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<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/lital-levy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lital Levy</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Levy’s work “strives to decolonize [her] main areas of study: comparative literature and Jewish studies.”
In April 2024, Levy signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 
The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published &#8211; May 1, 2024

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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>.
Updated - January 11, 2024
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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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Published - August 18, 2022

<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>. 
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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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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>
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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.”

Please send information on Andrew Cole to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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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.”

Please send information on Max Weiss to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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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.”

Please send information on Joshua Guild to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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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.”

Please send information on Brooke Holmes 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/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://history.princeton.edu/people/gyan-prakash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gyan Prakash</a> is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. 

Prakash is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Prakash 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.”
Prakash 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 Gyan Prakash to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://plas.princeton.edu/news/2023/yarimar-bonilla-scholar-american-studies-latinoax-studies-and-caribbean-studies-appointed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yarimar Bonilla</a> is a Professor in American Studies and Latino/a/x Studies at Princeton University. Bonilla’s <a href="https://yarimarbonilla.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says: 
“[Bonilla] teaches and writes about questions of race, history, and political culture across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites and practices including: anti-colonial activism, race and social media, [and] the politics of the Trump presidency.”
Bonilla is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Bonilla 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.”
Bonilla 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 Yarimar Bonilla 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

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/rob-nixon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob Nixon</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Nixon’s teaching and areas of interest include “Postcolonialism,” “Literature and Ethnicity,” and “Contemporary Literature and Culture.”

Nixon is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Nixon 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.”
Nixon 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 Rob Nixon 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/lara-harb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lara Harb</a> is an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Harb’s faculty profile says: 
“By looking at works of poetic criticism, philosophy, and theoretical treatments of the miraculousness of the Quran, Harb argues that the theorization of the aesthetic of wonder develops in the 11th century and represents a major paradigm shift from earlier criticism.” 
Harb is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Harb 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.”
Harb 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 Lara Harb to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/people/tehseen-thaver" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tehseen Thaver</a> is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. According to her profile, Thaver “teaches courses on the Qur’an and its interpretation, Sufism and Muslim Ethics, Muslim humanities, Shi’ism, and religion and culture of Iran.” 

Thaver is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Thaver 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.”
Thaver 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 Tehseen Thaver to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://classics.princeton.edu/people/faculty/core/dan-el-padilla-peralta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan-el Padilla Peralta</a> is an Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University. In his faculty profile, Padilla Peralta states: 
“I work on the religions and politics of the Roman Republic and Empire … The arc of Roman slavery in the period of Rome’s imperial expansion is central to my research and teaching, as are comparative histories of slavery, [and] Black feminist theory and historiography.”
Padilla Peralta is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Padilla Peralta 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.”
Padilla Peralta 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 Dan-El Padilla Peralta 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/daniel-sheffield" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Sheffield</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Sheffield “specializes in the religious, intellectual, and social history of the medieval and early modern Persian-speaking world.”

In April 2024, Sheffield signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.”
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Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/erin-besler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Besler</a>, who used the pronouns ”she/they,” is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. According to her university profile, her work is “characterized by a particular interest in construction technologies, social media, and other online platforms for producing and sharing content where digital interactions rely less on expertise and more on ubiquity.”

In April 2024, Besler signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/wendy-belcher-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wendy Belcher</a> is a Professor of African Literature with a joint appointment in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Department for African American Studies. 

Belcher’s university profile states: 
“Working at the intersection of diaspora, postcolonial, medieval, and early modern studies, she has a special interest in the literatures of Ethiopia and Ghana and is working to bring attention to early African literature (written between 1300 and 1900), particularly that in African languages, through her research and translation.”
In April 2024, Belcher signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/karen-emmerich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karen Emmerich</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. According to her university profile, her research focuses on “Modern Greek literature, theories and practices of translation, experimental translation, experimental poetics, textual scholarship, [and] migration and regimes of citizenship and belonging.” 

In April 2024, Emmerich signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/julia-elyachar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Elyachar</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Elyachar is “broadly trained in economics, history of political and economic thought, political economy, social theory, Middle Eastern Studies, and Arabic language.”

In April 2024, Elyachar signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Elyachar also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
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Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://music.princeton.edu/people/gavin-steingo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Steingo</a> is a Professor of Music at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Steingo’s research “examines sound and music as fundamental features in the construction of global modernity, with research specializations in African music, sound studies, acoustic ecology, and music and philosophy.”

In April 2024, Steingo signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Steingo also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/anna-arabindan-kesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Arabindan-Kesson</a> is an Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Arabindan-Kesson’s research and teaching “focus on Black Diaspora Art, with an emphasis on histories of race, empire, and medicine in the long 19th century.”

In April 2024, Arabindan-Kesson signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/people/allison-carruth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allison Carruth</a> is a Professor in the Program in American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Carruth’s research interests include “environmental narrative and science communication; the role of artists and writers in contemporary American environmental and food justice movements; and evolving relationships in the United States between technology and ecology.”

In April 2024, Carruth signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/rena-lederman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rena Lederman</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Lederman’s interests include, but are not limited to the following: “gendered/sexed experience, meanings, and ideologies,” “bureaucratic and regulatory policies and practices, administrative law and democracy,” and “relationality, agency, expertise, and ethics.”

In April 2024, Lederman signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/visual-arts/visual-arts-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Welling</a> is a Lecturer with the Rank of Professor in Visual Arts at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Welling signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/spyros-papapetros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spyros Papapetros</a> is an Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. According to his university profile, his work “focuses on the historiography of art and architecture, the intersections between architecture and the visual arts, as well as, the relationship between architecture, psychoanalysis and the history of psychological aesthetics.”

In April 2024, Papapetros signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.”
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://spo.princeton.edu/people/pedro-meira-monteiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pedro Meira Monteiro</a> is the Arthur W. Marks ‘19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Monteiro signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.”
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://fit.princeton.edu/people/f-nick-nesbitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F. Nick Nesbitt</a> is a Professor in the Department of French &amp; Italian at Princeton University. According to his university profile, his teaching and research interests include “Haitian, French-Caribbean and African Studies,” “Postcolonial and Critical Theory,” and “Capitalism and Slavery.”

In April 2024, Nesbitt signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://german.princeton.edu/department/people/faculty/core/barbara-nagel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara Nagel</a> is an Associate Professor in the Princeton German Department and an Associate Faculty member of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests include “gender and sexuality, theology, psychoanalysis, law with a historical focus on the Baroque, literature around 1800, and realism.”

In April 2024, Nagel signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/behrooz-ghamari-tabrizi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi</a> is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Chair of the Near Eastern Studies Department, and Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Ghamari-Tabrizi signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Ghamari-Tabrizi also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/agustin-fuentes">Agustín Fuentes</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Fuentes’ “research focuses on the biosocial, delving into the entanglement of biological systems with the social and cultural lives of humans, our ancestors, and a few of the other animals with whom humanity shares close relations.” 

His profile further states the nature of his research:
“From chasing monkeys in jungles and cities, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining human health, behavior, and diversity across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our close relations tick.”
In April 2024, Fuentes signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
In May 2023, Fuentes penned an opinion piece for Scientific American titled “<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/?amp;text=Here%27s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary</a>.” He began his article by stating: 
“There are those, politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex. They assert that men and women are defined by their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide.” 
Fuentes argued that this is “bad science” and that people who believe legal and policy decisions should be made based on sex “are arguing for a specific political, and discriminatory, definition of what is ‘natural’ and ‘right’ for humans based on a false representation of biology.” He went on to claim: 
“Over the past few centuries this process of misrepresentation of biology was, and still is, used to deny women rights and to justify legal and societal misogyny and inequity, to justify slavery, racialization, racism and to enforce multiple forms of discrimination and bias.” 
“Today dishonest ascriptions of what biology is are being deployed to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, target LGBTQIA+ individuals broadly and, most recently, attack the rights of transexual and transgender people.” 
Fuentes concluded his opinion piece: 
“Given what we know about biology across animals and in humans, efforts to represent human sex as binary based solely on what gametes one produces are not about biology but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in society.”
Published - May 1, 2024

<a href="https://www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/selfintro.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Lurie</a> is President of the Barnard and Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and an Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature at Columbia University.

