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Jerold Duquette

<a href="https://www.ccsu.edu/person/jerold-duquette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jerold Duquette</a> is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Public Policy and Management Concentration at Central Connecticut State University. 
After Steve Scalise (R-LA) was shot during a congressional baseball game in 2017, Duquette blamed the attempt on then- President Donald Trump. 
According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-blames-trump-trumpism-scalise-shooting/9323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, the professor said the following in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220814181359/http://blogs.wgbh.org/masspoliticsprofs/2017/6/15/trump-inspires-vice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a> (since deleted):
&#8220;Donald Trump is corrupt, dishonest, and stupid. Intellectually feeble and mentally unstable people drawn to political extremism have and will be inspired or driven by Trump and trumpism to say and do horrible things. Yesterday, a left-wing extremist was driven by Trump and trumpism to try to kill people.&#8221; 
Campus Reform records the following from Duquette’s blog: 
“Its [sic] very easy to link Trump and trumpism to yesterday&#8217;s perpetrator because we have lots of evidence that his rage was specifically directed at Trump and the GOP.”
The professor continued:
“[T]his reality does not reduce the culpability of any perpetrator of violence in the abstract&#8230;the really scary thing is that the normalization of Trumpist incivility may make it eventually possible for violent extremists to mount successful insanity defenses in court.”
Please send information on Jerold Ruquette to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated &#8211; August 5, 2024

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Central Connecticut State University

<a href="https://www.ccsu.edu/person/jerold-duquette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jerold Duquette</a> is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Public Policy and Management Concentration at Central Connecticut State University. 

After Steve Scalise (R-LA) was shot during a congressional baseball game in 2017, Duquette blamed the attempt on then- President Donald Trump. 

According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-blames-trump-trumpism-scalise-shooting/9323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, the professor said the following in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220814181359/http://blogs.wgbh.org/masspoliticsprofs/2017/6/15/trump-inspires-vice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a> (since deleted):
"Donald Trump is corrupt, dishonest, and stupid. Intellectually feeble and mentally unstable people drawn to political extremism have and will be inspired or driven by Trump and trumpism to say and do horrible things. Yesterday, a left-wing extremist was driven by Trump and trumpism to try to kill people." 
Campus Reform records the following from Duquette’s blog: 
“Its [sic] very easy to link Trump and trumpism to yesterday's perpetrator because we have lots of evidence that his rage was specifically directed at Trump and the GOP.”
The professor continued:
“[T]his reality does not reduce the culpability of any perpetrator of violence in the abstract...the really scary thing is that the normalization of Trumpist incivility may make it eventually possible for violent extremists to mount successful insanity defenses in court.”
Please send information on Jerold Ruquette to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated - August 5, 2024

According to <a href="https://www.ccsu.edu/presidenttoro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zulma R. Toro's university biography</a>, she is the first female and first Hispanic President of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). In a Central Focus newsletter titled "<a href="https://www2.ccsu.edu/centralfocus/?article=112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Her First 100 Days, President Toro Opens New Doors</a>," Toro stated her top priorities are "increasing enrollment, becom[ing] a real community-engaged university, and diversifying sources of funding."

Toro stands accused on multiple accounts of alleged bullying and verbal abuse toward university stakeholders. In 2019, the <a href="https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-mirror-ccsu-public-shaming-20191023-r7dgafyqrncrrn6ak7f7xjg7gy-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hartford Courant reported</a>, "The leader of [CCSU]'s faculty union said the release of decades-worth of investigations into sexual misconduct allegations by President Toro 'was an attempted to threaten and intimidate faculty members.'" The Hartford said, "Toro defended her decision and shot back at the union, saying its statement 'empowers the offenders and that culture of bullying and the culture of intimidation and harassment.'"

On October 6, 2022, <a href="https://insideinvestigator.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bigelow-Email.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a CCSU employee leaked a message</a> from Institutional Advancement president Lisa Bigelow. In the email, Bigelow said she "initially tried to resolve the matter [of bullying] by reporting the behavior in violation of the Board of Regents Code of Conduct. Feeling there was no internal safe haven [to] report violations."

On November 18, President Toro sent a campus-wide message in response to <a href="https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Central-Connecticut-CCSU-transphobic-Turning-Point-17592589.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protests against CCSU's Turning Point chapter</a>. A CCSU insider shared the email with Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist  (<a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn%3Aaaid%3Asc%3AVA6C2%3A7ed50605-a8fa-4539-854e-edef001e7d3b/?pdfnow%21verb=createpdf&amp;x_api_client_id=adobe_com&amp;x_api_client_location=createpdf&amp;filetype=application%2Fpdf&amp;viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a> to enlarge image):

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Around the same time, President Toro partnered with the CCSU Pride Club to promote an LGBTQ event (<a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn%3Aaaid%3Asc%3AVA6C2%3A64737b22-4a86-4fc6-8910-4485314e6abc/?x_api_client_id=adobe_com&amp;x_api_client_location=jpg_to_pdf&amp;viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a> to enlarge image):

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President Toro was contacted with a request for comment but the Professor Watchlist team did not hear back in time for publication.

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<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lester Spence</a> is a Political Science Professor at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include American Politics, Black Politics, Race and Politics, Urban Politics, American Political Behavior, and Public Opinion. On his <a href="https://lesterspence.com/">website</a>, Spence writes:
“Over the past 40-50 years we’ve seen a sharp rise in income inequality…[D]uring this period, not only has inequality within black communities increased, there’s more inequality within black communities than there is between black and non-black ones. It’s this dynamic I’ve sought to examine over the course of my career for both intellectual reasons and political ones…”
On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Spence.
The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“&#8230;Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing">here</a> and below. 
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<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 
Please send information on Lester Spence to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; November 21, 2023
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Dr. Allyn Walker is an openly transgender —preferred pronouns they/them—a postdoctoral fellow at the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a>. In June of 2021, Dr. Walker <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow">wrote a book titled</a>, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.

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The book, which Dr. Walker describes as interview-based research, discusses non-offending pedophiles (or Minor-Attracted Persons, as Dr. Walker calls them). According to Dr. Walker, the book highlights people who are attracted to minors who don’t don’t commit violent crimes in order to challenge the “widespread assumption that those who are ‘preferentially attracted to minors’ are always predators and sex offenders.” The book details how those who don’t commit violent crimes against children navigate their feelings and attraction to minors.

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On November 11, 2021<a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> a series of videos on Twitter of Dr. Walker came to light</a>. In these videos, Dr. Walker tries to normalize the term “Minor-Attracted Person” (MAP) and destigmatize pedophilia. In the video, Dr. Walker claims that it is important to call a group by a name in which they want to be called. Dr. Walker states that groups are advocating for MAP as their name because it’s less stigmatized than the term pedophile, and they are doing nothing wrong if they aren’t committing violent crimes against children. Dr. Walker goes on to say that who a person is attracted to (in this case children) isn’t indicative of the morality of that person or that attraction. The video series can be viewed below:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21

After the video received a significant amount of backlash, <a href="https://www.wtkr.com/news/odu-releases-statement-after-assistant-professor-gives-controversial-interview-defending-people-attracted-to-children">Old Dominion University—Dr. Walker’s employer at the time—released a statement</a>, asserting that, as an academic community, it’s vital to be “willing to consider scientific and other empirical data that may involve controversial issues and perspectives.” They went on to claim that they don’t endorse or promote any crimes against children or any form of criminal activity.

Old Dominion University would later announce that Dr. Allyn Walker would <a href="https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/11/a_statement_from_old_dominion_university#.Yn343qjMI2w">resign at the expiration of his contract</a> in May 2022.

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Update - May 16th, 2022
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In a statement, <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/moore-center-for-the-prevention-of-child-sexual-abuse/">The Moore Center for Prevention of Child Abuse</a> at Johns Hopkins University announced Dr. Walker has been hired as a postdoctoral fellow. In a series of tweets, the center praised Dr. Walker for his expertise and “comprehensive public health approach” in child sexual abuse prevention.
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Allyn Walker is a leader in the field of perpetration prevention research, which is essential for developing a comprehensive public health approach to addressing child sexual abuse and effective prevention programs. We are delighted to have Allyn Walker join our team. <a href="https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL">https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL</a>
— Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (@MooreCenter_JHU) <a href="https://twitter.com/MooreCenter_JHU/status/1525123391388278788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/contact-us">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> at (410) 955-3543

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Associate History Professor <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a>. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

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<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Gill-Peterson’s faculty <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Please send information on Jules Gill-Peterson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023
<a href="https://www.jgillpeterson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins University</a>. He has referred to the gender binary as “junk science” and advocated for allowing children to transition at any age.

In his substack—<a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/archive?sort=new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sad Brown Girl</a>—Peterson attacks conservatives as transphobic, denies there can be only two genders, and documents his life as a transwoman and activist. In one article, titled “The Cis State,” he claims the <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-cis-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender binary never existed historically in the medical community</a>. Rather, politicians and psychologists invented the concept 70 years ago in a nefarious attempt to control people.

“...[S]ex did not become cis until the invention of the concept of gender in the mid-twentieth century. Gender was invented by psychologists to bring order to the collapse of the sex binary in science and medicine.”  

During an interview with Scientific American, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/how-junk-science-is-being-used-against-trans-kids2/#Echobox=1649463388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peterson claims the idea of a gender binary is still weaponized by present-day scientists against trans people.</a> After being introduced by the host as a “science historian,” he again states that scientists had no idea what determined sex or gender until the mid-20th century.

Further on, Peterson asserts there is no consensus on what determines whether someone is male or female. He then compares any scientific attempts to do so with the “junk science” of the eugenics movement and inflicting harm on trans people.

The full interview may be viewed below:

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Peterson often addresses issues surrounding transgender children and berates critics who challenge that children can transition at a young age. On his <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, Peterson urges his followers to “champion” trans children, and even “to want there to be trans kids in the world.”
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South Dakota has spent SEVEN YEARS working to pass this anti-trans bill. Trans people have had to organize against it for seven years—and now it passes. Chase is right, everyone needs to champion trans kids in progressive coalition. Kids can’t outrun seven relentless years alone. <a href="https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1488624230031933444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I believe more than ever that the way to end a child-hating culture where everyone is invested in children suffering is to learn to want there to be trans kids in this world. To relinquish the wish that we selfishly own them. To greet transness not as hypothetical but valuable. <a href="https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1501618969903570944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a separate thread, he calls for the “abolition” of the family to relieve the “bulwark” of protection that parents provide children.
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an underrated problem in the left’s neoliberal retreat from family abolition (shoutout again to <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reproutopia</a>) is that trans kids are left with a pitifully anemic option for care. the...family? we except the family to ideally care for trans kids? based on what evidence?!
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222843573383169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I am certainly heartened that many families do love and champion their trans kids. but I also want a political movement that relieves loving trans kids from a privatized, sentimental and normative politics of the family as bulwark against the various ends of the world underway.
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222847675359242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Peterson claims that <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/163113/behind-gop-strategy-outlaw-trans-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it’s false to “presume” that trans kids will be cared for by their families</a>. His comments appeared in an interview with The New Republic, where he depicted parents as an impediment to trans children. He attacks white women as segregationists who weaponize their status as mothers to fuel anti-trans legislation. “The figure of the mom is hanging over everything,” she states.

