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<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=45471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aron Janssen</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is also the <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/doctors/janssen-aron-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice Chair</a> of Clinical Affairs for The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.
In March 2023, Dr. Janssen—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. Janssen is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/431" 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.” 
Dr. Janssen is outspoken about his political beliefs on Twitter, where he posted a letter he wrote to his daughters after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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A letter to my daughters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#RoeVsWade</a> <a href="https://t.co/KhLhWVQhrO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/KhLhWVQhrO</a>
— Dr. Aron Janssen (@LGBTDoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTDoc/status/1540389243834466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Janssen also shared his beliefs on <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtdoc?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control</a> after the tragic Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.
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Published &#8211; July 26, 2023

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University is the home of a faculty and student center called the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). According to the institute’s “History” <a href="https://isgmh.northwestern.edu/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">section</a>:
“[ISGMH] was founded in 2015 and is the first university-wide institute in the country focused exclusively on research to improve the health of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community…it was founded with the support of the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, and the Feinberg School of Medicine.”
In June 2024, Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/northwestern-student-govt-calls-segregated-pride-house-lgbt-identifying-students-/25690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Northwestern University’s student body government called for LGBT-identifying students to have segregated housing on campus. The article links to a “Pride House” <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Re-QKyAz6kU1by5rroW9pbla4_UpcuXLSTMOi8-lMNk/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that declares, among other things:
“Whereas, one of the goals of All Gender Housing is to address tensions often felt by queer and transgender students in finding a compatible roommate. All Gender Housing exists allows[sic] any two students to live together regardless of their gender identity—preventing the creation of an LGBTQ community in All-Gender Housing areas.”
Campus Reform said, that according to Northwestern University’s student government <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/gsrc/education/dashboard-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey data</a>, about 25% of students identify as LGBTQ+. The university also <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/02/new-home-for-gender-and-sexuality-resource-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">features</a> a “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center” to support gender-confused students.
Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law is also in the process of defending students&#8217; so-called LGBTQI+ rights, including the right to legally change one’s name to match their gender identity. 
On October 15, The Daily Northwestern <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/10/15/lateststories/northwestern-lgbtqi-rights-clinic-prepares-to-represent-clients-in-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
“Law students are working at the clinic this semester to help four clients through the process of changing their names…’ All of our clients identify as nonbinary or transgender, and thus are seeking to change their names so that their legal name reflects better who they are,’ said Pritzker Prof. Kara Ingelhart, the clinic’s director.”
The source also said a 711 license is required for students who want to represent a client this way and are only “allowed to practice under a licensed attorney.” Campus Reform also <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/-northwestern-law-students-working-changing-legal-names-transgender-identifying-people/26613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered</a> this story, highlighting that the purpose of this project was “the universal right of gender-self-determination” and the “transformative justice principles as necessary alternatives to the criminal punishment system.”
Related articles:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/23/lateststories/lgbtq-affinity-housing-resolution-passes-in-asg-aims-to-foster-community-provide-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ+ affinity housing resolution passes in ASG, aims to foster community, provide support</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (May 23, 2024)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/28/lateststories/pritzker-school-of-law-opens-lgbtqi-rights-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pritzker School of Law Opens LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (Apr. 28, 2024)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/some-allies-dont-want-gay-neighbors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Some ‘allies’ don’t want gay neighbors</a>” by Northwestern News Now (May 6, 2023)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2016/02/29/new-northwestern-institute-commits-to-improving-lgbt-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Northwestern Institute Commits to Improving LGBT Heath</a>” by Northwestern University Campus News (Feb. 29, 2016)</li>
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For more information, enter “Northwestern University” in your search engine. Send tips on Northwestern University to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/butz-arthur.html">Arthur Butz</a> is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. Butz is an open Holocaust denier and has authored a number of books and articles denying that millions of Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps.

In his book, The Hoax of the 20th-Century, Butz <a href="https://archive.org/details/HoaxOfTheTwentiethCentury/page/n231/mode/2up?q=23">claims</a> that there is no proof of any intent by the Nazis to exterminate Europe’s Jews. Butz <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Arthur_Butz">states</a>,

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1090 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-72-e1612455391943-1024x358.png" alt="" width="580" height="203" />Butz has <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/011097holocaust.html">used</a> his university-provided internet access to further publish his views. In an op-ed for the Daily Northwestern, he <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110608193504/http://www.codoh.com/butz/di/intro.html">claimed</a> that the Jews that did perish in the camps died from typhus, and there was no concerted effort by the Nazis to exterminate Jews. In the same article, Butz claimed that the Nuremberg Trials were needed to establish the “legend” of the holocaust, due to there being no physical proof of an extermination campaign by the Germans.

In a 1996 paper, Butz openly <a href="https://codoh.com/library/document/jewish-testimonies-in-the-postwar-era/en/">attacked</a> Holocaust victims, accusing them of “malicious lying,” and greatly exaggerating atrocities suffered by their families:

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In an interview with an Iranian news station, Butz stated that <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-02-04-0602040129-story.html">he agreed</a> with Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a “myth.” He went on to state that the Holocaust was a “deliberately conceived falsehood” in order to create the state of Israel and congratulated the Prime Minister for denying its existence:

“I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on [the Holocaust] and regret only that it was not a Western head of state”

Despite his beliefs, Northwestern University <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2006/02/bienen.html">continues</a> to employ Butz. University President Henry S. Bienen stated that while his opinions are “reprehensible,” no action can be taken as Butz’s views are personal and expressed outside of the classroom.

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Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/laura-beth-nielsen.html">Dr. Laura Beth Nielsen</a> is a Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She wrote in an op-ed that there are good arguments for restricting free speech rights. She said that racist hate speech has been linked to higher rates of smoking and obesity, for example. Supporting her argument for restricting speech, she pointed out that recently the Supreme Court ruled that a music group ("The Slants", a band made up of Asian-Americans) was allowed to use a derogatory name as their band name, although she did not point out the band was using the name to mock people who use the name in a derogatory fashion.

<a href="https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/steven-thrasher.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Steven Thrasher</a> is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and the Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting at Northwestern University. His university biography details his role as having an “emphasis on issues relevant to the LGBTQ community.” 

Professor Thrasher is on record defending the riots and looting that occurred in response to George Floyd's death. In an interview with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/866306943/officials-have-condemned-violence-amid-george-floyd-protests-journalist-steven-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>, he described the rampant destruction and burning of police stations by rioters as a "proportionate response."

Thrasher was previously the subject of controversy after his <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/nyu-graduation-speaker-calls-trump-a-fascist-praises-anti-israel-bds-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commencement speech</a> at New York University, in which he referred to then-President Donald Trump as a “fascist” saying:

“Many of us have been together at Occupy Wall Street, and at Black Lives Matter protests, and against that fascist in the White House … I am so proud, so proud, of NYU’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace for supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against the apartheid state government in Israel.”

It was later discovered that he had made numerous <a href="https://www.israellycool.com/2019/05/24/exposed-bds-professor-stephen-thrashers-antisemitic-tweets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic remarks</a> on his <a href="https://x.com/thrasherxy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>. He also posts LGBTQ celebrations.
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This website <a href="https://twitter.com/Polymarket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Polymarket</a>, where you can place bets on when people will be murdered by Israel, is the most crudely genocidal forms of market capitalism I’ve seen since viaticals. Death as speculative finance. A sign of a truly diseased society. <a href="https://t.co/KXffrdbTxT">https://t.co/KXffrdbTxT</a> <a href="https://t.co/buQeBlisM0">pic.twitter.com/buQeBlisM0</a>
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is on summer writing hiatus 🔻 (@thrasherxy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1802103834799390837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Well, it’s been a tough school yr &amp; summer begins NOW, but I’ll tell you one thing I learned: how I want to be in the world as a professor. I want to be outdoors, working as a team, teaching &amp; learning with the public—&amp; I want to help folx know how loved they are.
Happy Pride. <a href="https://t.co/dFJUrvKktt">pic.twitter.com/dFJUrvKktt</a>

— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is on summer writing hiatus 🔻 (@thrasherxy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1804619054797262977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Hello Chicago gays, lesbians, queers, bisexuals, trans folx and allies! We are down at the <a href="https://twitter.com/ISGMH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ISGMH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NorthwesternU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NorthwesternU</a> tent at Pride Fest on Halstead. We’re giving away Narcan, fentanyl test strips, first aid kits, sharing about our research &amp; recruiting for our studies. Come say hi! <a href="https://t.co/HVoHQSqXeu">pic.twitter.com/HVoHQSqXeu</a>
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is on summer writing hiatus 🔻 (@thrasherxy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1804543809474248771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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PROTESTS; ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT

During anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the United States, Thrasher <a href="https://lithub.com/you-are-being-lied-to-about-gaza-solidarity-camps-by-university-presidents-mainstream-media-and-politicians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial</a> with Lit Hub in which he claimed the public was being lied to about the violence reported by mainstream media. 

Upon visiting several “Liberation Zones”, Thrasher wrote:
“Over the previous few days, I had gone to bed or woken up to dark, war-like scenes of unspeakable violence waged by police and state troopers who were often wielding machine guns, lobbing chemical weapons, and shooting rubber-coated bullets. Though some of the police raids happened in daylight, most have happened at night, with projectile-gun blasts and flash bangs lighting up sinister spectacles of utter chaos.”
He further declared:

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Updated - July 2024

Dr. Sumanas Jordan is an <a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=41686#publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery and the founding director of Northwestern Medicine’s Gender Pathways Program.</a> She has been performing gender-affirming surgeries at Northwestern Medicine since 2018.

The <a href="https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/gender-pathways-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Pathways Program</a> is “committed to providing gender-affirming care to transgender and gender nonbinary patients.” A 2020 <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/06/gender-pathways-program-makes-trans-health-care-a-priority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Now</a> article says the program “offers feminizing and masculinizing facial, top and bottom surgeries, as well as connections for hormone therapy, primary care, preventative health screenings and laser hair removal.”

Dr. Jordan was the lead author of a study released in September 2022, titled <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2796426?resultClick=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Top Surgery and Chest Dysphoria Among Transmasculine and Nonbinary Adolescents and Young Adults.”</a> The study sought to answer the question: “Does gender-affirming top surgery improve chest dysphoria, gender congruence, and body image in transmasculine and nonbinary adolescents and young adults?”

The participants in the study ranged in age from 13 to 24, with an average age of 18. In a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-surgery-transgender-teens-northwestern-study-20220926-2yrapzgitzatla6cnzv2xqhzvm-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Tribune</a> article about the study, Dr. Jordan states:
“Our findings are that top surgery (to remove the breasts) benefits these teenagers and young adults.”
She adds that she does not believe all teens should be required to delay these life-altering surgeries until age 18:
“If you had any other medical conditions where you said, ‘I’m not going to treat your diabetes or high blood pressure until you’re 18’ or ‘I’m going to hold off on treating you for years,’ it’s not ethical to withhold care for that long.” 
In a <a href="https://news.nm.org/study-top-surgery-significantly-improves-quality-of-life-in-transmasculine-and-nonbinary-teens-and-young-adults/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Medicine press release</a>, Dr. Jordan states:
“Patients who choose gender-affirming top surgery feel better about their bodies, and it enhances their quality of life. Our hope is that this study will now be used as a resource for teens, young adults and for families who want to learn more about surgical transition options.” 
Dr. Jordan’s <a href="https://northwesternplasticsurgery.com/chicago-plastic-surgery/sumanas-jordan-md/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography</a> states that she “welcomes all gender identities and offers top surgery, vaginoplasty, and phalloplasty for transgender and non-binary individuals.”

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Published - October 12, 2022

Thomas Billard is an <a href="https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/thomas-billard.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor in the School of Communication</a> and, by courtesy, the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. Billard goes by ‘TJ’ and uses ‘they/them’ and ‘he/him’ pronouns. He is the founding executive director of the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies</a> in Chicago and editor of the Center’s flagship journal, the <a href="https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.</a>

Professor Billard has been outspoken against legislation preventing children from receiving hormones and sex reassingment surgeries. After Arkansas became the first state to prohibit physicians from providing hormone treatments, puberty blockers, or surgeries to minors, Billard was quoted in a <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/04/whats-the-impact-on-transgender-youth-of-arkansas-ban-and-other-legislation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Now</a> article:
“What is happening in Arkansas is merely the latest instance of conservatives weaponizing health misinformation against transgender communities to justify discrimination. Arkansas legislators called their bill the Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, but the fact is gender-affirming care for transgender youth is safe and necessary.” 
He continues:
“And outlawing that care will cost trans lives. Doctors know this. Trans people know this. Arkansas legislators know this. But conservatives exploit public unawareness of the intricacies of transgender medical care, peddle misinformation and then use that misinformation to justify prejudicial legislation.” 
After Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, Billard was asked his thoughts on the <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/06/virtual-press-conference-on-roe-v-wade-reversal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implications of the ruling</a> for issues such as trans rights, same-sex marriage and contraception access. He stated:
“When we look across the landscape of the conservative movement’s legislative efforts in different states, it’s part of a general program of attacking bodily autonomy and private rights to necessary health care.”
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Published - October 14, 2022

Dr. Diana Bowen is an<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=42765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">  Assistant Professor of Pediatric, Adolescent, Transitional and Adult Urology at Northwestern.</a> She is also a founding member and surgeon in Northwestern Medicine’s Gender Pathways Program.

The<a href="https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/gender-pathways-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Gender Pathways Program</a> is a multidisciplinary program “committed to providing gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary patients.” A 2020<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/06/gender-pathways-program-makes-trans-health-care-a-priority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Northwestern Now</a> article says the program “offers feminizing and masculinizing facial, top and bottom surgeries, as well as connections for hormone therapy, primary care, preventative health screenings and laser hair removal.”

In a<a href="https://breakthroughsforphysicians.nm.org/providing-gender-affirming-care-to-transgender-and-gender-diverse-patients.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> video for Northwestern Medicine,</a> Dr. Bowen says her role is to “provide urologic support for the transgender surgeries.” She states that the surgeries she performs include “transfeminine surgeries such as gender-affirming vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty as well as gender-affirming phalloplasty and prosthetic implant device.”

In 2022, Bowen participated in a discussion on how to invite “transgender” patients into medical communities. In a <a href="https://www.urologytimes.com/view/lugpa-speaker-on-welcoming-gender-diverse-patients-in-the-urology-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three-minute recap</a>, Bowen declared:
“My talk was really focused on tips and tricks for welcoming any gender-diverse patient into your practice, [and] how to make them have a great healthcare experience—both in the general clinic sense and also for any urologic complaint they come in with—and really outside of the bottom surgery aspect that we talk about so frequently.”
“Bottom surgery” refers to a biological male having his penis reconstructed into a “vagina.”

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Send tips, updates, and information on Diana Bowen to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated - July 2024
Published - October 20, 2022

<a href="https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/sylvia-perry.html">Sylvia Perry</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. 

She also serves as the Principle Investigator for the<a href="http://www.sciplab.com/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes</a> (SCIP) Laboratory, which studies the spread of inherent, racial bias in children, parents, and communities. 

Perry encourages parents to discuss race, police brutality, and white privilege with their children. During an interview with the campus's news site <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/02/experts-on-black-history-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Now</a>, Perry decries parents who take a “passive approach” in talking about race. She alleges that children absorb society's racial stances and even toddlers can understand race: 

“If your child can have a conversation with you, they are old enough to start having conversations about race. As early as preschool, children start showing racial group favoritism.” 

In a study titled, “<a href="https://psyarxiv.com/3xdg8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Initial Evidence that Parent-Child Conversations about Race Reduce Racial Biases Among White US Children</a>,” Perry accuses children of harboring innate “pro-white/anti-black” biases. Dr. Perry concludes that parents can help their children become “race-conscious” by eschewing “color-blind” stances and fostering uncomfortable discussions about racism.  

Another study—“<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b346ade4fcb5df8e55a622/t/5fd970632ef1c91c7feb6ac2/1608085603904/George+et+al.+Child+Development+LOI.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raising an Anti-Racist Child: Black Americans Parents’ Perceptions of and Recommendations for White Parents</a>,”—alleges racial conversations are needed to foster “anti-racism” within children successfully. 

In his paper, “<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545064/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Socialization Messages in White Parents’ Discussions of Current Events Involving Racism</a>,” Perry praises the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement for raising white Americans' consciousness about white privilege, police brutality, and systemic racism. 

While acknowledging that BLM is useful in facilitating “color-conscious conversations,” Dr. Perry is still dismayed by the majority of white Americans whom she claims still resist the idea they benefit from their race. She concludes that researchers must determine how to better direct white people to discuss the aforementioned issues—namely whiteness—so parents are equipped to discuss their racial privilege.

 
Published - December 5, 2022

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28078" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Chen</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry &amp; Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. She is also the founding psychologist of Lurie Children’s Gender &amp; Sex Development Program.

Campus Reform reports that Chen was in charge of a study that was criticized for having no control group. The study—”<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones</a>”—analyzed 315 participants, between the ages of 12 and 20, over the course of two years.

Participants received “gender-affirming hormones,” which are hormones to make their male or female bodies resemble bodies of the opposite sex. Chen claims, “During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased.”

However, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>—an organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals—questioned the study’s lack of a control group. In a report provided to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>, Do No Harm calls the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific.” Stanley Goldfarb, board chair at Do No Harm, said:
“The absence of any control group raises the possibility that ongoing psychological counseling and therapy may explain the slight improvement in some parameters of the study.” 
Do No Harm’s report also notes:
“The researchers and four clinics featured in this study have a well-publicized history of radical activism and advocacy for the medical transition of children … Given this obvious bias, there is a high likelihood that study participants were steered towards responses that align with the activism promoted by these clinics.” 
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21832" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that Chen is now part of another study, called “A Longitudinal Study of Gender Nonconformity in Prepubescent Children.” The study looks at the effects of the social transition of kids as young as six years old.

In March 2023, Chen—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.”
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Published - April 12, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=11319#publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Garofalo</a> is a Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University and Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. According to his university profile, his “primary clinical and research activities relate to the care of marginalized youth populations including HIV+ and LGBT young people.”

Garofalo was part of a study—led by coworker <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/dianechen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Chen</a>—that was criticized for having no control group.  The study—”<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones</a>”—analyzed 315 participants, between the ages of 12 and 20, over the course of two years.

Participants received “gender-affirming hormones,” which are hormones to make their male or female bodies resemble bodies of the opposite sex. Chen claims, “During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased.”

However, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>—an organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals—questioned the study’s lack of a control group. In a report provided to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>, Do No Harm calls the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific.” Stanley Goldfarb, board chair at Do No Harm, said:
“The absence of any control group raises the possibility that ongoing psychological counseling and therapy may explain the slight improvement in some parameters of the study.” 
Do No Harm’s report also notes:
“The researchers and four clinics featured in this study have a well-publicized history of radical activism and advocacy for the medical transition of children … Given this obvious bias, there is a high likelihood that study participants were steered towards responses that align with the activism promoted by these clinics.” 
In March 2023, Garofalo—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.”
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Published - April 17, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Simons</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. According to her university profile, her “interests and expertise [are] in mental health care for adolescents, suicide prevention, LGBT health, and gender-affirming health care.”

In March 2023, Simons—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.” 
Simons is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/1768" 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 - May 1, 2023

<a href="https://afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/barnor-hesse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barnor Hesse</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Studies, and Sociology at Northwestern University. According to his university profile, his research interests include, but are not limited to: black political thought, blackness and affect, and race and governmentality.

Hesse teaches several undergraduate courses, including “Unsettling Whiteness” and “Racism in Western Modernity.” The course description for “<a href="https://class-descriptions.northwestern.edu/4820/WCAS/AF_AM_ST/39740" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unsettling Whiteness</a>” says the course “will examine whiteness in four main ways: as the racialization of white populations; as the formation of white supremacy; as the cultural institution of the White Gaze; and as the regime of White Democracy.”

“<a href="https://afam.northwestern.edu/courses/2021-2022/class-schedules/spring-2022-class-schedule.html#courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racism in Western Modernity</a>” says the course “is not overly concerned with empirical case studies or attitudinal assessments; it promotes a conceptual approach rather than a descriptive one.” Instead:
“It will be concerned with explaining the apparent racial discrepancies and racial injustices of western modernity (e.g. democracies combined with racism, liberalism combined with imperialism) and how those racial discrepancies and racial injustices inform, shape and define western societies like the United States.” 
Hesse created a resource called “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-public-school-asks-parents-to-reflect-on-their-whiteness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The 8 White Identities</a>.” East Side Community School in Manhattan came under fire after they gave “The 8 White Identities” to every parent “as part of a series of materials meant for reflection” and as “food for thought.”

Hesse’s curriculum claims,
“There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are one of these. It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others.” 
Hesse’s “white identities” range from “White Supremacist” to “White Abolitionist:”

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2990" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-24-at-9.05.57-AM.png" alt="" width="346" height="411" />

The district also handed out the following color-coordinated meter:

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2991" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-24-at-9.05.25-AM.png" alt="" width="717" height="405" />

Hesse was <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/05/22/campus/black-studies-is-inclusivity-and-community-black-to-front-symposium-celebrates-department-renaming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a May 2023 symposium</a> called “Black to Front.” The event was held to celebrate the Department of African American Studies being renamed to Black Studies. At the event, Hesse discussed his views on the relationships between black studies and the world, saying:
“Black Studies doesn’t just see democracy. It sees democracy and white supremacy. The only democracy we’ve ever known in Western society is a white democracy. Black studies doesn’t just see Western civilization. It sees as the conditions of Western civilization, Western barbarism. So you see, with that angle of vision, how the world seems to tilt almost on its axis.”
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Published - May 26, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=45471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aron Janssen</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is also the <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/doctors/janssen-aron-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice Chair</a> of Clinical Affairs for The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.

In March 2023, Dr. Janssen—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. Janssen is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/431" 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.” 
Dr. Janssen is outspoken about his political beliefs on Twitter, where he posted a letter he wrote to his daughters after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
A letter to my daughters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#RoeVsWade</a> <a href="https://t.co/KhLhWVQhrO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/KhLhWVQhrO</a>
— Dr. Aron Janssen (@LGBTDoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTDoc/status/1540389243834466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dr. Janssen also shared his beliefs on <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtdoc?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control</a> after the tragic Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.

<img class="alignnone wp-image-3070 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-26-at-2.52.33-PM.png" alt="" width="596" height="711" />

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Published - July 26, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=34110" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claire Coyne</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is also a part of the Gender Development Program at Lurie Children’s Hospital. According to her university <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/for-healthcare-professionals/education/medical-education-training/internships-and-externships/clinical-psychology-internship/meet-our-psychologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a>, her “primary research interests include psychosocial functioning and behavioral health interventions for transgender/gender-expansive youth.”

In March 2023, Coyne—along with <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of other professors</a>—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The full statement can be seen below:
We are clinicians and researchers who work with and study transgender and gender diverse youth. Many of us are involved in debates about how best to care for transgender and gender diverse youth – debates about to whom, when, and how gender affirming medical care might best be provided.  Discussion of some of these debates has moved into the public sphere. We hold varying perspectives on these issues and sometimes disagree.
However, often lost in the public version of these debates is our strong agreement about two central points that we wish to highlight here. 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. As with all medical care, we believe an adolescent’s health care, including their access to gender affirming medical care, should be determined by the youth along with their families and health care teams. 
Recently, our internal debate and media reports of our debate concerning how best to care for transgender youth have been cited to support laws banning gender affirmative medical care for minors, punishing doctors who provide this care, or otherwise limiting this care. 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 medical care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.
We will continue to debate aspects of gender affirming care, just as clinicians and researchers in all areas of medicine debate aspects of care. We will continue to update our views as new data and more evidence are accrued. However, we request that politicians and others stop using our debates to justify bans of gender affirmative care. We wish to state for the public record, we do not support these efforts.
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Published - May 1, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=16112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katie Watson</a> is an Associate Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Science, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University. According to Watson’s university profile, she is well known for her “scholarship in abortion ethics, practice, and law.”

