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<a href="https://science.byu.edu/directory/david-cardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Cardon</a> is a Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University (BYU). According to his faculty profile, Cardon’s research interests include “Complex Analysis and Analytic Number Theory.”
According to <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.com/byu-professor-quotes-scripture-to-condemn-trump-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Cardon left a statement to his students on his classroom door after Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidential Election. The statement was directed to any of his students who voted for Trump. The professor cited a passage from the Book of Mormon to justify his claim that “Donald Trump is an evil man.” (See image below). 
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Once news of the statement spread among the BYU community, Cardon was met with backlash for his scornful attitude towardTrump supporters. The professor was asked two questions by the <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.com/you-probably-dont-believe-the-book-of-mormon-anti-trump-professor-doubles-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chronicle</a>:
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<li style="text-align: left;"> &#8220;What was your purpose in posting this notice?</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"> When it comes to endorsing political candidates, BYU maintains a policy of neutrality. While faculty are given liberties of free speech, do you think a message like this could alienate many of your conservative students?”</li>
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In his answers, Cardon doubled-down and elaborated more on his belief that Trump is a wicked man. According to him, those who disagree, or are offended by this claim, do not believe in the Book of Mormon:
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<li>“First of all, there is no question that Trump is a wicked man. The list of his crimes is very long.</li>
<li>The word ‘endorsement’ does not apply. I didn’t say to vote for Trump or not to vote for Trump. My comment about supporting a candidate was neutral, in the sense that I did not endorse any candidate. I made a comment of what happened in the scriptures, when the majority of the people chose a wicked leader. Students should not confuse their political affiliation with the Gospel, and if they do they should be taking classes where the ideas are discussed. Being ‘neutral is not the same as being ignorant and naive.</li>
<li>The idea from the last paragraph comes straight out of the Book of Mormon. If it offends you, then you should also be offended by the Book of Mormon. If it offends you, you probably don’t believe the Book of Mormon.”</li>
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The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education. 
Please send information and tips on David Cardon to Watchlists@tpusa.com.

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<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/rebecca-deschweinitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> (BYU) in Provo, Utah. According to her university biography, Dr. de Schweinitz teaches subjects such as American History, US Women’s History, and African American History.

Much of Dr. de Schweinitz’s work focuses on racism within the LDS Church and BYU. In one of her published papers—tilted <a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/there-is-no-equality-william-e-berrett-byu-and-healing-the-wounds-of-racism-in-the-latter-day-saint-past-and-present/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“There is No Equity”</a>—Dr. de Schweinitz details the history of racism within the university.

Dr. de Schweinitz is frequently cited by BYU for her expertise on racism, or more specifically, “anti-racism.” In one discussion—hosted by the BYU Kennedy Center—she extolls anti-racist scholar, Ibram X Kendi’s Book, “<a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to be an Antiracist</a>.”

Dr. Kendi’s book became a bestseller in 2020 during the height of the BLM riots. The premise targets systemic racism and claims that not it is not enough or to be “non-racist,” an individual must be anti racist, or take proactive actions or support policies that alleviate racism.

Readers may learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kendi by visiting his profile in the Professor Watchlist.</a>

During her comments on the panel, Dr. de Schweinitz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RO0V1tQzMU&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vehemently endorses Dr. Kendi’s work</a>. She even goes as far as to compare herself to Dr. Kendi, lauding the historical credentials of the latter. Furthermore, she openly admits that Dr. Kendi’s conception is taught in her classroom and centers her scholarships.

At one point, she calls racism a “metastatic cancer” that affects every single aspect of life in the United States. She admits that Dr. Kendi is right, and that white people are “nurtured” to be racist.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. de Schweintz frequently references her LDS background as a pretext to cite the need to be “antiracist.” At one point, she compares God’s position on sin to her own—and by default, Dr. Keni’s as well—on racism; as one can either be for the world or for God, likewise you can either be racist or anti-racist.

This theme is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCoxKtNvsg&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued in part two of the lecture.</a> Dr. de Schweinitz wastes no time in not only praising critical race theory, but listing it as integral to fighting racism.

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/">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. de Schweinitz states that anyone opposed to CRT is just viewing American history narrow-mindedly. She further states that an anti-racist America is “beautiful.” She articulates that critical theory is “one of many tools” that can be used by the church to alleviate racism.

<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/jane-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jane Lopez</a> is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah. According to her university biography, her research focuses on immigration, citizenship, law, race, and ethnicity.

In addition to teaching a class on immigration, Dr. Lopez is a sought-after speaker on the topic by the university. She was a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FNKG4m6FOg&amp;t=4041s&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured guest in a Kennedy Center</a> event that condemned current immigration laws as oppressive and racist.

During her remarks, Dr. Lopez echoed her co-panelists praise of illegal immigration and encouragement to violate existing immigration laws. She further referred to the expectation of immigrants to learn English as a “privilege” of native-born Americans who will never face immigration laws.

Toward the end of her speech, Dr. Lopez stated that our ancestors were illegal immigrants. Americans have no right to deny immigrants, as this country “isn’t ours to begin with” and our ancestors caused "much greater destruction" than immigrants do today.

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Dr. Lopez’s classes further focus on race and “white privilege.” In leaked documents from her course, SOC-112, Dr. Lopez tasked students to identify and expose “whiteness” at BYU.

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The assignment, titled “Revealing Whiteness Activity,” asks teams of 3-4 students to explore the different aspects of “whiteness” built into the “physical and social environment” of BYU,

“As a Predominantly White Institution (PWI), BYU not only has a disproportionate number of White students in its student body (compared to the US population as a whole), but it also has different aspects of “Whiteness” built into its physical and social environment.” 

The document cites University of Washington professor and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Fragility</a>,” Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as the “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate White people over people of color.” She includes three additional definitions to further define the term as:
- A location of structural advantage, or “race privilege.”
- A “standpoint,” or a place from which White people look at themselves, at others, and at society.
- A set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.
To learn more about Robin DeAngelo,<a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/robindiangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Students are tasked with identifying and photographing three separate manifestations of alleged whiteness on BYU’s campus before uploading the assignment for a final grade.

The document was originally published by the student-led publication, “<a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle,</a>” and <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/at-byu-all-you-have-to-do-to-get-an-a-is-be-a-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted by TPUSA’s Morgan Zegers</a>,

Upon the initial publication, a professor now identified as Dr. Eric Bybee, threatened to report all students affiliated with the story to BYU’s Honor Code Office. Dr. Bybee further called for the administration to investigate the students for possible conduct violations. (The names of the students cited by Dr. Bybee have been redacted at their request.) The author eventually altered the article out of concern for his academic standing.

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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Bybee, please visit his profile on the Professor Watchlist.</a>

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Lopez for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://sociology.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sociology Department</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3392 or at sociology@byu.edu 
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Updated - March 3rd, 2022

<a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eric Ruiz Bybee</a> is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in the <a href="https://education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah.

In a message to the conservative, student-run publication, <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Dr. Bybee threatened to report writers of the site and others for academic misconduct. The incident stemmed from a report by the paper in which a document from Dr. Jane Lopez’s course was published.

Her assignment—titled, “Revealing Whiteness Activity,”—asked students to identify and photograph three aspects of “whiteness” represented at BYU. The document further cited the author of “White Fragility”, Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color.”

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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/janelopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lopez, please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Several days after the story was posted, the site was inundated with comments accusing the author of posting private intellectual property.

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Shortly after, Dr. Eric Bybee privately messaged the Chronicle and demanded the post be taken down. He likewise accused the authors of stealing Dr. Lopez’s intellectual property and engaging in “targeted harassment” before assuring that he is committed to pursuing “appropriate consequences” against those responsible.

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He threatened to report several conservative students and activists on campus—including several who do not even write for the paper—to the university’s Honor Code office administration for disciplinary action (The names of the students have been blurred at their request).

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<a href="https://honorcode.byu.edu/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Honor Code Office</a> is tasked with enforcing the university’s code of conduct. Those found in violation may face academic discipline or—in extreme cases—expulsion from BYU.

Upon review of the Honor Code by the Professor Watchlist Team, t<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/policy/academic-honesty">here appears to be no rule against the posting of an assignment</a>.

While the office ultimately chose to not investigate, the author of the story eventually edited the sections of the report that included Dr. Lopez’s course due to the nature of the threat. The <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/news-and-opinion/f/opinion-byu-teaching-antiracism---racism-repackaged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated piece can still be found on the Chronicle’s website</a> and a corresponding post on the site’s Instagram page—<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byuconservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BYU Conservatives</a>—may be viewed below.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bybee’s personal Twitter account</a> further showcases his antagonism towards conservatives and white men in addition to his far-left stances.

A series of tweets support critical race theory,
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A reminder:
Davis District *cancelled* an anti-bias training in response to Utah’s anti-CRT resolution.

This means that there is a *direct link* between cynical attempts to manufacture outrage over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CRT</a> and the racist abuse that Black students experience in schools. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#utpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/AZtzrqpQCr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AZtzrqpQCr</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1453066745502044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Friends I am speaking on a CRT panel tomorrow sponsored by <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_UofUtah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAACP_UofUtah</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterUtahInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetterUtahInst</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/acluutah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acluutah</a>.
Join us!<a href="https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m</a> <a href="https://t.co/sOIcpRo97J" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/sOIcpRo97J</a>

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One tweet compares Joe Rogan to the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-men-convicted-murdering-ahmaud-arbery-sentenced-life-prison-rcna10901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in a hate crime</a>,
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I am pretty tired of hearing about Joe Rogan at this point, but it feels worth pointing out that the federal hate crime case against Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers hinges in part on their use of the same slurs that Rogan used on his show.
Let that sink in for a moment. <a href="https://t.co/OweQXalcAl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/OweQXalcAl</a> <a href="https://t.co/JyZVOIZwr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/JyZVOIZwr0</a>

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In a thread, Dr. Bybee accuses white men of representing “the face of modern domestic terrorism.”
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Say it with me again.
The face of modern domestic terrorism is not brown or black. It is white. /1<a href="https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZMM6XPADqp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ZMM6XPADqp</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1314654321611403264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yet another tweet insinuates that Kyle Rittenhouse received preferable treatment from the justice system because he is white,
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I can’t think of two cases that better illustrates the white supremacy of our criminal justice system.
It’s a sickness and and rot at the heart of our society. <a href="https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1330672839175770113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bybee’s work has led him to <a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric">author papers</a> on Latinx Education, Racial Identity, Social Justice Education, and even one paper titled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271217910_White_Supremacy_NeoColonial_Education_and_the_Struggle_for_Precious_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge.”</a>

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Bybee for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Update 
After publication, Dr. Bybee proceeded to publish 61-tweets defending teaching “whiteness” to his students and describing the Professor Watchlist as “something that sounds like it could have come out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” The full thread may be viewed below. 
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So, last Thursday a right-wing website published a story about me and another <a href="https://twitter.com/BYU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BYU</a> colleague.
Since then I have received many harassing emails/voicemails.

I have decided to make public those emails/voicemails in this thread. 🧵 /1

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1505954460400455682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3426 or at eac.frontdesk@byu.edu
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<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/jacob-rugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacob S. Rugh</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Family, Home, &amp; Social Sciences department at Brigham Young University (BYU).

In August of 2020, Rugh <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/09/jacob-s-rugh-an-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a letter</a> to BYU’s Committee on Race, Equity, and Belonging. One of his aims for writing the letter was “to amplify the voices of Black BYU students, specifically <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/07/18/byus-black-student-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their recent declaration</a> of grievances and letter on remembering and monuments to church, university and NAACP leaders.” 

Rugh said he has focused his BYU “citizenship efforts” to “the ongoing redesign of general education at BYU to include a new, focused diversity and inclusion requirement.” He also aims to establish “a new campus center for racial equality that would (among other tasks) spur the diversification of faculty now and enrich the pipeline of future faculty.” 

According to the letter, another priority of Rugh’s is for BYU to establish “a long-term process of institutional repentance,” on campus. 

In October of 2022, Rugh “quoted an anti-white article favorably in a tweet,” <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Campus Reform</a>. The article, written by Perry Bacon Jr. for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/13/america-has-white-voter-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, was titled “America’s problem is White people keep backing the Republican Party.” Bacon Jr. claims that there is an alliance between white Americans and the Republican party, which he considers to be the “most important and problematic dynamic in American politics today.” (see tweet below). 
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"It’s no accident that Republicans are winning the majority of White voters...result of a successful strategy. It’s not that Trumpism brought White voters as a bloc to the Republican Party—but rather that it hasn’t scared many of them off." <a href="https://twitter.com/perrybaconjr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@perrybaconjr</a>🎯 <a href="https://t.co/YFkwjQPVVp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YFkwjQPVVp</a>
— Jacob S. Rugh (@JakeRugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeRugh/status/1581821693437235200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://ph.byu.edu/directory/stephanie-lutz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephanie Lutz</a> is an Internship Coordinator and Professor in the Department of Public Health at Brigham Young University (BYU). 

According to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, in a “<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/life-sciences/public-health/womens-health-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HLTH 450: Women’s Health</a> course,” course, Lutz promoted “the concept of ‘interspace’ in pregnancy, the idea that perhaps someone isn't truly pregnant if they don't ‘know’ whether they're pregnant yet.”

Lutz also went further with her claim that pregancy is ambiguous, and suggested use of a pill taken by a woman who is unsure if she is pregnant or not:
“If she had unprotected intercourse before she takes a positive pregnancy test. There's a pill she can take to just ensure. Like in this interspace, like I don’t want to take a pregnancy test and I kind of don't want to know if I actually conceived. This pill will just take care of it if I did, and if I didn't.”
Campus Reform spoke with Ashleigh Watts, a former student of Lutz, who shared her experiences in the professor’s class:

“I just found it ironic that she pretty much worshipped Margaret Sanger who founded planned parenthood and essentially led the mass genocide of black children by means of abortion…while also teaching us CRT, about microaggressions, white guilt, and how to be an ‘anti-racist,’” Watts said. 

In October of 2022, Lutz told <a href="https://universe.byu.edu/2022/10/11/female-empowerment-how-byu-is-uplifting-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Universe</a> (a BYU publication) her approach to covering the subject of woman in her class:
 “In my class, while we cover the lifespan of the woman, we also discuss body image, self-esteem, nutrition, social media’s portrayal of women, women being marketed to sell products, eating disorders and more.” 
In her course, Lutz also tries “to infuse more of the social context of what’s going on in that, looking at marginalized groups such as LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled women, etc.”
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<a href="https://science.byu.edu/directory/david-cardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Cardon</a> is a Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University (BYU). According to his faculty profile, Cardon’s research interests include “Complex Analysis and Analytic Number Theory.”

According to <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.com/byu-professor-quotes-scripture-to-condemn-trump-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Cardon left a statement to his students on his classroom door after Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidential Election. The statement was directed to any of his students who voted for Trump. The professor cited a passage from the Book of Mormon to justify his claim that “Donald Trump is an evil man.” (See image below). 

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Once news of the statement spread among the BYU community, Cardon was met with backlash for his scornful attitude towardTrump supporters. The professor was asked two questions by the <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.com/you-probably-dont-believe-the-book-of-mormon-anti-trump-professor-doubles-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chronicle</a>:
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 	<li style="text-align: left;"> "What was your purpose in posting this notice?</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;"> When it comes to endorsing political candidates, BYU maintains a policy of neutrality. While faculty are given liberties of free speech, do you think a message like this could alienate many of your conservative students?”</li>
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In his answers, Cardon doubled-down and elaborated more on his belief that Trump is a wicked man. According to him, those who disagree, or are offended by this claim, do not believe in the Book of Mormon:
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 	<li>“First of all, there is no question that Trump is a wicked man. The list of his crimes is very long.</li>
 	<li>The word ‘endorsement’ does not apply. I didn’t say to vote for Trump or not to vote for Trump. My comment about supporting a candidate was neutral, in the sense that I did not endorse any candidate. I made a comment of what happened in the scriptures, when the majority of the people chose a wicked leader. Students should not confuse their political affiliation with the Gospel, and if they do they should be taking classes where the ideas are discussed. Being ‘neutral is not the same as being ignorant and naive.</li>
 	<li>The idea from the last paragraph comes straight out of the Book of Mormon. If it offends you, then you should also be offended by the Book of Mormon. If it offends you, you probably don’t believe the Book of Mormon.”</li>
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The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education. 

Please send information and tips on David Cardon to Watchlists@tpusa.com.

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<a href="https://search.vanderbilthealth.com/doctors/taylor-shayne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shayne Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Medicine</a> at Vanderbilt University. In a lecture, Dr. Taylor touted gender-transition surgeries for minors as “huge money makers” for hospitals.
The controversy erupted when conservative commentator Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1572313523232931840%7Ctwgr%5E322297c8a90cb2b0f8613236498945ff6838e036%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fhuge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a series of tweets on Vanderbilt Health,</a> a hospital network affiliated with Vanderbilt University. In the thread, Walsh revealed the hospital was conducting gender transitions on minors via surgery and chemical transitions.
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BREAKING: My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors. But it gets worse. Here is what we found. Let&#8217;s start at the beginning.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Via the “<a href="https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/program/pediatric-transgender-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pediatric Transgender Clinic</a>,” the hospital advertises what it describes as “gender-affirming” procedures for “gender-diverse children and adolescents.” This includes elective “bottom” and “top” surgeries and hormone therapy.
During the clinic’s first year of operation, Dr. Shayne Taylor delivered a lecture boasting of the profit from gender-transition procedures. Listing off various surgeries and hormone treatments, Dr. Taylor revealed that each one is a “huge money maker” for hospitals and could provide tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in income before any of the necessary “follow-ups” by patients.
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Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it&#8217;s a &#8220;big money maker,&#8221; especially because the surgeries require a lot of &#8220;follow ups&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/zedM7HBCBe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313523232931840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A common drug used to block puberty is called Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders and is not approved by the FDA</a>. Even if the dosage is <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halted mid-transition, children are still unable to undergo puberty.</a>
In her speech, Dr. Taylor referenced “top” and “bottom surgeries” performed by doctors at the clinic. This refers to double-mastectomies—of the surgical removal of both breasts—of young girls (top surgeries) and the physical removal and replacement of genitalia (bottom surgery). Hormone therapy is also cited, referring to drugs used in the transition process.
Vanderbilt has admitted that teenagers as young as 13 receive hormone treatment and puberty blockers at the clinic.
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But they must have forgot to delete a video from Vanderbilt Psychiatry’s Youtube channel back in 2020 which admits explicitly that they will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13. <a href="https://t.co/Qn48zWoJ1N" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Qn48zWoJ1N</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313670075518978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A fellow professor, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ellenwrightclayton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ellen Clayton</a>, was further caught on video warning that doctors who have “conscientious objections” towards the surgeries will face severe “consequences.”
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Vanderbilt was apparently concerned that not all of its staff would be on board. Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that &#8220;conscientious objections&#8221; are &#8220;problematic.&#8221; Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to &#8220;religious beliefs&#8221; will face &#8220;consequences&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/CgNicrG4Mg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/CgNicrG4Mg</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313566589468672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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While the clinic claims that all minors must receive parental consent, the hospital appears<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> to have adopted a “mature minor”</a> policy, which <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/mature-minor-doctrine-examples/2015/07/10/id/654374/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows teenagers to undergo a procedure if they are deemed “mature” or competent by a hospital or attending physician</a>.
Prior to Walsh’s expose, the <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospital allegedly deleted all mention of surgeries from its “Treatments and Services” section</a>.
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Vanderbilt makes their Trans Buddies available to children, too. They make lots of &#8220;services&#8221; available to children, including chemical castration. Though at some point in the last month they removed explicit admission of this fact from their site. Here&#8217;s the archived screenshot <a href="https://t.co/X9nBpSxTC1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/X9nBpSxTC1</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313632587018243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/vanderbilt-university-suspends-gender-affirmation-surgery-for-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Following national coverage, the University has halted all gender surgeries for minors.</a>
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UPDATE: here is the letter Vanderbilt sent to state legislators. Notice the wording at the end. They promise to comply with whatever regulations are imposed. They’ve already conceded the legislative fight. This win is even bigger than we thought. <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/VkKhuiHTUO</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1578475618022621185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the Vanderbilt University Medical Center at <a href="tel:16153225000">(615) 322-5000</a>
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<a href="https://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/person/jonathan-m-metzl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl</a> is a Professor of Psychiatry, and Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society at <a href="https://www.vanderbilt.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanderbilt University</a> in Nashville, Tennessee. He additionally serves as the Director of the University’s Department of Medicine, Health, and Society.

Dr. Metzl frequently writes about the intersection of race, class, and health with public policy. His main body of work is centered on his thesis that whites reject sound policy purely out of racial spite. He alleges that much of the dysfunction in conservative states is due to the adoption or rejection or policy based upon racial resentment.