In a separate substack article, <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/we-the-abuser-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he further claims that “parental rights” are inhibiting minors from making fully autonomous decisions about their gender</a>.

“The slogan of ‘parental rights” is at the root of the fantasy that children are quasi-property, not people.”

Conservatives who object to transitioning children are <a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/from-gender-critical-to-qanon-anti-trans-politics-and-the-laundering-of-conspiracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">branded as QAnon-style conspiracy theorists</a> who are aiming to construct an “<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-trans-lobbys-real-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authoritarian Christian ethnostate.</a>”

Much of this ire is directed toward author Abigail Shrier author of, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Irreversible Damage.”</a> The book examines the exponential increase in rates of gender dysphoria among teenagers—of which Shrier attributes to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/how-peer-contagion-plays-into-the-rise-of-teens-transitioning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“peer contagion”</a>—and the negative, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-term health effects on teens who undergo gender transitions</a>.

Reacting to a Senate testimony delivered by Shrier on trans children, Peterson <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/abigail-shrier-goes-to-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labels her as a “TERF”</a> (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who is unqualified to speak on trans issues, in part because Shrier is not transgender herself. She accuses Shrier of flirting with white supremacy and peddling “pedophilic fantasies.”

“I invite you to join me in standing against the extreme sexual harassment, pedophilic fantasies, and torturous sadism of TERF and anti-trans rhetoric peddled by people like Shrier, backed up by an army of internet trolls and well-funded cultural tastemakers getting rich off pretending they are humiliated and canceled.“

Peterson is also the author of “History of the Transgender Child,” which maintains that <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/faculty-books/histories-of-the-transgender-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender children have been prevalent and well-documented over the last century</a>. He further serves as the General Editor of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly">Transgender Studies Quarterly</a>, of which the next issue will feature “Trans Marxist” authors and perspectives.
Students and Parents may contact the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University at (410) 516-7575 or at <a href="mailto:history@jhu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history@jhu.edu. </a>
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Published - October 14th, 2022 
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<a href="https://krieger.jhu.edu/africana/directory/shani-mott/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Mott</a> is a Lecturer of Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Her research interests “address how mid-twentieth century writers of both fiction and non-fiction strategically deployed racial language in American popular culture.”

Mott’s university profile also mentions a manuscript titled, “Saving the Soul of the Great Republic: Imagining Race and Writing Democracy.” According to the description, the book “argues that authors writing during the inter- and postwar years of the twentieth century relied on ‘literary racial transvestism,’ a practice wherein black authors wrote novels with predominantly white characters and [vice versa].”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/home-appraiser-countersues-professors-who-accused-him-of-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> featured Mott and her husband <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nathanconnolly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Connolly</a> (also a JHU professor) in the article, “Home appraiser countersues professors who accused him of racism.” The Fix said the couple filed a lawsuit alleging that a white appraiser valued their home differently after the couple removed evidence that would indicate their ethnicity.

Their <a href="https://wp-orep-cdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30175948/2020_Valuations_Maryland_complaint_70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit claims</a> the appraiser “dramatically undervalu[ed] their home in an appraisal because of their race and their home’s location adjacent to a black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.” When the couple’s white friend posed at the homeowner, the appraisal allegedly went from $472,000 to $750,000.

The College Fix said the countersuit mentions a home in the same neighborhood that sold within a month of Mott’s. The same company appraised the home for $7,000 less than the purchase price. Further, Mott and her husband did not provide their appraiser with documentation of any additional estimates showing a higher home value.

Mott and her husband appeared on ABC Live News to tell their side of the story:

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As of publication, both lawsuits are ongoing.
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/nathan-connolly/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Connolly</a> is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). His professor profile says, “I write about racism, capitalism, politics, cities and migration in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My work pays special attention to people’s notions of family, property and citizenship in the United States and the wider Americas.”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/home-appraiser-countersues-professors-who-accused-him-of-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> featured Connolly and his wife <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/shanimott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Mott</a> (also a JHU professor) in an article, “Home appraiser countersues professors who accused him of racism.” The Fix reported that the couple filed a lawsuit alleging a white appraiser valued their home differently after the couple removed evidence that would indicate their ethnicity.

Their <a href="https://wp-orep-cdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30175948/2020_Valuations_Maryland_complaint_70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit claims</a> the appraiser “dramatically undervalu[ed] their home in an appraisal because of their race and their home’s location adjacent to a black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.” When the couple’s white friend posed at the homeowner, the appraisal allegedly went from $472,000 to $750,000.

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2856" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PWL-QUOTES-44-e1676506038687-1024x632.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="395" />

The College Fix said the countersuit mentions a house in the same neighborhood that sold within a month of Connolly’s. The same company appraised the home for $7,000 less than the purchase price. Further, Connolly and his wife did not provide their appraiser with documentation of any additional estimates showing a higher home value.

Connolly and his wife appeared on ABC Live News to tell their side of the story:

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<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2857" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PWL-QUOTES-45-e1676506216125-1024x573.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="358" />

As of publication, both lawsuits are ongoing.
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/todd-shepard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Todd Shepard</a> is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are listed as “Modern France and French Empire,” “Decolonization” and “Gender and Sexuality.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a> (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Shepard.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3292 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Todd Shepard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 16, 2023

<a href="https://anthropology.jhu.edu/directory/naveeda-khan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naveeda Khan</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Department Chair at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include “nature philosophy and nature in Islamic theology, migration and memory.”

On November 3, 2023, <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-faculty-write-open-letter-in-solidarity-with-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins News-Letter</a> featured Khan and co-author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/clarahan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Clara Han</a> after they penned the “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Letter from JHU Faculty in Solidarity with Gaza</a>.” The News-Letter stated, “The letter condemns the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel, expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people and calls for an immediate ceasefire.”

The News-Letter further claimed, “The letter also emphasizes a commitment to upholding academic freedom in the context of the global dehumanization of Palestinian life in media cover and public discourse.” 

Khan told the News-Letter that “the letter is only a small step that joins forces with the various efforts organized by Hopkins students, such as the October 30 <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-community-partakes-in-walkout-in-solidarity-with-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walkout</a> and the October 23 <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/10/dissenters-at-johns-hopkins-university-organize-vigil-to-mourn-palestinian-lives-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candlelight</a> vigil organized by the Johns Hopkins Dissenters and Speak Out Now.”

On November 6, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming Khan’s statement signed by 24 Johns Hopkins faculty members. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Naveed Khan to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/people/clara-han-phd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clara Han</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Within the Johns Hopkins Center for the Humanities, Han also <a href="https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/people/clara-han/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serves</a> as the Co-Director of the <a href="https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/ric/about/#:~:text=The%20Racism%2C%20Immigration%2C%20and%20Citizenship,of%20democratic%20inclusion%20and%20social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program</a> on Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and as the co-organizer of the <a href="https://krieger.jhu.edu/wgs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program</a> on the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

On November 3, 2023, <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-faculty-write-open-letter-in-solidarity-with-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins News-Letter</a> featured Han and co-author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/naveedakhan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Naveeda Khan</a> after they penned the “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Letter from JHU Faculty in Solidarity with Gaza</a>.” The News-Letter stated, “The letter condemns the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel, expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people and calls for an immediate ceasefire.”

The News-Letter further claimed, “The letter also emphasizes a commitment to upholding academic freedom in the context of the global dehumanization of Palestinian life in media cover and public discourse.” 

On November 6, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming Han’s statement signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”

The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below.

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Clara Han to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/francois-furstenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Francois Furstenberg</a> is a Professor of History and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Johns Hopkins University 

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Furstenberg.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Furstenberg’s faculty <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/francois-furstenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> shows him on leave for the Fall 2023 semester.

Please send information on Francois Furstenberg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/2647/photini-sinnis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Photini Sinnis</a> is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Sinnis.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Photini Sinnis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/elizabeth-thornberry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Thornberry</a> is an Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests are listed as the “history of gender, sexuality, and law in Southern Africa.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Shepard.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Two days after signing the open letter, Thornberry tweeted in support of Congresswoman <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4298890-22-democrats-censure-tlaib-over-israel-criticism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> who was censured for antisemitic comments. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
We’re all writing in Rashida Tlaib for the democratic presidential primary next year, right?
— Liz Thornberry (@lizthornberry) <a href="https://twitter.com/lizthornberry/status/1722468801805983819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Please send information on Elizabeth Thornberry to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jessica-johnson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Maria Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. According to Johnson’s faculty profile, she is a “historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora” and an “internationally recognized digital humanist.”

Johnson is also a co-founder of the <a href="https://www.dslprojects.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diaspora Solidarities Lab</a> (DSL)—“a multi-national black feminist partnership that supports solidarity work in black and ethnic studies conducted by undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and community partners…” 

In February 2022, Johnson’s lab <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/02/03/jessica-marie-johnson-diaspora-solidarities-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received a $2 million grant</a> to “train DSL members in digital skills, support research initiatives and run incubators where members learn methods and theories for centering community and Indigenous knowledge practices.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Johnson.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Jessica Marie Johnson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/jeanne-marie-jackson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeanne-Marie Jackson</a> is an Associate Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Jackson.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Jeanne-Marie Jackson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/drew-daniel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Drew Daniel</a> is an English Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include “Early Modern Literature,” “<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Theory</a>” and “Aesthetics.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Daniel.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Drew Daniel to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/didier-gondola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Didier Gondola</a> is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests and publications include pop culture, gender, and postcolonial issues.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Gondola.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Gondola’s <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/didier-gondola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty profile</a> shows him on leave for the Fall 2023 semester.

Please send information on Didier Gondola to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/erin-aeran-chung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Chung</a> is the Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include “comparative politics,” “East Asian politics,” “international migration” and “comparative racial politics.” 

