to-stop-testosterone-therapy-during-pregnancy-but-the-evidence-for-this-guidance-is-still-murky-187672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> where she argued that transgender men and nonbinary people should not have to stop testosterone therapy while they are pregnant. Although many doctors told Pfeffer that there is “not enough or inconclusive research on supplemental testosterone during pregnancy,” Pfeffer argues that “testosterone therapy is often essential to the mental and physical health” of transgender people.

Pfeffer believes that “careful attention to the physical and mental health and well-being of trans and nonbinary people before, during and after pregnancy is long overdue in medicine” and that:
“Instead of approaching testosterone therapy during pregnancy as a yes/no question or a one-size-fits-all standard, investigating how various dosages of testosterone may affect all stages of pregnancy and chestfeeding could lead to better outcomes for both trans patients and their children.” 
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You can contact the School of Social work by email: socialwork@ssc.msu.edu or by phone: 517-353-8616.
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Published - October 20, 2022

Dr. Melissa Fore is a <a href="https://jmc.msu.edu/about/directory/Fore.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the James Madison College Reading and Writing Center</a> at Michigan State University. Dr. Fore teaches in the first-year writing program and is a core faculty member MSU’s Center for Gender in a Global Context.

Dr. Fore’s professor biography states:
“Her writing classroom explores how concepts of race, class, gender, and sexuality are culturally constructed through social, political, and economic values. She asks students to consider how the cycles of socialization have influenced their understanding of identity and community in order to engage in writing assignments that examine structural racism, the affordable housing crisis, and challenging gender norms.” 
In April 2019, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=12117" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported that Professor Fore canceled class to allow her students to attend a conference on race and socialism. The James Madison College Office of Diversity Programming described the event as “fundamentally designed to examine systems of power and privilege in the United States, especially the impact of these ‘systems’ on communities of color.”

Dr. Fore is a facilitator for <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AWARE (Advancing White Anti-Racist Education) Together.</a> The AWARE Together website states that the organization “offers white anti-racist education programs for groups and associations that are committed to seeing the realities of racism and taking anti-racist action.” Further, the <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/purpose.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Purpose’ page</a> states: “White people benefit from the social and economic systems that perpetuate racism. Ending the terror and injustice of white supremacy can only be accomplished if white people work to be anti-racist.”

Professor Fore’s <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/facilitators.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facilitator biography</a> states:
“In examining her own identity as a white woman, Melissa came to see how identity formation is linked to power and privilege, and how dismantling white supremacy is central to social, political, and economic justice.” 
Dr. Fore co-founded the Marble Elementary School Equity Team and is the Co-Chair of the <a href="https://elps.us/our-district/board-of-education/committees/reproductive-health-advisory-committee/sex-education-advisory-board-members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">East Lansing Sex Education Advisory Board.</a> The Sex Education Advisory Board has a document titled the <a href="https://elps.us/downloads/school_board_-_committee_documents/k-5_consent_toolkit_moash_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘K-5 Consent Toolkit.’</a> The document is intended for Michigan educators, parents, caregivers, and students and includes standards and curriculum for elementary school students.

The document states that by the end of second grade, students should be able to: list medically accurate names for genitals, define gender, gender identity, and gender role stereotypes, and discuss the range of ways people express gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.

The document also provides links to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IJ2hD7bECD1gkWoDND5s5sRYG37RYPRf/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested lesson plans.</a> One of these lesson plans, titled “Understanding Our Bodies - The Basics,” tells students that “There are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have.”

Another lesson plan, titled “Pink, Blue and Purple,” instructs students on gender identity, stating: “You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl. You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.”

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Published - October 7, 2022

Dr. Rashida Harrison is an <a href="https://jmc.msu.edu/about/directory/Harrison.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy</a> with the James Madison College at Michigan State University (MSU). She teaches courses on social theory, social movements, intersections of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality, Global Citizenships, and Race and Citizenship.

Her MSU biography states:
“Harrison’s research focus on transnational black and multiracial feminist social movements uses the Black British feminist movement as a case study to examine the impact of Western imperialism on black women’s nationality and immigration rights, reproductive justice and agency within public organizations.” 
Harrison is an Advisory Board member at <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AWARE (Advancing White Anti-Racist Education) Together.</a> The AWARE Together website states that the organization “offers white anti-racist education programs for groups and associations that are committed to seeing the realities of racism and taking anti-racist action.”

Further, the <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/purpose.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Purpose’ page</a> of the website states: “White people benefit from the social and economic systems that perpetuate racism. Ending the terror and injustice of white supremacy can only be accomplished if white people work to be anti-racist.”

<a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/advisory-board.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Harrison’s biography</a> describes her as a:
“Black Feminist who has worked with several community and activist organizations, including Black Lives Matter; providing workshops on histories of Black social movements, various issues related to Black Social and Political life, working in coalition across racial and ethnic identities for gender equality, etc.” 
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Published - October 7, 2022

<a href="https://poverty.umich.edu/research/faculty-experts/lisa-lapeyrouse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Lapeyrouse</a> is an Associate Professor of Health Science and Administration at the University of Michigan. According to her university profile, her areas of expertise include “racial/ethnic disparities in mental health and health care access among Latino communities, including immigrant and border populations.” Lapeyrouse is also the principal investigator of “Beyond Rhetoric: Confronting and Combating Racism in Genesee County, Michigan.”

The <a href="https://www.beyondrhetoricmovement.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Rhetoric Project</a> began in 2020 after Genesee County commissioners passed a <a href="https://gfhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GFHC-AntiRacismResolution.061520ks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that formally recognized racism as a public health crisis. The project is led by Lapeyrouse and <a href="https://publichealth.msu.edu/flint-research/flint-public-health-research/kent-key-phd-mph#:~:text=Key%20is%20the%20Deputy%20Director,extension%20of%20his%20doctoral%20dissertation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Key</a>, the executive deputy director of Community-Based Organization Partners and assistant professor in the Division of Public Health at Michigan State University.

Lapeyrouse stated:
“Racism has serious and harmful health repercussions for the community. But, if you’re not looking at racism as a systemic problem, then it becomes a lot easier to ignore. Even when people are willing to talk about racism, there often isn’t a clear understanding of systemic racism. There is a reluctance to acknowledge how we all participate in racist policies and practices.” 
The project also formed a community action council to establish a strategic plan to end racist policies and practices in Genesee County. <a href="https://news.umich.edu/beyond-rhetoric-offers-road-map-for-responding-to-racism-as-a-public-health-crisis/#:~:text=The%20Beyond%20Rhetoric%20project%2C%20which,as%20a%20public%20health%20crisis." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council recommendations</a> included hiring more health care professionals of color, reforming school discipline policies, and making community services accessible to people with disabilities and people with limited English proficiency.

Lapeyrouse said she believes <a href="https://news.umflint.edu/2023/02/08/um-flint-professor-students-working-with-beyond-rhetoric-project-to-fight-racism-in-genesee-county/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-racism work</a> is more important now than ever, and she makes sure to instill that in her students.
“I see this move as acknowledgment by people making decisions that impact the health and wellbeing of everyone in our community that racism exists. We need policies in place that ensure equity. We can’t ignore what is right here in front of us.” 
Lapeyrouse has also been outspoken about her support for COVID vaccines. In July 2021, she tweeted:
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Extremely grateful and proud that the <a href="https://twitter.com/UMich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UMich</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UMFlint?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UMFlint</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UM_Dearborn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UM_Dearborn</a> will require all students, staff, and faculty to be <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccinated?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#vaccinated</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#COVID19</a> Thank you for choosing our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PublicHealth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#PublicHealth</a>
— Lisa M. Lapeyrouse (@DrL_LLapeyrouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrL_LLapeyrouse/status/1421176031419981828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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She <a href="https://news.umflint.edu/2021/08/25/a-neighbors-guide-to-the-covid-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led a project</a> that created “A Neighbor’s Guide to the COVID Vaccine.” According to UM-Flint News, the “informational booklet was created with the goal of providing vaccine-hesitant residents in Flint with credible health information related to the COVID-19 vaccine, so they may feel empowered to make the best decision for their health.”

Lapeyrouse used one of her master’s level courses as a service-learning course that focused on this project. She adds:
“When students know the work they’re doing is for actual people, their effort and what they are able to accomplish is so much greater than what I see in my non-service learning courses. These types of classes are a tremendous amount of work, but the payoffs for both our students and community make it well worth it.”
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Published - February 16, 2023

<a href="https://broad.msu.edu/profile/arifinis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iskandar Arifin</a> is a Finance Professor at Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business. His list of courses taught includes “Introduction to Investment,” “Theory of Investments,” and “Managerial Finance.”

As of March 1, 2024, Arifin was <a href="https://statenews.com/article/2024/03/msu-professor-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography-placed-on-administrative-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> to be on administrative leave pending an investigation into child pornography charges dating back to 2022.

The State News wrote, “[Arifin] has been charged with six counts of ‘child pornography-related allegations’ … [He] was charged with three counts of possessing ‘child sexually abusive material’ and three related counts of using a computer device to commit a crime.”

According to the <a href="https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/03/01/msu-professor-charged-child-pornography-iskandar-arifin/72808364007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lansing State Journal</a>, “[Arifin] was placed on administrative leave Friday afternoon … He is prohibited from reporting to work, being on campus or having contact with students … He was arraigned on Friday and his bond was set at $75,000.”

The source also said Arifin was “investigated by MPS [Michigan State Police] Computer Crimes Unit, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Court records indicate the alleged crimes took place in May 2022.”

Arifin could spend up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He is due for a probable cause conference on March 12 and a preliminary exam on March 19, according to Lansing State Journal. 

The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring this story. Please send tips and information on Iskandar Arifin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 4, 2024

<a href="https://cal.msu.edu/news/college-welcomes-41-new-faculty-and-staff-members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shlagha Borah</a> is listed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University (MSU). However, her profile information is missing from the directory page. 

Borah’s poem and profile on the <a href="https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/shlagha-borah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooklyn Poets website</a> confirms her self-proclaimed identity as a “queer immigrant” woman. The site also contains the transcript of a podcast interview wherein Borah discussed her ethnic roots.

On November 6, 2024, Borah was featured in a Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/msu-prof-cancels-class-grieve-trump-win-queer-immigrant-woman-colour-report/26739" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “MSU prof cancels class to ‘grieve’ Trump win as ‘queer, immigrant woman of colour.’” The Reform included the viral social media post from the “End Wokeness” Twitter account.
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MSU Professor: "As a queer, immigrant, woman of color, I cannot just go on"

Class has been canceled <a href="https://t.co/OEsDfFAnjJ">pic.twitter.com/OEsDfFAnjJ</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1854245769483547062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Borah’s original post (pictured below) is sourced from End Wokeness.

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Since posting that she was canceling class to “grieve the presidential election results,” Borah appears to have deleted or removed access to her <a href="https://x.com/shlaghaborah?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media page</a> and <a href="https://www.shlaghaborah.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a>.

The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education. 

Please send tips, updates, and information on Shlagha Borah to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 12, 2024
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<a href="https://psychology.msu.edu/directory/veenema-alexa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexa Veenema</a> is a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at Michigan State University (MSU). Her <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rCQu5AUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> “explores the neural basis of social behavior.”

Veenema was featured in The State News <a href="https://statenews.com/article/2024/11/conservative-student-group-wants-accountability-after-msu-professor-called-trump-supporters-naive-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Conservative student group wants accountability for MSU professor who called Trump supporters ‘naive.’” The source said:

“Behavioral neuroscience professor Alexa Veenema wrote to students after the election that it was ‘unbelievable’ that ‘so many Americans are so utterly naive and would fall for this and support misogyny, racism, xenophobia, hate, and violence.”

The source also said, the conservative student group, Turning Point USA, called for MSU to immediately discipline Veenema according to the <a href="https://hr.msu.edu/policies-procedures/faculty-academic-staff/faculty-handbook/recommendations.html#:~:text=MSU%20tenure%2Dsystem%20faculty%20create,significance%20of%20an%20artistic%20performance." target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSU Faculty Handbook</a> after she displayed a lack of civility and respect.