His latest book—titled, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-talk-about-being-white-in-america/2019/04/29/20aed83a-6a9b-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland</a>”— alleges that much of what animated conservatives from the Tea-Party was the election of a black President—Barack Obama—in a move he describes as a, “white backlash.” He further states this was codified with the election of Donald Trump - of whom Dr. Metzl <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-talk-about-being-white-in-america/2019/04/29/20aed83a-6a9b-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes as a skilled manipulator of “whiteness.”</a>

In an interview with the publication, VOX, Dr. Metzl alleges that <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/19/18236247/dying-of-whiteness-trump-politics-jonathan-metzl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white anxiety to minorities causes them to reject policies to the detriment of their own health</a>. He specifically cites opposition to Obamacare, alleging that this cost GOP voters literal weeks off their lifespan. When asked why white voters do not align with their economic counterparts in the minority community, Dr. Metzl responded that whites feel a “psychological benefit” and sense of prestige for obtaining whiteness, or privilege over minorities.

Another policy cited in the book <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/19/18236247/dying-of-whiteness-trump-politics-jonathan-metzl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is opposition to gun control or support of the second amendment.</a> Dr. Metzl alleges that there is a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passage of gun control legislation and a decrease in crime</a> serve as a direct correlation between an easing of gun restrictions in conservative states and a sharp increase in gun deaths.

At the time of the book's publication in 2019, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/here-are-8-stubborn-facts-gun-violence-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America was in the midst of a multi-decade reduction of gun violence</a>. Suicide by gun violence had been cut in half over the past 2 decades. University of Chicago economist John Lott's landmark study of gun crime—titled, “More Guns, Less Crime,”—further demonstrated there is no link between the two.

Dr. Metzl had previously written about gun owenership’s connection to “whiteness.” In one op-ed for MSNBC, <a href="https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/when-shootings-happen-gender-has-to-be-part-of-the-conversation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Metzl wrote there is a correlation between the “male gender, hegemonic whiteness, and gun violence</a>.” In the same paper, he alludes that males are responsible for mass shootings, stating that, “nearly every shooter over the past 30 years has been male.”

He further alleges that males feel “entitled” to relationships, financial success, social status, and other items as part of American culture. He believes that their failure to obtain these things leads to men lashing out and committing violent crimes. Dr. Metzl urges others to look at the link between gender and mass shootings, positing a link between “entitled masculinity” and gun-ownership.

In a separate interview for, “Dying of Whiteness” for The Guardian, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/08/racism-gun-control-dying-of-whiteness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Metzl states that American Gun culture is “entwined” with white privilege</a>. He repeats this allegation for Salon, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/04/30/jonathan-metzl-on-the-moment-white-nationalists-invaded-his-d-c-bookstore-discussion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating that supporting the second amendment is akin to being “white”</a>:

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In addition to his professorial duties, Dr. Metzl frequently makes prominent appearances, including on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOyk7VK1A24&amp;t=1s&amp;ab_channel=DyingofWhitenessbyJonathanM.Metzl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a>, <a href="https://www.dyingofwhiteness.com/video?wix-vod-video-id=1217c26822c344639abb0e82b525b64d&amp;wix-vod-comp-id=comp-juii02ne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcppSGs6tTA&amp;ab_channel=RealTimewithBillMaher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HBO</a>. He is currently working on a project involving Men’s Health, titled, “Masculinity, Race, and the Politics of American Men’s Health.”

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Parents and Students can contact Vanderbilt University at (615) 322-7311.

<a href="https://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/ellen-clayton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton</a> is a Professor of Pediatrics, Law, and Health Policy at <a href="https://www.vanderbilt.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanderbilt University</a>. In a recorded lecture, Dr. Clayton appeared to threaten the careers of doctors who object to gender transitions for minors.

The controversy erupted when conservative commentator Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1572313523232931840%7Ctwgr%5E322297c8a90cb2b0f8613236498945ff6838e036%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fhuge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a series of tweets on Vanderbilt Health,</a> a hospital network affiliated with Vanderbilt University. In the thread, Walsh revealed the hospital was conducting gender transitions on minors via surgery and chemical transitions.
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BREAKING: My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors. But it gets worse. Here is what we found. Let's start at the beginning.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Via the “<a href="https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/program/pediatric-transgender-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pediatric Transgender Clinic</a>,” the hospital advertises what it describes as “gender-affirming” procedures for “gender-diverse children and adolescents.” This includes elective “bottom” and “top” surgeries and hormone therapy. However, the <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313632587018243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospital allegedly removed any mention of surgeries from its “Treatments and Services” section following Walsh’s expose</a>.
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Vanderbilt makes their Trans Buddies available to children, too. They make lots of "services" available to children, including chemical castration. Though at some point in the last month they removed explicit admission of this fact from their site. Here's the archived screenshot <a href="https://t.co/X9nBpSxTC1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/X9nBpSxTC1</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313632587018243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During a lecture on transition surgeries captured on video, Dr. Clayton addressed doctors who had “conscientious objections” to the procedures performed on minors. She warned that any doctors adhering to their religious beliefs will face “consequences” for not performing the surgeries. She further stated, “If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt.”
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Vanderbilt was apparently concerned that not all of its staff would be on board. Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that "conscientious objections" are "problematic." Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to "religious beliefs" will face "consequences" <a href="https://t.co/CgNicrG4Mg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/CgNicrG4Mg</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313566589468672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During the clinic’s first year of operation, fellow professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/shaynestaylor">Dr. Shayne Taylor</a> delivered a lecture boasting of the profit each gender-transition procedure made. Listing off various surgeries and hormone treatments, Dr. Taylor revealed that each one is a “huge money maker” for hospitals and could provide tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in income before any of the necessary “follow-ups” by patients.
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Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it's a "big money maker," especially because the surgeries require a lot of "follow ups" <a href="https://t.co/zedM7HBCBe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313523232931840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In her speech, Dr. Taylor referenced “top” and “bottom surgeries” performed by doctors at the clinic. This refers to double-mastectomies—or the surgical removal of both breasts—of young girls (top surgeries) and the physical removal and replacement of genitalia (bottom surgery). Hormone therapy is also cited, referring to drugs used in the transition process.

A common drug used to block puberty is called Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders and is not approved by the FDA</a>. Even if the dosage is <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halted mid-transition, children are still unable to undergo puberty.</a>

Vanderbilt has admitted that teenagers as young as 13 receive hormone treatment and puberty blockers at the clinic.
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But they must have forgot to delete a video from Vanderbilt Psychiatry’s Youtube channel back in 2020 which admits explicitly that they will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13. <a href="https://t.co/Qn48zWoJ1N" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Qn48zWoJ1N</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313670075518978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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While the clinic claims that all minors must receive parental consent, the hospital appears<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> to have adopted a “mature minor”</a> policy, which <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows teenagers to undergo a procedure if they are deemed “mature” or competent by a hospital or attending physician</a>.

Prior to Walsh’s expose, the <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospital allegedly deleted all mention of surgeries from its “Treatments and Services” section</a>.
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Vanderbilt makes their Trans Buddies available to children, too. They make lots of "services" available to children, including chemical castration. Though at some point in the last month they removed explicit admission of this fact from their site. Here's the archived screenshot <a href="https://t.co/X9nBpSxTC1">pic.twitter.com/X9nBpSxTC1</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313632587018243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Following national coverage, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/vanderbilt-university-suspends-gender-affirmation-surgery-for-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the University halted all gender surgeries for minors.</a>
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UPDATE: here is the letter Vanderbilt sent to state legislators. Notice the wording at the end. They promise to comply with whatever regulations are imposed. They’ve already conceded the legislative fight. This win is even bigger than we thought. <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/VkKhuiHTUO</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1578475618022621185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents May Contact Vanderbilt Law School at (615) 322-2615 
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Published - October 7th, 2022

<a href="https://search.vanderbilthealth.com/doctors/taylor-shayne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shayne Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Medicine</a> at Vanderbilt University. In a lecture, Dr. Taylor touted gender-transition surgeries for minors as “huge money makers” for hospitals.

The controversy erupted when conservative commentator Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1572313523232931840%7Ctwgr%5E322297c8a90cb2b0f8613236498945ff6838e036%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fhuge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a series of tweets on Vanderbilt Health,</a> a hospital network affiliated with Vanderbilt University. In the thread, Walsh revealed the hospital was conducting gender transitions on minors via surgery and chemical transitions.
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BREAKING: My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors. But it gets worse. Here is what we found. Let's start at the beginning.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Via the “<a href="https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/program/pediatric-transgender-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pediatric Transgender Clinic</a>,” the hospital advertises what it describes as “gender-affirming” procedures for “gender-diverse children and adolescents.” This includes elective “bottom” and “top” surgeries and hormone therapy.

During the clinic’s first year of operation, Dr. Shayne Taylor delivered a lecture boasting of the profit from gender-transition procedures. Listing off various surgeries and hormone treatments, Dr. Taylor revealed that each one is a “huge money maker” for hospitals and could provide tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in income before any of the necessary “follow-ups” by patients.
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Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it's a "big money maker," especially because the surgeries require a lot of "follow ups" <a href="https://t.co/zedM7HBCBe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zedM7HBCBe</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313523232931840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A common drug used to block puberty is called Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders and is not approved by the FDA</a>. Even if the dosage is <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halted mid-transition, children are still unable to undergo puberty.</a>

In her speech, Dr. Taylor referenced “top” and “bottom surgeries” performed by doctors at the clinic. This refers to double-mastectomies—of the surgical removal of both breasts—of young girls (top surgeries) and the physical removal and replacement of genitalia (bottom surgery). Hormone therapy is also cited, referring to drugs used in the transition process.

Vanderbilt has admitted that teenagers as young as 13 receive hormone treatment and puberty blockers at the clinic.
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But they must have forgot to delete a video from Vanderbilt Psychiatry’s Youtube channel back in 2020 which admits explicitly that they will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13. <a href="https://t.co/Qn48zWoJ1N" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Qn48zWoJ1N</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313670075518978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A fellow professor, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ellenwrightclayton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ellen Clayton</a>, was further caught on video warning that doctors who have “conscientious objections” towards the surgeries will face severe “consequences.”
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Vanderbilt was apparently concerned that not all of its staff would be on board. Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that "conscientious objections" are "problematic." Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to "religious beliefs" will face "consequences" <a href="https://t.co/CgNicrG4Mg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/CgNicrG4Mg</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313566589468672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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While the clinic claims that all minors must receive parental consent, the hospital appears<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> to have adopted a “mature minor”</a> policy, which <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/mature-minor-doctrine-examples/2015/07/10/id/654374/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows teenagers to undergo a procedure if they are deemed “mature” or competent by a hospital or attending physician</a>.

Prior to Walsh’s expose, the <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hospital allegedly deleted all mention of surgeries from its “Treatments and Services” section</a>.
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Vanderbilt makes their Trans Buddies available to children, too. They make lots of "services" available to children, including chemical castration. Though at some point in the last month they removed explicit admission of this fact from their site. Here's the archived screenshot <a href="https://t.co/X9nBpSxTC1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/X9nBpSxTC1</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313632587018243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/vanderbilt-university-suspends-gender-affirmation-surgery-for-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Following national coverage, the University has halted all gender surgeries for minors.</a>
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UPDATE: here is the letter Vanderbilt sent to state legislators. Notice the wording at the end. They promise to comply with whatever regulations are imposed. They’ve already conceded the legislative fight. This win is even bigger than we thought. <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/11/vanderbilt-health-is-treating-tennessee-minors-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/VkKhuiHTUO</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1578475618022621185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the Vanderbilt University Medical Center at <a href="tel:16153225000">(615) 322-5000</a>
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Published - October 11, 2022

<a href="https://www.vumc.org/pmi-residents/person/ayesha-khan-phd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ayesha Khan</a> is a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 

In 2019, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Womens-Movement-Pakistan-Activism-Democracy/dp/1838607080/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PPFKEJJP16RI&amp;keywords=the+women%27s+movement+in+pakistan%3A+activism%2C+islam+and+democracy&amp;qid=1698959598&amp;sprefix=the+women%27s+movement+in+pakistan+activism%2C+islam+and+democracy%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khan wrote</a>, “The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy” in which the publisher claims she “argues that the demand for a secular state and resistance to Islamization should not be misunderstood as Pakistani women sympathizing with a Western agenda.” 

In the introduction, Khan states:
“Feminists are put on the defensive for their failure to achieve a wider and deeper base, to build a movement for social change with ‘grassroots’ authenticity. They are accused of dependency on [W]estern aid funding to run their projects and NGOs, thereby espousing a women’s rights agenda that is not indigenous and subject to manipulation by [W]estern political interests.”
Since the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, Khan—who refers to herself as a “wokescientist”—published antisemitic memes on Instagram:

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Khan was also featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/vanderbilt-wokescientist-defends-any-means-necessary-from-hamas/24236" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Vanderbilt ‘wokescientist’ defends ‘any means necessary’ from Hamas.” The Reform included multiple photos that show Khan praising Hamas:

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On October 27, Khan was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/while-universities-refuse-to-fire-anti-semites-the-private-sector-holds-them-accountable/24277">Campus Reform</a> after adding her signature to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oU0LTAsKiGOMxfXnKcxpw-GJV6w5uiMP/view?usp=sharing">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 continues:
“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:
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 	<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 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 Ayesha Khan to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 3, 2023

LGBTQ

Shayne S. Taylor

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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>
</ul>
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:
<ul>
 	<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>
</ul>
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
<ul>
 	<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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Jeremy Martin is an Associate Provost, Chief of Staff to the President and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee at the  Confucious Institute of the College of William and Mary.

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<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/faculty/ciccariello-maher-george.php">Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher</a> is a Visiting Scholar of Decolonizing Humanities and Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary. He previously taught in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University.

From the College of William and Mary's website, his work at the Decolonizing Humanities Project is <a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/decoloniality/index.php">described</a> as exploring, “how colonization, modernity, capitalism, and, most recently, neoliberalism has displaced an array of modes of living, thinking and being.  Decoloniality reveals “the dark side of modernity” and how it is built “on the backs” of “others.”

Ciccarello first came to notoriety for his racially inflammatory statements on twitter. On Christmas of 2016, he <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/Drexel-officials-Professor-George-Ciccariello-Mahers-White-Genocide-tweet-was-utterly-reprehensible.html">tweeted</a> out,

“All I want for Christmas is White Genocide,”

and,

“To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution, that was a  good thing indeed.”

He also tweeted out,

“Some guy gave up his first-class seat for a uniformed soldier. People are thanking him. I’m trying not to vomit or yell about Mosul.”

When Ciccariello was confronted by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkvgmGIQHQ">Tucker Carlson</a> over his tweets, he only proceeded to double-down. In the following exchange, he defended the academic veracity of his tweets by claiming, “performance art is scholarship.”

Ciccariello doesn’t shy away from utilizing violence to accomplish his radical beliefs. In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/05/04/riots_work_wolf_blitzer_and_the_washington_post_completely_missed_the_real_lesson_from_baltimore/">Salon</a>, he praised the riots that had engulfed Baltimore in 2015 in an article titled “Riots Work.” He wrote, “without the threat of insurgency in the streets, no charges would ever have been brought in the murder of Freddie Gray.” Obviously not a proponent of police, Ciccariello openly <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/24/we_must_disband_the_police_body_cameras_arent_enough_only_radical_change_will_stop_cops_who_kill/">advocates</a> for the abolishment of police forces, describing them as, “originally slavecatchers.”

When not calling for the disbandment of our law enforcement, Ciccariello is an ardent defender of the socialist regime in Venezuela. He regularly <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/thatcher-is-dead-long-live-chavez/">praises</a> Hugo Chavez and has bizarrely <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYz1owM-uA&amp;feature=youtu.be">claimed</a> that Venezuela does not have corrupt elections.

Ciccariello doesn’t shy away from violent groups as well. In order to fight white-nationalism, Ciccarello called on Americans to embrace the radical group ANTIFA in an interview with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTv_hqjrmi8&amp;feature=youtu.be">Democracy Now</a> following the El Paso mass shooting. Although committed by a stated white nationalist, in the same interview Ciccariello placed the blame on Donald Trump for the deaths, claiming that his rhetoric on immigrants inspired the shooter’s rampage.  Ciccariello made similar accusations in a prior <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTv_hqjrmi8&amp;feature=youtu.be">interview</a> about the Texas Church Massacre, alluding that “whiteness” and Trump’s stoking of white victimhood was to blame for the murders.

Zuoyo Zhou is Vice-President of Beijing Normal University is the Vice-Chair of the Confucius Institue at the College of William and Mary

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Jennifer Stevenson</a> is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Confucius Institute in addition to serving as the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, the Director of the American Legal System Graduate Program, and a Professor of the Practice of Law at the College of William and Mary.

Steve Kuel is a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science as well as a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Confucious Institute for the College of William and Mary.

Jeremy Martin is an Associate Provost, Chief of Staff to the President and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee at the  Confucious Institute of the College of William and Mary.

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Teresa V. Longo</a> is an Advisor for the Confucious Institute College of William and Mary as well as the Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of the Charles Center, and a Professor of Hispanic Studies.

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Xingwei Miao</a> is an Advisor with the Confucious Institute of the Colleg of William and Mary from Beijing Normal University where he is the Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Kai Xiao</a> is from Beijing Normal University and is the Director of the Office of Confucius Institute Affairs at the College of William and Mary

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/as/americanstudies/graduate/graddirectory/smoot_k.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelsey Smoot</a> is a PH.D. Candidate in American Studies at the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia.

In June 2020, Smoot penned an article for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/white-people-ally-black-people-sacrifice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> titled, “White people say they want to be an ally to Black people. But are they ready for sacrifice?” In the piece, she argues that white Americans are unwilling to change any of their behaviors or attitudes in a way that would benefit black people. 

The piece was written in the midst of nationwide riots following George Floyd's death. While acknowledging that many of her white friends reached out to offer money and protect her “energy and emotional labor,” Smoot still accuses whites of silence, and therefore compliance, regarding white supremacy: 
“Unfortunately, good deeds will not dismantle systemic oppression. White kindness was unable to spare the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, nor any of the countless other victims of White supremacy in our nation’s history.”
If whites wanted to perform true anti-racist work, Smoot argues, they should be willing to sacrifice future pay raises and close friendships for people of color: 
“Real allyship enacted by White Americans, with a clear objective to make equitable the lived experiences of individuals across racial lines, means a willingness to lose things….Refusing a pay raise at one’s job and insisting that it be reallocated to co-workers of color who are undoubtedly being underpaid. The loss of potentially every close relationship with other White friends and family members who refuse to acknowledge or amend their behaviors that reinforce systemic oppression.”
Smoot concludes that white people will never be willing to sacrifice their privilege, so all she can do is “prepare for another day of navigating White America.”

In another article written from that summer, Smoot <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/04/juneteenth-not-the-fourth-of-july-was-the-real-independence-day">announces that she will no longer celebrate the Fourth of July</a>, as it represents an “exclusionary nationalist narrative.” Smoot writes that in adulthood, the idea of the holiday became “untenable” once she learned of America’s oppressive history:
“But as I moved into adulthood, learned the expansive and ongoing history of American imperialism, experienced blatant racism, homophobia, and transphobia, and internalized that my ancestors were held in bondage and considered chattel far beyond the date and year that I was supposed to consider the demarcation of American “freedom”, the idea of celebrating the holiday became untenable.”
Smoot further writes that she cannot celebrate America’s birth as she may be martyred in its current climate:
“In this current climate, as a Black American who is also queer and trans* identified, there is not a day that goes by when I don’t feel fear….I fear that my name might become a hashtag – my death made a viral internet sensation by onlookers recording my final breaths, as my life is taken by someone who swore to serve and protect me.” 
Smoot—<a href="https://queerinsomniac.me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who identifies as a “Black, queer, trans-masculine, and non-binary writer</a>”—has even shunned close family members and friends who incorrectly used her pronouns (they-them). In an article written for <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/misgendering-they-them-pronouns-nonbinary_n_6269a65de4b01131b11e407e">HuffPost</a>, Smoot states that she is becoming increasingly intolerant of anyone mistakenly misgendering him, claiming that refusing to do so nullifies her identity. Acknowledging that she will lose the people closest to him, Smoot concludes this is still the proper course of action as “trans and nonbinary people are worth the effort.”

According to her biography, Smoot's research interests encompass “queer studies, race/racism, cultural studies, and social movements.” Smoot further blogs and writes poetry on her personal site, <a href="https://queerinsomniac.me/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Insomniac’s Musings</a>.

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Published - November 15, 2022

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/faculty/sheehi-s.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Sheehi</a> is the Sultan Qaboos Eminent Professor of Middle East Studies at the College of William &amp; Mary. Dr. Sheehi also serves as the Faculty Director of the “Decolonizing Humanities Project.”