Lurie participated in a Columbia University and Barnard College <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/23/over-100-faculty-members-protest-in-rally-to-support-our-students-and-reclaim-our-university/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty protest</a> titled “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University” after student protesters took over the lawns of Columbia University in April 2024. The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/columbia-professors-slammed-over-grotesque-rally-that-publicly-backed-ivy-league-schools-anti-israel-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported, “Scores of professors and staff appeared on the school’s steps to support the right of the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ to take over campus space and denounce the administration’s decision to have protesters arrested.” 

Lurie spoke at the walkout in opposition to the disciplinary actions brought against student protesters:
“We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University suspensions and charges be dismissed immediately and expunged from students’ records.”
Lurie told the <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/23/aaup-drafts-resolution-of-censure-against-shafik-administration-following-nypd-sweep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia Spectator</a> that the AAUP disapproved of Shafik’s response to the protesters and said:
“We want to be really clear that we are not calling for her resignation at this time. We want to work with her. We want her and her administration to turn back from the road that they’ve started down last week, and we’re really eager to partner with them in doing that.”
In a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wLVMV9z_HGanmpN-9b84Iket-d5VM9VT/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> issued by the AAUP, titled “Resolution of Censure,” the following criticism was stated of Shafik and her view of the pro-Palestine protests:
“President Shafik falsely claimed that the students who were arrested for protesting on April 18 posed a ‘clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University,’ when in fact they ‘were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner,’ according to the NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell. Her actions have endangered these students’ welfare, and her draconian and disproportionate punishments have endangered their futures.”
Lurie and the AAUP <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bnEhCa6mR7t_82QUf_qpGT7acudoOMIw/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maintain</a> that Shafik’s termination is not what they desire in their latest press release:
“Unwarranted statements by members of Congress, including calls for President Shafik’s resignation, undermine the traditions of shared governance and academic freedom that have long ensured America’s educational greatness.”
Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/hal-foster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hal Foster</a> is a Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. According to his university profile, "Foster teaches and publishes in the areas of modernist and contemporary art, architecture, and theory."

In April 2024, Foster signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://biology.barnard.edu/profiles/hilary-callahan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hilary Callahan</a> is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Barnard College. According to her university profile, Callahan’s “research examines many different features of plants — from roots to flowers to seeds.”

Callahan participated in a Columbia University and Barnard College faculty protest titled “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University” after student protesters took over the lawns of Columbia University. The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/columbia-professors-slammed-over-grotesque-rally-that-publicly-backed-ivy-league-schools-anti-israel-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported, “Scores of professors and staff appeared on the school’s steps to support the right of the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ to take over campus space and denounce the administration’s decision to have protesters arrested.” 

Callahan spoke at the walkout and compared the student protests to the Scopes Trial in 1924. During the Scopes Trial, an elementary school teacher was tried for teaching evolution at a school in Dayton, Tennessee. According to <a href="https://bwog.com/2024/04/student-workers-and-faculty-hold-walkouts-to-demand-amnesty-for-students-and-faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BWOG</a>, “Callahan called the historical event an ‘emblem of how wrong it is to treat teachers as pawns and scapegoats,’” and connected it to the response of Columbia University to the protestation of its pro-Palestine faculty and students. 

Callahan then addressed the crowd with certain demands:
 “We insist on science and factual evidence… on delineating the boundaries between certainty and uncertainty…on honest, open, and difficult discourse,” discourse she claimed were “pathways to a more humane world.” 
Callahan described the university’s response to the protests and encampment as “intemperate and regrettable.” She said her and her associates would “work tirelessly to undo that error.”
Published - April 25, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/lital-levy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lital Levy</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Levy’s work “strives to decolonize [her] main areas of study: comparative literature and Jewish studies.”

In April 2024, Levy signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published - May 1, 2024

<a href="https://afs.princeton.edu/people/hamza-m-zafer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamza M. Zafer</a> is a Lecturer in the Program in African Studies at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Zafer “specializes in the languages and literatures of the Red Sea world from the 6th to the 16th century.”

In April 2024, Zafer signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published - May 6, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/s.e.-eisterer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S.E. Eisterer</a> is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Co-Director, Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. 

According to her faculty profile, Eisterer’s “research focuses on spatial histories of dissidence, feminist, queer, and trans* theory in architecture, as well as the labor of social and ecological movements.”

For the current Princeton spring semester, Eisterer is teaching a <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=017728&amp;term=1254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> titled “Queer Spaces in the World.” 

The course description asks a series of questions about architecture, and proposes gender theory as a way of interpreting architectural spaces: 

“How do sources determine the histories we can tell about architecture, urban space, and the agents that enliven it? How do we reconcile seeming absences and actual acts of erasure that stare back at us from the archive? How can feminist, gender, queer and trans* theory help us chart new avenues for writing critical architectural histories that are attentive to discourses of difference but also narratives of equity?" 

The course further seeks to discover groups and institutions of resistance towards dominant regimes and philosophies: 

“Which methods, beyond conventional modes of architectural inquiry, can we employ to uncover histories of groups and institutions that have actively resisted dominant regimes of power and their corresponding systems of knowledge?”

Eisterer contributes to an Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/queerspaceworkinggroup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a> titled “queerspaceworkinggroup.” The page is described as a “transnational group of queer scholars &amp; architects 🏳️‍🌈 themed &amp; informal conversations about queer space(s).”

The page displays a focus on “queerifying” [sic] architectural spaces. (See image below from Instagram).

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Eisterer’s most recent publication is <a href="http://we-aggregate.org/piece/spatial-practices-of-dissidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Spatial Practices of Dissidence,”</a> which was a special issue for a project titled <a href="http://we-aggregate.org/piece/spatial-practices-of-dissidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration</a>. 
Published - February 26, 2025

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<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 &#8211; 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 &#8211; at systemic, institutional, and/or interpersonal levels.”
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Published &#8211; December 29, 2022

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

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

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

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

Assistant Professor of Education, <a href="https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/charles-hf-davis-iii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles H.F. Davis III</a>, once appeared on the Jesse Lee Peterson podcast to discuss race relations in America and the pro-Palestinian movement that was taking place on college campuses. 

In the following discussion from 2018, the host pointed out how Davis included several hashtags (#) on his <a href="http://hfdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, such as #FreePalestine and #FreethePeople. When asked why he did not include #FreetheJews on that list, Davis replied: 
“Well, I guess we could talk about in a particular context, and I think we have to think about what Jews we’re talking about. I’ve chosen to take those particular political stances based on the historical record, based on the social and political context that we find ourselves in today … 
“Just to be clear I’m very much opposed to anti-semitism in any particular form or fashion, but I wouldn’t want to conflate any of the [hashtags] that you just mentioned to suggest otherwise.”
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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

Racial Ideology

LGBTQ

Dominique Adams-Santos

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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills is an Adjunct Professor of <a href="https://www.antioch.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/liberal-studies-ba/literature-and-creative-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberal Studies/African American Studies at Antioch University-Los Angeles</a>. She also provides “Higher Education Teaching, Advising, Counseling, and Consulting” for Antioch University, along with being Co-Convener for “Messy Conversations” (which her Linkedin profile describes as “an ongoing intercampus public dialogue on race and antiracism”). 
<a href="https://commonthread.antioch.edu/cool-course-black-power-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Thread</a>, Antioch University’s newspaper, had a discussion with Parker-Gills about a new course she is teaching called “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party.”
Parker-Gills told Common Thread her critical view on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America: “If the founding fathers really loved freedom and were god-fearing as they said, we would all be in a different situation today.” She also made the following comment about American history:  “America has a great story, a phenomenal story. It is a wonderful experiment that started off horribly wrong.” 
Regarding Parker-Gills’ view of American history, Common Thread wrote: “She believes that it’s precisely not knowing this history that makes it difficult to heal the things that are still broken. This is due in no small part to the whitewashing of history in the institutions of education and publishing, which has silenced too many voices and too many narratives.”
Common Thread states that in “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party” Parker-Gills “focuses on how the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party are widely misunderstood.”
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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills is an Adjunct Professor of <a href="https://www.antioch.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/liberal-studies-ba/literature-and-creative-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberal Studies/African American Studies at Antioch University-Los Angeles</a>. She also provides “Higher Education Teaching, Advising, Counseling, and Consulting” for Antioch University, along with being Co-Convener for “Messy Conversations” (which her Linkedin profile describes as “an ongoing intercampus public dialogue on race and antiracism”). 

<a href="https://commonthread.antioch.edu/cool-course-black-power-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Thread</a>, Antioch University’s newspaper, had a discussion with Parker-Gills about a new course she is teaching called “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party.”

