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Katherine Kidd, Ph.D. is the Assistant Teaching Professor and English Studies Coordinator at Syracuse University in New York. <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/syracuse-u-professor-defends-sexually-explicit-k-12-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix</a> reported Kidd “defended the inclusion of a sexually explicit book in the nation’s K-12 Schools, saying she doesn’t see what is so ‘scandalous’ about it.”
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Queer-Memoir-Maia-Kobabe/dp/1549304003/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EIACJJXLR22Q&amp;keywords=gender+queer&amp;qid=1664832335&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjc5IiwicXNhIjoiMS42NSIsInFzcCI6IjEuNTEifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=gender+queer%2Caps%2C355&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Gender Queer”</a> is an autobiography written by Maia Kobabe, who identifies as nonbinary. The graphic novel memoir, published in 2014, is a guide on gender identity as well as Kobabe’s personal journey of explaining her sexuality and pronouns to her family. Due to explicit images and explanations, the book has been targeted for bans by several school boards across the United States including in North Carolina and Georgia.
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The <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/09/su-professors-emphasize-reading-banned-books-focusing-gender-sexuality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Orange</a> reported Kidd saying, “Seeing a book like ‘Gender Queer’ be challenged for pornographic material is scary, as the ultimate message of the book relies more on the ‘revelation of a personal experience of self-discovery,’ than the images it’s being censored for.’”
“Kidd does not shy away from challenging texts…[Her] appreciation for texts that are perceived as shocking has influenced the way [she] teaches literature courses. Often Kidd strives to include controversial novels and readings in order to expose her students to perspectives and ideas that differ from her own,&#8221; according to the Daily Orange.
Professor Kidd is the host and producer of her own <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/television-714-delaware-st-podcast/id1436455352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast, “714 Delaware St”</a> where she discusses various topics around “racist and offensive statements of Rosanne Barr.” Kidd’s LinkedIn profile says she specializes in American studies, working-class studies, queer studies, and television and pop culture.

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Syracuse University

<a href="https://news.syr.edu/faculty-experts/dana-l-cloud/">Dr. Dana Cloud</a> is a Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies Professor at Syracuse University. A member of the International Socialist Organization, Cloud is a leading proponent of idea that America is to blame for 9/11 due to its interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East. She began to blame the U.S. for what happened the day after 9/11. She also wrote a new Pledge of Allegiance in 2002, which said among other statements, “I pledge allegiance to the people of Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan, and to their struggles to survive and resist slavery to corporate greed, brutal wars against their families, and the economic and environmental ruin wrought by global capitalism.”

Dr. <a href="https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/psc/Jackson,_Jennifer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenn M. Jackson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Senior Research Associate at the <a href="https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/campbell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campbell Public Affairs Institute</a> at <a href="https://www.syracuse.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syracuse University.</a> According to her university biography, Dr. Jackson’s research and teachings are focused on “black politics, gender and sexuality, political behavior, public opinion, and mixed methods.”

During the rioting that followed George Floyd’s death, Professor Dr. Jackson described police officers on her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/JennMJacksonPhD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account as "employed in an institution meant to eradicate Blackness.”
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This right here.
The "goodness" of cops is unimportant. They are employed in an institution meant to eradicate Blackness. The philosophical principles of being a police officer are racist and anti-Black. They are required to do terrible things. <a href="https://t.co/ccp7GUfJVb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/ccp7GUfJVb</a>

— jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennMJacksonPhD/status/1266005280569122816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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/" 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>

Dr. Jackson further defended the rioter’s vandalism and looting, describing it as a justified response to white supremacy.
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Here's why the language of "riot" vs "protest" vs "uprising" matters:
When Black Americans and other marginalized groups RESPOND to white supremacist violence, they are often LABELED rioters to undermine the true reasons why they are JUSTIFIABLY demanding ACCOUNTABILITY.

— jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennMJacksonPhD/status/1266433160159600647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Update: 
On September 10th, 2021—just before the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks—Dr. Jackson tweeted that she was “disturbed” by how many “white pundits and correspondents” still talk about 9/11.
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It's twenty years since 9/11 and I'm still really disturbed by how many white pundits and correspondents talk about it.
— jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennMJacksonPhD/status/1436281587381981188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In the same thread—that was first made private by Dr. Jackson but is still available as of September 2021—she declared the 9/11 attacks in New York City as an “attack on heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems.”

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Shortly thereafter, Dr. Jackson then made her Twitter account private following a backlash to her remarks, although her account is now public.

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Students and Parents may contact Syracuse University’s Campbell Public Affairs Institute at (315) 443-9707.
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Katherine Kidd, Ph.D. is the Assistant Teaching Professor and English Studies Coordinator at Syracuse University in New York. <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/syracuse-u-professor-defends-sexually-explicit-k-12-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix</a> reported Kidd “defended the inclusion of a sexually explicit book in the nation’s K-12 Schools, saying she doesn’t see what is so ‘scandalous’ about it.”

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Queer-Memoir-Maia-Kobabe/dp/1549304003/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EIACJJXLR22Q&amp;keywords=gender+queer&amp;qid=1664832335&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjc5IiwicXNhIjoiMS42NSIsInFzcCI6IjEuNTEifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=gender+queer%2Caps%2C355&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Gender Queer”</a> is an autobiography written by Maia Kobabe, who identifies as nonbinary. The graphic novel memoir, published in 2014, is a guide on gender identity as well as Kobabe’s personal journey of explaining her sexuality and pronouns to her family. Due to explicit images and explanations, the book has been targeted for bans by several school boards across the United States including in North Carolina and Georgia.

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The <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/09/su-professors-emphasize-reading-banned-books-focusing-gender-sexuality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Orange</a> reported Kidd saying, “Seeing a book like ‘Gender Queer’ be challenged for pornographic material is scary, as the ultimate message of the book relies more on the ‘revelation of a personal experience of self-discovery,’ than the images it’s being censored for.’”

“Kidd does not shy away from challenging texts…[Her] appreciation for texts that are perceived as shocking has influenced the way [she] teaches literature courses. Often Kidd strives to include controversial novels and readings in order to expose her students to perspectives and ideas that differ from her own," according to the Daily Orange.

Professor Kidd is the host and producer of her own <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/television-714-delaware-st-podcast/id1436455352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast, “714 Delaware St”</a> where she discusses various topics around “racist and offensive statements of Rosanne Barr.” Kidd’s LinkedIn profile says she specializes in American studies, working-class studies, queer studies, and television and pop culture.

<a href="https://newhouse.syr.edu/people/roy-gutterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roy S. Gutterman</a> is an Associate Professor and Director of the <a href="https://newhouse.syr.edu/centers/tully-center-for-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University</a>.

On July 10, 2023, Gutterman published an article on CNN Opinion titled, “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/opinions/social-media-ruling-biden-administration-gutterman/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contacting Tech Companies About Disinformation isn’t Government Censorship.</a>” This piece is a response to the lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of attempting to silence conservative speakers by leaning on various social media platforms.

This <a href="https://ago.mo.gov/home/news/2023/03/06/missouri-attorney-general-andrew-bailey-asks-court-to-block-biden-from-violating-americans-1st-amendment-rights-citing-1-400-facts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed by attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana, claims that the US Government is responsible for (an unspecified amount of) censorship of posts and voices that questioned the efficacy of vaccines, mask mandates, elections, and other issues.

Regarding the lawsuit, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry stated:
“The evidence in our case is shocking and offensive with senior federal officials deciding that they could dictate what Americans can and cannot say on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms about COVID-19, elections, criticism of the government, and more.”
The Free Speech Director Gutterman articulated his thoughts on the lawsuit, saying:
“The complaint cites occasions when the Biden administration threatened to take antitrust action against the companies over misinformation about Covid-19, vaccines, and elections or undo Section 230… This also falls short of actual censorship.”
“It’s worth noting for argument’s sake that even if the communications between government officials were acts of censorship, the Supreme Court has never held that First Amendment prohibitions on government censorship are absolute.”

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<a href="https://history.umd.edu/directory/david-freund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Freund</a> is an Associate Professor of History and an Affiliate Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland (UMD). 
Freund has authored several publications including “Colored Property: State Policy &amp; White Racial Politics in Suburban America”—<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Property-Politics-Suburban-Historical/dp/0226262766/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZCGIPIR168HC&amp;keywords=colored+property+david+freund&amp;qid=1699309383&amp;sprefix=colored+property+david+freund%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=0226262766&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a book that examines</a> the racialization of housing developments and property rights. In the chapter titled The New Politics of Race and Property, he wrote:
“There is, nonetheless, considerable disagreement about the role that race per se played in fueling white vigilance. Many argue that while black people were clearly the targets of exclusionary practices, racism played little or no part in whites’ decision-making…
“The disagreement about postwar whites’ motivations is rooted, I argue here, in a conceptual assumption that informs most studies of racial conflict in the modern United States. Most commentaries treat white racism as something unchanging and as conceptually separate from other variables that fuel conflict between groups (including racial groups).”
In July 2023, Freund was featured in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News article</a> titled “Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race.” The publication discusses a Ukrainian-born American who “goes by the Japanese name Miyuki and listens to &#8216;subliminals&#8217; that promise she will wake up and be Japanese.” 
NBC News further stated, “Freund…corroborates the idea that a ‘biological race’ does not exist [and] the modern concept of race is inseparable from the systemic racial hierarchy hundreds of years in the making. Simply put, changing races is not possible because ‘biological races’ themselves are not real.”
Freund also told NBC that “the idea of changing one’s race operates differently depending on a person’s racial background and that white people who seek to ‘transition’ to other races can often sidestep the harms of racism.”
Freund supports awarding reparations to black Americans as a form of government compensation for past offenses. He told <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_race-america_reparations-can-money-absolve-sins-past/6208006.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voices of America</a>, “We can document systems, policies, also private practices that are constantly reproducing racial inequalities…[a]nd no one has been able to convince me otherwise.”
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University of Maryland

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

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

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

<a href="https://www.arlis.umd.edu/caroline-orr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caroline Orr</a> is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland. According to her university profile, Orr studies misinformation, and disinformation, and how each contributes to “online extremism.”

Orr attributes most domestic violence and radicalization to the political right. On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, she claims the memes posted by these groups to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  
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I’m not a huge fan of 9/11 comparisons, but this actually does a pretty decent job of explaining how memes enable extremists to “hide in plain sight, disappearing into the clutter of innocent messages” — akin to “turning off the transponders on 9/11.”<a href="https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr</a> <a href="https://t.co/b1XahopBn8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/b1XahopBn8</a>
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602692678151454723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet accuses Elon Musk of encouraging 120 million people to join the “domestic terrorist movement” that is Q-Anon.  
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Elon Musk is now explicitly encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon.
Put differently, Elon Musk is encouraging his 120 million followers to join a domestic terrorism movement. <a href="https://t.co/W7O9nLuivh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/W7O9nLuivh</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602490533586378755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a substack article titled, “<a href="https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/violent-extremism-in-america-is-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Violent extremism in America is a far-right phenomenon</a>,” she writes that attacks by right-wing groups are “surging” and outpace left-wing and Islamist violence. Orr further claims that any who suggest otherwise are attempting to distract from the burgeoning connections between extremists and mainstream conservative groups:  

“Violent extremism is overwhelmingly a problem of far-right extremism, not far-left extremism, and it doesn’t help anyone to misrepresent the threat by turning it into a “both sides” issue when the sides are not even close to equal.”

Elsewhere, not only does Orr dismiss the existence of left-wing violence, she attempts to excuse it. In a separate article, titled “<a href="https://medium.com/arc-digital/in-defense-of-antifa-62c699d86dc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Defense of Antifa</a>,” she condemns conservatives for attempting to “vilify” the group:

“It’s easy to see why far-right extremists have worked so hard to vilify antifascists, who represent the most consistent opponents of far-right extremism and the most steadfast allies of those targeted by far-right violence.”

At first, Orr denies the existence of Antifa in her article, describing the group only as a “collection of tactics and philosophies.” She then pivots and praises Antifa for their “quieter activities” such as “research, monitoring, and surveillance of far-right extremist groups, community organizing, and advocating for historically marginalized populations.” Orr claims this is needed to stop “white supremacist” groups from organizing. 

Writing that activists must be intolerant of violent or bigoted speech, Orr claims that direct action is necessary to prevent the far-right from organizing. Comparing Antifa to Jews who resisted Nazi occupation, Orr argues that when violence from Antifa occurs, it's committed in the name of “self-defense:” 

“...consider the possibility that some violence is a regrettable but unavoidable part of preventing much greater violence by fascists.”

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Orr for comment prior to publication. Instead of responding, Orr posted the inquiry on her personal Twitter account and accused the author of committing libel. 
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/Ben_Larrabee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ben_Larrabee</a>,
Got your email, and in the interest of full transparency, I’m responding publicly. Your questions are based on miswording/misrepresenting my statements, and attributing false quotes to me would be libel.