Although his position falls under the Humanities Department, the <a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official site for the project</a> states the field should not have to justify its “economic or practical values in higher education.” Rather, Sheehi argues that humanities are used for “tooling” students to participate in “irredeemable,” racist systems that perpetuate inequality: 

“The Decolonizing Humanities Project understands that the Humanities are structured by and complicit with the legacies of racism, sexism, patriarchy, settler-colonialism and colonialism.” 

Sheehi then accuses America of being built on land stolen from Native Americans.  The university, he claims, likewise continues to benefit from the labor of “kidnapped and enslaved Africans:”

“Decolonizing Humanities Project seeks to dismantle forms of settler-colonialism and racism, with special attention to anti-black and anti-indigenous racism, and how they continue to structure our lives in the university, Virginia, and the settler-colonial state now known as the United States.“

Sheehi states that higher education further perpetuates racial capitalism in the “settler colonial state known as the United States.” He vows to dismantle settler colonialism and capitalism through a process known as “decoloniality.” 

Under the tab, “<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/decoloniality/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is Decoloniality?</a>” Sheehi defines it as the study of the “matrix” of power and oppression created by colonialism. He then claims that colonialism’s effects can still be felt today as modern society was “built on the backs of others.” 

Decoloniality reveals "the dark side of modernity" and how it is built "on the backs" of "others," others that modernity racializes, erases, and/or objectifies. 

Continuing:

“(Decolonialism is) a way to explore colonization, settler-colonialism, racial capitalism (particularly as it grew out, in full racializing force,  with the enslavement of black Africans), modernity, and, most recently, neoliberalism and necrocapitalism and the ways in which they have displaced an array of modes of living, thinking and being in our natural world.”

Dr. Sheehi concludes by calling for the disruption of “settler-colonial logic” and decentering of “hetero-cisnormativity, gender hierarchies, and racial privilege.” 

The web page further lists a myriad of radical groups under the “<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/resources/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Resources</a>” column. One of them—titled, “DecolonizeThisPlace,”—is a violent, Antifa-aligned organization that is led by professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/aminhusain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amin Hussein</a>. A 2020 riot by the group resulted in 13 arrests and $100,000 in damages. 

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Published - December 5, 2021

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/as/english/facultystaff/tsai_a.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Addie Tsai</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English in the Arts &amp; Sciences department at the College of William and Mary. His “Areas of Specialization” include “Dance Studies,” “Masculinities Studies,” “Black Studies, “Gender Studies” and “Queer Studies.”

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Tsai was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/while-universities-refuse-to-fire-anti-semites-the-private-sector-holds-them-accountable/24277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after adding his signature to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oU0LTAsKiGOMxfXnKcxpw-GJV6w5uiMP/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open statement</a> that said:
“We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of Israel and the violent settler colonial apartheid state. We strongly condemn the response of [W]estern media and political actors at all levels of government in their dissemination of misinformation and propaganda, intended to manufacture consent for the genocide of Palestinian people.”
The statement goes on to say:
“Islamophobic, genocidal, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian rhetoric are all rooted in the languages we use. It is our responsibility to lay bare how language has been used to obscure and preserve the ongoing settler colonial project outside Gaza…”
The signatories' list of political declarations includes:
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 	<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>
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The statement 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 Addie Tsai to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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<a href="https://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/menu-i/69-richard-vanness-simmons">Richard VanNess Simmons</a> is a professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies and serves as the <a href="https://www.ciru.rutgers.edu/about-us/people-2">Director of the Confucius Institute</a> at Rutgers University. The Confucius Institute is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.
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China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.
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<a href="https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/kumar-deepa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deepa Kumar</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. According to her faculty profile, Kumar is “internationally recognized as a leading scholar of race and anti-Muslim racism.” As the president of Rutgers <a href="https://rutgersaaup.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAUP-AFT academic union</a>, she also “led the transition to an intersectional approach of <a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unionism</a>, centering on race and gender equity.”

PROTESTS

In April 2023, Kumar participated in an interview with <a href="https://tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tempest Magazine</a>, in which she discussed the history of faculty strikes led by the AAUP-AFT academic union. Kumar believes adjunct professors are entitled to the same benefits as full-time and tenured faculty. 

The article states: “The Rutgers AAUP-AFT had worked over a period of years to build a ‘wall-to-wall,’ industrial-style, intersectional union … the union also made race and gender justice central to its organizing and negotiations as a way to bridge divides and to support a diverse student body.”

When asked, “Can you speak to the wall-to-wall organizing strategy and its lessons, methods, and challenges”, Kumar responded:
“The university is a very hierarchical space where status and stature are given to certain people and denied to others. The most senior professors are at the top of this hierarchy of academic workers, whereas adjunct faculty are largely invisible … Beyond this are of course the workers who clean our campuses, feed our students, do administrative work, deliver packages and do various other tasks.”
She further discussed how the state governor pressured the union to suspend the strike and the union’s vote to take a $70 framework to avoid an injunction, which would force adjunct faculty back to return to work.
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I will be speaking on the return of the strike at the University of Vermont Thursday on the eve of the Chicago Teacher's strike! <a href="https://t.co/HU7o9wRVAc">pic.twitter.com/HU7o9wRVAc</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1183758900006477825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Kumar also participated in a protest following the death of George Floyd.
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Hundreds protest at the Capitol in Madison, WI. <a href="https://t.co/36SOAl0Cgo">pic.twitter.com/36SOAl0Cgo</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1266789917687984128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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She’s also an advocate for climate change legislation. 
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So many people that even tho the march has started we are not moving! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatemarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climatemarch</a> <a href="http://t.co/DzUqfBNY9Q">pic.twitter.com/DzUqfBNY9Q</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/513753945706356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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RACIAL IDEOLOGY; ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT; TERROR SUPPORTER

Kumar is the author of “<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/955-islamophobia-and-the-politics-of-empire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire</a>,” in which she discussed the supposed rise of anti-Muslim racism following the 9/11 <a href="https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Trade Center</a> terrorist attacks. Her perspective of the US government’s response suggests that using surveillance and other methods of securing American civilians were acts of racial prejudice against Arabs and Muslims.

In the book introduction, Kumar wrote:
“Even before I began my study of the history of Islam, of Muslim-majority countries, and of the relationship between East and West, I knew instinctively that the Islamophobic rhetoric that passed as common sense in the United States was dead wrong … I am grateful to the dozens of Middle East studies scholars and others before me who have studied the ‘Muslim world’ for advancing my knowledge of this subject and helping me to expose the underlying racism inherent in the logic of Islamophobia.”
By the end of the novel, Kumar claimed, “We also saw that  the image of the menacing ‘Muslim threat’ [had] been mobilized largely by ruling elites to serve a political agenda, whether the domination of Europe by the papacy in the eleventh century or US expansionism today.”

Kumar once posted on Twitter that she believed the US government was more brutal than the ISIS terrorist regime. 
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Solidarity with <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProfessorKumar</a>. Fox News is attacking her for this completely accurate tweet. <a href="https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP">https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP</a>
— Critical Reading (@CriticalReading) <a href="https://twitter.com/CriticalReading/status/625789261615382528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Kumar appeared on Democracy Now to refute media reports that terrorists violently raped Israeli women and children during the invasion.  She was <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/8/nyt_investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of 60+ signatories</a> who wrote to The New York Times demanding an investigation into sexual assault claims.

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Please send tips, updates and information on Deepa Kumar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://jasbirkpuar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a> is the Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

Puar is an editor and author of several publications including a book entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-Maim-Debility-Disability-Otherwise/dp/0822369184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CJIPSGV1XZ1X&amp;keywords=Jasbir+Puar%2C+The+Right+to+Maim%3A+Debility%2C+Capacity%2C+Disability&amp;qid=1693330890&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability</a>.” According to the publisher, the text  is “an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which [Puar] outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” 

The publisher also wrote, “Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

Rutgers congratulated Puar on the book, despite its racist and anti-semitic themes. In a <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/news-events/news/1216-congratulations-professor-jasbir-puar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the university awarded Puar with the National Women’s Studies Association 2018 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize for “The Right to Maim.” The publication says:

“Weaving disability studies together with queer theory, transgender studies, biopolitics and assemblage theory, Puar moves from the racialized constitution of transgender through the Israeli occupation of Palestine, focusing on what it means to manipulate bodies on the population level..”

Puar’s anti-semitic writing drew national attention after <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/satyellarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Professor Satyel Larson</a> featured “The Right to Maim” on a course reading list.

In response to Puar’s book, the<a href="https://www.jns.org/column/antisemitism/23/8/22/312418/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Jewish News Syndicate</a> said, “There are no statistics gathered by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, or even the virulently antisemitic Palestinian Authority to substantiate [Puar’s] claims, nor is there any medical evidence.”

The Syndicate also said, “Lamentably, Puar’s anti-semitic diatribe is just one of many examples of college-level faculty and administration espousing hate against Jewish students and the Jewish state.”

In her <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/terrorist-assemblages-tenth-anniversary-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> “Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” Puar “argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism and nationalism.” 

Puar <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-7150-2_601.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in the introduction</a>: 

“In Terrorist Assemblages, my primary interest is in the process of the management of queer life at the expense of sexually and racially perverse death in relation to the contemporary politics of securitization, Orientalism, terrorism, torture and the articulation of Muslim, Arab, Sigh and South Asian sexualities.”
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<a href="http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar">Dr. Jasbir Puar</a>, a professor at Rutgers University, was invited to speak at Vassar. Her lecture was titled “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.” In her lecture, she accuses Israel of “stunting” growth of Palestinian bodies through scientific experiment as well as harvesting their organs.

<a href="http://www.kevin-allred.com/">Kevin Allred</a> was an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University. He underwent a psych evaluation after a series of questionable and possibly threatening tweets relating to Trump and the Second Amendment. He also went to Twitter after the election to complain that Rutgers had not publicly ensured the safety of students after Trump won. He also teaches a class called "Politicizing Beyonce". He was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/21/rutgers-places-adjunct-leave-tweets-he-says-were-based-rhetoric-president-elect">placed</a> on administrative leave from Rutgers 2016, and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4750992/Former-Rutgers-professor-fired-tweeting-kill-Trump.html">fired from Montclair State</a> University after threatening to kill Trump.

<a href="https://rcws10.rutgers.edu/faculty/Chikindas/">Professor Michael Chikindas</a>, Rutgers University, posted frequent anti-Semitic comments, at one point referring to Jewish people as “international fat Jewish pockets.” “These jewish [sic] motherf*****s do not control me. They can go f**k each other in their fat a***s - you see, I really do not have anything to loose [sic], hence nothing to be controlled,” he wrote in response to an article titled “The Globalists: Who Control Us!”.

<a href="http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/174-markowitz-norman">Dr. Norman Markowitz</a> is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. Dr. Markowitz is also an active member of the Communist Party USA since 1978.  He writes and teaches about communism using his “Marxist Perspective.” As a supporter of Obama, Markowitz said that it would be good if Obama’s policies were labeled socialist because it would bring socialism to the forefront and looked at more seriously as a viable option for Americans. He has been a longtime defender of the Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and has said he has “enormous respect” for Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian.

<a href="http://www.polisci.rutgers.edu/cb-profile/userprofile/whfield">Dr. William Field</a>, a professor at Rutgers University, sent out an email to all political science majors and minors to protest against Condoleeza Rice serving as their commencement speaker. He was also said to have congratulated one of the lead organizers of the protest who had damaged university property.

<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/mbk69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Margo Kaplan</a> is a Professor of Law at <a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers University Law School</a> in Camden, New Jersey. According to her university biography, she teaches courses on “Criminal Law, Health Law and Policy, and Sex Crimes” and explores the “legal limitations on intimate decisions.”

Dr. Kaplan has spent her academic career attempting to normalize pedophilia. In a paper for the <a href="https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol72/iss1/4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington and Lee Law Review</a>, she advocates for the reclassification of pedophilia as a mental disorder so that pedophiles may be awarded more civil rights:

“...we should not categorically deny pedophilia the civil rights protections afforded to other mental disorders without a convincing normative justification supported by cogent scientific evidence. Strengthening civil rights protections for those with pedophilia also increases access to treatment and support that helps prevent child abuse.”

In a similar piece for the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Times</a>—titled, "Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime,"—Dr. Kaplan attempts a sickening effort to lure readers into sympathizing with pedophiles by characterizing pedophiles as adolescents with harmless, childhood crushes.

“THINK back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not. By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.”

Her intellectual sleight of hand is prevalent in both pieces. Kaplan blames the abuse of children partially on what she views as the severity in which society treats pedophilia, resulting in pedophiles abstaining from seeking treatment.

When later interviewed by <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/06/pedophilia-not-a-crime-rutgers-margo-kaplan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia Magazine</a>, Dr. Kapland claimed to be “shocked” at the amount of support she had received, accusing critics she did have of not even reading her article.

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<a href="https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/1143-bray-mark">Mark Bray</a> is a part-time lecturer in the Department of History at Rutgers University.

Bray first gained notoriety in 2017 when he <a href="https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/antifa/">authored</a> "The Anti-Fascist Handbook," and offered to <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=14972">donate</a> half of the proceeds to ANTIFA.

Bray fully endorses ANTIFA’s embrace of violence as a tactic, and often describes it as “self-defense”. He has <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9616">stated</a> that in order to “preemptively” shut down far-right events and gatherings,  “physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.”

Soon after publication, he appeared on NBC to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/antifa-violence-ethical-author-explains-why-n796106">defend</a> the use of force against opposing protestors. He claimed that as an illiberal organization, ANTIFA has and will continue to shut down the free speech of the far right.

Bray recently penned an op-ed in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/01/trump-antifa-terrorist-organization/">Washington Post</a> in the midst of mass-rioting following the death of George Floyd. After expressing sympathy with the looters, Bray claims that police officers are, in fact, deadlier than ANTIFA.  He wrote, “...and in the United States, ANTIFA have never killed anyone, unlike their enemies in Klan hoods and squad cars.” 

After his views were <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/dartmouth-president-disavows-professor-justified-antifa-violence-self-defense">condemned</a> by Dartmouth University - his employer at the time - Bray soon began lecturing at Rutgers, where his university biography describes him as a “historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in Modern Europe.”

<a href="https://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/menu-i/69-richard-vanness-simmons">Richard VanNess Simmons</a> is a professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies and serves as the <a href="https://www.ciru.rutgers.edu/about-us/people-2">Director of the Confucius Institute</a> at Rutgers University. The Confucius Institute is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.
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China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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As <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nouraerakat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented</a> in a previous Professor Watchlist profile, Rutgers University’s Africana Studies Professor <a href="https://crimjust.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-directory/details/61-faculty/30-faculty/620-erakat-noura" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noura Erakat</a> is a radical, antisemitic activist who frequently characterizes Israel as a racist state equivalent to the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apartheid-era</a> South African government. She’s also an avid supporter of Boycott, Divestment,  and Sanctions (BDS), <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an anti-Jewish movement</a> that claims to “[work] to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.” 

On November 29, 2023, Erakat posted on X/Twitter that Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, and Reverend John Hagee are “all explicit antisemites who love Israel.” 
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Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Reverend John Hagee - all explicit antisemites who love Israel. Safety is in justice &amp; solidarity, not ethnic cleansing, colonization, &amp; apartheid. Fighting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinians</a> means fighting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/freedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#freedom</a>, including for Jewish liberation. <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thereidout</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://t.co/3Mnr6ddaFl">pic.twitter.com/3Mnr6ddaFl</a>
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) <a href="https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1729899924257419330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On November 4, Erakat addressed a crowd of more than 300,000 people during a pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, DC. Regarding Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Jewish people, Erakat declared:
“We’re all here to charge this administration with genocide…Together [Israel and the United States] are rendering international law worthless and irrelevant. Every single tribunal—from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Cambodia, every prosecution from the [International Criminal Court]—was meant to atone for our moral failures…”
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Ms. <a href="https://crimjust.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-directory/details/30-faculty/faculty/620-erakat-noura">Noura Erakat</a> is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. According to her university profile, Professor Erakat specializes in fields that include international law, humanitarian law, human rights law, national security law, refugee law, and critical race theory. A harsh critic of the state of Israel, the professor has repeatedly demonized and called for the destruction of the only Jewish state in the world.

Professor Erakat’s work frequently characterizes Israel as a racist state that is equivalent to the apartheid-era South African government. In a November 2019 interview with DemocracyNow, she stated, ”<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/19/noura_erakat_israeli_settlements_trump_announcement">we are witnessing the entrenchment of an apartheid regime</a>, and the U.S. [is] at the helm of that process.”

Professor Erakat repeats this false claim to justify her support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In a November 2020 video panel discussion with the Middle East Institute, Professor Erakat calls on the world <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S7ZkKMFUuU&amp;t=3956s">to resist and alienate Israel via adherence to a BDS platform</a>.

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BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—supporters embrace the following three tenets as a feature of the campaign:

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel.

Mr. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, admits that the ultimate outcome of these steps is the <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144">dismantlement of the state of Israel</a>.
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WATCH: The video BDS doesn't want you to see!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BDS</a> co-founder Omar Barghouti admits that their goal means the end of Israel. <a href="https://t.co/wulUA5hqdE">pic.twitter.com/wulUA5hqdE</a>
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Professor Erakat likewise calls for Israel to be destroyed and replaced by an Arab-majority Palestinian state. As reported by The Spectator in July 2019, Ms. Erakat spoke at an event in Washington, DC, where she <a href="https://spectator.org/noura-erakat-recounts-her-anxiety-over-israels-existence/">advocated for Arabs to “help indigenize” Jews in Israel </a>in order to achieve a sole Palestinian state or a “one-state solution.”

Professor Erakat is far more brazen in calling for the outright destruction of Israel when speaking at anti-Israel protests around the country. During one march in May 2021—captured by News2Share—she called for the <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1393739882825195521/">liberation of Palestine, “from the river to the sea.</a>”

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According to the Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva, the chant, “from the river to the sea,” was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203">popularized by terrorist groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> (PLO). The phrase alludes to the destruction of Israel—and thus the genocide of the nation’s Jews—between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html">The chant is thought to originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was qouted by The New York Times stating, "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea."

Even though Professor Erakat can be heard calling for the “denuclearization of Israel” in the same speech, she had in 2013 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I20HOx5zfv0&amp;ab_channel=JFhsfohhMN">condemned efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program as “racist</a>.”

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She further <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMzhsZtBfgg/?igshid=5p918cganhq1">defended this position</a> in a video uploaded to her Instagram in March of 2021, arguing there is no contradiction in opposing sanctions for Iran while supporting sanctions on Israel.

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During a separate march in May of 2021,  Ms. Erakat can be heard chanting “By spirit and by blood, we redeem you, Palestine!” in front of the Israeli Embassy.

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In April of 2020, Noura Erakat’s cousin, Mr. Ahmed Erakat, was killed after <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/06/29/palestinian-rams-a-checkpoint-death-lies-and-videotape/">ramming his car into an Israeli checkpoint during a failed terrorist attack</a>. Despite the publication of footage verifying the incident and a pipe bomb later being found in the van by investigators, Ms. Erakat continues to claim that he was murdered by Israeli forces.
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Updated - June 2021

Dr. James Livingston is <a href="https://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/172-livingston-james" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a tenured Professor of History</a> at Rutgers University. His specialty is listed as Modern US: Intellectual and Economic History. He considers himself an “economic historian” and professionally writes many publications about politics, economics, and working in the United States.

In his personal time, Dr. Livingston often takes to Facebook to discuss similar topics, but in a less professional manner. <a href="https://pen.org/press-clip/white-professor-accused-of-antiwhite-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a Facebook post from May 31, 2018</a>, Dr. Livingston denounces the white race and belligerently asserts he “hates white people.” Later in the post, he calls white Americans “little caucasian assholes who know their parents will approve of anything they do” and “little shitheads.”

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When Facebook flagged the post and took it down, rather than apologize for his racist rant, he posted the following:

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Shortly after his anti-white tirade, Rutgers launched an investigation into his posts. The university stated that they received several anonymous complaints about the posts, calling them to take action against the Professor. Dr. Livingston claimed he was making a statement about gentrification and told university officials that white supremacists were sending him threatening messages.

The investigation was headed by Carolyn Dellatore, the associate director of the Office of Employment Equity. <a href="https://www.thefire.org/rutgers-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Her investigation found that</a> “given Professor Livingston’s insistence on making disparaging racial comments, a reasonable student may have concerns that he or she would be stigmatized in his classes because of his or her race. As such, Professor Livingston’s comments have violated university policy.” He argued, however, that his posts were not racist because white people cannot be discriminated against. He also argued that the first amendment gave him the right to freedom of speech.