Watson wrote a June 2023 opinion piece for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230624112626/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/feminist-family-values-roe-wade-18168285.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houston Chronicle</a> titled, “One year post-roe, it’s time for feminist ‘family values.’” She asserts, “The Supreme Court was stunningly wrong to reverse Roe v. Wade, and historians will judge it harshly.” However, she goes on to say that she does not wish for the return of Roe v. Wade, rather:
“I want something better: reproductive justice legislation and state constitutional amendments that protect the right to not have children, the right to have children, the right to parent the children we have and help doing all of the above when we need it.” 
Throughout the article, Watson calls for a “fresh set of family values.” She believes family values have long been the “code for a decrepit view that women were born to be slaves to biology, babies and men.” Instead, “Valuing women’s brains and hearts more than their uteruses means respecting when they don’t want to have a baby - now, again or ever - and also respecting when they do.”

Watson also believes the term “mothering” no longer solely applies to women, saying:
“...’Mothering’ can be understood as gender-neutral: Some women don’t give their children the nurturing they need, and many men and nonbinary people do. ‘Mothering’ is shorthand for the investment in children women have historically made, but now is open to anyone.” 
In July 2023, Watson co-authored an article for <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/28/doctors-providing-abortion-referral-information-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STAT News</a> titled, “Doctors in states that ban abortion can still refer patients elsewhere. Why are so few doing that?” Watson and her co-authors claim “all-options pregnancy counseling has been the governing standard of care for decades” and doctors have an “ethical imperative” to provide abortion information to their patients.
“Doctors’ silence violates their central ethical obligations to respect patients’ autonomy, advance justice, and promote beneficence.” 
The authors encourage doctors to break the law if necessary, quoting the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics’ preamble that instructs, “In exceptional circumstances of unjust laws, ethical responsibilities should supersede legal duties.” They allege:
“When doctors prioritize their own interests in avoiding potential legal risks above the health of their patients, they negate their core ethical and professional obligations to their patients.” 
They conclude by calling on professional organizations within the healthcare field to “adopt guidelines requiring the sharing of abortion information. They should specify, at a minimum, that clinicians share the names of trusted websites where patients can find accurate information about abortion options, and counsel their patients on data privacy.”

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Published - September 11, 2023

<a href="https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/directory/profiles/al-hroub-khaled.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khaled AL-Hroub</a> is a professor in residence at Northwestern University’s overseas campus in Qatar. According to his university profile, his focus is “Middle Eastern studies and politics with particular interest on Islam and politics, Arab-Israeli conflict and Arab media studies.”

On October 16, 2023, Hroub was a guest on the Boston NPR (WBUR) program “On Point.” During the interview, Hroub “expressed doubt that women and children had been killed by Hamas” during the terror group’s attack on Israel. WBUR <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/10/16/hamas-a-history-lesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled the program from national distribution</a> and released a statement that read, in part:
“This episode of On Point did not meet our editorial standards. It is paramount to acknowledge when our work falls short of our standards. … The program was live and as it progressed, Professor Hroub expressed doubt that women and children had been killed by Hamas in its October 7 attack on Israel.”
“On Point Host Meghna Chakrabarti countered with statements of fact to correct the record. But that does not negate the impact of hearing Professor Hroub’s statements. On Point strives to contribute thoughtfully to the public discourse, and in an environment where misinformation is both rampant and dangerous, we felt compelled to pull this hour of our programming from national distribution after its initial broadcast.” 
During the program, Hroub claimed he had not seen any “credible” reporting that Hamas terrorists had killed civilians in their beds. He also stated, “We have read of course, you know, the beheading of 40 babies and raping women and all of that, and of course, when you hear these things, I myself, I was shocked and then it turned out to be kind of fabricated and all of that.”

Hroub believes Israeli media feeds “misinformation” to the public and defended his comments to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-affiliate-pulls-show-after-guest-doubted-hamas-killed-women-children-during-terror-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>:
“I said that the source of all the stories about Hamas beheading 40 babies and raping women were mostly Israeli. These stories proved to be all lies, baseless and fabricated. By the same token, all the figures about the dead on the Israeli side come from Israeli sources, including the breakdown of numbers between soldiers and civilians. There is no third and/or neutral party to verify these news and figures, and names of the killed. I’m not defending Hamas here, I’m asking for verified information.” 
Northwestern University has tried to distance itself from Hroub’s comments and released the following <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/10/university-statement-on-professor-khaled-al-hroubs-interview-with-wbur/?fj=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“While Northwestern firmly supports academic freedom and freedom of expression, we condemn any attempt to minimize or misrepresent the horrific killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas on Oct. 7. Khaled AL-Hroub’s opinions are his own. Individual faculty members do not represent the views or beliefs of the University.” 
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Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/moya-bailey.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moya Bailey</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Bailey’s work “focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine.”

Bailey authored a book titled “<a href="https://www.transformisogynoir.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Misogynoir Transformed</a>,” which highlights “black women’s digital resistance to anti-black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other platforms.” The term “misogynoir” was coined by Bailey and added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2023. She defines the term as “the anti-black, racist misogyny that black women—and people perceived as black women—experience.”

As an <a href="https://magazine.northwestern.edu/voices/moya-bailey-misogynoir-racism-misogyny-merriam-webster-digital-apothecary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">example of “misogynoir,”</a> Bailey cites the maternal morbidity rates for black women. She attributes the higher negative health outcomes to “misogynoir,” saying, “There’s no other explanation except for the particular combination of anti-black racism and misogyny that’s impacting their birthing experiences.”

Bailey is the director and founder of the <a href="https://www.digitalapothecary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Apothecary lab</a>, “a hybrid digital and physical lab dedicated to combining ancient and new technologies in an effort to produce processes and projects that aid those most marginalized in society.”

One of the <a href="https://www.digitalapothecary.org/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lab’s projects</a> “Ethical Internet?” is described by Bailey:
“While there can be no ethical engagement with the internet under capitalism, I do think there is a less harmful path for our web wandering to take, one that my students and I have begun to explore in a course of the same name.” 
Bailey wrote an article on “ethical internet” for <a href="https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/an-ethical-internet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just Tech</a> in which she refers to the internet as a “<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-lab-envisions-ethical-internet-without-capitalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military-derived technology</a>.” She recounts her family getting the internet for the first time when she was in fifth grade.
“Little did I know that this access was afforded to me because of my Western, class, and educational privilege. I did not know about the child labor of girls who looked like me and who would also have been in the fifth grade, mining for minerals that made my internet connection possible in what we now recognize as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” 
Bailey claims the internet “relies on oppression to exist” and says she seeks answers to the following questions:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can this military-derived, exploitatively built, capitalistically driven, entity of the internet be reconfigured from the ground up in a way that doesn’t exploit human or natural resources?”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can the internet be just?”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can we have an ethical internet?”</li>
</ul>
One of her potential solutions to these questions is “internet quiet hours, where the internet sleeps as we do, light pollution is eradicated, and electrical waves are reduced.” She concludes, “If we are willing to slow down and move with intention, then we may be able to develop sustainable and non-exploitative internet infrastructures that attend to the people and resources throughout the digital supply chain.”

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Published - November 17, 2023

Northwestern University is the home of a faculty and student center called the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). According to the institute’s “History” <a href="https://isgmh.northwestern.edu/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">section</a>:

“[ISGMH] was founded in 2015 and is the first university-wide institute in the country focused exclusively on research to improve the health of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community…it was founded with the support of the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, and the Feinberg School of Medicine.”

In June 2024, Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/northwestern-student-govt-calls-segregated-pride-house-lgbt-identifying-students-/25690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Northwestern University’s student body government called for LGBT-identifying students to have segregated housing on campus. The article links to a “Pride House” <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Re-QKyAz6kU1by5rroW9pbla4_UpcuXLSTMOi8-lMNk/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that declares, among other things:

“Whereas, one of the goals of All Gender Housing is to address tensions often felt by queer and transgender students in finding a compatible roommate. All Gender Housing exists allows[sic] any two students to live together regardless of their gender identity—preventing the creation of an LGBTQ community in All-Gender Housing areas.”

Campus Reform said, that according to Northwestern University’s student government <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/gsrc/education/dashboard-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey data</a>, about 25% of students identify as LGBTQ+. The university also <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/02/new-home-for-gender-and-sexuality-resource-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">features</a> a “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center” to support gender-confused students.

Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law is also in the process of defending students' so-called LGBTQI+ rights, including the right to legally change one’s name to match their gender identity. 

On October 15, The Daily Northwestern <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/10/15/lateststories/northwestern-lgbtqi-rights-clinic-prepares-to-represent-clients-in-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:

“Law students are working at the clinic this semester to help four clients through the process of changing their names…’ All of our clients identify as nonbinary or transgender, and thus are seeking to change their names so that their legal name reflects better who they are,’ said Pritzker Prof. Kara Ingelhart, the clinic’s director.”

The source also said a 711 license is required for students who want to represent a client this way and are only “allowed to practice under a licensed attorney.” Campus Reform also <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/-northwestern-law-students-working-changing-legal-names-transgender-identifying-people/26613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered</a> this story, highlighting that the purpose of this project was “the universal right of gender-self-determination” and the “transformative justice principles as necessary alternatives to the criminal punishment system.”

Related articles:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/23/lateststories/lgbtq-affinity-housing-resolution-passes-in-asg-aims-to-foster-community-provide-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ+ affinity housing resolution passes in ASG, aims to foster community, provide support</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (May 23, 2024)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/28/lateststories/pritzker-school-of-law-opens-lgbtqi-rights-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pritzker School of Law Opens LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (Apr. 28, 2024)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/some-allies-dont-want-gay-neighbors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Some ‘allies’ don’t want gay neighbors</a>” by Northwestern News Now (May 6, 2023)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2016/02/29/new-northwestern-institute-commits-to-improving-lgbt-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Northwestern Institute Commits to Improving LGBT Heath</a>” by Northwestern University Campus News (Feb. 29, 2016)</li>
</ul>
For more information, enter “Northwestern University” in your search engine. Send tips on Northwestern University to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

LGBTQ

Anti-2nd Amendment

Abortion

Aron Janssen

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<a href="https://flc.losrios.edu/about-us/contact-us/employee-directory/employee?id=0011506&amp;xid=x77143" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Fernandez</a> is listed as an English professor at Folsom Lake College. Fernandez appears to have undergone a physical transformation during his tenure. This undated photo was sourced from his faculty profile page:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3859" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.35.45 AM.png" alt="" width="400" height="403" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.35.45 AM.png 688w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.35.45 AM-297x300.png 297w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.35.45 AM-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" />
The photo below comes from an article by The Real News Network <a href="https://therealnews.com/a-professor-started-an-anti-fascist-college-club-and-found-himself-under-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entitled</a> “A professor started an anti-fascist college club—and found himself under investigation.” The article was published in February 2024.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3860" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.36.16 AM.png" alt="" width="400" height="403" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.36.16 AM.png 688w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.36.16 AM-297x300.png 297w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.36.16 AM-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" />
The following picture was used in an August 19, 2024 <a href="https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/08/19/los-rios-prison-and-reentry-education-program-faculty-cleared-of-wrongdoing-following-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Los Rios Prison and Reentry Education Program faulty cleared of wrongdoing following an investigation.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3861" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.37.14 AM.png" alt="" width="400" height="517" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.37.14 AM.png 688w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.37.14 AM-232x300.png 232w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" />
The Real News Network <a href="https://therealnews.com/a-professor-started-an-anti-fascist-college-club-and-found-himself-under-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> includes a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk9UKpjA-8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast interview</a> transcript featuring Fernandez’s account of the so-called “anti-fascist club” he recruited students to join. Further comments on the incident are found in his autobiography “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hands_that_Crafted_the_Bomb/1WS2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+hands+that+crafted+the+bomb&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hands That Crafted the Bomb</a>.”
During the interview, Fernandez introduced himself by stating:
“I’ve been an anti-racist organizer for most of my life, starting with anti-racist action back when I was a kid and continuing to this day. So that takes up the entirety of my life. I’m married with two children, so growing up in this weird ass world we live in I’m trying to teach them some of the things I’ve learned along the way in terms of anti-racist organizing and trying to bring that into my classroom a little bit.” 
When asked about the process of writing his book, Fernandez stated that his “notes were full of rage” as he reflected on a past of drug addiction, abandonment by his father, and being investigated. He also described the writing process as “brutal” and “traumatic” and said the framing of the book was based on the “post-Charlottesville craze of red scare against Antifa.”
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Memoir of an anti-fascist w/Josh Fernandez" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zk9UKpjA-8w" width="951" height="535" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
Reflecting on the investigation into his anti-fascist club, Fernandez wrote in the opening of <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hands_that_Crafted_the_Bomb/1WS2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+hands+that+crafted+the+bomb&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his novel</a>:
“I am a Mexican, but not dark like my ancestors…Because of my racial ambiguity, I see the school administrators eyeing me, wondering if I’m easy to tame…Because I understand the severity of being called before the college administration, I bring with me two union reps.”
He continued:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3862" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458-1024x742.png" alt="" width="500" height="362" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458-1024x742.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458-300x217.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458-768x557.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458-1200x870.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458.png 1250w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />
In July 2024, Fernandez was <a href="https://www.corrections1.com/investigations/calif-prison-education-programs-future-uncertain-after-investigation-of-9-faculty-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> as one of nine professors being investigated for using improper teaching methods with imprisoned students. Some students penned complaint letters declaring their counseling needs were unmet and textbooks were not provided for the course. Fernandez, among others, also allegedly went against protocol by having the prisoners complete assignments outside the approved syllabus and transporting students’ papers off the premises.
The August 2024 <a href="https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/08/19/los-rios-prison-and-reentry-education-program-faculty-cleared-of-wrongdoing-following-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by CapRadio said Fernandez was cleared of wrongdoing by the Los Rios Community College District’s Prison and Reentry Education Program. 
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3863" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1-1024x791.png" alt="" width="500" height="386" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1-1024x791.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1-300x232.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1-768x594.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1-1200x927.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />
Please send tips on Joshua Fernandez to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; October 30, 2024

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<a href="https://flc.losrios.edu/about-us/contact-us/employee-directory/employee?id=0002089&amp;xid=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tamara Cheshire</a> is a Professor and Ethnic Studies Department Chair at Folsom Lake College (FLC). The “Ethnic Studies” <a href="https://flc.losrios.edu/academics/programs-and-majors/ethnic-studies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overview</a> says the field of study “is an interdisciplinary and diverse field that gives voice to historically marginalized peoples and their perspectives by challenging systems of injustice and valuing diversity.”

Cheshire is outspoken on social media in support of the radical group <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter</a> and anti-capitalist Bernie Sanders.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3478 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-01-at-5.45.40 PM.png" alt="" width="551" height="445" />

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3479 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-01-at-5.45.55 PM.png" alt="" width="491" height="430" />

In 2023, Cheshire hosted an online presentation called “<a href="https://youtu.be/_ArMxyzJtS0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Profiles in Equity and Excellence</a>,” where she began her talk with a land acknowledgment. She also invited participants to “take a minute and think about whose tribal land you’re on.”

<iframe title="Profiles in Equity and Excellence: Dr. Tamara Cheshire" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ArMxyzJtS0" width="1100" height="562" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Please send tips and information on Tamara Cheshire to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 

&nbsp;

<a href="https://flc.losrios.edu/about-us/contact-us/employee-directory/employee?id=0011506&amp;xid=x77143" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Fernandez</a> is listed as an English professor at Folsom Lake College. Fernandez appears to have undergone a physical transformation during his tenure. This undated photo was sourced from his faculty profile page:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3859" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.35.45 AM.png" alt="" width="400" height="403" />

The photo below comes from an article by The Real News Network <a href="https://therealnews.com/a-professor-started-an-anti-fascist-college-club-and-found-himself-under-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entitled</a> “A professor started an anti-fascist college club—and found himself under investigation.” The article was published in February 2024.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3860" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.36.16 AM.png" alt="" width="400" height="403" />

The following picture was used in an August 19, 2024 <a href="https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/08/19/los-rios-prison-and-reentry-education-program-faculty-cleared-of-wrongdoing-following-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Los Rios Prison and Reentry Education Program faulty cleared of wrongdoing following an investigation.”

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3861" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-10.37.14 AM.png" alt="" width="400" height="517" />

The Real News Network <a href="https://therealnews.com/a-professor-started-an-anti-fascist-college-club-and-found-himself-under-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> includes a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk9UKpjA-8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast interview</a> transcript featuring Fernandez’s account of the so-called “anti-fascist club” he recruited students to join. Further comments on the incident are found in his autobiography “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hands_that_Crafted_the_Bomb/1WS2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+hands+that+crafted+the+bomb&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hands That Crafted the Bomb</a>.”

During the interview, Fernandez introduced himself by stating:

“I’ve been an anti-racist organizer for most of my life, starting with anti-racist action back when I was a kid and continuing to this day. So that takes up the entirety of my life. I’m married with two children, so growing up in this weird ass world we live in I’m trying to teach them some of the things I’ve learned along the way in terms of anti-racist organizing and trying to bring that into my classroom a little bit.” 

When asked about the process of writing his book, Fernandez stated that his “notes were full of rage” as he reflected on a past of drug addiction, abandonment by his father, and being investigated. He also described the writing process as “brutal” and “traumatic” and said the framing of the book was based on the “post-Charlottesville craze of red scare against Antifa.”

<iframe title="Memoir of an anti-fascist w/Josh Fernandez" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zk9UKpjA-8w" width="951" height="535" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Reflecting on the investigation into his anti-fascist club, Fernandez wrote in the opening of <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hands_that_Crafted_the_Bomb/1WS2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+hands+that+crafted+the+bomb&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his novel</a>:

“I am a Mexican, but not dark like my ancestors…Because of my racial ambiguity, I see the school administrators eyeing me, wondering if I’m easy to tame…Because I understand the severity of being called before the college administration, I bring with me two union reps.”

He continued:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3862" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-e1730310487458-1024x742.png" alt="" width="500" height="362" />

In July 2024, Fernandez was <a href="https://www.corrections1.com/investigations/calif-prison-education-programs-future-uncertain-after-investigation-of-9-faculty-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> as one of nine professors being investigated for using improper teaching methods with imprisoned students. Some students penned complaint letters declaring their counseling needs were unmet and textbooks were not provided for the course. Fernandez, among others, also allegedly went against protocol by having the prisoners complete assignments outside the approved syllabus and transporting students’ papers off the premises.

The August 2024 <a href="https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/08/19/los-rios-prison-and-reentry-education-program-faculty-cleared-of-wrongdoing-following-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by CapRadio said Fernandez was cleared of wrongdoing by the Los Rios Community College District’s Prison and Reentry Education Program. 

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3863" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/pwl-1-1024x791.png" alt="" width="500" height="386" />

Please send tips on Joshua Fernandez to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - October 30, 2024

Antifa

Protests

Joshua Fernandez

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<a href="https://directory.cortland.edu/?Search=Nikolay%20Karkov">Nikolay Karkov</a> is a professor in the Philosophy Department at SUNY Cortland. 
Karkov opposed a Turning Point USA chapter at SUNY Cortland. According to <a href="https://sites.cortland.edu/dragon-chronicle/2024/02/29/turning-point-usa-takes-legal-action-against-suny-cortland-over-campus-access-denial/">The Dragon Chronicle</a>, during a February meeting proposing the establishment of a TPUSA chapter, Karkov issued a series of allegations aimed at the conservative non-profit organization. 
He addressed the students first: 
“I trust that you’re probably well-intentioned, you’re probably wonderful people, but I want to list a couple of things about the organization itself; what the organization has done, what its key members have done because you can only disaffiliate so much from them.”
The Dragon Chronicle states that “Prof. Karkov then went on to list an alleged instance of a hate crime committed by TPUSA members, Charlie Kirk calling for transgender people to be ‘dealt with’ like men did ‘in the 50s and 60s’ referring to lynching, and TPUSA members calling Critical Race Theory ‘the most racist thing to ever happen in this country.’”
Karkov concluded his address with a warning to the students:
“I would like to ask what you think, whether you affiliate or disaffiliate, because if this is the organization you represent you can only go so far to disaffiliate…I would like to hear what you think and why you think the organization should be chartered to be present at SUNY Cortland. That is the simple question that I have, thank you.”
The U.S. District Court Northern District of New York oversaw a <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TPUSACortlandComplaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> filed by Plaintiffs Turning Point USA at SUNY Cortland; Gabriella De Lorenzo; and Megan Rothmund against Defendants Cortland College Student Association, Erik Bitterbaum, and Nikolay Karkov. 
The lawsuit, filed with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges the Defendants mistreatment of the students who tried to establish a TPUSA chapter:
“…Defendants Student Government and Bitterbaum withheld recognition from Plaintiff TPUSA under their Nonrecognition Policy because the Student Government’s Student Senate and Defendant SUNY Cortland Professor Defendant Nikolay Karkov objected to and attacked Plaintiffs’ views.”
According to ADF, “in March, SUNY Cortland officially <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/after-adf-attorneys-file-lawsuit-ny-college-reverses-vote-approves-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> the TPUSA chapter shortly after ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit, but the student government failed to fully address its unconstitutional policy that allowed the conservative group to be denied recognized status in the first place.” 
The SUNY Cortland student government eventually agreed to revise the <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-07-10-Policy-Update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy.</a> 
In August, a <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-08-05-Settlement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> was made between the Plaintiffs and Defendants. According to the Court:
“The Parties to this Agreement wish to resolve all claims the Parties have against each other related to the events alleged in the Litigation.”
Please send information on Nikolay Karkov to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published &#8211; October 25, 2024

Anti-1st Amendment

<a href="https://directory.cortland.edu/?Search=Nikolay%20Karkov">Nikolay Karkov</a> is a professor in the Philosophy Department at SUNY Cortland. 

Karkov opposed a Turning Point USA chapter at SUNY Cortland. According to <a href="https://sites.cortland.edu/dragon-chronicle/2024/02/29/turning-point-usa-takes-legal-action-against-suny-cortland-over-campus-access-denial/">The Dragon Chronicle</a>, during a February meeting proposing the establishment of a TPUSA chapter, Karkov issued a series of allegations aimed at the conservative non-profit organization. 

He addressed the students first: 
“I trust that you’re probably well-intentioned, you’re probably wonderful people, but I want to list a couple of things about the organization itself; what the organization has done, what its key members have done because you can only disaffiliate so much from them.”
The Dragon Chronicle states that “Prof. Karkov then went on to list an alleged instance of a hate crime committed by TPUSA members, Charlie Kirk calling for transgender people to be ‘dealt with’ like men did ‘in the 50s and 60s’ referring to lynching, and TPUSA members calling Critical Race Theory ‘the most racist thing to ever happen in this country.’”

Karkov concluded his address with a warning to the students:
“I would like to ask what you think, whether you affiliate or disaffiliate, because if this is the organization you represent you can only go so far to disaffiliate…I would like to hear what you think and why you think the organization should be chartered to be present at SUNY Cortland. That is the simple question that I have, thank you.”
The U.S. District Court Northern District of New York oversaw a <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TPUSACortlandComplaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> filed by Plaintiffs Turning Point USA at SUNY Cortland; Gabriella De Lorenzo; and Megan Rothmund against Defendants Cortland College Student Association, Erik Bitterbaum, and Nikolay Karkov. 

The lawsuit, filed with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges the Defendants mistreatment of the students who tried to establish a TPUSA chapter:
“…Defendants Student Government and Bitterbaum withheld recognition from Plaintiff TPUSA under their Nonrecognition Policy because the Student Government’s Student Senate and Defendant SUNY Cortland Professor Defendant Nikolay Karkov objected to and attacked Plaintiffs’ views.”
According to ADF, “in March, SUNY Cortland officially <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/after-adf-attorneys-file-lawsuit-ny-college-reverses-vote-approves-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> the TPUSA chapter shortly after ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit, but the student government failed to fully address its unconstitutional policy that allowed the conservative group to be denied recognized status in the first place.” 