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Chung.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Erin Chung to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023

<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lester Spence</a> is a Political Science Professor at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include American Politics, Black Politics, Race and Politics, Urban Politics, American Political Behavior, and Public Opinion. On his <a href="https://lesterspence.com/">website</a>, Spence writes:
“Over the past 40-50 years we’ve seen a sharp rise in income inequality…[D]uring this period, not only has inequality within black communities increased, there’s more inequality within black communities than there is between black and non-black ones. It’s this dynamic I’ve sought to examine over the course of my career for both intellectual reasons and political ones…”
On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Spence.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/lester-spence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Lester Spence to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 21, 2023
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<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/aamir-mufti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aamir Mufti</a> is a Research Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Mufti.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Aamir Mufti to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 21, 2023

<a href="https://english.jhu.edu/directory/jesse-rosenthal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Rosenthal</a> is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include Victorian novels and Ethics and Literature.

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Rosenthal.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to state:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Jesse Rosenthal to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 21, 2023

<a href="https://sais.jhu.edu/users/ymounk1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yascha Mounk</a> is a Professor of Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Mounk’s faculty profile says he is “a political scientist known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy.”

Mounk was outspoken on Twitter after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. Mounk wrote that Israel “has every right to defend itself” but that their response constituted “moral error” when Palestinians become casualties. However, Mounk did not acknowledge <a href="https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas’ use of human shields as a war tactic</a>. The militant group often stores its arsenal inside civilian structures (e.g. schools, hospitals, and mosques).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Hamas murdered over 1,400 people in an indescribably sadistic manner.

Its leaders have made it very clear that they will continue to murder Israeli civilians if given the chance.

Israel has every right to defend itself.

But that is all the more reason for Israel to operate in…
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1719768116756963781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

On February 7, 2024, <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/higher-education/johns-hopkins-professor-rape-allegation-H5NESC5J3FCG7E7CFLQDPVV7R4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Baltimore Banner</a> featured Mounk in an article titled, “Johns Hopkins University investigates rape allegations against professor.” The Banner writes, “[JHU] has opened an investigation into a prominent international affairs professor after a woman accused him of rape … Hopkins officials said they have referred the matter to the university’s <a href="https://oie.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Institutional Equity</a>.”

According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/05/atlantic-yascha-mounk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, Mounk said, “I am aware of the horrendous allegations against me. It is categorically untrue.” The Post also referred to <a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/after-rape-a-guide-for-the-tormented/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an essay</a> published by the victim that said, “When the shrieking stops … you will reach the phase at which all you can think and talk about is the rape.”

JHU has not publicly stated whether Mounk will remain in his faculty position. As of publication, <a href="https://sais.jhu.edu/users/ymounk1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his profile</a> does not show him on leave from the college.

Please send tips and information on Yascha Mounk to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - February 22,2024

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<a href="https://pediatrics.georgetown.edu/reitman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. David Reitman</a> is a doctor and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgetown University</a>. In a leaked lecture, Dr. Reitman advocates for administering puberty-blocking drugs to transition gender-dysphoric minors.
Slides from the lecture delivered to incoming medical students by Dr. Reitman—<a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/georgetown-catholic-medical-school-hormone-therapy-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which were obtained by The Spectator</a>—warn that gender dysphoria is a life-threatening condition that often results in suicide. He maintains the only way to treat the depression of transgender minors is through surgery or hormone replacement to “fix” their bodies.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2469 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.56.54-PM.png" alt="" width="534" height="319" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.56.54-PM.png 534w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.56.54-PM-300x179.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px" />
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Further, Dr. Reitman claims that even infants can understand their true gender identity. He instructs students to determine if their patients may be transgender by asking the child if he/she wants to grow their hair a certain length or play dress-up. 
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2465 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.52.29-PM.png" alt="" width="534" height="319" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.52.29-PM.png 534w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.52.29-PM-300x179.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px" />
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2466 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.53.01-PM.png" alt="" width="534" height="319" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.53.01-PM.png 534w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.53.01-PM-300x179.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px" />
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Dr. Reitman notes that it&#8217;s optimal to identify gender dysphoria before puberty to begin cross-sex hormone treatment. He states this will prevent “unwanted secondary sex characteristics” and the minor will not have to undergo gender-transition surgeries later in life. 
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2467 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.53.48-PM.png" alt="" width="534" height="319" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.53.48-PM.png 534w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.53.48-PM-300x179.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px" />
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Dr. Reitman then claims the effects of the drugs are fully reversible and puberty can be resumed at any time. While acknowledging these treatments have serious side effects such as loss of bone density, liver damage, and infertility, he still states there is a net benefit.  
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2468 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.55.04-PM.png" alt="" width="534" height="319" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.55.04-PM.png 534w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.55.04-PM-300x179.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px" />
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A common drug used in gender transitions is Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders</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> 
The Spectator further reports that <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/georgetown-catholic-medical-school-hormone-therapy-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Reitman then displayed explicit images of “top” and “bottom” surgeries.</a> This refers to either a double mastectomy (top surgery) or the surgical removal/altering of genitalia (bottom surgery) as part of the transition process.  
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<a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Re4cAAC/christine-fair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine Fair</a> is an Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. 

Fair was the subject of a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7dAQe1s5ZVka3hXLURodG1WQkU/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> filed by a colleague for “harassment, abuse, hate, and cyberbullying.”  After <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4069936/Georgetown-prof-C-Christine-Fair-went-meltdown-Muslim-ex-colleague-Asra-Q-Nomani-admitted-voting-Donald-Trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asra Nomani</a>, who is Muslim, said she voted for Trump because of her problems with Obamacare, Fair went on a month-long rant against Nomani, including calling her various insulting names in her native Urdu, claiming Nomani had “pimped” herself out, as well as saying "F*** you."

Fair is also known for her vulgar and carnal tweets directed at conservatives. During the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018, Fair <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> into a racially tinged tirade on her <a href="https://twitter.com/CChristineFair?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account, accusing Republicans of enabling a rapist and calling for their castration in a series of tweets, 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Look at thus(sic) chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogant entitlement."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">”all of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Bonus: we castrate their corpse and feed them to swine? Yes.”</li>
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In 2018, Fair was <a href="https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-professor-accused-calling-german-officer-nazi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Hoya article </a>“Georgetown Professor Accused of Calling German Officer a ‘Nazi.’” 

The publication explained, “The alleged confrontation occurred after an airport security agent pulled Fair aside and summoned a German police officer, as required by law after an X-ray machine at a security checkpoint indicated her luggage might contain explosives.”

It turns out the substances found in Fair’s bags — cosmetics and roll-on deodorant — had exceeded the amount permitted by law enforcement. The Hoya said, “After the police suggested Fair store a roll-on deodorant in her carry-on bag, the police report states Fair reacted aggressively and called the police ‘f–king bastards’ and ‘f–king Nazi police.’”

The Hoya recorded Fair’s response:
“‘The whole thing was a straight-up shakedown. At the end of the day, this officer just did not want a customer service complaint. If I were a white guy, this wouldn’t be happening to me. For example, the cop called me a hippie. Why am I of all people derided as a hippie?’”
Despite corroborating witness statements cited in the police report — as well as accusations that Fair said another passenger had a “Hitler Youth haircut” — Fair denied all allegations. 

After being detained by German police, the report said Fair was fined $260 in legal fees.
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<a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/peller-gary.cfm">Gary Peller</a> is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University. After the death of Antonin Scalia, Peller drafted an email in opposition to mourning his death, accusing him of being a bully.

Professor <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/preston-mitchum/">Preston Mitchum</a> is a law professor at Georgetown University. Though he is widely known for his extremely controversial and extreme opinions, constantly referring to how much he hates cops. Though he may have taken it a step too far with of of his latest, stating, “Yes, ALL white people are racist. Yes, ALL men are sexist. Yes, ALL cis people are transphobic. We have to unpack that. That's the work!”

<a href="https://lannan.georgetown.edu/past-guests/michael-eric-dyson/">Michael Eric Dyson</a> is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University.

Dyson has<a href="https://www.wglt.org/post/dyson-isu-white-supremacy-sees-resurgence-under-trump-0#stream/0"> alleged</a> that there has been a “resurgence” of white supremacy under a conservative presidency. In an interview with<a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/5308799067001#sp=show-clips"> Tucker Carlson</a>, he has also asked for whites to pay reparations to black communities to offset America’s legacy of racism. During a<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?445812-1/aurea-foundation-hosts-munk-debate-political-correctness"> debate</a> on political correctness in 2018 with Professor Jordan Peterson, Dyson repeatedly referred to Peterson as just a “mean, mad, old, white, man.” 

Just prior to Independence Day 2019, Dyson appeared on<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/michael-eric-dyson-on-betsy-ross-flag-symbolism-why-dont-we-wear-a-swastika-for-july-fourth/"> MSNBC </a>and compared the iconic Betsy Ross Flag to a Nazi Swastika,

“Well, it hails from the Revolutionary period, of course, of this nation’s founding, which was deeply embroiled in, you know, enslavement, of the owners of slaves…..Right-wing white supremacists have used it as a rallying cry for their own cause.” 

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“Words matter, symbols matter too. Why don’t we wear a swastika for July Fourth? Because I don’t know, it makes a difference.”

Dyson is also associated with the notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. In 2010, Dyson<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ULAThBZKiM"> participated</a> in a roundtable discussion hosted by PBS with Farrakhan and<a href="http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Minister_Louis_Farrakhan_9/article_7248.shtml"> interviewed</a> him the same year about the economic condition of black communities.

<a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014U15mAAC/peter-strzok-ii">Peter Strzok</a> is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/peter-strzok-hired-to-teach-counterintelligence-at-georgetown-university/">Strzok was recently hired</a> by the Walsh School of Foreign Service and teaches <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/course-catalog/a1o1Q00000271IyQAI/ipol32301?id=00336000014U15mAAC">Counterintelligence and National Security.</a>

Strzok—a former counterintelligence agent with the FBI—was known for his lead role in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/declassified-trump-russia-launch-document-authored-by-strzok-and-investigated-by-durham">Strzok launched a counterintelligence operation</a> and obtained multiple warrants to spy on individuals connected to the Trump campaign to determine if the candidate was illegally cultivating ties with Russia. Code-named Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s investigation heavily relied on information provided by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.