On November 15, 2024, the Lansing State Journal <a href="https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/campus/2024/11/15/msu-professor-alexa-veenema-trump-email/76336245007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Veenema had not been disciplined but the provost’s office “had conversations with Veenema” and the psychology department. The following screenshot of Veenema’s email is sourced from the Journal:<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3894" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-4.00.40 PM.png" alt="" width="962" height="762" />

Please send tips and updates on Alexa Veenema to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 22, 2024

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<a href="https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/croseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a> is an Associate Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
In October 2023, Roseman and University of Notre Dame Professor Cara Ocobock penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> where they questioned the existence of only two genders. The op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—argued that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.” The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Roseman and Ocobock say the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”
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<a href="https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/cprender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine Prendergast</a> is a Professor of English and an affiliate of the Russian East-European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (REEEC). According to the <a href="https://reeec.illinois.edu/about/mission-and-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for the REEEC, the center serves as an “intellectual and institutional center for members of the university community and the public interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of Eurasia.”

In the book titled, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World</a>, Prendergast states that English is the first language of capitalism.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1300 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-16T101711.381-e1618593455818-1024x374.png" alt="" width="580" height="212" />

Prendergast claims in the same <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover">book</a> that the adoption of English by Slovakia’s citizens will result in them being “manipulated and controlled” in a capitalist economy by “more powerful players in more powerful countries” as the nation transitions to a free-market economy.

In a separate tweet, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that the reason that we do not have socialism in America is due to “racism.”

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1281" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.04.31-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="172" /></a>

For more information on Prendergast's stance on capitalism in developing countries, readers may view her research paper’s abstract to, ‘<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767720701855642?needAccess=true">We live and Learn’: English and Ambivalence in a new capitalist state</a>. According to her paper’s abstract, Prendergast argues that as Slovaks increasingly learn English, they increasingly embrace a Western, capitalist way of life.

Catherine Pendergast also refers to conservatives as Nazis. In light of this characterization,  she <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829">urges</a> white people not to vote for two election cycles.

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1282" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.05.52-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="273" /></a>

In the same thread of tweets, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609">refers</a> to conservatives and Trump supporters as “Nazis” that should not have a place in law enforcement.

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1283" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.07.47-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="213" /></a>

In reference to Pastor <a href="https://www.gracechurch.org/Leader/MacArthur/John">John MacArthur’s</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/pastor-macarthur-church-california/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defiance of California’s COVID regulations</a>, which limited worship services to 100 or less congregants, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293930470749732866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweets</a> that Christians will “kill us all” for gathering in a church to worship during a pandemic.

<a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1284" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.08.42-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="265" /></a>

Prendergast also <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacks</a> Turning Point USA students as “abusive bullies” in a tweet.

 <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1285" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-7.09.29-PM.png" alt="" width="500" height="207" /></a>

Additionally, when the Professor Watchlist team reached out to Prendergast for comment prior to the publication of her profile, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382046820516380677">launched into a tirade</a> against a staff member of the Professor Watchlist team. Prendergast also publicly <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382051991296348172">hurled slanderous claims</a> against a staff member and tweeted other <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382067461898571782">outrageous claims</a> against TPUSA.

<a href="https://twitter.com/login/error?username_or_email=ben.larrabee%40tpusa.com&amp;redirect_after_login=%2Fcjp_still%2Fstatus%2F1382067461898571782"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1302 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-1.09.39-PM-1024x376.png" alt="" width="580" height="213" /></a>

Prendergast did not, however, choose to answer the Professor Watchlist team’s questions about her statements.

Prendergast briefly made her Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> private soon after our publication, but has since made the account public.

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<a href="https://afro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/schajua" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sundiata Cha-Jua</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois. According to his university profile, Cha-Jua is also a founding scholar/trainer of the Policing in a Multiracial Society Program (PSMP.)

His biography states the “PMSP provides systematic anti-racial bias education and training for police recruits attending the University of Illinois’s Police Training Institute (PTI) and researches the racial attitudes of police and the effectiveness of anti-racist training.”

Professor Cha-Jua writes a bi-weekly op-ed column called “RealTalk: A Black Perspective” for The News-Gazette. He published a two-part series titled “White Supremacy in White and Black Face” where he discusses candidates for local elections. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221009143647/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-white-supremacy-in-white-and-black-face-part-i/article_1909e728-85e6-50c2-8905-45c65d995db5.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In part one, he maligns conservatives</a> while writing about Regan Deering, a candidate running for the 13th Congressional District.
“Like nearly the entire Republican party, Deering seeks to end democracy as we’ve known it. She opposes mail-in voting and supports racist ID laws. … She may not perform the Seig Heil or Nazi salute, but she marches in rhythm with the MAGA fascists.” 
Part two <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221023120559/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-white-supremacy-in-white-and-black-face-part-ii/article_b5a0e8f8-abea-5847-83e2-a3ff60ff462d.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focuses on the race for Champaign County Clerk,</a> between a black Democrat named Aaron Ammons and a black Republican named Terence Stuber. He begins the article by saying that the majority of black Republicans who run for office “are truly MAGA Black White supremacists who pursue neoliberal policies despite their negative impact on the majority of Black people.”

He compares Stuber to the “incompetent, subliterate and coonish Herschel Walker,” saying he too “reiterates “massa” Trump’s talking points.” <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/coon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dictionary.com</a> defines “coon” as “extremely disparaging and offensive” and describes it as a “contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.”

Cha-Jua ends his piece by writing:
“What kind of Black Republican is Stuber? His words and deeds indicate he’s a genuine MAGA Black White supremacist.” 
Cha-Jua has a history of controversial op-eds. In July 2022, he wrote a piece titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220703120602/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-the-fourth-of-july-is-not-my-independence-day/article_4a0fb847-7762-5fc0-a131-ea5e3645818f.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Fourth of July is not my Independence Day.”</a> He states:
“Though adolescents, we knew where the red, white, and blue flew in abundance - White neighborhoods - was dangerous territory for us.” 
He adds:
“As long as racial oppression and capitalist exploitation exist, I’ll pass on celebrating the Fourth of July.” 
Another op-ed, titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220110075511/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-we-are-all-to-blame-for-gun-violence/article_30a8ed11-beb9-5baf-9b95-8d35834b4aff.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“We are all to blame for gun violence,”</a> features more of Cha-Jua’s anti-capitalist sentiments. He argues that capitalists and police are to blame for gun violence, writing:
“The White capitalist class is guilty of operating an exploitative economic system built on a foundation of anti-Black racial oppression. Black folk and other racially oppressed people are kept in place by a well-armed network of police and private citizens.” 
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You can contact the Department of African American Studies by phone: 217-333-7781 or email: afro-public@illinois.edu.
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<a href="https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/rochelle-gutierrez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rochelle Gutierrez</a> is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. According to Gutierrez’s university profile, her “scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning.” 

Her biography says she “builds upon Indigenous principles and has argued for a new form of mathematics where humans are no longer centered. This form of mathematics is referred to as living mathematx.” 

Gutierrez published a chapter in a 2017 anthology for math teachers titled, “<a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Building-Support-for-Scholarly-Practices-in-Mathematics-Methods" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods</a>.” <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports Gutierrez writes:  
“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.” 
Gutierrez believes that using terms such as “Pythagorean theorem” and “pi” gives the perception that math “was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.” She also argues, “If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned.” She claims there are many minorities who “have experienced microaggresions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.” 

Gutierrez also says all knowledge is “relational,” writing, “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.” 

In a statement to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, John Wilkin, Interim Provost at the time, stated: 
“As with all of our faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Prof. Gutierrez has the rights of academic freedom necessary to pursue scholarship and research on important subjects and to reach conclusions even if some might disagree with those conclusions.” 
He continued: 
“The issues around equity and access in education are real - with significant implications to our entire educational system. Exploring challenging pedagogical questions is exactly what faculty in a world-class college of education should be doing.”
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Published - March 31, 2023

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

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Charles Roseman

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Beth Lueck

<a href="https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/contributor/beth-lueck">Beth Lueck</a> is a professor of American Literature and <a href="https://www.uww.edu/cls/departments/womens-studies/about-the-faculty">serves</a> as an affiliated faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
ACADEMIC MALFEASANCE
In 2014, Lueck <a href="https://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2015/02/19/professor-uw-whitewater-scott-walker-n7213">offered extra-credit</a> to her freshman English class if they participated in a protest against then-governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. The protest was in response to proposed budget cuts against the university where Lueck taught. Students were to write a paper about their experiences.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1092 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964-1024x368.png" alt="" width="580" height="208" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964-1024x368.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964-300x108.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964-768x276.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964-1200x431.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
Lueck <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/attend-anti-walker-rally-and-get-extra-credit-english-professor-tells-students/">described</a> the event as a “non-partisan rally.” However, she characterizes Walker’s agenda as “attacks on shared governance and faculty.” <a href="https://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2015/02/19/professor-uw-whitewater-scott-walker-n7213">According to Townhall</a>, Lueck publicly embraces “a proud tradition of Wisconsin progressivism.”
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Lueck <a href="https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/university/professors-proposed-uw-system-tenure-policies-threaten-academic-freedom/article_d1cf3869-ac73-50de-9177-eb8bf846c9df.html">characterized</a> the budget cuts as threatening to “the reputation of the UW System.” She would later <a href="http://ufas.wi.aft.org/news/press-release-no-confidence-vote-ray-cross-uw-board-regents">support</a> a vote of no-confidence against University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross for failing to adequately oppose the cuts.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1094 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977-1024x430.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977-300x126.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977-768x322.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977-1200x503.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
Lueck <a href="https://academeblog.org/2017/01/13/bullseye-on-my-back-on-being-targeted-by-the-right-wing-media/">described</a> the reaction to her assignment as a “right-wing maelstrom of anger.” She speculated that the Republican-led legislature’s easing of gun restrictions in the state would result in someone shooting her on campus.

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University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

<a href="https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/contributor/beth-lueck">Beth Lueck</a> is a professor of American Literature and <a href="https://www.uww.edu/cls/departments/womens-studies/about-the-faculty">serves</a> as an affiliated faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
ACADEMIC MALFEASANCE
In 2014, Lueck <a href="https://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2015/02/19/professor-uw-whitewater-scott-walker-n7213">offered extra-credit</a> to her freshman English class if they participated in a protest against then-governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. The protest was in response to proposed budget cuts against the university where Lueck taught. Students were to write a paper about their experiences.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1092 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-74-e1612457092964-1024x368.png" alt="" width="580" height="208" />

Lueck <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/attend-anti-walker-rally-and-get-extra-credit-english-professor-tells-students/">described</a> the event as a “non-partisan rally.” However, she characterizes Walker’s agenda as “attacks on shared governance and faculty.” <a href="https://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2015/02/19/professor-uw-whitewater-scott-walker-n7213">According to Townhall</a>, Lueck publicly embraces “a proud tradition of Wisconsin progressivism.”

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1093 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-75-e1612457554353-1024x440.png" alt="" width="580" height="249" />

Lueck <a href="https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/university/professors-proposed-uw-system-tenure-policies-threaten-academic-freedom/article_d1cf3869-ac73-50de-9177-eb8bf846c9df.html">characterized</a> the budget cuts as threatening to “the reputation of the UW System.” She would later <a href="http://ufas.wi.aft.org/news/press-release-no-confidence-vote-ray-cross-uw-board-regents">support</a> a vote of no-confidence against University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross for failing to adequately oppose the cuts.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1094 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-76-e1612458448977-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" />
Lueck <a href="https://academeblog.org/2017/01/13/bullseye-on-my-back-on-being-targeted-by-the-right-wing-media/">described</a> the reaction to her assignment as a “right-wing maelstrom of anger.” She speculated that the Republican-led legislature’s easing of gun restrictions in the state would result in someone shooting her on campus.

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Nadiya Fink

<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 &#8220;His Majesty&#8221;, Fink threatened to punish any student who mocked the preferred pronoun system.