Parker-Gills told Common Thread her critical view on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America: “If the founding fathers really loved freedom and were god-fearing as they said, we would all be in a different situation today.” She also made the following comment about American history:  “America has a great story, a phenomenal story. It is a wonderful experiment that started off horribly wrong.” 

Regarding Parker-Gills’ view of American history, Common Thread wrote: “She believes that it’s precisely not knowing this history that makes it difficult to heal the things that are still broken. This is due in no small part to the whitewashing of history in the institutions of education and publishing, which has silenced too many voices and too many narratives.”

Common Thread states that in “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party” Parker-Gills “focuses on how the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party are widely misunderstood.”
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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills

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<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/visual-arts/visual-arts-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Welling</a> is a Lecturer with the Rank of Professor in Visual Arts at Princeton University.
In April 2024, Welling signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.
The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
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The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published &#8211; April 29, 2024

James Welling

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<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&#8217;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&#8217;s bodies (by men), the line that &#8220;this is an attempt by men to oppress women&#8221; 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 &#8211; including suspending the filibuster &#8211; in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.”
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Published &#8211; December 28, 2022

Abortion

Josh Pasek

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<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/maxe-crandall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxe Crandall</a> is the “Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University,” according to her university profile. 
The <a href="https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&amp;filter-coursestatus-Active=on&amp;q=COLLEGE%20103:%20Globally%20Queer&amp;academicYear=20222023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for Crandall’s course, “Globally Queer,”</a> states: 
“After all, are LGBTQ+ identities and rights one size-fits-all? Do they become a way for Western nations to once again set the standards by which others are judged developmentally deficient? In certain societies reference to a &#8216;traditional&#8217; national way of thinking about gender and sexuality is simply a fig leaf for homophobia and transphobia.”
Crandall considers herself a poet and playwright. She has published nine print works and several articles. Among her works is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Reagan-Collection-Maxe-Crandall/dp/1733038418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Nancy Reagan Collection”</a> (1920), which, according to the description on Amazon, “is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS [during the Reagan era, the greatest era in American history]. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics and aesthetics of mourning.” 
The description further states, “Alternating chapters offer up a narrative throughline composed of hallucinogenic episodes from the perspective of a nameless, grieving protagonist in the midst of the global carnage of the Reagan dynasty. Part revenge, part fantasy, the book experiments with poetic practices that challenge conceptions of memory and morality, activism and escapism, grief and beauty.” On one page in “The Nancy Reagan Collection,” Crandall talks about Reagan’s “groping styles,” and a particular style of blouse she wears (see image below):
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In line with the content of her book, on Twitter Crandall tweeted that, during the AIDS Epidemic, First Lady Nancy Reagan abandoned the gay community which had been most afflicted by the disease. She tweeted the following (which has since been deleted upon the publication of this profile on November 2, 2022):
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&#8220;My book opens w/ a revenge poem called “Red Ribbon,” a dressing down of Nancy in this exact portrait. To me, this portrait is a creepy foreshadowing, a harbinger of mass death—her standing alone in her own shadow having abandoned us all <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/forevertraitor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#forevertraitor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#AIDS</a>&#8220;
In a poem called “Hands on Deck”, Crandall says the following:
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“I bend hard sex toward you 
as if 
starring 
in a beach commercial 
for my paradise of leaning”
Published &#8212; November 2, 2022

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Stanford

Professor <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-palumbo-liu?tab=bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David P<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-palumbo-liu?tab=bio">a</a>lumbo-Liu</a> is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford University. He is ferociously anti-Israel and is actively involved with ANTIFA on campus.

As co-founder of the <a href="https://campusantifascistnetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Antifascist Network</a>, Palumbo-Liu describes the purpose of the network as to "help support, educate and defend faculty, students and staff, and share information on fascist organizing in the U.S., planned fascist activities, and organized antifascist responses."

In an article for the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whats-behind-the-explosio_b_8298362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huffington Post</a>, he repeated the antisemitic trope that Israel is preparing to demolish Al-Aqsa Mossque and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Palestians.

A vocal proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Liu has <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2015/01/modern-language-assoc-postpones-anti-israel-boycott-vote-until-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocated</a> for its passage both at Stanford and at the MLA (Modern Language Association).

Dr. Hakeem Jefferson is an <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/hakeem-jefferson?tab=bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assistant professor of Political Science</a> at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate with Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race &amp; Ethnicity. He focuses a majority of his research specifically on understanding the political views of Black Americans. Dr. Jefferson also often writes and speaks on white Americans and the threat that conservatives present to the United States.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1554 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-4-3-e1631052904912-1024x474.png" alt="" width="580" height="268" />

On January 8, 2021, Dr. Jefferson <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/storming-the-u-s-capitol-was-about-maintaining-white-power-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article for FiveThirtyEight</a> accusing white Americans and conservatives of leading the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, stating that it was because of their inability to accept the election results. He argues that it is not just coincidental that the people who stormed the Capitol were white and many conservatives are white. He further criticizes conservatives by stating that the storming of the Capitol symbolized white Americans’ violent belief that they should have an “unlimited hold” on power in the United States. According to Dr. Jefferson, actions like the storming of the Capitol are “to be expected” from white people whose power or identity is threatened by diversity.

The storming of the U.S. Capitol took place on January 6, 2021. Opposing the certification of election results, things turned tempestuous when some of the protestors decided to break into the Capitol. It has been <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined that these events were not planned</a> in advance or coordinated.

Dr. Jefferson <a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1323987468757073921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently takes to Twitter</a> to discuss his political views. This was no different for the 2020 elections. In the tweet below, Dr. Jefferson points at conservatives for fear-mongering during the 2020 presidential election.

https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1323479574114574336

Dr. Jefferson repeatedly discusses the threat of white conservatives to America. He maintains that conservatives are a “dangerous mob of grievous white people” who are worried that their power is being threatened by minorities and diversity in politics. Not only does he take this stance on social media, but he teaches these ideas in his classroom as well. Below is a clip from one of his lectures at Stanford:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7_ebQSwgnw

In a publication titled, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rh33nhu5m55e01k/Curious%20Case%20of%20Black%20Conservatives_Short.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Curious Case of Black Conservatives”</a>, Dr. Jefferson details why he believes some black Americans identify as conservative. In his research, he claims that black Americans only identify as conservative because they don’t understand the meaning of the words “liberal” or “conservative.” In turn, black Americans who self-identify as “conservative” are wrong and are actually liberal. He states that black Americans’ results from the 7-point liberal-conservative scale cannot be trusted because they are not cognizant of the true meanings of the words.

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https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/756279338878853125

The <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/fall01/gov317/nes48_98/node335.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7-point liberal-conservative scale</a> asks, on a scale of 1 (extremely liberal) to 7 (extremely conservative), where people believe they fall. This scale is just one of a multitude of different ways a person’s political ideology can be determined or measured.

In the two years since graduating from the University of Michigan with his Ph.D. in Political Science, Dr. Jefferson has made many assertions about not only white, conservative Americans, but also black Americans. His research, teachings, and social media all indicate that he believes white conservatives are a “<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/storming-the-u-s-capitol-was-about-maintaining-white-power-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous mob of grievous white people</a>,”  while black Americans don’t have the capacity or understanding to know the difference between being liberal and being conservative.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jefferson for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students can contact <a href="https://www.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford University</a> at (650) 723-2300.

<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/maxe-crandall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxe Crandall</a> is the “Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University,” according to her university profile. 

The <a href="https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&amp;filter-coursestatus-Active=on&amp;q=COLLEGE%20103:%20Globally%20Queer&amp;academicYear=20222023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for Crandall’s course, “Globally Queer,”</a> states: 
“After all, are LGBTQ+ identities and rights one size-fits-all? Do they become a way for Western nations to once again set the standards by which others are judged developmentally deficient? In certain societies reference to a 'traditional' national way of thinking about gender and sexuality is simply a fig leaf for homophobia and transphobia.”
Crandall considers herself a poet and playwright. She has published nine print works and several articles. Among her works is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Reagan-Collection-Maxe-Crandall/dp/1733038418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Nancy Reagan Collection”</a> (1920), which, according to the description on Amazon, “is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS [during the Reagan era, the greatest era in American history]. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics and aesthetics of mourning.” 