Thanks for your inquiry.

Best,
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno <a href="https://t.co/NVmhdx5ovc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/NVmhdx5ovc</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1607809614481084416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/jose-magro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose L. Magro</a> is a Lecturer at the School of Languages, Literatures, &amp; Cultures at the University of Maryland. His research interests are listed as applied linguistics and critical race theory.  

In an interview with, <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Margo explained that he incorporates anti-racism into his curriculum. He stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

His comments were delivered following a presentation titled, “<a href="https://arhu.umd.edu/events/antiracist-pedagogy-spanish-language-teaching-theory-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antiracist Pedagogy for Spanish Language Teaching: From Theory to Practice</a>,” which featured six Spanish and Portuguese teachers and the anti-racist materials from their classrooms. 

A fellow professor, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tatianachimiranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a>, admitted that although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias: 

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

A sophomore interviewed by the paper praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/content/people/name-627864-en.html?&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christabel Cheung </a>is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her expertise and interests include “Psychosocial Oncology,” “Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)” and “Health Equity.”

On March 15, 2023, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-arguing-cancer-research-not-antiracist-comment-enough-christabel-cheung" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News featured</a> Cheung in an article titled “Professor argues cancer research not antiracist enough, offers antiracist approaches to patient engagement.” Fox reported, “Cheung’s presentation, ‘Antiracist Patient Engagement in Adolescent &amp; Young Adult Oncology Research and Advocacy,’ cited much of <a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/bio">Ibram X. Kendi</a>, the architect of antiracist ideology.”

Fox also said, “Cheung based her definition of antiracism through the lens of Kendi’s work, maintaining the notion that ‘there is no such thing as not being racist…the heartbeat of racism domestically in the United States has been a denial of racism, and the sound of that heartbeat has been the argument, ‘I’m not a racist.’”

<a href="https://youtu.be/AHknFfJHcMQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During the presentation</a>, Cheung further stated: 

“[Kendi] wants us [and] encourages us to take on the perspective that we’re either being antiracist—where we’re promoting equality—or we’re being racist in the sense of working within systems. [You’re] either being complicit or actually supporting racist approaches.” 

In November 2022, <a href="https://ascopost.com/issues/november-10-2022/how-to-advance-antiracist-approaches-to-patient-engagement-in-aya-oncology-and-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ASCO Post</a> featured Cheung in a publication where she also discussed the advancement of antiracist patient engagement with AYA. 

ASCO Post said Cheung “challenges researchers to make progress in engaging [BIPOC] AYAs in clinical studies to close the gaps in knowledge about racial and ethnic minority AYA patients and reduce disparities in their cancer outcomes.”

In response to ASCO’s question “how prevalent is racism in AYA clinical care and research [and] how is it manifested in this patient population?” Cheung said:

“The impact of systemic racism in medicine does not appear to manifest differently by age and starts from the design of the clinical trial. Implicit bias and systemic racism are woven into the fabric of the society we live in. Consequently, we all have some measure of implicit bias or unconscious prejudice that we bring to our work and must make extra efforts to address.”

She further declared,

“Antiracist policies call upon AYA oncology to depersonalize reactions to racism, acknowledge mistakes, and take corrective actions in a timely manner. We can dismantle and reorganize long-established systems in the development and testing of clinical trials, so racism does not continue to persist within these systems.”

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<a href="https://sph.umd.edu/people/jessica-fish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Fish</a> is an Assistant Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland (UMD). According to her faculty profile, Fish is a “human development and family science scholar whose research focuses on the positive development and health of LGBTQ+ people and their families.” 

Fish is also the director of UMD’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Health Research Group (SOGI Health). SOGI Health’s <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/laboratories-projects-and-programs/sexual-orientation-gender-identity-and-health-sogi-health-research-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main page</a> says, “The research group convenes faculty, students, and community partners in an effort to better understand and support the positive development and health of LGBTQ young people.”

In January 2022, Fish <a href="https://www.srcd.org/research/gender-affirming-policies-support-transgender-and-gender-diverse-youths-health">co-authored a report</a> titled “Gender-Affirming Policies Support Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth’s Health.” In the opening paragraph, Fish, et al. stated:
“Transgender and gender diverse youth (i.e., children and adolescents whose gender identity and/or expression differs from their sex assigned at birth) are more likely to experience poor health than their peers whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex at birth (i.e., cisgender youth) due to stigma and marginalization.”
Fish, et al. goes on to say:
“58% of [transgender youth] also report having been prevented from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity…states and schools can implement policies that protect [transgender youth] from these harmful experiences…Ultimately, [transgender youth] show more positive outcomes in school environments that implement and enforce policies and practices that affirm youth’s gender identity and protect them from discrimination.”
Fish’s <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJessicaNFish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media profile</a> and newsfeed are dedicated to LGBTQ ideologies and her work with the UMD Prevention Research Center. The Center’s <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/research-centers/university-maryland-prevention-research-center/umd-prc-about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“About Us” page</a> says, “In collaboration with LGBTQ+ partner organizations, we promote evidence-based training of students and mental health care providers in culturally sensitive and inclusive practices.”

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<a href="https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/ray/rashawn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashawn Ray</a> is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland (UMD). Ray’s faculty profile says he “leads [UMD]’s Social Justice Alliance in collaboration with Bowie State University as well as the Anti-Black Racism Initiative housed in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.”

In May 2020, Ray co-authored a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/care-act-caste-act-jesse-jackson-rainbow-coalition-1502605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek op-ed</a> titled “The CARES Act Risks Becoming a Caste Act. Here’s How We Change That” to highlight an alleged disproportionate amount of black Americans affected by the pandemic. Ray et al. wrote:
“Black people are over three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than other racial groups…While everyone in America is facing hardships, these hardships collide on the bodies of black Americans in ways that are more substantial and longer lasting.’’
Ray et al. concluded by stating:
“To date, the United States has spent over $3 trillion on COVID-19 relief. Similar to the end of the Civil War and The Great Depression, the most oppressed and vulnerable Americans—black Americans—are being cast to the side and used as guinea pigs.”
In October 2023, Ray was featured in <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/183483/news/rashawn-ray-discusses-policing-implicit-bias-at-africana-studies-event/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Pitt News</a> after participating in a webinar titled “Rotten Trees: Racism and Bad Apples in American Policing.” Ray was quoted saying, “‘Implicit bias is deeply embedded in organizational culture and leads to structurally imposed racial disparities.”

The Pitt goes on to emphasize Ray’s claims that “studies and statistics demonstrate how policing disproportionately affects black people” and that “approximately 70,000 of all people stopped by police in 2011 were black, 56% of these stops involved frisks and only about 2% of stops led to the discovery of contraband…” Ray further claimed, “These statistics are about ‘blackness’ not compliance.”

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkmREGvtiM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a similar webinar discussion</a>, Ray used the following graph as an example of how police officers have racially profiled black Americans for the last two decades:

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In light of Ray’s beliefs and rhetoric, the U.S. Department of Justice released a <a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revised 2018 report</a> highlighting the following statistics:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“About 61.5 million residents had at least one contact with police.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Whites (26%) were more likely than blacks (21%), Hispanics (19%), or persons of other races (20%) to experience police contact.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“There was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of whites (12%) and blacks (11%) who experienced police-initiated contact.”</li>
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Please send any information regarding Rashawn Ray to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>
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<a href="https://history.umd.edu/directory/david-freund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Freund</a> is an Associate Professor of History and an Affiliate Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland (UMD). 

Freund has authored several publications including “Colored Property: State Policy &amp; White Racial Politics in Suburban America”—<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Property-Politics-Suburban-Historical/dp/0226262766/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZCGIPIR168HC&amp;keywords=colored+property+david+freund&amp;qid=1699309383&amp;sprefix=colored+property+david+freund%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=0226262766&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a book that examines</a> the racialization of housing developments and property rights. In the chapter titled The New Politics of Race and Property, he wrote:
“There is, nonetheless, considerable disagreement about the role that race per se played in fueling white vigilance. Many argue that while black people were clearly the targets of exclusionary practices, racism played little or no part in whites’ decision-making…
“The disagreement about postwar whites’ motivations is rooted, I argue here, in a conceptual assumption that informs most studies of racial conflict in the modern United States. Most commentaries treat white racism as something unchanging and as conceptually separate from other variables that fuel conflict between groups (including racial groups).”
In July 2023, Freund was featured in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News article</a> titled “Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race.” The publication discusses a Ukrainian-born American who “goes by the Japanese name Miyuki and listens to 'subliminals' that promise she will wake up and be Japanese.” 

NBC News further stated, “Freund…corroborates the idea that a ‘biological race’ does not exist [and] the modern concept of race is inseparable from the systemic racial hierarchy hundreds of years in the making. Simply put, changing races is not possible because ‘biological races’ themselves are not real.”

Freund also told NBC that “the idea of changing one’s race operates differently depending on a person’s racial background and that white people who seek to ‘transition’ to other races can often sidestep the harms of racism.”

Freund supports awarding reparations to black Americans as a form of government compensation for past offenses. He told <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_race-america_reparations-can-money-absolve-sins-past/6208006.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voices of America</a>, “We can document systems, policies, also private practices that are constantly reproducing racial inequalities…[a]nd no one has been able to convince me otherwise.”
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<a href="https://weblaw.usc.edu/faculty/?id=129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jody David Armour</a> is a Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the <a href="https://www.usc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Southern California</a>. According to his university biography, Dr. Armour studies the intersection of racial justice, criminal justice, and the rule of law.
As a critical race scholar, Dr. Armour’s work focuses on police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic and cultural racism. He freely admits that critical race theory is included in his curriculum.
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Too bad, ‘cause I’m still teachin’ the brand of Critical Race Theory I call N*gga Theory for the fall semester at a public Florida university, where I’ll traffic in transgressive utterances such as “systemic racism,” “unconscious bias,” “white supremacy,” and “intersectionality.” <a href="https://t.co/92hcLtHZK7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/92hcLtHZK7</a>
— Jody David Armour (@NiggaTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiggaTheory/status/1403780860529188869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges that <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.
He’s further described his work—namely <a href="https://larbbooks.org/product/ngga-theory-print/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law</a>,” and, “<a href="https://nyupress.org/9780814706404/negrophobia-and-reasonable-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism</a>,”—as “steeped” in critical race theory and was invited to teach critical theory to public departments in Los Angeles County.
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My first book, “Negrophobia &amp; Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America,” was also steeped in Critical Race Theory. The common theme: the formal equality produced by the Civil Rights Movement—“colorblind formalism”—cannot address systemic &amp; unconscious racism.
— Jody David Armour (@NiggaTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiggaTheory/status/1408134194354552834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This morning I introduce the County of Los Angeles Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to the brand of Critical Race Theory I call N*gga Theory! <a href="https://t.co/vQ7L96mcQq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/vQ7L96mcQq</a>
— Jody David Armour (@NiggaTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiggaTheory/status/1380171140899856387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Armour is notable for his advocacy on behalf of District Attorneys (DAs) supported by George Soros while he served as a fellow of George Soros&#8217; Open Society Foundation.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/9-things-you-need-know-about-george-soros-aaron-bandler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Hungarian-born billionaire</a>, George Soros and The Open Society Foundation donate billions of dollars to progressive causes across the country, totaling <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/financials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over $18 billion dollars over the past 35 years</a>. The Foundation’s operating budget for 2020 alone was 1.4 billion dollars.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progressive-das-behind-us-crime-surge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beneficiaries of Soros’s philanthropy are progressive District Attorneys who run on issues such as ending cash bail and “mass incarceration</a>.” Author, Matt Palumbo, has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/11/08/matt_palumbo_how_george_soros_overhauled_the_us_justice_system.html#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented tens of millions of dollars flowing from Soros and the Open Society Foundation</a> to campaigns of far-left DAs across the country.
Once elected, they immediately begin to decriminalize or refuse to prosecute certain “non-violent” crimes such as robbery, drug possession, and vandalism. This sometimes includes more serious offenses. The Soros-backed DA for Chicago, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/decriminalizing_gang_bangers_soros_prosecutor_kim_foxx_declines_to_charge_five_arrested_in_fatal_gang_shootout_citing_mutual_combatants.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Foxx, cited “mutual combat” in her decision to decline prosecution of a fatal gang shooting</a>.
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/the-deadly-consequences-of-defund-the-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coupled with the nationwide defunding of police departments</a>, cities with Soros-funded DAs are witnessing record levels of crime. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twelve-major-cities-with-new-homicide-records-in-2021-all-led-by-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twelve major US cities broke homicide records in 2021.</a>
Officially titled the Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, Dr. Armour works not only to promote radical, criminal justice reform but uses his position within USC’s Law School to recruit Soros-backed, far-left DAs across the country.
Dr. Armour frequently hosts these DAs as part of his lecture series at the USC College of Law. One is Los Angeles County DA, George Gascon, who is known for his <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/george-gascon-rogue-prosecutor-whose-extreme-policies-undermine-the-rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">radical stances and failure to prosecute </a>serious offenses.
Gascon’s office has been criticized for <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/12/07/convict-arrested-for-murder-of-jacqueline-avant-as-l-a-faces-violent-crime-surge-in-wake-of-reforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing criminals who would later go on to commit violent crimes</a>. In 2021, a <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/la-da-ripped-after-child-molester-faces-little-or-no-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender woman who raped a 10 year-old girl in a bathroom</a> received a substantially reduced sentence based on recommendations from Gascon’s office.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aziluYm1Kbk&amp;ab_channel=USCGouldSchoolofLaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During their conversation</a>, Dr. Armour audibly agreed with Gascon as he claimed that the police originate from slave patrols in the antebellum south.
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During one point, Gascon compared the arrests of homeless people to confinement in a concentration camp, even stating that if a person is assaulted by a vagrant in front of their “million-dollar condo,” the solution is not to arrest or institutionalize them.
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A notable portion of Dr. Armour’s conversation with Gascon is when both described their efforts to elect progressive DAs in cities across the country. Gascon even bragged about how $50 million raised by George Soros and the ACLU was used to recruit and fund the campaigns of like-minded DAs across the country.
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One DA singled out for praise in their conversation is the District attorney of Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, whom Dr. Armour hosted at USC’s Law School on two separate occasions. Dr. Armour has praised Krasner—who self-identifies as a “prison abolitionist”— <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPSYQRHP9Y&amp;ab_channel=USCGouldSchoolofLaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as the most “transformational” politician in the last 50 years.</a>
Elected in 2017—<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyh5Il__MH0&amp;t=4s&amp;ab_channel=USCGouldSchoolofLaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">while running on ending cash bail and mass incarceration in the city</a>—Krasner has since overseen a record-breaking crime wave in Philadelphia, with the<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/philadelphia-breaks-homicide-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> city recording over 500 murders in 2021 alone</a>.
During a separate, Krasner bragged about his refusal to prosecute certain crimes in his jurisdiction—namely drug offenses—while in office. This decision has drawn criticism from prosecutors who accuse Krasner of failing to keep violent criminals off the street.
<a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/us-attorney-william-mcswain-district-attorney-larry-krasner-police-shooting-cpl-james-oconnor-20200316.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US Attorney, William McSwain, attributed this policy to the death of James O’Connor, a Philadelphia police officer</a>. O’Conner was murdered by a career criminal, Hassan Elliot while serving an arrest warrant. Krasner’s office had previously released Elliot for drug possession, which was a violation of his parole, with no bail.
Dr. Armour further used the event to recruit for Krasner’s office. As part of his nationwide tour, Kranser used his platform to recruit Dr. Armour’s students to intern and eventually work in his office, which Dr. Armour enthusiastically supported.
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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Armour for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://gould.usc.edu/about/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gould School of Law at USC</a> at (213) 740-7331
Updated &#8211; April 13th, 2022