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<a href="https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/cgreensm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Cameron Greensmith</a> is a Professor at Kennesaw State University who identifies as a “white, queer, cisgender-passing settler.” His research focuses on antiracist, anti-colonial, and “queer” perspectives. 
 Dr. Greensmith describes his scholarship as utilizing “indigenous studies” and “critical whiteness studies.” The latter is an outgrowth of critical race theory—and was developed by professors <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/richarddelgado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Delgado</a> and <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jeanstefancic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jean Stefancic</a>—that aims to disrupt “<a href="https://tupress.temple.edu/books/critical-white-studies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whiteness as the norm</a>.” It further examines how white people perpetuate and benefit from systemic racism. 
Dr. Greensmith maintains that white Americans as a whole not only ignore racism but actively embrace it. In a paper titled, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19361653.2020.1829524?journalCode=wjly20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer as Hell Media</a>,” he accuses the Georgians who live in and around Kennesaw State of reproducing “racist, conservative, and religious ideologies.” 
 In an article for The Conversation—titled, “<a href="https://theconversation.com/challenging-the-whiteness-of-queer-organizations-183286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Challenging the Whiteness of Queer Organizations</a>”—he singles out “2SLGBTQIA+” communities for “thriving” off of “capitalism and white supremacy.” He asserts that white people at-large have a duty to challenge racism and “settler colonialism.” 
“Decolonial work is needed and necessary…white people need to step up and take action to challenge the white settler colonialism from which they benefit”
Dr. Greensmith defines settler colonialism as the “erasure, assimilation, and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, communities, nations, and lands” in a paper titled <a href="https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/cgreensm/1903-6841-1-PB.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Unsettling White Queer Complicities.”</a>  This, he writes, is connected to the white supremacist structures that American society is built on. Continuing, he states that white people are incentivized to maintain the nation’s “ongoing” violence against Native Americans.  
Referring to these Americans as “settlers,” Dr. Greensmith asserts that white people benefit from and t are complicit in upholding systemic racism. He argues that whites have a specific duty to end white supremacy.  
“White people must work toward dismantling the very systems from which we benefit. Naming white complicity provides white people the opportunity to locate their whiteness structurally and invites whites themselves to make change to combat racism. 
The paper ends with a call to action to end the “global oppression” of indigenous communities and work to restore indigenous self-determination and sovereignty via “decolonization.”  To accomplish this, Dr. Greensmith’s suggestions have ranged from implementing <a href="https://earth.stanford.edu/dei/dei-library/land-acknowledgment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land acknowledgments</a> to encouraging white social workers to give up their jobs for indigenous people. 
“Decolonizing, as a means to end white settler colonialism’s grip in Indigenous communities, means for social work and service provision a radical divestment in their current regimes. It also means that social workers might have to give up their privilege (and even their jobs) in order to work against existing white settler colonialism.” 
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Dr. Greensmith to determine if he has ever given up his own position for an indigenous person. We have received no response as of publication. 
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<a href="https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/cgreensm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Cameron Greensmith</a> is a Professor at Kennesaw State University who identifies as a “white, queer, cisgender-passing settler.” His research focuses on antiracist, anti-colonial, and “queer” perspectives. 

 Dr. Greensmith describes his scholarship as utilizing “indigenous studies” and “critical whiteness studies.” The latter is an outgrowth of critical race theory—and was developed by professors <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/richarddelgado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Delgado</a> and <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jeanstefancic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jean Stefancic</a>—that aims to disrupt “<a href="https://tupress.temple.edu/books/critical-white-studies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whiteness as the norm</a>.” It further examines how white people perpetuate and benefit from systemic racism. 

Dr. Greensmith maintains that white Americans as a whole not only ignore racism but actively embrace it. In a paper titled, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19361653.2020.1829524?journalCode=wjly20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer as Hell Media</a>,” he accuses the Georgians who live in and around Kennesaw State of reproducing “racist, conservative, and religious ideologies.” 

 In an article for The Conversation—titled, “<a href="https://theconversation.com/challenging-the-whiteness-of-queer-organizations-183286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Challenging the Whiteness of Queer Organizations</a>”—he singles out “2SLGBTQIA+” communities for “thriving” off of “capitalism and white supremacy.” He asserts that white people at-large have a duty to challenge racism and “settler colonialism.” 
“Decolonial work is needed and necessary…white people need to step up and take action to challenge the white settler colonialism from which they benefit”
Dr. Greensmith defines settler colonialism as the “erasure, assimilation, and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, communities, nations, and lands” in a paper titled <a href="https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/cgreensm/1903-6841-1-PB.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Unsettling White Queer Complicities.”</a>  This, he writes, is connected to the white supremacist structures that American society is built on. Continuing, he states that white people are incentivized to maintain the nation’s “ongoing” violence against Native Americans.  

Referring to these Americans as “settlers,” Dr. Greensmith asserts that white people benefit from and t are complicit in upholding systemic racism. He argues that whites have a specific duty to end white supremacy.  
“White people must work toward dismantling the very systems from which we benefit. Naming white complicity provides white people the opportunity to locate their whiteness structurally and invites whites themselves to make change to combat racism. 
The paper ends with a call to action to end the “global oppression” of indigenous communities and work to restore indigenous self-determination and sovereignty via “decolonization.”  To accomplish this, Dr. Greensmith’s suggestions have ranged from implementing <a href="https://earth.stanford.edu/dei/dei-library/land-acknowledgment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land acknowledgments</a> to encouraging white social workers to give up their jobs for indigenous people. 
“Decolonizing, as a means to end white settler colonialism’s grip in Indigenous communities, means for social work and service provision a radical divestment in their current regimes. It also means that social workers might have to give up their privilege (and even their jobs) in order to work against existing white settler colonialism.” 
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Dr. Greensmith to determine if he has ever given up his own position for an indigenous person. We have received no response as of publication. 

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Published - November 7, 2022

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<a href="https://oneill.iupui.edu/contact/people-directory/atlas-pierre.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierre Atlas</a> is a Senior Lecturer at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Atlas teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Public Affairs and Criminal Justice programs.
For Black History Month, Atlas wrote an article for the Indianapolis Business Journal titled “<a href="https://www.ibj.com/articles/pierre-atlas-acknowledging-reality-is-not-being-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acknowledging reality is not being ‘woke.’</a>” He begins by discussing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s recent proposal to ban state-funded universities from teaching topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He writes, “Banning DEI might score points in the culture war, but it won’t erase the facts or the legacy of America’s history.”
Atlas says, “Racism might no longer be lawful, but its deep legacy (and continued practice) infects our social, cultural, economic and legal institutions to this day.” He states:
“The physical mobility of African Americans has been constrained in law and in everyday practice since the time of slavery: from slave patrols (America’s original organized police forces), to ‘sundown towns,’ to today’s racial profiling.” 
Atlas believes:
“Driving while Black, shopping while Black, even walking or jogging while Black produces humiliations, if not life-threatening encounters, around the country every day.” 
He concludes by arguing that “institutional and systemic racism is real” and “acknowledging this unfortunate reality should not be dismissed, ridiculed or banned as ‘wokeness.’”
Atlas’s Black History Month article is not the first time he has been outspoken about DeSantis’s new bill. On his Twitter account, where he describes himself as “Biased in favor of democracy,” he tweeted:
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This bill, supported by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DeSantis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DeSantis</a>, will DESTROY <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/highereducation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#highereducation</a> in Florida. Good luck with recruitment and retention of faculty, and many students as well. This is conservative “political correctness” run amok, bordering on fascism. 
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DiversityandInclusion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DiversityandInclusion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/academicfreedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#academicfreedom</a> <a href="https://t.co/FuNkzclpyI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/FuNkzclpyI</a>
— Pierre Atlas (@PierreAtlas) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierreAtlas/status/1630698764234104832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Atlas has also been outspoken about the need for gun control. In an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/american-gun-culture-is-based-on-frontier-mythology-but-ignores-how-common-gun-restrictions-were-in-the-old-west-184932" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, he writes that “for those Americans who see the gun as both symbolizing and guaranteeing individual liberty, gun control laws are perceived as fundamentally un-American and a threat to their freedom.”
He claims:
“Hardcore gun owners, their lobbyists and many members of the Republican Party refuse to allow the thousands of annual gun deaths and the additional thousands of nonfatal shootings to be used as justifications for restricting their rights as law-abiding citizens. They are willing to accept gun violence as an inevitable side effect of a free and armed but violent society.” 
In a 2017 op-ed for <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2017/10/23/atlas-right-own-guns-isnt-unlimited/790169001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Indianapolis Star</a>, Atlas writes, “Gun rights advocates, for their part, need to recognize that no right, not even the Second Amendment, is absolute.”
On his Twitter, he equates gun ownership to white supremacy:
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I had two thoughts as I saw this, after I stopped laughing:
1) No amount of guns will cure this man’s insecurities.
2) White privilege.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gunreform?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#gunreform</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhitePrivilege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#WhitePrivilege</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mentalhealth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="https://t.co/xpoXvyiwX9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/xpoXvyiwX9</a>
— Pierre Atlas (@PierreAtlas) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierreAtlas/status/1626234946091352067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/departments/journalismPR/directory/chris-lamb/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Lamb</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Chair of the Journalism and Public Relations Department at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). His university profile says that he has written extensively on sports, race, and media.

Professor Lamb has been very outspoken about his dislike of former President Trump and conservatives in general. In an article written for <a href="https://theconversation.com/texas-voting-law-builds-on-long-legacy-of-racism-from-gop-leaders-166807" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, he states, “For several decades, the GOP has depended on racism to keep white people in power and nonwhites on the outside.” He says:
“When Trump ran for president in 2016, he used racially divisive rhetoric, calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the U.S. and suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.” 
He also claims:
“His campaign used the slogan “Make America Great Again,” which had been widely criticized for being a dog whistle to white people who felt that minorities were encroaching on their country.” 
Professor Lamb is very outspoken on his <a href="https://twitter.com/16campaignbites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, which features posts such as:
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If your babysitter was a Trump supporter, they'd have eaten your child by now.
— Chris Lamb (@16campaignbites) <a href="https://twitter.com/16campaignbites/status/1587923491071807489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Democrats spell education "education."
GOP spells it "eduKKKation."
— Chris Lamb (@16campaignbites) <a href="https://twitter.com/16campaignbites/status/1563942150840147968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Fox News is neither a fox nor is it news.
It's like a circus peanut.
It's neither a circus or peanut.
At last you can digest a circus peanut.
— Chris Lamb (@16campaignbites) <a href="https://twitter.com/16campaignbites/status/1514706526996504587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During the Spring 2021 semester, Professor Lamb taught a course titled “Media Literacy.” <a href="https://news.iu.edu/live/news/27377-timely-media-literacy-course-to-examine-fake-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News at IU</a> says the course “will help students decipher the noise and identify fake and factual news.” In an interview, Lamb was asked about his inspiration for the course. He stated:
“My take on media literacy will be based heavily on what President Donald Trump has called “fake news.” … his objective was to discredit the news media and therefore discredit any criticism of him and, in doing so, seize power in the way authoritarian despots have long done.” 
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Published - November 4, 2022

<a href="https://oneill.iupui.edu/contact/people-directory/stucky-thomas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Stucky</a> is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

In 2020, Stucky <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16158" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taught a course titled, “Defund the Police? Race, Policing, and Criminal Justice Reform.”</a> Campus Reform obtained screenshots of an email sent from Director of Student Services Nicole Amonette that states “this class will explore the complex history of policing in America from early slave patrols through the civil rights era protest responses to modern-day policing, as part of a broader examination of the explosion of the American criminal justice system.”

Amonette writes that the course will “examine evidence of racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes for African Americans, LatinX, and other minoritized groups.” In addition, the course will:
“...examine reforms to simultaneously reduce the size and scope of our criminal justice system and increase public safety, as well as policing reforms to maximize justice for all who live in America, while maintaining public safety.”
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You can contact the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs by phone: 317-274-4656 or email: oneillqa@iupui.edu.
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://fsph.iupui.edu/about/directory/halverson-paul.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Halverson</a> is a Professor and Founding Dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University.

In April 2021, Halverson wrote an article for The Conversation titled, <a href="https://theconversation.com/declaring-racism-a-public-health-crisis-brings-more-attention-to-solving-long-ignored-racial-gaps-in-health-143330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Declaring racism a public health crisis brings more attention to solving long-ignored racial gaps in health.”</a> The article was written shortly after CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0408-racism-health.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called racism an epidemic</a> that affects “the entire health of our nation.”

Halverson agrees with Walensky and writes that “drawing attention to the racial gaps in health care is an important step in addressing them.” He claims acknowledging racism as a public health threat “may require all health-related professional training programs to include structural racism identification, implied bias and anti-racism strategies within the curriculum.”