Steele had compiled a series of lurid allegations against then-candidate Trump, alleging liabilities to the Kremlin would allow him to be blackmailed by Russia. Referred to as the Steele Dossier, it was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.be21b9cb9402">initially paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign</a> before being <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-slams-bruce-ohr-for-consequential-errors-in-judgment">ferried by Bruce Ohr</a> of the Justice Department to the FBI. The Obama Administration was <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dni-releases-cia-documents-on-hillary-clintons-plan-to-tie-trump-campaign-to-russia-to-distract-from-email-scandal/">briefed by CIA director John Brennan</a> about Clinton's attempt to use the dossier as an effort to tie the Trump campaign to Russia. The FBI used Steele as an informant to obtain FISA warrants against campaign surrogates George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.

It was later revealed that Steele’s source for the dossier was a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-previously-investigated-steele-dossier-source-as-russian-agent">suspected Russian spy</a> and his <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/07/24/meet_steele_dossiers_primary_subsource_fabulist_russian_at_us_think_tank_whose_boozy_past_the_fbi_ignored_124601.html">allegations were unfounded</a>. Despite Steele being removed by the FBI for his misconduct, this information <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-to-expect-from-inspector-general-michael-horowitzs-report-on-alleged-fisa-abuses">was withheld from a FISA court when seeking warrants</a> to surveil Papadopoulos and Page. The FBI claimed that Steele was not the source contained in the application while continuing to rely on his allegations.

<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/15/newly-declassified-papadopoulos-transcript-exposes-crossfire-hurricane-corruption/">Papadopoulos</a> was ultimately never charged with colluding with Russia and the warrants issued for Page have been <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/carter-page-fisa-warrant-lacked-probable-cause-declassified-doj-order-finds">found to lack probable cause for surveillance</a>. A top lawyer working for Strzok has <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/22/washington-post-quietly-changes-story-on-altered-russia-probe-document/">pleaded guilty to falsifying information</a> in order to obtain a warrant for Page.

Peter Strzok was also instrumental in setting a perjury trap for General Flynn. Initially a target of Crossfire Hurricane, the Bureau soon closed the investigation over a lack of evidence. Strzok then <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/30/breaking-fbi-closed-flynn-case-dubbed-crossfire-razor-in-early-2017-until-strzok-ordered-it-to-stay-open/">intervened and immediately reopened</a> the case in early 2017. Hoping to catch <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/29/explosive-new-flynn-documents-show-fbi-goal-was-to-get-him-fired/">Flynn in a lie so that he would be fired</a>, Strzok interviewed Flynn over his recent conversation with the Russian Ambassador regarding sanctions. Despite Strzok or then <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/comey-told-obama-flynn-conversations-154702223.html">FBI director James Comey</a> believing that Fynn had not lied or mischaracterized the interaction, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/your-guide-to-the-obama-administrations-hit-on-michael-flynn/">the FBI charged Flynn with lying under oath</a>. The resultant trial nearly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/now-imperiled-case-against-flynn-cost-him-millions-of-dollars-his-house-his-job">bankrupted Flynn’s family</a> and is still ongoing.

Throughout 2016 and 2017, Strzok was texting with fellow agent Lisa Page (of whom he was having an affair with at the time) <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/peter-strzok-trump-smell-hillbillies-1020892">his disdain for Trump supporters</a> and his desire to remove Donald Trump for office, referring to a supposed “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-was-about-carter-page-fisa-warrant">insurance policy</a>” should he win the election. Strzok, then working with Robert Mueller, coordinated with Lisa Page t<a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/newly-disclosed-strzok-page-texts-shed-new-light-media-leak-strategy">o selectively leak information</a> about investigations to potentially obtain further warrants.

Strzok was soon <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fc94343ce2ace8e855cf7ef7efe9c8bf">removed from Mueller's team</a> once his communications were discovered, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/doj-destroyed-missing-strzok-page-text-messages-before-ig-reviewed-them/">but wiped his phone</a> before it could be reviewed for any further potentially incriminating texts. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-agent-peter-strzok-who-sent-anti-trump-tweets-fired-n900161">He was later fired</a> by the FBI and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-ig-report-shows-fbi-misconduct-and-abuses-in-anti-trump-probe-of-russia-collusion-hoax">excoriated by an Inspector General’s report</a> over his partisan activities on a government-issued phone.

Throughout his career, Strzok has vindictively wielded the power of the state for his own purposes. To this day, he remains unrepentant and has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/compromised-peter-strzok-on-investigating-the-trump-campaign/">repeatedly defended his actions</a>, even <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358237068">authoring a book</a> accusing the president of being compromised by Vladimir Putin.

Strzok’s texts to Lisa Page demonstrate a clear bias against conservatives, extending far beyond mere words. Strzok has repeatedly and flagrantly discriminated against conservatives.

Acting with impunity, Strzok and his team lied, falsified evidence, spied on, and attempted to bankrupt those serving on a presidential campaign that he opposed. As a professor, Strzok will hold the pivotal role of mentoring future leaders of the intelligence and law enforcement community— the same community whose principles he flagrantly violated. He will also hold the grades of his conservative students in a vice, subject to his personal prejudice. As someone that has demonstrated seemingly no prior hesitation in targeting conservatives, there is no reason to believe that Strzok will not place future students in his crosshairs.

Mr. <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002Ad6npQAB/josh-ruebner">Josh Ruebner</a> is an adjunct faculty member in the <a href="https://justiceandpeace.georgetown.edu/">Program on Justice and Peace</a> at Georgetown University. According to Georgetown's website, the goal of the Justice and Peace Program is to produce “practically useful scholarships on how to create a more just and peaceful world.” In addition to his teaching roles, Ruebner is a Managing Director for the organization <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/staff">American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)</a>.

Mr. Ruebner has served in the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provides policy analysis on behalf of committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As a member of the CRS, Mr. Ruebner co-authored <a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs1535/m1/1/high_res_d/RL30713_2001Jan05.pdf">The Current Palestinian Uprising: Al-Aqsa Intifadah</a>, in which he accuses Israel of disproportionate use of force against Palestinians. Ruebner has also <a href="https://joshruebner.com/jewish-anti-occupation-group-lobbies-u-s/">sponsored</a> congressional staff members on a trip to the West Bank to advocate cutting off economic aid to Israel.

In 2018, Mr. Ruebner authored a book titled <a href="https://www.interlinkbooks.com/product/israel/">Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?</a> In an event for the book’s release hosted by <a href="https://thejerusalemfund.org/category/pc">The Palestine Center</a>—a Palestinian advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.—Mr. Ruebner <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvfPNDwF70&amp;ab_channel=TheJerusalemFund%26PalestineCenter">accuses</a> Israel of enacting policies similar to apartheid-era South Africa.

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Mr. Ruebner previously slandered Israel as an apartheid state in his 2013 book titled <a href="https://joshruebner.com/books/shattered-hopes/order-the-book/">Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker an Israeli-Palestinian Peace</a>. In a promotional interview with the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcp4FkHcV-YGI7F-MsY-YQ">Portland Media Center</a>, Mr. Ruebner further <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1fqAQBozo&amp;ab_channel=PortlandMediaCenter">accuses the United States of complicity in Israel's human rights violations</a>.

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Mr. Ruebner alleges that terrorist attacks committed against America are directly linked to ties with Israel. In a December 2002 article titled <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/10/striking-with-impunity/">Striking with Impunity</a>, he states that America is guilty of war crimes for providing military aid to Israel—claiming Israel uses this equipment to commit human rights abuses. Mr. Ruebner asks the readers in the same article, how many more “towers need to fall?”—in reference to the horrific September 11th terrorist attacks—before America stops supporting Israel.

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<a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/staff">As a Managing Director for AMP</a>, Mr. Ruebner oversees staff management, organizational planning, and development. <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/statement-of-principles">According to their website, AMP seeks</a> to “highlight Israel’s flagrant and continual violations of international law and human rights abuses.” According to the watchdog source <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/4891/investigation-exposes-amp-leaders-ties-to-former">The Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>, AMP can be linked to multiple terrorist organizations. Additionally, various speakers featured at AMP conferences have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel.

Mr. <a href="https://joshruebner.com/uscpr/">Ruebner also served</a> as the Policy Director of the <a href="https://uscpr.org/">US Campaign for Palestinian Rights</a> (USCPR) from 2013 to 2019. <a href="https://uscpr.org/about-us/">According to their website</a>, USCPR seeks to end “U.S. complicity in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people” and to “stop U.S. support for Israel until it ends its denial of Palestinian rights.”

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<a href="https://pediatrics.georgetown.edu/reitman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. David Reitman</a> is a doctor and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgetown University</a>. In a leaked lecture, Dr. Reitman advocates for administering puberty-blocking drugs to transition gender-dysphoric minors.

Slides from the lecture delivered to incoming medical students by Dr. Reitman—<a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/georgetown-catholic-medical-school-hormone-therapy-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which were obtained by The Spectator</a>—warn that gender dysphoria is a life-threatening condition that often results in suicide. He maintains the only way to treat the depression of transgender minors is through surgery or hormone replacement to “fix” their bodies.

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Further, Dr. Reitman claims that even infants can understand their true gender identity. He instructs students to determine if their patients may be transgender by asking the child if he/she wants to grow their hair a certain length or play dress-up. 

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Dr. Reitman notes that it's optimal to identify gender dysphoria before puberty to begin cross-sex hormone treatment. He states this will prevent “unwanted secondary sex characteristics” and the minor will not have to undergo gender-transition surgeries later in life. 

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Dr. Reitman then claims the effects of the drugs are fully reversible and puberty can be resumed at any time. While acknowledging these treatments have serious side effects such as loss of bone density, liver damage, and infertility, he still states there is a net benefit.  

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A common drug used in gender transitions is Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders</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> 

The Spectator further reports that <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/georgetown-catholic-medical-school-hormone-therapy-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Reitman then displayed explicit images of “top” and “bottom” surgeries.</a> This refers to either a double mastectomy (top surgery) or the surgical removal/altering of genitalia (bottom surgery) as part of the transition process.  

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<a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/dorothy-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dorothy A. Brown</a> is a Professor at Georgetown University. <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Brown_CV_June_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to her CV</a>, Brown teaches courses on federal income tax, critical race theory, corporate tax

As the author of “<a href="https://www.harvard.com/book/whiteness_of_wealth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Whiteness of Wealth</a>,” Brown alleges the American tax code was created to prevent black Americans from achieving financial success. As a result, Brown claims that wealth creation was sequestered for white families. 

In 2021, Brown was <a href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Professor%20Dorothy%20Brown%20Testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invited by the Senate Finance Committee</a> to deliver testimony regarding her research. She stated that America still suffers from systemic racism and the tax law only perpetuates racial inequity. She further alleged that Americans bring their racial identities into their tax codes, as the tax law was written alongside Jim Crow laws to benefit whites. 