The university initially decided to sanction Dr. Livingston, but they <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2018/11/15/no-punishment-rutgers-university-professor-over-white-people-comments-facebook/2016377002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ultimately reversed their decision</a> in November 2018, clearing him of all charges. Dr. Livingston is still teaching at Rutgers University today.

<a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/chenjerai-kumanyika/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chenjerai Kumanyika</a> is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University. According to his faculty profile, “Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing.”

RACE IDEOLOGY

During his time as a professor at Rutgers University, Kumanyika was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-journalism-prof-claims-language-matters-compares-death-cult-gop-fecal-matter/16410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Rutgers journalism prof claims ‘language matters,’ then compares ‘death cult’ GOP to ‘fecal matter.’” The source said, “In February [2020], [Kumanyika] appeared at an event with Boston University for Anti-Racist Research Director Ibram Kendi in which he declared that ‘language matters.’”

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Kumanyika called conservatives “fecal matter” on social media and told his “liberal friends” to “call out” and “organize against” the Biden-Harris administration if they tried to work with opposition leaders. 
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You don't have to wait and "work with them" for two years as Republicans work to shit out something even more putrid in 2022. <a href="https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx">https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx</a>
— Chenjerai Kumanyika (@catchatweetdown) <a href="https://twitter.com/catchatweetdown/status/1331002330284765186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a 2020 Resilience article called “Seeing White: Chenjerai’s Challenge,” Kumanyika provides a transcript of a podcast where he asked the host <a href="https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/john-biewen-joins-kenan-institute-for-ethics-as-director-of-storytelling-and-public-engagement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Biewen</a>, “How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Kumanyika also posed questions such as, “[W]hen was whiteness good? It’s kind of like, when was America great?” Later in the episode, he told Biewen:

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Send tips, updates, and information on Chenjerai Kumanyika to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://sph.rutgers.edu/concentrations/urban-global-public-health/faculty-member.php?id=92133" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Perry Halkitis</a> is the Dean and Hunterdon Professor of Public Health and Health Equity in the School of Public Health at Rutgers University. He is designated as a Distinguished Professor with research interests in infectious diseases such as HIV, HPV, and COVID-19.

Halkitis is the founder and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS). CHIBPS is not a medical clinic but is “an interdisciplinary research center within the Rutgers School of Public Health. <a href="https://sph.rutgers.edu/centers/chibps/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The center’s website</a> says the organization is “nationally recognized for the study of LGBTQ health with a focus on the disparities of infectious diseases including HIV, substance use, and mental health burden.”  

In March 2022, CHIBPS offered a survey and raffle for anyone willing to participate in their research into LGBTQ communities’ vaccination experiences.
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NY/NJ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBTQ</a> friends: We have expanded our study about LGBTQ communities' vaccination experiences to include NY in addition to NJ!
The survey is brief and you can enter a raffle. For more info or to participate, click the link here: <a href="https://t.co/GwCgtsFdXo">https://t.co/GwCgtsFdXo</a>
Please share widely! <a href="https://t.co/Q0QGnZtqY4">pic.twitter.com/Q0QGnZtqY4</a>
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Halkitis put #EthicalDisruptor in his Twitter profile and uses his page to bring awareness to LGBTQ community issues. In a video pinned by Halkitis, a host of New Jersey Power and Politics interviewed him regarding the Colorado Springs <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/grotesque-politicization-colorado-springs-gay-bar-shooting-opinion-1761129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gay night club shooting</a>.  

Halkitis was asked how he thought rhetoric from political figures enabled people like the shooter to commit hate crimes. Halkitis, who believes microaggressions are a public health issue, stated:

“We’ve been seeing over the course of the last four to five years a steady increase in hate crimes…[We need to] think about how our work in public health has to be responsible enough to call out that rhetoric — whether it be macro aggressions…or the microaggressions that marginalize people on a daily basis.”

Halkitis also said the fact that the club shooter identifies as “nonbinary” is not a factor because “LGBTQ people are raised in a society that also embeds us with trans-homophobia…and many of us internalize it.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DeanPNHalkitis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeanPNHalkitis</a> discusses hate and its affect on public health <a href="https://t.co/X6pX90xkry">https://t.co/X6pX90xkry</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersSPH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RutgersSPH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersBHS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RutgersBHS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TIPHtweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIPHtweets</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ASPPHtweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASPPHtweets</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColoradoSpringsmassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColoradoSpringsmassacre</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColoradoGay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColoradoGay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chibps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chibps</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTQPubPopHlth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LGBTQPubPopHlth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NJGVRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NJGVRC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RUDiversity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RUDiversity</a>
— Perry N Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH ♓️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇷🇺🇸⚛️ (@DeanPNHalkitis) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeanPNHalkitis/status/1597264812488429569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In response to the passing of the Respect for Marriage Act, Halkitis said,

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<a href="https://ifh.rutgers.edu/faculty_staff/naa-oyo-a-kwate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naa Oyo Kwate</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says she has “wide-ranging interests in racial equity and African American health.” Her research interests include “ways in which urban built environments reflect racial inequities…and how racism, directly and indirectly, affects African American health.”

The University of Pennsylvania invited Kwate to give a talk on February 15, 2023. The <a href="https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/view/event/event_id/4222/view/event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> says Kwate “examines the ways in which fast food…has shifted from its position of jealously guarded whiteness and wholesome leisure to gauche, homogenized, anachronistic—and black.”

The abstract further states, “Fast food has undergone a complete inversion from its historical origins of serving urban white workers and middle-class white suburban families to become synonymous with urban black space.”

In her book, “<a href="https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/burgers-in-blackface" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burgers in Blackface</a>,” Kwate discussed restaurant culture from the perspective of slavery and the ridicule of black people. She introduced the book by stating, “This book examines the ways in which American restaurants have traded on denigrating images of black people in names, branding, and architecture. The United States has a long history of black stereotypes being used to sell products, particularly packaged food…”

She concludes the book, “Because racism is the way American society does business, the establishments reviewed here may at first blush suggest simply another–if unique–example of how business is done…It is also possible that racist restaurants mobilize the culture, geography, and institutions of the South.”

Kwate announced on Twitter that her new book “White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation” will drop in May 2023.” 
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Y’all! My book is now available to preorder! White Burgers, Black Cash is dropping this May. <a href="https://t.co/NHXk3neV0l">https://t.co/NHXk3neV0l</a>
I’d love your support for this project long time in coming. With thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/bryantterry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bryantterry</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_CMGreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dr_CMGreer</a> for such lovely blurbs!
— Naa Oyo A. Kwate (@professahKwate) <a href="https://twitter.com/professahKwate/status/1585660507293421568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/white-burgers-black-cash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">table of contents </a>for “White Burgers, Black Cash” includes the chapter titles: A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Good in the Early Twentieth Century and Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto.

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Updated February 24, 2023

<a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/572-cooper-brittney">Brittney Cooper</a> is an associate professor of Africana and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. 

Much of her research and writing centers around the intersections of race, feminism, and gender. Cooper’s work has led to her to develop a number of bizarre opinions:

- While Cooper claims that most American Christians worship a God of “white supremacy and patriarchy,” she chooses to <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_rights_made_up_god_how_bigots_invented_a_white_supremacist_jesus/">worship a Jesus that was “queer”</a> and “married to a prostitute.” 

- White families <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/white_supremacy_wins_again_melissa_harris_perry_and_the_racial_false_equivalence/">can’t properly raise black children</a>.

- Linear time is a product of a Euro-centric world, or in short, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-professor-even-the-concept-of-time-is-racist/">our concept of time is racist.</a>

- A founding principle of our nation is that black people are inhuman, therefore <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/black_americas_baltimore_schism_why_the_freddie_gray_tragedy_demands_serious_soul_searching/">riots are really just resistance </a>against an unjust system.   

- BREXIT was the result of <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7760">white nationalism.</a>

- Obesity in the black community is <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13866">caused by racism</a>.

Cooper has publicly attacked conservatives on multiple occasions, most recently during a live stream commentary on the DNC. Before launching into a tirade accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for “demolishing the civil rights movement,” Cooper explained <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15668">why American exceptionalism is a myth</a>; 
“I’m not here for the American Patriotism, American Exceptionalism Bulls***. All that stuff is propaganda, but as political theater it is amazing.” 
Cooper has attributed most of the deaths from the pandemic to racism and conservatives, stating that, “I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd push to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID,” and <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-university-prof-reopening-the-country-is-about-killing-black-people/">blaming Trump supporters for the hundreds of thousands of deaths</a> due to the coronavirus.

Cooper has previously stated that a conservative’s beliefs are “rooted in racism.” In an appearance on MSNBC, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/duncan-schroeder/2020/08/30/deranged-msnbc-pundit-goes-hateful-rant-against-trump-voters">Cooper stated that conservatives have a desire for power</a> at the expense of black and brown Americans. 

“...part of the challenge we have as a nation is that a significant swath of Americans still support Donald Trump. They support his vision of America. And that is rooted in racism. It is rooted in a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown…”

Cooper has denigrated conservatives and white people throughout her career. <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?444245-2/eloquent-rage&amp;playEvent">During a speech in Baltimore</a>, she stated that as white men lose their power, they will continue to “terrorize” black men and women. On a previous thread, she stated that the black community is being eaten alive by “capitalism, patriarchy, and racism,” and white people won’t feel any negative consequences of these systems so long as they can continue to displace white people through systems like gentrification. 

During an interview with The Root, Copper claimed that white people are committed to being “villians” and claimed, “We gotta take these MF’ers out.” 
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Rutgers professor: "White people are committed to being villains," "We gotta take these MF'ers out."
This professor spewed hatred on a YouTube video with <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRoot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheRoot</a>. <a href="https://t.co/QrGsv77CCC">pic.twitter.com/QrGsv77CCC</a>

— MRCTV (@mrctv) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1453141895291588610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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For more information, check out Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLFFfKIE8c&amp;ab_channel=CharlieKirk">segment</a> on Brittney Cooper on The Charlie Kirk Show below.
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Updated - May 4, 2023

<a href="https://polisci.rutgers.edu/people/department-directory/details/1701-nikolalexander-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikol Alexander-Floyd</a> is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. According to her faculty page, “she teaches a range of courses on black feminism theory, black women’s political activism, and race, gender, media and the law.”

<a href="https://dailytargum.com/article/2022/12/rutgers-experts-discuss-record-number-of-women-elected-to-u-s-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Targum</a> featured Alexander-Floyd’s comments on the number of women—and the lack of “women of color”—in Congress. Despite female politicians winning 149 seats in 2022, Alexander-Floyd declared that “progress is inequitable.” 

She also noted that “While women of color have more presence in the House of Representatives, there is not a single black woman senator." However, she failed to provide evidence or offer an explanation of whether black women traditionally seek such roles in politics. 

In a 2020 <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/29/step-away-fascism-and-toward-brighter-more-just-future-100-black-writers-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled, “A Step Away from Fascism and ‘Toward a Brighter More Just Future’: 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders,” Alexander-Floyd was a signatory on the joint letter that said:

“After much research and reflection, we have concluded that while imperfect, as we all are, Bernie Sanders, the politics he advocates, the consistent track record he demonstrates, and the powerful policy changes he has outlined, if elected, would make the most far-reaching and positive impact in the lives and conditions of black people, and all people in the United States…While we are not all democratic socialists, we will not be red-baited to reject and vilify [his] views.”

Alexander-Floyd authored several books including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Contemporary-Politics-Comparative-Feminist/dp/1403979669/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20VMCP0TY2PHX&amp;keywords=gender%2C+race%2C+and+nationalism+in+contemporary+black+politics&amp;qid=1691519244&amp;sprefix=gender%2C+race%2C+and+nationalism+in+contemporary+black+poli%2Caps%2C284&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics</a>.” In the introduction, she wrote: 

“Of the works that are critical of black nationalism and show the weddedness of black nationalism to white mainstream politics, there is still a relative ambivalence about its relationship to gender politics. Tunde Adelieke, for instance, shows that although [19th] century black nationalists opposed white supremacy, they nevertheless not only adopted civilizationist ideas but also actively facilitated African colonization…”

Alexander-Floyd further discussed this book in a video published by the university. She defined the book as a “black culture pathology paradigm” and a “backlash against the social movements of the 1960s and 70s and how…discussions have taken place around black family break down.”

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In her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Re-Imagining-Black-Women-Post-Feminist-Post-Racial-ebook/dp/B08L9HTNWV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3P8CCMBENBO3V&amp;keywords=reimagining+black+women%3A+a+critique+of+post-feminists+and+post-racial+melodrama&amp;qid=1691520097&amp;sprefix=reimagining+black+women+a+critique+of+post-feminists+and+post-racial+mel%2Caps%2C270&amp;sr=8-1">book</a> “Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics,” Alexander-Floyd declared: 

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Published August 15, 2023

<a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.T. Roane</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. Roane’s faculty profile shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. His research interests include “black geographies,” “black ecologies,” “black gender and sexuality studies” and “African American and African Diaspora History.” Roane is also listed as a <a href="https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jt-roane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Fellow</a> at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

In June 2023, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interviewed Roane about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Agoras-Insurgent-Social-Politics/dp/1479847674/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MANUVSI36NU&amp;keywords=dark+agoras&amp;qid=1699479018&amp;sprefix=dark+agoras%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B09X2GLKKH&amp;revisionId=fb4c3c45&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place” in which he “investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.”

Roane introduced the book by stating:
“Dark <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=agoras+meaning&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1021US1022&amp;oq=agoras+meaning&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIJCAYQABgKGIAEMg0IBxAuGMcBGNEDGIAEMgcICBAAGIAEMgkICRAAGAoYgATSAQkxNTU1MGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agoras</a> emerged under slavery through the active reinvention of African socialities and consciousnesses about place, identity, kinship, and belonging as the negation of the spatial and temporal features associated with domination and slave mastery…”
He goes on to state:
“Connections within the sites constituting dark agoras, as well as encounters across them and movement between them, underwrote a distinctive black working-class phenomenology of the city, the basis of what I term black queer urbanism…Black queer urbanism refers to a critical approach that views nonnormative forms of black social-geographic life…”
During the <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interview, Roane responded to the question: “In your book, you argue that the stoop stands as one of the places that constitute the underground. How does this domestic exterior transform into a vital place for sociality?” Roane said:
“The stoop has a whole genealogy. The black uses of the stoop emerge out of the uses of the quarters in the context of the plantation…that was integrally related to their geographic position to the side of the major formation of the plantation—the big house—and to the spaces of labor, the field...
“When black communities get displaced during the Jim Crow enclosures…they don’t just relinquish those values.”
Roane was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/watch-profs-discuss-spirituality-of-non-binary-vaginas-femme-penises-and-black-queer-religions/21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after participating in the <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> “Black Queer Religions Afro-Indigenous &amp; New Religions.” Among the topics covered, panelists discussed “the reality of non-binary vaginas and biologically femme penises.”

Roane is an outspoken supporter of Palestine. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, he <a href="https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> defending pro-Hamas rallies at Harvard University. The letter states, 
“The case of Harvard University is only one of many examples of the attacks that those who express solidarity with the Palestinians struggle face; attacks that are rapidly escalating at this time. Likewise, violent hate crimes against Palestinians are taking place around the country.”
Roane posted on X, formerly known as Twitter—
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The ongoing bombardment of Gaza is genocidal and ecocidal. The relentless ethnic clearing is going along with stuff like bombing fisheries. This will not strictly be contained to one place/ one people. The logics will spread as will their effects. Ceasefire Now!
— J.T. Roane (@JTRoane) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTRoane/status/1721858110485155992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/shawkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stacy Hawkins</a> is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University. According to her profile, Hawkins “served on the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Diversity Task Force.” 

On March 26, 2024, Hawkins was featured in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rutgers-university-professor-without-dei-offices-there-no-ability-make-meaningful-progress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News article</a> titled “Rutgers University professor says without DEI offices, there is ‘no ability to make meaningful progress.’” The source said Hawkins participated in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gh2ynXTe3I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion panel hosted by Harvard University</a> to evaluate the role of DEI on campus. Fox noted that Hawkins was the only panelist to “defend DEI imperatives.”

During the panel discussion, Hawkins justified DEI on campus by stating:
“I’m a scholar and I do believe in the scholarly methods with analytical and empirical rigor. But I am also an unabashed proponent of diversity. And whether you call it diversity, which I do, as a shorthand for diversity, equity, and inclusion — sometimes also including ‘belonging’ — I do think that it is a rather unassailable, aspirational principle for us in this country.”
Hawkins continued:
“The reason why I think that is, is because it is really consonant with some very foundational values that we have in our country and as part of our democracy — and those are pluralism and equality. Those are really the underlying motivations for why we aspire to and we seek to achieve diversity.”
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In October 2022, Hawkins participated in a <a href="https://newsone.com/4436920/rutgers-law-professor-stacy-hawkins-explains-supreme-court-affirmative-action-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Q&amp;A hosted by Newsone</a> to comment on the racial discrimination cases against Harvard that would eventually lead to SCOTUS overturning federal affirmative action laws in <a href="https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2023/08/us-supreme-court-ends-affirmative-action-in-higher-education--an-overview-and-practical-next-steps#:~:text=On%20June%2029%2C%202023%2C%20the,Carolina%20(UNC)%2C%20Nos." target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 2023</a>.  
According to the transcript, Hawkins was asked, “What is the implication for higher education?” She responded:
“It depends on whether the Court does what many expect it to do, which overrules longstanding precedent and says that colleges and universities may not consider race or ethnicity in admission — even if it is necessary to achieve diversity … Valuing and promoting diversity has become such an integral part of how many colleges and universities pursue their educational missions that it would require a fundamental change in how those [institutions] operate.”
Later in the interview, Hawkins pointed to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and stated that the “current conservative majority on the Court has demonstrated a willingness to unsettle even the most deeply settled legal precedents.” She also claimed that Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito had “already expressed hostility to the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions.”

In February 2024, Hawkins joined a virtual <a href="https://fedsoc.org/events/race-at-work-can-businesses-treat-people-differently-on-the-basis-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion held by The Federalist Society</a> called “Race At Work.” Hawkins said:
“Affirmative action is not just remedial, but it involves explicit, expressed, and admitted considerations of race or gender in decision-making … That’s not how diversity works. Not only is it not remedial, it also need not and most often does not involve any explicit considerations of race or gender in decision-making — which is the reason why it is highly defensible …
“An employee who is challenging a diversity program has to prove that the employer is lying about the fact that while they might care about diversity, they did not explicitly make a decision on the basis solely of race. That’s not how diversity works.”
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<a href="https://rcha.rutgers.edu/maya-mikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maya Mikdashi</a> is a Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. According to her profile, Mikdashi’s research “focuses on law, citizenship, secularity, religious conversion, sexual difference, and the war on terror.”

On March 30, 2024, Maya Mikdashi was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256133/Maya-Mikdashi-Rutgers-University-Israel-Hamas-violent-LGBT-treatment-Gaza.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> titled “Bizarre moment Rutgers gender study professor tells seminar that it’s ‘homophobic and violent’ to flag how badly LGBT people are treated in Gaza.” The Daily Mail said, “[Mikdashi] … told students earlier this month that she has been approached by people at pro-Palestine protests who tell her that she would be treated horribly by Hamas.”

Mikdashi reportedly stated, “So, I’ve been at protests where I’m then told ‘don’t you know what Hamas would do to you, if you were in Palestine[?]’ … We have to start naming this as homophobic. You cannot rehearse violence to queer people. It’s violent.”

<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/rutgers-professor-lgbtq-palestine-homophobic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blaze Media wrote</a>, “Mikdashi has absolutely no issue with bashing the United States for transphobia and a slew of other issues … However, Mikdashi will devotedly defend Hamas against anyone who points out the fact that Palestine is fanatically against LGBTQ rights.”

The Hamas terrorist organization <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-790635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is known</a> to publicly humiliate, torture, and murder those who identify as LGBTQ. 

Press coverage came after Mikdashi joined a <a href="https://youtu.be/P62E9was7G4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers panel discussion</a> called “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle.” She opened the talk by stating:
“It’s been 166 days of absolute warfare, siege [inaudible] genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza … We’re here for about two hours … and in that time, about four to five Palestinians will be killed by the hour. So, about six will be dead by the end of today … We are witnessing a manmade famine that will only accelerate … with the scale of violence, and reckoning with the complicity of the United States, which is where we are today — and the reality that this is an American war, an American genocide … I feel helpless and I feel hollow almost everyday.”
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Following the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Orlando-shooting-of-2016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Orlando nightclub shooting</a> in June 2016 — when an Islamic terrorist murdered 49 people in an LGBTQ bar — Mikdashi wrote the following in her paper “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/28643019/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Orlando" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fear and Loathing in Orlando</a>”:

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<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/8277">Sahar Aziz</a> is a Distinguished Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says, “[Aziz]’s scholarship examines the intersection of national security, race, religion, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.”