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<a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1034060">Alicia Chavez</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. In her classes, Chavez forbids her students from using the term, “illegal immigrant.”

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As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8518">reported</a> by Campus Reform, Chavez <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8518">taught </a>a course called, “America, the Frontier, and the New West.”  The course description <a href="https://classes.usc.edu/term-20163/classes/amst/">states</a> that the class is an “Introduction to an interdisciplinary study of American political, cultural and social life with a particular emphasis on the Western United States as a region.” According to USC’s course <a href="https://classes.usc.edu/term-20163/classes/amst/">description</a>, the course also qualifies the satisfaction of the core curriculum requirement for undergraduate students.

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According to Campus Reform, Chavez sent an email to her class, via her teaching assistant Julia Chea, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8518">ordering</a> students to refrain from using the term “illegal immigrant” on the course's final exam. The email reads as follows,

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According to the Washington Examiner, Chea then <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/professor-bans-phrase-illegal-immigrant-threatens-students-exposed">discovered</a> that students who received her email were sharing it on their respective social media accounts. She then sent out an additional email to the students in her class that read as follows,

“Dear students, NONE of you have my permission to screenshot emails sent to the class so that you may post them on Facebook. Not only is it in bad taste, but you would do well to avoid violating classroom and university policies regarding confidentiality. Your friend has ratted you out.”

In a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8518">statement </a>given to Campus Reform, an unnamed student who shared the initial email called the decree “just one of the many instances of anticonservative bias” at USC and represents an “attack on intellectual freedom and free speech.”

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Chavez for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

 
Students and Parents May Contact the University of Southern California at (213) 740-2311
Updated - Spring, 2021

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>.
Updated - May 8, 2024
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Charles H.F. Davis is an Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. He previously taught at the University of Southern California. According to his university biography, Davis’s research and teaching focuses on, “race and racism, systems of oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education and its social contexts.”

Davis previously rose to notoriety in 2017 for a series of <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">racially inflammatory tweets</a>. As reported by <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-professor-defends-tweet-promoting-violence-whiteness/">The College Fix</a>, he tweeted that “whiteness” must be destroyed and alluded to the necessity of violence in confronting it.

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The background photo of his Twitter account at the time featured a black woman pointing a gun at a pig that clearly represents a caricature of a police officer. 

When contacted <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-professor-defends-tweet-promoting-violence-whiteness/">The College Fix</a> over his remarks, Davis responded, “To be clear, I am decidedly against whiteness as a social and political ideology, which systematically marginalize and disenfranchise people of color from opportunities for societal advancement. In addition, I am against the institution of policing, which has historically and continuously enacted racial terror, sexual violence, and economic exploitation against racial minorities, women and LGBTQ communities, and economically disadvantaged working-class people.”

When asked if any of these tweets might make students uncomfortable, Davis <a href="http://hfdavis.com/blog/an-interview-with-a-conservative">responded</a> that any discomfort experienced by his white students is a result of their “white fragility.” 

Davis had previously advocated for the right of students to disrupt conservative speakers on campus. In the wake of <a href="https://badgerherald.com/news/2016/11/17/conservative-pundit-ben-shapiro-lectures-to-turbulent-crowd-on-safe-spaces-freedom-of-speech/">protesters heckling</a> Ben Shapiro’s lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison, school regents approved a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-university-of-wisconsin-protest-punishment-20171006-story.html">policy</a> to suspend or expel students that purposefully disrupt events. Davis’s subsequent <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-university-of-wisconsin-protest-punishment-20171006-story.html">op-ed</a> at Inside Higher Ed argued that this only reinforced white supremacy: “To be clear, it is a decision that reinforces institutionalized white supremacy -- and other oppressive forms of systemic power.” Davis argues that conservative speakers like Shapiro have hijacked the First Amendment to push “white supremacist agendas.”  

Davis’s website, which is listed by the University of Michigan on his biography, <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/5edaf71d1ab0434751b2e960/1591408468354/HF+Davis+%E2%80%93%C2%A0EPK.pdf">advertises </a>that he has taught the issues of “ race, racism, and systemic oppression in education and society” to over “7,000 students, educators and institutional leaders.” The <a href="http://hfdavis.com/">home page</a> of the site also features links to organizations that advocate for the Black Lives Matter movement, abolishing the police, and boycotting the nation of Israel.

<a href="https://weblaw.usc.edu/faculty/?id=129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jody David Armour</a> is a Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the <a href="https://www.usc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Southern California</a>. According to his university biography, Dr. Armour studies the intersection of racial justice, criminal justice, and the rule of law.

As a critical race scholar, Dr. Armour’s work focuses on police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic and cultural racism. He freely admits that critical race theory is included in his curriculum.
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Too bad, ‘cause I’m still teachin’ the brand of Critical Race Theory I call N*gga Theory for the fall semester at a public Florida university, where I’ll traffic in transgressive utterances such as “systemic racism,” “unconscious bias,” “white supremacy,” and “intersectionality.” <a href="https://t.co/92hcLtHZK7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/92hcLtHZK7</a>
— Jody David Armour (@NiggaTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiggaTheory/status/1403780860529188869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges that <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.

He’s further described his work—namely <a href="https://larbbooks.org/product/ngga-theory-print/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law</a>,” and, “<a href="https://nyupress.org/9780814706404/negrophobia-and-reasonable-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism</a>,”—as “steeped” in critical race theory and was invited to teach critical theory to public departments in Los Angeles County.
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My first book, “Negrophobia &amp; Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America,” was also steeped in Critical Race Theory. The common theme: the formal equality produced by the Civil Rights Movement—“colorblind formalism”—cannot address systemic &amp; unconscious racism.
— Jody David Armour (@NiggaTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiggaTheory/status/1408134194354552834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This morning I introduce the County of Los Angeles Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to the brand of Critical Race Theory I call N*gga Theory! <a href="https://t.co/vQ7L96mcQq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/vQ7L96mcQq</a>
— Jody David Armour (@NiggaTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiggaTheory/status/1380171140899856387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Armour is notable for his advocacy on behalf of District Attorneys (DAs) supported by George Soros while he served as a fellow of George Soros' Open Society Foundation.

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/9-things-you-need-know-about-george-soros-aaron-bandler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Hungarian-born billionaire</a>, George Soros and The Open Society Foundation donate billions of dollars to progressive causes across the country, totaling <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/financials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over $18 billion dollars over the past 35 years</a>. The Foundation’s operating budget for 2020 alone was 1.4 billion dollars.

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progressive-das-behind-us-crime-surge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beneficiaries of Soros’s philanthropy are progressive District Attorneys who run on issues such as ending cash bail and “mass incarceration</a>.” Author, Matt Palumbo, has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/11/08/matt_palumbo_how_george_soros_overhauled_the_us_justice_system.html#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented tens of millions of dollars flowing from Soros and the Open Society Foundation</a> to campaigns of far-left DAs across the country.

Once elected, they immediately begin to decriminalize or refuse to prosecute certain “non-violent” crimes such as robbery, drug possession, and vandalism. This sometimes includes more serious offenses. The Soros-backed DA for Chicago, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/decriminalizing_gang_bangers_soros_prosecutor_kim_foxx_declines_to_charge_five_arrested_in_fatal_gang_shootout_citing_mutual_combatants.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Foxx, cited “mutual combat” in her decision to decline prosecution of a fatal gang shooting</a>.

<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/the-deadly-consequences-of-defund-the-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coupled with the nationwide defunding of police departments</a>, cities with Soros-funded DAs are witnessing record levels of crime. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twelve-major-cities-with-new-homicide-records-in-2021-all-led-by-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twelve major US cities broke homicide records in 2021.</a>

Officially titled the Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, Dr. Armour works not only to promote radical, criminal justice reform but uses his position within USC’s Law School to recruit Soros-backed, far-left DAs across the country.

Dr. Armour frequently hosts these DAs as part of his lecture series at the USC College of Law. One is Los Angeles County DA, George Gascon, who is known for his <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/george-gascon-rogue-prosecutor-whose-extreme-policies-undermine-the-rule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">radical stances and failure to prosecute </a>serious offenses.

Gascon’s office has been criticized for <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/12/07/convict-arrested-for-murder-of-jacqueline-avant-as-l-a-faces-violent-crime-surge-in-wake-of-reforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing criminals who would later go on to commit violent crimes</a>. In 2021, a <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/la-da-ripped-after-child-molester-faces-little-or-no-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender woman who raped a 10 year-old girl in a bathroom</a> received a substantially reduced sentence based on recommendations from Gascon’s office.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aziluYm1Kbk&amp;ab_channel=USCGouldSchoolofLaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During their conversation</a>, Dr. Armour audibly agreed with Gascon as he claimed that the police originate from slave patrols in the antebellum south.

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During one point, Gascon compared the arrests of homeless people to confinement in a concentration camp, even stating that if a person is assaulted by a vagrant in front of their “million-dollar condo,” the solution is not to arrest or institutionalize them.

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A notable portion of Dr. Armour’s conversation with Gascon is when both described their efforts to elect progressive DAs in cities across the country. Gascon even bragged about how $50 million raised by George Soros and the ACLU was used to recruit and fund the campaigns of like-minded DAs across the country.

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One DA singled out for praise in their conversation is the District attorney of Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, whom Dr. Armour hosted at USC’s Law School on two separate occasions. Dr. Armour has praised Krasner—who self-identifies as a “prison abolitionist”— <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPSYQRHP9Y&amp;ab_channel=USCGouldSchoolofLaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as the most “transformational” politician in the last 50 years.</a>

Elected in 2017—<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyh5Il__MH0&amp;t=4s&amp;ab_channel=USCGouldSchoolofLaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">while running on ending cash bail and mass incarceration in the city</a>—Krasner has since overseen a record-breaking crime wave in Philadelphia, with the<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/philadelphia-breaks-homicide-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> city recording over 500 murders in 2021 alone</a>.