The SUNY Cortland student government eventually agreed to revise the <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-07-10-Policy-Update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy.</a> 

In August, a <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-08-05-Settlement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> was made between the Plaintiffs and Defendants. According to the Court:
“The Parties to this Agreement wish to resolve all claims the Parties have against each other related to the events alleged in the Litigation.”
Please send information on Nikolay Karkov to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - October 25, 2024

Nikolay Karkov

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<a href="https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/gla22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar</a> is an English Graduate Assistant at Pennsylvania State University’s College of the Liberal Arts. According to his profile, Aguilar “has accepted a tenure-track position in the Technical Writing and Professional Design program at the University of Texas at Arlington. His appointment as assistant professor will begin in Fall 2024.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3595 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.10.00-PM.png" alt="" width="1018" height="854" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.10.00-PM.png 1018w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.10.00-PM-300x252.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.10.00-PM-768x644.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px" />
Aguilar specializes in “Race and Ethnicity Studies,” “Rhetoric and Composition,” and “Theory and Cultural Studies.” He’s also a proponent of providing illegal immigrants with resources that aid their unlawful entry into countries where they have no legal standing. Aguilar’s <a href="https://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/scholars/gabriel-lorenzo-aguilar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> on the Health Policy Research Scholars page says:
“[Aguilar’s] research is invested in improving the communication between humanitarian organizations and those who receive humanitarian aid (migrants, refugees, and asylees) … So far, his research has looked at how to improve maps for migrants in need of water, interfaces for translations apps, and the process of locating water states for migrants in need of water.” 
Aguilar’s profile does not encourage migrants to go through legal ports of entry where they would likely have more access to water and basic necessities.
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In an<a href="https://ies.ed.gov/blogs/research/post/communicating-with-migrant-communities-an-interview-with-pathways-alum-gabriel-lorenzo-aguilar" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> interview</a> with the Institute of Education Sciences, Aguilar admits that his grandmother was an “undocumented migrant” and commends the people and organizations who helped his family survive as illegal citizens in South Texas. When asked how this background shaped his academic career, Aguilar said:
“That level of sacrifice required communication between the community, nonprofits, and others. I saw younger generations provide translation services to their grandparents, making sure that the older generation understood how to get resources such as Medicaid or subsidized utilities. It was only after I went to college that I learned that this communication had a name: technical communication … It can include things like instructions on how to submit applications for aid or forms of service but has recently expanded to include the communication of marginalized peoples.”
When asked, “What advice would you give Hispanic students and scholars who wish to pursue a career in education research?” Aguilar replied:
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Please send tips and information on Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; April 26, 2024

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<a href="https://www.uta.edu/academics/faculty/profile?username=dalylescha" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Annie Daly</a> is an assistant professor of Literacy Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington. Her faculty profile states that her research “examines how elementary teachers enact antiracist pedagogy by talking about race and racism with their students when teaching reading.”

Daly teaches a variety of <a href="https://www.coursicle.com/uta/professors/Annie+Daly/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">courses</a>, such as Teaching Diverse Learners and Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults. The course description for Teaching Diverse Learners says “students will examine education law and models related to diverse learners as well as strategies for working with parents and families of diverse learners.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/texas-professor-instructs-elementary-school-teachers-on-how-to-interrogate-whiteness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Daly instructs elementary teachers to “interrogate whiteness.” In her article, “<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1086296X221141391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race Talk Moves For Racial Literacy in the Elementary Classroom</a>,” Daly argues that “teachers must engage students in ongoing, critical discussions and be proactive in noticing and naming racist ideologies as they surface in classroom talk and texts.” Furthermore, a new analysis referred to as “anchoring” supports “students in moving from surface-level conceptions of race to a deeper understanding of systemic racism.”

Daly developed a study to help teachers talk about racism in the classroom. In the article, she shared how she spent 10 months observing a fourth-grade classroom. Daly described the teacher as a “white cisgender woman” who “developed a yearlong literacy curriculum focused on culture, race, and equity.”

Throughout the school year, Daly reported there were “31 conversations about race and racism, 16 of which occurred during whole-group read-alouds.” Topics covered included “how white ‘founding fathers’ enslaved Africans and African Americans, the possibilities and challenges of the Reconstruction era for Black liberation, and child activism during the civil rights movement…”
“Much more research…is needed at the elementary grade level to understand how children and teachers make sense of race, racism, and antiracism while reading and discussing shared texts.”
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Published – March 13, 2023

<a href="https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/gla22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar</a> is an English Graduate Assistant at Pennsylvania State University’s College of the Liberal Arts. According to his profile, Aguilar “has accepted a tenure-track position in the Technical Writing and Professional Design program at the University of Texas at Arlington. His appointment as assistant professor will begin in Fall 2024.”

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3595 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.10.00-PM.png" alt="" width="1018" height="854" />
Aguilar specializes in “Race and Ethnicity Studies,” “Rhetoric and Composition,” and “Theory and Cultural Studies.” He’s also a proponent of providing illegal immigrants with resources that aid their unlawful entry into countries where they have no legal standing. Aguilar’s <a href="https://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/scholars/gabriel-lorenzo-aguilar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> on the Health Policy Research Scholars page says:
“[Aguilar’s] research is invested in improving the communication between humanitarian organizations and those who receive humanitarian aid (migrants, refugees, and asylees) … So far, his research has looked at how to improve maps for migrants in need of water, interfaces for translations apps, and the process of locating water states for migrants in need of water.” 
Aguilar’s profile does not encourage migrants to go through legal ports of entry where they would likely have more access to water and basic necessities.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3596 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.14.20-PM-887x1024.png" alt="" width="640" height="739" />

In an<a href="https://ies.ed.gov/blogs/research/post/communicating-with-migrant-communities-an-interview-with-pathways-alum-gabriel-lorenzo-aguilar" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> interview</a> with the Institute of Education Sciences, Aguilar admits that his grandmother was an “undocumented migrant” and commends the people and organizations who helped his family survive as illegal citizens in South Texas. When asked how this background shaped his academic career, Aguilar said:
“That level of sacrifice required communication between the community, nonprofits, and others. I saw younger generations provide translation services to their grandparents, making sure that the older generation understood how to get resources such as Medicaid or subsidized utilities. It was only after I went to college that I learned that this communication had a name: technical communication … It can include things like instructions on how to submit applications for aid or forms of service but has recently expanded to include the communication of marginalized peoples.”
When asked, “What advice would you give Hispanic students and scholars who wish to pursue a career in education research?” Aguilar replied:

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Please send tips and information on Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - April 26, 2024

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<a href="https://www.sia.psu.edu/faculty/hatemi">Dr. Peter Hatemi</a>, a Professor of Political Science at Penn State, stated that conservatives express more issues of psychoticism, which he defined as " uncooperative, hostile, troublesome, and socially withdrawn, but lack feelings of inferiority and have an absence of anxiety. At the extremes, those scoring high on P are manipulative, tough-minded, and practical." He also claims that the counterparts of these conservatives [the left] is more likely to be altruistic, well socialized, empathic, and conventional. However upon review he accidentally switched data points around and should have labeled liberals with the adjectives he labeled conservatives with. Presented with this information, he claimed that it did not change his conclusion.

Warning: Profile Contains Explicit Language
<a href="https://sociology.la.psu.edu/people/smr8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Sam Richards</a> is a Teaching Professor of Sociology at <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a>. He is known for his racially laden diatribes delivered to students during his lectures.

Dr. Richards is most prominently known for teaching SOC119, or “Race and Ethnic Relations”. The class is <a href="https://www.soc119.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly the “largest race and cultural relations course in the United States,</a>” according to the official site. Dr. Richards also streams his lectures live, with over 57,000 subscribers on Youtube as of August 2021.

The course addresses relevant racial, political, and cross-cultural issues amongst young adults. Classes consist of Dr. Richards facilitating discussions for students to confront and examine viewpoints contrary to their own.

However, lectures typically devolve into racial and politically biased tirades. Dr. Richards frequently accuses white students of harboring racial animus, alleges that white supremacy is embedded in American culture, and accuses American Christians of seeking to overthrow the government.

In one lecture, titled “White Discomfort,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTUG02kTTg&amp;ab_channel=SOC119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Richards selects a black and white student and asks them to stand in front of the class</a>. Claiming that racial equality does not exist, he proceeds to position both students abreast of one another before yelling, “They are not f****** equal!”

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In another class, titled “Christian Sharia,” Dr. Richards spends over an hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmzDnulSV_g&amp;ab_channel=SOC119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lecturing on the threat he perceives Christians pose to the country.</a> At one point, when displaying a picture of a Muslim man holding a sign that reads, “Behead Those That Insult Islam,” he proceeds to claim, “You can’t find that anywhere in the Koran….I know that you can find it in the Bible.”

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Later in the same lecture, he accuses Vice President Mike Pence of being a religious extremist on par with that of the Taliban.

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In a lecture delivered in <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17832" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March of 2021 and captured by Campus Reform</a>, Dr. Richards selects a white student, Brian, from the audience for a class exercise. He proceeds to ask Brian who he oppressed that day. After the student replied that he hadn’t oppressed anybody, Dr. Richards retorts that since Brian has “left his house” and “is breathing”, that, as a white person, he must have oppressed somebody that day. The full interaction may be viewed below.
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As of August 2021, Dr. Richards has disabled comments or unlisted many of his videos following publicity of his lectures.

The main site for SOC119 mandates that regardless of vaccination status, students will have to wear masks while attending class.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Richards for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a> at 814-865-4700.
Updated - August 26, 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

<a href="https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/jap45/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James “Jim” Piazza</a> is a Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. His research interests include terrorism, counterterrorism, political violence, intrastate conflict, and the politics of the Middle East and Islamic world.

Professor Piazza has been outspoken against former President Donald Trump for many years. In 2020, he wrote an article titled <a href="https://theconversation.com/when-politicians-use-hate-speech-political-violence-increases-146640" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“When Politicians Use Hate Speech, Political Violence Increases,”</a> where he argues that Donald Trump is “accused of publicly denigrating people based on their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.” He also claims that domestic terrorism more than doubled in the United States since the beginning of Trump’s presidency.

Another article, titled <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/white-demographic-anxiety-fuels-support-torture-terrorism-suspects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Demographic Anxiety Fuels Support for Turtore of Terrorism Suspects,”</a> discusses the U.S. Census Bureau’s prediction that the U.S. will be a “majority-minority” country by 2044.

He cites his own research to claim that when white people hear this information, they become more likely to express negative attitudes towards racial minorities. He also claims that this “prompts whites to support political organizations like the Tea Party and right-wing politicians like Donald Trump that truck in anti-minority and anti-foreigner appeals.”

Another recent study of Piazza’s, <a href="https://dea7fa46-473c-46b9-a155-9bc760b1ad78.filesusr.com/ugd/93efc7_ddafabb1f5244e7e981c9009b945ec91.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia, and Support for Political Violence,”</a> alleges that Trump supporters are more likely to be supportive of political violence due to their “racist and xenophobic attitudes.” His conclusion states:
“We also find that Trump approvers are motivated by racial animus and mistruct and hatred towards immigrants and foreigners, and that these attitudes, in part, may make them more accepting of political violence.” 
Piazza’s most recent article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-sore-loser-effect-rejecting-election-results-can-destabilize-democracy-and-drive-terrorism-171571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> focuses on his study <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10659129211054451" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Sore Losers: Does Terrorism and Approval of Terrorism Increase in Democracies When Election Losers Refuse to Accept Election Results?”</a> This article discusses the “baseless allegation that Joe Biden stole the 2020 U.S. presidential election” and the “Big Lie” that Trump really won.

Piazza claims that when politicians refuse to accept defeat and become “sore losers,” this “produces a situation where political violence is no longer seen as taboo.” He states:
“These results show that when politicians refuse to accept a free and fair democratic election’s outcome, and instead choose to promote a popular narrative of a stolen or dirty election, they place their people in physical danger. Popular tolerance for terrorism grows, and so does terorrist activity itself.” 
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You can contact the Department of Political Science by phone at: 814-863-8346.
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Published - October 21, 2022

<a href="https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-francesca-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Francesca Lopez</a> is a Professor of Education and the Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy at Penn State University.

Lopez co-authored a report that describes “effective responses” school leaders can use when <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/professors-publish-playbook-teachers-address-parents-concerned-crt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned about critical race theory (CRT) curricula.</a>

The report, titled <a href="https://kappanonline.org/community-concerns-crthodge-lope-rosenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“How to Respond to Community Concerns About Critical Race Theory,”</a> says CRT can help students “unpack and rethink the social construct of race that divides so much of U.S. society.” The authors write that “school and district leaders must support teachers in including discussions about race in education in ways that are aligned with CRT principles.”

The report provides a three-step approach to addressing concerns about critical race theory, including: opening by describing a shared value, “use active voice to name an antagonist (e.g., the people who are trying to divide us) and call out divide-and-conquer tactics,” and ending with a “call to action that affirms common values” instead of being race-neutral or colorblind.

The authors argue that rather than being race-neutral, districts should directly address specific populations. They say this will affirm students and acknowledge the “history and present realities of racism and segregation.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-to-respond-to-parents-crt-complaints/2022/11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education Week</a>, Lopez stated:
“The goal of effective messaging is essentially to step away from the fueling of fear because people can very easily go down a rabbit hole of engaging in debates that become echo chambers.”
She added:
“Effective messaging moves beyond just engaging in a debate. It keeps people focused with a clear message on what, for example, equity-focused approaches in education are really meant to do.”
Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://hhd.psu.edu/contact/gary-king" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary King</a> is a Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University. King has co-authored two reports about Penn State.

According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220713002336/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/16/penn-state-black-faculty-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, the first discusses the “stagnation of efforts to increase the number of Black professors” and the second “revealed through a survey the slights, indignities, microaggressions, systemic obstacles and overt racism that many Black professors say they have endured in State College.”

During the fall 2022 semester, more than 400 professors and lecturers, including King, <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/pennstate/2022/11/under-fire-penn-state-president-defends-her-commitment-to-diversity-and-equity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter questioning Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi’s commitment to racial justice.</a> The letter comes after Bendapudi announced the Center for Racial Justice, outlined in the university’s strategic plan under former President Eric Barron, was canceled.

The <a href="https://onwardstate.com/2022/11/02/concerned-penn-state-faculty-pen-letter-to-university-leadership-over-racial-justice-worries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty writes:</a>
“This is symptomatic of a decades-long history at Penn State, where the university has failed to invest in work that addresses structural inequality and the realities of structural racism on our campuses, in our community, and in the state.” 
They also state:
“At a time of rising racial inequality and intensifying racial injustice, Penn State leadership has decided to turn its back on research to address and potentially positively impact the realities of racial injustice.” 
Penn State ended the most recent fiscal year in a budget deficit and President Bendapudi has <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/penn-state-faculty-blindsided-by-budget-changes-affecting-racial-justice-initiatives-on-campus/article_2d26a134-5033-11ed-94bb-8f57ebaa5b8c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implemented budget cuts to make up for it.</a> King, who was not satisfied with this explanation, said:
“The center was a symbol. It was a very important symbol that everyone in the university could identify with and a means by which Penn State could indicate how they are moving forward into the 21st century and dealing with matters of racism.” 
He <a href="https://www.sungazette.com/news/education/2022/11/why-black-faculty-are-questioning-penn-states-commitment-to-diversity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added:</a>
“Penn State is now showing that it’s a Big Ten university with regards to matters of diversity and anti-racism.” 
King also <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter circulated by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU)</a> in 2021 calling for a campus-wide vaccine mandate. The letter’s other demands included required masking, social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

In August 2021, King, along with 270 other faculty members, chose to teach his in-person classes via Zoom to <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/tone-deaf-faculty-argues-against-penn-state-s-disciplinary-action-warning-for-zoom-in-protesters/article_e7835142-0554-11ec-9ceb-a70e2b4e2db8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest Penn State’s lack of a COVID vaccine mandate.</a> King once again compared Penn State to the other Big Ten universities, saying:
“It appears as though [Penn State] will do everything [it] can to win a football game against Big Ten rivals but not compete with them in promoting the interests of public health with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/people/individual/michelle-rodino-colocino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michelle Rodino-Colocino</a>, who uses the pronouns she/they, is an Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. She teaches courses such as Feminist Media Studies and Introduction to Critical and Cultural Studies of Media.

According to her university biography, since earning tenure, she has learned to integrate critical race and ethnic studies, labor history, and trans and queer studies into her “research, teaching, service, activism, and creative works.”

On November 3, 2022, the Committee of Concerned Penn State Faculty <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/penn-state-community-rallies-to-amplify-their-voices-after-cancellation-of-center-for-racial-justice/article_458d5928-5bbb-11ed-af6f-33af95641c7a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted a rally to protest the cancellation of the planned Center for Racial Justice.</a> Rodino-Colocino spoke at the rally, saying, “It’s time we amplify our voices. We want to be an anti-racist and anti-sexist university.” Over 100 Penn State students and faculty participated and demanded that the decision be reversed.

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-students-faculty-protest-cancellation-of-planned-race-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> reports that Penn State ended last fiscal year with a $127 million budget deficit, but that officials had still promised “financial investment in existing [diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging] initiatives.”

Rodino-Colocino has participated in other campus activism as well. Before the beginning of the 2021 fall semester, Rodino-Colocino <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> put together by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU).

The letter had a list of six demands for the administration including a campus-wide vaccine mandate, required masking and social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

In August 2021, The Daily Collegian reports that approximately 270 faculty members chose to teach their in-person classes via Zoom <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/tone-deaf-faculty-argues-against-penn-state-s-disciplinary-action-warning-for-zoom-in-protesters/article_e7835142-0554-11ec-9ceb-a70e2b4e2db8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to protest the university’s decision not to mandate vaccines.</a> Rodino-Colocino, who serves as Interim Treasurer on the Executive Committee of the Penn State chapter of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors,) stated:
“[The AAUP is] organizing in support of the vaccine mandate and in support of the demands of the open letter and [to] protect faculty who have the right to exercise their academic freedom to protest COVID policies. Faculty should not just be informed of a plan but consulted in the process.”
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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/wxb5140/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oliver Baker</a> is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. His areas of research include “critical ethnic studies, critiques of racial capitalism and settler colonialism, and histories of African, Native, Chicanx, and working-class liberation movements.”

In August 2021, Baker was <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=18903" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participating in a pro-vaccine mandate rally</a> on campus when he got involved in a physical altercation with a student who was counterprotesting. The student came out of the altercation with a bloody nose. Baker was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and simple assault.

A video of the incident can be seen below:
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A rally led by Penn State faculty and students asking for a COVID 19 vaccine mandate turned physical this afternoon at Old Main. A counter protester was present. Words and shoves were exchanged between the two sides.
(Warning: Explicit language) <a href="https://t.co/Wz2pwW7l1R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Wz2pwW7l1R</a>

— Centre County Report (@CentreCountyRep) <a href="https://twitter.com/CentreCountyRep/status/1431337106039836679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In November 2021, Baker was <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/penn-state-assistant-professor-will-not-be-terminated-after-physical-altercation-in-august-rally/article_a89ac694-e664-11ec-b36a-0f93d8f50697.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared of all charges in court</a>. Two of the charges were withdrawn and he was found not guilty on the third charge, harassment.

In January 2022, Penn State initiated the <a href="https://policy.psu.edu/policies/ac70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AC70</a> process—the dismissal procedure for tenure and tenure-eligible faculty members—against Baker. In an email to <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/18/penn-state-seeks-fire-professor-over-vaccine-rally-tussle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed</a>, Baker wrote:
“I can confirm that the university has activated the AC70 process. Regrettably, the university intends to hold a hearing under the AC7- process if I choose not to resign. I am fighting this vigorously. I feel constrained to say anything more at this time.” 
In June 2022, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi released a three-page memo that <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/penn-state-professor-who-clashed-with-a-student-at-a-vaccine-rally-will-keep-his-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced Baker would not be fired</a>. Bendapudi said his actions were determined to be “clearly misconduct” but she did not believe “merited termination.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/eah13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Errol Henderson</a> is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University.

In May 2021, Henderson <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/black-penn-state-professor-sues-university-for-discrimination-hostile-work-environment-based-on-race/article_64c6774c-b40b-11eb-bb3a-43e569fc6993.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit against the university for alleged discrimination</a>. According to the lawsuit, he filed several formal complaints against Penn State over the past 10 years due to a “racially hostile work environment.” The suit argues his race was a “motivating and/or determinative factor” in the “discriminatory” way he was treated.

In 2019, Henderson wrote an op-ed for The Daily Collegian titled, “<a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/letters_to_editor/being-black-at-penn-state-letter-to-the-editor/article_56c889e0-19d6-11e9-918c-4b0acfadb892.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Being Black at Penn State</a>.” In this article, he accused Penn State of having a “toxic racist climate.” He concluded his article by writing:
“The racists who are hidden in plain sight use the cover of concealment to shroud their racist practices; and they use the silence of others to conceal their white racist actions; and those who remain silent are complicit in that white racism. These are unfortunate facts of being black at Penn State.” 
Henderson’s lawsuit states:
“Within weeks of publication, Dr. Henderson learned that several of his white colleagues had raised complaints that he had created a racially hostile work environment for them, and that he was being investigated by Penn State for alleged racial harassment.” 
The lawsuit continues by saying Henderson was issued a formal letter of discipline, which charged him with “discrimination and harassment and related inappropriate conduct” under University Policy AD91. He was barred from teaching until June 2021 and was required to take remedial courses in teaching.

Henderson’s suit alleges that his race was a “motivaing and/or determinative factor” in the “discriminatory” way he was treated.

In March 2022, a <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/03/black-professor-given-chance-to-amend-federal-civil-rights-suit-against-penn-state.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">judge dismissed part of Henderson’s lawsuit</a> but gave him the opportunity to file an amended complaint. The judge wrote “the deficiencies that caused the dismissal of the hostile work claims may be easily rectified by providing more concrete factual details to support his contention of bias and racism.” As of publication, the lawsuit is still ongoing.

On November 3, 2022, Henderson participated in a rally hosted by the Committee of Concerned Penn State Faculty to <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/penn-state-community-rallies-to-amplify-their-voices-after-cancellation-of-center-for-racial-justice/article_458d5928-5bbb-11ed-af6f-33af95641c7a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest the cancellation of the planned Center for Racial Justice.</a> He spoke during the rally, denouncing several members of the Penn State Administration and saying,
“I’ve been here 20 years fighting the fight against white supremacism.” 
Henderson has also supported a campus-wide coronavirus vaccine mandate. Before the beginning of the 2021 fall semester, he <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> put together by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU).

The letter had a list of six demands for the administration including a COVID vaccine mandate, required masking and social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/mfb12/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Bérubé</a> is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University.

Bérubé has been outspoken about his support for abortion. In 2018, the Pennsylvania House was <a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2017&amp;sind=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=2050" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering a bill</a> that would ban abortion for babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in utero. Bérubé wrote an <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/04/this_pa_abortion_bill_has_noth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed for PennLive</a> where he shared that he and his wife, Janet, have a son with Down syndrome who has been a huge blessing to them. He writes: “In our family, Down syndrome isn’t a big deal.”

However, he adds:
“As much as we love him, we would never want to force anyone else to have a child with Down syndrome.” 
He argues that some parents “might be terribly disability-phobic” and “where is the moral benefit in compelling them to have a child they may very well resent and mistreat.” He ends by writing:
“Janet and I believe strongly that prospective parents should be able to terminate pregnancies for any reason.” 
Bérubé co-authored an article for The New Republic titled, “<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/165649/professors-speech-disqualifying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Professors’ Speech Is Disqualifying</a>.” The article begins by asking the question, “Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas?” Bérubé et al. claim that the answer in the past has always been yes, before adding:
“This is a disturbing realization for anyone who thinks of academic freedom as one of the cornerstones of a free and open society - and who understands how profoundly it is threatened by Republican state legislatures trying to criminalize the teaching of critical race theory (CRT).”
Before the beginning of the 2021 fall semester, Bérubé <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> put together by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU). The letter had a list of six demands for the administration including a campus-wide vaccine mandate, required masking and social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

Bérubé also spoke out in defense of colleague Oliver Baker. Baker got into a physical altercation with a student who was counter-protesting at a pro-vaccine mandate rally on Penn State’s campus. He was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct, and simple assault.