<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382299/the-racial-muslim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom,” Aziz allegedly “demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim [by] [c]omparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century.” The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Muslim-Quashes-Religious-Freedom/dp/0520382293?asin=0520382293&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction</a> says:
“[Aziz] … masterfully demonstrates that while 9/11 is a critical historical juncture in the racialization of Muslims, a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which anti-Muslim racism is rooted in American society requires an awareness of the often-overlooked deep historical roots of Anglo-Saxon Protestant nativism and [w]hite supremacy.”
On her <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Aziz advertised an article from the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (<a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCSRR)</a>, for which she serves as the director:
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Groundbreaking report “Presumptively <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antisemitic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antisemitic</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Islamophobic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Islamophobic</a> Tropes in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> Discourse” released by The Center for Security, Race and Rights <a href="https://twitter.com/RUCSRR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rucsrr</a> co-authored with <a href="https://twitter.com/MJPlitnick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MJPlitnick</a> Read and share! <a href="https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD">https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD</a>
— Sahar Aziz (@saharazizlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw/status/1722368803768762762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/issues/presumptively-antisemitic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full article</a> — written in response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel — includes claims of Islamophobia and human rights violations against Muslims and Arabs by Israel, the United States, and other faith groups. The article says:
“While people of all faiths and ethnicities understand and empathize with the historic plight of the Palestinians, nowhere is pro-Israel bias more obvious than when directed against Muslim and Arab defenders of Palestinian human rights … Even U.S. domestic laws are flouted in order to craft human rights exceptions for the apartheid Israeli regime.”
On April 10, 2024, <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-member-sahar-aziz-facing-new-ethics-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TAPinto Westfield revealed</a> that Aziz — who serves on the <a href="https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/districts/westfieldpublicschools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westfield Public Schools</a> Board of Education — received an ethics complaint from a fellow board member. The source said, “In [Board Member Brendan] Galligan’s complaint, he claims Aziz violated the state School Ethics Act by directing insurance-appointed attorney Matthew Giacobbe to send public records requests for fellow board members’ and administrators’ emails in connection with a separate ethics complaint, filed by [a] town resident.”

The resident’s <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-vp-refutes-ethics-complaint-alleging-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial complaint</a> accused Aziz of antisemitism due to her “criticism of Israel and support of Palestine.” According to TAPinto Westfield, the plaintiff’s complaint also “claims Aziz used her ‘bully pulpit while a New Jersey education official to attack Jewish people.’” The complaint was ultimately <a href="https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/2023/12/22/antisemitism-westfield-school-board-sahar-aziz-rutgers-dismissed/72000125007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> and Aziz’s request to sanction the plaintiff was denied.

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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-budd-46a8bb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to LinkedIn</a>, Tracy Budd is a full-time, non-tenure Writing Program Faculty member at Rutgers University. She is also listed as an <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/people/ma-alumni-listing?view=article&amp;id=1109:budd-tracy&amp;catid=255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alumnus</a> of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Rutgers.

Following the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Budd took to social media to express her regrets that the shooter missed his target. Budd’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tbudd17">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://x.com/thereal_tbudd?lang=en">Twitter</a> accounts have since both been deleted.

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-prof-trump-assassination-attempt-lets-hope-todays-events-inspire-others-exclusive/25959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Budd’s posts in an article titled “Rutgers professor under internal review for comments after Trump assassination attempt: ‘Let’s hope today’s events inspire others.’”

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Campus Reform recorded the university’s response:
“Rutgers University-New Brunswick condemns calls for violence in the strongest possible terms and remains committed to upholding the principles of civil discourse … The university is reviewing this matter and assures that any appropriate actions will be taken based on our policies.”
Budd’s website, <a href="http://tracybudd.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TracyBudd.com</a>, also appears to be offline. Internet archives <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090106211025/http://www.tracybudd.com/wordpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">captured a 2008 post</a> entitled “Obama bin Biden his time,” in which Budd commented on the presidential election. She labeled former President Barack Obama a “centrist” and said:
“I am a socialist and a far-leftist. Obama does not sit well with me. This is exactly how our party has drifted to the right … [Y]et you may wonder how I could support Hillary [Clinton] whose voting record and strategies are nearly identical to Barack’s. Please refer to the posts entitled ‘Primary Instinct: V for Vagina, Victory and Vote’ or ‘Woman is the N*gger of the World.’”
The Watchlist could not recover the content mentioned in her quote.

Despite calls for Budd’s <a href="https://nj1015.com/json-ed-durr-calls-for-rutgers-firing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">termination</a>, as of publication, she remains employed by Rutgers University. 

Please send tips, updates, and information on Tracy Budd to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - August 1, 2024

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Richard Simmons

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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:
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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>. 

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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 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

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Professor Silke-Maria Weineck wrote a September 6, 2022, op-ed for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled <a href="https://archive.ph/GBDq6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Colleges Must Stop Trying to Appease the Right.”</a> The article begins by criticizing a university dean who had a conversation with a professor after a parent complained about one of the professor’s tweets. Weineck calls on her peers to stand up to Republicans, writing:
“Under the circumstances, it is not merely acceptable to denounce the GOP &#8211; clearly, loudly, profanely. It is our ethical and professional duty.” 
She goes on to say that the Republican Party has a “longstanding contempt for knowledge and expertise” in the fields of “history, public health, climate change, or ecology.”
She argues that colleges have an obligation to protect their faculty, staff, and students, saying:
“They must clearly insist on our people’s right not to be forced into pregnancy, not to be demeaned or disadvantaged due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and to have all of their histories studied and told.” 
She finishes her opinion piece by quoting Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance when he said that “professors are the enemy.” Weineck responds: “He is correct. He is our enemy, and we must be his. I welcome his hatred. As a modest start, I suggest that we no longer respond to Republicans who complain about professional tweets with anything other than a short form letter. I would be happy to draft it.”
This is not Weineck’s first anti-Republican opinion piece. In May 2021, she wrote another op-ed for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210520190416/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-tenure-denial-of-nikole-hannah-jones-is-craven-and-dangerous" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Tenure Denial of Nikole Hannah-Jones is Craven and Dangerous.”</a> She argues that Nikole Hannah-Jones was denied tenure at the University of North Carolina because of Republicans and the “governors and trustees within the UNC system in particular.” She writes:
“Universities hire faculty members who work on the history of racism and share Hannah-Jones’s broad convictions and investments all the time, and regents, trustees, and governors do not get involved. Nikole Hannah-Jones is different because she drove the conversation into places where it could not be belittled or contained.” 
Dr. Weineck believes <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah-Jones</a> is overqualified for tenure, saying: “The woman has a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur grant, and she spearheaded what is probably the most effective public-history effort in the history of the country, “The 1619 Project.””
The 1619 Project, originally a series of essays published in the New York Times and later developed into a book, “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” It argues that America was not founded in 1776 but in 1619, when the first enslaved Americans were brought to the Virginia colony, now the state of Virginia.
Weineck states that: “across the country, the GOP and its lickspittles have decided, in part precisely because of the success of “The 1619 Project,” that the correct way to address systemic racism is not only to deny its existence but to legally mandate this denial.” She argues that “universities are imperfect institutions, far more conservative than their reputation, and not nearly the force for good they imagine themselves to be.”
Silke-Maria Weineck is a <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/german/people/faculty/smwei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature</a> at the University of Michigan.
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You can contact the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures by email: germandept@umich.edu or phone: 734-764-8018.
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Published &#8211; October 7, 2022

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<a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/betsey-stevenson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betsey Stevenson</a> is a Professor of Public Policy and a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Her list of courses taught includes “Microeconomics for Public Policy” and “Economics of the Public Sector.” She also served as Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011.

In 2018, Stevenson partnered with <a href="https://jdp.princeton.edu/people/hanna-zlotnick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Zlotnick</a> to research gender ratios in economic textbooks. The university <a href="https://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2018/econ-textbook-study-stevenson-zlotnick-highlights-gender-bias-against-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> — titled “Econ textbook study by Stevenson, Zlotnick highlights gender bias against women” — that said: 

“The work, which has already garnered significant media attention, exposes an underrepresentation of women in American economics textbooks. Stevenson contends that remedying this issue could be key in closing the field’s stubborn gender gap … Excluding economists from their analysts, Steven and Zlotnick found that 70 percent of people referenced were men.”

The publication <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tIVrw2di5wqiMjoZTp0VDpLrBgwqQWja/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked to a textbook presentation</a> authored by Stevenson and Zlotnick. A few examples are found below.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3766" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-8.39.23 AM.png" alt="" width="562" height="412" />

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3767" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-8.40.38 AM.png" alt="" width="562" height="421" />

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Stevenson also uses social media to malign conservatives and push unconstitutional sentiments.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Betsey Stevenson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - August 2, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/people/regular-faculty/jpasek.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Pasek</a> is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media and Political Science at the University of Michigan. He serves as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies and Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science. According to his university profile, his research “explores how new media and psychological processes each shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors.”

After the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, Pasek <a href="https://twitter.com/jmping/status/1521511737249484800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> it was “likely to be a healthcare disaster and a slippery slope for the courts.”
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Today's news is likely to be a healthcare disaster and a slippery slope for the courts. But even though the effect will be increased policing of women's bodies (by men), the line that "this is an attempt by men to oppress women" is unpersuasive. A quick data 🧵 on why:
— Josh Pasek (@jmping) <a href="https://twitter.com/jmping/status/1521511737249484800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Pasek was quoted in a Michigan News article titled, “<a href="https://news.umich.edu/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-u-m-experts-available-to-discuss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: U-M experts available to discuss</a>.” He said the decision is likely to put “Republican legislatures in conflict with the majority of Americans, who generally think abortion is a complicated issue and should be legal under at least some circumstances.”

He adds there’s a “growing perception that the courts are partisan actors” and “one major effect of the decision will be a loss of perceived governmental legitimacy at both the state and federal levels.”

Professor Pasek was featured in an October 2022 article titled, “<a href="https://beltmag.com/henry-ford-donald-trump-and-mass-marketing-bigotry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henry Ford, Donald Trump, and Mass Marketing Bigotry</a>.” The author of the article writes that Ford and Trump are “two self-involved sore losers, both inclined to find scapegoats for America’s problems, neither inclined to take responsibility for their own words and deeds.” Pasek adds to this by saying:
“There is and has long been a virulently racist and xenophobic element to American electorate. Ford wanted to tap into that. It is clear to me Trump has found leverage in the same forces.” 
In June 2021, Pasek signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.”
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Published - December 28, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ms. <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/diversity/staff.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nichole Gonzalez</a> serves as the Dean of Students and Executive Director for the College for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, as well as the Title IX Coordinator for <a href="https://www.etown.edu/index.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabethtown College</a> in Pennsylvania.
On September 23rd, 2021, Ms. Gonzalez and other Elizabethtown College administrators requested to meet with the college’s TPUSA chapter president—Alexander Russo—regarding an upcoming event on September 27th. The chapter was set to host TPUSA Ambassador, Mr. Joe Basrawi, who planned to speak about Critical Race Theory in academia.
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”.
In the meeting on the 23rd, Ms. Gonzalez informed Russo and other members present that the event would be canceled. Chapter members that have spoken with and provided corresponding emails to the Professor Watchlist Team have confirmed that Dr.Gonzalez canceled the event. She reportedly described Mr. Basrawi as “intentionally disruptive” and that his speech would be harmful to the campus due to the fact that he is not officially a “Critical Race Theorist.” Ms. Gonzalez stated that the college did not have time to put protections in place for marginalized groups and allowing the event to proceed would only further marginalize Elizabethtown’s minority students.
During the same meeting, Ms. Gonzalez allegedly pressured the chapter to disband and form a new group at the college. She stated that a conservative group aside from Turning Point USA would help facilitate a better community on campus.
As Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Basrawi has pointed out on Twitter</a>, Elizabethtown will be sponsoring a series of racially derogatory events during the fall semester, titled, the “Forum on White Supremacy and Global Colonization.” One training that will be <a href="https://etown.edu/centers/global/calendar.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted on October 12th, 21th, and November 2nd is titled, “Mediocre + Multimedia Content.*&#8221;</a>
Upon completion of the training, participants will receive a copy of the book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mediocre-Dangerous-Legacy-White-America/dp/1580059511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America”.</a> The book endorses a “new white male identity” to counteract “the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves.” The training is described as a “space for people who identify as people of color,” and bars white people from attending.
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UNBELIEVABLE!
Director for college diversity Nichole Gonzalez at ETown College, PA refuses to let me speak on campus but is completely fine with this event below
They’re having their own “Forum on White Supremacy” and this specific event below, BARS WHITE PEOPLE FROM ATTENDING! <a href="https://t.co/x0g5Ayfx36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/x0g5Ayfx36</a>
— Joe Basrawi (@JoeBasrawi) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After Mr. Basrawi highlighted the event, the college appears to have stealth edited the webpage and removed the reference to the event being designated for people who “identify as people of color.”
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When Russo highlighted the divisive nature of this and other events during the meeting, Ms. Gonzalez indicated her enthusiastic support for each one.
In a statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Mr. Baswari wrote, “It’s appalling to see that this is happening on American campuses these days. Gonzalez should be ashamed of herself being part of the problem of spreading tyranny on college campuses across the nation.”
In a separate statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Alexander Russo wrote, “I have been on this campus for almost 3 and a half years. Over the course of my education, the college has always supported freedom of thought and always strove to make sure everyone felt like they belong, no matter who they are. Now I am ashamed at the school I see before me that actively attempts to indoctrinate students and makes every attempt to divide us on race, COVID-19, and anything else they can. This is not the school I thought I had enrolled in.”
Despite the cancellation, the original event was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYDCmojnia/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully hosted at an off-campus location</a>.
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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Ms. Gonzalez for comment but have not received a comment by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of the President</a> of Elizabethtown College at (717) 361-1193.
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Updated &#8211; September 29th, 2021

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Ms. <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/diversity/staff.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nichole Gonzalez</a> serves as the Dean of Students and Executive Director for the College for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, as well as the Title IX Coordinator for <a href="https://www.etown.edu/index.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabethtown College</a> in Pennsylvania.

On September 23rd, 2021, Ms. Gonzalez and other Elizabethtown College administrators requested to meet with the college’s TPUSA chapter president—Alexander Russo—regarding an upcoming event on September 27th. The chapter was set to host TPUSA Ambassador, Mr. Joe Basrawi, who planned to speak about Critical Race Theory in academia.

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”.

In the meeting on the 23rd, Ms. Gonzalez informed Russo and other members present that the event would be canceled. Chapter members that have spoken with and provided corresponding emails to the Professor Watchlist Team have confirmed that Dr.Gonzalez canceled the event. She reportedly described Mr. Basrawi as “intentionally disruptive” and that his speech would be harmful to the campus due to the fact that he is not officially a “Critical Race Theorist.” Ms. Gonzalez stated that the college did not have time to put protections in place for marginalized groups and allowing the event to proceed would only further marginalize Elizabethtown’s minority students.

During the same meeting, Ms. Gonzalez allegedly pressured the chapter to disband and form a new group at the college. She stated that a conservative group aside from Turning Point USA would help facilitate a better community on campus.

As Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Basrawi has pointed out on Twitter</a>, Elizabethtown will be sponsoring a series of racially derogatory events during the fall semester, titled, the “Forum on White Supremacy and Global Colonization.” One training that will be <a href="https://etown.edu/centers/global/calendar.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted on October 12th, 21th, and November 2nd is titled, “Mediocre + Multimedia Content.*"</a>

Upon completion of the training, participants will receive a copy of the book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mediocre-Dangerous-Legacy-White-America/dp/1580059511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America”.</a> The book endorses a “new white male identity” to counteract “the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves.” The training is described as a “space for people who identify as people of color,” and bars white people from attending.
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Director for college diversity Nichole Gonzalez at ETown College, PA refuses to let me speak on campus but is completely fine with this event below

They’re having their own “Forum on White Supremacy” and this specific event below, BARS WHITE PEOPLE FROM ATTENDING! <a href="https://t.co/x0g5Ayfx36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/x0g5Ayfx36</a>

— Joe Basrawi (@JoeBasrawi) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After Mr. Basrawi highlighted the event, the college appears to have stealth edited the webpage and removed the reference to the event being designated for people who “identify as people of color.”

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When Russo highlighted the divisive nature of this and other events during the meeting, Ms. Gonzalez indicated her enthusiastic support for each one.

In a statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Mr. Baswari wrote, “It’s appalling to see that this is happening on American campuses these days. Gonzalez should be ashamed of herself being part of the problem of spreading tyranny on college campuses across the nation.”

In a separate statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Alexander Russo wrote, “I have been on this campus for almost 3 and a half years. Over the course of my education, the college has always supported freedom of thought and always strove to make sure everyone felt like they belong, no matter who they are. Now I am ashamed at the school I see before me that actively attempts to indoctrinate students and makes every attempt to divide us on race, COVID-19, and anything else they can. This is not the school I thought I had enrolled in.”

Despite the cancellation, the original event was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYDCmojnia/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully hosted at an off-campus location</a>.

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYDCmojnia/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1623" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-30-at-11.44.33-AM.png" alt="" width="500" height="244" /></a>

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Ms. Gonzalez for comment but have not received a comment by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of the President</a> of Elizabethtown College at (717) 361-1193.
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Updated - September 29th, 2021

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

COVID-19

Nichole Gonzalez

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<a href="https://ccj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/besiki-luka-kutateladze/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Besiki Luka Kutateladze</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is the founder and manager of <a href="https://prosecutorialperformanceindicators.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prosecutorial Performance Indicators</a>, a group advocating prosecutorial reform and the reduction of ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system.
According to Kutateladze’s biography, his areas of expertise include “prosecution, racial justice, and equality and rule of law.” His CV further claims that he’s raised over <a href="https://ccj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/besiki-luka-kutateladze/b-l-kutateladze-cv-20221.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21 million dollars of research funds</a> from organizations like the <a href="https://www.macfound.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Rockefeller Foundation</a>, and the <a href="https://charleskochfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Koch Foundation</a>. 
As a co-author of, “<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/608088231/Internalized-racism-to-blame-for-black-prosecutors-treatment-of-black-criminals-study#download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Internalized Racism One More Piece of the Puzzle in Racial Disparities in Prosecution?</a>”, Kutateladze argues that black prosecutors recommend harsher sentences towards black and Asian defendants because of their own internalized racism.  
The study itself only interviewed a small sample size. Kutateladze’s research instead utilizes Internalized Racism Theory (IRT) to reach its conclusion, which is an <a href="https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&amp;context=elementary_ed_pub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offshoot of critical race studies</a>. Scholars define IRT as “the conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy where whites are consistently ranked above People of Color.”
Kutateladze further defines internalized racism as “a racist system when a racial group oppressed by racism supports the supremacy and dominance of the dominating group by maintaining or participating in the set of attitudes, behaviors, social structures, and ideologies that undergird the dominating group’s power.” Minority prosecutors, he argues, will adopt the behavior of their racist, white colleagues to advance in their careers. 
To avoid accusations of bias toward their race, Kutateladze claims that black prosecutors will “overcompensate” by leveling harsher sentences to black and Hispanic defendants. This allows them to operate in a field “dominated by white managers and historically racist policies.” 
Kutateladze concludes that after prosecutorial offices hire and promote ethnically diverse prosecutors, they will no longer harbor “negative perceptions of their race and blackness.”
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<a href="https://ccj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/besiki-luka-kutateladze/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Besiki Luka Kutateladze</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is the founder and manager of <a href="https://prosecutorialperformanceindicators.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prosecutorial Performance Indicators</a>, a group advocating prosecutorial reform and the reduction of ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system.

According to Kutateladze’s biography, his areas of expertise include “prosecution, racial justice, and equality and rule of law.” His CV further claims that he’s raised over <a href="https://ccj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/besiki-luka-kutateladze/b-l-kutateladze-cv-20221.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21 million dollars of research funds</a> from organizations like the <a href="https://www.macfound.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Rockefeller Foundation</a>, and the <a href="https://charleskochfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Koch Foundation</a>. 

As a co-author of, “<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/608088231/Internalized-racism-to-blame-for-black-prosecutors-treatment-of-black-criminals-study#download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Internalized Racism One More Piece of the Puzzle in Racial Disparities in Prosecution?</a>”, Kutateladze argues that black prosecutors recommend harsher sentences towards black and Asian defendants because of their own internalized racism.  

The study itself only interviewed a small sample size. Kutateladze’s research instead utilizes Internalized Racism Theory (IRT) to reach its conclusion, which is an <a href="https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&amp;context=elementary_ed_pub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offshoot of critical race studies</a>. Scholars define IRT as “the conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy where whites are consistently ranked above People of Color.”