The description further states, “Alternating chapters offer up a narrative throughline composed of hallucinogenic episodes from the perspective of a nameless, grieving protagonist in the midst of the global carnage of the Reagan dynasty. Part revenge, part fantasy, the book experiments with poetic practices that challenge conceptions of memory and morality, activism and escapism, grief and beauty.” On one page in “The Nancy Reagan Collection,” Crandall talks about Reagan’s “groping styles,” and a particular style of blouse she wears (see image below):

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-2484 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-02-at-2.58.12-PM.png" alt="" width="408" height="516" />

In line with the content of her book, on Twitter Crandall tweeted that, during the AIDS Epidemic, First Lady Nancy Reagan abandoned the gay community which had been most afflicted by the disease. She tweeted the following (which has since been deleted upon the publication of this profile on November 2, 2022):
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
"My book opens w/ a revenge poem called “Red Ribbon,” a dressing down of Nancy in this exact portrait. To me, this portrait is a creepy foreshadowing, a harbinger of mass death—her standing alone in her own shadow having abandoned us all <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/forevertraitor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#forevertraitor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#AIDS</a>"
In a poem called “Hands on Deck”, Crandall says the following:
</blockquote>
“I bend hard sex toward you
as if
starring
in a beach commercial
for my paradise of leaning”
Published -- November 2, 2022

<a href="https://markaz.stanford.edu/people/yusuf-zahurullah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yusuf Zahurullah</a> is an Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow and fourth-year student at Stanford University. 

According to Zahurullah’s university profile, “last year, he served as the inaugural Abbasi-Markaz Fellow. This year, he will serve as the Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow, a role in which he will work with Markaz staff to create a syllabus for and teach a 1-2 unit seminar through the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity titled ‘Interrogating Islamophobia.’”

Zahurullah told <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/27/csre-30-stanfords-first-ever-course-on-addressing-islamophobia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a> that, “There are certain political groups on campus, namely Stanford College Republicans, who in years past have brought in very Islamophobic speakers.”

He also told The Stanford Daily, “We’re trying to understand what are all the different ways in which you can think about Islamophobia and how Islamophobia actually manifests, whether it’s explicit, like hate crimes and verbal abuse, or more systemic things like the Muslim ban that Trump tried to pass.” 

Regarding the course’s influence on student, Zaharullah “hopes the class sparks dialogue on the history of Islamophobic incidents on Stanford campus.”
Published - December 30, 2022

<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/ameer-loggins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ameer Hasan Loggins</a> is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. He also appears to be <a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/ameer-hasan-loggins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employed</a> by the University of California - Berkeley in the African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies Department. 

According to <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2023/10/18/stanford-suspended-a-lecturer-for-identity-based-targeting-heres-what-students-say-happened/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a>, Loggins has been reported and investigated for “identity-based targeting of students, according to an Oct. 11 University statement.” 

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/stanford-teacher-suspended-for-singling-out-jewish-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports the following about Loggins’ actions in class in light of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in October 2023: 
“The lecturer… reportedly justified the slaughter of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas terrorists over the weekend, saying it was part of Palestinians’ resistance.”
“The teacher then asked Jewish students to raise their hands, separated them from their belongings and ordered them to stand in a corner, saying that is what Jews were doing to Palestinians, according to Nourya Cohen, one of the Israeli association presidents.”  
Loggins also asked his class, “how many Jews died in the Holocaust?” After a student responded “6 million,” Loggins replied, “Yes. Only 6 million.”

The university addressed Loggins’ status, in “<a href="https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/10/11/update-stanford-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Update for the Stanford Community</a>,”:
“We have received a report of a class in which a non-faculty instructor is reported to have addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds and identities. Without prejudging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students. The instructor in this course is not currently teaching while the university works to ascertain the facts of the situation.”
Published - October 23, 2023

Sexualization

Maxe Crandall

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<a href="https://drexel.edu/law/faculty/fulltime_fac/David%20Cohen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Cohen</a> is a Professor of Law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. According to his university biography, Cohen’s studies explore the “intersection of constitutional law and gender, emphasizing how the law impacts abortion provision, including violence against abortion providers, as well as sex segregation and masculinity.”
Professor Cohen has co-authored two books, titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Living-Crosshairs-Stories-Anti-Abortion-Terrorism/dp/0199377553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism”</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Course-Everyday-Struggle-Abortion/dp/0520306643/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=obstacle+course+the+everyday+struggle+to+get+an+abortion+in+america&amp;qid=1668115036&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=obstacle+course+te+%2Cstripbooks%2C121&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.”</a>
Cohen also serves on the board of directors for the <a href="https://www.womenslawproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women’s Law Project</a> in Philadelphia and the national <a href="https://abortioncarenetwork.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abortion Care Network</a>. The Abortion Care Network’s mission is to ensure access to independent abortion care providers.
Professor Cohen is outspoken about his pro-choice beliefs. In December 2021, he wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221108034252/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/abortion-pills-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Joe Biden Can’t Save Roe v. Wade Alone. But He Can Do This.”</a> In the article, he said the “Biden administration can and should act boldly to protect abortion access” and went through several potential actions the president could take.
Cohen argues that the Biden administration should “lease federal property to abortion providers” and “use its influence over the postal system to stop any state from investigating or thwarting shipments of abortion pills through the mail.”
In a May 2022 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220624174030/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/abortion-supreme-court-roe-vs-wade-equality-1346966/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a> op-ed written after the Roe v. Wade decision was leaked, Professor Cohen claims this decision would “condemn women to second-class citizenship.” He says that if people are forced to carry their pregnancies to term, this will have “devastating effects to their lives.” He states that, with this decision:
“&#8230;the court will have bent the moral arc of the universe backward by telling people who are pregnant in this country that they are not equal because government can control what they do with their body.” 
Cohen’s <a href="https://twitter.com/dsc250?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> bio describes him as a “feminist law professor” and “reproductive rights activist.” During the 2022 midterm elections, he tweeted:
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Vote today. Otherwise you’re letting these folks have the last word. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#Vote</a> <a href="https://t.co/0EYM4sDsNW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/0EYM4sDsNW</a>
— David S. Cohen (@dsc250) <a href="https://twitter.com/dsc250/status/1589991466159730689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published &#8211; December 2, 2022

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Drexel University

<a href="https://drexel.edu/law/faculty/fulltime_fac/David%20Cohen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Cohen</a> is a Professor of Law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. According to his university biography, Cohen’s studies explore the “intersection of constitutional law and gender, emphasizing how the law impacts abortion provision, including violence against abortion providers, as well as sex segregation and masculinity.”

Professor Cohen has co-authored two books, titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Living-Crosshairs-Stories-Anti-Abortion-Terrorism/dp/0199377553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism”</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Course-Everyday-Struggle-Abortion/dp/0520306643/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=obstacle+course+the+everyday+struggle+to+get+an+abortion+in+america&amp;qid=1668115036&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=obstacle+course+te+%2Cstripbooks%2C121&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.”</a>

Cohen also serves on the board of directors for the <a href="https://www.womenslawproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women’s Law Project</a> in Philadelphia and the national <a href="https://abortioncarenetwork.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abortion Care Network</a>. The Abortion Care Network’s mission is to ensure access to independent abortion care providers.

Professor Cohen is outspoken about his pro-choice beliefs. In December 2021, he wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221108034252/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/abortion-pills-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Joe Biden Can’t Save Roe v. Wade Alone. But He Can Do This.”</a> In the article, he said the “Biden administration can and should act boldly to protect abortion access” and went through several potential actions the president could take.

Cohen argues that the Biden administration should “lease federal property to abortion providers” and “use its influence over the postal system to stop any state from investigating or thwarting shipments of abortion pills through the mail.”