The incident can be viewed below.
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A rally led by Penn State faculty and students asking for a COVID 19 vaccine mandate turned physical this afternoon at Old Main. A counter protester was present. Words and shoves were exchanged between the two sides.
(Warning: Explicit language) <a href="https://t.co/Wz2pwW7l1R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Wz2pwW7l1R</a>

— Centre County Report (@CentreCountyRep) <a href="https://twitter.com/CentreCountyRep/status/1431337106039836679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Although the charges were dropped, Penn State initiated dismissal proceedings for the professor. Bérubé <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220429224628/https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article260773532.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attended a rally</a> of more than 75 students, faculty, and community members who disagreed with the university’s decision. He said that Baker was “trying to protect witnesses who … <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/18/penn-state-seeks-fire-professor-over-vaccine-rally-tussle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">felt threatened by the counterprotester</a>” and added:
“Even if Penn State still wants to signal disapproval of Baker’s actions after all that, ‘initiating termination proceedings is like calling a nuclear strike on a jaywalker.’” 
Penn State ultimately decided not to fire Baker, but not before Bérubé added:
“Every faculty member at Penn State at every campus should be alarmed, should be profoundly disturbed, by this case because it is every bit as outrageous as it looks.” 
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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://anth.la.psu.edu/people/dwb5537/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Douglas Bird</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. According to his university profile, he has “broad interests in how social and ecological factors interact to influence patterns of resource use and their archaeological expressions.”

According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230429094159/https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-state-university-indigenous-students-faculty-20230425.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a>, Penn State originally got 776,514 acres from the federal government under the Morrill Act of 1862. The university paid $38,089 for the land, but the faculty argue this is a “gross underpayment” given that the land is now valued at over $4.5 billion.

The Penn State University Faculty Senate recently voted 118-1 to approve a report on how the university can reconcile its Native American “land grab.”

Douglas Bird, Chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Education Equity and the Campus Environment, stated:
“Penn State in all its history has had only one Indigenous program, an American Indian Leadership Program, that ran from 1970 to 2010. That’s the only contribution that Penn State has ever made to Indigenous communities, despite the fact that every single cert [of its original endowment] came from expropriated Indigenous land.” 
The report calls for a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-faculty-school-needs-truth-and-reconciliation-process-for-its-native-land-grab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">special joint task force</a> “to implement a truth and reconciliation process regarding Penn State’s original federal endowment.” The Inquirer reports, it “also recommends the creation of a program of Indigenous studies, the holding of an Indigenous Peoples Day event, and setting aside space on campus to ‘engage in justice,’ celebrate peace, and honor ‘the continued vitality of the First Nations and historic tribes’ whose land Penn State currently sits on.”

Professor Bird, who reportedly teared up on the senate floor while presenting the report, says the resolution “is simply to get some action and some level of support for Indigenous studies here at Penn State.” He also stated:
“Why doesn’t Penn State invest in a place, a space that is a nexus of peace? It would be a place where Penn State can acknowledge the traumatic history.”
Published - May 8, 2023

Themis Matsoukas was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University from 1991-2023.

In June 2023, Matsoukas was <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/penn-state-professor-charged-with-animal-cruelty-engaging-in-sexual-intercourse-with-dog-in-public-forest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> after being accused of performing sexual acts with his dog in a public forest. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) <a href="https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/themis-matsoukas-arrest-lewd-acts-rothrock-state-forest/521-c69de662-b274-4589-aece-e46f2dde4861" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began investigating</a> in April 2023 after a trail camera showed an unknown man “engaging in lewd acts” around the parking lot and restroom.

After a camera identified similar images in May, the investigators were able to identify Matsoukas by his Subaru Outback.

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/penn-states-themis-matsoukas-begged-rangers-to-kill-him/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports, “The shocking footage reportedly showed the professor wearing nothing but a ski mask, boots with socks, and a wristwatch, and carrying a North Face backpack. Matsoukas reportedly could be seen masturbating near a women’s public restroom, before ‘engaging in a sexual act with the dog,’ according to the affidavit.”

DCNR later recovered images from a trail camera at a privately owned camp that show Matsoukas’s actions date back to 2014.

DCNR investigators obtained a search warrant for Matsoukas’s home and vehicle, seeking to obtain items that were seen in the trail camera footage. When investigators arrived at his home, the professor allegedly became panicked and said repeatedly, “I’m done, I’m dead.”

He told investigators he did it “to blow off steam” and reportedly “begged” the DCNR officials to kill him saying, “What do I have to do to get you to shoot me? I need to die.”

Matsoukas was arraigned on charges of “open lewdness, indecent exposure, sexual intercourse with an animal and animal cruelty.”

The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230615213746/https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/crime/article276408146.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Centre Daily Times</a> reported the university put out a statement that read, “Themis Matsoukas has been relieved of his responsibilities and is on leave.”

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Published - June 23, 2023

<a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/education/story/faculty-profile-kamaria-b-porter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaria B. Porter</a> is an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State. Her profile says she’s involved with “a wide array of research experience in the field of racial and gender equities in higher education, particularly in graduate education and campus sexual assault.”

In December 2023, Porter <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/47A3521AE1FB9B1D2FC93518D55435F3/S002392162300004Xa.pdf/sexual_consent_and_relational_rights_a_call_for_relational_repair.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored a paper</a> entitled “Sexual consent and relational rights: a call for relational repair,” where she discusses women’s rights in light of sexual violence. Porter said:
“The history of sexual consent as law is deeply intertwined with the denial of rights to all women, with Indigenous women and [b]lack women at the most extreme position of sexual and social subordination. Definitions of rape and consent corresponded to the gendered racist hierarchal social structure of the early colonies, denying enslaved African women the right to withhold consent, alongside all wives, all poor women and sex workers across race.”
In 2022, Porter participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/zyW2nml0juU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> moderated by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/charleshfdavisiii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Charles H.F. Davis III</a> in which they discussed alternatives to police presence on college campuses. When asked about police being the first response to sexual violence on campus, Porter stated that traumatic experiences like “state violence against black communities” and the “murder of black trans women” (biological males) keep them from reporting the crimes.

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In another publication co-authored with Davis, 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>, Porter wrote:

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Please send tips and updates on Kamaria B. Porter to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar

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Robert Woodward

<a href="https://paulcollege.unh.edu/person/robert-woodward">Robert Woodward</a> is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Professor Woodward, according to an online schedule, usually teaches Health Economics on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, he spent that time driving students to the polls in a car decorated with Democratic campaign posters &#8211; paid for by the Ready for Hillary Super PAC.

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University of New Hampshire

<a href="https://paulcollege.unh.edu/person/robert-woodward">Robert Woodward</a> is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Professor Woodward, according to an online schedule, usually teaches Health Economics on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, he spent that time driving students to the polls in a car decorated with Democratic campaign posters - paid for by the Ready for Hillary Super PAC.

<a href="https://cola.unh.edu/person/robin-hackett">Dr. Robin Hackett</a> is a Professor of English and also teaches in the Women Studies program at the University of New Hampshire. She called for an investigation and expulsion of two people (possibly students) who jokingly wore a Harambe and Richard Nixon costume outside an anti-Trump event.

<a href="https://ceps.unh.edu/person/chanda-prescod-weinstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein</a> is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Core Faculty Member of the <a href="https://cola.unh.edu/womens-gender-studies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women’s and Gender Studies</a> Department at the <a href="https://cola.unh.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of New Hampshire</a>.

As a member of the organization, <a href="https://www.particlesforjustice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Particles for Justice</a>, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein was a primary organizer for the “Strike for Black Lives” in June of 2020.

Particles for Justice is a far-left organization composed of scientists and mathematicians who are <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/physicists-condemn-sexism-through-particles-for-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dedicated to ending what they allege as “rampant racism and sexism in STEM fields</a>.” The group was first organized in 2018 to protest a lecture by physicist Alessandro Strumia, in which he affirmed that biological differences exist between men and women.

In the Summer of 2020, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein—who identifies as a <a href="https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/web-extras/particles-for-justice-racial-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“black queer femme physicist”</a> and an “<a href="https://www.cprescodweinstein.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">activist for equality in science</a>”—and other scientists organized the strike among academics in solidarity with the <a href="https://m4bl.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Movement for Black Lives</a> (MBL), also referred to as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

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>

According to an official letter for the group—co-authored by Dr. Prescod-Weinstein—the organizers allege black students feel unsafe on <a href="https://www.particlesforjustice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“predominantly white campuses” and professors face “anti-blackness” in academia</a>. The organizers called for <a href="https://www.particlesforjustice.org/strike-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">academics to cease their normal university duties and spend the day protesting or conducting “antiracist“ actions on behalf of BLM</a>. As of June 10th, 2020, the website listed 5,874 administrators and professors as having walked off their jobs during the strike.

In her own personal statement authored for the strike, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein describes her efforts organizing the strike and the ongoing national protests as <a href="https://www.particlesforjustice.org/note" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an attempt to “save her life" and “the lives of all black people.</a>” She further decries having to conform culturally and professionally to “whiteness,” and urges white people to take up anti-racist work in order to make black people feel more comfortable.

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein’s activism and views are further displayed on her <a href="https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>. She consistently tweets condemnations of America and conservatives as racist, support for critical race theory, and accusations that Israel is committing genocide against Arabs:
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Now that I’m old enough to understand how pervasive racism is, I am just constantly impressed by how successful POC are anyway
— The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) <a href="https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1398765675531976711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives love the constitution except when someone says that it gives minoritized people rights and dignity
— The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) <a href="https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1213946037544660994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Q: What Do Conservatives Fear About Critical Race Theory?
A: The children might finally end their participation in white supremacy <a href="https://t.co/5dr5zihxhE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/5dr5zihxhE</a>

— The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) <a href="https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1403780081961652224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I was supposed to be on break but human rights crimes don’t care about breaks:
As a Black Jew who opposes settler colonialism in all its forms, I cannot remain silent.
IDF enters into Gaza on foot: we are witnessing yet another stage in an ethnic cleansing.

— The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) <a href="https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1392994609014394886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In a separate paper for The University of Chicago—​​titled, “Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics”— Dr. Prescod-Weinstein <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/704991#_i5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decries the concept of objectivity under “European ideas of science”</a> dominating her field through “colonial force.” She defines “white empiricism” as serving “white supremacist traditions in science” at the expense of black scientists.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Prescod-Weinstein for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://physics.unh.edu/">Department of Physics and Astronomy</a> at the University of New Hampshire
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Updated - November 2, 2021
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<a href="https://cola.unh.edu/person/david-finkelhor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. David Finkelhor</a> is a Professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. <a href="https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/person/david-finkelhor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to his university profile</a>, he is the Director of the Crimes against Children Research Center and co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory. Dr. Finkelhor is known for his research into child sexual abuse and related topics.

Dr. Finkelhor lectures on a wide variety of subjects such as “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpangX4UaO4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sexual Abuse Prevention</a>,” “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsoYh5WF2Yc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Developmental Victimology</a>,” and more. He also participates in a variety of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-fViw7Uuxs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">child sexual abuse conferences</a>.

On March 23, 2022 Dr. Finkelhor participated in a webinar discussing the “<a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1515916310814859264" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elements of voluntary participation</a>” by juveniles involved in sex crimes; saying that when trying to prevent sex crimes against children, it is key to realize that in some cases, it is the children themselves that are “initiating sexual activities with adults.” Dr. Finkelhor also suggested that he believes it is not “effective” to assume that a pedophilic relationship escalates because of a “predatory or criminally inclined adult.”
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🚨🚨🚨.<a href="https://twitter.com/UofNH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UofNH</a> professor says it’s ineffective to assume a sexual relationship between young people and adults is predatory and criminal <a href="https://t.co/GqQXmcr7hc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/GqQXmcr7hc</a>
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On June 25, 2020 in a webinar called “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpangX4UaO4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Let's Talk About Prevention</a>,” Finkelhor stated that “Another thing about diversity that is very important to recognize is that in spite of the stereotype, most of the adult offenders are not “pedophiles”... Many are opportunistic and situational and acting on relationships that develop, or opportunities that are made available to them.”  Dr. Finkelhor refers to “offenders” as ambivalent and stresses the importance of differentiating the labels between a pedophile and an offender.

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Recently, there have been articles questioning Dr. Finkelhor's motives on the subject. <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/professor-says-minors-can-be-enthusiastically-involved-in-initiating-sexual-activities-with-adults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a> reports his statements, “There's not good enough research on issues related to maturity with regard to sexual behavior that allows a clear demarcation here.”  He noted that there can be elements of voluntary participation in statutory sex crimes wherein juveniles engage in sex with adults who are at least five years older than they are. Statutory rape, he said, is “much narrower than statutory sex crimes in general.”

Dr. Finkelhor’s rating on Rate My Professor is a <a href="https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=142310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2.1 out of 5</a> with a number of reviews mentioning his teaching methods as “lecture heavy” and so on.

To learn more about Professor David Finkelhor, you can view his <a href="https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/person/david-finkelhor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile here</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://cola.unh.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Liberal Arts</a> at the University of New Hampshire at (603) 862-2062. 
Updated - April 25th, 2022

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<a href="https://www.eckerd.edu/political-science/faculty/brunello/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Brunello</a> is a Professor of Political Science at Eckerd College. His areas of research and teaching include “authoritarian political systems”, “propaganda and communications,” and “religion and politics.”
In 2024, Brunello authored a <a href="https://scholar.eckerd.edu/esploro/outputs/conferencePaper/The-Damage-Done-Right-Wing-Erosion-of/992776826206111?institution=01ECKERD_INST#file-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> called “The Damage Done: Right-Wing Erosion of Legitimacy from Reagan to Trump in America.” Within the context of his discussion on dictators, fascism, and authoritarianism, Brunello says:
“Tyrants break confidence in democracy by constantly attacking government as wasteful, incompetent, and illegitimate. In that way, the tyrant can effectively claim that, since all politicians and government are corrupt, then the strongman is free to act with brazen ferocity in dismantling institutions and laws in populist outrage and mobocracy…
“There are many would-be extreme rightwing movements and leaders dotted around the world all utilizing some version of the methodology. In the United States, the conservative movement slowly evolved in this direction…In the 21st Century, the Tea Party Movement (2008) was transformed into MAGA (2016) (Make America Great Again) under Donald Trump.”
In the paper, Brunello also discussed the <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Replacement Theory</a> in the context of America, stating that it “refers to a plot to welcome immigrants, especially among non-white, non-Christian people, to replace the political power and culture of [w]hite people in Western countries.” He declared that since “true believers” are afraid of immigrants replacing white people the theory is “antisemitic, xenophobic, racist and nativist.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3887" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244-1024x743.png" alt="" width="640" height="464" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244-1024x743.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244-300x218.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244-768x557.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244-1200x871.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244.png 1266w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Brunello’s past works are written from the same anti-conservative viewpoint. The <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349920987_The_Tragic_Fall_of_Better_Angels_Nationalism_Neoliberalism_and_the_Failure_of_Responsibility_in_American_Conservativism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> of a March 2021 paper states:
“Conservatives have morphed into a new political space, while many of their more progressive opponents call for the rule of law and American institutions of democracy. Conservatives find themselves the problem rather than the solution, displaying shortsighted and toxic immaturity destructive of democratic institutions.”
In his 2019 <a href="http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1756/populist-mobocracy-fear-and-lies-the-politics-of-american-populism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publication</a> “Populist Mobocracy, Fear, and Lies: The Politics of American Populism,” Brunello claims European leaders such as Norbert Hofer, Marine LePen, and Matteo Salvini “all shared with Donald Trump a gift of appealing to the common citizen motif” and that all of these men “[strum] populist cords just barely outside the framework of neo-Facism.”
He also declared the two faces of populism centered on human rights and named Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King as examples; the other face he called a “flaming brand of fire that incinerates liberty, burns down community and condemns common decency to ashes.” For the latter, his examples were Hitler, Mussolini, and the Klu Klux Klan.
The following excerpt is sourced from the <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/waf2.12006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> of Brunello’s “Extended commentary—Keeping the republic: A vision for America”:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3890" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5-1024x791.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5-300x232.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5-768x594.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5-1200x927.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />Please send tips and information on Anthony Brunello to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; November 21, 2024

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<a href="https://www.eckerd.edu/political-science/faculty/brunello/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Brunello</a> is a Professor of Political Science at Eckerd College. His areas of research and teaching include “authoritarian political systems”, “propaganda and communications,” and “religion and politics.”

In 2024, Brunello authored a <a href="https://scholar.eckerd.edu/esploro/outputs/conferencePaper/The-Damage-Done-Right-Wing-Erosion-of/992776826206111?institution=01ECKERD_INST#file-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> called “The Damage Done: Right-Wing Erosion of Legitimacy from Reagan to Trump in America.” Within the context of his discussion on dictators, fascism, and authoritarianism, Brunello says:
“Tyrants break confidence in democracy by constantly attacking government as wasteful, incompetent, and illegitimate. In that way, the tyrant can effectively claim that, since all politicians and government are corrupt, then the strongman is free to act with brazen ferocity in dismantling institutions and laws in populist outrage and mobocracy…
“There are many would-be extreme rightwing movements and leaders dotted around the world all utilizing some version of the methodology. In the United States, the conservative movement slowly evolved in this direction…In the 21st Century, the Tea Party Movement (2008) was transformed into MAGA (2016) (Make America Great Again) under Donald Trump.”
In the paper, Brunello also discussed the <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Replacement Theory</a> in the context of America, stating that it “refers to a plot to welcome immigrants, especially among non-white, non-Christian people, to replace the political power and culture of [w]hite people in Western countries.” He declared that since “true believers” are afraid of immigrants replacing white people the theory is “antisemitic, xenophobic, racist and nativist.”

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3887" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-3-e1732230363244-1024x743.png" alt="" width="640" height="464" />

Brunello’s past works are written from the same anti-conservative viewpoint. The <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349920987_The_Tragic_Fall_of_Better_Angels_Nationalism_Neoliberalism_and_the_Failure_of_Responsibility_in_American_Conservativism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> of a March 2021 paper states:
“Conservatives have morphed into a new political space, while many of their more progressive opponents call for the rule of law and American institutions of democracy. Conservatives find themselves the problem rather than the solution, displaying shortsighted and toxic immaturity destructive of democratic institutions.”
In his 2019 <a href="http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1756/populist-mobocracy-fear-and-lies-the-politics-of-american-populism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publication</a> “Populist Mobocracy, Fear, and Lies: The Politics of American Populism,” Brunello claims European leaders such as Norbert Hofer, Marine LePen, and Matteo Salvini “all shared with Donald Trump a gift of appealing to the common citizen motif” and that all of these men “[strum] populist cords just barely outside the framework of neo-Facism.”

He also declared the two faces of populism centered on human rights and named Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King as examples; the other face he called a “flaming brand of fire that incinerates liberty, burns down community and condemns common decency to ashes.” For the latter, his examples were Hitler, Mussolini, and the Klu Klux Klan.

The following excerpt is sourced from the <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/waf2.12006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> of Brunello’s “Extended commentary—Keeping the republic: A vision for America”:

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3890" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-5-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" />Please send tips and information on Anthony Brunello to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 21, 2024

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<a href="https://www.saddleback.edu/bios/mlovett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margot Lovett</a> is a History Instructor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saddleback College.
In 2016, Lovett was filmed tearing down and ripping up 9/11 memorial posters that were put up as part of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter’s “9/11: Never Forget” project. According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/gender-studies-prof-rips-911-memorial-posters/8113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, the project “involves planting 2,977 American flags to remember the lives lost … on 9/11.”
Lovett told students they did not have permission to hang up the posters and asked them to confine their event to one of the “free speech areas” on campus. The video of Lovett’s actions can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLcQ2DIV1I&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed here</a>.
Lovett’s actions came after Saddleback College tried to shut down the group’s previously approved September 11 memorial. Kyle Chiu, the chapter’s vice chair, told <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/history-professor-rips-campus-911-never-forget-posters-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> “campus leaders refused to grant their club active status because officials want[ed] to change some parts of the group’s bylaws.” Because of this, the college canceled their original event scheduled for September 8. Chiu stated:
“The funny thing is that these are the exact same documents we submitted last year with no problem at all. This technically keeps us from active status, thus giving the Student Development Office what they feel is justification for canceling our event. An event the same office approved a couple weeks before.” 
Despite the college’s decision, the student group decided to move forward with their event anyway, waking up before dawn to plant the flags and hang posters. However, this is when Lovett decided to take matters into her own hands and tear down the posters.
After the incident, students consulted the campus police department; however, they were unsure of the legality of the professor’s actions. Audra Leslie, president of the college’s YAF chapter, stated:
“I was absolutely amazed that a professor believed that they had the authority to tear down posters put up by students in remembrance of the terrorist attacks. Instead of going to a higher level student office she took it upon herself to rid a student organization’s right to free speech on campus.”
Saddleback College later put out a statement saying the students had “not completed the requirements to form a club” and inviting them “to meet and discuss the steps that can be taken to work collaboratively with the college in the future and in accordance with college and district policies and procedures.”
This was not Lovett’s first controversial opinion on the events of September 11. In 2001, <a href="https://www.ocweekly.com/lovett-or-leave-it-6388500/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OC Weekly</a> reported that she sent a statement from the Black Radical Congress to her fellow faculty members that blamed “U.S. Imperialism” for the 9/11 attacks. In her email, Lovett called the statement the “most cogent analysis” of the attacks she had seen.
As of August 2024, Lovett is still employed by Saddleback College.
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<a href="https://www.saddleback.edu/bios/mlovett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margot Lovett</a> is a History Instructor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saddleback College.

In 2016, Lovett was filmed tearing down and ripping up 9/11 memorial posters that were put up as part of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter’s “9/11: Never Forget” project. According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/gender-studies-prof-rips-911-memorial-posters/8113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, the project “involves planting 2,977 American flags to remember the lives lost … on 9/11.”

Lovett told students they did not have permission to hang up the posters and asked them to confine their event to one of the “free speech areas” on campus. The video of Lovett’s actions can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLcQ2DIV1I&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed here</a>.

Lovett’s actions came after Saddleback College tried to shut down the group’s previously approved September 11 memorial. Kyle Chiu, the chapter’s vice chair, told <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/history-professor-rips-campus-911-never-forget-posters-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> “campus leaders refused to grant their club active status because officials want[ed] to change some parts of the group’s bylaws.” Because of this, the college canceled their original event scheduled for September 8. Chiu stated:
“The funny thing is that these are the exact same documents we submitted last year with no problem at all. This technically keeps us from active status, thus giving the Student Development Office what they feel is justification for canceling our event. An event the same office approved a couple weeks before.” 
Despite the college’s decision, the student group decided to move forward with their event anyway, waking up before dawn to plant the flags and hang posters. However, this is when Lovett decided to take matters into her own hands and tear down the posters.

After the incident, students consulted the campus police department; however, they were unsure of the legality of the professor’s actions. Audra Leslie, president of the college’s YAF chapter, stated:
“I was absolutely amazed that a professor believed that they had the authority to tear down posters put up by students in remembrance of the terrorist attacks. Instead of going to a higher level student office she took it upon herself to rid a student organization’s right to free speech on campus.”
Saddleback College later put out a statement saying the students had “not completed the requirements to form a club” and inviting them “to meet and discuss the steps that can be taken to work collaboratively with the college in the future and in accordance with college and district policies and procedures.”

This was not Lovett’s first controversial opinion on the events of September 11. In 2001, <a href="https://www.ocweekly.com/lovett-or-leave-it-6388500/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OC Weekly</a> reported that she sent a statement from the Black Radical Congress to her fellow faculty members that blamed “U.S. Imperialism” for the 9/11 attacks. In her email, Lovett called the statement the “most cogent analysis” of the attacks she had seen.

As of August 2024, Lovett is still employed by Saddleback College.