Kutateladze further defines internalized racism as “a racist system when a racial group oppressed by racism supports the supremacy and dominance of the dominating group by maintaining or participating in the set of attitudes, behaviors, social structures, and ideologies that undergird the dominating group’s power.” Minority prosecutors, he argues, will adopt the behavior of their racist, white colleagues to advance in their careers. 

To avoid accusations of bias toward their race, Kutateladze claims that black prosecutors will “overcompensate” by leveling harsher sentences to black and Hispanic defendants. This allows them to operate in a field “dominated by white managers and historically racist policies.” 

Kutateladze concludes that after prosecutorial offices hire and promote ethnically diverse prosecutors, they will no longer harbor “negative perceptions of their race and blackness.”

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Published - December 5th, 2022

<a href="https://ccj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/lin-liu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lin Liu</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. According to her biography, Liu’s areas of expertise include “criminological theory, procedural justice, prosecution and sentencing, juvenile justice, and quantitative methodologies.” 

As a co-author of the study, “<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/608088231/Internalized-racism-to-blame-for-black-prosecutors-treatment-of-black-criminals-study#download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Internalized Racism One More Piece of the Puzzle in Racial Disparities in Prosecution?</a>”, Liu research argues that black prosecutors recommend harsher sentences towards black and Asian defendants because of their own internalized racism. The study interviewed a small sample size.

To reach their conclusion, Liu’s utilizes Internalized Racism Theory (IRT)—an offshoot of critical race studies—<a href="https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&amp;context=elementary_ed_pub">which scholars define as</a> “the conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy where whites are consistently ranked above People of Color.”

Liu states that internalized racism as “a racist system when a racial group oppressed by racism supports the supremacy and dominance of the dominating group by maintaining or participating in the set of attitudes, behaviors, social structures, and ideologies that undergird the dominating group’s power.” Minority prosecutors, he argues, will adopt the behavior of their racist, white colleagues to advance in their careers. 

To avoid accusations of bias toward their race, Liu claims that black prosecutors will “overcompensate” by leveling harsher sentences on black and Hispanic defendants. This allows them to operate in a field “dominated by white managers and historically racist policies.” 

Liu concludes that after prosecutorial offices hire and promote ethnically diverse prosecutors, they will no longer harbor “negative perceptions of their race and blackness.”

 
Published - December 5, 2022

Besiki Luka Kutateladze

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<a href="https://www.uh.edu/class/ccs/people/nicholas-de-genova/">Dr. Nicholas De Genova</a> is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. His university biography describes him as a scholar of migration, borders, citizenship, labor, critical race, postcolonial, and ethnic studies. Dr. De Genova is an ardent advocate for abolishing national borders and has called for the death of American soldiers.
In an interview for the <a href="https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-concurrences-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-studies/">Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies</a>, Dr. De Genova <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF0I1Z9eGo">describes his work in postcolonial studies</a> as taking the free movement of people across borders as a “natural element of the human condition.&#8221; At one point in the interview, Dr. De Genova implies that national borders should be abolished.
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Continuing, Dr. De Genova states that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF0I1Z9eGo">national borders are the most violent divisions that humanity has constructed</a>.
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Throughout his work, Dr. De Genova claims that borders are used to elicit racial strife. In a piece written for the Journal of the American Anthropological Association, Dr. De Genova alleges there are <a href="http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/23/everything-is-permitted-trump-white-supremacy-fascism/">parallels between Trump’s policies on the US-Mexico border and a “brutal and bellicose racial nativism” of conservative support for restrictive immigration policies. </a>
In the same paper, Dr. De Genova describes conservatives as fascists who are fomenting a racial civil war against people of color and illegal immigrants through the enforcement of immigration laws. He states:
“We must interrogate the synergies between, on the one hand, the variety of ways that Trump’s supporters are induced to endorse or emulate this brutal and bellicose racial nativism and, on the other hand, the outright cruelty and sadism, of the Trump administration’s border-enforcement tactics and the racist violence that they have institutionalized.” 
Dr. De Genova describes the United States as a nation that embodies white nationalism. Quoting author Wahneema Lubiano, Dr. De Genova states that <a href="http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/23/everything-is-permitted-trump-white-supremacy-fascism/">American history has always “been some form” of white nationalism</a>.
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<a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2003/03/31/letters-editorprofessor-qualifies-quotation-article-and-addresses-criticism/">In an open letter published by The Columbia Spectator,</a> Dr. De Genova described the United States as an emblem of white nationalism. Alleging the formation of the United States constituted racism and imperialism, Dr. De Genova called on Americans to “repudiate all forms of patriotism.”
The letter is a response to the public outcry to his teach-in at Columbia University, where Dr. De Genova called for “<a href="https://nypost.com/2003/03/31/prof-pilloried-columbia-community-condemns-words-of-hate/">a million Mogadishus” to be inflicted against American troops in Iraq</a>.
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The professor is referring to the Black Hawk Down incident that occurred in Somalia during the <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/etc/cron.html">Battle of Mogadishu in 1993</a>,  where 18 American soldiers were killed and over 70 were wounded. Pictures later emerged of <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legacy-black-hawk-down-180971000/">the bodies of the servicemen being dragged through the streets</a> by Somalian militia groups. The demoralizing aftermath is considered to have contributed to the decision of then-President Bill Clinton to withdraw America’s humanitarian mission from the country.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. De Genova serves as the chair of the Special Committee on Race and Social Justice at the University of Houston. <a href="https://uh.edu/class/about-us/race-and-social-justice-committee/">According to the university’s official website</a>, the committee organizes events to educate students about topics such as the “racial formation of modern capitalism, mass incarceration, racism in academia, and the “racial underpinnings for contemporary immigration policy and border policing.” according to the University’s official site.
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached Dr. De Genova for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://uh.edu/class/about-us/contact-us/">College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences</a> at the University of Houston at (713)-743-4002.
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<a href="https://www.uh.edu/class/ccs/people/nicholas-de-genova/">Dr. Nicholas De Genova</a> is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. His university biography describes him as a scholar of migration, borders, citizenship, labor, critical race, postcolonial, and ethnic studies. Dr. De Genova is an ardent advocate for abolishing national borders and has called for the death of American soldiers.

In an interview for the <a href="https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-concurrences-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-studies/">Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies</a>, Dr. De Genova <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF0I1Z9eGo">describes his work in postcolonial studies</a> as taking the free movement of people across borders as a “natural element of the human condition." At one point in the interview, Dr. De Genova implies that national borders should be abolished.

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Continuing, Dr. De Genova states that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF0I1Z9eGo">national borders are the most violent divisions that humanity has constructed</a>.

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Throughout his work, Dr. De Genova claims that borders are used to elicit racial strife. In a piece written for the Journal of the American Anthropological Association, Dr. De Genova alleges there are <a href="http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/23/everything-is-permitted-trump-white-supremacy-fascism/">parallels between Trump’s policies on the US-Mexico border and a “brutal and bellicose racial nativism” of conservative support for restrictive immigration policies. </a>

In the same paper, Dr. De Genova describes conservatives as fascists who are fomenting a racial civil war against people of color and illegal immigrants through the enforcement of immigration laws. He states:

“We must interrogate the synergies between, on the one hand, the variety of ways that Trump’s supporters are induced to endorse or emulate this brutal and bellicose racial nativism and, on the other hand, the outright cruelty and sadism, of the Trump administration’s border-enforcement tactics and the racist violence that they have institutionalized.” 

Dr. De Genova describes the United States as a nation that embodies white nationalism. Quoting author Wahneema Lubiano, Dr. De Genova states that <a href="http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/23/everything-is-permitted-trump-white-supremacy-fascism/">American history has always “been some form” of white nationalism</a>.

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<a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2003/03/31/letters-editorprofessor-qualifies-quotation-article-and-addresses-criticism/">In an open letter published by The Columbia Spectator,</a> Dr. De Genova described the United States as an emblem of white nationalism. Alleging the formation of the United States constituted racism and imperialism, Dr. De Genova called on Americans to “repudiate all forms of patriotism.”

The letter is a response to the public outcry to his teach-in at Columbia University, where Dr. De Genova called for “<a href="https://nypost.com/2003/03/31/prof-pilloried-columbia-community-condemns-words-of-hate/">a million Mogadishus” to be inflicted against American troops in Iraq</a>.

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The professor is referring to the Black Hawk Down incident that occurred in Somalia during the <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/etc/cron.html">Battle of Mogadishu in 1993</a>,  where 18 American soldiers were killed and over 70 were wounded. Pictures later emerged of <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legacy-black-hawk-down-180971000/">the bodies of the servicemen being dragged through the streets</a> by Somalian militia groups. The demoralizing aftermath is considered to have contributed to the decision of then-President Bill Clinton to withdraw America’s humanitarian mission from the country.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. De Genova serves as the chair of the Special Committee on Race and Social Justice at the University of Houston. <a href="https://uh.edu/class/about-us/race-and-social-justice-committee/">According to the university’s official website</a>, the committee organizes events to educate students about topics such as the “racial formation of modern capitalism, mass incarceration, racism in academia, and the “racial underpinnings for contemporary immigration policy and border policing.” according to the University’s official site.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached Dr. De Genova for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://uh.edu/class/about-us/contact-us/">College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences</a> at the University of Houston at (713)-743-4002.
Updated - July 2021 
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<a href="https://uh.edu/hilton-college/Contact-Us/Faculty-Directory/Juan-M.-Madera/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juan M. Madera</a> is a Curtis L. Carson Endowed Professor of Global Hospitality Leadership at the University of Houston. His research interests include Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace, Employment Interview and Selection Issues, Training and Development, and Research Methodology. 

<a href="https://issuu.com/uhhiltoncollege/docs/madera_curriculum_vitae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Madera has multiple publications; including,</a>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Managing group identity in the workplace: The influence of manifestation and suppression on perceived discrimination, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions.” (Cultural Diversity &amp; Ethnic Minority Psychology, 18(2), 165-170)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Strategies for diversity training: Focusing on empathy in the workplace.” (Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 35(4), 469-487)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Diversity training: Examining minority employees’ organizational attitudes.” (Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 3(4), 365-376) </li>
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According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Madera and a few other educators published an article, titled: “<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/promotion-rejected-your-record-may-not-be-the-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Promotion Rejected? Your Record May Not Be the Problem</a>.” The article was published by the <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/promotion-rejected-your-record-may-not-be-the-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>, also known as “The Chronicle.” Madera and his co-authors elaborate on a study of fairness and bias in tenure and promotion which “suggests that some candidates are spurned for reasons beyond their control.” The study, “<a href="https://uh.edu/class/psychology/promotionandtenurestudy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fairness and Bias in Promotion and Tenure</a>,” is being conducted through the University of Houston with multiple educators and faculty members, including Madera. The website’s mission statement is to “Determine structural barriers around promotion and tenure limiting the advancement of minority faculty and ultimately the inclusion of all demographic groups in Science.”

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The authors of this article argue, “People of color, especially women of color, are the most unlikely to receive promotions or get onboarded… [A]s a woman of color in an otherwise all-white or primarily white department, and particularly in a department that is also male dominated, you may have been at a disadvantage at the outset in terms of fit…”

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You can contact the Bauer College of Business at: bba@uh.edu
Published — November 3, 2022

<a href="https://uh.edu/nsm/math/people/Instructional%20Faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Andrew Chang</a> is listed as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. In October 2023, Chang was <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/university-of-houston-professor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-sources-say/285-81cfcacc-67b7-4f49-91a1-bf58b52730f7">arrested and charged</a> with five counts of possessing child pornography. 

<a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/university-of-houston-lecturer-faces-child-pornography-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 26 Houston reported</a>, “According to court documents Chung possessed digital images of young girls and boys under 18 engaging in sexual acts.”

Fox 26 also published a brief statement from the university:
“The University of Houston is aware of the charges filed against James Chang and his employment…has been suspended. Any further questions should be directed to the Houston Police Department or Harris County District Attorney’s Office.”
<a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2023/10/12/466446/university-of-houston-lecturer-arrested-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houston Public Media said</a>, “Chang was in possession of videos of children between eight and 13 engaging in sexual conduct…a judge set his bond at $500,000 [and Chang] cannot reside or go within 1,000 feet of areas where children gather.”

The Professor Watchlist team will monitor the developments of this case. Please send any information regarding James Chang to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 8, 2023

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Nicholas De Genova

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<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/22268/byram-jessica" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jessica Byram</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also the Assistant Director of the <a href="https://md.mednet.iu.edu/education-programs/phase-1-years-1-and-2/#:~:text=The%20first%20two%20years%20of,a%20foundation%20for%20clinical%20competency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phase 1 Curriculum</a>, which includes all courses that are required for first and second year students.
Documents received exclusively by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/indiana-medical-students-dei-instruction-gender-basic-human-structure-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> show students in a first-year “Human Structure” course—co-taught by Dr. Jessica Byram and <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/valerieoloughlin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Valerie O’Loughlin</a>—are subjected to diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum.
Fox News reports, “Students in the class receive a ‘sex and gender primer’ lesson that includes instruction on gender being a ‘social construct,’ that sex and gender are not the same thing, and on how to be a ‘more inclusive’ healthcare professional when it comes to ‘gender diverse patients.’”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-2891" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-15-at-8.31.35-AM.png" alt="" width="684" height="394" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-15-at-8.31.35-AM.png 832w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-15-at-8.31.35-AM-300x173.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-15-at-8.31.35-AM-768x442.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px" />
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The presentation also addresses how students can be mindful of “sexual and gender diverse patients” by using “inclusive terminology.” Students are encouraged to “use appropriate pronouns (default to they/them)” and to “use non-gendered, person-first and anatomy-specific language.”
The full presentation <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/Indiana-Med-School-PowerPoint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be viewed here</a>.
The description for the “<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/year-one/human-structure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Human Structure</a>” course says its objectives align with the IU School of Medicine <a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/competencies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MD Curriculum Competencies and Institutional Learning Objectives</a>. These competencies include seven different areas of focus, including “<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/competencies/health-equity-advocacy-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health Equity, Advocacy and Leadership</a>.”  The goals for this area of focus include:
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Dr. Caitlin Bernard is a physician affiliated with IU Health and an <a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/23008/bernard-caitlin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at the IU School of Medicine.</a> Dr. Bernard is one of the few doctors in Indiana who has specific training in second-trimester abortions and she <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/us/politics/abortion-doctor-caitlin-bernard-ohio.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performs both surgical and medication abortions several days a month at Planned Parenthood</a> clinincs in Indiana and Kentucky.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Hours after this decision, the state of Ohio outlawed any abortion after six weeks. A few days later, Dr. Bernard gained national media attention for providing an abortion to a 10-year-old girl who was pregnant from rape by an illegal immigrant. The girl traveled from Ohio when she was just over six weeks pregnant.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced that an <a href="https://fox59.com/news/national-world/indiana-attorney-general-threatens-license-of-doctor-who-provided-abortion-to-10-year-old-rape-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation into Dr. Bernard had begun</a>, stating:
“Aside from the horror caused by illegal immigration, we are investigating this situation and waiting for the relevant documents to prove if the abortion and/or the abuse were reported, as Dr. Caitlin Bernard had requirements to do both under Indiana law. The failure to do so constitutes a crime in Indiana, and her behavior could also affect her licensure. Additionally, if a HIPAA violation did occur, that may affect next steps as well. I will not relent in the pursuit of truth.” 
Dr. Bernard’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, has <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/health/indiana-doctor-who-provided-abortion-for-10-year-old-files-claim-for-damages-against-indiana-ag-caitlin-bernard-todd-rokita/531-b2c2ba9c-ed3e-4600-906c-e7603cc8eb5a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed notice of a tort claim against AG Rokita for defamation.</a> Rokita says that his “comments are supported by facts” but will not provide additional details at this time. As of September 1, Rokita said the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220914171551/https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/09/14/indiana-attorney-general-todd-rokita-office-declines-to-share-info-on-dr-bernard-complaints/69493958007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation was “ongoing.”</a>
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Updated - June 12, 2023
On May 25, 2023, the Indiana Medical Licensing Board reprimanded and fined Dr. Bernard after they determined, in a 4-1 vote, that she <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/med-professor-fined-over-abortion-of-10-year-old-girls-baby/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violated federal and state patient privacy laws</a>. Dr. Bernard told <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/01/indiana-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-overturned-travel/7779936001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Indianapolis Star</a> that she was providing an abortion to a 10-year-old from Ohio, prior to seeing the patient.

After Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a complaint against Dr. Bernard in November 2022, the board found her liable on three counts of violating patient privacy laws. During <a href="https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/caitlin-bernard-violated-patient-privacy-abortion-patient-case#:~:text=May%2025%2C%202023,reprimand%20over%20any%20harsher%20punishment." target="_blank" rel="noopener">the hearing</a>, Deputy Attorney General Cory Voight asked Bernard whether it was true that, had she not spoken to the Star, “we wouldn’t be sitting here today?”

Bernard disagreed, saying, “I think that if the attorney general, Todd Rokita, had not chosen to make this his political stunt, we wouldn’t be here today.”

Attorney General spokesperson Kelly Stevenson counted the board’s decision as a win for patient privacy, commenting, “It’s not right and the facts were presented today that made that very clear.”

However, the board unanimously sided against the attorney general by dismissing two other allegations against Dr. Bernard. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/us/dr-caitlin-bernard-indiana-medical-board-hearing/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> reports the board determined “she did not violate laws requiring physicians to immediately report suspected child abuse and keep abreast of mandatory reporting and patient privacy laws.”

Dr. Bernard will be fined $3,000 and will receive a letter of reprimand, which agreed to allow her to continue practicing medicine.

Board President Dr. John Strobel said, “I don’t think she expected this to go viral. I don’t think she expected this attention to be brought to this patient.” He added,
“I think she’s a good doctor and I think she’s safe to go back to practice.” 
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You may contact the IU School of Medicine by email: <a href="mailto:iusm@iu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">iusm@iu.edu</a> or phone: 317-274-8157.
Published - September 30, 2022

<a href="https://law.indiana.edu/about/people/details/thusi-i.-india.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I. India Thusi</a> is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. According to her university profile, her research examines “racial and sexual hierarchies as they relate to policing, race, and gender.”

Professor Thusi is a Senior Scientist at the <a href="https://kinseyinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kinsey Institute</a>, previously known as the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. The institute is named after Alfred Kinsey, who published a book during his tenure there titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Behavior-Human-Alfred-Kinsey/dp/0253334128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sexual Behavior in the Human Male</a>.”

This book features several charts that <a href="http://stopthekinseyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BRIEF_The-Kinsey-Institute-Exposed_A-Warning-to-Parents-and-Governments_52014.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document the “sexual responses” of children</a> from infants through teens. The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221217122939/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/movies/alfred-kinsey-liberator-or-pervert.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> reports, in 1995, it was discovered that much of the data used in this work came from Kinsey’s correspondence with a well-known pedophile.

In February 2023, the Indiana House voted 53-34 to <a href="https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/house-votes-to-strip-ius-kinsey-institute-of-state-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibit state dollars</a> from going to the Kinsey Institute over concerns with the institute’s namesake. Further concerns were brought from Representative Cindy Ledbetter who said her job as a nurse practitioner has required her to take training from the Kinsey Institute on <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/08/5-bills-targeting-transgender-rights-indiana-general-assembly/69936310007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how to administer gender-affirming medications</a> to transgender children.

As part of her work with the institute, Professor Thusi <a href="https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=502127090083070016029094123083082089097086084036020059023084068071008116118082029119033028006123050113058084074003090109014024062005008023034102026108125025084006116021035085100086078121019124067017092122108127109103076092012015089065084025102004005105&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a paper discussing “reality porn,”</a> which she defines as “sexually explicit materials or experiences that are facilitated through online virtual platforms.” She further defines the term by clarifying that these sexual experiences would typically “fit within the legal definition of prostitution in most states because they involve sexual conduct in exchange for a fee - but that are expressive in nature.”

Thusi writes, ”Reality porn is pornographic paid sex work that should be accorded First Amendment recognition, notwithstanding the criminalization of the underlying act of prostitution.” She notes that she has “previously argued that all forms of sex work should be decriminalized” and she extends the same argument to reality porn.
“As long as this conduct is consentable - both consented to in face and consensual in nature - it should not be deprived of constitutional protection.” 
Thusi wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/586608-its-time-to-stop-policing-womens-bodies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a> titled, “It’s time to stop policing women’s bodies.” She believes, “Decriminalized sex work and access to abortion allow women in economic precarity [to] escape destitution.” She also argues:
“Feminists should embrace a definition of sexual freedom that goes beyond the right to prevent reproduction and which focuses on women’s sexual autonomy - including the autonomy to end a pregnancy or to profit from how women use their own bodies.”
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Published - March 15, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/26393/oloughlin-valerie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Valerie O’Laughlin</a> is the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education at Indiana University School of Medicine-Bloomington and a Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology &amp; Physiology.