Halverson concludes his article by stating,
“Treating racism like the disease that the CDC says it is suggests boosting our investment in public health funding would be money well spent.” 
On June 1, 2020, following the death of George Floyd and bloody protests across the country, Halverson released a message titled <a href="https://fsph.iupui.edu/news-events/news/response-to-racism.html?_gl=1*1k82m4j*_ga*ODgwNDQzNTAuMTY2Mzk3MTkwMA..*_ga_61CH0D2DQW*MTY2OTkxODk1NS4xMS4xLjE2Njk5MTkxNzUuMC4wLjA.&amp;_ga=2.265060108.209906179.1669918956-88044350.1663971900" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Our Response to Racism.”</a> In his letter, he writes:
“Our words and actions have power. By not calling out racism, we become complicit in allowing a culture of racism to continue.”
He continues:
“Having white privilege doesn’t mean that your life isn’t difficult. But it does mean that you aren’t targeted because of the color of your skin.”
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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://oneill.iupui.edu/contact/people-directory/atlas-pierre.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierre Atlas</a> is a Senior Lecturer at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Atlas teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Public Affairs and Criminal Justice programs.

For Black History Month, Atlas wrote an article for the Indianapolis Business Journal titled “<a href="https://www.ibj.com/articles/pierre-atlas-acknowledging-reality-is-not-being-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acknowledging reality is not being ‘woke.’</a>” He begins by discussing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s recent proposal to ban state-funded universities from teaching topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He writes, “Banning DEI might score points in the culture war, but it won’t erase the facts or the legacy of America’s history.”

Atlas says, “Racism might no longer be lawful, but its deep legacy (and continued practice) infects our social, cultural, economic and legal institutions to this day.” He states:
“The physical mobility of African Americans has been constrained in law and in everyday practice since the time of slavery: from slave patrols (America’s original organized police forces), to ‘sundown towns,’ to today’s racial profiling.” 
Atlas believes:
“Driving while Black, shopping while Black, even walking or jogging while Black produces humiliations, if not life-threatening encounters, around the country every day.” 
He concludes by arguing that “institutional and systemic racism is real” and “acknowledging this unfortunate reality should not be dismissed, ridiculed or banned as ‘wokeness.’”

Atlas’s Black History Month article is not the first time he has been outspoken about DeSantis’s new bill. On his Twitter account, where he describes himself as “Biased in favor of democracy,” he tweeted:
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This bill, supported by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DeSantis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DeSantis</a>, will DESTROY <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/highereducation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#highereducation</a> in Florida. Good luck with recruitment and retention of faculty, and many students as well. This is conservative “political correctness” run amok, bordering on fascism.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DiversityandInclusion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DiversityandInclusion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/academicfreedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#academicfreedom</a> <a href="https://t.co/FuNkzclpyI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/FuNkzclpyI</a>
— Pierre Atlas (@PierreAtlas) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierreAtlas/status/1630698764234104832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Atlas has also been outspoken about the need for gun control. In an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/american-gun-culture-is-based-on-frontier-mythology-but-ignores-how-common-gun-restrictions-were-in-the-old-west-184932" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, he writes that “for those Americans who see the gun as both symbolizing and guaranteeing individual liberty, gun control laws are perceived as fundamentally un-American and a threat to their freedom.”

He claims:
“Hardcore gun owners, their lobbyists and many members of the Republican Party refuse to allow the thousands of annual gun deaths and the additional thousands of nonfatal shootings to be used as justifications for restricting their rights as law-abiding citizens. They are willing to accept gun violence as an inevitable side effect of a free and armed but violent society.” 
In a 2017 op-ed for <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2017/10/23/atlas-right-own-guns-isnt-unlimited/790169001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Indianapolis Star</a>, Atlas writes, “Gun rights advocates, for their part, need to recognize that no right, not even the Second Amendment, is absolute.”

On his Twitter, he equates gun ownership to white supremacy:
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I had two thoughts as I saw this, after I stopped laughing:
1) No amount of guns will cure this man’s insecurities.

2) White privilege.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gunreform?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#gunreform</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhitePrivilege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#WhitePrivilege</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mentalhealth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="https://t.co/xpoXvyiwX9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/xpoXvyiwX9</a>

— Pierre Atlas (@PierreAtlas) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierreAtlas/status/1626234946091352067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - March 27, 2023

<a href="https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/programs/aip/directory/charmayne-charli-champion-shaw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charmayne 'Charli' Champion-Shaw</a> is Director of the Office of American Indian Programs and a Lecturer in Native American &amp; Indigenous Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

In October 2022, Champion-Shaw created a bulletin board display titled “Understanding Christian Privilege” which remained up until the end of the 2022-2023 school year. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> posted photos of the display, which showed six full pages of detailed information. The information included the definition that Christian privilege is “the idea that Christians receive inherent advantages in society (in school, in the workplace, and in public places) due to the perception that Christianity is status quo, while other religions are not.”

The display also featured a “Christian Privilege Checklist” where students could see if they “ever benefit from or exhibit behaviors denoting their favored status as Christians.” Some of the items on the checklist included:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Your faith is accepted/supported at your workplace”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Music and television programs pertaining to your religion’s holidays are readily accessible”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“You can worship freely, without fear of violence or threats”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“A bumper sticker supporting your religion won’t likely lead to your car being vandalized”</li>
</ul>
Additionally, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/public-university-display-teaches-christian-privilege-directly-connected-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">materials on the bulletin board</a> stated, “Christian privilege is directly connected to white supremacy and settler colonialism.” It further described Manifest Destiny as “the whole idea that drove white people’s racist and genocidal entitlement to take over North America,” saying:
“If murdering people and forcing them to commit to your religion while you take over their lands and try your hardest to stamp out their culture isn’t the apex of privilege, I don’t know what else is.” 
Other assertions Champion-Shaw’s display made included:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Christians do not face systemic discrimination in the U.S.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Religious diversity is not the same as Christianity being under attack”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Christianity is too often seen as synonymous with moral goodness”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To wield Christian privilege is often to weaponize religion against non-Christians”</li>
</ul>
Champion-Shaw described herself as “the creator and organizer” of the display and told Campus Reform she would be “happy to chat after graduation.” However, Campus Reform reports she has not replied to any of their follow-up inquiries.

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Published - June 12, 2023

Pierre Atlas

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Zillah Eisenstein

<a href="http://faculty.ithaca.edu/eisenste/">Dr. Zillah Eisenstein</a> is the Emerita Professor of Political Science at Ithaca College, New York. Eisenstein gave a lecture at Cornell University entitled, “Thinking about Hetero-Racist Misogyny in Agriculture.” In this lecture, she contended that agriculture was a, “capitalist, radicalized patriarchy” and called the United States a “fascist democracy.”

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Ithaca College

<a href="http://faculty.ithaca.edu/eisenste/">Dr. Zillah Eisenstein</a> is the Emerita Professor of Political Science at Ithaca College, New York. Eisenstein gave a lecture at Cornell University entitled, “Thinking about Hetero-Racist Misogyny in Agriculture.” In this lecture, she contended that agriculture was a, “capitalist, radicalized patriarchy” and called the United States a “fascist democracy.”

Sean Eversley Bradwell is an <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/seversley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Ithaca College</a>. His research and teaching interests include educational policy, pedagogy, and social change. His university profile also says he was the director of the Center for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Change (IDEAS). 

In response to an <a href="https://theithacan.org/news/campus-community-discusses-racist-video-posted-by-student/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged racist video</a> posted by an Ithaca student in 2019, <a href="https://theithacan.org/news/panel-discusses-origins-and-ownership-of-the-n-word/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ithacan published a story</a> on Bradwell discussing the origins, ownership, and usage of the “N-word.” 

“Bradwell’s lecture detailed the history of the N-word from possible etymologies to the transition from “n—er” to “n—a” as a result of its colloquial use among black comedians and hip-hop artists,” The Ithacan said.

The Ithacan further stated, “Bradwell explained that the first recorded usage of the N-word was in 1786, but etymologists can trace the usage of the word back to the 1570s. There are several competing etymologies to explain the creation of the N-word, but Bradwell said regardless of the origin, the word has always had a negative connotation.”  

The video incident also led Bradwell to clarify, in his view, the appropriate uses of the N-word. In a column titled “<a href="https://theithacan.org/columns/who-gets-to-say-the-n-word/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who gets to say the N-word</a>,” the author — who attended Bradwell’s panel discussion — concluded, 

“The term n—a came about in the late 1970s from black comedians and was further popularized by rap and hip-hop artists like Tupac Shakur, who argued that the word n—a can function as a term of affection…When black people use n—a, it normalizes the word to the point where nonblack folks feel perfectly comfortable saying it.”

The student, who was reportedly a “person of color,” did not incur discipline for using the slur to refer to herself in the video.

In January 2021, Bradwell signed the “<a href="https://theithacan.org/opinion/letter-from-bipoc-faculty-to-faculty-council-nov-19-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter from BIPOC faculty to Faculty Council, Nov. 19, 2020.</a>” BIPOC is an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. In response to issues with the college’s Senior Leadership Team, the letter states,

“We write as a group of BIPOC faculty at Ithaca College who have no communal affiliation other than our shared experiences at this predominantly white institution. We do not claim to speak for all BIPOC faculty.”

“As BIPOC faculty, we are called to speak in response to long-standing inequities at Ithaca College. Only in recent years has the college made progress in hiring BIPOC faculty. As a result, in this time of uncertainty, the majority of BIPOC faculty are untenured.”

“If you wish to retain us, talk to us, not about us; listen to us and think about the ways you contribute to an environment where racialized bodies are constantly under attack…We offer this statement because we are part of this community and want to foster a space where everyone feels welcome to engage in dialogue.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

Belisa Gonzalez is a Professor of Psychology and <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/bgonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of the Center for Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity</a> for Ithaca College.

As a former member and co-chair of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ATLAROC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atlanta Organizing Committee (AOC) for Undoing Racism</a>, Gonzalez gained experience in community organizing and she participated in workshops to “better understand interweaving systems of oppression and their consequences on everyday lives…”

In 2015, Gonzalez <a href="https://youtu.be/OV-wKIK68Ac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a staged walkout</a> to support 1,000 Ithaca students who demanded the resignation of campus President Tom Rochon. The protest was organized in response to Rochon’s handling of race-related incidents on campus. <a href="https://theithacan.org/news/over-1000-ithaca-college-students-walk-out-to-protest-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ithacan reported,</a> “The Student Government Association [held] a vote of no confidence against Rochon, while Faculty Council passed a motion to hold a faculty vote of no confidence.”

Gonzalez said, “‘I hope that more awareness and more momentum will come out of this event. POC at IC talked about their goals. I see faculty and staff everywhere and this is an issue that is not going away. I hope the administration sees that and does something about it.”’

In January 2021, Gonzalez signed the “<a href="https://theithacan.org/opinion/letter-from-bipoc-faculty-to-faculty-council-nov-19-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter from BIPOC faculty to Faculty Council, Nov. 19, 2020.</a>” BIPOC is an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. In response to issues with the college’s Senior Leadership Team, the letter states,

“We write as a group of BIPOC faculty at Ithaca College who have no communal affiliation other than our shared experiences at this predominantly white institution. We do not claim to speak for all BIPOC faculty.”

“As BIPOC faculty, we are called to speak in response to long-standing inequities at Ithaca College. Only in recent years has the college made progress in hiring BIPOC faculty. As a result, in this time of uncertainty, the majority of BIPOC faculty are untenured.”

“If you wish to retain us, talk to us, not about us; listen to us and think about the ways you contribute to an environment where racialized bodies are constantly under attack…We offer this statement because we are part of this community and want to foster a space where everyone feels welcome to engage in dialogue.”

Gonzalez was featured in an article by School Transportation News titled “<a href="https://stnonline.com/special-reports/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-a-plan-for-improved-staff-recruitment-retention/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Plan for improved Staff Recruitment, Retention</a>.” She provided “expertise” on how to improve employment relations. School Transportation News quoted Gonzalez saying,

“‘Often, people are made to feel like they don’t belong, particularly those who are underrepresented in a particular occupation. That feeling of exclusion affects work performance, not because of an individual deficiency but because people must expend energy anticipating and navigating an inhospitable workplace.’”

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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/chenderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cynthia Henderson</a> is a Professor of Acting in the School of Music, Theater, and Dance, and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance Performance at Ithaca College. She’s also the founder of <a href="http://www.pa4sc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Performing Arts for Social Change</a> — a theater, music, and dance program with a mission to “raise awareness and educate by giving a voice to important societal issues that are often overlooked.”