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Updated - August 2024

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<a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/hoau-yan-wang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hoau-yan Wang</a> is a Medical Professor at the City College of New York School School of Medicine. 
In late June 2024, Wang was federally charged with fraud for allegedly fabricating false data on a drug that could treat Alzheimer’s disease. The data was fabricated with the intention of getting public funds invested in research on the medication. 
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-professor-charged-with-manipulating-data-alzheimers-drug-trial-2024-06-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> reported that the fabricated data was used in grant applications sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Wang and a “publicly-listed Austin, Texas-based pharmaceutical company for which he was a consultant.” 
The Texas-based pharmaceutical company that partnered with Wang is likely <a href="https://www.cassavasciences.com/">Cassava Sciences</a>, of which Wang is a consultant. The research grant was awarded to both parties. The NIH reportedly provided them funds amounting to $16 million from 2017 to 2021. However, Cassava Sciences was not accused in the lawsuit.
According to Reuters, the data on the Alzheimers medicine was investigated by outside parties three years ago: 

 “In 2021, two physicians unaffiliated with Cassava <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/exclusive-cassava-sciences-faces-us-criminal-probe-tied-alzheimers-drug-sources-2022-07-27/">alleged the research underpinning</a> its Alzheimer&#8217;s drug, called simufilam, was based on manipulated and misrepresented data.”
According to Cassava Sciences, Wang was involved in the development of the drug’s &#8220;early development.&#8221; Yet, he also &#8220;had no involvement in the company’s phase 3 trials of simufilam.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/health/wang-cassava-alzheimers-fraud.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> reported that the university investigated Wang for months and found certain oddities in their investigation: 
“An investigation by the City University of New York, of which the college is a part, struggled for months to obtain access to Dr. Wang’s files. Eventually, members of the investigating committee concluded that Dr. Wang <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/health/alzheimers-drug-research-simufilam.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had been ‘reckless</a>’ in his failure to keep or provide original data, an offense that ‘amounts to significant research misconduct.’”
As of the publication of this article, Wang is still employed as a professor at the City College of New York despite his legal situation. 
Published &#8211; July 9, 2024

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<a href="https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/gloria-j-browne-marshall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gloria J. Browne-Marshall</a> is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). In a 2013 essay, Browne-Marshall blamed the failed implementation of Obamacare on..”southern white radicals” such as Tea Party members. She wrote, “In January, President Barack Obama began his second term. However, southern White radicals vowed to stop implementation of the Obama-care law leading one to wonder if Tea Party members would oppose affordable healthcare if it came from a nonBlack [sic] President.”

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<a href="https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/peter-beinart/">Peter Beinart</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is known as an active critic of the state Israel, supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and blames Hamas terrorism on the state of Israel.

Beinart has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/opinion/to-save-israel-boycott-the-settlements.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;pagewanted=all">advocated</a> for the BDS movement to serve as a way to influence Israeli policy making. Beinart has gone so far as to suggest sanctions be put on any products made by Israelis in the West Bank. 

While a fierce critic of Israel, Beinart often excuses Islamic terrorism as understandable and morally equivalent counter-reaction to Israel. In fact, he even goes so far in his book, The Crisis of Zionism, to complement the terrorist organization Hamas. He writes, “[Hamas] has in recent years issued several new documents, which are more compatible with a two-state solution.” 

In a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/08/19/rich-lowry-peter-beinart-debate-omar-tlaib-israel-trip-sot-lead-vpx.cnn">viral</a> debate with National Review editor Rich Lowry, Beinart was quick to defend Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar after they had been denied entry into Israel on account for their support of the BDS movement. When Lowry pointed out that each were traveling with known extremist groups that support terrorism, Beinart began frantically shouting over Lowry, claiming that terrorism is only response to the violenct Israel perpetrates.

Recently, Beinart wrote in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/israel-annexation-two-state-solution.html">New York Times</a> that he no longer believes that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish State.

James Davis is a <a href="https://psc-cuny.org/about-us/leadership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Principal Officer and President of the Profession Staff Congress (PSC) </a>at the City University of New York (CUNY). He teaches in the American Studies Program and the English Department and dedicates part of his career to community organizing. Davis’ profile also says he’s a 17-year PSC activist. He “helped to wage successful chapter campaigns for health and safety, academic freedom, union membership, adjunct equity, anti-racism, and cross-title solidarity.”

Davis made headlines for his association with anti-Israel activities and organizations on campus. On September 1, 2022, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform reported</a>, “During a June 30, 2022, NYC Council meeting regarding anti-Semitism at CUNY, Professor Davis attributed the issue to ‘White Christian nationalism.’”

Campus Reform continued, “The Council meeting came as a response to a number of anti-Semitic incidents at CUNY…including a resolution passed on December 2021 by the CUNY Law Student Government Association demanding that the university ‘cut all ties’ with Israel and endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dm4Sv9QsbzgdyrOhpVABkEZuLskrkcWp9MgjiQRDsG4/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BDS Resolution</a> “is a Palestinian-led global movement that aims to end international support for Israeli violations of international by forcing companies, institutions, and governments to change their policies.”

The Resolution also “calls for the end of Israeli occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall, the recognition of the fundamental rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the full right of return of Palestinian refugees.” 

Davis also supports <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NY State Senate Bill S4461A -The New Deal for CUNY</a>. The general purpose of the New Deal “is intended to reestablish [CUNY] as an engine for social and economic mobility by waiving all tuition and creating certain staff-to-student ratios in order to increase student success.” 

Davis <a href="https://youtu.be/SDLL_7yTq90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out during a protest</a> in favor of the New Deal, stating,

“Students need safe and clean buildings and excellent facilities. They deserve more academic advisers and more mental health counselors to support their progress toward their degrees. They deserve access to full-time faculty, not those that need to rush off to their next gig.” 

He continued,

“CUNY students don’t deserve anything less just because half of them come from [low-income] families. They don’t deserve less just because 80 percent of CUNY students are students of color. They don’t deserve less just because 35 percent of them were born in a foreign country. No, they deserve at least as much if not more as any other student.”

Eric Lott <a href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/eric-lott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">works within the Center for Humanities at the City University of New York</a>. He’s also the Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Professor of English, and Professor of Africana Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Lott has authored multiple books including “Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism.” 

In September 2017, the book became available for purchase through an online catalog hosted by <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674967717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University Press</a>. The Press published an “About This Book” section that says, 

“Blackness, as the entertainment and sports industries well know, is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, black culture invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while at the same time offering the illusory reassurance that they remain ‘wholly’ white.”

The Press also mentioned Lott’s <a href="https://www.cc.com/video/ltlgca/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-reminder-race-is-not-a-costume" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah</a>. The episode discussed why blackface never makes a good Halloween costume. The show also featured a Comedy Central video called “Reminder: Race is not a Costume,” which explains how cosmetically darkening one’s skin is offensive in black culture. 

Lott shows up at a Halloween party during the opening monologue, introduces himself, and proceeds to explain how blackface is “rooted in the history and politics of slavery.” He says, 

“[Blackface] is an attempt to control and own the black image. Minstrel shows dominated popular culture and when they died out at the end of that century, [it] migrated to Hollywood…Blackface performers on stage would present slaves singing, dancing, having a grand old time, cutting up, and telling jokes. The whole thing was rooted in white supremacy.”

In his book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Love_Theft/AA4LQGPw8f8C?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Love+and+Theft:+Blackface+Minstrelsy+and+the+American+Working+Class&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class,</a>” Lott further explains how minstrel shows were appropriated purely for white entertainment. He claims, 

“Although [minstrels] arose from a white obsession with black (male) bodies which underlies white racial dread to our own day, it ruthlessly disavowed its fleshly investments through ridicule and racist lampoon. Yet I am not so sure this is the end of the story.”

<a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/stanley-thangaraj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanley “Stan” Thangaraj is an Associate Professor of Anthropology</a> at the City College of New York. He specializes in race and sports, gender and sports, and immigration. In a short video, Thangaraj explained his interest in “how immigrants negotiate what it means to be American by looking and practicing in everyday American sports.” He believes "the Trump presidency and the rise of white supremacy presented an opportunity to study the facts of racism in our country.”

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In the introduction of his book, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Desi_Hoop_Dreams/V3bVCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=desi+hoop+dreams:+pick+up+basketball+and+the+making+of+asian+american+masculinity&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desi Hoop Dreams: Pick-Up Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity</a>,” Thangaraj says, “South Asian Americans participate in basketball and other mainstream U.S. sporting cultures to express sporting desires and perform identities as certain types of racialized athletes.” Thangaraj was also a guest on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/tn/podcast/more-than-a-game-sports-race-and-masculinity/id871241283?i=1000500349600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Anthro Life podcast in an episode titled More than a Game: Sports, Race, and Masculinity in Diaspora</a>. The episode discussed what globally popular sports reveal about U.S. race relations and how the Black Lives Matter movement impacted nonwhite and nonblack communities.

Professor Thangaraj leads two projects focused on gender and race. The first examines how Muslim Kurdish women in America are seen not as “victims of Islamic patriarchy, [but] how women assert agency and form identities…while challenging mainstream U.S. racializations of them.” The second project is based on the Civil Rights movement's race, class, and sexuality as it is presented in the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

Thangaraj identifies as an ally of the LGBTQ community at CCNY. Thereby, his courses affirm to students of all genders, and his classrooms and offices are “safe spaces.” Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality is primarily listed among the courses he teaches.

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<a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/sinead-sant-barket">Sinead Sant-Barket, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Counseling Psychologist</a> in the City College of New York psychology department. Her research and professional interests include multicultural psychology, social justice, racial-cultural socialization, racial identity, and race-based traumatic stress.

Dr. Sant-Barket is recognized as an ally of the <a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/lgbtq-student-center/allies-ccny">LGBTQ+ community at CCNY</a>. By choosing to support this community, she aims to provide a “safe space” and affirm all students regardless of their gender identity. 

Dr. Sant-Barket co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled <a href="https://www.academia.edu/es/32121864/Race_Based_Traumatic_Stress_Racial_Identity_Statuses_and_Psychological_Functioning_An_Exploratory_Investigation">Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Racial Identity Statuses, and Psychological Functioning: An Explorative Investigation.</a> The study examines “the impact racial experiences have on people of color” as well as determines whether “race-based traumatic stress reactions combined with racial identity status attitudes are related to their psychological function.” Comments within the paper are charged at one racial group:
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Dr. Sant-Barket is also partnered with the SEEK (search for education, elevation, and knowledge) program at CCNY. The state-funded program exists to help students identified as economically or academically disadvantaged through grants and other cost-free services.

<a href="http://music.hunter.cuny.edu/faculty/full-time-faculty/philip-ewell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philip Ewell</a> is a Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Music Department. Ewell’s university profile says his research interests include race studies in music theory, modal theory, and hip-hop and popular music.

Ewell is quoted in a <a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/11/profile-philip-ewell-01-the-cellist-shaping-music-theorys-racial-reckoning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale News profile</a> stating,

“In the mid-20th century, the conceptions of excellence by which he was surrounded were deeply intertwined with ideals of whiteness and maleness. One was not supposed to admit such a notion aloud; instead, it was safer to put forth ‘that Mozart and Beethoven were simply the best composers on the planet.’”

Yale News continued,

“In his most well-known work to date, ‘Music Theory’s Racial Frame,’ Ewell argued for the existence of a structural and institutional white racial frame to the practice of music theory as a whole, and put forth the possibility of reframing the practice in a non-supremacist manner.”

Within the article, Ewell also branded his father — who is an African-American — as a racist and said he “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism.” In Ewell’s discussion regarding race in music, Yale News said, “He brought up his own Black father’s white supremacist as a counterargument; the hierarchy he imposed entailed white supremacy by definition…Ewell called this phenomenon the ‘concentric circles of white supremacy.’”

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Ewell published a blog titled “<a href="https://musictheoryswhiteracialframe.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/racism-sexism-and-their-intersection-in-music-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race, Gender, and Their Intersection in Music Theory</a>” where he discusses how American music theory only recognizes Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French and German. He wrote, “Music theory’s white racial frame believes that the only foreign music theoretical works worth studying were written in these five languages.”

Regarding music programs on college campuses he argues, “Seminars featuring 100% white-male music theorists create hostile environments for POC (people of color) and nonmales, and, especially, nonmales of color.” He also claimed the courses are “all-white all-male seminars” that “highlight the intersection of race and gender in music theory.”

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Published - December 1, 2022

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<a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/hoau-yan-wang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hoau-yan Wang</a> is a Medical Professor at the City College of New York School School of Medicine. 

In late June 2024, Wang was federally charged with fraud for allegedly fabricating false data on a drug that could treat Alzheimer’s disease. The data was fabricated with the intention of getting public funds invested in research on the medication. 

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-professor-charged-with-manipulating-data-alzheimers-drug-trial-2024-06-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> reported that the fabricated data was used in grant applications sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Wang and a “publicly-listed Austin, Texas-based pharmaceutical company for which he was a consultant.” 

The Texas-based pharmaceutical company that partnered with Wang is likely <a href="https://www.cassavasciences.com/">Cassava Sciences</a>, of which Wang is a consultant. The research grant was awarded to both parties. The NIH reportedly provided them funds amounting to $16 million from 2017 to 2021. However, Cassava Sciences was not accused in the lawsuit.

According to Reuters, the data on the Alzheimers medicine was investigated by outside parties three years ago:

 “In 2021, two physicians unaffiliated with Cassava <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/exclusive-cassava-sciences-faces-us-criminal-probe-tied-alzheimers-drug-sources-2022-07-27/">alleged the research underpinning</a> its Alzheimer's drug, called simufilam, was based on manipulated and misrepresented data.”
According to Cassava Sciences, Wang was involved in the development of the drug’s "early development." Yet, he also "had no involvement in the company’s phase 3 trials of simufilam."

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/health/wang-cassava-alzheimers-fraud.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> reported that the university investigated Wang for months and found certain oddities in their investigation: 
“An investigation by the City University of New York, of which the college is a part, struggled for months to obtain access to Dr. Wang’s files. Eventually, members of the investigating committee concluded that Dr. Wang <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/health/alzheimers-drug-research-simufilam.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had been ‘reckless</a>’ in his failure to keep or provide original data, an offense that ‘amounts to significant research misconduct.’”
As of the publication of this article, Wang is still employed as a professor at the City College of New York despite his legal situation. 
Published - July 9, 2024

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Kelli Alvarez is an <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/fyc/people/faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Teaching Professor</a> at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity in literature and film as well as indigenous and other ethnic literature. Alvarez teaches freshman-level courses, including English Composition, where she requires all students to read a publication by Professor Watchlist identified <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a> titled, “When Free Speech Becomes Unfree Speech.”
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When Alvarez isn’t teaching first-year composition courses, she is <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/classroom-censorship-comes-to-the-university-of-oklahoma/">leading workshops</a> for fellow teachers and professors on “anti-racist rhetoric &amp; pedagogies.” Over the summer of 2021, Alvarez led a classroom censorship workshop discussing how to “set an anti-racist tone” in the classroom and ultimately silence certain students. During the workshop, she discussed how particular students are emboldened to be overly racist in the classroom, both in-person and through their writing. She said that while some teachers may be afraid to tell students they can’t say something in class, teachers absolutely have the right to tell students to be quiet and stop talking.
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Alvarez goes on to claim that the Supreme Court ruled that hate speech is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. She states, “the Supreme Court has actually upheld that hate speech, derogatory speech, any of the -isms do not apply in the classroom because they do not foster a productive learning environment.”
According to <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/what-rights-to-freedom-of-expression-do-students-have/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Freedom Forum Institute</a>, The Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Later in the lecture, Alvarez discusses a concept called “white institutional defensiveness,” which she describes as conditions that force non-white students to conform and assimilate to whiteness or else risk consequences. Alvarez asserts that not allowing non-white students to write in ABE style (Adult Basic Education) is racist and perpetuating white supremacy.
According to the Division of Adult and Career Education, ABE style is meant for native English-speakers with limited literacy, below a 9th grade level. The video of the entire workshop can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxl61VDYp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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Kelli Alvarez is an <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/fyc/people/faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Teaching Professor</a> at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity in literature and film as well as indigenous and other ethnic literature. Alvarez teaches freshman-level courses, including English Composition, where she requires all students to read a publication by Professor Watchlist identified <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a> titled, “When Free Speech Becomes Unfree Speech.”

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When Alvarez isn’t teaching first-year composition courses, she is <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/classroom-censorship-comes-to-the-university-of-oklahoma/">leading workshops</a> for fellow teachers and professors on “anti-racist rhetoric &amp; pedagogies.” Over the summer of 2021, Alvarez led a classroom censorship workshop discussing how to “set an anti-racist tone” in the classroom and ultimately silence certain students. During the workshop, she discussed how particular students are emboldened to be overly racist in the classroom, both in-person and through their writing. She said that while some teachers may be afraid to tell students they can’t say something in class, teachers absolutely have the right to tell students to be quiet and stop talking.

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Alvarez goes on to claim that the Supreme Court ruled that hate speech is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. She states, “the Supreme Court has actually upheld that hate speech, derogatory speech, any of the -isms do not apply in the classroom because they do not foster a productive learning environment.”

According to <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/what-rights-to-freedom-of-expression-do-students-have/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Freedom Forum Institute</a>, The Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Later in the lecture, Alvarez discusses a concept called “white institutional defensiveness,” which she describes as conditions that force non-white students to conform and assimilate to whiteness or else risk consequences. Alvarez asserts that not allowing non-white students to write in ABE style (Adult Basic Education) is racist and perpetuating white supremacy.

According to the Division of Adult and Career Education, ABE style is meant for native English-speakers with limited literacy, below a 9th grade level. The video of the entire workshop can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxl61VDYp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

<a href="https://www.law.ou.edu/directory/steven-j-cleveland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Steven J Cleveland</a> is the Alfred P. Murrah Professor of Law and Thomas P. Hester Presidential Professor at the<a href="https://law.ou.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> College of Law at the University of Oklahoma (OU</a>).

During the 2022 Spring Semester, the University of Oklahoma implemented strict mandates on students and faculty to limit the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Cleveland is currently enforcing these policies in his classroom to such an extreme extent that students are threatened with being removed from class and reported to the Dean of the school for not wearing a mask.

Upon returning for the Spring 2022 semester, students were informed by <a href="https://www.normantranscript.com/news/ou-requiring-masks-for-first-two-weeks-of-classes/article_704a7026-723a-11ec-aa7b-139ccc6f40da.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university’s administration they will be forced to wear face masks</a> in classroom settings until February 1 when masks will then become<a href="https://www.ou.edu/together/campus-protocols/spring-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strongly recommended.</a>

This mandate is in direct contradiction with Oklahoma state law. In May of 2021, Governor Kevin Stitt <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/29/oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-bars-agencies-mask-vaccination-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned any state agency or building–including public universities–from requiring either a mask or vaccination status for entry</a>.

Nevertheless, professors at OU are still enforcing mask mandates and threatening to penalize students who do not comply with the restrictions. In communications reviewed by the Professor Watchlist team, professors are removing maskless students from class and threatening their grades due to the forced absences. Others refuse to even meet with students who are unvaccinated and will report unmasked students to their respective Dean.

One student, Alyssa Amundsen, vowed to defy the university mandates. She emailed each of her professors in the law school explaining that she would not wear a mask in class under any circumstance. While some professors were accommodating, many were not, and refused to allow her to attend in person.

Dr Cleveland was the most resistant to grant any exemptions. Amundsen was barred from attending class despite obtaining a medical exemption from wearing a mask last year from her doctor.

Amundsen emailed Dr. Cleveland to ask if she could attend class without a mask. Dr. Cleveland immediately refused her request and threatened to report her to the Dean of the Law School if she made a maskless appearance.

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Amundsen then offered to take the class remotely via ZOOM since the course is already recorded for students who are absent due to COVID. Despite this, Dr. Cleveland again refused, stating that “taking a stand for her beliefs has consequences.”

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n a follow-up conversation with two Deans of the law school—Dr. Steven Gensler and Dr. Kathleene Guzman—Amundsen was still adamant to reach a compromise. Both told her there is no recourse she and can only attend in-person classes while wearing a mask per university rules. She was eventually forced to drop the class or risk having her grade reduced due to her absences.

While an injunction has been placed on Governor Stitt’s executive order, the Judge <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/oklahoma-school-mask-mandate-ban-blocked-exemptions-79769836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled that schools must include an “opt-out.” So far, OU has provided no such opt-out</a> for students and staff.

The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Dr. Cleveland but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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UPDATE
Following publication, the Professor Watchlist team has received the following statement from Mackenzie Scheer, Director of Media Relations at the University of Oklahoma, in regards to our inquiry.

"Since the onset of the pandemic, OU has sought to implement protocols that will protect our community, while also allowing for our in-person experience to continue. Given the transmission rate of Omicron and supply chain issues around testing, OU instituted a temporary addendum to its existing masking policy, requiring masking in all classrooms through Jan. 31. Beginning Feb. 1, the university reverted to its Fall 2021 masking guidance that expects masking in the classroom and requires masking for a two-week quarantine period when a confirmed positive COVID-19 case in the class is identified. While the university does not grant exemptions, it does evaluate requests for accommodations in certain cases. Students in need of accommodations due to health or religious reasons were instructed by law school administrators to contact the <a href="mailto:OU%20Accessibility%20and%20Disability%20Resource%20Center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OU Accessibility and Disability Resource Center</a> at <a href="mailto:adrc@ou.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adrc@ou.edu</a> or (405) 325-3852. All accommodation decisions are made on a case-by-case basis after considering each individual’s circumstance and in accordance with all applicable laws. Once a request has been approved, instructors are responsible for providing a student’s reasonable accommodation."

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma at (405) 325-4699. 
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Updated - Febuary 2, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/about/faculty/r-keresztesi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rita Keresztesi</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests consist of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black African literary and cultural studies; such as the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts/Black Power, Afro-Caribbean literature, and postcolonial African cinema.

She has also authored many publications, such as: 
<ul>
 	<li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Literary-Black-Power-in-the-Caribbean-Fiction-Music-and-Film/Keresztesi/p/book/9780367482015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Literary Black Power in the Caribbean</a>. This book “focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean…” </li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803227675/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars.</a> The book description states “She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America.”</li>
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Keresztesi’s <a href="https://fulbrightscholars.org/sites/default/files/documents/A6-Keresztesi-Rita-CV.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum vitae</a> shows that ENGL 4333 Black Arts/Black Power is one of the many courses she has taught in the English Department. According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-oklahoma-english-course-to-focus-on-black-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, The University of Oklahoma offered an English course (Spring, 2022) led by Keresztesi that focused on “Black Power.” An <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/academics/courses/catalogue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online description</a> says that the course focused on the “cultural and political agendas of the “Black Arts” and “Black Power” movement from the 1960s to today with an emphasis on progressive agendas such as “the rise of the Prison-Industrial Complex and the #BlackLivesMatter movement…”

As stated in The College Fix, “Tamera Nealy, a student at the University of Oklahoma, said she believes the course sounds like it may be taught in a divisive manner and add to racial unrest on campus.”

If you would like to <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact</a> the English Department, you can email <a href="mailto:mountford@ou.edu">mountford@ou.edu</a>.

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Published — October 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/traci-brynne-voyles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles</a> is a Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Oklahoma. Her university profile states that she is a “historian of colonialism, race, and environment...” Voyles's research includes the study of North America from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Voyles’s new book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Settler_Sea/nCtEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism</a> covers a variety of topics on white settlers, oppression, environmental injustice, and more. The text states: “Rather than erasing white settlers’ relationships to (and oppression of) other non-Native people of color, those relationships of enslavement, racialized labor, and criminalization on an ‘inherited background field’ of Native dispossession…. (44) In its most fundamental formulation, environmental injustice occurs when people who are marginalized by racism, classism, settler colonialism, or heteropatriarchy are disproportionately targeted to bear the burdens of environmental harm. (45)” 

Another one of her publications, <a href="https://borderlandshistory.org/2016/06/14/cfp-not-just-green-not-just-white-race-justice-and-environmental-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History</a> (with Mary E. Mendoza) reads: “Race is a critical component to the study of environmental injustice, but environmental history, until very recently, has tended to leave out questions of race.”

A third publication is titled <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479894567/sustainability/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Man Destroys Nature? Gender, History, and the Feminist Praxis of Situating Sustainabilities.” In Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power</a> (edited by Julie Sze, 196–215. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 19 pages.) This text is a “critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines[.]”