Documents received exclusively by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/indiana-medical-students-dei-instruction-gender-basic-human-structure-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> show students in a first-year “Human Structure” course—co-taught by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jessicabyram" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jessica Byram</a> and Dr. Valerie O’Loughlin—are subjected to diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum.

Fox News reports, “Students in the class receive a ‘sex and gender primer’ lesson that includes instruction on gender being a ‘social construct,’ that sex and gender are not the same thing, and on how to be a ‘more inclusive’ healthcare professional when it comes to ‘gender diverse patients.’”

<img class="alignnone wp-image-2891" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-15-at-8.31.35-AM.png" alt="" width="631" height="363" />

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2892" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-20-at-9.38.26-AM.png" alt="" width="631" height="374" />

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The presentation also addresses how students can be mindful of “sexual and gender diverse patients” by using “inclusive terminology.” Students are encouraged to “use appropriate pronouns (default to they/them)” and to “use non-gendered, person-first and anatomy-specific language.”

The full presentation <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/Indiana-Med-School-PowerPoint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be viewed here</a>.

The description for the “<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/year-one/human-structure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Human Structure</a>” course says its objectives align with the IU School of Medicine <a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/competencies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MD Curriculum Competencies and Institutional Learning Objectives</a>. These competencies include seven different areas of focus, including “<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/competencies/health-equity-advocacy-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health Equity, Advocacy and Leadership</a>.”  The goals for this area of focus include:

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Published - March 20, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/17315/scott-nicole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nicole Scott</a> is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology and the Director of Indiana University’s School of Medicine’s OB-GYN Residency Training Program.

Dr. Scott is <a href="https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/2022/07/25/indiana-abortion-laws-could-affect-obstetric-deserts-maternal-mortality/10031897002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-abortion</a> and has claimed, “Abortion is not a dirty word. Abortion is a healthcare procedure that can be life-saving for some people.”

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dr. Scott was featured in a <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/special-reports/indiana-abortion/indiana-university-school-of-medicine-adjusting-ob-gyn-residency-program-after-abortion-ban/531-8d3a24b8-29a6-48b0-981b-5c0e12ee3819" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WTHR</a> article titled, “IU School of Medicine adjusts OB-GYN residency program after abortion ban.” Dr. Scott stated, “Abortion care training is still a requirement for OB-GYN residents and the new legislation limits that to some degree for our resident doctors.”

Dr. Scott <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/10/1116024857/young-obgyns-indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims the residents</a> in the program are “devastated” by the Roe v. Wade decision, saying, “They signed up to provide comprehensive health care to women. And they are being told that they can’t do that.”

In response, the program will begin sending residents to Illinois to receive abortion training. However, she says:
“This is not as simple as just showing up in an office and saying, ‘Can I observe?’ This includes getting a medical license for out-of-state trainees. This includes funding for travel and lodging. It adds a lot to what we already do to educate future OB-GYNs.” 
Dr. Scott is concerned that the overturn of Roe v. Wade will affect the quality of candidates that are interested in Indiana University’s School of Medicine. She says “there’s no other specialty that is legislated to the degree that obstetrics and gynecology is,” and <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/06/30/indiana-doctors-nurses-medical-students-rally-abortion-rights-downtown/7777837001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a>:
“As an educational and research institution, we will not attract the best of the best students and trainees in a state that takes away rights of over half the population."
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Published - September 13, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/22268/byram-jessica" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jessica Byram</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also the Assistant Director of the <a href="https://md.mednet.iu.edu/education-programs/phase-1-years-1-and-2/#:~:text=The%20first%20two%20years%20of,a%20foundation%20for%20clinical%20competency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phase 1 Curriculum</a>, which includes all courses that are required for first and second year students.

Documents received exclusively by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/indiana-medical-students-dei-instruction-gender-basic-human-structure-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> show students in a first-year “Human Structure” course—co-taught by Dr. Jessica Byram and <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/valerieoloughlin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Valerie O’Loughlin</a>—are subjected to diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum.

Fox News reports, “Students in the class receive a ‘sex and gender primer’ lesson that includes instruction on gender being a ‘social construct,’ that sex and gender are not the same thing, and on how to be a ‘more inclusive’ healthcare professional when it comes to ‘gender diverse patients.’”

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The presentation also addresses how students can be mindful of “sexual and gender diverse patients” by using “inclusive terminology.” Students are encouraged to “use appropriate pronouns (default to they/them)” and to “use non-gendered, person-first and anatomy-specific language.”

The full presentation <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/Indiana-Med-School-PowerPoint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be viewed here</a>.

The description for the “<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/year-one/human-structure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Human Structure</a>” course says its objectives align with the IU School of Medicine <a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/competencies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MD Curriculum Competencies and Institutional Learning Objectives</a>. These competencies include seven different areas of focus, including “<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/md/curriculum/competencies/health-equity-advocacy-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health Equity, Advocacy and Leadership</a>.”  The goals for this area of focus include:

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Published - March 20, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/17959/neal-chemen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Chemen Neal</a> is an Associate Clinical Professor and the Wellness Director for the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. According to her university profile, Dr. Neal also serves on a “new board for Planned Parenthood as part of the recent merger between Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) and Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands (PPGNHI).”

In February 2023, Dr. Neal became the first Executive Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice and Chief Diversity Officer. According <a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/news/2023/01/chemen-neal-named-ead-deij" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to a press release</a>, Dr. Neal will “work closely with academic, research and clinical leaders across the organization to advance DEIJ strategic priorities for students, trainees, faculty and staff.”

Dr. Neal stated:
“Excellence in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice elevates all members of our medical school community. As the largest medical school in the country, we have a responsibility to be leaders in health equity and inclusive excellence. To do that, DEIJ must be woven into all aspects of what we do—research, education, patient care, faculty and staff affairs, and community engagement.” 
Her new role <a href="https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/new-leader-on-diversity-at-iu-school-of-medicine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be responsible for a variety of areas</a>, including:
-”Developing and guiding implementation of DEIJ strategic plans” 
-”Defining and monitoring DEIJ key performance indicators”
-”Organizing affinity group, learner development and support programs” 
-”Developing programs to enhance diversity recruitment and retention”
Dr. Neal says some of her early goals in her new role include “establishing metrics to help school leadership gain a greater understanding of key areas like retention and belonging, as well as a focus on the diversification of faculty.”

She says:
“That is a big priority because of the direct relationship to health equity outcomes and organizational success. Meeting this priority will take a multifaceted approach that involves all aspects of our mission from culture to climate to research to education. After we understand where we are then we can make strategic plans for moving forward over the next several years.”
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Published - March 20, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/9156/rouse-caroline">Dr. Caroline Rouse</a> is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. According to her Riley Children’s Health <a href="https://www.rileychildrens.org/find-a-doctor/physician/caroline-e-rouse">profile</a>, Dr. Rouse “is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist with expertise in caring for expectant mothers and their unborn babies.”

In September 2023, Dr. Rouse <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2023/09/01/america-abortion-debate-indiana-is-crossroads-bleak-future/70727114007/">wrote an op-ed</a> with colleague Dr. Sherrine Ibrahim titled, “Indiana is the crossroads of America’s abortion debate and our future is bleak.” The authors condemn Indiana’s August 2023 <a href="https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022ss1/bills/senate/1/details">abortion law</a>, which criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks and medication abortions after 8 weeks. They argue that “abortion is a critical health care service” and claim exceptions for rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother are not enough. They state:
“Health care practitioners continue to express that exceptions are too nebulous to follow and apply to actual clinical situations. These laws back us into a corner, forcing us to decide if we are willing to risk large fines, loss of licensure, and even imprisonment in order to provide necessary, life-saving, health care.” 
They conclude their op-ed by writing:
“Decisions regarding pregnancy do not belong in the state Capitol. They belong with patients and their health care practitioners. … If our political leaders allow the abortion ban to stay in place, Indiana’s future is bleak.” 
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23954">Campus Reform</a> reports that Dr. Rouse has previously been accused of “skirting state laws:”
“Voices for Life, a pro-life organization headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, filed a complaint against her on Jan. 23 of this year for performing a pill abortion on a woman who was 21 weeks pregnant, according to a termination of pregnancy report. At the time, state law only permitted pill abortions up to eight week postfertilization.” 
Melanie Lyon, Executive Director of Voices for Life, stated:
“Dr. Rouse advocates for the safety of mothers and children one day, while the next she ends babies’ lives by performing abortions at Riley Maternity Tower. That along with her apparent illegal activity makes her someone the State should hold accountable: not look to for guidance.”
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Published - September 22, 2023

<a href="https://polisci.indiana.edu/about/faculty/sinno-abdulkader.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abdulkader Sinno</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He also teaches Middle Eastern Studies and publishes works dealing with “public attitudes towards Muslim immigration” and the “Islamist parties’ participation in elections.”

In January 2024, Sinno was featured in the <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2024/01/11/indiana-u-sanctions-professor-supporting-pro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed article</a>, “Indiana U Sanctions Professor Who Advised Pro-Palestinian Students.” Sinno’s guest speaker was pro-Palestinian activist <a href="https://mikopeled.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miko Peled</a>, who has called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. According to his website, Peled also advocates for “the creation of one democratic state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians” despite the <a href="https://embassies.gov.il/holysee/AboutIsrael/the-middle-east/Pages/The%20Hamas-Covenant.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genocidal goals</a> of the Palestinian government.

The publication explains how Sinno was temporarily <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CbFlUIN8KXaM-oLB01RcDO_1yAi2ew8n/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> after “he helped book a room on campus for a November [2023] event hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a student organization.”

Inside Higher Ed said:
“Sinno booked the event space on November 6 without issue. But on November 15 … [a U.S. representative] sent a strongly worded letter to IU president Pamela Whitten, raising questions about alleged incidents of antisemitism on campus … That evening, Sinno said, his department chair told him to cancel the room reservation because he’d allegedly violated university policy by listing the department as the event sponsor.”
Over 350 faculty have signed an online <a href="https://www.petitions.net/open_letter_in_support_of_professor_abdulkader_sinno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> demanding Sinno’s immediate <a href="https://politicalsciencenow.com/apsa-statement-on-indiana-universitys-sanctioning-of-professor-abdulkader-sinno/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstatement</a>. In March 2024, IU’s review board <a href="https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/04/iu-administrator-violated-policy-suspending-professor-abdulkader-sinno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined</a> that university policy was violated in Sinno’s case. 

Sinno’s penalty bars him from teaching until the Fall of 2024. As of publication, he has not been reinstated.

Please send tips and updates on Professor Abdulkader Sinno to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 2, 2024

Dr. Jessica Byram

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<a href="https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/robyn-henderson-espinoza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robyn Henderson-Espinoza</a>—who now goes by the name Roberto Che Espinoza—is a Consulting Faculty Member at Duke Divinity School, a <a href="https://www.umc.org/en/schools/seminaries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminary affiliated with the United Methodist Church</a>. She identifies as a “non-binary, trans-queer, Latinx” and was named one of the “<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-faith-leaders-watch-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2018</a>” by the Center for American Progress.
Espinoza describes her work as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/17/1123629725/some-christians-are-using-sacred-texts-to-embrace-a-broader-understanding-of-gen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bringing heaven to earth</a> by studying a “brown Palestinian Jew who was executed by the Roman Empire.” Much of her ministry intertwines biblical doctrine with left-wing social movements. 
Although an ordained minister, Espinoza appears to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. In an article titled, “Decolonizing Jesus and his Teachings,” Espinoza offers <a href="https://www.ourcollectivebecoming.com/p/decolonizing-jesus-and-his-teachings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a course about “decolonizing” Jesus</a> and his “myths and teachings that have been institutionalized.” An accompanying meme of a “Colonizer Jesus” disputes that Jesus “died for your sins.” 
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In a separate interview, Espinoza further describes herself as a “public theologian” that seeks to <a href="https://vimeo.com/242163779?embedded=true&amp;source=vimeo_logo&amp;owner=70227614" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“de-emphasize” biblical text</a> to engage in “harm reduction” of communities marginalized by the Church. To accomplish this, Espinoza amplifies the voices of queer and transgender persons whom she alleges have been harmed by Scripture. 
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An organization led by Espinoza—the “<a href="https://activistheology.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Activist Theology Program</a>”—offers an “<a href="https://activistheology.com/unraveling-whiteness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unraveling whiteness</a>” course for “white bodies” who wish to dismantle their white supremacy. A portion of the class proceeds will be considered a “reparations tax” and paid towards a “BIPOC” organization. 
On her <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Espinoza alleges that all white Americans benefit from white supremacy and even claims that “whiteness” isn’t a race. 
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I&#8217;m finding that a lot of white folks are quick to say racism but can&#8217;t bring themselves to talk about or identify with the ways in which white supremacy is at play and their benefitting from it. <a href="https://t.co/CWJbsDJnQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CWJbsDJnQw</a>
— Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza ✊🏽 (@irobyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn/status/1278368862287904769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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True; it isn&#8217;t a race, but whiteness embodies a pernicious logic of dominance that accelerates values &amp; practices that fortify hegemonic systems. I&#8217;m just suggesting that our anti-racism education be framed in a way that acknowledges what whiteness is all about.
— Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza ✊🏽 (@irobyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn/status/1358245205032505353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Espinoza, who is half-Latino, writes that she must work to undo her white supremacy every day. 
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As a Transqueer Latinx, public theologian, &amp; scholar, I am spending time w <a href="https://twitter.com/xroadsorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@xroadsorg</a>. Even though I identify as a person of color, I am conscripted into the ideology of white body supremacy &amp; participate in technologies of racism. I have to undo these tentacles every day!
— Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza ✊🏽 (@irobyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn/status/1358096647989972995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Espinoza opposes what she describes as “supremacy culture” within the Christian Church. <a href="https://juicyecumenism.com/2021/08/11/robyn-henderson-espinoza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During a lecture at Boston University</a>, she defined this as a Church tethered to “race, economics, and the military war machine.” Espinoza further claims that a lack of “life-affirming systems” by Christians leads to a culture of “white supremacy and capitalism and violence.”  
“&#8230;we don’t know how to be responsible agents in the world, which is why we get evangelical theology where a White man can have a bad day and go kill a handful of people.” 
In a separate, self-promotional video, she further claims the “religion” of the United States is white nationalism. Espinoza describes her own beliefs as “activist theology,” or the unification of progressive movements with biblical theologies. 
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Elsewhere, Espinoza defines activist theology as an offshoot of “liberation theology,” which is the<a href="https://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ideological godchild of Marxism</a>. The theory grew out of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/5-major-reasons-liberation-theology-is-terrible-theology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left-leaning Churches and social movements in the 1960s.</a> Adherents promote the “liberation” of oppressed groups from economic or social oppression, namely that of systemic racism.  
During her speech at a “<a href="https://www.ourcollectivebecoming.com/p/becoming-as-praxis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theology Beer Camp</a>,” Espinoza further defined activist theology as connecting “God-Talk” to the world’s contexts of “race, class, gender, sexuality, sex, and ability.” She calls on those in attendance to take a critical stance to fight “white supremacy and neo-fascism” in the Church. 
Espinoza deemphasizes God and religious texts in favor of progressive actions and self-affirmation throughout her work. “I don’t care what you believe,” she stated in the same speech, “I care about how you live your life. I care about your actions in the world.” 
In a separate article for her Substack, Espinoza declares that she has “no use for god” and <a href="https://www.ourcollectivebecoming.com/p/leaving-religion-for-a-better-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls on her readers to define their meaning and build the world they want to see:</a> 
“&#8230;but what if Nietzsche was right that God is dead?&#8230;.What if making meaning is the religion of today? What if that is how we build a new world?” 
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Espinoza for comment. This profile will be updated accordingly. 
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<a href="https://sanford.duke.edu/people/faculty/darity-jr-william">William A. Darity, Jr.</a> is the Samuel Dubois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. He also holds the positions of Professor of African and African American Studies, Economics, and is an Affiliate of the Duke Initiative of Science and Society, as well as an Affiliate for the Center for Child and Family Policy.
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As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/14/duke-university-economist-calls-for-12-trillion-in-slavery-reparations/">Breitbart</a> reports, Darity and his wife, Kirsten Mullen, co-authored a paper for the <a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/">Roosevelt Institute</a> in which they advocated for $12 Trillion in reparations for slavery. This amounts to roughly $800,000 to be paid per each African-American household in the country.

In the <a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_Report_ResurrectingthePromiseof40Acres_202005.pdf">document</a>, titled, “Resurrecting the Promise of 40 acres: The Imperative of Reparations for Black Americans,” Darity describes the federal government as a “culpable party” that should pay reparations to black Americans for the nation’s history of slavery.

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Darity <a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_Report_ResurrectingthePromiseof40Acres_202005.pdf">states</a> that reparations are necessary so that white Americans do not continue to benefit from the profits of enslaved black Americans. In the same report, Darity <a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_Report_ResurrectingthePromiseof40Acres_202005.pdf">alleges</a> that it is just as necessary for America to pay black Americans reparations as it was for Germany to pay reparations to survivors of the Holocaust.

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Further in "Resurrecting the Promise", Darity <a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_Report_ResurrectingthePromiseof40Acres_202005.pdf">calls</a> for a “formal reparations bill” to be passed by Congress, stating that reparations are needed to erase the black-white “wealth gulf” between black and white Americans.

In the conclusion of “Resurrecting the Promise,” Darity <a href="https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_Report_ResurrectingthePromiseof40Acres_202005.pdf">describes</a> reparations as the monetary centerpiece of all other forms of reparations and is required to eliminate the wealth gap, which is the “most glaring economic indicator” of racial injustice.

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Following the publication of the paper, Darity announced in a <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/12/why-studying-inequality-matters-minor-ineuality-studies-samuel-dubois-cook">letter</a> for The Chronicle that he will oversee the recently added “Minor in Inequality Studies” alongside history professor Malachi Hacohen, and adjunct instructor of education Adam Hollowell.

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According to the Duke University website, this field of study is <a href="https://socialequity.duke.edu/inequality-studies-minor/">offered</a> for students interested in studying, “causes and consequences of inequality and pursue research around issues of social equity across a range of social science methods.”

Darity <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/12/why-studying-inequality-matters-minor-ineuality-studies-samuel-dubois-cook">states</a> in the letter that inequality is interlaced in the “modern world” and reinforces “racism, sexism, colorism and other forms of discrimination.”

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Darity further <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/12/why-studying-inequality-matters-minor-ineuality-studies-samuel-dubois-cook">states</a> in the letter that he hopes that students will “acquire a rigorous and analytical understanding of social inequality” to apply to their careers after they graduate.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Darity for comment regarding:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">His paper for the Roosevelt Institute titled, Resurrecting the Promise of 40 Acres, in which Darity calls for $12 trillion in reparations for the descendants of slaves.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Darity’s statement that the wealth gulf is the most glaring indicator of racial injustice.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Darity’s comparison between paying reparations to the descendants of slaves to that of Germany paying reparations to Holocaust victims.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Darity’s statement that inequality is inherent in our institutions and reinforces "racism, sexism, colorism, and other forms of discrimination."</li>
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Professor Darity responded with the following statement:

“Apart from your various spelling and grammatical errors, basically the first three statements you attribute to me are correct. I don't recall being directly quoted using the language in the fourth item. Also, in the second statement to be precise, my position is the "black-white wealth gulf is the most glaring economic indicator of racial injustice in the United States." I consider it a badge of honor to be considered for your McCarthyist Watchlist. Keep watching.” - Professor William Darity, Jr.

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Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/robyn-henderson-espinoza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robyn Henderson-Espinoza</a>—who now goes by the name Roberto Che Espinoza—is a Consulting Faculty Member at Duke Divinity School, a <a href="https://www.umc.org/en/schools/seminaries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminary affiliated with the United Methodist Church</a>. She identifies as a “non-binary, trans-queer, Latinx” and was named one of the “<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-faith-leaders-watch-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2018</a>” by the Center for American Progress.

Espinoza describes her work as <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/17/1123629725/some-christians-are-using-sacred-texts-to-embrace-a-broader-understanding-of-gen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bringing heaven to earth</a> by studying a “brown Palestinian Jew who was executed by the Roman Empire.” Much of her ministry intertwines biblical doctrine with left-wing social movements. 

Although an ordained minister, Espinoza appears to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. In an article titled, “Decolonizing Jesus and his Teachings,” Espinoza offers <a href="https://www.ourcollectivebecoming.com/p/decolonizing-jesus-and-his-teachings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a course about “decolonizing” Jesus</a> and his “myths and teachings that have been institutionalized.” An accompanying meme of a “Colonizer Jesus” disputes that Jesus “died for your sins.” 