“What my research has revealed is that because systemic racism is very real, all American taxpayers bring our racial identities onto our tax returns.”

During an interview with the Rockafeller Foundation, Brown further claimed that only “white wealth” can be built in America. 
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“Our American system of building wealth is designed to build white wealth.” <a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyABrown?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@DorothyABrown</a>, author of "The Whiteness of Wealth," sat down w/ RF’s <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielleSGoonan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanielleSGoonan</a> to discuss the inequities in the US tax system for Black Americans.
Full conversation:<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EquityIsOpportunity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EquityIsOpportunity</a>

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQgVPl9-xg&amp;ab_channel=PoliticsandProse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a separate interview</a> with Elie Mystal—who once <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nation-correspondent-elie-mystal-us-constitution-actually-trash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called the U.S. Constitution “trash”</a>—Brown again affirmed that building wealth is inherently connected to race. Citing college drop-out rates and unemployment amongst blacks, she claimed these and other disparities are proof the tax code exists to benefit white people. 

To alleviate racial inequity, Dr. Brown suggests the following: 

- Levy a “reparations” tax to repay black Americans for past and present discrimination. 

- Mandate companies' self-audit each year in order to ensure they are hiring a proportionate number of employees from each race. 

- Deny white Americans mortgage exemptions if they do not live in a neighborhood where at least 10% of their neighbors are black. 

During the Q&amp;A section of the interview, Brown laments that she cannot adopt an explicitly “pro-black” tax policy, as the Supreme Court would not uphold it. Rather, she admits that her initial proposals will have to target income levels rather than cater to specific races. 
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Professor Jeff Bernstein, Georgetown University, was a Master of Foreign Service advisory board member. Bernstein made the list after he responded to a Tweet sent out by Allie Stuckey that stated: "The #metoo movement is a symptom of a broken world." Bernstein chose to respond to this Tweet with his own, saying, "Wishing you a #metoo moment. Maybe then you won't be so insensitive." Bernstein has since apologized for the Tweet and has resigned from his position with Georgetown University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/education/story/faculty-profile-kamaria-b-porter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaria B. Porter</a> is an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State. Her profile says she’s involved with “a wide array of research experience in the field of racial and gender equities in higher education, particularly in graduate education and campus sexual assault.”

In December 2023, Porter <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/47A3521AE1FB9B1D2FC93518D55435F3/S002392162300004Xa.pdf/sexual_consent_and_relational_rights_a_call_for_relational_repair.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored a paper</a> entitled “Sexual consent and relational rights: a call for relational repair,” where she discusses women’s rights in light of sexual violence. Porter said:
“The history of sexual consent as law is deeply intertwined with the denial of rights to all women, with Indigenous women and [b]lack women at the most extreme position of sexual and social subordination. Definitions of rape and consent corresponded to the gendered racist hierarchal social structure of the early colonies, denying enslaved African women the right to withhold consent, alongside all wives, all poor women and sex workers across race.”
In 2022, Porter participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/zyW2nml0juU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> moderated by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/charleshfdavisiii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Charles H.F. Davis III</a> in which they discussed alternatives to police presence on college campuses. When asked about police being the first response to sexual violence on campus, Porter stated that traumatic experiences like “state violence against black communities” and the “murder of black trans women” (biological males) keep them from reporting the crimes.

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In another publication co-authored with Davis, entitled <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/6578c9261d9df2675a7329d4/1702414630458/Davis+%26+Porter+%282023%29+%E2%80%93%C2%A0A+Case+for+Abolishing+Campus+Police.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Case for Abolishing Campus Police</a>, Porter wrote:

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Please send tips and updates on Kamaria B. Porter to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://sites.psu.edu/zackfurness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Zack Furness</a> is an Associate Professor of Communications and a member of the Senate Committee at <a href="https://greaterallegheny.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University &#8211; Greater Allegheny</a>.
<a href="https://sites.psu.edu/zackfurness/">According to his university profile</a>, Dr. Furness teaches a variety of subjects—including feminist theory and anarchism—and routinely serves as a musician in various punk bands:
“My work as both a researcher and a teacher draws upon a web of influences that include communication and cultural studies, cultural geography, feminist theory, anarchism, environmentalism, history and philosophy of technology, and punk rock. I’ve performed in punk bands and other musical projects since 1997, most recently in <a href="http://undercomm.storenvy.com/products/8335119-barons-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barons</a>, and my current research is all related to music in some way.”
In statements from his personal Twitter account, blogs, and articles, Dr. Furness has denigrated conservatives and appears to have also called for violence against them.
One tweet, highlighted by journalist Andy Ngo, is a reply to then-President Trump’s distribution of supplies following the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Zack Furness states that President Trump “should’ve been Lincoln’d five minutes later,” an apparent reference to the assassination of President Lincoln:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/penn_state?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@penn_state</a> associate communications professor Zack Furness tweeted today that former President Trump should have been assassinated by gunfire. His academic work is influenced by Marxism &amp; critical pedagogy. He previously made a list of people he wanted dead. <a href="https://t.co/phmevlSymY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/phmevlSymY</a>
— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1507832616006860802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/penn-state-professor-calls-for-assassination-of-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After conservative outlets began highlighting his tweet</a>, Dr. Furness appears to have deleted his account entirely.
He had previously tweeted a list of conservatives that he would “launch into the sun”:
“I&#8217;d like to build an arc and fill it with Michael Tracey, Andrew Sullivan, Bari Weiss, Andy Ngo, Ian Miles Cheong, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Fox &amp; Friends. And then launch it toward the sun.”
In prior articles, Dr. Zach Furness alleges that white supremacy forms the basis for conservative and right-wing politics:
“As it stands, discourse about Antisemitism in the US has been wrongly framed by conservatives as a leftist phenomenon tethered to criticisms of Israel, rather than seeing it for what it truly is: a white supremacist ideology that forms the basis for right-wing politics, though it is not unique to it.” 
The article—<a href="https://thebattleground.eu/2020/07/15/african-americans-and-jews/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored for “The Battleground &#8221;</a>—is a defense of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against charges of racism and antisemitism. Dr. Furness urges Jews and white people—or “white Jews in particular”—to stand in solidarity with BLM as the accusations are a nefarious attempt by conservatives to frame all black Americans as a threat to their safety.
As Dr. Furness wrote this article, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-cities-brace-riots-national-guard-troops-mobilize" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riots had broken out across the country</a>—many led by BLM activists—in protest of the death of George Floyd.
According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country in the summer months of 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found that “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>
At one BLM protest in Philadelphia, a video emerged of <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/blm-mob-violently-chases-jewish-men-at-philadelphia-protest/">Jews being forcibly removed by demonstrators</a>. A <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/27/kenosha-rioters-vandalize-synagogue-free-palestine-church-blm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">synagogue in Wisconsin was defaced in another protest</a> that summer. The founder of BLM—Patrisse Cullors—calls for the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/30/blm-co-founder-called-to-end-imperialist-project-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complete dismantlement of the state of Israel</a>.
During one protest, BLM <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8704827/Anti-racism-protester-struck-CAR-Rochester.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rioters began assaulting diners at a restaurant while yelling, “F*** the white people!”</a> Another BLM leader has <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/blm-leader-exposed-called-whites-sub-human-genetically-defective-said-blacks-superhumans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred to white people as “genetically defective</a>.”
To learn more about Patrisse Cullors and BLM, <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/patrissecullors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Furness for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://greaterallegheny.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University &#8211; Greater Allegheny</a> at (412) 675-9000
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<a href="https://sites.psu.edu/zackfurness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Zack Furness</a> is an Associate Professor of Communications and a member of the Senate Committee at <a href="https://greaterallegheny.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University - Greater Allegheny</a>.

<a href="https://sites.psu.edu/zackfurness/">According to his university profile</a>, Dr. Furness teaches a variety of subjects—including feminist theory and anarchism—and routinely serves as a musician in various punk bands:

“My work as both a researcher and a teacher draws upon a web of influences that include communication and cultural studies, cultural geography, feminist theory, anarchism, environmentalism, history and philosophy of technology, and punk rock. I’ve performed in punk bands and other musical projects since 1997, most recently in <a href="http://undercomm.storenvy.com/products/8335119-barons-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barons</a>, and my current research is all related to music in some way.”

In statements from his personal Twitter account, blogs, and articles, Dr. Furness has denigrated conservatives and appears to have also called for violence against them.

One tweet, highlighted by journalist Andy Ngo, is a reply to then-President Trump’s distribution of supplies following the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Zack Furness states that President Trump “should’ve been Lincoln’d five minutes later,” an apparent reference to the assassination of President Lincoln:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/penn_state?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@penn_state</a> associate communications professor Zack Furness tweeted today that former President Trump should have been assassinated by gunfire. His academic work is influenced by Marxism &amp; critical pedagogy. He previously made a list of people he wanted dead. <a href="https://t.co/phmevlSymY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/phmevlSymY</a>
— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1507832616006860802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/penn-state-professor-calls-for-assassination-of-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After conservative outlets began highlighting his tweet</a>, Dr. Furness appears to have deleted his account entirely.

He had previously tweeted a list of conservatives that he would “launch into the sun”:

“I'd like to build an arc and fill it with Michael Tracey, Andrew Sullivan, Bari Weiss, Andy Ngo, Ian Miles Cheong, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Fox &amp; Friends. And then launch it toward the sun.”

In prior articles, Dr. Zach Furness alleges that white supremacy forms the basis for conservative and right-wing politics:

“As it stands, discourse about Antisemitism in the US has been wrongly framed by conservatives as a leftist phenomenon tethered to criticisms of Israel, rather than seeing it for what it truly is: a white supremacist ideology that forms the basis for right-wing politics, though it is not unique to it.” 

The article—<a href="https://thebattleground.eu/2020/07/15/african-americans-and-jews/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored for “The Battleground ''</a>—is a defense of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against charges of racism and antisemitism. Dr. Furness urges Jews and white people—or “white Jews in particular”—to stand in solidarity with BLM as the accusations are a nefarious attempt by conservatives to frame all black Americans as a threat to their safety.

As Dr. Furness wrote this article, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-cities-brace-riots-national-guard-troops-mobilize" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riots had broken out across the country</a>—many led by BLM activists—in protest of the death of George Floyd.