During a separate, Krasner bragged about his refusal to prosecute certain crimes in his jurisdiction—namely drug offenses—while in office. This decision has drawn criticism from prosecutors who accuse Krasner of failing to keep violent criminals off the street.

<a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/us-attorney-william-mcswain-district-attorney-larry-krasner-police-shooting-cpl-james-oconnor-20200316.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US Attorney, William McSwain, attributed this policy to the death of James O’Connor, a Philadelphia police officer</a>. O’Conner was murdered by a career criminal, Hassan Elliot while serving an arrest warrant. Krasner’s office had previously released Elliot for drug possession, which was a violation of his parole, with no bail.

Dr. Armour further used the event to recruit for Krasner’s office. As part of his nationwide tour, Kranser used his platform to recruit Dr. Armour’s students to intern and eventually work in his office, which Dr. Armour enthusiastically supported.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Armour for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://gould.usc.edu/about/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gould School of Law at USC</a> at (213) 740-7331
Updated - April 13th, 2022

According to his <a href="https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/shaun-harper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a>, Shaun Harper is “University Professor of Business and Education, Provost Professor of Management and Organization, Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, [and] USC Race and Equity Center Executive Director” at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business. Harper’s profile states that he “teaches MBA students and advises companies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).”

In 2018, Harper authored a USC <a href="https://race.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pub-2-Harper-Sports-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> titled, “BLACK MALE STUDENT-ATHLETES AND RACIAL INEQUITIES IN NCAA DIVISION I COLLEGE SPORTS”. 

For the study, Harper states that “Statistics are also furnished for each individual university in the Power Five conferences,” and mentions that “the report concludes with implications for college and university presidents, athletics directors, conference commissioners, the NCAA, journalists, and Black male student-athletes and their families.”

According to TheGrio, Harper wrote an <a href="https://thegrio.com/2021/01/18/martin-luther-king-inconvenient-truths-white-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “7 inconvenient truths white people must understand about Martin Luther King Jr.” Harper analyzes quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. which he believes are overlooked by white people in favor of the more popular quotes from the civil-rights figure. Moreover, he believes these quotes provide a call to action applicable to the current times. 
“King frequently called on white people to accept responsibility for the racial inequities they created, and to assume leadership for corrective action. Contemporary problems plaguing Black Americans are incontestable byproducts of slavery, Jim Crow, voter suppression, police brutality, and other acts of racial violence and exclusion. White people manufactured those. As King maintained, it continues to be their responsibility to right past and present wrongs.”
Harper claims “that the ways in which Donald Trump manipulated poor white people during his two campaigns and presidency undoubtedly would’ve frustrated King.” According to Harper, King “wanted whites and people of color to recognize how economic systems of oppression disadvantaged them both, and to understand that working together would significantly improve their chances of overthrowing engines of wealth inequity.”

Harper also claims that King “would want white Americans to know that the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month [January 6, 2021] was an insurrection.”

Furthermore, regarding the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, Harper says:
“It was a planned, organized, and violent rebellion. Disillusioned Trump supporters, most of them white, flew on airplanes and drove across states to attend. It isn’t the same as the mostly peaceful protests we saw in numerous cities last summer. The Capitol insurrection also isn’t the same as when frustrated Black people spontaneously (and at times unpeacefully) take to the streets following the miscarriage of justice.”
According to his <a href="https://www.shaunharper.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, “Foundations have invested more than $21 million into Professor Harper’s research and DEI initiatives. In addition, the center he founded and leads at USC has generated more than $13 million through its workplace climate assessments, pay equity analyses, and other expertly-developed DEI resources.”
Published - January 17, 2023

<a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/viet-nguyen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viet Thanh Nguyen</a> is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

According to <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2016/06/endorses-academic-cultural/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mondoweiss</a>, Nguyen “endorsed BDS and the cultural and academic boycott of Israel in support of Palestinian rights.” Nguyen stated the following regarding the Israeli/Palestinian situation:
“Always remember, never forget. These powerful words compel us to think about both the injustices of the past and the injustices of the present. One of those contemporary injustices that we struggle to remember is the Israeli occupation and the deprivation of Palestinian rights. For any of us concerned with justice, the imperative is clear: we must stand with the disempowered and the forgotten against militarism and the state.” 
 <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/12/23/latest-new-york-times-rant-about-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-seen-as-sign-of-mental-breakdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Algemeiner</a> featured Nguyen in an article about Israeli Settler Colonialism, in which Nguyen said that he “expresses hope that poets and novelists will tackle the topic of the Palestinians, rather than ‘flowers and moons.’” The Algemeiner also featured another statement of Nguyen’s: 
“What will 2021 bring forth from the literary world? Nguyen asks. He answers: “Hopefully more poems like Noor Hindi’s 2020 clarion call ‘Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,’ which simultaneously attacks M.F.A. culture and crosses the brightest red line in American politics: Palestine.”
Nguyen was a <a href="https://palestinewrites.org/participants-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participant</a> at the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a>, which took place at the University of Pennsylvania, September 22–24, 2023. <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that the festival featured “speakers who have made ‘antisemitic’ comments, including ‘Death to Israel,’ and someone who has worn a Nazi-style uniform.” The attendance of these speakers at the festival has drawn criticism from pro-Israel audiences.
Published - November 2, 2023

Corruption

Anti-Law Enforcement

Jody David Armour

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<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chloe Clark</a> is an English professor at Iowa State University.  She received national <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-state-professor-black-lives-matter-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attention</a> for banning her students from debating certain topics in her class.
In a leaked syllabus for an English 250 class, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/iowa-state-professor-forbids-students-from-criticizing-blm-gay-marriage-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clark threatened to dismiss</a> any student who engages in “racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, and body shaming.”
Forbidding any opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and abortion, Clark stated that expressing any alternative views “are grounds for dismissal from the classroom.” She went on to state:<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/"> 
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“The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously.”<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/"> 
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Ironically, Clark states that a “central concept” of the course includes the formulation and presentation of arguments by students:
“An argument can be any text – written, spoken, aural, or visual – that expresses a point of view…In this course, you’ll summarize, analyze, and evaluate various types of communication and then use those skills…” <a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/"> 
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Although the university announced that the syllabus had been corrected, Clark has a history of attempting to limit her students’ freedom of speech.
<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">At a weekly </a><a href="https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-ames-feminist-friday-chloe-clark-margaret-sloss-center-for-women-and-gender-equity-house-discussion-monster-othering/article_5785b85e-fce2-11e9-b46b-8f4cb810f8a1.html">“Feminist Friday”</a> event hosted by Clark the prior semester, she discussed how the use of the term “illegal alien” was a form of “othering,” or an act of discrimination – a theme that she admits to teaching in her classes. She also asks her students to reflect on the way their “privilege” may negatively impact others:
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Published in 2020

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<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chloe Clark</a> is an English professor at Iowa State University.  She received national <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-state-professor-black-lives-matter-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attention</a> for banning her students from debating certain topics in her class.

In a leaked syllabus for an English 250 class, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/iowa-state-professor-forbids-students-from-criticizing-blm-gay-marriage-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clark threatened to dismiss</a> any student who engages in “racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, and body shaming.”

Forbidding any opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and abortion, Clark stated that expressing any alternative views “are grounds for dismissal from the classroom.” She went on to state:<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/">
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“The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously.”<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/">
</a>
Ironically, Clark states that a “central concept” of the course includes the formulation and presentation of arguments by students:
“An argument can be any text – written, spoken, aural, or visual – that expresses a point of view…In this course, you’ll summarize, analyze, and evaluate various types of communication and then use those skills…” <a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/">
</a>
Although the university announced that the syllabus had been corrected, Clark has a history of attempting to limit her students’ freedom of speech.

<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">At a weekly </a><a href="https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-ames-feminist-friday-chloe-clark-margaret-sloss-center-for-women-and-gender-equity-house-discussion-monster-othering/article_5785b85e-fce2-11e9-b46b-8f4cb810f8a1.html">“Feminist Friday”</a> event hosted by Clark the prior semester, she discussed how the use of the term “illegal alien” was a form of “othering,” or an act of discrimination – a theme that she admits to teaching in her classes. She also asks her students to reflect on the way their “privilege” may negatively impact others:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3733" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1024x791.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="464" />
Published in 2020

Anti-1st Amendment

Abortion

Chloe Clark

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David Carrillo is the first Adjunct Professor at Adams State University to hold a teaching position from prison. 
<a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/01/04/incarcerated-professor-teaches-college-classes-in-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chalkbeat Colorado reported</a>, “On a late November [2023] afternoon, at the head of a cramped classroom, [Carrillo] stood at a small podium and quizzed 17 students on macroeconomic terminology. For the two-hour class, Carrillo … mostly kept his hands in his pockets as he lectured students.” 
Chalkbeat Colorado continued, “[Carrillo] holds a position that is extremely rare in prison: He’s an incarcerated professor teaching in a prison bachelor’s degree program. A new initiative at Adams State — one of the first of its kind in the country — focuses on employing incarcerated people with graduate degrees as college professors, rather than bringing in instructors from the outside.”
The source said Carrillo, who was supposed to serve a life sentence for a murder in 1993, was pardoned by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis after 29 years served.
<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/22/polis-colorado-pardons-commutation-david-carrillo/">The Denver Post</a> provided more details on Carrillo’s charges, “[Carrillo], 49, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1994 after he participated in [a] 1993 gang shooting … Carrillo, then 20, did not pull the trigger, but stood nearby during the slaying and was convicted as a conspirator.”
The Denver Post also said Carrillo was “praised” by the governor for earning a general education degree and two higher education degrees while serving time.
While incarcerated, Carrillo taught fellow inmates at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility. Upon his release, Carrillo could have an opportunity to serve on campus.
Please send tips and information on David Carrillo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; March 26, 2024

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David Carrillo is the first Adjunct Professor at Adams State University to hold a teaching position from prison. 

<a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/01/04/incarcerated-professor-teaches-college-classes-in-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chalkbeat Colorado reported</a>, “On a late November [2023] afternoon, at the head of a cramped classroom, [Carrillo] stood at a small podium and quizzed 17 students on macroeconomic terminology. For the two-hour class, Carrillo … mostly kept his hands in his pockets as he lectured students.” 

Chalkbeat Colorado continued, “[Carrillo] holds a position that is extremely rare in prison: He’s an incarcerated professor teaching in a prison bachelor’s degree program. A new initiative at Adams State — one of the first of its kind in the country — focuses on employing incarcerated people with graduate degrees as college professors, rather than bringing in instructors from the outside.”

The source said Carrillo, who was supposed to serve a life sentence for a murder in 1993, was pardoned by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis after 29 years served.

<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/22/polis-colorado-pardons-commutation-david-carrillo/">The Denver Post</a> provided more details on Carrillo’s charges, “[Carrillo], 49, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1994 after he participated in [a] 1993 gang shooting … Carrillo, then 20, did not pull the trigger, but stood nearby during the slaying and was convicted as a conspirator.”

The Denver Post also said Carrillo was “praised” by the governor for earning a general education degree and two higher education degrees while serving time.

While incarcerated, Carrillo taught fellow inmates at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility. Upon his release, Carrillo could have an opportunity to serve on campus.

Please send tips and information on David Carrillo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 26, 2024

Violence

David Carrillo

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<a href="https://www.salisbury.edu/faculty-and-staff/ebstutelberg">Erin Stutelberg</a> is an Associate Professor at the Salisbury University in Maryland. Stutelberg’s faculty biography says, “Her scholarship engages critical whiteness students and intersectional feminist theories to study literacy practices, teacher identity, and teacher education.” Her research interests include “anti-oppressive education” as well as “feminist and queer theories.”
In January 2018, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10398">Campus Reform</a> featured Stutelberg in an article titled “Course uses ‘Pyramid of White Supremacy’ to teach diversity.” The pyramid—which Stutelberg used in a course called “<a href="https://catalog.salisbury.edu/search_advanced.php?cur_cat_oid=10&amp;search_database=Search&amp;search_db=Search&amp;cpage=2&amp;ecpage=1&amp;ppage=1&amp;spage=1&amp;tpage=1&amp;location=3&amp;filter%5Bkeyword%5D=diversity&amp;filter%5Bexact_match%5D=1">Diversity and the Self</a>”—shows a progression of white supremacy from indifference to genocide with various ideological quotes in between.
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Posts from Stutelberg’s social media show she’s an avid supporter of <a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks">banned books</a>, the LGBTQ movement and the organization Black Lives Matter:
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Celebrating <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BannedBooksWeek2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BannedBooksWeek2022</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/sulibraries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sulibraries</a>! Looks like I have three books to add to my TBR! <a href="https://t.co/uUAyVoGAUf">pic.twitter.com/uUAyVoGAUf</a>
— Dr. Erin Stutelberg (@stutelbe) <a href="https://twitter.com/stutelbe/status/1572262185417465867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.salisbury.edu/faculty-and-staff/ebstutelberg">Erin Stutelberg</a> is an Associate Professor at the Salisbury University in Maryland. Stutelberg’s faculty biography says, “Her scholarship engages critical whiteness students and intersectional feminist theories to study literacy practices, teacher identity, and teacher education.” Her research interests include “anti-oppressive education” as well as “feminist and queer theories.”