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In a separate interview, Espinoza further describes herself as a “public theologian” that seeks to <a href="https://vimeo.com/242163779?embedded=true&amp;source=vimeo_logo&amp;owner=70227614" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“de-emphasize” biblical text</a> to engage in “harm reduction” of communities marginalized by the Church. To accomplish this, Espinoza amplifies the voices of queer and transgender persons whom she alleges have been harmed by Scripture. 

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An organization led by Espinoza—the “<a href="https://activistheology.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Activist Theology Program</a>”—offers an “<a href="https://activistheology.com/unraveling-whiteness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unraveling whiteness</a>” course for “white bodies” who wish to dismantle their white supremacy. A portion of the class proceeds will be considered a “reparations tax” and paid towards a “BIPOC” organization. 

On her <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Espinoza alleges that all white Americans benefit from white supremacy and even claims that “whiteness” isn’t a race. 
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I'm finding that a lot of white folks are quick to say racism but can't bring themselves to talk about or identify with the ways in which white supremacy is at play and their benefitting from it. <a href="https://t.co/CWJbsDJnQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CWJbsDJnQw</a>
— Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza ✊🏽 (@irobyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn/status/1278368862287904769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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True; it isn't a race, but whiteness embodies a pernicious logic of dominance that accelerates values &amp; practices that fortify hegemonic systems. I'm just suggesting that our anti-racism education be framed in a way that acknowledges what whiteness is all about.
— Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza ✊🏽 (@irobyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn/status/1358245205032505353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Espinoza, who is half-Latino, writes that she must work to undo her white supremacy every day. 
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As a Transqueer Latinx, public theologian, &amp; scholar, I am spending time w <a href="https://twitter.com/xroadsorg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@xroadsorg</a>. Even though I identify as a person of color, I am conscripted into the ideology of white body supremacy &amp; participate in technologies of racism. I have to undo these tentacles every day!
— Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza ✊🏽 (@irobyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/irobyn/status/1358096647989972995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Espinoza opposes what she describes as “supremacy culture” within the Christian Church. <a href="https://juicyecumenism.com/2021/08/11/robyn-henderson-espinoza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During a lecture at Boston University</a>, she defined this as a Church tethered to “race, economics, and the military war machine.” Espinoza further claims that a lack of “life-affirming systems” by Christians leads to a culture of “white supremacy and capitalism and violence.”  

“...we don’t know how to be responsible agents in the world, which is why we get evangelical theology where a White man can have a bad day and go kill a handful of people.” 

In a separate, self-promotional video, she further claims the “religion” of the United States is white nationalism. Espinoza describes her own beliefs as “activist theology,” or the unification of progressive movements with biblical theologies. 

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Elsewhere, Espinoza defines activist theology as an offshoot of “liberation theology,” which is the<a href="https://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ideological godchild of Marxism</a>. The theory grew out of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/5-major-reasons-liberation-theology-is-terrible-theology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left-leaning Churches and social movements in the 1960s.</a> Adherents promote the “liberation” of oppressed groups from economic or social oppression, namely that of systemic racism.  

During her speech at a “<a href="https://www.ourcollectivebecoming.com/p/becoming-as-praxis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theology Beer Camp</a>,” Espinoza further defined activist theology as connecting “God-Talk” to the world’s contexts of “race, class, gender, sexuality, sex, and ability.” She calls on those in attendance to take a critical stance to fight “white supremacy and neo-fascism” in the Church. 

Espinoza deemphasizes God and religious texts in favor of progressive actions and self-affirmation throughout her work. “I don’t care what you believe,” she stated in the same speech, “I care about how you live your life. I care about your actions in the world.” 

In a separate article for her Substack, Espinoza declares that she has “no use for god” and <a href="https://www.ourcollectivebecoming.com/p/leaving-religion-for-a-better-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls on her readers to define their meaning and build the world they want to see:</a> 

“...but what if Nietzsche was right that God is dead?....What if making meaning is the religion of today? What if that is how we build a new world?” 

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Espinoza for comment. This profile will be updated accordingly. 

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Published - December 8th, 2022.

<a href="https://scholars.duke.edu/person/tracie.canada">Tracie Canada</a> is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. According to her biography, she studies the “lived experiences of black college football players” and how “institutional systems and everyday spaces order, discipline, and enact violence against Black players.” 

In an article for Scientific American, Canada argues that black men <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230106195655/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/damar-hamlins-collapse-highlights-the-violence-black-men-experience-in-football/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disproportionately suffer injuries in NFL</a> due to the league’s connection to the slave trade. 

The article was published just days after Buffalo Bills Safety Damar Hamlin <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/bills-s-damar-hamlin-discharged-from-cincinnati-hospital-1-week-after-terrifying-collapse-201301750.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered a cardiac arrest</a> during a January 2023 game. Canada writes that his injury represents the “normalized” violence black men face in the NFL. This violence is propounded, she continues, by coaches who purposefully “segregate” black men into dangerous positions on the team: 
“…through a process called racial stacking, coaches racially segregate athletes by playing position. These demographic discrepancies place Black athletes at a higher risk during play.”
While admitting she has not studied the injury rates white players suffer, Canada compares the NFL to a “plantation field.” She states that similar to slavery, black bodies are exploited to the point of injury for the entertainment of spectators. 

“On these playing fields, ones that sociologist Billy Hawkins would argue are never theoretically far from plantation fields, financial stakeholders value Black bodies for their productive potential and physical prowess. The league encourages and facilitates rigorous training and disciplining so players can execute seemingly impossible corporeal demands, all in the service of entertainment, money-making, and insatiable fandom.”

She concludes that despite consisting of 70% black men, anti-blackness in the NFL is “inescapable.” In a separate article, Canada writes that <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/anti-blackness-and-college-football/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy is foundational</a> to the sport itself:
“...the college football system continues to rely on its foundational white supremacist ideals.”
During the Spring 2023 semester, Canada will be teaching a course titled, “Embodied Blackness.” A <a href="https://aaas.duke.edu/courses/embodied-blackness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description of the course</a> states: 
“How is race embodied and how are bodies racialized? How do gender, sexuality, class, size, perceived beauty, and ability mutually influence embodiment? This course considers anthropological and historical studies of the body, with a critical focus on Blackness. We investigate how Black human bodies are othered, valued, dehumanized, and experienced, across time and space, with a particular focus on the United States.”
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Published - January 11th, 2023

<a href="https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/wylin-d-wilson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wylin Wilson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. According to her biography, Wilson studies the intersection of religion, gender, and what is known as “bioethics.” 

One of Wilson’s primary duties at Duke is <a href="https://divinity.duke.edu/node/16790" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training future ministers</a> in theology, bioethics, gender studies, and, “womanist ethics.” 

The term “womanist” refers to activists who prioritize the voices and lived experiences of black women over other races, particularly in conversations about race or gender.  

In her class, “Womanist Theological Ethics,” Wilson assigns texts from the following authors:

- Katie G. Cannon, who taught that Christian perspectives are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/obituaries/katie-cannon-68-dies-lifted-black-womens-perspective-in-theology.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formed by white men</a>. She excoriated white churches throughout her life, accusing them of <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020964319876578" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upholding white supremacy</a>. 

- Emile M. Townes, who accuses the feminist movement of only validating the experiences of “<a href="https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/8226/Townes-WomanistTheology.pdf?isAllowed=y&amp;sequence=1#:~:text=WOMANIST%20THEOLOGY%20is%20a%20form,are%20seen%20as%20theological%20problems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white, middle-class women</a>.”

- Jacquelyn Grant, author of “White Women’s Jesus.” The book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Womens-Christ-Black-Jesus/dp/1555403034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critiques Christianity and Jesus Christ as “problematic”</a> because both are not relatable to “non-white and non-western women.” 

Students must also read, “White Too Long,” which depicts Christianity as a “<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/White-Too-Long/Robert-P-Jones/9781982122874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cornerstone” of white supremacy</a>. The book alleges, “The more racist attitudes a person holds, the more likely he or she is to identify as a white Christian.”  

In a lecture at Duke, Wilson defines her work in “bioethics” as training healthcare professionals to embrace a “liberating praxis” and “live out certain virtues” when treating patients.
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She further emphasizes the necessity of “womanist bioethics” for doctors to correct the “default center” of “white, male, middle-class, secular, and privileged” healthcare  or mainstream bioethics.  

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During a separate <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku_TYS2cd2U&amp;ab_channel=Events%40Valpo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lecture at Valparaiso University</a>, she claims racism, slavery and discrimination are omnipresent in American society, as the past “is not dead.” Wilson further claims that a fact of American life remains that race is inseparable from religion. 

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Racism, Wilson continues, is a driving factor of racial health disparities, as black Americans were historically mistreated by doctors. Wilson states this “communal trauma” makes a “rational” person like herself afraid to go to the doctor because so many have implicit bias.  

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Shortly thereafter, Wilson claims that her communal memory makes her fearful of being murdered by police, as she was taught at a young age that “cops are dangerous, they kill black people.”

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Wilson further teaches a course titled “Transhumanism/XTheoL/Embodmnt.” <a href="https://divinity.duke.edu/courses/transhumanismxtheolembodmnt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The description states</a> that “embodiment is incomplete, unsound, and limited by frailty, mortality, and illness,” and explores transhumanism in a Christian-centered response.

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<a href="https://www.uab.edu/cas/anthropology/people/faculty-directory/122-sara-h-parcak">Sarah H. Parcak</a> is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB). According to her university bio, Professor Parcak’s research and teaching interests include archaeology, archaeological science, and Egyptology.
Professor Parcak is known for her partisan use of her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace?lang=en">Twitter</a> account to attack conservatives and call for the tearing down of monuments.
As The Daily Caller documents, riots <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/25/list-of-cities-riots-three-months-george-floyd-death-looting-fires-police-seattle-portland-dc-atlanta/">broke out</a> in dozens of cities during the summer months of 2020. According to data from the Insurance Information Institute, the riots are the <a href="https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-civil-disorders">most destructive</a> in the history of the nation, resulting in $2 billion in estimated damages nationwide as of March 2021. According to The Federalist, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">47 deaths</a> may be attributed to the riots.
On May 31, in the midst of the destruction, Professor Parcak tweeted instructions for protestors to follow when tearing down national monuments. Parcak <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271817439346689">offers</a> her expertise as an Egyptologist to any rioters interested in pulling down statues.
<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271817439346689"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1232 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.02.24-PM.png" alt="" width="620" height="310" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.02.24-PM.png 620w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.02.24-PM-300x150.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a>
Parcak <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271826398498817">instructs</a> her followers to “celebrate” the destruction of monuments dedicated to “racism and white nationalism.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271826398498817"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1233 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.04.12-PM.png" alt="" width="620" height="401" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.04.12-PM.png 620w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.04.12-PM-300x194.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a>
Parcak then <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267273933746774022">tweets</a> a crudely drawn depiction of what appears to be the Washington Monument as an example of a “racist” monument to destroy.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267273933746774022"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1234 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.05.08-PM.png" alt="" width="620" height="664" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.05.08-PM.png 620w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.05.08-PM-280x300.png 280w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a>
On the day of the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Parcak <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307104389962838022">tweeted</a> praise for the Justice, describes her as an “icon.”
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving as only the second woman ever on the court. She died on September 18, 2020.
<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307104389962838022"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1236 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.10.17-PM.png" alt="" width="610" height="283" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.10.17-PM.png 610w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.10.17-PM-300x139.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /></a>
Parcak then interspersed her eulogy to Justice Ginsburg to attack conservatives, <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307120328435474433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1307120328435474433%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Falexparker%2F2020%2F09%2F22%2Falabama-professor-sarah-parcak-ruth-bader-ginsburg-maga-bootlickers-n255143">referring</a> to them as “MAGA f*ckstick bootlickers.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307120328435474433"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1235 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.08.47-PM.png" alt="" width="610" height="283" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.08.47-PM.png 610w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.08.47-PM-300x139.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px" /></a>
Conversely, on the day of Rush Limbaugh’s passing, Parcak immediately took to Twitter to celebrate his death. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-professors-disparaging-rush-limbaughs-passing">reports</a>, Parcak refers to Limbaugh as a “piece of scum,” and expresses her hope that he “suffered until his last breath” in a now-deleted tweet.
“When a terrible piece of scum who caused immeasurable harm to millions dies, there is no sympathy. Only a desire that they suffered until their last breath.” 
<a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/">Rush Limbaugh</a> was a popular radio personality known for his conservative views. He passed away in February 2021 at 70 years of age after battling lung cancer.  In an interview with Fox News after Limaugh’s passing, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.air.tv/watch?v=hmCt0LrlSx6qndGAzaFjzw">described</a> him as a “great gentleman” and a “great man.”
In response to Parcak’s statement, <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/sarah-parcak-rush-limbaugh-controversy-alabama-gop-chief-calls-out-uab-professors-antics.html">AL.com</a> reports that President University of Alabama-Birmingham, Ray Watts, <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/sarah-parcak-rush-limbaugh-controversy-alabama-gop-chief-calls-out-uab-professors-antics.html">condemned</a> Parcak’s tweet about Limbaugh, stating that the university is “disgusted” of what Watt characterizes as “blindly inhumane and cruel.”
“UAB is disgusted and extremely troubled that Sarah Parcak would tweet something so unprofessional and blindly inhumane and cruel. Her poor judgment is completely counter to our shared values as an institution that include integrity and respect. She absolutely does not speak for our university, and we are reviewing the matter”
In response to an <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/sarah-parcak-rush-limbaugh-controversy-alabama-gop-chief-calls-out-uab-professors-antics.html">inquiry</a> by the site AL.com about Parcak’s statement condemning Limbaugh, UAB spokesperson Alicia Roberston describes the incident as a “personal matter.” and that the university is “continuing to review the matter.”
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Parcak for comment, but have not received an answer by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the University of Alabama-Birmingham at (205) 934-4011
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<a href="https://www.uab.edu/cas/anthropology/people/faculty-directory/122-sara-h-parcak">Sarah H. Parcak</a> is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB). According to her university bio, Professor Parcak’s research and teaching interests include archaeology, archaeological science, and Egyptology.

Professor Parcak is known for her partisan use of her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace?lang=en">Twitter</a> account to attack conservatives and call for the tearing down of monuments.

As The Daily Caller documents, riots <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/25/list-of-cities-riots-three-months-george-floyd-death-looting-fires-police-seattle-portland-dc-atlanta/">broke out</a> in dozens of cities during the summer months of 2020. According to data from the Insurance Information Institute, the riots are the <a href="https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-civil-disorders">most destructive</a> in the history of the nation, resulting in $2 billion in estimated damages nationwide as of March 2021. According to The Federalist, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">47 deaths</a> may be attributed to the riots.

On May 31, in the midst of the destruction, Professor Parcak tweeted instructions for protestors to follow when tearing down national monuments. Parcak <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271817439346689">offers</a> her expertise as an Egyptologist to any rioters interested in pulling down statues.

<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271817439346689"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1232 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.02.24-PM.png" alt="" width="620" height="310" /></a>

Parcak <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271826398498817">instructs</a> her followers to “celebrate” the destruction of monuments dedicated to “racism and white nationalism.”

<a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271826398498817"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1233 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.04.12-PM.png" alt="" width="620" height="401" /></a>

Parcak then <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267273933746774022">tweets</a> a crudely drawn depiction of what appears to be the Washington Monument as an example of a “racist” monument to destroy.

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On the day of the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Parcak <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307104389962838022">tweeted</a> praise for the Justice, describes her as an “icon.”

<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving as only the second woman ever on the court. She died on September 18, 2020.

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Parcak then interspersed her eulogy to Justice Ginsburg to attack conservatives, <a href="https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1307120328435474433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1307120328435474433%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Falexparker%2F2020%2F09%2F22%2Falabama-professor-sarah-parcak-ruth-bader-ginsburg-maga-bootlickers-n255143">referring</a> to them as “MAGA f*ckstick bootlickers."

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Conversely, on the day of Rush Limbaugh’s passing, Parcak immediately took to Twitter to celebrate his death. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-professors-disparaging-rush-limbaughs-passing">reports</a>, Parcak refers to Limbaugh as a “piece of scum,” and expresses her hope that he “suffered until his last breath” in a now-deleted tweet.

“When a terrible piece of scum who caused immeasurable harm to millions dies, there is no sympathy. Only a desire that they suffered until their last breath.” 

<a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/">Rush Limbaugh</a> was a popular radio personality known for his conservative views. He passed away in February 2021 at 70 years of age after battling lung cancer.  In an interview with Fox News after Limaugh’s passing, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.air.tv/watch?v=hmCt0LrlSx6qndGAzaFjzw">described</a> him as a “great gentleman” and a “great man.”

In response to Parcak’s statement, <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/sarah-parcak-rush-limbaugh-controversy-alabama-gop-chief-calls-out-uab-professors-antics.html">AL.com</a> reports that President University of Alabama-Birmingham, Ray Watts, <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/sarah-parcak-rush-limbaugh-controversy-alabama-gop-chief-calls-out-uab-professors-antics.html">condemned</a> Parcak’s tweet about Limbaugh, stating that the university is “disgusted” of what Watt characterizes as “blindly inhumane and cruel.”

“UAB is disgusted and extremely troubled that Sarah Parcak would tweet something so unprofessional and blindly inhumane and cruel. Her poor judgment is completely counter to our shared values as an institution that include integrity and respect. She absolutely does not speak for our university, and we are reviewing the matter”

In response to an <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/sarah-parcak-rush-limbaugh-controversy-alabama-gop-chief-calls-out-uab-professors-antics.html">inquiry</a> by the site AL.com about Parcak’s statement condemning Limbaugh, UAB spokesperson Alicia Roberston describes the incident as a “personal matter.” and that the university is “continuing to review the matter.”

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Parcak for comment, but have not received an answer by the time of publication.

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<a href="https://www.uab.edu/medicine/peds/faculty/ladinsky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Morissa Ladinsky</a> is an M.D and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

During a presentation at the American Academy of Pediatrics, she offered praise toward a gender-dysphoric teen for taking his life.

Dr. Ladinsky was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/leelah-alcorn-transgender-teens-reported-suicide-note-makes/story?id=27912326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referencing the suicide of Ohio teenager Leelah Alcorn</a>—born Joshua Alcorn—who suffered from gender dysphoria for years. Alcorn took his life in 2014 by stepping in front of a tractor-trailer. The suicide note left requested that his death “mean something” to other transgender teenagers.

In her remarks, Dr. Ladinsky <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-transgender-teen-boldly-committed-suicide-pediatrics-professor-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described Alcorn as “boldly” stepping in front of the oncoming truck:</a>

“In the final days of 2014, a local 16-year-old young lady, Leelah Alcorn, of trans experience, stepped boldly in front of a tractor-trailer, ending her life. “

She continued:

“Her suicide note, written to post on social media about an hour after her death, went viral, literally around the world. Now Leelah was not my patient, but I took care of hundreds of her classmates at Kings Mills High School. But, each day, on the way to work, I passed that spot where this teen boldly ended her life.” 

A tweet capturing her remarks soon went viral:
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Here’s my iPhone video of Dr. Ladinsky glorifying suicide in a 16 year old. In case you were thinking I misunderstood. <a href="https://t.co/zrlSU2puVZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zrlSU2puVZ</a>
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In a statement to AL.com, Dr. Ladinsky <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/uab-doctor-regrets-saying-trans-teen-died-boldly-in-suicide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed it was never her intent to glorify suicide:</a>

“I regret my choice of words that has been interpreted to glorify self-harm, This was never my intent. In discussing the tragic event, I sought to convey my work toward a day when no teen feels they must take their life…Any suicide is devastating, and I want anyone who is struggling to know that help is available.”   

Dr. Ladinsky serves in the Gender Health Clinic at UAB, <a href="https://www.uabmedicine.org/patient-care/treatments/gender-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which offers a variety of “gender-affirming care” for adults and minors</a>, including hormone therapy, voice therapy, and “top surgery.”

The latter is a common term for a double mastectomy on a young girl as she transitions genders. “Hormone therapy” utilizes puberty-blocking drugs on teenagers as they transition. Even if the chemical dosage is halted,<a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> children may suffer permanent health effects</a>.

Prior to the passage of an <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/alabama-ban-gender-transition-surgery-drugs-children-takes-effect/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama law that bans doctors from chemically or physically altering a minor’s gender,</a> clinic staff—including Dr. Ladinsky—bragged about prescribing up to a year’s worth of puberty blockers to minors and their families in an interview with The Forward, via what is reportedly <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/507291/the-only-two-doctors-in-alabama-providing-gender-affirming-care-to-trans-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the only gender-affirming clinic in the state</a>.

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Published - October 20, 2022