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In a Q&amp;A conducted by <a href="https://edgeeffects.net/traci-brynne-voyles-anti-vaccination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edge Effects</a>, Voyles talks about environmentalism, white supremacy, racism, and more. She states:
“But my research showed that it is also deeply racist.  In fact, the notion of pure and unpolluted white bodies is a key part of how environmental racism proceeds. The protection of purity from any kind of contamination has been a mechanism by which toxins are diverted into nonwhite spaces and how this distributional injustice is rationalized as common sense…”
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Published — November 17, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/psc/faculty/shortle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allyson Shortle</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Oklahoma. According to Shortle’s <a href="http://www.allysonshortle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, her research “examines group identity dynamics in the context of American political behavior.” 

Her recent projects consist of “the nexus of race, nationalism, and political behavior.” On her website, she states, “I also often examine the race-gendered dynamics of criminal justice attitudes using experimental methods.” 

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Shortle has a variety of publications, such as:
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 	<li><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/everyday-crusade/34A0EF92928EB4E3AC25B014B6DF0FFC#fndtn-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics</a> (2022 – w. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin). This text “examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X10371300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divine Boundaries: How Religion Shapes Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants</a> American Politics Research (January 2011. McDaniel, Eric L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). The article “argue[s] that religion affects immigration attitudes via a distinct religiously informed interpretation of America’s national identity, which we call Christian nationalism. Christian nationalists believe that America has a divinely inspired mission and link its success to God’s favor. Using social identity complexity theory, we argue that citizens who ascribe to this worldview should be least tolerant of those they perceive as symbolic threats to American national identity.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2022.2065320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ethnocultural or generalized? Nationalism and support for punitive immigration policy</a> (Ana Bracic, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, and Allyson Shortle). The description reads: “We argue that ethnocultural forms of nationalism—beliefs about religious, ethnic, and gendered criteria for “true Americanness”—help explain support for family separations.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-018-9446-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Sexism for White People? Gender Stereotypes, Race, and the 2016 Presidential Election</a> (Ana Bracic, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel &amp; Allyson F. Shortle). The description states: “This paper offers the first observational test of how sexism affects presidential vote choice in the general election, adding to the rich literature on gender and candidate success for lower-level offices. We argue that the 2016 election implicated gender through Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and Donald Trump’s sexist rhetoric, and activated gender attitudes such that sexism is associated with vote choice.”</li>
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<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/christian-nationalism-threatens-democracy-experts/story?id=91866475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> asks Shortle: What does Christian nationalism mean for American democracy?
"I think democracy is on the line here as a result of the threats from Christian nationalism ... yes, it's a minority ideology, but we don't see a lot of opposition to it," she states.
Additionally, in an interview with <a href="https://www.kgou.org/show/capitol-insider/2022-08-26/rise-of-christian-nationalism-influences-political-discourse-and-elections-in-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KGOU News</a>, Shortle states: 
“Well, in my own research, I've definitely found higher rates of white Christian Nationalism in Oklahoma than other parts of the country. So, using some Oklahoma nonprofit survey collectors through places like Sooner Poll, for instance, I found higher rates than when I run a national poll asking the same metrics of white Christian Nationalism. And not just how you define American identity, but also these particular myths of American religious exceptionalism that people adhere to - that America is God's chosen nation, for instance, America was picked by God to lead all other countries. These are American exceptionalist ideals, but they're also ideals that Christian Nationalists use to maybe speak to other Christian Nationalists without others knowing. Right?”
Professor Shortle offers a variety of courses, such as Public Opinion, Immigration Politics, Identity Politics, and more.

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Published — November 16, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/carrie-schroeder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Schroeder</a> is a Women’s and Gender Studies professor at The University of Oklahoma. Schroeder’s interests include sexuality, gender, religion, history, homoeroticism, and more.

In Spring 2023, Dr. Schroeder will be teaching a new course, “Sex, Gender, and Early Christianities” (WGS 3463). According to The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the course will introduce students “to the diverse understanding of sexuality and gender that developed in early Christianities.”
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Sex, Gender, and Early Christianities (WGS 3463) is a new course that is now available for Spring 2023 enrollment! The course introduces students to the diverse understanding of sexuality and gender that developed in early Christianities. Join Dr. Schroeder in Spring 2023! <a href="https://t.co/EwkQD2MuW7">pic.twitter.com/EwkQD2MuW7</a>
— OU WGS (@ouWGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS/status/1585661317767045121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Schroeder’s <a href="http://www.carrieschroeder.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> includes a variety of her publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wysoDQAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family</a> (Edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder. Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.) “And yet, the genderqueering of Melania also made possible a much more robust memory of her in a society in which the memory of male figures was always uppermost.” (10).</li>
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Additionally, she tweets about terminating a “nonviable bunch of cells…” See the tweet below:

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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/anthropology/faculty-staff/elyse-singer1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elyse Singer</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at The University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research interests include: “Reproduction, Abortion, End of life care, Bioethics, Reproductive governance, Mexico, Health, Citizenship, Gender, and the body.”

Singer’s <a href="https://ou.academia.edu/ElyseSinger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> features many of her publications, such as:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5601/7407" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a Bind: Navigating Ethical Demands in Feminist Abortion Research</a>: Singer highlights her position “as a pro-choice feminist researcher.…” The text “illuminates the difficulties inherent in feminist abortion research in a context of recent legalization and sustained anti-abortion sentiment.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34146935/The_End_of_Feminist_Abortion_Counseling_Examining_Threats_to_Womens_Health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling? Examining Threats to Women's Health</a>: The description states that “Drawing from ethnographic research in abortion clinics and their own experience as abortion counselors, the authors examine current threats to comprehensive abortion counseling in independent clinics and the implications of these changes for quality abortion care.”</li>
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Singer was recently featured at an event covering “abortion as social labor” which was hosted by the <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women's and Gender Studies at The University of Oklahoma</a>:
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Join us TODAY at 4-5:30pm in Ellison Hall Room 132! <a href="https://t.co/fZ9HE5S5t9">pic.twitter.com/fZ9HE5S5t9</a>
— OU WGS (@ouWGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS/status/1588254895941255168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Megan Sibbett</a> is an Assistant Professor of The Women’s and Gender Studies Department at The University of Oklahoma. “Her scholarly fields include queer and trans feminist theory, LGBTQ studies, and queer activism and movements.” Currently, Sibbett is a teacher and researcher with a focus on queer imagination of childhood and childhood cultures. 

Sibbett has several publications, such as
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/feminist-and-queer-theory-9780190841799?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Breaking into Bad: The New Privileged Monsters, or Straight, Middle-Class, White Guys," Feminist and Queer Theories: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader</a>, Oxford University Press. This text “addresses both feminist and queer theory through intersectional and transnational lenses.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"ACT UP! LIV MOORE!: Blood, Brains, and Bodies and the Queer Activism of the Monstrous in iZombie."</a> [forthcoming].</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Violence with Queer Storytelling.”</a> [forthcoming 2023].</li>
</ul>
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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/education/people/faculty/mirelsie-velazquez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mirelsie Velázquez</a> is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests include gender, sexuality, race, and more. Velázquez teaches a variety of courses, such as “History of American Education, Puerto Rican Studies, Critical Race Theory, Latina Feminism, Latina/o Education, Oral History, and Historiography of Education.” 

A few of her thoughts on the United States, Christian fascism, abortion, and more are below:

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Published — November 23, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/steve-ellis">Stephen Ellis</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Graduate Liaison at The University of Oklahoma. His research areas are “Decision Theory,” “Philosophy of Economics,” “Philosophy of Mind” and “Ethics.” A list of courses taught by Ellis include “Philosophy of Social Science,” “Contemporary Philosophy: Social Norms,” and “Contemporary Philosophy: The White Racial Frame.” 

The Professor Watchlist received an anonymous tip about a racially charged comment Ellis posted online. The concerned citizen said community members were discussing the legalities of Oklahoma’s homeless population when Ellis made the following statement:

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Ellis’ Facebook cover photo shows the following graphic:

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Rather than provide alternative solutions to the issue of homelessness, Ellis appears to have an affinity for poverty and has spoken out against police officers who attempt to maintain public safety and law and order.

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Please send tips and information on Stephen Ellis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 1, 2024

Racial Ideology

Kelli Alvarez

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<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/anthony_brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Brown</a> is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas &#8211; Austin. Professor Brown’s research focuses on “historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.” Brown is a director of the <a href="https://teachingtxslavery.education.utexas.edu/#/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching Texas Slavery Project</a> which “seeks to help teachers rethink the teaching of slavery and race within the context of the K-12 Texas history curriculum… The overall goal is to transform the teaching of slavery and race across the K-12 social studies curriculum.”
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Professor Brown has authored many publications, such as: 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279741744_The_Illusion_of_Inclusion_A_Critical_Race_Theory_Textual_Analysis_of_Race_and_Standards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Illusion of Inclusion: A Critical Race Theory Textual Analysis of Race and Standards</a>. Harvard Educational Review, 82(3), 403–424: “In the case of this study, the subjective constructs of race are the ways in which issues of race and racism are rendered in the Texas standards… Racism plays out in schools through the context of unequal and oppressive social relationships among different racial groups (Omi &amp; Winant, 1994). For example, CRT scholars (e.g., Lopez, 2003) suggest that racially neutral macro-level educational laws and policies may dis-guise the salience and impact of racism in schools.” (407). “This is of particular concern because, as scholars note, White, middle-class teachers—who make up the majority of practicing and preparing teachers in the United States (Sleeter, 2008)—often resist addressing the topic of race and racism, a phenomenon related to their privileged and racially isolated social location (Brown &amp; Brown, 2010a; Epstein, 2009).” (420).</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680939.2010.533289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Economies of Racism: Grounding Education Policy Research in the Complex Dialectic of Race, Class, and Capital</a>. Journal of Educational Policy, 26(5), 595–619: “The authors maintain that in recent years educational theory and critical policy discourse have unintentionally become splintered in such a way that race and class theories are employed separately, without much analysis of the concomitant ways race and racism are both embedded in and productive of the material processes of production and exploitation that characterize capitalism&#8230; The authors propose the framework of economies of racism to make sense of the complex unity that brings white supremacy and capitalist accumulation together in a single dialectic.”</li>
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Published — October 7, 2022

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University of Texas - Austin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mals/faculty/kc32638" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karma Chávez</a> is Chair and Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA). Her interests include “social movements, queer of color critique, abolition, rhetoric, and coalitions.” In her faculty profile, Chávez states:
“My scholarship is primarily informed by queer of color theory and women of color feminism. Methodologically, I am a rhetorical critic who utilizes textual and field-based methods. I am interested in studying social movement building, activist rhetoric, and coalition politics.” 
In 2019, Chávez published “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Palestine_on_the_Air/yqG0DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=palestine+on+the+air&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine on the Air</a>,” a book comprised of interviews she conducted among residents of Gaza. Chávez’s <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p084850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publisher</a>, the University of Illinois Press, said:
“Few doubt the pro-Israel bias of the Western media. It takes the form of overtly supporting Israel’s government policies, or of maintaining neutrality or silence on issues of Israeli violence, occupation, and settlement expansion. Scholar and activist [Chávez] collects eleven interviews that allow dissenting voices a forum to provide rarely heard perspectives on the Palestinian struggle for justice, land, and self-determination.”
In the book introduction, Chávez writes:
“A U.S. audience remains important in conversations about Palestine, not just so that people will make conceptual connections like ‘their walls are our walls,’ although such basic links are valuable. Instead, a U.S. audience is important because the United States is so deeply implicated in the ongoing occupation and apartheid conditions of Palestine/Israel.”
In an undated publication, Masters in Communication <a href="https://www.mastersincommunications.com/scholarly-interviews/dr-karma-chavez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Chávez about statements she made in her book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Borders_of_AIDS/Gwo1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Borders of Aids: Race, Quarantine and Resistance</a>.” The transcript shows Chávez was asked, “How do you view the alienating rhetoric surrounding HIV/AIDS that you trace [in your book] as relevant to understanding the current COVID-19 pandemic?” She responded:

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Published - March 26, 2024

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bedour Alagraa</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought at the University of Texas at Austin. According to Alagraa’s faculty profile, she is a self-described ‘wayward political theorist’ with primary interests in “Political theory, Caribbean political thought, Black Marxism(s), [and] African anti-colonial thought.”

Alagraa—a contributing author for ROAR Magazine—wrote two pieces covering the “black struggle” of the Sudanese and the liberation of black Americans. Alagraa penned an <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/now-is-the-time-black-struggle-from-sudan-to-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> titled “Now is the time: Black struggle from Sudan to the US” in which she called on readers to “reflect on the radical movements” like the George Floyd riots. 

While comparing the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g2EapP_sQ09FTDSVPdAA8YI_RieflH6n/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legitimate oppression</a> of Sudanese people and the 2018 political uprisings to alleged racism issues in 2020 America, Alagraa stated:

“The purpose here is not to conflate the struggles of the Sudanese people with other struggles…The point, rather, is to understand how [b]lack struggles globally are co-constitutive and kindred. This moment demands that we draw lessons and motivation from one another, and recognize that local ecologies of struggle hold the keys to a transnational and anti-national understanding of liberation.”

In her <a href="https://roarmag.org/magazine/pendulum-swing-black-liberation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> titled “The Pendulum Swing of Black Liberation,” Alagraa further claimed:

“This piece focused on the activation of struggles, and less so on the reality that each movement for liberation was met with a deepening repression and political conservatism…Black people’s struggles have never been limited to ‘inter’ or ‘between’ nations, but oftentimes rather against, with total disregard for, the nation or the nation-state.”

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The description of Alagraa’s undergraduate course “<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Political Thought</a>” says, in part:

“Black political reflection is constituted by a distinctive and ongoing preoccupation with freedom. Conceived and practiced in and/or against the political evils of slavery, segregation, racial terror, and mass incarceration, these reflections rank among political theory’s most acute treatments of freedom and domination.”

Additional <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332#:~:text=BIOGRAPHY-,COURSES,-AFR%20370%20%E2%80%A2%20Political" target="_blank" rel="noopener">race-based courses</a> taught by Alagraa include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Black Studies Theory” — Parts I of this course answer questions such as “What is race?” “What is blackness?” and “What is the relationship of slavery to capitalism, empire, war, and democracy?” Part II supposedly covers “[a]n in-depth exploration of…African diaspora social structures and cultural traditions.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Alienation and Freedom” — summarized a seminar “which focuses on the problem of alienation as a predicament for [b]lack radical anticolonal[sic] thought and politics.”</li>
</ul>
Please send tips and updates on Bedour Alagraa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/complit/gradstudents/is8543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibek Sahinler</a> is a Professor of rhetoric and writing at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Sanhinler—who posted she/her pronouns on her faculty profile—has multiple areas of interest, including, “queer theory,” “queer Global South,” and “writing and gender studies.”

Sahinler was named in an article by <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/longhorn-scorecard/ut-austin-course-promotes-lgbt-agenda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Scorecard</a> titled “UT-Austin Course Promotes ‘LGBT’ Agenda.” After pointing out the “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/native-land-whiners-should-match-words-deeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land acknowledgment</a>” on the first page of the <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a>, Scorecard wrote:

“[UT-Austin] is offering an ‘Introduction to LGBT Studies’ course this fall [2024]. A required course textbook promotes the sexualization of minors…The instructor is UT-Austin PhD candidate, Ibek Sahinler. The course’s general guidelines contain even more left-wing framing.”

The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” course description states:

“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”

Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 

In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:

“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”

Sahinler's faculty bio says, “She likes thinking about the intersections between the Middle East and Latin America, borderland studies, identity politics, rhetoric of failure, and linguistic queerness.” However, this professor has not published any books or peer-reviewed writings showing a legitimate contribution to higher learning. 

Send tips, updates, and feedback on Ibek Sahinler to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - December 16, 2024

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

Anthony Brown

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Chesa Boudin previously held the position of the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco. He is now the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.</a>
Chesa Boudin has been outspoken about how he believes that the prison system is set up to be disadvantageous towards minorities. According to <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Law’s website</a>, “Chesa understands that mass incarceration and privatized prisons disproportionately harm people of color and reflect the institutional inequities of America’s legal system.” These ideas of legal institutions like prisons being systemically unfair towards people of color, and that a major focus needs to be put on fixing that, is what Boudin plans on bringing to the students that he will be teaching at Berkeley Law School.
The website also quotes Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx who states that Chesa Boudin “knows that criminalizing poverty and homelessness entrenches racist policies and power structures, and that this approach fails to uphold the values of equal rights and due process we supposedly hold dear.” One of Boudin’s goals that is outlined in Berkeley’s announcement is that he plans to bring people once incarcerated into the Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. 
Before he was elected as District Attorney, Chesa Boudin told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-the-answer-to-quality-of-life-crimes-in-14563426.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Rising local crime rates due to Boudin’s efforts to not prosecute these crimes are what led to outcry from residents asking for his recall.
The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports that in 2020—Chesa Boudin’s first year in office—property crimes skyrocketed, “with more than 4,400 incidents of property crime per 100,000 residents.” In this same report, 23% of residents stated that safety and crime was the biggest problem in the city while 39% stated homelessness as the city’s biggest issue. 
Additionally, the <a href="https://sfchamber.com/press-release-citybeat21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chamber of Commerce</a> released a 2021 poll where “eight out of ten San Franciscans consider crime to have worsened in recent years” and around 70% of San Francisco residents believe that their quality of life has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has placed Chesa Boudin in charge of Berkeley Law School’s Criminal Law and Justice Center where he will be teaching students about the criminal legal system. 
<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/san-franciscos-da-chesa-boudin-faces-possible-recall-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that Chesa Boudin was recalled due to his ‘soft on crime’ policies that led to prosecutors being unable to “seek cash bail, try juveniles as adults or seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders with gang affiliations.” When confronted with the possibility of recall, Boudin told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-government-and-politics-san-francisco-seniors-c865bc8fa7006fb806b6e5b639f64857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> that San Francisco residents were frustrated and angry “at the Trump administration and misinformation that administration fueled on everything from public safety to vaccines.” 
Boudin did not hold himself accountable for the complaints of the residents and instead blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that was occurring in the city. He was successfully recalled on June 7, 2022 and was unable to serve the remainder of his term as the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco.
Published &#8211; June 13, 2023

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/hatem-bazian/">Hatem Bazian</a> is a professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the <a href="https://zaytuna.edu/academics/faculty/hatem-bazian">co-founder and assistant professor </a>at Zaytuna College, which is the only accredited American college in which the curriculum is based on Islamic fundamentals. Bazian’s resume is littered with antisemitic and pro-terror incidents, both on and off-campus.

When attending San Francisco State University, Bazian accused the student newspaper of being <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/19590/profiles-in-hate-hatem-bazian">infiltrated by “Jewish spies</a>,” and allegedly denied Jewish students jobs while serving as Student Body President, claiming their support of Israel exhibited their racism.

Bazian’s activism grew more militant with time. At an Islamic conference in 1999, he was quoted by the Detroit Free Press reciting an Islamic Hadith <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8865/hatem-bazian-personal-story">calling for the slaughter of Jews</a>.
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After 79 members of Students for Justice in Palestine were arrested for disrupting a Holocaust memorial, Bazian asserted that the university's actions were racially motivated. During the subsequently organized protests, Bazain <a href="https://www.jweekly.com/2018/10/22/berkeley-city-councils-shameful-tolerance-of-anti-semitism/">insinuated that powerful Jews controlled the University and orchestrated the arrests</a>.

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Bazian’s thinly veiled antisemitism is seamlessly <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Hatem_Bazian">interlaced with his anti-Israel demagoguery</a>. A proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,  Bazian has called for the dismantlement of the state of Israel and has praised the terrorist group Hamas. Bazian <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfv5yaKxNgo&amp;ab_channel=HamasOnCampus">openly called for a domestic insurrection</a> within America. Calling the crowd to arms at a 2003 anti-war rally, Bazian called for an “Intifada” to start in America.

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The Intifada was then in the midst of its third year of blood-soaked carnage in Israel. Before it abated in 2006, <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel">over one thousand men, women, and children would perish</a> from sniper fire and suicide attacks on buses, markets, and restaurants. The most gruesome attacks included the <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/26/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/">public lynching and disembowelment of two Israeli soldiers</a>, and the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/18-years-after-sbarro-suicide-attack-pa-has-paid-910823-to-the-culprits-598106">bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria</a>, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman.

Extending to the classroom and beyond, Bazian has co-founded two anti-Israel groups: <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/SJP">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP), and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

Bazian co-founded SJP with fellow professor <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/snehalshingavi">Snehal Shingavi</a> in 2001 in solidarity with Palestinian groups, as the Intifada raged in Israel. The group is known for its belligerent tactics and hostility towards Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus. SJP openly calls for the destruction of Israel and has never been shy about their support for Hamas. <a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Azka_Fayyaz">A student senator and member of SJP</a> at UC Davis <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-depicts-jewish-students-growing-insecurity-on-campus/">welcomed “Hamas and sharia law"</a> to campus.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SF2qAJl65k&amp;ab_channel=CanaryMission">American Muslims for Palestine</a>, of which Bazian serves as Chairman, is rooted in the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Facing scrutiny by the federal government over its ties to overseas jihadist groups, IAP ceased operations in 2003 to avoid prosecution. Many of the staff then <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-SchanzerJ-20160419.pdf">reconstituted under the new banner of AMP with Bazian as Chairman</a>. Screenshots from IAP’s former website show that the group openly encouraged Islamic terrorism and what can only be described as ethnic cleansing of Jews.

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Bazian is a tenured professor at one of the world’s most prestigious colleges. Tens of thousands of students have passed through his classroom while accruing many thousands more in debt, over his many decades in academia. His radicalism isn’t hidden—Bazian has openly embraced and preached the most radical, violent, and bigoted positions imaginable and sought to inspire future leaders with those same values.

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UPDATE - May 27, 2022
A previous edition that attributed a quote to Hatem Bazian has been corrected and attributed to an article hosted on the IAP website in December, 2000

<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/john-powell/">John A. Powell</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. During a<a href="http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/"> White Privilege Conference</a>, Powell was caught on film saying that the Bush Administration deliberately took money away from strengthening the levees during Hurricane Katrina because the levees were protecting black people.

<a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nancy-scheper-hughes">Nancy Scheper-Hughes</a> is the Chancellor’s Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkely. Her university biography <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nancy-scheper-hughes">states</a> that Scheper-Hughes approaches her work through a “politically engaged perspective” to examine “structural and political violence.”

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Anti-Second Amendment 
Immediately following the Pulse nightclub shooting, in which a Muslim man who pledged allegiance to ISIS <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-injuries-shooting-orlando-nightclub-police/story?id=39789552">entered Pulse, a gay nightclub, and opened fire, killing 50 individuals</a>, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">published</a> an article on the Berkeley Blog, a university website, to reflect on the events of the previous evening, titled, Radical evil: A reflection on the Orlando massacre.

In her article, Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">describes</a> the Pulse nightclub as a “sacred space” that was attacked by a man she describes as “radically evil.” However, she then blames the killings on hate speech of the “trumpers'' and the <a href="https://home.nra.org/">National Rifle Association</a>.

Referring to the Second Amendment in the post, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">states</a> that we have “failed as a democracy” to let “one amendment trump” all other amendments, leading to killings like the one in Orlando. She alleges that massacres throughout American history are typically committed by “orthodox conservatives” that suffer from a "perversity of heart."

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In mid-2017, the Berkely College Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/BerkeleyCRs/status/884816647546064896">announced</a> on the group's Twitter account that they would host popular commentator Ben Shapiro. In an article for the website, CounterPunch, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/the-great-wall-of-uc-berkeley-vs-baby-face-shapiro/">decries</a> the decision to host Shapiro at the university, describing him as a “smart aleck, wisecracking, racist, sexist, misogynist, Islamophobic jerk.” She goes on to describe Shapiro as a “very dangerous, extremely controversial, physical threat” to Berkeley’s student body.

Scheper-Hughes further <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/the-great-wall-of-uc-berkeley-vs-baby-face-shapiro/">describes</a> Ben Shapiro in her article as a member of the “alt-light” that engages in hate speech. Hughes states that the First Amendment is a “work in progress” and that the amendment is “ignorant” and inadequately able to combat “hate speech.”