In January 2018, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10398">Campus Reform</a> featured Stutelberg in an article titled “Course uses ‘Pyramid of White Supremacy’ to teach diversity.” The pyramid—which Stutelberg used in a course called “<a href="https://catalog.salisbury.edu/search_advanced.php?cur_cat_oid=10&amp;search_database=Search&amp;search_db=Search&amp;cpage=2&amp;ecpage=1&amp;ppage=1&amp;spage=1&amp;tpage=1&amp;location=3&amp;filter%5Bkeyword%5D=diversity&amp;filter%5Bexact_match%5D=1">Diversity and the Self</a>”—shows a progression of white supremacy from indifference to genocide with various ideological quotes in between.

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3133" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-08-at-11.25.47-AM-1024x834.png" alt="" width="640" height="521" />

Posts from Stutelberg’s social media show she’s an avid supporter of <a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks">banned books</a>, the LGBTQ movement and the organization Black Lives Matter:
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Celebrating <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BannedBooksWeek2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BannedBooksWeek2022</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/sulibraries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sulibraries</a>! Looks like I have three books to add to my TBR! <a href="https://t.co/uUAyVoGAUf">pic.twitter.com/uUAyVoGAUf</a>
— Dr. Erin Stutelberg (@stutelbe) <a href="https://twitter.com/stutelbe/status/1572262185417465867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published - September 8, 2023

Erin Stutelberg

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<a href="https://www.coursicle.com/tufts/professors/Milo+Todd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milo Todd</a> is a creative writing instructor specializing in courses for “queer and trans adults.” He also serves as co-editor-in-chief of <a href="https://foglifterjournal.com/">Foglifter Journal</a>, and oversees <a href="https://www.thequeerwriter.milotodd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Writer</a>. On his personal <a href="https://www.milotodd.com/teaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, he offers online classes focused largely on LGBTQ+ topics, available to anyone interested in exploring these subjects.
Todd will teach a <a href="https://tufts.app.box.com/s/o9lbh28ilmgurug67z4j1n8mhkaaikxq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> titled “Transcestors” at Tufts University during the spring semester of 2025. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/-tufts-university-offering-transcestors-course-next-semester-/27182" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that the course will be offered through Tufts University’s Experimental College at the School of Arts and Sciences. 
The course description asks the question: “How have transgender people been systematically misused, misunderstood, co-opted, and erased throughout history?”
In <a href="https://www.thequeerwriter.milotodd.com/the-queer-writer-october-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Writer</a>, the professor states his course will answer the above question by exploring the following matters concerning the history of transgenderism:
“The course looks at numerous examples of trans existence throughout time and place, their relative oppressions, and how these situations have altered cis [i.e. heterosexual] perceptions of trans people in the modern day.”
Todd’s description further notes that the course will examine the alleged “erasure” of transgender people throughout history, highlighting how their experiences have harmed “cisgender” and “transgender” people alike.
“It&#8217;ll additionally look at how these erasures of history have influenced the current mass markets of entertainment (including literature, movies, sitcoms, and stand-up comedy), the deliberate attacks on U.S. trans rights over the past decade (such as book bans, participation in sports, and access to trans-related healthcare), and how these attacks actively harm cis people alongside trans people.&#8221; 
Todd states that his course “sounds like a downer, but… it&#8217;s enlightening about the power of community, identity, and the individual, and shows the wonders of transcestry.”
Please send relevant information on Milo Todd to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published &#8211; January 2, 2025

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<a href="https://as.tufts.edu/people/faculty/thomas-abowd">Thomas Abowd</a> is a lecturer in the American and Colonialism Studies Departments at Tufts University. Abowd is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-Jerusalem-Construction-Difference-Contemporary/dp/0815634692">“Colonial Jerusalem - The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth 1948-2012.”</a> He has also served as an <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Thomas_Abowd">advisory board member</a> of the group Jewish Voice for Peace in Boston and regularly collaborates with the antisemitic group, <a href="https://www.nationalsjp.org/">Students for Justice in Palestine.</a>

Abowd frequently refers to Israel as a colonial state, in which European Jews stole the land from the Arabs who were living in what is now Israel and launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing that continues to this day. In a 2016 speech at the <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?418402-3/palestine-center-conference-panel-2">Jerusalem Fund’s Annual Conference</a>, Abowd repeated this claim, alleging that Israel’s capital Jerusalem is being actively purged of the Arabs that live in the city.

Abowd’s view that Israel is an apartheid state forms the basis for his support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. BDS is weaponized as a means for those who wish to economically and politically isolate, strangle, and dismantle the state of Israel by attacking any companies and nations that have ties with it. As a featured speaker at a <a href="https://jvp-boston.org/hundreds-march-boston-condemn-israeli-violence-corporate-complicity/">2014 protest</a> hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, Abowd condemned Israel and other companies that he alleged were complicit in the murder of civilians:

“As we all witnessed Israeli jets bombing civilian areas this week, Israeli troops storming Palestinian refugee camps and cities, and the killing of Palestinian civilians, I am reminded how complicit the US government, US corporations, and the American taxpayers are in the human rights abuses committed by Israel.” 

With his prior statements and actions in mind, many in the <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13577">Tuft’s community were alarmed</a> when Abowd began offering a course titled “Colonizing Palestine.”  According to the <a href="https://as.tufts.edu/colonialismstudies/documents/coursesFall2019.pdf">course description</a>, students will examine Palestine and Israel through the “lens of colonialism studies” and answer important questions regarding issues like “gender and sexuality.”

In an <a href="https://tuftsdaily.com/opinion/2018/09/20/op-ed-professor-thomas-abowd-class-colonizing-palestine/">op-ed defending the course</a>, Abowd describes Israel’s historical claims in the Middle East as “biblical myths.” He even admits that the accounts of historians that have accused Israel of ethnic cleansing are the inspiration for the course:

“(Baruch Kimmerling) wrote in detail about the various ways in which Israel was built overwhelmingly upon the land and even within homes stolen from those Palestinians made refugees. These two scholars, like thousands of others fighting for justice and equality in Israel and Palestine, have inspired my own intellectual pursuits and, indeed, the course I am teaching this semester at Tufts.“

Professor Kareem Khubchandan is an <a href="https://as.tufts.edu/wgss/people/faculty/kareem-khubchandani" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor in Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences</a> department. He specializes in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, as well as Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Khubchandan has written multiple books, journal essays, and encyclopedia entries mostly promoting the history of drag and queer performances in South Asia.

Khubchandan also performs on college campuses under a persona named LaWhore Vagistan. According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform,</a> “The Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics [hosted the] Tufts professor under his drag alter ego at a meeting for the Politics of Race &amp; Ethnicity program.” Students and faculty were invited via email which included an advertisement of Khubchandan posing in a library.

Additionally, in 2019, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=13808" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform said</a> Khubchandan "lectur[ed] in drag at various universities in order to teach students about ‘queer nightlife’ and to bring ‘the nightclub to the classroom.” His performance themes continue to range from queer feminism to globalization to Islamophobia.

Khubchandan refers to himself as an “aunty” to his students and mentees on campus. He also teaches Critical Aunty Studies, which is part of Tufts’ Mellon Bridge program. In an <a href="https://www.criticalauntystudies.com/01-welcome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online introduction to the aunty symposium</a>, he discussed the “mutual nature of aunty work across all generations [which includes] aging as a transgender person, fashion, drag, and body size.”
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Published - September 30, 2022

<a href="https://as.tufts.edu/art-architecture/people/faculty/kelli-morgan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelli Morgan</a> is a Professor of the Practice in both Curatorial Studies and the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. She’s also the Director of Curatorial Studies. Her research interests include African-American visual culture, visual literacy, and anti-racist approaches to museum curative practice.

Morgan received her appointment as Professor of the Practice in September 2022. In November, Morgan <a href="https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2022/11/07/professor-kelli-morgan-founds-anti-racist-curatorial-practice-in-effort-to-diversify-museums/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared in an article</a> from The Tufts Daily titled “Professor Kelli Morgan founds Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice in effort to diversify museums.” 

The column says, “[Morgan] founded a new graduate certificate program this year, the Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice. Morgan developed the program…to counter systemic racism often found in museum curation.”

Tufts Daily continues, “Morgan decided to establish the program after experiencing years of discrimination as an art museum curator, most recently as an associate curate of American art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.”

Morgan told Tufts Daily she resigned from her position due to experiencing issues with “class discrimination, gender discrimination, and racial discrimination” that she says is “really rampant in our museum culture, especially in traditional art institutions.”

<a href="https://asegrad.tufts.edu/program/anti-racist-curatorial-practice-certificate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Curriculum focus areas</a> for Morgan’s Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice program consist of the following:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Counter-Hegemonic Approaches: learn how to identify traditional museum practices that are rooted in racist principles</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Connection to Practice: allows students to learn from experienced anti-racist curatorial practitioners</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Community Impact: curatorial approaches that position collective care within frameworks of social and racial equity </li>
</ul>
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Morgan’s speaking engagement, “<a href="https://kam.illinois.edu/event/postponed-kelli-morgan-art-whiteness-and-empire-how-we-all-got-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Art, Whiteness, and Empire: How We All Got Here</a>” — which is hosted by the University of Illinois-Urban Campaign — has been postponed until further notice. The lecture is scheduled to run from October to December and will cover “how and why art museums are currently struggling so badly with diversity, repatriation, restitution, and attempts to create genuine cultures of institutional equity.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://as.tufts.edu/education/people/faculty/cynthia-robinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cynthia Robinson</a> is a Senior Lecturer in the areas of Museum Studies, History, and Education at Tufts University. She also serves as the Director of Museum Studies and a faculty member for the <a href="https://asegrad.tufts.edu/program/anti-racist-curatorial-practice-certificate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice program</a> — a certification program that trains students in “effective methods of divesting traditional museum practices that are rooted in white colonialist and imperialist histories.”

In March 2022, Robinson took her class to an exhibit through the Tufts University Art Galleries. According to an article titled “<a href="https://now.tufts.edu/2022/03/01/hacking-diversity-and-representation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hacking for Diversity and Representation</a>,” Tufts Now said it was the Galleries' first “Art Datathon to examine how gender, race, and artistic mediums are represented in the university’s collection.”

The presentation was inspired by the director and chief curator for Tufts Galleries who conducted a public audit of campus art by “white males.” Tufts Now reported, “From that analysis (conducted as part of the Tufts as an Anti-Racist Institution initiative)...the Public Art working group concluded that while the university’s imagery wasn’t overtly racist, it was exclusionary because it did not include any people of color.”

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<a href="https://sites.tufts.edu/cynthiarobinson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robinson’s personal website</a> links to a selected publications list that includes a piece called “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10598650.2017.1310485?needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Editorial about critical race theory.</a>” In the article Robinson declares,

“Many museum professionals — who are, in this country, overwhelmingly white — have subsumed direct discussion of racism by using the language of diversity and inclusivity. For several decades, the field has sought ways to diversify museum audiences to reach non-white, non-Anglo visitors through changes in programming, exhibition topics, and marketing.”

She also stated,

“Race is a social, not a biological construct…’Racism’ is a term that came into use less than a century ago, and its definition and underlying ideology [have] changed over time…CRT…argues that [the idea of] racism-free [people] is not a possible condition when we operate within racialized systems. Moreover, racism often emanates from experiences, rather than theories.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

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

<a href="https://www.coursicle.com/tufts/professors/Milo+Todd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milo Todd</a> is a creative writing instructor specializing in courses for “queer and trans adults.” He also serves as co-editor-in-chief of <a href="https://foglifterjournal.com/">Foglifter Journal</a>, and oversees <a href="https://www.thequeerwriter.milotodd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Writer</a>. On his personal <a href="https://www.milotodd.com/teaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, he offers online classes focused largely on LGBTQ+ topics, available to anyone interested in exploring these subjects.

Todd will teach a <a href="https://tufts.app.box.com/s/o9lbh28ilmgurug67z4j1n8mhkaaikxq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> titled “Transcestors” at Tufts University during the spring semester of 2025. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/-tufts-university-offering-transcestors-course-next-semester-/27182" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that the course will be offered through Tufts University’s Experimental College at the School of Arts and Sciences. 