In a May 2022 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220624174030/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/abortion-supreme-court-roe-vs-wade-equality-1346966/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a> op-ed written after the Roe v. Wade decision was leaked, Professor Cohen claims this decision would “condemn women to second-class citizenship.” He says that if people are forced to carry their pregnancies to term, this will have “devastating effects to their lives.” He states that, with this decision:
“...the court will have bent the moral arc of the universe backward by telling people who are pregnant in this country that they are not equal because government can control what they do with their body.” 
Cohen’s <a href="https://twitter.com/dsc250?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> bio describes him as a “feminist law professor” and “reproductive rights activist.” During the 2022 midterm elections, he tweeted:
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Vote today. Otherwise you’re letting these folks have the last word. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#Vote</a> <a href="https://t.co/0EYM4sDsNW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/0EYM4sDsNW</a>
— David S. Cohen (@dsc250) <a href="https://twitter.com/dsc250/status/1589991466159730689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://elliott.gwu.edu/michael-barnett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Barnett</a> is a Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University.
Barnett participated in a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850253/George-Washington-University-Hamas-anti-Semitism-Israel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2023 faculty panel</a> titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine.” During the discussion, which was sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East Studies, Barnett argued Palestine has a “right of resistance,” saying:
“Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right of resistance.” 
After the panel, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Yolanda Haywood <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/gwu-med-faculty-panel-defended-hamas-right-of-resistance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized to the medical community</a>.
“The primary goal was to offer an experience that would result in thoughtful reflection and be a stimulus for broader, open communication. As the webinar proceeded, it became clear that this program was not a balanced presentation on this most divisive and difficult subject.” 
In his article titled “<a href="https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2023/06/02/the-responsibility-to-protect-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Responsibility to Protect Palestinians</a>,” Barnett claimed, “Israel has routinely violated international law, including that related to refugees, human rights, and occupation.” He believes the United States was willing to overlook these violations in the name of the “peace process.” However, he claims:
“The peace process has been dead for at least a decade and there is now a “one-state reality” from the river to the sea. In this one-state reality, Palestinians have few rights or protections and Jewish privilege is enshrined in various laws and rules that systematically discriminate against Palestinians, providing strong evidence for claims that Israel is now an apartheid state.” 
In response, Barnett says the United States needs to become a “guardian” to the Palestinians rather than an “enabler of the oppression.”
“The West might consider placing smart sanctions on Israel and leaders that benefit from Israel’s hold over the territories, or introducing trade restrictions.” 
In October 2023, Barnett penned an article for The Guardian titled “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-palestine-gaza-invasion-ceasefire-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">If Israel invades Gaza it will be a disaster for both Palestinians and Israelis</a>.” He writes:
“Many months ago I used the UN’s early warning indicators to see whether Israel should be put on a watch list for potential atrocity crimes, ethnic cleansing and possibly even genocide. Israel ticked all the boxes and perhaps all that was needed to trigger these crimes against humanity was an act that caused widespread torment and rage in Israel.” 
He further claims:
“Israel rules this state with force and apartheid-like measures &#8211; Gaza is governed by isolation, deprivation and violence, and the West Bank with a creeping annexation that imposes Jewish supremacy and the denial of basic human rights to Palestinians.”
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Dr. Leana Wen is a <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/leana-wen-md-msc_faaem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research Professor of Health Policy and Management</a> at George Washington University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Wen is an emergency department medical doctor and a CNN Medical Analyst. She is also an op-ed columnist for a few different publications, and previously she was the President of Planned Parenthood - a tenure that lasted only eight months.

Over the last year and a half, the focus of Dr. Wen’s research and interest has been on COVID-19. She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/01/how-can-u-s-solve-problem-of-vaccine-hesitancy.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often speaks on the subject for CNN</a> and other news outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. In a video clip recently released by CNN, Dr. Wen compared unvaccinated Americans to drunk drivers. You can watch the clip below:

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In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/bidens-six-step-covid-strategy-does-not-go-far-enough-compel-vaccinations/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article published by the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Wen alleges that President Biden’s six-pronged strategy for COVID vaccination doesn’t go far enough. In her opinion, he is not doing enough to compel the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, and he needs to do even more. She argues that “the administration can and must go much further.”

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One of her many complaints is that President Biden has not mandated vaccinations for plane and train travel. Dr. Wen believes the government should use its power to implement this mandate in order to “make it clear that there are consequences to remaining unvaccinated.” Dr. Wen alleges that travel is a privilege, not a right.

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Dr. Wen is a huge proponent of vaccine passports. She notes that Israel and the European Union have vaccine verification methods, and the United States should as well.

Dr. Wen also thinks that all children over 12 years old should be required to be vaccinated, and the COVID vaccine should be added to the other immunization requirements for children. Dr. Wen explains how she would convince parents to vaccinate their children <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9W7IJdig7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this video</a>.

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

<a href="https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/david-silverman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Silverman</a> is a Professor at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. 

According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, David Silverman criticized Thanksgiving, stating it presents Native Americans as a “caricature” and whitewashes the nation’s bloody founding and history. His comments came during a segment on NPR’s, “<a href="https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1057940813:1057940820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woke History</a>.” 

In the interview, Silverman characterizes Thanksgiving as the myth of “native people making friends with colonists and then bloodlessly granting their country to these newcomers.” He asks listeners to reflect on the “damage done to indigenous people in the classroom” by this narrative.  

He further alleges the holiday negatively impacts white children:

“...in sanitizing the bloodiness of colonial history, it doesn't allow them to understand where their privilege comes from, it doesn’t allow them to think critically about this country’s origins, and in turn, it handicaps them from thinking about our present and our future.”

Silverman added that football teams like the “Redskins” who play on Thanksgiving make a “caricature” out of Native People: 

“…they misrepresent the Native past and they make many Native people today uncomfortable and invisible to the larger public. It does a great deal of damage. This is not just innocent fun.”

Silverman also promoted  his book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Their-Wampanoag-Thanksgiving/dp/1632869241" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Land is Their Land</a>.” According to the description, Thanksgiving “celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States.” 

In the text, Silverman <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/11/27/george-washington-university-prof-thanksgiving-should-be-a-day-of-mourning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocates replacing the holiday</a> with a “National Day of Mourning” to reflect on the genocide of native Americans by white people: 

“The National Day of Mourning calls attention to the fact that white America’s triumphs have been borne on native peoples’ backs.” 

Despite his criticism, Silverman admitted to NPR that he still celebrates Thanksgiving. 

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Published - December 8, 2022

<a href="https://psyd.columbian.gwu.edu/lara-sheehi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lara Sheehi</a> is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University (GWU).  Her biography states that she teaches “decolonial, liberatory, and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment.”

In January 2023, the pro-Israel organization “StandWithUs” <a href="https://www.jns.org/standwithus-files-complaint-against-george-washington-u-alleging-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint against GWU</a>, alleging that Sheehi maintains “a pervasive, hostile, and discriminatory environment for Jewish and Israeli students.”

<a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/jewish-students-reported-a-professor-for-anti-semitism-the-university-retaliated-against-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reports that during the first fall class of 2022, Sheehi asked each student to verbally affirm their ethnic identity. When one student announced that she was Israeli, Sheehi allegedly replied, “It’s not your fault you were born in Israel.”

For the remainder of the semester, the complaint states that Sheehi would berate and accuse Jewish students of racism. Fellow classmates were incited to exclude them at the direction of Sheehi. When students reported Sheehi, she allegedly retaliated against them.

George Washington University <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/29/gwu-professor-lara-sheehi-accused-of-antisemitism/">would later clear Sheehi of all wrong-doing</a>. The findings of an internal probe declared there is “no evidence that the discourse (in the class) crossed the line.”

On her personal social media account—which appears to <a href="https://twitter.com/blackflaghag">have been </a><a href="https://twitter.com/blackflaghag">deleted</a> as of publication—Sheehi expresses the same anti-Israel sentiments and support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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Much of Sheehi’s professional work demonizes Israel and recruits academics for the BDS movement. According to a report by <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/308321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arutz Sheeva</a>, Sheehi used her position as President of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility to advocate for the “decolonization” of Palestine. As President of the US Palestine Mental Health Network, Sheehi worked to boycott <a href="https://usapalmhn.org/about-dont-go/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli health conferences and mental health professionals.</a>

In 2022, she co-authored <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781138596207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine</a>” with William &amp; Mary professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/stephensheehi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Sheehi</a>.  During an <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a>, she described the piece as an examination of the ”profound psychic violence” Israel inflicts on Palestinians.

Sheehi characterizes herself in the same interview as a “life-long BDS activist.” She adds that it is crucial for Palestinians to resist Israel’s “eurocentric” practices that further “white supremacy and capitalist exploitation.” Despite their attempts to the contrary, Sheehi continues, Israelis will never be looked at as anything other than an “occupier, oppressor, and settler” toward Arabs.

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After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Sheehi shared posts to her private Instagram account that described the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs” and endorsed their “armed resistance.” In screenshots obtained by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/how-dare-you-slander-the-names-of-our-martyrs-inside-a-george-washington-professors-pro-hamas-tirade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a>, Sheehi praised a statement critical of “anyone condemning the Palestinians’ armed resistance.”

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She also expressed support for GWU’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, which described the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs.”

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The Washington Free Beacon provided images of Sheehi’s posts to George Washington University. The university declined to comment and directed the Free Beacon to the <a href="https://president.gwu.edu/thoughts-recent-campus-events-and-war-israel-and-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school’s statement</a> on “the war in Israel and Gaza.”