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While acknowledging that the university is “stuck” with the protections that the First Amendment affords Ben Shapiro, Scheper-Hughes implies that free speech can be regulated to ban hate speech.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Scheper-Hughes for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the University of California-Berkeley at (510) 642-6000
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ron-hendel/">Dr. Ronald Hendel</a> is a Professor of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. At the beginning of Hendel’s class, titled “Jewish Civilization I: The Biblical Period,” he told students not to take his class if they think the Bible is infallible. After one student started questioning and challenging him, Hendel told the student “If you disagree with the approach we use, that’s an F.”

<a href="https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/andrew-little">Dr. Andrew Little</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California in Berkeley. According to his university <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/andrew-little">biography</a>, Dr. Little’s research focuses on authoritarian politics, communication and information manipulation, and conflict.

While working as a professor at Cornell University, Dr. Little vocally opposed the hiring of conservative professors by the university. In an interview with The Cornell Daily Sun in October 2015, he stated that <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">the quality of research and academic integrity would suffer if universities hired conservative professors</a>.

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In the same article, titled “Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show,” reporters for the Cornell Daily Sun <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">note</a> that over 96% of the political donations of Cornell staff went to Democrats and only 4% were donated to Republican candidates.
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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ramon-grosfoguel-1/">Ramon Grosfoguel</a> is an associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to his university biography, Grosfoguel also specializes in decoloniality and the study of Islamophobia.

Grosfoguel is notable for his vocal opposition to the state of Israel and support for BDS. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1PCTNGgB8&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv">interview</a> with the Islamic Human Rights Commission during Al-Quds Day (an <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-quds-day-irans-leader-says-zionism-a-virus-that-must-be-eliminated/">Iranian holiday</a> dedicated to the destruction of Israel) not only did he claim that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, but that Israel is a threat to peace across the world. Grosfoguel claimed that Israel is infiltrating nations and aligning itself with openly fascist organizations in order to strangle freedom of speech.

Grosfoguel also claims that Jews <a href="https://www.okcir.com/Articles%20VII%202/Grosfoguel-FM.pdf">cynically use the Holocaust</a> to elicit sympathy from the world in order to commit atrocities against Arabs;

“The simplistic identity politics of the Holocaust hegemonic narrative that essentialized Jewish identity as homogenous eternal victims and always intentionally innocent ended with Gaza.”   

“These simplistic and reductionist narratives about the Holocaust and Jewish identity were exploited by the Zionists for the last 60 years to legitimate their fundamentalist Jewish state built upon the practices and methods of settler colonialism against the Palestinians.”                  

“Hitlerism as a continuation of colonial racist ideology came back to hunt Palestinians this time at the hands of European Jews who ironically were escaping from the Nazi Holocaust.” 

“...the Holocaust was always manipulated, abused, and institutionalized by the Israeli settler colonialist state from its foundation in 1948 until today to justify its colonial domination, expansion, and terror.”
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Grosfoguel specializes in anti-colonial rhetoric. Rather than a past vestige, Grosfoguel maintains that colonialism is an ongoing attempt by Western nations—particularly Israel and the United States, to maintain dominance throughout the world. Grosfoguel lectures that the capitalistic, Christian-centered West is able to bleed poorer nations dry to maintain their wealth. He claims that Christianity itself has given rise to genocides around the world, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8ISZolAMw&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=2m4s">“pre-modern” societies were far more peaceful</a> than modern, Western nations.

To Grosfoguel, the concept of human rights is a Western farce that is used to justify foreign invasions. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=9m46s">He has claimed</a> that America is a “rogue state” that has murdered upwards of 70 million people.

“Here comes the quintessential rogue state in the world, USA, calling other nations rogue states….This is really amazing, because this country, the last 60 years, has killed more than 70 million people.”  

In the same lecture, he held nothing back when grotesquely claiming that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=7m0s">should have been put to death</a> alongside Sadam Hussein for his crimes as an imperialist:

“So Donald Rumsfield should have been sitting alongside Sadam Hussein and been judged, ok? And been hanged together with him.”  

Grosfoguel travels frequently to speak about his views on decolonization and is renowned among the Left for his views on the subject. In 2018, he was invited to deliver <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwX2ZQl0C0&amp;t=3173s&amp;ab_channel=LuiginoBracciRoa-Situaci%C3%B3nenVenezuela">opening remarks</a> addressing this topic at a Caracas-based conference hosted by Nicholas Maduro. Grosfoguel was well received at the conference and can be seen warmly greeting the dictator below.

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/keith-feldman-1/">Keith Feldman</a> is a head graduate advisor and an associate professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.

Speaking before the Berkeley-based conference Critical Discourses on Islamophobia, Feldman reserved most of his speech to criticize Barack Obama for killing jihadists. Labeling the administration’s <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">use of drones to eliminate terrorists as Islamaphobic</a>—or what he termed as “racialization from above—he asked, “What happens when Islamophobia takes to the skies?”

Feldman compared the death of Osama bin Laden to a Jim Crow-era lynching. As he was describing his killing as the “residue of late nineteenth-century colonial settler violence,” Feldman <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">displayed a black lynching victim in the background to serve as an analogy to his death.</a>

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In 2015 while discussing his book, <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-shadow-over-palestine">A Shadow Over Palestine</a>, he claimed that <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22864/berkeley-prof-race-in-america-is-like-occupation">American ghettos are akin to the Warsaw ghetto</a> during the Holocaust, which itself is akin to modern-day Palestinian refugee camps.

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Feldman’s book praises the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/7244/a-radical-romance-with-the-palestinians">United World Conference Against Racism</a> held in Durban, South Africa. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/durban-and-911-ten-years-later">The gathering is notorious for its antisemitism</a>, with vendors <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/durban-i-un-conference-against-racism-2001">selling the conspiratorial</a> ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and displaying banners that read ‘What if Hitler Had Won?’ Feldman praises this conference for uniting “hundreds” of NGOs to declare that “Zionism is racism.”
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Zeus Leonardo</a> is a Professor in the<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Graduate School of Education</a> at the University of <a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California-Berkeley</a>. According to his university profile, Dr. Leonardo’s courses include: “Race, Whiteness Studies, and Education” and “Proseminar: Social Critique of Education.” Much of Dr. Leonardo’s work utilizes critical race theory to analyze areas such as race, class, culture, and gender in education.

Dr. Leonardo is also listed as an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at UC Berkeley. As part of the Graduate School of Education, the program explores the “<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/academics/ma-and-phd-programs/critical-studies-race-class-and-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">root causes and effects of white supremacy and settler colonialism in education</a>,” according to the official website.

Upon completion, those enrolled will earn a certification of “Designated Emphasis and Specialization in Critical Theory.” The university flaunts critical theory’s association with the Frankfurt School of Economics on its website. The Frankfurt School of Economics was <a href="https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/BG3567.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">composed of openly Marxist economists whose writings eventually formed the basis for critical race theory</a>.

<a href="http://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The page prominently hosts a picture of Angela Davis</a> alongside the post-modernist, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/herbert-marcuse-the-philosopher-behind-the-ideology-of-the-anti-fascists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herbert Marcuse</a>. Davis was a member of the Leninist-Black Panther Party as well as the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/viewhttps://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives</a> list for her role in the shooting deaths of four during the Marin County Civic Center Attacks.

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To learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, critical race 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.

Dr. Leonardo has additionally published a number of other articles on critical race theory, race, and education. These include titles such as, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23793406.2016.1167111?journalCode=rree20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tropics of Whiteness</a>,” “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2013.822624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Story of Schooling: Critical Theory and the Educational Racial Contract</a>,” and, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613320120117180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Souls of White Folk</a>.” Another is titled, “<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203880371/race-whiteness-education-zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race, Whiteness, and Education</a>,” in which he affirms the “central role” racism plays in society.

Dr. Leonardo declares racism to be systematic rather than based on individuals and must be addressed as such. He outlines the paper’s intent to interrupt this “dangerous” assertion in order to confront “whiteness” and racism in education. Further, in the same paper, Dr. Leonardo advocates the blending of Marxism and whiteness studies to understand racism. He then addresses the “myth” that whites do not think of themselves exclusively along with racial terms and that capitalism has spread “whiteness” across the globe.

In a separate lecture, Dr. Leonardo lauds critical race theory in even more explicit terms. In a lecture titled, “Who is afraid of CRT?” hosted at George Washington University, the event was <a href="https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-critical-race-theory-and-what-exactly-it-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marketed as an examination of “critical race theory, marxism, and whiteness studies</a>”.

In the lecture, Dr. Leonardo states the intent of his work in whiteness studies is to solve the problem of “whiteness” itself.

“In whiteness studies, whiteness is  the problem to be posed, if not solved.”

In another clip–captured by the Twitter user, <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MYKE</a>—Dr. Leonardo states, “whites are not born white,” rather, they are “abused’ by their white parents and raised that way.
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Recommended reading from the professor of education at Berkeley includes concepts such as “white people are not born white”.
White people are “born human” and then “white parents physically and psychologically ABUSE them” into becoming “white people”. <a href="https://t.co/GOtjrFCC7m">pic.twitter.com/GOtjrFCC7m</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1450083463726518276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Video later emerged of Dr. Leonardo stating in a lecture that "to abolish whiteness is to abolish white people."
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UC Berkeley education professor Zeus Leonardo: "To abolish whiteness is to abolish white people. That's very uncomfortable perhaps, but it asks about our definitions of what race is and what racial justice might mean."
This is what teachers are learning.<a href="https://t.co/cLWEGSZ8tM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/cLWEGSZ8tM</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1498335108830486533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/">Graduate School of Education</a> of the University of California-Berkeley at (510) 643-6644 or at gsedean@berkeley.edu  
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<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/khiara-bridges/#tab_profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Khiara Bridges</a> is a <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California-Berkeley Law Professor</a>, critical race theorist, and an advocate for abortion. She has further claimed that men can give birth and has refused to say whether unborn babies are worthy of dignity.

Dr. Bridges condemned the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.—<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-1392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</a>—as an <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/24/khiara-m-bridges-court-abortion-ruling-is-an-assault-on-women-and-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“assault” against both women and democracy.</a> Dr. Bridges further alleged that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/californians-express-outrage-over-roe-163817289.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning abortion is a form of racism</a>:

“When you have a law that makes abortion unavailable, you have a law that makes unavailable a service upon which Black people disproportionately rely, so there’s a specific racial impact.”

Since the 1973 ruling, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/since-roe-abortion-has-killed-more-black-babies-than-the-entire-black-population-of-the-u-s-in-1960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 20 million black children have been murdered via abortion</a>.

Speaking before a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?521318-1/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-abortion-access-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate hearing</a> regarding abortion policy, Dr. Bridges refused to address John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) question regarding disproportionate rates of black abortion. She again refused to answer when asked if an unborn baby has any value.
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Cornyn: "Do you think a baby delivered alive has value?"
Demo abortion witness: "Yes."

Cornyn: "Do you think that a baby that is not yet born has value?"

Dem abortion witness: "I believe that a person with the capacity for pregnancy has value." <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/eYaOYumYSJ</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546889853031383042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During her testimony, Dr. Bridges referenced “persons with the capacity for pregnancy” when speaking about individuals who sought abortions. When questioned by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) if she was referring to pregnant women, Dr. Bridges replied that she was referring to all “cis-women, trans-men, and non-binary people.”

When further pressed if abortion is a women’s rights issue, Dr. Bridges accused Hawley of asking questions that exposed “trans people to violence.”

Dr. Bridges then asked Hawley if he believes that men can become pregnant. Astonished, Hawley replied, “No, I don’t think men can get pregnant,” she further accused him of denying that trans people exist.
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Hawley: Why are you using the term "person with a capacity for pregnancy" instead of "woman?"
Bridges: "Your line of questioning is transphobic and opens trans people to violence."

Hawley: "You're saying I'm opening up people to violence by saying women can have pregnancies?" <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Yi46NlQCr0</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546891926997188608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bridges is a scholar of critical race theory and author of “<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Critical_Race_Theory.html?id=VMhDvAEACAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory, A Primer.</a>” At Berkeley, her biography lists her as an expert in “Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,” “Critical Legal Theory,” and “Racial and Social Justice.”

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Students And Parents may contact the Dean of Berkely Law at (510) 642-6483
Published - July 18, 2022

<a href="https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/386" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grace Lavery</a> is an Associate Professor for the English program at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic specialties are 19th-century British literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is a transgender professor who “transitioned” in 2018. He claims his “work in trans feminist studies is… focused on the belief that transition works; that it is truly possible to change sex.”

In February of 2022 <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/professor-suspended-twitter-hopes-queen-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lavery was suspended from Twitter</a> for tweeting “I hope the queen dies,” a few days after Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for Covid-19. He even tagged the British government in the tweet. Lavery <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542993/Berkeley-professor-suspended-Twitter-tweeting-hopes-COVID-stricken-Queen-DIES.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Daily Mail</a>: ​​“I do not think they [Twitter] should ban people for hoping that public figures die, whether the person in question is Elizabeth Windsor, Donald Trump, or Jeremy Corbyn.” Since his suspension, Lavery has no longer been active on Twitter. 

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported that Lavery tweeted the following statement on January 29, 2022: “i [sic] think that everyone is secretly as much of a pervert as we are, and we’ll win because of it.” Since Lavery’s Twitter account has been suspended, none of his tweets can be accessed. 

On the following day Lavery tweeted “i [sic] think we should seize all private property, so there’ll be nowhere for you adults to try your naughty little spanks except in the gutter with the rest of us… 3. Senile elderly woman masturbating surreptitiously during mass,” among several other explicit tweets. 

Lavery wrote the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Please-Miss-Heartbreaking-Staggering-Penis/dp/1541620658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis”</a>, which was released in February of 2022. The Amazon description for the book states:
“Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives…”

<a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/spring-2022-lecturer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Peace and Love El Henson</a> is a Lecturer and Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. According to her university biography, El Henson “primarily focuses on black queer femmes, state violence, pornography, and ethnography.” 

El Henson’s research is twofold:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The first uses black femmes’ theatrical performances from online interracial pornography to read real-life state policing encounters and vice versa.” El Henson’s goal  is to “denude the unconscious racialized pornographic BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Domination and Submission/Sadism and Masochism/Sadomasochism) structured into interracial relations across sites of chattel slavery, professional pornography, public schools, universities, neighborhoods, and beyond.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Her second area of research “offers ethnographic case studies on black femmes who use erotic performance as a mode of survival, artistry, and pleasure amid genocide of low-income black neighborhoods in Oakland, CA.”</li>
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Dr. El Henson wrote a report in 2017 when she was in Graduate School at the University of Texas, Austin which she titled, <a href="https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/63533/ELHENSON-MASTERSREPORT-2017.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Scenes of Subjection’ &amp; Subjectivity: Punishment, Torture, Captivity, Annihilation and Genocide of (Queer) Black Girls and Women in the ‘Afterlife of Slavery.’”</a> In the abstract, El Henson wrote that she explores: “the punishment, torture, captivity, annihilation and ultimate genocide black girls and women are subjected to by white supremacist, antiblack, hetero-patriarchal, hetero-sexist, and heteronormative school staff, police and state forces in public schools and beyond.”

In the report, El Henson claims that there has been an “antiblack genocide in the United States” throughout the country’s history. 

El Henson uses the term “queer” to describe black girls, black women, and black people “as a modifier to signify black communities who embody a range of gender identities, performances and sexualities in and out of U.S. black and white socially accepted norms—as classification of norm fluctuates by social group. This means that these terms can embody a range of black people who are bisexual, asexual, lesbian, transgender, heterosexual and more.”

In the report’s introduction, El Henson relates an experience she had when volunteering at her “old middle school in a hood of Oakland, CA.” A female student named Myra was dismissed from a class with a referral because her shirt was “too distracting and inappropriate.” Myra responded to the teacher, who was a man, by saying “F*** you,” whereupon she left the classroom. El Henson claims the teacher gave her a referral because he “could not resist over-sexualizing young black girls bodies,” and also due to his “perversions” and “[h]is uncontrollable sexual desire and arousal for a black girl” which “was ‘inappropriate’ and the true distraction to the classroom space.” However, she provides no evidence indicating that the teacher felt the way that she describes him to have felt. 

<a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/uc-berkeley-to-offer-a-nicki-minaj-course-for-spring-semester/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to KTLA,</a> for the Spring semester of 2023, Dr. El Henson will teach a course entitled “AAS 140.2: Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee &amp; Hip Hop Feminisms.” El Henson says that the course will address the influence Minaj has had on the hip-hop industry and how it relates to the “broader historical-social structures and hip-hop feminisms.” However, KTLA reports the course is still being evaluated by the university’s administration. On a Twitter thread about the course, Nicki Minaj <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_peaceandlove/status/1578191853433761794" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “I’d love to stop by [the class].”

<a href="https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/users/1688049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Hoover</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). According to her university profile, her “research focuses on Native American environmental health and food sovereignty movements.” Hoover has also “published articles about food sovereignty, environmental reproductive justice in Native American communities, the cultural impact of fish advisories on Native communities, tribal citizen science, and health social movements.”

Since childhood, Hoover has identified as a descendant of the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq Indian tribes. However, according to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, she revealed that “she has no tribal connections after decades of claiming otherwise.” This discovery was based on “genealogical research.”

On her website, Hoover posted a <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Statement about Identity”</a> providing her reaction to her genealogical discovery. In this short essay, she addresses her life experience under the assumption that she was a native. In the opening paragraphs, she provided background on her upbringing:  
“Our Native identity has structured not only our family activities but how we relate to other people and they to us. I have been a fancy shawl dancer and bead worker for over three decades, something my sisters and I learned at powwows when we were young, and this has brought us great joy. I have been grateful to the people of Akwesasne who took me in called me their chosen daughter, auntie, and friend, and who put me to work. When people told me ‘welcome home’ when I would come to visit, that meant something to me. In short, this identity has shaped my entire life and guided my work.”
Hoover concludes: 
“Now, without any official documentation verifying the identity I was raised with, I do not think it is right for me to continue to claim to be a scholar of Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent, even though my mother is insistent that she inherited this history for a reason.”
According to <a href="https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Californian</a>, Hoover, who used to teach at Brown University, “has received criticism in light of her statement, with many coming forward to allege the harm she caused Native communities there, especially regarding a statement she wrote denouncing the Pokanoket Tribe’s calls for Land Back from Brown.”

“UC Berkeley considers the issue of Hoover’s ethnic identity to be a ‘deeply personal matter,’ according to a campus statement provided by campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.” The college does not “consider race or tribal identity in making employment decisions, in light of allegations that Hoover was a part of a “cluster hire.”
Published -- November 17, 2022

Chesa Boudin previously held the position of the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco. He is now the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.</a>

Chesa Boudin has been outspoken about how he believes that the prison system is set up to be disadvantageous towards minorities. According to <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Law’s website</a>, “Chesa understands that mass incarceration and privatized prisons disproportionately harm people of color and reflect the institutional inequities of America’s legal system.” These ideas of legal institutions like prisons being systemically unfair towards people of color, and that a major focus needs to be put on fixing that, is what Boudin plans on bringing to the students that he will be teaching at Berkeley Law School.

The website also quotes Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx who states that Chesa Boudin “knows that criminalizing poverty and homelessness entrenches racist policies and power structures, and that this approach fails to uphold the values of equal rights and due process we supposedly hold dear.” One of Boudin’s goals that is outlined in Berkeley’s announcement is that he plans to bring people once incarcerated into the Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. 

Before he was elected as District Attorney, Chesa Boudin told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-the-answer-to-quality-of-life-crimes-in-14563426.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Rising local crime rates due to Boudin’s efforts to not prosecute these crimes are what led to outcry from residents asking for his recall.

The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports that in 2020—Chesa Boudin’s first year in office—property crimes skyrocketed, “with more than 4,400 incidents of property crime per 100,000 residents.” In this same report, 23% of residents stated that safety and crime was the biggest problem in the city while 39% stated homelessness as the city’s biggest issue. 

Additionally, the <a href="https://sfchamber.com/press-release-citybeat21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chamber of Commerce</a> released a 2021 poll where “eight out of ten San Franciscans consider crime to have worsened in recent years” and around 70% of San Francisco residents believe that their quality of life has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has placed Chesa Boudin in charge of Berkeley Law School’s Criminal Law and Justice Center where he will be teaching students about the criminal legal system. 

<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/san-franciscos-da-chesa-boudin-faces-possible-recall-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that Chesa Boudin was recalled due to his ‘soft on crime’ policies that led to prosecutors being unable to “seek cash bail, try juveniles as adults or seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders with gang affiliations.” When confronted with the possibility of recall, Boudin told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-government-and-politics-san-francisco-seniors-c865bc8fa7006fb806b6e5b639f64857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> that San Francisco residents were frustrated and angry “at the Trump administration and misinformation that administration fueled on everything from public safety to vaccines.” 

Boudin did not hold himself accountable for the complaints of the residents and instead blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that was occurring in the city. He was successfully recalled on June 7, 2022 and was unable to serve the remainder of his term as the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco.
Published - June 13, 2023

<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/4055928/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Victoria Huynh</a> is a Ph.D. student and instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to her university profile, her <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fields of study</a> include “critical refugee studies, abolition feminism, trauma &amp; memory, and Vietnamese &amp; Southeast Asian Studies.”

On October 24, 2023, Huynh sent an email out to students in her “Asian American Communities and Race Relations” class offering them a “field trip and/or extra credit opportunity” to attend a Pro-Palestine rally. According to a flyer, the event is a “national call to walk out in solidarity with Palestinians facing bombardment, genocide, and settler-colonialism.”

Hyunh’s <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/college-students-offered-extra-credit-attend-pro-palestine-rally-1837897" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email said</a>:
“(1) Students can attend the national student walkout tomorrow against the settler-colonial occupation of Gaza (info attached below) OR (2) Students can watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative using this linktree.” 
The <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1717134083250086050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1717134083250086050%7Ctwgr%5E258baed471a10c082496afe213537c4bf35675da%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D24266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full email</a> can be seen below:

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A spokesperson for the University of California, Berkeley <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/world/students-can-get-extra-credit-for-attending-palestinian-march-says-uc-berkeley-1r8O8kDk3HV6mlgd3K8amL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement</a> the extra credit assignment was changed after it was brought to the attention of school officials.
“Students can now attend any local event they wish—such as a book talk or a panel discussion—related to the course’s subject, including the protest…or they can watch any documentary they wish about the Middle East.” 
“As soon as the administration was made aware of the assignment it moved quickly to ensure that it would be changed. The situation has been remedied, the assignment has been changed and there are now a number of options for extra credit, not just one.”
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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/about/">Ian Kivelin Davis</a> is a Faculty Advisor for the Media Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

In a 2016 article for <a href="https://medium.com/media-in-the-middle/news-flash-the-new-york-times-thinks-trump-is-beneath-america-daae02b7eca7">Medium</a> about President Donald Trump and racism in America, Davis wrote:
“Trump did not invent racism. He is just packaging it in a way white, middle-class people can see . . . not unlike cell phones now capture, for white America, the systemic oppression black Americans experience at the hands of our lauded and praised police force. The difference is that white America now has to look at it on their television screens and Facebook posts of distant relatives. Oh, lament white America! Your poor eyes and refined sensibilities must be strained.”
The main theme of the article is that, while Trump is allegedly an “enabler” of racism in the U.S., racism has always existed in spite of Trump’s Presidency:
“Trump marvelers seem to wring hands over the Donald as an enabler or facilitator of American racism. True, but this journalism trope misses a key point. These sentiments preexisted Trump.” 
In 2021, Davis wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/45522395/Capitol_Riots_and_the_Mythic_Meaning_of_1776">article</a> for Academia Letters titled "Capitol Riots and the Mythical Meaning of 1776." 