The course description asks the question: “How have transgender people been systematically misused, misunderstood, co-opted, and erased throughout history?”

In <a href="https://www.thequeerwriter.milotodd.com/the-queer-writer-october-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Writer</a>, the professor states his course will answer the above question by exploring the following matters concerning the history of transgenderism:
“The course looks at numerous examples of trans existence throughout time and place, their relative oppressions, and how these situations have altered cis [i.e. heterosexual] perceptions of trans people in the modern day.”
Todd’s description further notes that the course will examine the alleged “erasure” of transgender people throughout history, highlighting how their experiences have harmed “cisgender” and “transgender” people alike.
“It'll additionally look at how these erasures of history have influenced the current mass markets of entertainment (including literature, movies, sitcoms, and stand-up comedy), the deliberate attacks on U.S. trans rights over the past decade (such as book bans, participation in sports, and access to trans-related healthcare), and how these attacks actively harm cis people alongside trans people." 
Todd states that his course “sounds like a downer, but… it's enlightening about the power of community, identity, and the individual, and shows the wonders of transcestry.”

Please send relevant information on Milo Todd to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - January 2, 2025

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

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

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

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

Socialism

COVID-19

Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

Catherine Prendergast

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<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 &#8211; 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 &#8211; October 23, 2023

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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):

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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):
<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:
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“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

Ameer Hasan Loggins

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Yanilda Gonzalez is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School</a>. She teaches Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times, as well as Policing, Citizenship, and Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Both courses offer guidance for analyzing systemic inequalities and injustice in American society.
According to her university profile, Professor Gonzalez focuses her research on “policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes.” She has also published several scholarly articles and one book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Authoritarian_Police_in_Democracy/afwAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=authoritarian+police+in+democracy&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America</a>.”
The book explores why “police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law [and] the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization.”
In a <a href="https://youtu.be/CkGBLBCHaXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School video discussion</a> of her book, Gonzalez said her inspiration for the publication started when she was a “young and impressionable college student who was starting to learn about democracy as a political science major.” After witnessing alleged human rights abuses during 9/11, working for the <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/forces-against-progress-are-gathering-new-york-must-lead-way-forward">New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)</a>, and studying post-dictatorship policing in South America, Gonzalez came to wonder “how can democratic systems perpetuate authoritarian practices.”
The NYCLU’s is a non-profit organization that focuses on racial justice, voting reform, transgender rights, and the rights of incarcerated people. The group’s legislative goals include lowering incarceration rates among Blacks by decriminalizing minor drug possession and eliminating “taxes on poverty” — these are court fees and fines collected by local governments as a “major source of funding.”
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<a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/danielle-allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Allen</a> is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allen’s profile says “she is Founder and President for Partners In Democracy, where she continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy and drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all.”

In 2016, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moment-of-truth-we-must-stop-trump/2016/02/21/0172e788-d8a7-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html">published an opinion editorial</a> authored by Allen. She titled the piece “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” She starts the article by stating:
“Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany. Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.”
She further parallels former President Trump and Hitler, writing:
“To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German-Jewish  émigré philosopher <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437565/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0142437565&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=PQAKLU5NRJOETRXB%22%3EThe%20Portable%20Hannah%20Arendt%20(Penguin%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thewaspos09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Arendt</a> and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can understand themselves as ‘just doing their job,’ yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.”
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Allen was <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/03/harvard-kennedy-professor-danielle-allen-discusses-justice-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> in The Brown Daily Herald wherein the author covered a speaking engagement connected to the release of Allen’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Means-Democracy-Danielle-Allen-ebook/dp/B0BVC2FX2S/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VqxGd4owAqzRflOXiBODXN17y4JJUJ1SVHYoRKSEDi6q-l886siA49NkC9H1kQpqVTCFXCSP_tdMncZOaeI8qZRoOQSHNELNFHZcBBT7HIHiT1vCs5-ECUpnUkPX8MrgUwMYyWF99EapLhAECkgLZTSghDVrj8oaZbf6drUcWGl3zoSJputR0fYZybjA7eJTxgZ6VHZUCs4sELHMdEbmsJXcA3rlY8ymu77DAiOkKPg.jTBse05m42CEISz-twypjIyY7S93TNNoT9Q_KLXmonU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;gad_source=1&amp;hvadid=693980244929&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15248354058227898116--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=15248354058227898116&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1965987004000&amp;hydadcr=22158_13517514&amp;keywords=justice+by+means+of+democracy&amp;qid=1722025745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BVC2FX2S&amp;revisionId=f2ca3fa9&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice by Means of Democracy</a>.” The writer said, “Allen argued that American democracy has prioritized negative liberties over positive ones for too long, resulting in those with power ‘not listening to the people who are affected by policies’ being enacted.”

In the book, Allen asked, “What is the relationship between political economy, political philosophy, and a theory of justice?” She then states:
“As economic theorists from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith/The-Theory-of-Moral-Sentiments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Smith</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Marx</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/John-Maynard-Keynes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Maynard Keynes</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/F-A-Hayek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Hayek</a> have recognized, any given economic system is built out of a set of underlying rules of human interaction … All recognized that the rules of the game structuring human interaction and those generating particular forms of economy embodied distinctive sets of social ideals and could be redesigned.” 
She also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/26/allen-permissible-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> contrasting “academic freedom” with “free expression.” She said, “Harvard’s values statement contains two guidelines that help distinguish between good and bad speech … Scholarly standards and longstanding norms from the art of rhetoric make concrete how to live by these values.”

The following chart was included under the heading Speech Distinctions — Regime, Quality, Permissibility.

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<a href="https://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/faculty/jonathan-l-walton/">Dr. Jonathan L. Walton</a>, Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University and formerly of Harvard University, called the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization". In a sermon on campus after the Las Vegas mass shooting, Walton, who has a Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton, blamed "Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries [for] eating away at the soul of this nation," Walton later calls President Donald Trump a "Madman" who "embodies the worst aspects of our country's cultural disease."

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=7287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair</a> of the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative. Ely’s research focuses on race and gender relations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.

A <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/race-gender-equity-initiative.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Newsroom press release</a> described the initiative as “both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work done to understand…racial equality in organizations and business…”

Dr. Ely said, “Our faculty pursue research in a wide range of fields related to equity, creating knowledge that helps leaders drive change in their organizations and the world,” according to Harvard Newsroom.

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Ely has published several books and journal articles. In 2018, she co-authored an article titled <a href="https://hbr.org/2018/03/beating-the-odds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women</a> in which she claimed, “Too often we see business leaders struggle to advance members of underrepresented groups because they model their development strategies on their own paths to success.”

The article concludes by stating, “When African-American women are underrepresented in an organization’s senior leadership roles despite robust academic credentials and work experience, their struggles often suggest a broader problem: a workplace that fails to offer every employee equal access to opportunities for growth.”

In a 2018 symposium, Race, Work &amp; Leadership: Learning About &amp; From Black Experience, Ely said, “[I] take an intersectional approach with the Gender Initiative…I think this is where the energy in the world is right now…gender really shape[s] the lives and livelihoods of people and also our workplaces.”

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Published in 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/jason-bryan-silverstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Silverstein</a> is a Global Health and Social Medicine Lecturer and the Co-Director of Math of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical School. In May 2022, one month before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, Silverstein submitted a narrative to <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a39970410/abortion-saved-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men’s Health Magazine</a>. The article retells the story of a woman who underwent an abortion procedure that allegedly saved her life. Silverstein introduced the publication by stating, 

“While many states will make exceptions for the life of the mother, medical emergency exceptions are not as clear as they may seem—how close to death does a woman have to be before an abortion is legal isn’t black-and-white…What is clear is that many women are alive today because they could have an abortion…”

The woman that Silverstein wrote to Men’s Health about was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy —a potentially life-threatening condition caused by a fertilized egg growing outside the uterus (i.e. in the fallopian tubes). The abnormality can cause severe internal bleeding and laparoscopic surgery (which usually results in terminating the pregnancy) is often required to successfully treat the issue.

In September of the same year, Men’s Health <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a34044035/covid-19-need-real-lockdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a Silverstein article with the title, “We Can’t Beat COVID-19 Without a 6-Week Lockdown.” Under the heading, “Why a lockdown is a reasonable move,” Silverstein said,

“By now the evidence is clear: lockdowns work. We know that strict lockdowns worked in China, slowing down how fast the virus spreads. In Wuhanm, the unprecedented 76-day lockdown, in which people were barred [from] leaving the city or their homes for once every three days for food, stopped new infections by two-thirds.”

After praising lockdown policies in Italy, France and New Zealand, he continued,

“The lack of any real lockdown plus patchwork of state policies feels like a strategy designed by the COVID virus itself…Just as cases started to surge in the summer, states decided to relax what orders they had…[B]ecause the first lockdowns were half-assed, now the need for a second may be a death sentence for some small businesses…

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<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/people/alex-keuroghlian-md-mph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Keuroghlian</a>, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Faculty Advisor for the LGBTQ+ and Allies at Harvard Medical School (<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAHMS</a>). Keuroghlian’s faculty profile says “[h]is clinical practice and research focus[es] on sexual and gender minority health.”

Keuroghlian is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-transgender-infants-intersex-540241339130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Keuroghlian’s course in a publication titled, “Harvard med school class isn’t about ‘trans infants.’” The source said, “Claim: A class at Harvard Medical School trains students to teach transgender infants. AP’s assessment: False. The Harvard class…discusses intersex infants in the context of their physical development…The portion of the course that focuses on infants does not cover gender identity or sexual orientation…”

The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Keuroghlian currently works as the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/search?Text=alex%20Keuroghlian&amp;Start=1&amp;MaxResults=10&amp;summary=context&amp;MethodName=getglobal&amp;PageNumber=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; he’s accepting new patients in his clinic. 

Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surgical</a> Program. The former “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The latter “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”

Keuroghlian is the Director of the Division of Education and Training at Boston’s Fenway Institute in Boston. <a href="https://fenwayhealth.org/we-must-replace-psychiatric-gatekeeping-with-informed-consent-for-gender-affirming-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a newsletter</a>—titled “We must replace psychiatric gatekeeping with informed consent for gender-affirming surgery”— the organization reflected on gender-affirming surgical protocols: 

“The prior standard requiring assessment of suitability for surgery by a mental health care professional was designed to prevent regret about undergoing surgical procedures [but]...regret for gender-affirming surgical procedures is very rare, and there is no evidence that presurgical mental health screening reduces rates of regret.”
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Alex Keuroghlian, MD MPH <a href="https://twitter.com/FenwayHealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FenwayHealth</a> on threats toward youth pursuing gender-affirming care, their families, and medical providers. <a href="https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q">https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q</a> <a href="https://t.co/yW2K1nuWSI">pic.twitter.com/yW2K1nuWSI</a>
— MGH Psychiatry (@MGHPsychiatry) <a href="https://twitter.com/MGHPsychiatry/status/1620266773290582017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Alberto Puig is the <a href="https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/people/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Dean</a> for Undergraduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/18740/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the Clinician Educator Service in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

Puig’s MGH profile shows he’s a hospitalist who treats adults. However, Puig is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. 

The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program">Surgical</a> Program. 

The health program “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The surgical program  “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”
Published February 15, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/timothy-patrick-mccarthy">Timothy Patrick McCarthy</a> is a Lecturer on Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

According to his faculty profile, McCarthy “is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration.” He also “teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters.” 

McCarthy is an “award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/fire-professors-who-oppose-gender-affirming-care-harvard-faculty-chair-says/">The College Fix</a>, McCarthy was interviewed by <a href="https://nyunews.com/features/news/2025/02/24/affiliates-tied-to-anti-trans-practices/">Washington Square News</a> and stated that professors who oppose “gender-affirming” care should be “removed and stripped of their academic titles.”

In the interview, McCarthy stated “there’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world.”

The College Fix wrote to McCarthy for further information. His response was confrontational:

“I see what you’re doing here—it’s a tired, ancient playbook—and I hope you know that you have picked a fight with the wrong veteran of these culture wars,” McCarthy responded.

McCarthy told Washington Square News, those who question the validity of gender-affirming care “poison the waters” around the practice of “transgender” care. 

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote an <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/14/harvard-professor-calls-for-the-firing-of-any-faculty-not-supporting-gender-affirming-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> criticizing the comments of McCarthy. According to Turley, the professor “was targeting two professors at NYU who are affiliated with groups critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.” 