The statement “stressed the importance of coming together and caring for one another, especially those who are Israeli, Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, or connected to the region and this war.”

Sheehi remains under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after her <a href="https://www.jns.org/standwithus-files-complaint-against-george-washington-u-alleging-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">treatment of Jewish students</a> prompted StandWithUs to file a complaint against her in January 2023.

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<a href="https://elliott.gwu.edu/michael-barnett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Barnett</a> is a Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University.

Barnett participated in a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850253/George-Washington-University-Hamas-anti-Semitism-Israel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2023 faculty panel</a> titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine.” During the discussion, which was sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East Studies, Barnett argued Palestine has a “right of resistance,” saying:
“Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right of resistance.” 
After the panel, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Yolanda Haywood <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/gwu-med-faculty-panel-defended-hamas-right-of-resistance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized to the medical community</a>.
“The primary goal was to offer an experience that would result in thoughtful reflection and be a stimulus for broader, open communication. As the webinar proceeded, it became clear that this program was not a balanced presentation on this most divisive and difficult subject.” 
In his article titled “<a href="https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2023/06/02/the-responsibility-to-protect-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Responsibility to Protect Palestinians</a>,” Barnett claimed, “Israel has routinely violated international law, including that related to refugees, human rights, and occupation.” He believes the United States was willing to overlook these violations in the name of the “peace process.” However, he claims:
“The peace process has been dead for at least a decade and there is now a “one-state reality” from the river to the sea. In this one-state reality, Palestinians have few rights or protections and Jewish privilege is enshrined in various laws and rules that systematically discriminate against Palestinians, providing strong evidence for claims that Israel is now an apartheid state.” 
In response, Barnett says the United States needs to become a “guardian” to the Palestinians rather than an “enabler of the oppression.”
“The West might consider placing smart sanctions on Israel and leaders that benefit from Israel’s hold over the territories, or introducing trade restrictions.” 
In October 2023, Barnett penned an article for The Guardian titled “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-palestine-gaza-invasion-ceasefire-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">If Israel invades Gaza it will be a disaster for both Palestinians and Israelis</a>.” He writes:
“Many months ago I used the UN’s early warning indicators to see whether Israel should be put on a watch list for potential atrocity crimes, ethnic cleansing and possibly even genocide. Israel ticked all the boxes and perhaps all that was needed to trigger these crimes against humanity was an act that caused widespread torment and rage in Israel.” 
He further claims:
“Israel rules this state with force and apartheid-like measures - Gaza is governed by isolation, deprivation and violence, and the West Bank with a creeping annexation that imposes Jewish supremacy and the denial of basic human rights to Palestinians.”
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<a href="https://www.luc.edu/quinlan/faculty/jennadrenten.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jenna Drenten</a> is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Loyola University Chicago. According to her university profile, her research “explores digital consumer culture: how digital technologies and social media platforms … present new opportunities for consumers to express their identities and navigate life transitions.”
Drenten wrote an article <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/clean-pantries-are-racist-and-sexist-loyola-marketing-scholar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticizing a social media trend</a> where users post videos of different ways to stock and organize pantries. She says she’s noticed “an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub ‘pantry porn.’”
Drenten believes the <a href="https://theconversation.com/pantry-porn-on-tiktok-and-instagram-makes-obsessively-organized-kitchens-a-new-status-symbol-197517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pantry is a “modern-day status symbol,”</a> writing:
“Cleanliness has historically been used as a cultural gatekeeping mechanism to reinforce status distinctions based on a vague understanding of ‘niceness’: nice people, with nice yards, in nice houses, make for nice neighborhoods.” 
However, she continues:
“What lies beneath the surface of this anti-messiness, pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures. In my research, influencers who produce pantry porn are predominantly white women who demonstrate what it looks like to maintain a ‘nice’ home by creating a new status symbol: the perfectly organized, fully stocked pantry.” 
Drenten continues by noting the work of restocking the pantry falls to women who may have to “work overtime” to achieve the perfectly organized pantry. She concludes by saying:
“Pantry porn, as a status symbol, relies on the promise of making daily domestic work easier. But if women are largely responsible for the work required to maintain the perfectly organized pantry, it’s critical to ask: easier for whom?”
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Published &#8211; March 16, 2023

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<a href="http://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultydirectory/donoghuejohn.shtml">Dr. John Donoghue</a> is a Professor of History at Loyola University-Chicago. He regularly teaches a course on slavery and abolition, but updated his class this year to include Donald Trump, and linked him to slavery. His courses and research often tries to link capitalism to slavery.

<a href="https://www.luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/hermansenmarcia.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Marcia Hermansen</a> is a Professor and Director of the Islamic World Studies program at Loyola University Chicago. According to her university profile, Hermansen’s research interests include “Islamic Studies,” “Mysticism,” “Women and Gender,” and “Critical Theory,” among others.

The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171218040817/http://loyolaphoenix.com/2016/11/students-faculty-discuss-aftermath-presidential-election-town-hall-meeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loyola Phoenix</a> reported that, after former President Donald Trump won the 2016 election, “Loyola’s College of Arts and Sciences held an emergency post-election meeting in Regis Hall to address the concerns of the student body, particularly of those who feel at risk in a Trump presidency.”

Hermansen spoke during part of the presentation that “focused on the potential consequences of President-elect Trump’s plans and how the community can get involved.” She claimed, “People don’t realize the scope of Islamophobia in this country.”

The Loyola Phoenix writes:
“Hermansen said Muslim students could be endangered by President-elect Trump’s promises to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the country. She reminded faculty to be understanding of Muslim students’ concerns.” 
Hermansen went on to say faculty members should be flexible with their deadlines for Muslim students. She stated, “If a Muslim student requests extra time to complete assignments, it may be because they feel threatened.”

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Updated - August 2024

<a href="https://www.luc.edu/quinlan/faculty/jennadrenten.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jenna Drenten</a> is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Loyola University Chicago. According to her university profile, her research “explores digital consumer culture: how digital technologies and social media platforms … present new opportunities for consumers to express their identities and navigate life transitions.”

Drenten wrote an article <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/clean-pantries-are-racist-and-sexist-loyola-marketing-scholar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticizing a social media trend</a> where users post videos of different ways to stock and organize pantries. She says she’s noticed “an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub ‘pantry porn.’”

Drenten believes the <a href="https://theconversation.com/pantry-porn-on-tiktok-and-instagram-makes-obsessively-organized-kitchens-a-new-status-symbol-197517" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pantry is a “modern-day status symbol,”</a> writing:
“Cleanliness has historically been used as a cultural gatekeeping mechanism to reinforce status distinctions based on a vague understanding of ‘niceness’: nice people, with nice yards, in nice houses, make for nice neighborhoods.” 
However, she continues:
“What lies beneath the surface of this anti-messiness, pro-niceness stance is a history of classist, racist and sexist social structures. In my research, influencers who produce pantry porn are predominantly white women who demonstrate what it looks like to maintain a ‘nice’ home by creating a new status symbol: the perfectly organized, fully stocked pantry.” 
Drenten continues by noting the work of restocking the pantry falls to women who may have to “work overtime” to achieve the perfectly organized pantry. She concludes by saying:
“Pantry porn, as a status symbol, relies on the promise of making daily domestic work easier. But if women are largely responsible for the work required to maintain the perfectly organized pantry, it’s critical to ask: easier for whom?”
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Published - March 16, 2023