On one project — “<a href="http://www.pa4sc.com/projects.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Exploration of Race, Privilege and the Learning Environment</a>” — Henderson’s performing arts program fostered discussions at Ithaca High School after a 2018 student “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427327/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hairspray</a>” finale. The project description says, 

“[A] very diverse group of people…came together in the chorus room…Through the genre of theatre, this group acted out, wrote, spoke, listened, and explored difficult truths about broken trust, racial bias, privilege, profiling, micro-aggressions and institutional racism.”

Spectrum News 1 featured Henderson in an article titled “<a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/human-interest/2020/05/23/ithaca-college-promotes-first-ever-full-time-black-professor#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ithaca College Promoting African American Professor Becomes Historic.</a>”  The subtitle of the article says, “First African American Promoted to Full Professor,” and the reporter claimed the college “has been educating students for almost 130 years, but it’s taken until 2020 for an African American person to become a full professor there.”

Henderson recalled a moment within her 20-year career at Ithaca, stating,

“[In the] 2020-2021 academic year, I received a phone call [from] a male voice saying, ‘We don’t need N-word, B-word, people like you teaching at our college.’ There weren’t very many African Americans. I think you can count them on one hand. Through the years, I’ve dealt with a lot of bias.”

Ithaca’s <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/policy-manual/volume-iv-faculty-handbook/409-definitions-and-types-appointments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Definitions and Types of Appointments</a>, as well as its page for <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/policy-manual/volume-iv-faculty-handbook/401-ranked-academic-faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ranked Academic Faculty</a>, do not show an approved designation for the appointment of a “full professor.”

In January 2021, Henderson signed the “<a href="https://theithacan.org/opinion/letter-from-bipoc-faculty-to-faculty-council-nov-19-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter from BIPOC faculty to Faculty Council, Nov. 19, 2020.</a>” BIPOC is an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. In response to issues with the college’s Senior Leadership Team, the letter states,

“We write as a group of BIPOC faculty at Ithaca College who have no communal affiliation other than our shared experiences at this predominantly white institution. We do not claim to speak for all BIPOC faculty.”

“As BIPOC faculty, we are called to speak in response to long-standing inequities at Ithaca College. Only in recent years has the college made progress in hiring BIPOC faculty. As a result, in this time of uncertainty, the majority of BIPOC faculty are untenured.”

“If you wish to retain us, talk to us, not about us; listen to us and think about the ways you contribute to an environment where racialized bodies are constantly under attack…We offer this statement because we are part of this community and want to foster a space where everyone feels welcome to engage in dialogue.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/first-generation-students/ithaca-firsts-mentor-program/paula-ioanide-center-study-culture-race-and-ethnicity">Paula Ioanide</a> is an Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Her university profile states that Ioanide “is passionate about social justice, equity, ending mass incarceration, and creating cultures of resistance that honor people’s dignity. She teaches courses of systemic racism, gender and sexual politics, mass incarceration, and the politics of whiteness in the United States.”

According to the website for her organization <a href="https://risetoequity.com/dr-paula-ioanide">Rise to Equity</a>, Ioanide studied under Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis">Angela Davis</a> in the <a href="https://histcon.ucsc.edu/index.html">History of Consciousness</a> program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. According to<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-black-panther-angela-davis-shocked-learn-descendant-mayflower"> Fox News</a>, “Davis is notorious for working with the Communist Party USA and the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 70s. Her involvement in the armed takeover of a California courtroom resulted in four deaths and her placement on the FBI's Most Wanted List.”

Ioanide is also a “Diversity and Inclusion Influencer” for Rise to Equity. Through this organization, Ioanide seeks to “make current DEI scholarship understandable and practical.” Ionaide also helps “people build equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplaces and organizations in two ways.”:
“I conduct general workshops focused on offering people ‘best practices’ related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. My extensive experience in facilitating workshops on these issues has taught me to approach this work with compassion, honesty, and commitment.”
“I offer personal consultation services to organizations and businesses that are interested in developing an DEI plan specific to their workplace needs and structures. I invite you to join me in co-creating a thrivable, equitable world for all.”
In her first book, titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Politics-Racism-Colorblindness-Comparative/dp/0804795479">“The Emotional Politics of Racism”</a> (2015), Ioanide argued: 
“Clearly, almost all the affective presumptions and embodied entitlements assumed by dominant Americans correlate with white racial identity and/or U.S. citizenship.” 
Ioanide does not address what she means by “affective presumptions and embodied entitlements.”

She continues by discussing entitlements, which she claims white people are born with, along with other mental and behavioral patterns that they allegedly possess: 
“Although we may presume that white people are born with such entitlements, it is important to understand that dominant white Americans’ embodied organization is also affirmed by projections, external gazes, and cultural assumptions expressed by other people, including people of color. In other words, it is not just that white American citizens give these entitlements to themselves, or that legal and institutional systems constantly reinforce them; the practices of other people award these entitlements to dominant Americans by virtue of not questioning, not disrupting, or not reformulating the cultural associations that coalesce into American-ness = citizenship = whiteness.”
Ioanide uses the term “dominant U.S. publics” in her book, which she defines in the following manner: 
“[M]y phrase dominant U.S. publics tries to suggest that whiteness and American-ness manifest in embodied identities; but they are also ideological worldviews and value systems that people of color and minorities can (consciously or unconsciously) reinforce.”
Following “The Emotional Politics of Racism,” Ioanide co-edited and co-wrote a book titled, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Antiracism-Inc-Racial-Justice-Matters/dp/1950192237">Antiracism Inc. “Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters”</a> (2019).

In the book’s first chapter, titled “Antiracism Incorporated,” co-authors Felice Blake and Ioanide and claim that Martin Luther King Jr. is a “moral authority.” This title is used when referring to Arizona Superintendent of Education Tom Horne’s allusion to King when he was arguing “for the state’s ban on ethnic studies programs.”
“Appropriating King’s moral authority, Horne declares himself the champion of antiracism. In a gross neutralization of King’s radical visions for racial justice, Horne mimics antiracist claims to reproduce racial oppression.”
Towards the end of the chapter, the authors explain the objective of the book:
“Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters grapples with the peculiar impasses produced when the empirical evidence of systemic racism’s persistence fails to make a diﬀerence due to the assumption that liberal democracies are already antiracist. 
Moreover, they state that “Antiracism Inc…” 
 “[C]ontends with the very real problems people face in communities where their testimonies are refused, inverted, or incorporated toward agendas that further their oppression. [And the book] examines the ways intra-racial and intracommunal hurts and conﬂicts are negotiated given the dominant refusal to acknowledge systemic grievances.”
The authors also address what they deem are obstacles to “racial justice movements:”
“Currently, radical racial justice movements face the enormous challenge of ﬁghting the resurgence of overt forms of racism in the neo-fascist era of Trump, and the covert forms embedded in neoliberal institutional policies that endorse sanitized and de-radicalized forms of antiracism, diversity, multiculturalism, and colorblindness.”
They further claim that those who contest political correctness do so for racial purposes: 
“Yet in practice, the opposition to political correctness in favor of free speech is a thinly veiled mechanism for protecting and reifying white racial hegemony.”
According to the authors, free speech is used as a guide to attack other racial groups:
“Hostility towards a politically correct term like “undocumented” for instance, is about preserving the right to discriminate against “illegal aliens” as a way to protect citizens and the nation. Resistance to the phrase “white privilege” and to critiques of traditional masculinity is about maintaining control over who represents the national collective.”
In an article for <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/news/race-power-and-resistance-major-will-center-under-represented-voices">IC News</a>, Ioanide “highlighted the flexibility of [Ithaca College’s Race, Power and Resistance]... major”: 
“We conceptualized the race, power and resistance major with flexibility in mind. It was to allow students to not only explore our department, but also multiple departments to get those different interdisciplinary perspectives… The Ithaca Forever plan includes the goal that Ithaca College will become a model for diversity, equity and inclusion.”

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<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/asper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colleen Asper</a> is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center of Arts at Princeton University. 
Asper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Asper joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Asper and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”
Please send information on Colleen Asper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Princeton Bioethics Professor Peter Singer made headlines after sharing his views on sex acts with animals. On November 8, 2023, Singer shared what he called a “thought-provoking article” titled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mOOHWhgfENSAz-Bl7kQb9fPHHzRqh9Dm/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible</a>.” Singer said that “[the article] challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual contact between humans and animals.”
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Another thought-provoking article is "Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible" by Fira Bensto (pseudonym), which is just out in the current issue of <a href="https://twitter.com/JConIdeas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JConIdeas</a>.
This piece challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual… <a href="https://t.co/32fIaJEJ1J">pic.twitter.com/32fIaJEJ1J</a>

— Peter Singer (@PeterSinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterSinger/status/1722440246972018857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The article Singer referred to states that “[s]ex with animals is a powerful social taboo that exposes its practitioners to utmost indignation and stigma.” The piece also claims, “Many people who have sex with animals do not strictly speaking have a zoophilic orientation, but use animals as surrogates for human sex partners.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/11/lifestyle/princeton-professor-ignites-outrage-by-calling-journal-article-about-sex-with-animals-thought-provoking-someone-check-his-hard-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Singer followed up his original post with an essay on Facebook where he clarified:
“I didn’t write the article on the permissibility of zoophilia [but] I am a co-editor for that journal. The fact that we judge an article worthy of publication does not indicate that I or my co-editors agree with the views contained in it…The Journal of Conversational Ideas is free and open access for everyone to read…
“Now imagine that you are an animal living with a person who cares for you and loves you in all the ways that most people love their companion animals, but in addition, this person sometimes has sexual contact with you, making sure that the contact does not hurt you, and leaving you free to move away if you don't like it…”
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One commenter said Singer was “adopting the language of predator abusers, the same words used to dismiss and denigrate [rape] survivors.”

In a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/peter-singer-compares-abortion-to-turning-off-a-computer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review article</a> titled, “Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer,” the author writes, “To understand Singer’s perspective: He doesn’t believe that human life has moral value simply because he or she is human. Rather, value has to be earned, primarily be being self-aware or able to value life [sic]. He argues that self-aware entities are ‘persons’ —including some animals.”

National Review continued, “[Singer] also believes that non-self-aware beings—including human infants, unborn babies, and people who have serious dementia, persistent unconsciousness or minimal consciousness—are not persons. Non-persons, in his view, have lower moral value than persons and can be killed or used instrumentally for the benefit of persons…”

Please send information on Peter Singer to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Peter Singer is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. As a philosopher and self-identified “<a href="https://longtermrisk.org/hedonistic-vs-preference-utilitarianism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hedonistic utilitarian</a>,” Dr. Singer holds a number of controversial views on human and animal ethics. These include stances on abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide.

More than an advocate for abortion, Dr. Singer claims there is nothing inherently immoral about killing a child.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5IZXGmk08&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During a debate at Harvard University</a>, Dr. Singer recognized that fetuses in the womb are living human beings. However, he added people—including those not yet born—have varying degrees of value based on whether or not they feel pain.

He further claimed that only people who are fully conscious or feel pain have a right to their own lives. Abortion, he argued, cannot be considered immoral. Dr. Singer acknowledges that his stance presents a “challenging” problem regarding recently-born children.
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Dr. Singer has also justified infanticide for babies who are disabled or have serious health conditions. In the 1979 edition of Practical Ethics, he wrote: “<a href="https://archive.org/details/practicalethics0000sing/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all</a>.”

Many have accused <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/peter-singer-eugenicist-wesley-j-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Singer of being sympathetic to eugenics</a> due to his apparent empathy towards parents who <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/peter-singer-eugenicist-wesley-j-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">select particular genes in human fetuses for more desirable children</a>.

During a 2015 radio interview, Dr. Singer argued that it was “reasonable” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ethics-professor-kill-severely-disabled-infants-under-obamacare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to euthanize disabled infants to prevent higher premiums under Obamacare</a>. In a Q&amp;A hosted on his personal website, Dr. Singer <a href="https://petersinger.info/faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims that newborns are not persons as they have “no sense of the future</a>.”

“[Killing] a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living.”

Dr. Singer added that although killing an infant is a “terrible thing to do,” parents should have the freedom to end the life of their newborn. He added that the presiding doctor would then take steps to “swiftly and humanely” end the child’s life.