In 2017, McCarthy made the following comments about the play <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-timothy-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Crimson</a> “Hamilton”, alleging that the US founding was a matter of whiteness and masculinity. Certain characters based on US Founders are considered queer: 

“[T]his is a very masculine play, and the traditional reading of the founding is not just white but also male. The two characters that are most queer include Thomas Jefferson, who is widely criticized as a slave owner and a hypocrite and this Prince-like, purple-clad dandy who returns from Paris and asks, ‘What did I miss? What did I miss?’ and prances across the stage. The other queer character in ‘Hamilton’ is King George III, who shows up every once in awhile to bring a little sass and strut his stuff, and then leaves.” 
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<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”
After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza &#8211; using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”
Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”
Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“&#8230;Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education &#8211; particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”
He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”
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Published &#8211; October 31, 2023

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<a href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/joshua-dressler/">Joshua Dressler</a> is a Distinguished University Professor and the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University.  Dressler told his students that Ted Cruz’s comments to Donald Trump were anti-Semitic. Dressler claimed that Cruz’s infamous “New York values” statement was directed toward Jewish people in a negative way.

<a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/jeffries.57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries</a> is an associate professor of history at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio State University</a>. According to his university profile, his areas of expertise include the following:

- African-American History

- US History since 1877

- Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy,

- Power, Culture, and the State,

- Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Dr. Hasan Kwame is an adherent to critical race theory and frequently defends the field in his lectures and speeches. In addition, he advises local high schools and school districts on how to teach critical theory to students.

On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently characterizes conservatives as white nationalists, supremacists and other epithets</a>. In one tweet, he lashes out at South Carolina Senator Tim Scott—currently the sole black Republican in the United States Senate—as the “blackface” of white supremacy.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#GOP</a> is the party of white supremacy and Sen. Tim Scott is its Blackface. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndofDiscussion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#EndofDiscussion</a>
“Fact-checking GOP response to Biden's joint address”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimScott?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#TimScott</a><a href="https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2</a>

— Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries/status/1387776742245421057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In other lectures, Dr. Jeffries portrays America as a systemically racist nation. He thus defends critical race theory as necessary to understand oppression and the history of racism in the United States.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes</a> for Breitbart News, critical race theory—also referred to as “critical theory”—is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> 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 a speech for <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The City Club of Cleveland</a>, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/forums/2021/08/20/misunderstanding-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds critical race theory as necessary to understand that racism is “systemic, deeply embedded, and produces racial inequality in our society</a>.” At one point while addressing the accusation that critical race theory brands all white people as racist, Dr. Jeffries retorts that while all white people are not born racist, all white people born in America are, in fact, racist.

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He further characterizes any opposition to critical race theory as a “racial reckoning” used to whip up conservative voters as “racism is the greatest organizing force” in American history. While denying that critical race theory is taught in American schools, he nonetheless advocates for students to learn it.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Jeffries conducts training for local school districts in Ohio. In one lesson plan for <a href="https://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olentangy Local School District </a>obtained by the Professor Watchlist team, Dr. Jeffries advises teachers on how to teach critical theory and social justice movements to their students.

In Section One—titled, “Confronting Hard History: Teaching and Talking About Race and Racism in K-12 Classrooms,”—Dr. Jeffries addresses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and instructs teachers to incorporate the movement’s tenets into their lesson plans.

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>

Despite the destruction, Dr. Jeffries lauds the protests for seeking justice for systemic racism. He urges educators to incorporate this into their lesson plans when teaching about BLM. He further endorses explicitly discussing race and racial issues in the classroom as not doing so— or what Dr. Jeffries defines it as the “color-blind trap”— seeks to “erase” the experiences of people of color.

In part two of the training, Dr. Jeffries instructs teachers that America was founded in the year 1619 rather than 1776. He states that it is vital to understand the nation was founded on the double-helix of racism and capitalism.

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Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones likewise <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England. <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

To read more on Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones, users can <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">view her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Jones further states that it is vital to teach children how racism is encoded into the Constitution and our founding documents, as well as to regard founding fathers like James Madison as virulent racists.

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Throughout each lecture, Dr. Jeffries stresses the importance of teaching about the lingering effects of racism to students today.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jeffries for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667.
 
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<a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/people/lindsey.268" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Treva Lindsey</a> is an Associate Professor in the <a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ohio State University.</a> According to her university bio, Dr. Lindsay specializes in areas such as African American Women’s History, black feminism, critical race, and gender theory, among other sexual politics.

Dr. Lindsay frequently writes and is invited to lecture about sexual assault prevention on college campuses. In a video of a lecture at Portland State University, Dr. Lindsay can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZugy4C-Udg&amp;ab_channel=PortlandStateUniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting rehabilitating those who’ve committed sexual assault by teaching them to unlearn their “toxic masculinity” and innate homophobia</a>.

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Dr. Treva Lindsay frequently writes for a number of prominent publications—such as <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/9/5/race-in-the-us-herstory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a>, <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/author/14721/treva-lindsey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cosmopolitan</a>, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/opinions/r-kelly-conviction-black-women-and-girls-lindsey/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>— accusing the United States of being systematically racist and calling for the abolishment of policing. She additionally praises the BLM movement for its alleged efforts to combat systemic racism.

Black Lives Matter (BLM,) as an organization, 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 the organization. BLM’s mission is to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.”

In an article for Complex, Dr. Lindsay praises BLM and its umbrella organization, the Movement for Black Lives, for their <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2017/02/black-history-month-five-years-after-trayvon-martin-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">role in awakening Americans to the reality of “anti-black racism</a>.” In the same article, she alleges that “millions” of black Americans have been victims of systemic racism for hundreds of years, and still are today.

In a separate article for NBC News, Dr. Lindsay decries the  passage of Juneteenth, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/juneteenth-honors-black-emancipation-hope-equality-federal-holiday-doesn-t-ncna1271356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describing it as trivial and merely a “symbolic gesture.</a>” A bill to make Juneteenth—a holiday <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abolition-of-slavery-announced-in-texas-juneteenth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrating the announcement that slavery had ended in Texas</a>— a national holiday was passed with the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-signs-bill-making-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday/ar-AAL92UE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan support of both houses</a> before it was signed into law in June of 2020.

Nonetheless, Dr. Lindsay writes that she can’t help but feel “contempt” towards white people for their support, critiquing the holiday as inadequate to combat “sanctioned white supremacy.”

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She mirrors her characterization in an article for Bustle, describing the history of the United States as <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/the-lack-of-mobilized-outrage-for-police-killing-black-women-is-injurious-erasure-22953764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encompassing the murder of black people from slavery to the present day</a>.

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Dr. Lindsay builds on her allegation in another article for Complex, <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2016/09/blue-lives-matter-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">specifically citing “racist policing” and “police brutality'' as the 2 “most visible” forms of state violence</a> against black people. As such, Dr. Lindsay has openly called for the defunding of police on her <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>.
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Since Chauvin’s guilty verdict, there have been at least SIX more people killed by police.
A guilty verdict from a criminal punishment system hellbent on preserving itself- it will continue striking back and out until we dismantle. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/a2noWozUCz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/a2noWozUCz</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1386004406500569090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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We out here just trying to survive policing and calling for defunding and abolishing the police.
Just erasing the history of Pride as originating in rebelling against policing. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/m8v371ftrm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/m8v371ftrm</a> <a href="https://t.co/zYHmwhGH1I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zYHmwhGH1I</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1395174584639438855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In one tweet, she calls for the abolishment of police officers following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant.
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It’s not a police-involved shooting. GTFOH with that passive, non-specific description.
Columbus police KILLED a 15 y/o Black girl named Ma’Khia. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MakhiaBryant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MakhiaBryant</a> should be here and these cruel and violent systems should not. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHerName</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/52PraZ2WaL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/52PraZ2WaL</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1384686732193509388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Referencing an August 2020 incident, a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/04/20/graphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbus, Ohio police officer was called over a domestic dispute involving Bryant</a>. When the officer arrived, Bryant was at the center of a fight with several other girls. Bryant then drew a knife and the responding officer ordered her to drop the weapon. Bryant then lunged at another girl with the knife, causing the officer to shoot and fatally wound her.

Despite <a href="https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1384703749046915074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384703749046915074%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Flaw-and-order%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Fgraphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence from the body-cam exonerating his actions</a>, Dr. Lindsay still alleges the incident is further proof of systemic racism and brutality directed specifically at black Americans. In an article for the site Truthout, she describes the officer’s actions—along with anyone who would defend them—<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/we-are-fighting-for-a-world-where-makhia-bryant-would-have-lived/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as the normalization of police violence and “erasing the long and inglorious history” of police violence against black people</a>. Dr. Lindsay further states that Bryant should still be alive while calling for the defunding and eventual abolishment of police.

“Police do not make us safer. Police do not make Black children safer. Not at school. Not on university campuses. Not at home. As the body camera footage shows, police escalate. The killing of Ma’Khia is yet another painful reminder of why a growing number of people are focusing their energies on building alternatives to policing and demanding that we defund the police. It’s a reminder why so many people are agitating to remove the police from our homes, communities, and schools — and eventually abolish policing altogether.”

Despite her defense of Byrant, Dr. Lindsay holds a paradoxical stance on the police shooting of Ashli Babbitt. In a separate article for Bitch Media, Dr. Lindsay <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/not-applying-say-her-name-to-white-supremacists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends the actions of the Capitol Officer who shot Babbitt</a>. Describing her as a white supremacist—and providing no evidence—who took part in an insurrection alongside a “lynch mob.”

Dr. Lindsay is referring to the January 6th Capitol Hill Riots, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in which a number of protestors breached the Capitol’s Doors during certification of the 2020 Presidential Election</a>. Despite claims to the contrary, even the FBI has determined that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fbi-confirms-there-was-no-insurrection-on-january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence exists that any rioters coordinated to commit an “insurrection.</a>” Ashli Babbitt was shot by Officer Michael Byrd as she attempted to climb through the broken window of a closed door. A review by the DC Metropolitan Police<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/documents-ashli-babbitt-death-foia-capitol-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> confirmed that Babbitt was unarmed when shot</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> of The Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667. 
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<a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/scott-f-leibowitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Scott Leibowitz</a> is an <a href="https://medicine.osu.edu/departments/psychiatry-and-behavioral-health/our-people/our-faculty-h-n" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor</a> in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz is also the Medical Director for Behavioral Health at the THRIVE Gender and Sex Development Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

According to the THRIVE <a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/thrive-program/gender-development" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, “Our behavioral health providers serve patients and families who are seeking gender affirming medical treatment or when gender identity development plays a significant role in their emotional and social wellbeing.”

In June 2021, Dr. Leibowitz and Co-Medical Director of the THRIVE Gender Development Program Dr. Gayathri Chelvakumar, wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/06/23/gayathri-chelvakumar-and-scott-leibowitz-bills-increase-stigma-isolation-many-transgender-youth-fee/5297432001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a> in response to the “national wave of anti-transgender legislation.”

They write, “As healers, we follow ethical guidelines to deliver evidence-informed treatment options that are acknowledged and well-recognized by the academic and professional societies we belong to.” They argue “the last thing that transgender youth need are lawmakers restricting their athletic participation or eliminating important beneficial medical options for them.”

Dr. Leibowitz and Dr. Chelvakumar conclude the article by saying, “We urge our lawmakers to listen to the voices of the transgender youth and families, and those who provide care to them every day and abandon this harmful attempt to further alienate LGBTQ youth.”

Dr. Leibowitz also shared his thoughts about the legislation on Twitter:
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Even the mere introduction of these discriminatory legislative efforts- regardless of their ultimate success- sends a message to trans and gender diverse young people that they are “other”- and that is unacceptable. Support <a href="https://twitter.com/EqualityOhio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EqualityOhio</a> and protect trans youth. <a href="https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R</a>
— Scott Leibowitz, MD (@ScottLeibowitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottLeibowitz/status/1410047097420779522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In March 2023, Dr. Leibowitz—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Dr. Leibowitz is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.”
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Published - July 26, 2023

<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza - using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”

Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”

Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“...Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education - particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”

He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”

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Published - October 31, 2023

Antisemitism

Protests

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

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<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/shari-goldberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shari Goldberg</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her areas of specialization include:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Care and Care Practices”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Illness and Disability”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“History of Psychology, especially Hypnotism and Trauma”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Witnessing and Human Rights”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Literary Theory”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Restivism: the advocacy of rest, through restorative means”</li>
</ul>
Goldberg was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”
Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 
Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”
The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”
The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 
They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Shari Goldberg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published &#8211; April 4, 2024

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<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/quincy-amoah.html">Quincy Amoah</a> is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology/Africana Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

According to his university profile, Amoah “is obsessed with cattle, Nilotic [i.e. pertaining to the Nile River] ‘apparently irrational beliefs,’ and the meaning of ‘good’ when one and their community are dedicated to brigandage.”

Amoah was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America's Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Quincy Amoah to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - March 28, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/stephanie-mcnulty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephanie McNulty</a> is the Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. McNulty’s university profile states she is a “Latin Americanist with expertise in participatory governance, gender, decentralization, and development.”