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Dr. <a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carol Anderson</a> is the <a href="http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/bios/anderson-carol.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.emory.edu/home/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emory University</a> in Atlanta, Georgia. She has ascribed the passage of the Second Amendment to white supremacy, and accused conservatives of trying to make America a “whites only” nation.
Dr. Anderson is the author of, “<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/the-second" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America</a>.” The book alleges the true purpose of the Second Amendment is the denial of rights to African Americans.
In a subsequent interview with CNN, Dr. Anderson claims the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/second-amendment-guns-anti-black-anderson-blake/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_content=2021-06-01T03%3A42%3A56&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intention of the right to keep and bear arms was ultimately to empower militias to keep black Americans, “under the boot” of white supremacy</a>. At one point, she claims the second amendment is about “anti-blackness”, or antithetical to the well-being and rights of African-Americans:
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She further states that America’s gun culture is fueled by a “fear” of black people and that “anti-blackness” courses through our nation&#8217;s history.
Dr. Anderson first rose to national prominence in 2014 for her Washington Post article attributing the Ferguson Riots to “white rage.”
The unrest stemmed from an altercation involving Michael Brown and police officer Darren Wilson. Brown had been pulled over by Wilson over suspicion of his involvement in a strong-arm robbery in a nearby convenience store. During the stop, witnesses testified that <a href="https://nypost.com/2014/08/19/witnesses-say-ferguson-teen-attacked-cop-before-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown attempted to grab Officer Wilson’s gun</a> before turning and running away. When ordered to halt, Brown turned and charged Officer Wilson, who then fatally shot Brown in self-defense.
Although Wilson was later exonerated for his actions,<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Black Lives Matter activists promoted the false narrative that Brown was shot with his hands up while attempting to surrender.</a> After a grand jury declined to indict Officer Wilson, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850383/A-town-ravaged-anger-pictures-extent-damage-buildings-Ferguson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rioters and looters burned stores and restaurants across the city of Ferguson</a>, Missouri.
In the piece, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insinuates that riots are effective as the only method that residents of Ferguson can utilize to make their voices be heard.</a> Stating the “real rage” is represented in the attempts by conservative movements and police to disenfranchise African-Americans. She dismisses the destruction as not a product of “black rage”, but rather the “latest outbreak of “white rage.”
The article was later expanded into the book, “<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/white-rage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Rage, The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide</a>.” When Emory University featured the book on their website, Dr. Anderson further defined white rage as, “<a href="https://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/05/upress_white_rage_anderson/campus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policymakers and a series of courts systematically undercut the advancement of African Americans</a>.” Dr. Anderson would go on to author an article for Time Magazine accusing “patriots” who are afflicted with &#8220;white rage&#8221; 0f <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170421064019/https://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trying to make America a “whites only” county</a> and attempting to revive a “Jim Crow nation.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-1575 size-large aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908-1024x476.png" alt="" width="580" height="270" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908-1024x476.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908-300x139.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908-768x357.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908-1200x558.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
Dr. Anderson regularly lectures at colleges and universities across the country. In 2021, it was discovered that Dr. Anderson’s work had been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/gop-army-vet-congressman-seeks-answers-critical-race-theory-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a lecture by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point University</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Carol Anderson for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="http://college.emory.edu/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> at <a href="http://college.emory.edu/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emory University</a> at (404) 727-6069 or at <a href="mailto:college@emory.edu">college@emory.edu</a>.
Updated &#8211; September 14th, 2021

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

Dr. <a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carol Anderson</a> is the <a href="http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/bios/anderson-carol.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.emory.edu/home/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emory University</a> in Atlanta, Georgia. She has ascribed the passage of the Second Amendment to white supremacy, and accused conservatives of trying to make America a “whites only” nation.

Dr. Anderson is the author of, “<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/the-second" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America</a>.” The book alleges the true purpose of the Second Amendment is the denial of rights to African Americans.

In a subsequent interview with CNN, Dr. Anderson claims the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/second-amendment-guns-anti-black-anderson-blake/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_content=2021-06-01T03%3A42%3A56&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intention of the right to keep and bear arms was ultimately to empower militias to keep black Americans, “under the boot” of white supremacy</a>. At one point, she claims the second amendment is about “anti-blackness”, or antithetical to the well-being and rights of African-Americans:

<img class="size-large wp-image-1574 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175033.334-e1631667053699-1024x356.png" alt="" width="580" height="202" />

She further states that America’s gun culture is fueled by a “fear” of black people and that “anti-blackness” courses through our nation's history.

Dr. Anderson first rose to national prominence in 2014 for her Washington Post article attributing the Ferguson Riots to “white rage.”

The unrest stemmed from an altercation involving Michael Brown and police officer Darren Wilson. Brown had been pulled over by Wilson over suspicion of his involvement in a strong-arm robbery in a nearby convenience store. During the stop, witnesses testified that <a href="https://nypost.com/2014/08/19/witnesses-say-ferguson-teen-attacked-cop-before-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown attempted to grab Officer Wilson’s gun</a> before turning and running away. When ordered to halt, Brown turned and charged Officer Wilson, who then fatally shot Brown in self-defense.

Although Wilson was later exonerated for his actions,<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Black Lives Matter activists promoted the false narrative that Brown was shot with his hands up while attempting to surrender.</a> After a grand jury declined to indict Officer Wilson, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2850383/A-town-ravaged-anger-pictures-extent-damage-buildings-Ferguson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rioters and looters burned stores and restaurants across the city of Ferguson</a>, Missouri.

In the piece, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insinuates that riots are effective as the only method that residents of Ferguson can utilize to make their voices be heard.</a> Stating the “real rage” is represented in the attempts by conservative movements and police to disenfranchise African-Americans. She dismisses the destruction as not a product of “black rage”, but rather the “latest outbreak of “white rage.”

The article was later expanded into the book, “<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/white-rage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Rage, The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide</a>.” When Emory University featured the book on their website, Dr. Anderson further defined white rage as, “<a href="https://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/05/upress_white_rage_anderson/campus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policymakers and a series of courts systematically undercut the advancement of African Americans</a>.” Dr. Anderson would go on to author an article for Time Magazine accusing “patriots” who are afflicted with "white rage" 0f <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170421064019/https://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trying to make America a “whites only” county</a> and attempting to revive a “Jim Crow nation.”

<img class="wp-image-1575 size-large aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-09-14T175253.822-e1631667201908-1024x476.png" alt="" width="580" height="270" />

Dr. Anderson regularly lectures at colleges and universities across the country. In 2021, it was discovered that Dr. Anderson’s work had been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/gop-army-vet-congressman-seeks-answers-critical-race-theory-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a lecture by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point University</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Carol Anderson for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="http://college.emory.edu/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> at <a href="http://college.emory.edu/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emory University</a> at (404) 727-6069 or at <a href="mailto:college@emory.edu">college@emory.edu</a>.
Updated - September 14th, 2021

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

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

Anti-2nd Amendment

Violence

Anti-Law Enforcement

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman is a teaching assistant and researcher in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. According to Morgan’s <a href="https://www.morgan-klaus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, his interests include “identity theory, infrastructure studies, AI ethics, and digital identity. In particular, the real-world implications of machine learning for those with historically marginalized identities.”
An article by <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/cu-boulder-researcher-has-concerns-over-tsas-inability-to-detect-nonbinary-faces/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young America’s Foundation</a> reports that Scheuerman “expressed concerns regarding new facial recognition technology being implemented by the Transportation Safety Agency (TSA) in airports throughout the nation.
In an <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/07/11/why-new-facial-recognition-airport-screenings-are-raising-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> published by CU’s associate director of strategic relations, Sheuerman was asked for the reasoning behind the study; he responded saying:
“[T]he concerns are around areas of bias… For nonbinary people, the system can’t accurately classify them because all the commercially released systems have historically used a gender binary.”
Sheuerman, who claims to be “nonbinary,” noted the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/10/08/facial-recognition-software-has-gender-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 study</a> found that artificial intelligence models had a 0% accuracy rate for identifying “nonbinary” individuals as having no gender.
Beyond this study, Scheuerman has also released other publications including:
<ul>
<li>“Do Datasets Have Politics? Disciplinary Values in Computer Vision Dataset Development.”</li>
<li>“How We’ve Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis.”</li>
<li>“How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis and Image Labeling Services.”</li>
<li>“Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism? The Social Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition Systems.”</li>
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Dr. <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jennifer-ho">Jennifer Ho</a> is a Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Center for Humanities &amp; the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder. According to her university <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jennifer-ho">biography</a>, Professor Ho’s research interests include cultural studies, intersectionality, critical race studies, anti-racist theory, and critical mixed race studies.

Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory, is an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy. Furthermore, proponents of Critical Race Theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.” Some Critical Race Theorists, such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, also <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/">claim</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

In an <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">article</a> for The Conversation, titled, “White Supremacy is the Root of all race-related violence in the US,” Professor Ho alleges that all hate crimes committed in the United States are the result of white supremacy. The article is her response to the March 16th, 2021 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-shooting-georgia-massage-parlor-suspect-loose-n1261262">mass shooting</a> of massage parlors in Atlanta, George, that killed eight people, six of them being Asian-Americans.

Professor Ho attributes not just the March 2021 Atlanta shootings to white supremacy, but she actually attributes all hate crimes to white supremacy, regardless of whether or not they were committed by a white person. In the same <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">article</a>, Professor Ho lists a series of anti-Asian hate crimes perpetrated by black men before stating that white supremacy is the cause for all of them.