According to his biography, Dr. Singer <a href="https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/peter-singer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been teaching at Princeton since 1999</a>. He authored other books on utilitarianism, veganism, and animal liberation.

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<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor#:~:text=Keeanga-Yamahtta%20Taylor%20is%20an%20Assistant%20Professor%20in%20the,and%20a%202020%20finalist%20for%20the%20Pulitzer%20in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor</a> is a Professor in the <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of African-American Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton University</a>. According to her University biography, Dr. Taylor is a scholar of racial inequity in public policymaking, and writes “extensively” about race, politics, and “radical activism.”

As a Professor and political commentator, Dr. Taylor offers her opinion across a wide variety of social media platforms and media outlets. She is known to condemn capitalism, the United States, and Israel while lauding socialism and the Soviet Union.

On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Dr. Taylor smears Israel as a racial, apartheid state that actively commits genocide against Arabs in the Middle East. In one tweet, she alleges that Israel is attempting to “annihilate” Palestine:
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The consequence of apartheid is not separation, it’s annihilation. End the occupation, free Palestine <a href="https://t.co/2jUOpL3oBq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/2jUOpL3oBq</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1392287946653503490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In another post, she flagrantly alleges that Israel is engaged in the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza, despite the <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/methodist-staffer-demonizes-israel-reveals-ignorance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resident Arab population quadrupling since 1948</a>,
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What we are witnessing is not the “eviction” of Palestinians from their homes. This is ethnic cleansing. This is the most basic expression of settler colonialism. This is the illegal and immoral expulsion of Palestinians with the expectation they are “accepted” elsewhere. <a href="https://t.co/erLUdzIdP8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/erLUdzIdP8</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1392286002950164480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Taylor likewise alleges the United States is a brutally racist and oppressive society. In an article for the Marxist publication, Jacobin,<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/reparations-slavery-racism-united-states-foundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> she depicts racism as foundational to the United States</a>.

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A frequent critic of policing, which she views as systemic racism embedded in the United States, Dr. Taylor lauds the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a “liberation struggle.” With communist, vice-presidential candidate, and Black Panther Party member, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis</a>, writing the forward, Dr. Taylor’s book—<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1646-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-expanded-second-edition">From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation</a>—she praises the movement for having “awakened a new generation of activists” that will fight for “black liberation.”

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder. After a jury acquitted Zimmerman in 2013, <a href="https://patrissecullors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrice Cullors</a> joined with <a href="https://aliciagarza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alicia Garza</a> and <a href="https://www.opaltometi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Opal Tometi</a> to found an organization, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as stated on its website</a>.

“....whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.” 

BLM came to further prominence following the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gunshots-looting-after-grand-jury-in-ferguson-case-does-not-indict-officer-in-michael-brown-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riots in Ferguson, Missouri</a> in reaction to the acquittal of police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of robbery suspect, Michael Brown. Although later determined that Brown had attacked the officer, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BLM was instrumental in spreading the lie</a> that Brown was shot at point-blank range with his hands raised.

To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/patrissecullors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrisse Cullors, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist.</a>

In an interview with the progressive news outlet, DemocracyNow, in June of 2020, Dr. Taylor praises the BLM movement’s fight against systemic racism, stating that our nation is witnessing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOG-W_X9m8&amp;ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an “uprising” against “racial terrorism” being inflicted upon black Americans by police officers</a>.

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According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

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In separate Twitter posts, Dr. Taylor has condemned capitalism as being inherently exploitative while promoting the merits of socialism.
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There is no good US capitalism. The so called golden age of capitalism relied on shackling women to the home, bolting LGBT people in the closet, restricting immigration to Europeans, &amp; segregating Black people into resource starved enclaves. Capitalism has always been the problem
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1144415575348862977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sequins are not too good for the working class! Socialism is about sharing the abundance not accepting the false idea of scarcity. <a href="https://t.co/Yd025LUrYd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/Yd025LUrYd</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1231334079968268289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Taylor’s positive view on socialism extends to the embrace of communist dictatorships. While attending the “This is Socialism!” conference in 2017, Dr. Taylor delivered a speech that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSASqMLYMg&amp;ab_channel=WeAreManyMedia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised the Russian Revolution</a> for its inspiration towards American communists and "revolution" against capitalism.

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Despite her praise, the Bolshevik Revolution and the resulting formation of the Soviet Union cost millions of lives. Upon overthrowing the Russian government in October 1917, Vladimir Lenin immediately set up <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lenin%27s+red+terror&amp;atb=v263-1&amp;ia=web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of concentration camps for political prisoners and led the Soviet secret police in a brutal crackdown</a> known as the “Red Terror.” As many as one million people perished before the carnage ended with the cessation of the Russian Civil War in 1921. Over the course of the USSR's existence, as <a href="https://fee.org/articles/the-staggering-toll-of-the-russian-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many as 60 million people perished under Soviet rule</a>.

In recognition of her work, Dr. Taylor was <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/news/2021-macarthur-fellow-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award</a> in 2021. The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/us/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-2021/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foundation grants $625,000</a> for each recipient's <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“exceptional creativity” and “track record of significant accomplishments.”</a>

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 Students and Parents may contact the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University at (609) 258-4270 or aas21@princeton.edu
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Updated - November 19, 2021

Wallace D. Best is a <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/wallace-d-best" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hughes-Rogers Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Religion</a> at Princeton University. He’s also the Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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Best was featured in a 2020 Princeton press release titled <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/wallace-best-leads-program-gender-and-sexuality-studies-dynamic-new-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wallace Best leads the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies into a dynamic new era</a>. In the article, Best responds to questions regarding his experience with feminine studies. When asked, “What is the value of studying gender and sexuality studies in the current era in America?,” Best said:
“It’s interdisciplinary in that it’s connected to more historically formal disciplines like sociology, political science and religion, but draws each in robust and engaging ways. I think about what’s happening with the Black Lives Matter movement, for example. Some of that activist work is born from the scholarship within the intellectual orbit — scholars who have centered issues of gender and sexuality in its inextricable connection to race, class, location and ethnicity.” 
He continued,
“So, when I see those protests, I feel quite proud that some of what the leaders say is born from the discourses of feminism, Black feminism, queer studies, and from gender and sexuality studies. So, I would say this is one of the most exciting times to be involved in this field.”
Best also holds a Ph.D. in Religion. His areas of research and teaching include African American religious history, religion and literature, Pentecostalism, and Womanist theology. One course Best teaches, <a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/courses/spring-2022/black-women-and-spiritual-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Black Women and Spiritual Narrative</a>,” focuses on “the hypothesis that religious metaphor and symbolism have figured prominently in Black women’s writing across literary genres.” He’s currently working on a book entitled “The Spiritual Capital of Black America: Twentieth Century Harlem’s World of Religion and Churches.”

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Published October 20, 2022

Catherine Clune-Taylor is an <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her interests are focused on the Philosophy of Sex, Gender and Sexuality, as well as Feminist Theory, Bioethics, and the work of Michel Foucault — a deceased philosopher and political activist.

Clune-Taylor was featured in a Princeton Alumni Weekly article titled “<a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/conversation-science-ethics-and-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Conversation: Science, Ethics, and Policy.</a>” Her research is described as taking “an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach to the science, bioethics, and biopolitics of medically managing intersex conditions in children.” In the article, she discussed her values and views on medical discrimination against “patients of color” and those on the gender spectrum.

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Her Princeton <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> states she earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation was in defense of “ethics and politics of medical production” in cisgendered people. “[The] project considers the revised treatment model of intersex conditions introduced in 2006 — which is controversially reclassified them as Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs).” 

Clune-Taylor’s <a href="https://www.clune-taylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says she’s an Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She further highlights her Ph.D. focus of “[exploring] the various bio-scientific, political, and bureaucratic efforts…to force individuals into ‘cisgendered futures.’” She also offers diversity, equity, and inclusion lectures across multiple academic disciplines.

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Published October 20, 2022

Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/anne-mcclintock">Anne McClintock</a> is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. McClintock joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
McClintock and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Anne McClintock to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated - February 22, 2024
Anne McClintock is Princeton University’s <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/anne-mcclintock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a>. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty for the Princeton Environmental Institute and Department of English and serves on the Executive Committee of the Program in American Studies.

McClintock’s faculty profile says her “interdisciplinary and transitional work — both scholarly and creative — explores the intersections between race, gender and sexualities; imperialism and globalization.” Her interests also include sexual and gender violence, climate chaos, and animal studies.

McClintock is the author of “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imperial_Leather/wRwiAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest</a>.” The publisher notes that the book “chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling.” In one chapter called The White Family of Man, she says,
“King Solomon’s Mines was [sic] intimately concerned with events in South Africa following the discovery of diamonds and then gold: specifically, the reordering of women’s sexuality and work in the African homestead and the diversion of black male labor into the mines.”
She continues, 
“The Story illuminates not only relations between the imperial metropolis and the colonies but also the refashioning of gender relations in South Africa, as a nascent capitalism penetrated the region and disrupted already contested power relations with the homesteads.”
In 2019, McClintock was among several Princeton faculty members who participated in a campus strike. <a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-students-faculty-join-community-climate-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Alumni Weekly</a> listed her as an event speaker in a protest to “demand climate justice.” That same year, she was also featured in The Nation’s article titled “<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/princeton-students-are-sitting-in-for-title-ix-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Students are Sitting in for Title IX Reform</a>.” This protest was organized after “believe all women” posters appeared in campus bathrooms and “Title IX protects rapists” was graffitied on a walking path.

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Published October 20, 2022

Brian Herrera is the <a href="https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/people/brian-herrera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University</a> and the Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. 

Herrera also serves as a core faculty member in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research “examines the history of gender, sexuality and race within and through U.S. popular performance.” His interests include Latinx theatre, LGBTQ+ performance history, and equity and access in the Performing Arts.

In July 2022, Herrera received the Betty Jean Jones Award and was featured in an article for Princeton’s <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/07/theater-professor-brian-herrera-wins-betty-jean-jones-award-for-excellence-in-teaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lewis Center of Arts News</a>. The article says, “The annual award [established in 1997] honors individuals who have achieved excellence as college/university teachers and mentors in the field of American theater.” The award committee further notes, “Herrera’s personal impact on students is especially resonant for students of color, first generation, and LGBTQ+ students who are buoyed by the ‘representation in action’ that is generated by [his] highly participatory presence.”

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Herrera has written several books and articles on gender ideology and hosts a <a href="https://www.brianherrera.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> that provides instructions on essay writing. In January 2021, he published a blog titled “<a href="https://www.brianherrera.org/2021/01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Write an Essay on Gender and Sexuality?</a>” He acknowledged that “students all over the world get writing assignments on this topic” and offered practical tips for arranging a successful paper. In 2009, he was published in <a href="https://glreview.org/article/article-570/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gay &amp; Lesbian Review</a> where he reflected on his admiration for the gay activist and politician named Harvey Milk.

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Published October 20, 2022

Ruha Benjamin serves as the <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/ruha-benjamin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of Graduate Affairs and a Professor for the Department of African American Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her university profile says she “specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social equity.” 

Professor Benjamin is the author of several publications including a book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Race_After_Technology/G6-hDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code</a>.” The book explores how “emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.”

The introduction contains a section called Race as Technology where she states that technology is “designed to separate, stratify, and sanctify the many forms of injustice experienced by members of racialized groups, but one that people routinely reimagine and redeploy to other ends.”
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In a <a href="https://youtu.be/rY8RkET3KC0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video discussing her reasons for writing</a> “Race After Technology,” Benjamin gave an example of how technology is racist. She said, “Two friends [were] using an automated soap dispenser and the soap wouldn’t come out [for] the individual with darker skin because darker skin absorbs light. So if it’s infrared technology, it’s not going to work as effectively.”

Professor Benjamin <a href="https://youtu.be/_8RrX4hjCr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also gave a Ted Talk</a> where she used laboratory and park benches to discuss how “the idea of discriminatory design is a global phenomenon.” She also says, “I think at the heart of discriminatory design is this idea that we can create technological fixes for social crises…we create short-term responses that often get the issues out of sight, out of mind.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Princeton English Professor <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/gayle-salamon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gayle Salamon</a> was featured in a 2019 <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2019/12/princeton-professor-shares-research-on-gender-identity-u-s-judiciary-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Princeton professor shares research on gender identity, U.S. judiciary system.” The report states that Salamon <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/research/faculty-bookshelf/life-and-death-latisha-king-critical-phenomenology-transphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed the case</a> of Larry “Latisha” King, a male who “transitioned” to female and was later killed by a classmate. Salamon was quoted stating that she aimed to “carefully study the misrecognition at the heart of the case and how gender identity was misread as sexual identity.”