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country in the summer months of 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found that “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

At one BLM protest in Philadelphia, a video emerged of <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/blm-mob-violently-chases-jewish-men-at-philadelphia-protest/">Jews being forcibly removed by demonstrators</a>. A <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/27/kenosha-rioters-vandalize-synagogue-free-palestine-church-blm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">synagogue in Wisconsin was defaced in another protest</a> that summer. The founder of BLM—Patrisse Cullors—calls for the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/30/blm-co-founder-called-to-end-imperialist-project-of-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complete dismantlement of the state of Israel</a>.

During one protest, BLM <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8704827/Anti-racism-protester-struck-CAR-Rochester.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rioters began assaulting diners at a restaurant while yelling, “F*** the white people!”</a> Another BLM leader has <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/blm-leader-exposed-called-whites-sub-human-genetically-defective-said-blacks-superhumans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred to white people as “genetically defective</a>.”

To learn more about Patrisse Cullors and BLM, <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/patrissecullors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Furness for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://greaterallegheny.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University - Greater Allegheny</a> at (412) 675-9000
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Updated - April 6th, 2022

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<a href="https://psychology.msu.edu/directory/veenema-alexa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexa Veenema</a> is a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at Michigan State University (MSU). Her <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rCQu5AUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> “explores the neural basis of social behavior.”
Veenema was featured in The State News <a href="https://statenews.com/article/2024/11/conservative-student-group-wants-accountability-after-msu-professor-called-trump-supporters-naive-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Conservative student group wants accountability for MSU professor who called Trump supporters ‘naive.’” The source said:
“Behavioral neuroscience professor Alexa Veenema wrote to students after the election that it was ‘unbelievable’ that ‘so many Americans are so utterly naive and would fall for this and support misogyny, racism, xenophobia, hate, and violence.”
The source also said, the conservative student group, Turning Point USA, called for MSU to immediately discipline Veenema according to the <a href="https://hr.msu.edu/policies-procedures/faculty-academic-staff/faculty-handbook/recommendations.html#:~:text=MSU%20tenure%2Dsystem%20faculty%20create,significance%20of%20an%20artistic%20performance." target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSU Faculty Handbook</a> after she displayed a lack of civility and respect.
On November 15, 2024, the Lansing State Journal <a href="https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/campus/2024/11/15/msu-professor-alexa-veenema-trump-email/76336245007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Veenema had not been disciplined but the provost’s office “had conversations with Veenema” and the psychology department. The following screenshot of Veenema’s email is sourced from the Journal:<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3894" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-4.00.40 PM.png" alt="" width="962" height="762" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-4.00.40 PM.png 962w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-4.00.40 PM-300x238.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-4.00.40 PM-768x608.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px" />
Please send tips and updates on Alexa Veenema to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; November 22, 2024

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Michigan State University

<a href="http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/william-penn/">William Penn</a> teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Michigan State University. Penn was recorded complaining in one of his creative writing classes about “dead white Republicans” who “raped his country.” As a student videotaped his rant, Penn antagonized students and asked, “You look like you’re frowning. Are you frowning?”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<a href="https://www.radford.edu/content/csat/home/anthropological-sciences/faculty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. David Anderson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at <a href="https://www.radford.edu/content/radfordcore/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radford University</a> in Virginia. 
In a tweet, Dr. Anderson accused Marvel Studios of cultural appropriation for its depiction of Mesoamerican cultures. 
Dr. Anderson’s remarks were in response to the announcement of the upcoming movie, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The film depicts the <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/whos-black-panther-heres-know-110009121.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mythical society of Atlantis as the Mayan city of Talocan</a>. Mexican actors are further cast in key antagonist roles. 
<a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On his personal Twitter account,</a> Dr. Anderson accused the studio of cultural appropriation and engaging in “colonial racism.”  
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a> is set to link Atlantis and ancient Mesoamerica in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WakandaForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WakandaForever</a>.
Please Marvel, I beg you as a scholar and a fan, hire a cultural consultant who can help you avoid the pit traps that come with Atlantis, including cultural appropriation &amp; colonial racism. <a href="https://t.co/QfZqmj98lr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/QfZqmj98lr</a>
— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1551298006057734147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A subsequent tweet stated the film—which had yet to be released—implies that indigenous Americans rely on white Europeans.
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To clarify, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>, if you imply the achievements of the Maya people were in anyway due to a connection with Atlantis, you are implying that indigenous Americans needed help from Europeans to have that success.
— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1551299541034586123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In past tweets, Dr. Anderson begged Marvel Studios to consult with him for the movie, “The Eternals.” 
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For the love of Geekery, ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>⁩ please call me!
I know the Eternals are set deep into Marvel Lore and the MCU, but you’re playing with pejorative views of race baked into the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AncientAliens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AncientAliens</a> source material used by Kirby.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CallMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CallMe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayWoke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayWoke</a> <a href="https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0</a>
— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1151570929790664704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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He alleged the underlying themes for the movie are problematic, as they depict whites as a “chosen race.” 
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For the love of Geekery, ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>⁩ please call me!
I know the Eternals are set deep into Marvel Lore and the MCU, but you’re playing with pejorative views of race baked into the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AncientAliens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AncientAliens</a> source material used by Kirby.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CallMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CallMe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayWoke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayWoke</a> <a href="https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0">https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0</a>
— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1151570929790664704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After The College Fix highlighted his comments, his <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-worries-marvels-version-of-atlantis-will-use-cultural-appropriation-colonial-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account was made private but is now available to view as of publication</a>.
<a href="https://www.radford.edu/content/csat/home/anthropological-sciences/faculty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to his university profile</a>, Dr. Anderson researches and teaches Archaeological Methods, Pseudoarchaeology, Development of Social Organization, Mayan and Mesoamerican Archaeology.
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<a href="https://www.radford.edu/content/csat/home/anthropological-sciences/faculty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. David Anderson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at <a href="https://www.radford.edu/content/radfordcore/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radford University</a> in Virginia. 

In a tweet, Dr. Anderson accused Marvel Studios of cultural appropriation for its depiction of Mesoamerican cultures. 

Dr. Anderson’s remarks were in response to the announcement of the upcoming movie, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The film depicts the <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/whos-black-panther-heres-know-110009121.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mythical society of Atlantis as the Mayan city of Talocan</a>. Mexican actors are further cast in key antagonist roles. 

<a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On his personal Twitter account,</a> Dr. Anderson accused the studio of cultural appropriation and engaging in “colonial racism.”  
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a> is set to link Atlantis and ancient Mesoamerica in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WakandaForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WakandaForever</a>.
Please Marvel, I beg you as a scholar and a fan, hire a cultural consultant who can help you avoid the pit traps that come with Atlantis, including cultural appropriation &amp; colonial racism. <a href="https://t.co/QfZqmj98lr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/QfZqmj98lr</a>

— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1551298006057734147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A subsequent tweet stated the film—which had yet to be released—implies that indigenous Americans rely on white Europeans.
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To clarify, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>, if you imply the achievements of the Maya people were in anyway due to a connection with Atlantis, you are implying that indigenous Americans needed help from Europeans to have that success.
— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1551299541034586123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In past tweets, Dr. Anderson begged Marvel Studios to consult with him for the movie, “The Eternals.” 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
For the love of Geekery, ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>⁩ please call me!
I know the Eternals are set deep into Marvel Lore and the MCU, but you’re playing with pejorative views of race baked into the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AncientAliens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AncientAliens</a> source material used by Kirby.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CallMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CallMe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayWoke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayWoke</a> <a href="https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0</a>

— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1151570929790664704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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He alleged the underlying themes for the movie are problematic, as they depict whites as a “chosen race.” 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
For the love of Geekery, ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>⁩ please call me!
I know the Eternals are set deep into Marvel Lore and the MCU, but you’re playing with pejorative views of race baked into the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AncientAliens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AncientAliens</a> source material used by Kirby.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CallMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CallMe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayWoke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StayWoke</a> <a href="https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0">https://t.co/tpiezjeBZ0</a>

— Dr. David S. Anderson (@DSAArchaeology) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology/status/1151570929790664704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After The College Fix highlighted his comments, his <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-worries-marvels-version-of-atlantis-will-use-cultural-appropriation-colonial-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account was made private but is now available to view as of publication</a>.

<a href="https://www.radford.edu/content/csat/home/anthropological-sciences/faculty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to his university profile</a>, Dr. Anderson researches and teaches Archaeological Methods, Pseudoarchaeology, Development of Social Organization, Mayan and Mesoamerican Archaeology.

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Published - October 27, 2022

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<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.

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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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<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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Published - November 2, 2023

Teresa V. Longo

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<a href="https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-create-center-help-educate-next-generation-black-journalists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> is an incoming professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. He currently serves as a <a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news-post/2017/01/30/author-ta-nehisi-coates-join-faculty-nyus-carter-journalism-institute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty member</a> in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. 
Coates spent much of his professional career writing for The Atlantic as a national correspondent. In 2014, he penned the 16,000-word essay, “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Reparations</a>.” The polemic brands America as a “slave society” that was founded on white supremacy:
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No American is spared from this indictment, Coates argues, as the legacy of racism extends to each white citizen: 
“The crime indicts the American people themselves, at every level, and in nearly every configuration. A crime that implicates the entire American people deserves its hearing in the legislative body that represents them.” 
Coates has further <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-atlantic-writer-says-trump-presidency-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged whites</a>, calling their votes an “indispensable” effort in promoting white supremacy each election cycle: 
“When you ask yourself why majorities of white people across socioeconomic demographics, across gender lines, across education lines, would endorse someone who only had whiteness to offer and all you come to is tribalism. That’s all that’s left.”
Coates is most <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ta-nehisi-coates-who-called-9-11-responders-menaces-of-nature-to-speak-at-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamously</a> known for his 2001 book, <a href="https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Between the World and Me</a>, where he describes 9/11 first responders as sub-human and “menaces of nature:” 
“They were not human to me…Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could – with no justification – shatter my body.”
While producing a series of Captain America comics, Coates allegedly depicted popular academic <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/6/jordan-b-peterson-stunned-by-red-skull-hit-job-in-/">Jordan Peterson as the demagogic, fascist Red Skull</a>. 
Widely acclaimed on the left for his work, Coates was awarded a <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2015/ta-nehisi-coates#searchresults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur Genius Grant</a> in 2015. The “no-strings-attached” program gifted <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy">$800,000</a> to Coates for “Interpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through the lens of personal experience and nuanced historical analysis.
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Joy Reid–host of The Reid Out on MSNBC– is a Hearst Visiting Professor at Howard University in Washington DC. Reid is known to launch into partisan diatribes during broadcasts and regularly uses her platform to berate conservatives.