In the article, Davis likens the January 6th protesters to the American revolutionaries of 1776 in a manner that is meant to trivialize the former and mythologize the latter. Believing them to have attempted a revolution, Davis calls the Capitol protesters “Tourist Revolutionaries.”
“Tourist Revolutionaries on display during the Trump riot were engaging in a symbolic act that reenacts a mythical history of the country… January 6th was a genteel, candy-coated revolution, closer to carnival than coup...”
Davis considers the tyranny that led the American revolutionaries to revolt against the British monarch to have been unjustly compared with the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election by the protesters. 
“Tourist Revolutionaries, energized by the symbolism of ‘1776,’ confuse the tyranny of the monarch King George with the compromises of democracy and shared self-governance with fellow Americans.”
For Davis,  the protesters were misled and were seeking to subvert “electoral democracy” on behalf of President Trump:
“This was a symbolic act for a substantial number of Trump supporters who were misled by President Trump to believe they were ﬁghting for the preservation of America rather than the subversion of electoral democracy to prop up the president’s personal ambitions.”
Published - November 21, 2023

Anti-Law Enforcement

Chesa Boudin

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<a href="https://people.clas.ufl.edu/rabreu26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roberto L. Abreu</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida. According to his biography and the description of his organization, the “<a href="https://cheverelab.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chevere Lab</a>, Abreu&#8217;s research “explores ways in which marginalized communities resist systemic oppression” The Lab even offers <a href="https://cheverelab.com/chvere-resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resources for parents of LGBT children</a>, namely how they can evade bans on gender transitions of minors.
In an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-people-of-color-face-unique-challenges-as-gender-discrimination-and-racism-intersect-179515" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation,</a> Abreu alleges that transgender people were revered in cultures around the world. Europeans, he writes, introduced a gender binary to invalidate trans people and force them into “white social norms.” Abreu blames colonial oppression, Christianity, and “anti-blackness” for modern bigotry against trans people. 
“&#8230;European colonizers began forcing indigenous people to follow white social norms. These include anti-Blackness, Christianity and [SIC] a gender binary that reduced gender to just man and woman.” 
Abreu further lists racism, xenophobia, and cisnormativity as several of the many types of oppression that trans people face. He attacks “cisgender” doctors for “deadnaming” patients and attempting to cure trans people based on what they believe bodies should look like. 
He concludes that trans people should take pride in their gender and ethnic identity in the face of racism, sexism, and “transmisogynoir,” or the intersection of anti-Black racism, cissexism and sexism. Cisgender people, he continues, should “leverage [their] privilege to support trans people of color.”
Abreu believes the most influential support a trans child can receive comes from school teachers and staff. Writing in the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335420691_Supporting_Transgender_Students_School_Counselors%27_Preparedness_Training_Efforts_and_Necessary_Support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of LGBT Youth</a>, Abreu advocates for counselors to become the focal point to support trans kids in the light of “oppressive policies and laws (that) significantly impact the psychological and academic well-being of transgender students in the United States.” 
Trans oppression is a common theme throughout Abreu’s work, with a particular focus on transgender children. He often condemns conservative states for passing legislation he claims will “suffocate” trans children. 
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Florida, you are toxic! This&#8230; and your anti-CRT legislation&#8230; and your attacks on trans kids. What a suffocating place to be trans, queer, and black and brown! <a href="https://t.co/A3rI6mwtPm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/A3rI6mwtPm</a>
— Roberto L. Abreu, PhD (@RLuisAbreu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLuisAbreu/status/1501321155486965763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is devastating. More devastating to think that more and more states continue to pass these laws. Trans kids and their families are truly not safe anywhere. 😡￼ <a href="https://t.co/ObRONgHQmS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/ObRONgHQmS</a>
— Roberto L. Abreu, PhD (@RLuisAbreu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLuisAbreu/status/1514803490614222858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a separate paper—titled, “<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317633080_Myths_and_Misconceptions_About_LGBTQ_Youth_School_Counselors%27_Role_in_Advocacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myths and Misconceptions About LGBTQ Youth</a>”— Abreu writes that counselors must become “active advocates” for gay and transgender children. The paper attempts to debunk “myths” held by parents and students that “harm” LGBTQ students.  
One “myth” Abreu lists is the idea that “Parents must be informed of their child’s sexual and gender identity.” He encourages school employees to withhold information about students, as “revealing their sexual and/or gender identity to parents might have detrimental effects for the youth.” 
Abreu further disputes that gender-neutral bathrooms are unsafe. He claims that gender-specific bathrooms infringe on the rights of “gender expansive” students, and “no scientific data supports the claim that trans-inclusive or gender-inclusive facilities pose a threat or are unsafe to any particular individual.” 
 The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Abreu for comment prior to publication. This profile will be updated accordingly. 
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Dr. <a href="https://people.clas.ufl.edu/polssdw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sharon D. Wright Austin</a> is a Professor of Political Science at the <a href="https://www.ufl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Florida. </a>

As listed in her university profile, Dr. Austin’s research focuses on African-American political behavior, African-American political activism, and African-American women’s political behavior.  

During an interview, Dr. Austin <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2022-10-14/how-race-entered-the-midterms-in-the-guise-of-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused conservatives of using “coded language” to appeal to bigoted voting blocks</a>:

"I think it's really just coded language, and it's not uncommon…While in the mid-20th century, candidates would openly use racial epithets, that changed later in the century, when GOP candidates would talk about busing and "states' rights.””

Her comments appeared in a US News and World Report article titled, “When ‘Crime’ is Code for ‘Race’.” She further claimed that “crime” and “socialism” are dog whistles for racists. 

In another article, Dr. Austin condemns the United States for <a href="https://www.governing.com/now/what-does-the-united-states-have-against-haitian-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeting Haitian migrants with “anti-black racism.”</a> 

Noting that immigrants from Haiti are less likely to be granted political asylum than immigrants from other countries, Dr. Austin attributes this disparity to racism. She further accuses border patrol agents of beating Haitian migrants with rods: 

“These immigration issues alone don’t prove the existence of anti-black racism and we know that it is necessary to secure the border, but we have to ask ourselves two questions. Why is the number of Haitian migrants allowed to enter this country so much smaller than that of other nationalities? And when securing the border, can we really allow Haitians, or anyone else, to be beaten with rods by angry men on horseback?”

Although the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/border-agents-falsely-accused-of-whipping-migrants-punishment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incident was later determined to be a hoax</a>, the story had already circulated widely among progressive activists. 

In addition to her professorial duties, Dr. Austin is a co-author of the upcoming book <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beyond-racial-capitalism-9780192868336?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Beyond Racial Capitalism.”</a> According to the description, that book aims to highlight “anti-racist” cooperatives developed by the African diaspora. 

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Published - October 27, 2022

<a href="https://people.clas.ufl.edu/rabreu26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roberto L. Abreu</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida. According to his biography and the description of his organization, the “<a href="https://cheverelab.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chevere Lab</a>, Abreu's research “explores ways in which marginalized communities resist systemic oppression” The Lab even offers <a href="https://cheverelab.com/chvere-resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resources for parents of LGBT children</a>, namely how they can evade bans on gender transitions of minors.

In an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-people-of-color-face-unique-challenges-as-gender-discrimination-and-racism-intersect-179515" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation,</a> Abreu alleges that transgender people were revered in cultures around the world. Europeans, he writes, introduced a gender binary to invalidate trans people and force them into “white social norms.” Abreu blames colonial oppression, Christianity, and “anti-blackness” for modern bigotry against trans people. 

“...European colonizers began forcing indigenous people to follow white social norms. These include anti-Blackness, Christianity and [SIC] a gender binary that reduced gender to just man and woman.” 

Abreu further lists racism, xenophobia, and cisnormativity as several of the many types of oppression that trans people face. He attacks “cisgender” doctors for “deadnaming” patients and attempting to cure trans people based on what they believe bodies should look like. 

He concludes that trans people should take pride in their gender and ethnic identity in the face of racism, sexism, and “transmisogynoir,” or the intersection of anti-Black racism, cissexism and sexism. Cisgender people, he continues, should “leverage [their] privilege to support trans people of color.”

Abreu believes the most influential support a trans child can receive comes from school teachers and staff. Writing in the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335420691_Supporting_Transgender_Students_School_Counselors%27_Preparedness_Training_Efforts_and_Necessary_Support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of LGBT Youth</a>, Abreu advocates for counselors to become the focal point to support trans kids in the light of “oppressive policies and laws (that) significantly impact the psychological and academic well-being of transgender students in the United States.” 

Trans oppression is a common theme throughout Abreu’s work, with a particular focus on transgender children. He often condemns conservative states for passing legislation he claims will “suffocate” trans children. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Florida, you are toxic! This... and your anti-CRT legislation... and your attacks on trans kids. What a suffocating place to be trans, queer, and black and brown! <a href="https://t.co/A3rI6mwtPm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/A3rI6mwtPm</a>
— Roberto L. Abreu, PhD (@RLuisAbreu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLuisAbreu/status/1501321155486965763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is devastating. More devastating to think that more and more states continue to pass these laws. Trans kids and their families are truly not safe anywhere. 😡￼ <a href="https://t.co/ObRONgHQmS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/ObRONgHQmS</a>
— Roberto L. Abreu, PhD (@RLuisAbreu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLuisAbreu/status/1514803490614222858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a separate paper—titled, “<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317633080_Myths_and_Misconceptions_About_LGBTQ_Youth_School_Counselors%27_Role_in_Advocacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myths and Misconceptions About LGBTQ Youth</a>”— Abreu writes that counselors must become “active advocates” for gay and transgender children. The paper attempts to debunk “myths” held by parents and students that “harm” LGBTQ students.  

One “myth” Abreu lists is the idea that “Parents must be informed of their child’s sexual and gender identity.” He encourages school employees to withhold information about students, as “revealing their sexual and/or gender identity to parents might have detrimental effects for the youth.” 

Abreu further disputes that gender-neutral bathrooms are unsafe. He claims that gender-specific bathrooms infringe on the rights of “gender expansive” students, and “no scientific data supports the claim that trans-inclusive or gender-inclusive facilities pose a threat or are unsafe to any particular individual.” 

 The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Abreu for comment prior to publication. This profile will be updated accordingly. 

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://www.angeladecarlis.com/_files/ugd/08fd76_4f6be4a3869e473b8843ae34b2352a1c.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela DeCarlis</a> serves as an Art Instructor at the University of Florida as well as “Founder &amp; Lead Artist” in the group, “<a href="https://www.figureondiversity.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Figure on Diversity.</a>”

DeCarlis—who <a href="https://remix.berklee.edu/able-assembly-conference/64/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> herself as a “white, queer, invisibly disabled, cis-passing person in a straight-passing relationship,” and possessing ”thin privilege”—hosts art workshops that feature fat, disabled, transgender, and nude models. 

DeCarlis aims to displace what she describes as universities’ tendency to only hire “<a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/07/26/diversity-figure-drawing-modeling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white, thin, able-bodied models</a>.” She further attacked the “hyper-idealized, male, Greco-Roman forms” used in art for allegedly <a href="https://remix.berklee.edu/able-assembly-conference/64/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">perpetuating</a> “harmful ideas” about bodies. 

In her most recent exhibit, DeCarlis <a href="https://www.alligator.org/article/2023/06/figure-on-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> her preferred models as “people of color, fat, disabled, members of the LGBTQ community,” or otherwise “oppressed:” 
“It’s really important for the models who have been oppressed on the basis of their appearance to have the opportunity to be seen.”
*Photo Courtesy of “Figure on Diversity”*  
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DeCarlis features other models on her <a href="https://www.angeladecarlis.com/figureondiversity">personal site</a>. Many are transgender, nude, and have undergone visible mastectomies, phalloplasties, and vaginoplasties. 

She has previously described her work in a post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpkw4pip4m9/">Instagram</a> (see image below) as based in critical race theory and influenced by “Black, BIPOC, Queer, Fat, Crip/Disabled scholars.”

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DeCarlis’ subsequent exhibit on June 11th, 2023 will recruit transgender-identifying teenagers and other “gender-diverse” persons under 18. Attendees will spend three days observing and drawing transgender and other “gender-expansive models.”

DeCarlis hopes the workshop will give “transgender” youth the chance to be “proud” of their bodies and learn from other adults who have transitioned. 
“[Age] 16 to 24 is a really vulnerable time—your body is going through a lot of changes…And for trans youth, these changes can be really traumatizing.”    
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The event page stipulates that anyone is welcome to attend, but only if they have a “marginalized” identity. 
“Anybody who’s excited about the idea of posing for artists and who holds at least on [sic] marginalized identity is welcome to apply and pose.” 
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Published - June 14, 2023

<a href="https://afam.clas.ufl.edu/directory/dr-julia-m-mollenthiel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Mollenthiel</a> is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. She teaches several courses including, “Black Feminist Theory,” “Afro-Futurism,” and “Black Horror, White Terror.”

The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/642780162/Black-Horror-White-Terror-syllabus-at-the-University-of-Florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course syllabus</a> for “Black Horror, White Terror” says:
“We will probe the genre of horror and its trends with a particular focus on representations of racial Otherness and racism. We will also consider the relationship between horror and Black literary modes and traditions focusing on key moments that depict fears of Blackness and/or the terror associated with being Black in America. This course will study the works of Black authors and producers as a way to explore racial identity and oppression.” 
Students in the course are <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12062269/Now-FRANKENSTEIN-racist-University-Florida-claims-monster-parallels-racial-stereotypes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required to read</a> classic works such as “Frankenstein” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and study how they have “affected racialized discourse.” One required reading—”<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44321873" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Power and Horror of Whiteness</a>”—claims Poe was “haunted” by black people based on his fiction writings.

Another required reading is an academic article titled “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/651092" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frankenstein’s Monster and Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain</a>.” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/university-florida-offers-class-examining-white-terror-frankenstein-other-classic-texts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> writes that the article offers a “racial reading” of Frankenstein through “the Marxist and the feminist location of the novel in the social and psychological context of the times.” The article's thesis claims “Shelley’s portrayal of her monster drew upon … contemporary attitudes towards non-whites.”

The course has the same name as Mollenthiel’s <a href="https://scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Black-Horror-White-Terror/991031606757602976#files_and_links" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dissertation</a>, where she writes:
“My concept of horrifying whiteness offers an avenue for Black resistance by disrupting the centuries-old whiteness as innocence and blackness as culpability narrative; and my concept of crippling fear versus empowering fear offers an opportunity to prove the advantages/disadvantages of Black fear.” 
Mollenthiel’s syllabus states that “No lesson is intended to espouse, promote, advance, inculcate, or compel a particular feeling, perception, viewpoint, or belief.” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-florida-class-examines-white-terror-in-frankenstein-and-other-classics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> noted that this could be in reference to the state’s pending Stop WOKE Act, which regulates what content cannot be taught in public universities.
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Published - November 8, 2023

Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

Sexualization

Roberto L. Abreu

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<a href="https://www.neiu.edu/faculty/brooke-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooke Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University. Her research interests are “informed by [her] broad interest in social inequality” and include “education, militarization, gender and sexualities.” She teaches several courses including “Sociology of Sexualities,” “Military Sociology,” and “Sociological Theory.”
On November 8, 2023, Johnson sent a mass email to her students and department colleagues in an attempt to garner support for Palestinians. The email, obtained by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-college-professor-justifies-hamas-attack-after-75-years-israeli-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>, says as sociologists they have a “responsibility to speak up when [they] witness harm, injustice, and violence.” Johnson states, “What is currently happening in Palestine is one of those moments” and writes:
“After 75 years of Israeli white supremacy, including displacement, human rights violations, and systemic violence, Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th which resulted in 1400 deaths and 240 hostages. Israel is now collectively punishing Palestinians.” 
“The Palestinian death toll from Israeli airstrikes exceeds 10,000 and almost half of these are children. This number increases daily as airstrikes continue; water, food and medical aid are cut off; and demands for a humanitarian cease-fire increase.” 
Johnson offers several suggestions for students who want to get involved. One suggestion tells students to “talk with your Sociology professors about resistance movements, settler colonialism, antisemitism, racism, genocide, and sociology.”
She also urges her audience to join protests and recommends several books including “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction” and “The Palestine Communist Party.” As of publication, Northeastern Illinois University has not commented on Johnson’s email.
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<a href="https://www.neiu.edu/faculty/brooke-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooke Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University. Her research interests are “informed by [her] broad interest in social inequality” and include “education, militarization, gender and sexualities.” She teaches several courses including “Sociology of Sexualities,” “Military Sociology,” and “Sociological Theory.”

On November 8, 2023, Johnson sent a mass email to her students and department colleagues in an attempt to garner support for Palestinians. The email, obtained by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-college-professor-justifies-hamas-attack-after-75-years-israeli-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>, says as sociologists they have a “responsibility to speak up when [they] witness harm, injustice, and violence.” Johnson states, “What is currently happening in Palestine is one of those moments” and writes:
“After 75 years of Israeli white supremacy, including displacement, human rights violations, and systemic violence, Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th which resulted in 1400 deaths and 240 hostages. Israel is now collectively punishing Palestinians.” 
“The Palestinian death toll from Israeli airstrikes exceeds 10,000 and almost half of these are children. This number increases daily as airstrikes continue; water, food and medical aid are cut off; and demands for a humanitarian cease-fire increase.” 
Johnson offers several suggestions for students who want to get involved. One suggestion tells students to “talk with your Sociology professors about resistance movements, settler colonialism, antisemitism, racism, genocide, and sociology.”

She also urges her audience to join protests and recommends several books including “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction” and “The Palestine Communist Party.” As of publication, Northeastern Illinois University has not commented on Johnson’s email.

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Published - November 17, 2023

Antisemitism

Brooke Johnson

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<a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/nathan-cartagena/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Luis Cartagena</a> is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. Dr. Cartagena has dedicated his career to teaching Christians critical race theory (CRT) and advocates for the Church to adopt it as standard, Christian doctrine. 
In the article, “<a href="https://www.worldoutspoken.com/articles-blog/is-your-bible-anti-black" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Your Bible Anti-Black?</a>,” he accuses the King James Version (KJV) of containing “anti-blackness.” Dr. Cartagena writes that as the Bible was translated into Western languages “white supremacy, anti-blackness,” and ”European Imperialism” were embedded into the KJVs. He recommends that diverse teams of ethnic, racial, and cultural scholars be formed to purge the “historic idolatry of whiteness” from the KJV and other biblical translations.         
In an article for <a href="https://faithfullymagazine.com/critical-race-theory-christians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faithfully Magazine</a>, Dr. Cartagena writes that CRT is necessary to understand that America is a “racialized society.” Lamenting that many preachers won’t adopt anti-racist practices, Cartagena describes this as the Church’s “betrayal” against the “racialized minority.” 
Dr. Cartagena insists that Christians share common interests with critical race theorists. As Christ called his followers to stand with the marginalized, he writes, Christians must now stand with oppressed minorities:  
“How should Christians respond to these common interests and conclusions? They should begin by recalling that Christ and the apostles call the Church to foster justice and mercy, giving special attention to the marginalized and oppressed (see Matthew 25; James 1). Because marginalization and oppression in pigmentocracies operate along racialized lines, Christians should share the common interests of critical race theorists.” 
Critical race theory is an integral component of Dr. Cartagena’s faith. In a separate article, titled, “<a href="https://sojo.net/articles/i-found-christs-liberating-spirit-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Found Christ’s Liberating Spirit on Critical Race Theory</a>,” he states that CRT was necessary to “decolonize” his mind. Dr. Cartagena writes that his love for God grew only after learning of the Church’s “racist colonial and imperial practices.” 
During a separate interview for the online magazine, “<a href="https://sojo.net/articles/why-nathan-cartagena-teaches-critical-race-theory-evangelicals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sojourners</a>,” Dr. Cartagena states that he felt “prompted by the spirit” to teach CRT. He further characterizes the Holy Spirit of the Trinity as an “agent of race-conscious liberation.”
“I’m thinking in distinctively trinitarian terms about how the Spirit is actually an agent of race-conscious liberation. The Spirit is going to help us see these racialized structures.”
Dr. Cartagena describes many of his students as “racialized white folks” and resistant to anti-racist practices. CRT is therefore needed, or so he argues, to remove their false ideas from “white evangelical spaces.” 
Dr. Cartagena also berates white Christians, accusing them of upholding white supremacy within the church. In one tweet, he alleges that Christians worship the God of white supremacy. 
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White supremacy is a god that demands human sacrifice and gorges itself on the least of these.
And many worship it every Sunday.
— Caritas En La Lucha (@ProfeNLC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfeNLC/status/1495471340647817219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another article authored by Dr. Cartagena—titled, “<a href="https://faithfullymagazine.com/white-man-leading-party-church/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The White Man Leading the White Man’s Party and the White Church</a>”—he derides white evangelicals as ignorant for supporting conservatives for public office. He refers to the “white church” as a pejorative, accusing it of being complicit in conservatives’ “strategic gendered racism.” 
The Professor Watchlist Team worked reached out to Cartagena for comment but has not received a response prior to publication. 
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Published &#8211; November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/nathan-cartagena/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Luis Cartagena</a> is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. Dr. Cartagena has dedicated his career to teaching Christians critical race theory (CRT) and advocates for the Church to adopt it as standard, Christian doctrine. 

In the article, “<a href="https://www.worldoutspoken.com/articles-blog/is-your-bible-anti-black" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Your Bible Anti-Black?</a>,” he accuses the King James Version (KJV) of containing “anti-blackness.” Dr. Cartagena writes that as the Bible was translated into Western languages “white supremacy, anti-blackness,” and ”European Imperialism” were embedded into the KJVs. He recommends that diverse teams of ethnic, racial, and cultural scholars be formed to purge the “historic idolatry of whiteness” from the KJV and other biblical translations.         

In an article for <a href="https://faithfullymagazine.com/critical-race-theory-christians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faithfully Magazine</a>, Dr. Cartagena writes that CRT is necessary to understand that America is a “racialized society.” Lamenting that many preachers won’t adopt anti-racist practices, Cartagena describes this as the Church’s “betrayal” against the “racialized minority.” 

Dr. Cartagena insists that Christians share common interests with critical race theorists. As Christ called his followers to stand with the marginalized, he writes, Christians must now stand with oppressed minorities:  

“How should Christians respond to these common interests and conclusions? They should begin by recalling that Christ and the apostles call the Church to foster justice and mercy, giving special attention to the marginalized and oppressed (see Matthew 25; James 1). Because marginalization and oppression in pigmentocracies operate along racialized lines, Christians should share the common interests of critical race theorists.” 

Critical race theory is an integral component of Dr. Cartagena’s faith. In a separate article, titled, “<a href="https://sojo.net/articles/i-found-christs-liberating-spirit-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Found Christ’s Liberating Spirit on Critical Race Theory</a>,” he states that CRT was necessary to “decolonize” his mind. Dr. Cartagena writes that his love for God grew only after learning of the Church’s “racist colonial and imperial practices.” 

During a separate interview for the online magazine, “<a href="https://sojo.net/articles/why-nathan-cartagena-teaches-critical-race-theory-evangelicals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sojourners</a>,” Dr. Cartagena states that he felt “prompted by the spirit” to teach CRT. He further characterizes the Holy Spirit of the Trinity as an “agent of race-conscious liberation.”

“I’m thinking in distinctively trinitarian terms about how the Spirit is actually an agent of race-conscious liberation. The Spirit is going to help us see these racialized structures.”

Dr. Cartagena describes many of his students as “racialized white folks” and resistant to anti-racist practices. CRT is therefore needed, or so he argues, to remove their false ideas from “white evangelical spaces.” 

Dr. Cartagena also berates white Christians, accusing them of upholding white supremacy within the church. In one tweet, he alleges that Christians worship the God of white supremacy. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
White supremacy is a god that demands human sacrifice and gorges itself on the least of these.
And many worship it every Sunday.

— Caritas En La Lucha (@ProfeNLC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfeNLC/status/1495471340647817219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another article authored by Dr. Cartagena—titled, “<a href="https://faithfullymagazine.com/white-man-leading-party-church/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The White Man Leading the White Man’s Party and the White Church</a>”—he derides white evangelicals as ignorant for supporting conservatives for public office. He refers to the “white church” as a pejorative, accusing it of being complicit in conservatives’ “strategic gendered racism.” 

The Professor Watchlist Team worked reached out to Cartagena for comment but has not received a response prior to publication. 

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Published - November 18, 2022