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Salamon is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Salamon joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).”
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Salamon and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine…”

Please send information on Gayle Salamon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated - February 14, 2024
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Gayle Salamon is a <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/gayle-salamon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Salamon’s faculty profile says her research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, contemporary Continental philosophy, and disability studies.

In Salamon’s Introductory to Gender and Sexual Studies course, she tackles questions such as: “What does it mean to be a woman or a man? Or neither?” “How do gender and sexuality, those seemingly most personal and private of attributes, emerge from networks of power and social relations?”

Her published works include two manuscripts, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Assuming_a_Body/s-idAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=assuming+a+body&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality,”</a>  and<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_and_Death_of_Latisha_King/bb84DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+life+and+death+of+latisha+king&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia."</a> She also published a peer-reviewed article titled <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Meontology-of-Masculinity%3A-Notes-on-Castration-Salamon/3784451626c47802e5acd00654de96bf5a7f8222#paper-header" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Meontology of Masculinity: Notes on Castration Elation</a>. (Meontology is the philosophical study of non-being.)

In the Meontology of Masculinity abstract, Salamon cites LGBT “scholars” and says, “Gender is a matter of behavior, but also a result of ‘the more subtle channels of posture, carriage, gaze, and manner of leaning into some (more masculine) things away from other (more feminine) things.’ [Gender scholars] call for a phenomenology of lived gender experiences, to do justice to the variety of ways in which gender can be experienced and also perceived.”

In a <a href="https://thecriticallede.com/066-interview-with-gayle-salamon-author-of-assuming-a-body/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2012 podcast interview with The Critical Lede,</a> Salamon discussed her book “Assuming a Body.” In thinking about the idea of “a man trapped in a woman’s body, and a woman trapped in a man’s body,” she said, “I keep looking for a book that was going to engage both of those things at the same time…My hope was to try to bring together some of the ideas about how we come to inhabit our bodies [and] what is the relationship between the body that everybody else in the world sees and the body that I feel myself to have.”

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<a href="https://politics.princeton.edu/people/richard-falk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Falk</a> is a Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and a Research Associate at the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California - Santa Barbara. 

Dr. Falk has labeled Israel a racist, apartheid state that’s committing an ongoing genocide. 

The term “apartheid” refers to the legal system of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid/Opposition-to-apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial discrimination and separation in South Africa</a> from the 1950s to 1994. He has further alleged the true identity of the 9/11 hijackers has been covered up and blamed Israel for terrorist attacks in America. 

In an article titled, “<a href="http://www.oldsite.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust</a>,” Falk compares Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. He claims that Israel’s actions are “morally far worse” than the genocides committed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Further in the article, Falk defends the terrorist organization Hamas as the duly elected representative of the Palestinian people. He claims the group has renounced violence and is willing to make peace with Israel. 

During a separate interview with DemocracyNow!, Falk praised the group for its “spirit of resistance” and again claimed that Hamas seeks “peaceful, co-existence with Israel.”
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An Islamist terrorist group, Hamas’s charter calls for the <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destruction of Israel and the death of all Jews:</a>
“Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.” - Hamas Charter
The organization is known to <a href="https://palwatch.org/page/18217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deploy suicide bombers</a> and <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">fire rockets</a> that target civilian areas; Hamas is responsible for the deaths of <a href="https://www.fdd.org/in_the_news/2021/05/26/faq-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of Israelis and at least 25 Americans</a>. 

Despite his views, Dr. Falk was chosen by the United Nations to serve as the Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights. From this position, he accused Israel of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in a report titled,”<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170316054753/https://www.unescwa.org/sites/www.unescwa.org/files/publications/files/israeli-practices-palestinian-people-apartheid-occupation-english.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Israeli Practices toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid.</a>” 

The report maligns Israel as a “racial state” that pursues “racial domination” and forcible displacement of the Palestinians. Falk recommends that Israel be investigated by the International Criminal Court and that international governments hold unilateral trials for Israeli officials. 

He urges businesses to boycott the state as part of the BDS campaign. BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—embraces the following three tenets as a feature of the campaign: 

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel. 

Following the publication of the document, Dr. Falk doubled down on his stance in an interview with The Forward, further calling for the <a href="https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/164986/richard-falk-calls-for-corporate-israel-boycott/#ixzz2APbfkSvl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boycott of any company</a> that does business in Israel:
“My main recommendation is that the businesses highlighted in the report – as well as the many other businesses that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise – should be boycotted until they bring their operations into line with international human rights and humanitarian law and standards.” 
Elsewhere, Dr. Falk has <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/un-anti-israel-bias-richard-falk-pro-iran-9-11-truther-investigates-jewish-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed that Al-Qaeda is solely responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks</a>. In an interview on the site, Truth Jihad, he endorsed the idea the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/special-rapporteur-for-911-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highjackings might have been a false-flag operation</a>. He further authored a blog post, “<a href="https://richardfalk.org/2013/04/19/a-commentary-on-the-marathon-murders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Commentary on the Marathon Murders</a>,” that blamed the Boston Bombings on the foreign policy of DC and Tel Aviv. 

Due to his views, Dr. Falk was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/19/israel-palestinian-territories-united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned from Israel in 2008</a>. Although officially retired from teaching, he still holds the position of professor emeritus at Princeton. 

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Published - October 31, 2022

Christopher Nunez is a formerly undocumented, visually impaired choreographer, educator, and accessibility consultant who was named Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2022-2024. Nunez’s university <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/03/princeton-arts-fellows-for-2022-2024-announced/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellowship announcement says</a>, “His performances have been presented at The Brooklyn Museum for The Immigrant Artist Biennale…” and “his work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times…” 

His personal biography webpage states,

“Since his arrival in NYC, Nunez has supported and worked for different social causes, groups, and organizations for the rights of undocumented, disabled, indigenous, and LGBT+ people. He has been the Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for Dance/NYC…[and was] a core member of the Artists of Color Council at Movement Research.”

“Nunez [is the] Founder of the Accessibility Advisory Team (AAT), a group of disabled artists who advise Movement Research on accessibility and inclusion practices through its various departments and platform.”

Nunez teaches a course called “<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/courses/introduction-to-radical-access-disability-justice-in-the-arts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to Radical Access: Disability Justice in the Arts.</a>”  The class introduction says, “Disability is front and center in a global social justice revolution…This course invites all artists, from choreographers to theater makers, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and composers to immerse in a highly collaborative, improvisational, experimental and inclusive community to explore Disability Justice…”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-agender-and-neurodivergent-performer-flaunts-disability-and-anti-technique/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix reports</a>, “The ‘Intro to Radical Access’ Princeton Dance program and Program for Community Engaged Scholarship hosted [a] ‘anti-technique’ performance.” However, Catholic students were moved to pray against evil spirits after attending the controversial dance performance that featured Nunez and two other "disabled" artists.

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The performance showcased the artistic abilities of the disabled, mentally ill, and trans-identifying students. According to the College Fix, Nunez said, “‘This is the first time that we get to experience in a more pragmatic, practical way what access, accessibility, and access artistry means.’”

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Published - November 3, 2022

Gabrie’l Atchison is the instructor for AAS 220/GSS 229: Body Politics: Black Queer Visibility and Representation at Princeton University. The <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?term=1234&amp;courseid=016604" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class description</a> states that the curriculum will “examine Black LGBTQ+ representation across various media including documentaries, television, social media, and literature.”

Atchison’s profile — which can only be found on the class description page — also shows her research “includes gender-based environmental violence, environmental racism/justice, ecofeminism, feminist/queer theology…Black church history…and African American women’s literary criticism.” 

Atchison contributes to a blog called <a href="https://www.antiracistdevotional.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racist Devotional</a>. On <a href="https://www.antiracistdevotional.org/dr-gabriel-atchison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atchison’s About page</a> she describes herself as a “Black Feminist theologian” and the Congregational Development Director at Trinity Episcopal Church who researches “the role of the church in the racial identity development of Black Episcopalians.”

In her book titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B6GQR4FJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?asin=B0B6GQR4FJ&amp;revisionId=ca68030b&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Are You the Unchurched?: How to Develop an Authentic Relationship with God inside or outside the Church</a>,” Atchison remarked on survey results from a Christian research institute. She said,

“Overwhelmingly, young adults who were studied named hostility toward [LGBTQ+] people as the reason they do not attend church…Based on my understanding of the research, the unchurched are Christians who are:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Progressive</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Forward-thinking</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Independently minded…”</li>
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In the opening paragraph of Atchison’s 2020 blog entry “<a href="https://gabrieljatchison.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/the-folly-of-hope/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Folly of Hope</a>,” she declared,


“Trump exposed all our fault lines due to systemic racism, class exploitation and greed. His initial election and very close re-election should act as a clarion call for us to enact sweeping and lasting social change…”

“Trump has no agenda, but his Puppet Masters do…This election exposed in a raw and unrelenting way, how many people in positions of power feel like people of color simply do not have the right to vote.”

Atchison goes on to identify herself as a “progressive [who finds] Joe Biden significantly inadequate for the task at hand.” She disagrees with any approach Biden may have to unite the nation and she believes the Democratic Party passed up “so many better qualified presidential candidates, with creative ideas…to elect a man whose platform is centrist and apolog[ist].”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/kevin-m-kruse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Kruse</a> is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University. His faculty biography says Kruse “studies the political social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America.” He’s also “focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion…[with] particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement.”

Kruse has published several manuscripts including a 2005 book entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Flight-Atlanta-Conservatism-Politics/dp/0691133867?asin=0691133867&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.</a>” Kruse introduces the novel by stating,

“This book explores the causes and course of white flight, with Atlanta serving as its vantage point…While many have assumed that white flight was little more than a literal movement of the white population, this book argues that it represented a much more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved.”

He continued,

“Because of their confrontation with the civil rights movement, white southern conservatives were forced to abandon their traditional, populist, and often starkly racist demagoguery and instead craft a new conservatism predicated on a language of rights, freedom, and individualism.”

In June 2022, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/double-standards-princeton-turns-blind-eye-to-plagiarism-from-woke-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> featured Kruse in an article titled “Double Standards: Princeton Turns Blind Eye to Plagiarism From Woke Professor.” According to the Beacon, “On December 6, the economic historian Phillip Magness emailed Princeton’s dean of faculty, Gene Jarrett, with evidence that [Kruse] plagiarized several passages of his 2015 book ‘One Nation Under God.’”

Magness cited passages of Kruse’s book as allegedly originating from a New York Times Article that was published in the mid-1960s. The Beacon said, “The university never replied to Magness’s email…and has not announced an investigation of Kruse.”

<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/08/kevin-kruse-plagiarism-allegations-academic-princeton-investigation-phillip-magness-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the Daily Princetonian</a>, “Kruse expressed ‘surprise’ at the allegations and attributed the lack of citations in one instance to an inadvertent oversight.” Kruse also allegedly plagiarized a professor in his 2000 Cornell University doctoral thesis. The Princetonian quoted an email response from Kruse stating,

“‘While I indicated my intellectual debts to [author] Prof. Baylor else in the text, endnotes and bibliography of the dissertation, I was surprised to see that there was an instance in the introduction [where] I failed to do so properly.’”

<a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/06/27/kevin-kruse-and-the-peak-political-plagiarism-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Plagiarism Today said</a>, “Kruse is not your typical alleged plagiarist…Kruse has made a career for himself as an activist that corrects and criticizes right-wing talking points on history. He has over half a million followers on Twitter and a high-profile position at Princeton, both of which have given him clout.”

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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/frederick-wherry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Wherry</a> is the Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. In June 2022, he was named the inaugural vice dean for diversity and inclusion by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Princeton’s Office of Communications <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/06/30/wherry-appointed-vice-dean-diversity-and-inclusion-princetons-office-dean-faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published Wherry’s appointment</a> in an announcement wherein the university president said, “‘After spending time with Professor Wherry and learning more about the impact and interventions of his scholarship, [and] his profound commitment to educating our students…he struck me as the ideal colleague to augur our efforts in fulfilling the vision of the vice dean for diversity and inclusion.’”