During the riots in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd, Reid has claimed there is “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPloMpG2EM&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC">zero evidence</a>” that any of the destruction was connected to the movement. She has claimed that when there was any violence, it was inflicted by “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPloMpG2EM&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC">white supremacists</a>” and Trump supporters.

It is reported that there was a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">significant presence</a> by BLM activists at over 95% of the riots during the summer of 2020, resulting in at least 47 deaths and over <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion.">2 billion</a> in damages.

Reid has <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/msnbc-joy-reid-labels-justice-150310965.html">referred to Justice Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Clarence,”</a> a reference to the racial epithet “Uncle Tom” when discussing his court rulings.

Following the <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-hodgkinson-shooting-republicans-baseball-game">2017 congressional baseball shooting</a>, Reid and her guest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQEdDySUVI&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC">mocked the victims for holding insufficiently liberal positions</a>. She accused Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise of racism while he was fighting for his life after the attack.

In 2018, blog posts were unearthed from Reid’s old website that contained inflammatory language, bigoted statements, and<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/05/31/joy-reid-reportedly-once-touted-notorious-9-11-conspiracy-film/"> links to conspiracies that accused the United States government of plotting the 9/11 terror attacks</a>. <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/04/24/msnbc-stars-lame-excuse-after-homophobic-remarks-surface/?_ga=2.40761378.1834013034.1527547273-216432594.1517259352">Reid alleged that many members of Congress were secretly gay</a>, and <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/msnbc-host-joy-reid-criticized-jews-ariel-sharon-in-old-blog-posts/">openly mocked Jews</a>.

Once the blog was unearthed and began receiving media attention, Reid initially acknowledged that she had written the posts and apologized for her “bigoted remarks.” However, once additional posts surfaced, Reid reversed her position and claimed that she had never written the blog posts to begin with. Reid claimed on national television that <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/watch-msnbc-s-joy-reid-address-offensive-blog-posts-1221485635964">she “genuinely does not believe that“ she wrote the posts</a> and alleged that her blog was hacked. After her statement, cyber-security experts confirmed that there <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-evidence-is-not-with-joy-reid/558935/">was little evidence of Reid’s blog ever being breached</a>.

Reid<a href="https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/13601/award-winning-msnbc-news-anchor-joy-reid-joins-howard-university-2021-hearst"> currently teaches a journalism class titled “Covering Race, Gender, and Politics in the Digital Age”</a>. Reid plans to teach journalism students how to navigate “partisanship and political division.”
“Particularly in this era of virtual media, and deep partisanship and political division, it’s never been more important that journalists incorporate a thorough and honest historical context in our coverage. I can’t wait to interact with the brilliant students at Howard and share ideas with them on how we as an industry can be better and do better.”
For more information, be sure to check out Isabel Brown's <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/professor-watchlist-joy-reid">article</a> on Joy Reid at TPUSA Live.
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Updated - Spring, 2021

Nikole Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair of Race and Reporting at Howard University in Washington D.C.

Hannah-Jones is best known as one of the primary authors of The 1619 Project. <a href="https://archive.org/details/1619project/full_issue_of_the_1619_project">Published in July of 2019 by The New York Times Magazine</a>, The 1619 Project is a series of reports and essays that purport to document the origins of and lingering effects of racism in America. The stated intent for the project is to establish 1619–the first year that slaves were brought to the British Colonies in America–as the true founding of the United States, rather than 1776. The project’s central thesis alleges that slavery and racism are the basis out of which the United States was created.<a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/nikole-hannah-jones-wins-pulitzer-prize-1619-project"> Hannah-Jones was awarded The Pulitzer Prize</a> for her work on the project. Since its publication, The 1619 Project and its authors have faced a myriad of problems, including accusations of controversial hiring tactics, false claims, and shoddy research.

Hannah-Jones elicited controversy for the publication and retraction of false information in her articles and unearthed racially incendiary remarks.

- Shortly after the publication of the report, Hannah-Jones admitted that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/reader-center/1619-project-slavery-jamestown.html">hiring almost exclusively black staff was a “non-negotiable”</a> aspect when beginning to work on the 1619 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

- One of Hannah-Jones’ central claims—“that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery”—<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/">was retracted by the paper in early 2020</a>.

- In January 2020, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/">numerous historians, scholars, and commentators—both conservatives and socialists</a>— as cited by The Atlantic criticized The New York Times and The 1619 Project for publishing false information about American history and slavery.

- In October 2020, <a href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/pulitzer-board-must-revoke-nikole-hannah-jones-prize">accomplished professors and intellectuals penned an open letter</a> calling on “the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in The 1619 Project” because “... the article itself was false when written, making a large claim that protecting the institution of slavery was a primary motive for the American Revolution, a claim for which there is simply no evidence.”

Bret Stephens, a columnist for The New York Times and colleague of Hannah-Jones,<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201105003122/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html"> rebuffed the 1619 Project,</a> writing in October 2020 that “Journalists are, most often, in the business of writing the first rough draft of history, not trying to have the last word on it. We are best when we try to tell truths with a lowercase t, following evidence in directions unseen, not the capital-T truth of a pre-established narrative in which inconvenient facts get discarded.”

By late 2020, both Hannah-Jones’ claims and The 1619 Project as a whole began receiving scrutiny–<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/">from both the Left and Right</a>–on a near-daily occurrence. Hannah-Jones then falsely <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/">stated that The 1619 Project never claimed that 1619 was America’s true founding</a>, despite the fact that the allegation was printed on the front pages of the issue and was repeated numerous times in televised and print interviews.

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Hannah-Jones attracted further scrutiny over a racially explicit op-ed that she had written as a student at Notre Dame University in 1996. <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/25/in-racist-screed-nyts-1619-project-founder-calls-white-race-barbaric-devils-bloodsuckers-no-different-than-hitler/">As reported by The Federalist</a>, Mrs. Hannah-Jones described white people as “bloodsuckers” and accused the white race of being the “biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief, of the modern world.” She alleges in the same article that Africans arrived in the Americas “long before Columbus or any Europeans,” and that Christopher Columbus was “no different than Hitler.”

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Hannah-Jones was originally <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17529">offered the position of Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism and Professor of the Practice</a> at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Activists and later Hannah-Jones accused the university of racism for withholding tenure. When the University finally bowed to the pressure and <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/06/nikole-hannah-jones-denies-tenure-at-unc-accepts-howard-role/">offered to meet her demands, Jones refused and accepted a similar position at Howard University.</a>

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Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www2.howard.edu/contact/directory">Howard University</a> at (202) 806-6100
Updated - July 2021

<a href="https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-create-center-help-educate-next-generation-black-journalists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> is an incoming professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. He currently serves as a <a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news-post/2017/01/30/author-ta-nehisi-coates-join-faculty-nyus-carter-journalism-institute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty member</a> in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. 

Coates spent much of his professional career writing for The Atlantic as a national correspondent. In 2014, he penned the 16,000-word essay, “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Reparations</a>.” The polemic brands America as a “slave society” that was founded on white supremacy:
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No American is spared from this indictment, Coates argues, as the legacy of racism extends to each white citizen: 
“The crime indicts the American people themselves, at every level, and in nearly every configuration. A crime that implicates the entire American people deserves its hearing in the legislative body that represents them.” 
Coates has further <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-atlantic-writer-says-trump-presidency-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged whites</a>, calling their votes an “indispensable” effort in promoting white supremacy each election cycle: 

“When you ask yourself why majorities of white people across socioeconomic demographics, across gender lines, across education lines, would endorse someone who only had whiteness to offer and all you come to is tribalism. That’s all that’s left.”

Coates is most <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ta-nehisi-coates-who-called-9-11-responders-menaces-of-nature-to-speak-at-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamously</a> known for his 2001 book, <a href="https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Between the World and Me</a>, where he describes 9/11 first responders as sub-human and “menaces of nature:” 

“They were not human to me…Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could – with no justification – shatter my body.”

While producing a series of Captain America comics, Coates allegedly depicted popular academic <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/6/jordan-b-peterson-stunned-by-red-skull-hit-job-in-/">Jordan Peterson as the demagogic, fascist Red Skull</a>. 

Widely acclaimed on the left for his work, Coates was awarded a <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2015/ta-nehisi-coates#searchresults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur Genius Grant</a> in 2015. The “no-strings-attached” program gifted <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy">$800,000</a> to Coates for “Interpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through the lens of personal experience and nuanced historical analysis.

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Published - January 18th, 2023

Anti-Law Enforcement

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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According to her <a href="https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/psychology/research/parc/ourteam/cherylgrillsphd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a>, Cheryl Grills is “a Clinical Psychologist with a current emphasis in Community Psychology…[and] a tenured, Full Professor in the Psychology [Department]” at the University of Loyola &#8211; Marymount.
Grills is a proponent of reparations being granted to living African Americans due to the enslavement of African Americans in the United States before the Emancipation Proclamation (1863). In January of 2022, Grills was appointed to the <a href="https://reparationscomm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC)</a>. In her <a href="https://reparationscomm.org/naarc-news/press-releases/dr-cheryl-grills-appointed-to-national-reparations-commission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acceptance statement</a>, she made the following comments:
“I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams making reparations both a personal and professional matter. The work of unveiling, decolonizing and redressing the history of our enslavement and post enslavement oppression in America is long overdue.”
Continuing, she said:  
“Doing the work of reparations brings several opportunities including helping us as Black people change how we as a community understand where we are (in the tapestry of American life), how we got here (interpreting our personal and collective stories), and where we want to go (unencumbered by the weight of racism and the anti-Black narrative that dominates this society).”
In conclusion, Grills stated:
 “This is an all-hands-on deck call for ubuntu (community) and sawubona (truly seeing each other free of the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority). It is an honor to serve as a commissioner on the NAARC bringing the tools of psychology to the reparations discourse to ensure that our mental health and well-being as individuals and as a community are a central part of the process of repair.” 
Grills was president of the <a href="https://abpsi.site-ym.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Association of Black Psychologists</a> from 2011 to 2013. In an article titled <a href="https://dignityinschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Grills_Article.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“African Psychology,”</a> Grills touches on other metaphysical subjects. She defines “African-centered psychology [as] the dynamic manifestation of unifying African principles, values and traditions…African-Centered psychology examines the process that allows for the illumination and liberation of the spirit.”
In the <a href="https://www.ul.ac.za/application/downloads/Grills%20African%20Psychology%20Keynote.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> to a keynote on African psychology, Grills made the following claim: 
“​​Western Psychology grounded, in its own paradigmatic preconceptions and assumptions, has usurped authority over the province of psychology. In so doing, it has dramatically limited, on a global scale, “acceptable” questions, methods, and  evidence on matters of human behavior and ontology.” 
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-reparations-task-force-member-complains-preoccupation-800b-price-tag-least-important" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, in the Spring of 2023 Grills complained about the media’s concern with the $800 billion dollar reparation amount <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/reparations-black-californians-top-800-billion-rcna77160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> for African Americans in California:
&#8220;We want to make sure that this is presented out in a way that does not reinforce the preoccupation with a dollar figure, which is the least important piece of this. It’s important, but it’s the least important in terms of being able to get to a point in our country’s history and in California’s history where we recognize that the harm cuts across multiple areas and domains and that the repair needs to align with that. It’s really unfortunate. I’m actually sad to see that our news media is not able to nuance better. It’s almost like, ‘What’s going to be sensational’ as opposed to what’s important.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-reparations-panel-approves-payments-1-2-million-every-black-resident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reports that, on May 6, 2023, “[t]he California Reparations Task Force formally recommended that the state offer payments of up to $1.2 million to every qualifying Black resident.”
Published &#8211; May 8, 2023