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Professor Ho further <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">describes</a> white supremacy as an ideology “ingrained” into American institutions and the driving force behind the dehumanizing of Asian-Americans as well Black Americans.

The University of Colorado-Boulder features Professor Ho’s work on the College of Arts and Science’s website, in a <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/04/08/anti-asian-racism-and-covid-19">web page</a> titled, “Anti-Asian Racism and Covid-19”. In addition to claiming that “millions” of unarmed black men have been killed by police, Professor Ho also alleges that it is also racist to state that COVID-19 originated in China.

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Professor Ho also co-<a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1#instructors">teaches</a> a class on anti-racism, titled, “Anti-Racism l”. According to the description of the course, participants will learn the following from Professor Ho:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How to critically discuss “Whiteness.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Recognize that all white people possess white privilege.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How the history of racism in the United States has created racial hierarchies that still exist.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The true foundations of the United States are that of “settler colonialism."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How white supremacy benefits white people.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Why the phrases, “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” are racist.</li>
</ul>
For more information on Critical Race Theory, readers may view TPUSA Founder and CEO Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36js0wIiulM&amp;ab_channel=CharlieKirkCharlieKirkVerified">explanation</a> of the field below.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Professor Ho for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Updated - May 2021

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/reiland-rabaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Reiland Rabaka</a> is a Professor of Africana Studies as well as Critical Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Ethnic Studies</a> at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado at Boulder</a>. He also serves as <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/humanities/reiland-rabaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Humanities</a> in the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/artsandsciences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a>.

Dr. Rabaka identifies publicly as a “democratic socialist” and a scholar of fields such as “black radical politics,” decolonial theory, and critical race theory. His lectures depict the United States as an inherently white-supremacist nation and herald the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a necessary counter to systematic racism.

In a video sponsored by the university, Dr. Rabaka describes American society as having <a href="https://www.coursera.org/lecture/antiracism-2/dr-reiland-rabaka-interventions-in-racist-terminologies-qp12a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culminated in the “social, economic, spiritual, and cultural” death of black people</a>. He attributes this to our nation's alleged addiction to “black death.”

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He repeated this accusation during a lecture for Florida Gulf Coast University’s <a href="https://www.fgcu.edu/ccres/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies</a>. During the event—hosted by professor and the Center Director, <a href="https://www.fgcu.edu/directory/tthornhill">Dr. Ted Thornill</a>—Dr. Rabaka <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsS6RAfiesI&amp;ab_channel=FGCUUniversityMarketingCommunications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterizes the nation as a “colonial project” that was built on racial and economic enslavement</a>.

To learn more about Dr. Thornhill, readers can view his <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tedthornhill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Rabaka addresses BLM at length during the Q&amp;A section, characterizing the movement as a response to the nation’s “deeply entrenched racism.” At one point, a member of the audience asks Dr. Rabaka how he would respond if BLM was characterized as a terrorist organization; Rather than answer the question, he proceeds to deflect and counter that Christopher Columbus should be considered a terrorist for committing a “holocaust” against Native Americans. He denounces both the Founding Fathers and Pilgrims in his tirade, accusing each of participating in “racial terrorism.”

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Continuing, he urges “white administrators” to invest in BLM-themed curriculums and workshops in order to raise consciousness about the movement. Dr. Rabaka <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/03/02/black-lives-matter-course-aims-foster-campus-transformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personally teaches a BLM-themed course at UC-Boulder</a>.

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman for his murder. Although purporting to be a civil-rights organization, the movement has been tied to violent confrontations and riots across the country.

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>

Throughout his lecture, Dr. Rabaka praises Angela Davis and Assata Shakur, whose work he considers instrumental to the BLM movement. Shakur is a former <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/black-lives-matter-praising-terrorist-assata-shakur/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted cop killer</a>. She currently resides in Cuba as a guest of the communist government; authorities have offered 2 million dollars for her capture.

Angela Davis is a former vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party and early member of the Black Panther Party. Davis is notoriously known for <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/hollywoods-undying-love-communist-angela-davis-arnold-ahlert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her role in the Marin County Civic Center Attack, which left 4 dead</a>.

To learn more about Angela Davis, users can view her <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

Another individual Dr. Rabaka praises in his lecture is scholar W.E.B Du Bois. A prominent author at the turn of the 20th century, Du Bois was a life-long adherent to communism, going <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/biographies/1953/03/16.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so far as to eulogize Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin after his death in 1953</a>.

In a separate lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Reiland+Rabaka+" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rabaka lauds Du Bois specifically for his contributions to socialism</a>. At one point, the professor displays pictures of Du Bois meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, hailing both as proof of Du Bois international standing.

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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mao-Zedong">Mao</a>—who chaired the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death in 1976—is widely considered one of the deadliest heads of state in history–<a href="https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 65 million Chinese perished from his regime</a>. Mao's deadliest campaign—referred to as the “Great Leap Forward”—<a href="https://www.hudson.org/research/7342-mao-s-great-leap-forward-and-the-power-of-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused an estimated 40 million to die from starvation and overwork in labor camps</a>.

All three lectures are listed at the bottom of the profile in full.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Rabaka for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Updated - October 13, 2021

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/soares" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kristie Soares</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women &amp; Gender Studies, and Co-Director of the LGBTQ Studies Certificate Program at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado Boulder</a>. 

On her <a href="https://www.kristiesoares.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, she states that her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfnX4ygH_Uc&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching</a> focuses on queer and performance methodologies. “I encourage students to ‘try out’ intellectual concepts using their bodies, through decolonial pedagogies such as Spoken Word Poetry and Theatre of the Oppressed.”

Additionally, her <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/kristie-soares/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current book project</a>, “Salsa Epistemology, engages with salsa — a music and dance tradition — to show how embodied playfulness figures as an integral part of queer activism in the Spanish Caribbean diaspora.”
Some of her featured publications include:

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/sites/default/files/attached-files/cuban_missile_crisis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cuban Missile Crisis of White Masculinity: Tito Bonito and the Burlesque Butt.</a>” The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America. Routledge (2017) 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">“but his sexuality and gender performance are queered by where he keeps his Cubanness—on his butt. He lifts the flag so that the audience can applaud his bare butt cheeks, which he gyrates enticingly before bending down to pick up just two props for his stage exit—his bright blue raft and the tiny American flag which he waves with a comic enthusiasm as he backs off of the stage, indicating the fragility of both U.S.-based and Cuban masculinities.”</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Reflections on Anti-Racist Feminist Pedagogy &amp; Organizing: This Bridge, 40 Years Later.” Forthcoming in a special issue of Feminist Studies. (2021)</li>
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Published — October 3, 2022

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman is a teaching assistant and researcher in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. According to Morgan’s <a href="https://www.morgan-klaus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, his interests include “identity theory, infrastructure studies, AI ethics, and digital identity. In particular, the real-world implications of machine learning for those with historically marginalized identities.”

An article by <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/cu-boulder-researcher-has-concerns-over-tsas-inability-to-detect-nonbinary-faces/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young America’s Foundation</a> reports that Scheuerman “expressed concerns regarding new facial recognition technology being implemented by the Transportation Safety Agency (TSA) in airports throughout the nation.

In an <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/07/11/why-new-facial-recognition-airport-screenings-are-raising-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> published by CU’s associate director of strategic relations, Sheuerman was asked for the reasoning behind the study; he responded saying:
“[T]he concerns are around areas of bias… For nonbinary people, the system can’t accurately classify them because all the commercially released systems have historically used a gender binary.”
Sheuerman, who claims to be “nonbinary,” noted the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/10/08/facial-recognition-software-has-gender-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 study</a> found that artificial intelligence models had a 0% accuracy rate for identifying “nonbinary” individuals as having no gender.

Beyond this study, Scheuerman has also released other publications including:
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 	<li>“Do Datasets Have Politics? Disciplinary Values in Computer Vision Dataset Development.”</li>
 	<li>“How We’ve Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis.”</li>
 	<li>“How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis and Image Labeling Services.”</li>
 	<li>“Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism? The Social Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition Systems.”</li>
</ul>

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman

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Sut Jhally

<a href="https://www.umass.edu/communication/people/profile/sut-jhally">Dr. Sut Jhally</a> is a Professor of Communication at UMass-Amherst. He is infamous for his politically loaded Twitter account. He has tweeted that “The New Republican party &#8211; American Terrorist,” and that “The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery.” He has also said that conservative Supreme Court justices are “frat-boy fascists” and that the media has demonized the late socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez.

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University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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

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

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

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<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 &#8211; September 18, 2023