In March 2021, McNulty co-authored an <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/03/12/colleges-must-acknowledge-challenges-facing-female-academics-who-juggle-work-and#.YHTMhYqX9L4.link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on equity. The authors put forth the following goal to resolve what they deem to be the lessening of diversity and equity caused by COVID-19:
“For starters, every institution must acknowledge the problem and openly address what can appear invisible and ignored to those of us living in this reality. The academy risks emerging from this pandemic with less diversity and gender equity than before unless we change course. The first step is initiating a conversation and listening. Once people have a space to talk openly about their challenges, a lot of problem solving and solutions naturally emerge.”\
McNulty was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Stephanie McNulty to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 2, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/maria-elena-aldea-agudo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maria Elena Aldea Agudo</a> is a Senior Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Language Center at Franklin and Marshall College. 

Aldea Agudo’s university profile describes her academic interest in Spanish history and how it has varied through the years:
“Initially, her scholarship focused on analyzing the idealized representations of war and heroic subjects by Spanish Fascist (Falangist) propaganda in the 1940s.
“After the 2008 economic crisis, her research examined the cinematic and literary depiction of that economic crisis in Spain and how identities were negotiated in this harsh situation. 
“Currently, her work focuses on trauma informed pedagogy.”
Aldea Agudo was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Maria Elena Aldea Agudo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 3, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/erik-anderson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erik Anderson</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, Anderson “specializes in creative nonfiction, with an emphasis on the literary essay, science writing, and hybrid/experimental forms. His current writing projects address topics as various as whiteness, pop music, and kinesthesia.” 

Anderson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Erik Anderson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/christine-chalifoux.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine Chalifoux</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states, “Her research explores how people forge kinship bonds across ethnic lines in a city where stereotypes bear the weight of colonial and postcolonial histories. She is also interested in rethinking the notions of both caregiving and resistance, and all of her work grapples with the dialectical relationship between intimacy and resentment.”

Chalifoux was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Christine Chalifoux to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/zohra-ansari-thomas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zohra Ansari-Thomas</a> is an Assistant Professor of Public Health &amp; Sociology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Ansari-Thomas’s university profile states her “research uses survey data and quantitative methods to examine social and structural inequalities in population health.”

Ansari-Thomas was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Zohra Ansari-Thomas to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/jaime-blair.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaime Blair</a> is a Professor of Biology and the Program Chair of Women's, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Blair was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Jaime Blair to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/tim-bechtel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Bechtel</a> is the Director of F&amp;M Science Outreach &amp; Senior Teaching Professor of Geosciences at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Bechtel was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America's Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Tim Bechtel to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/susan-dicklitch-nelson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Dicklitch-Nelson</a> is a Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that her “research focuses on human rights, specifically Global LGBTI human rights, civil society and democracy.” 

According to the same profile, Dicklitch-Nelson is also “the founder and Principal Investigator (PI) of the <a href="https://www.fandmglobalbarometers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F&amp;M Global Barometers,</a>which include the F&amp;M Global Barometer of Gay RightsTM (F&amp;M GBGR) and the F&amp;M Global Barometer of Transgender RightsTM (F&amp;M GBTR). The F&amp;M Global Barometers are part of the LGBTI Global Human Rights Initiative.”  

Moreover, Dicklitch-Nelson “launched the <a href="https://www.lgbtqiperceptionindex.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQI Perception Index</a>: the first-ever global survey that seeks to shed light on the lived human rights realities of LGBTQI individuals in 204 countries. The LGBTQI Perception Index will complement the <a href="https://www.fandmglobalbarometers.org/summit-for-democracy-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQI Human Rights Report Cards</a> that were prepared for the <a href="https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House Summit for Democracy</a>.”

Dicklitch-Nelson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Susan Dicklitch-Nelson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/bridget-guarasci.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bridget Guarasci</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Guarasci “is an environmental anthropologist whose work examines how war and conflict create ecological life in the Arab majority world … Her scholarship analyzes how the material effects of emplacing water ecologies is a form of political violence.”

Guarasci was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
 Please send information on Bridget Guarasci to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/shari-goldberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shari Goldberg</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her areas of specialization include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Care and Care Practices”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Illness and Disability”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“History of Psychology, especially Hypnotism and Trauma”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Witnessing and Human Rights”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Literary Theory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Restivism: the advocacy of rest, through restorative means”</li>
</ul>
Goldberg was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Shari Goldberg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/abby-schrader.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby M. Schrader</a> is a Professor of History and the Department Chair of History at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that she specializes in Russian literature. Additionally, she writes: 
“At F&amp;M, my teaching reflects my interests in Russian/Soviet and 18th- and 19th-century European history. I incorporate issues related to culture (including literary and visual culture), gender and sexuality, politics broadly conceived, and social trends in all of my courses.”  
Schrader was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Abby M. Schrader to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/josh-rottman.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Rottman</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Scientific &amp; Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Rottman's research lies at the intersection of cognitive development and moral psychology. His work primarily focuses on children's acquisition of moral norms, the role of disgust in moral judgment, and cognitive precursors of environmentalist ethics.” 

Rottman was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Joshua Rottman to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nicholas-montemarano.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicholas Montemarano</a> is the Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres and a Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Montemarano was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Nicholas Montemarano to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/van-gosse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Van Gosse</a> is a Professor of History at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, Gosse states that his “teaching and scholarship have focused on the African American struggle for citizenship, and politics and culture in the Global Cold War.”

Gosse was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Van Gosse to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/peter-fields.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Fields</a> is the Dr. E. Paul &amp; Frances H. Reiff Professor of Biology at Franklin &amp; Marshall University. According to his university profile, Fields’ research focuses on “the biochemical origins of coral bleaching [and] molecular dynamics simulations to describe the effect of environmental stresses on protein function.”

Fields was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Peter Fields to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/barbara-nimershiem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara E. Nimershiem</a> is a Professor of Mathematics at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Nimershiem was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Barbara E. Nimershiem to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/clara-moore.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clara S. Moore</a> is a Professor of Biology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Moore researches “Mouse models for Down syndrome, [and the] effects of trisomy on cardiovascular, skeletal, hematopoietic, and other systems during development.”

Moore was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Clara S. Moore to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/jeremy-moss.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy Moss</a> is an Associate Professor of Film, the Film &amp; Media Program Director, and the Department Chair of Art, Art History &amp; Film at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Jeremy Moss is a filmmaker whose recent experimental works explore fluidity, betweenness, and transgression: unstable boundaries, wavering bodies, shifting landscapes, unsteady frames.”

Moss was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Jeremy Moss to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/leanne-roncolato.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leanne M. Roncolato</a> is an Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Roncolato has “previously worked at the International [sic] Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Her early publications include work on international trade, structural change, and informal employment. Recently, she has been doing research on the economics of gay and lesbian households, the gendered division of care labor, and the economic experience of NYC subway dancers.” 

Roncolato was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Leanne M. Roncolato to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nadra-hebouche.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadra Hebouche</a> is an Associate Professor of Francophone Studies and French and Department Chair of French,Francophone Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that she researches “Francophone postcolonial literature, migrant literature, diasporic identities, [and] ecocriticism.”

Hebouche was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Nadra Hebouche to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/hollie-tripp.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollie L. Tripp</a> is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Tripp researches the following topics:
“[Tripp] researches individual decision-making behavior and government actions to conduct evaluations of public health policies. For example, she evaluated the Affordable Care Act by using qualitative research to explore how individuals navigated the marketplaces and quantitative research of how state variation of those websites affected user experience. Presently, she is using Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform, to understand how individuals make risky decisions about uncertain health outcomes. This study is being used to better understand individual responses to cigarette warning labels and inform tobacco regulations.” 
Tripp was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Hollie L. Tripp to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/firuzeh-shokooh-valle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Firuzeh Shokooh Valle</a> is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Valle “is a feminist sociologist and journalist from Puerto Rico. Her research examines how global development policy and discourse frames the relationships between gender, technology, and science, and the ways in which feminist digital activists mobilize around these issues in Latin America and other regions of the global South. Her work is located within a southern political geography that is in contention with the legacy, and persistence, of colonialism.”

Valle was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Firuzeh Shokooh Valle to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 10, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/elspeth-wilson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elspeth M. Wilson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall University. According to her faculty profile, Wilson’s “scholarship focuses on U.S. citizenship, civil rights, constitutional interpretation, and American political development. She is particularly interested in the problem of civic inequality in the United States and its connection to immigration policy and reproductive law. Her current book project, based on her dissertation (“The Reproduction of Citizenship”), examines how laws and judicial decisions targeting the intimate lives of Americans have shaped hierarchies in U.S. citizenship—particularly involving gender, race, class, religion, and sexuality—throughout the twentieth century.”  

Wilson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Elspeth M. Wilson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 10, 2024

Shari Goldberg

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<a href="https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-edward-j-fuller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Edward J. Fuller</a> is an Assistant Professor of Education at <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a>. On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Fuller called for drunk drivers to run over unvaccinated parents.
The Tweet was a response to school-choice activist <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corey A. DeAngelis&#8217;s</a> opposition to mandatory masking in schools. In his reply, Dr. Fuller asked why parents have the right to endanger children by refusing to enforce mandatory masking. He then appeared to suggest that people with masks should drive while under the influence and run over “pro-covid” parents who oppose mask restrictions, as it is their freedom to do so.
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Penn State professor just deleted this tweet: <a href="https://t.co/as5ipv2nBy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/as5ipv2nBy</a>
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1482850745221324800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Although the Tweet was soon deleted, other users expressed shock and disgust at Dr. Fuller’s remarks.
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The absolute state of the academy, in one tweet
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1482869868131233799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/MADDOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MADDOnline</a>, do you have any comment on <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EdFuller_PSU</a> encouraging drunk driving through neighborhoods with children? <a href="https://t.co/iSFuRKHAju" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/iSFuRKHAju</a>
— Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1482892275386621953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Following the outcry, Human Events Senior Editor and TPUSA Contributor <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/bio/jackposobiec?__cf_chl_f_tk=NbKLQKHG5CNCbj59.eOuSTmRWJzA0IUNA91HEN31UY4-1642546748-0-gaNycGzNCdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Posobiec</a> obtained an internal email from the university administration regarding Dr. Fuller. The letter condemned any calls to violence and stated that his remarks did not represent the university in any way.
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UPDATE: <a href="https://twitter.com/HumanEvents?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HumanEvents</a> has obtained an email from the Dean of the Penn State University College of Education condemning Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EdFuller_PSU</a>&#8216;s call for violence against the children of unvaccinated people <a href="https://t.co/Cnc0Bhayjy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Cnc0Bhayjy</a>
— Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1483236102471401478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Since deleting the Tweet, Dr. Fuller <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has made his previously public Twitter profile private</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Fuller for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the Pennsylvania State University at (814) 865-4700
Updated &#8211; January 18th, 2021

<a href="https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-edward-j-fuller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Edward J. Fuller</a> is an Assistant Professor of Education at <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a>. On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Fuller called for drunk drivers to run over unvaccinated parents.

The Tweet was a response to school-choice activist <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corey A. DeAngelis's</a> opposition to mandatory masking in schools. In his reply, Dr. Fuller asked why parents have the right to endanger children by refusing to enforce mandatory masking. He then appeared to suggest that people with masks should drive while under the influence and run over “pro-covid” parents who oppose mask restrictions, as it is their freedom to do so.
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Penn State professor just deleted this tweet: <a href="https://t.co/as5ipv2nBy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/as5ipv2nBy</a>
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1482850745221324800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Although the Tweet was soon deleted, other users expressed shock and disgust at Dr. Fuller’s remarks.
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The absolute state of the academy, in one tweet
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1482869868131233799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/MADDOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MADDOnline</a>, do you have any comment on <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EdFuller_PSU</a> encouraging drunk driving through neighborhoods with children? <a href="https://t.co/iSFuRKHAju" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/iSFuRKHAju</a>
— Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1482892275386621953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Following the outcry, Human Events Senior Editor and TPUSA Contributor <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/bio/jackposobiec?__cf_chl_f_tk=NbKLQKHG5CNCbj59.eOuSTmRWJzA0IUNA91HEN31UY4-1642546748-0-gaNycGzNCdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Posobiec</a> obtained an internal email from the university administration regarding Dr. Fuller. The letter condemned any calls to violence and stated that his remarks did not represent the university in any way.
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UPDATE: <a href="https://twitter.com/HumanEvents?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HumanEvents</a> has obtained an email from the Dean of the Penn State University College of Education condemning Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EdFuller_PSU</a>'s call for violence against the children of unvaccinated people <a href="https://t.co/Cnc0Bhayjy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Cnc0Bhayjy</a>
— Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1483236102471401478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Since deleting the Tweet, Dr. Fuller <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has made his previously public Twitter profile private</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Fuller for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the Pennsylvania State University at (814) 865-4700
Updated - January 18th, 2021