In the same publication, Wherry said,

“‘Diversity and inclusion are critical to our core mission. When our faculty and academic professionals can participate fully in our shared endeavor, we are all able to see problems in new ways, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, making way for innovation.’”

As the Director of the <a href="https://www.dignityanddebt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digntiy and Debt Network</a>, Wherry leads an organization of “experts” who research concepts of “dignity, respect, and fairness” in lending and debt collection. The organization studies debt along racial and socio-economic lines and states one of its goals is “to change the conversation about credit and debt among those measuring financial access and wellness…[b]y developing novel visualizations of dignity and debt…”

Wherry is in favor of canceling student loan debt. He believes borrowers are “victims” while lenders are “perpetrators.”
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We are in the Times today calling on Biden to fix the failures of the student loan program by bailing out the victims rather than the perpetrators of the mess w ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CharlieEatonPhD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CharlieEatonPhD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Amber_D?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amber_d</a>⁩_villa <a href="https://twitter.com/nytopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytopinion</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Princeton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Princeton</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ASAnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASAnews</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/r0mgNNO7kd">https://t.co/r0mgNNO7kd</a>
— frederick wherry ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 (@ProfessorWherry) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorWherry/status/1526509899001253889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Wherry participated in a panel discussion called “<a href="https://youtu.be/DP7SK_-fXA8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Native Son: Black Gay Leadership Forum</a>” to discuss ideas on wealth creation, social justice, and trauma within communities. When asked about the aspiration of building assets and stronger economic futures among black and gay people, Wherry stated,

“One of the things we have to keep in mind when building assets is that they look different for our community in part because we have a positive effect on our social networks and building assets. People help us out, sometimes we get that ‘white glove treatment’ by virtue of folks who can tell us how to most effectively take advantage of an opportunity when it arises.”

He continued,

“At the same time, we have to be realistic…our social networks also can deplete some of those traditional forms of asset building…When we are providing financial assistance to our kinfolk — when you compare us to our white counterparts, who don’t have the same kinds of requests coming in at the same level of occupation, at the same level of academic achievement — we just have less available for traditional asset-building.”

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/satyel-larson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Satyel Larson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Larson’s areas of instruction are “Anthropology,” “Law and society,” “The Maghreb” and “Women, gender and sexuality.” Her faculty profile says:
“Her research and teaching lie at the intersections of law, science, technology and society; women, gender and sexuality; reproduction, health and medicine; Islam and secularism; colonialism, postcolonialism and globality; historical anthropology and epistemology; political economy; and language, discourse and narrative.”
Larson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/princeton-anti-capitalist-class-teaching-black-people-considered-handicapped-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> for reportedly teaching a course “that claims black people can be considered disabled due to the purported systemic racism they face.” Princeton’s Undergraduate Courses-Fall 2023 <a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/courses">schedule</a> lists Larson as the instructor for “The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South.” The course description says the course:
“Introduces the transdisciplinary field of trauma studies by examining visions of humanity…Reorienting healing as a decolonizing process enables students to re-politicize personal trauma as it intersects with global legacies of violence, war, racism, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism and extractivism.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/princeton-anti-capitalist-class-teaching-black-people-considered-handicapped-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> highlighted Larson’s racialized course along with a textbook on the <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=016853&amp;term=1242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sample Reading List.</a> According to the publisher, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-Maim-Debility-Disability-Otherwise/dp/0822369184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CJIPSGV1XZ1X&amp;keywords=Jasbir+Puar%2C+The+Right+to+Maim%3A+Debility%2C+Capacity%2C+Disability&amp;qid=1693330890&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability</a>” by Rutgers professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jasbirpuar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a> is “an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which [Puar] outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” 

The publisher also wrote, “Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

On August 16, 2023, the Free Beacon featured Larson <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/satyel-larson-princeton-professor-anti-semitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in an article</a> titled “5 Things We Absolutely Love About Princeton Professor Satyel Larson.” The Beacon said, “Professor Larson, a white female redhead, brings a valuable diverse perspective to the university’s stable of anti-Semites.” The list with corresponding photos is below:

1. She has a beautiful mind
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2. She’s resourceful
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3. She doesn’t judge
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4. She respects the First Amendment
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5. She’s just as comfortable chilling on the back porch as she is teaching in the classroom
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According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/israeli-minister-asks-princeton-to-remove-antisemitic-propaganda-from-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, “The International Legal Forum, an Israel-based non-profit, criticized the decision to include [Puar’s] book in the course curriculum” and the “Israeli Minister and the International Legal Forum called for removing the book from the course.”

The Review also said, “Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, called for canceling the course and terminating [Larson].”
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Princeton University is not only sanctioning hate speech, but establishing fertile ground for a new generation of antisemitic thought leaders. I am calling on Princeton University to cancel the course in question immediately, fire its professor, Satyel Larson, and issue a public…
— Ronald S. Lauder (@lauder_ronald) <a href="https://twitter.com/lauder_ronald/status/1690872880014274560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published: September 5, 2023

<a href="https://psych.princeton.edu/people/kristina-olson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristina Olson</a> is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. Her faculty profile says:
“I study how children think about social groups, like those based on race and gender. Much of my most recent work has focused on sex and gender-diverse children with ongoing longitudinal projects exploring gender development and well-being in transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex children.”
In 2019, Olson<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1909367116" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-authored a study</a> entitled “Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development.” In the study “Abstract,” Olson, et al. conclude, “Our findings suggest that early sex assignment and parental rearing based on that sex assignment do not always define how a child identifies or expresses gender later.”

The study goes on to state that “young transgender children are different from their cisgender peers in their unique gender socialization experience, having lived part of their childhoods treated as members of one gender (before transitioning) and part of their childhoods treated as members of another gender (after transitioning).”

Olson <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected">co-authored another study</a> on the effects of socially transitioning after five years. The study’s “methods” are based on data from the Trans Youth Project (TYP)—powered by Princeton University’s HUman[sic] Diversity Lab. The Lab reported data on 208 transgender girls and 109 transgender boys between ages 3 and 12 who had “made a ‘complete’ binary social transition.”

Notably, Olson is listed as the director of the HUman Diversity Lab <a href="https://hudl.princeton.edu/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the “People” page</a>. 

In the study “Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition,” Olson, et al. wrote:
“As part of the larger longitudinal study, parents and youth were regularly asked about whether they had begun using puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones…they were not asked about whether puberty had begun, though our available data suggests that…most participants were followed by an endocrinologist well before puberty began.”
In a discussion of the study’s findings, Olson, et al. concluded that “Five years after an initial binary social transition, 7% of youth had retransitioned at least once…Among those who had begun puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones, only 1 had transitioned to live as cisgender…” 

However, Olson et al. admit in the study that they “did not assess whether participants met criteria for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition, diagnosis of gender dysphoria in children” and further stated that “many parents did not believe such diagnoses were either ethical or useful…”

Olson told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/health/transgender-children-identity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>:
“There’s this sort of idea that the kids are going to start [transitioning] and that they’re going to change their minds…And at least in our sample, we’re not finding that.”
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Published - September 18, 2023

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/molly-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Molly Greene</a> is a Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. 

In August 2023, Greene signed an <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/08/princeton-opinion-academic-freedom-zionism-israel-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> defending antisemitic sentiments from <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/satyellarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Satyel Larson</a>. While teaching a humanities course at Princeton, Larson assigned her students <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-right-to-maim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim</a>, written by anti-Israel author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jasbirpuar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a>. The Duke University Press website says Puar “outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.”

Greene is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Greene also joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Greene and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Molly Greene to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - February 14, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/andrew-cole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cole</a> is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Princeton University. Cole’s faculty profile describes him as a “critical theorist,” and links to an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about Woodrow Wilson’s racism. The 2015 article details how students protested to have Wilson’s name completely removed from the college. 

Cole’s profile also says, "Like Wilson, Andrew is from Georgia, but unlike Wilson, he works against these pernicious legacies of racism in his teaching, writing, and activism."

Cole is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Cole joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).”
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Cole and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

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<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/eddie-s-glaude-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eddie Glaude Jr.</a> is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. In April 2023, Glaude <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/04/african-american-studies-department-princeton-university-glaude-eddie-stepping-down-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would step down from his position as chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton.

Glaude is the author of several race-focused publications, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Black-Still-Enslaves-American/dp/1522634940?asin=0804137439&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a book</a> entitled, “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul.” In the introduction, Glaude wrote:
“This book details what I call the Great Black Depression, and shows how the current rhetoric of economic recovery does not include the majority of black communities in this country. It challenges the pervasive silence about the crisis in black communities and puts forward an idea of American democracy shorn of its racist baggage.”
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Religion-Nation-Nineteenth-Century-America/dp/0226298205/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AHS2LRZ49TN3&amp;keywords=Exodus%21+Religion%2C+race+and+nation+in+Early+19th+century+black+america&amp;qid=1707509859&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=exodus+religion%2C+race+and+nation+in+early+19th+century+black+america%2Cstripbooks%2C121&amp;sr=1-1&amp;asin=0226298205&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In his novel</a> titled “Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation In Early 19th Century Black America,” Glaude compares the plight of African Americans to biblical accounts of Jews gaining freedom from slavery in Egypt. Glaude said his rendition explores “the ways the story became a source for a particular use of nation language among African Americans as well as a metaphorical framework for understanding the middle passage, enslavement, and quests for emancipation.”

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<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/liberal-prof-slams-conservatives-nyt-op-ed-calling-it-insidious-and-venomous/23785" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Glaude in an article highlighting his online altercation with journalist Christopher Rufo. The heated discussion, which took place over Twitter, included Glaude calling Rufo’s work “insidious” and labeling Rufo a racist.
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Princeton professor calls my support for colorblind equality “venomous” and “insidious.”
But the choice is simple: we can have equality, in which individuals are held to a single standard; or we can have equity, in which individuals are rewarded or punished based on their race. <a href="https://t.co/BJZ1ekGn7c">https://t.co/BJZ1ekGn7c</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1685320993781223424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Glaude also tweeted his thoughts after SCOTUS overturned affirmative action in June 2023.
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Imagine this: my mother and father couldn’t attend Princeton or Ole Miss (I group in Mississippi), because of long-standing discriminatory practices. The civil rights movement happens. Doors are opened. Colleges and universities are somewhat integrated 1/
— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) <a href="https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/1685307607576084480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/max-weiss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Weiss</a> is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. His profile says, “[Weiss] studies the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of the modern Middle East, and is Associated Faculty in Comparative Literature.”

Weiss is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Weiss’ name tops the list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Weiss and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/joshua-b-guild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Guild</a> is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African American Studies at Princeton University. His profile says, “[Guild] specializes in 20th- and 21st-century African American social and cultural history, urban history, and the making of the modern African diaspora, with particular interests in migration, black internationalism, black popular music, and the black radical tradition.”

Guild is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Guild joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Guild and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://bholmes.scholar.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooke Holmes</a> is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her research interests include “the history and philosophy of concepts,” “ancient philosophy,” “literary theory,” and “gender and sexuality studies.”

Holmes is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Holmes joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Holmes and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/meredith-martin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meredith Martin</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Martin’s profile says she “specializes in anglophone poetry, historical prosody, historical poetics, poetry and public culture, and disciplinary and pedagogical history.”

Martin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Martin joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Martin and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Meredith Martin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/zahid-r-chaudhary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zahid Chaudhary</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Chaudhary’s profile says he “specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory.”

Chaudhary is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Chaudhary joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Chaudhary and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Zahid Chaudhary to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/nancy-coffin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Coffin</a> is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Arabic Language Program at Princeton University. According to her faculty profile, her doctoral dissertation “examined Palestinian novels and resistance narratives [and] proposed fresh readings of a number of canonical Palestinian texts in light of influential postcolonial, feminist and Marxist theories.”

Coffin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Coffin joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Coffin and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Nancy Coffin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/susana-draper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susana Draper</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her research interests include “Latin American Marxisms,” “popular feminisms,” and “memory and social movements.”

Draper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Draper joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Draper and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Susana Draper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/asper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colleen Asper</a> is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center of Arts at Princeton University. 

Asper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Asper joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Asper and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Colleen Asper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024