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Loyola Marymount University

<a href="http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/afam/faculty/?expert=stefan.bradley">Stefan Bradley</a>, associate professor and chair of African-American studies at Loyola Marymount University, praised “violent or destructive demonstrations" because they "draw the attention of the wider public and motivates decision makers to act." In response to an address made by Jeff Sessions at Georgetown University, Bradley wrote an op-ed titled "Civil Debate is Fine. Protest is Better." where he argues protesting and "shutting down speeches" are the only way to promote change.

Dr. <a href="https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/yoga/people/faculty/?expert=chris.miller2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Jain Miller</a> is the Bhagwan Mallinath Assistant Professor of Jainism and Yoga Studies at <a href="https://mission.lmu.edu/mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loyola Marymount University</a>, a Jesuit University located in Los Angeles, California. In a course-wide email sent to his students, Dr. Miller threatened to reduce the grade of any student that did not announce their pronouns.

In the email—obtained by the Twitter handle, <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Libs of Tik Tok</a>—Dr. Miller informs students that they are required to list their preferred gender pronouns when submitting their next assignment. He further warns that failure to do so will result in a reduction of their grade.

“I added a new syllabus to Brightspace and the one major change we all need to take note of is that all are required to include their pronouns next to their name in their blog posts. I will count this toward your grade when I check for your name each time I grade the blogs.” 
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A professor at Loyola Marymount University requires students to add pronouns next to their name on assignments. He writes “I will count this toward your grade” <a href="https://t.co/IlVD3AgEcP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/IlVD3AgEcP</a>
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1459234768168517634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dr. Miller then instructs a student to read an article linked in the same tweet. The URL leads to the web page, “Pronouns Matter.” The site itself lists resources that specifically <a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/inclusivelanguage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instruct users on how to use activists' preferred pronouns</a>.

Under the, “<a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What and Why</a>,” section, the page explicitly describes the failure to use preferred pronouns as harmful and harassing to trans and non-binary persons.

“The act of making an assumption (even if correct) sends a potentially harmful message...it can be offensive or harassing to guess at someone’s pronouns and refer to them using those pronouns if that is not how that person wants to be known.”  

The web page<a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/inclusivelanguage" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> further urges students to use more “inclusive” language by refraining from using terms like, “ladies and gentlemen,” or, “boys and girls.”</a>

According to Dr. Miller's biography, his classes include, “Foundations of Yoga Studies”, “History of Modern Yoga” and, “Hinduism, Jainism, and Yoga.”

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Miller for comment, but have not received a reply by publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts</a> at (310) 338-2716 or at Bellarmine@lmu.edu.  
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Updated - November 18, 2021
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According to her <a href="https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/psychology/research/parc/ourteam/cherylgrillsphd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a>, Cheryl Grills is “a Clinical Psychologist with a current emphasis in Community Psychology…[and] a tenured, Full Professor in the Psychology [Department]” at the University of Loyola - Marymount.

Grills is a proponent of reparations being granted to living African Americans due to the enslavement of African Americans in the United States before the Emancipation Proclamation (1863). In January of 2022, Grills was appointed to the <a href="https://reparationscomm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC)</a>. In her <a href="https://reparationscomm.org/naarc-news/press-releases/dr-cheryl-grills-appointed-to-national-reparations-commission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acceptance statement</a>, she made the following comments:
“I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams making reparations both a personal and professional matter. The work of unveiling, decolonizing and redressing the history of our enslavement and post enslavement oppression in America is long overdue.”
Continuing, she said:  
“Doing the work of reparations brings several opportunities including helping us as Black people change how we as a community understand where we are (in the tapestry of American life), how we got here (interpreting our personal and collective stories), and where we want to go (unencumbered by the weight of racism and the anti-Black narrative that dominates this society).”
In conclusion, Grills stated:
 “This is an all-hands-on deck call for ubuntu (community) and sawubona (truly seeing each other free of the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority). It is an honor to serve as a commissioner on the NAARC bringing the tools of psychology to the reparations discourse to ensure that our mental health and well-being as individuals and as a community are a central part of the process of repair.” 
Grills was president of the <a href="https://abpsi.site-ym.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Association of Black Psychologists</a> from 2011 to 2013. In an article titled <a href="https://dignityinschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Grills_Article.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“African Psychology,”</a> Grills touches on other metaphysical subjects. She defines “African-centered psychology [as] the dynamic manifestation of unifying African principles, values and traditions…African-Centered psychology examines the process that allows for the illumination and liberation of the spirit.”

In the <a href="https://www.ul.ac.za/application/downloads/Grills%20African%20Psychology%20Keynote.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> to a keynote on African psychology, Grills made the following claim: 
“​​Western Psychology grounded, in its own paradigmatic preconceptions and assumptions, has usurped authority over the province of psychology. In so doing, it has dramatically limited, on a global scale, “acceptable” questions, methods, and  evidence on matters of human behavior and ontology.” 
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-reparations-task-force-member-complains-preoccupation-800b-price-tag-least-important" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, in the Spring of 2023 Grills complained about the media’s concern with the $800 billion dollar reparation amount <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/reparations-black-californians-top-800-billion-rcna77160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> for African Americans in California:
"We want to make sure that this is presented out in a way that does not reinforce the preoccupation with a dollar figure, which is the least important piece of this. It’s important, but it’s the least important in terms of being able to get to a point in our country’s history and in California’s history where we recognize that the harm cuts across multiple areas and domains and that the repair needs to align with that. It’s really unfortunate. I’m actually sad to see that our news media is not able to nuance better. It’s almost like, ‘What’s going to be sensational’ as opposed to what’s important."
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-reparations-panel-approves-payments-1-2-million-every-black-resident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reports that, on May 6, 2023, “[t]he California Reparations Task Force formally recommended that the state offer payments of up to $1.2 million to every qualifying Black resident.”
Published - May 8, 2023

Cheryl Grills

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Peter Dreier

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

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Occidental College

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

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

Anti-2nd Amendment

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Joy Karega

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

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Oberlin College

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

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

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

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

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<a href="https://www.muhlenberg.edu/academics/soc-anth/facultyandstaff/maurafinkelstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maura Finkelstein</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College. She describes herself as an “anti-Zionist Jew” and teaches a course called “The Anthropology of Palestine.”
Finkelstein penned a 2021 article for <a href="https://www.academia.edu/64586569/May_Your_Classroom_Be_A_Sea_Of_Change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia</a> titled “May Your Classroom Be a Sea of Change: Further Thoughts on Teaching About Palestine.” She writes:
“When I teach my course on Palestine, I tell my students that this story is actually chillingly simple: when we turn on our televisions or open our newspapers, we are watching the unchecked oppression and violence of a settler colonial genocide play out before us, funded by the most powerful country in the world, the United States.” 
Finkelstein says students spend the first two weeks of her course reading about “settler colonialism” from North America before turning to Palestinian literature. She claims she is not interested in the course having a “both sides” discourse; rather, she is interested “in speaking truth to power.”
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After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Finkelstein took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share a photo of herself wearing a keffiyeh scarf and demanding a “stop [to] the ongoing genocide by the Israeli and American war machines.”
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On October 16, 2023, Finkelstein <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf/status/1713915166700503200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a Google doc</a> on X titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16yk29XClwa-icZPDZ4zTZAzFAKOfpz5T4qhW3flz6Pw/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Questions/Answers About the Gaza Genocide</a>” that she drafted for the university’s student newspaper. When asked “Who is Hamas and what is their goal,” Finkelstein’s response neglects to mention that Hamas is a globally-recognized terrorist organization, referring to them instead as a “liberation group”:
“Hamas emerged in the 1970s, as activists established charities, schools, and medical centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a response to Israel occupying both territories in 1967. It was officially established as a liberation group in 1987, alongside the First Intifada (the uprising). Hamas, who favored armed resistance, didn’t enter politics until 2005, in opposition to the Fatah party, which favored negotiations with Israel. In 2006, an armed conflict left Hamas in charge of Gaza and Fatah in charge of the West Bank. Hamas’s goal is Palestinian liberation.” 
Finkelstein writes that “Palestinians have been living under apartheid for decades” and defines Gaza as the “largest open-air prison in the world.” She claims most Gazans want peace, but “Israel has no intention of allowing this.” She then writes, “With such a reality in mind, it’s understandable that some people in Gaza &#8211; particularly members of Hamas &#8211; would feel they have nothing to lose. Hence, the attacks on October 7th.”
Finkelstein concludes her comments by stating:
“This is not a war, this is genocide. If the US continues to support Israel’s actions of revenge as ethnic cleansing, this catastrophe is our responsibility, as much as theirs.”
Other examples of posts on Finkelstein’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X account</a> include:
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Finkelstein’s comments on social media prompted a petition to circulate on <a href="https://www.change.org/p/muhlenberg-college-must-remove-professor-finkelstein-for-dangerous-pro-hamas-rhetoric?redirect=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Change.org</a> calling for her removal as a professor. The petition—started by the Muhlenberg College Alumni and Supporters—lists several alleged offenses committed by Finkelstein, including a history of “Glorifying Hamas, the Terrorists, and Vilifying Israel.” The alumni write:
“If this is not addressed, we will 1. Not donate to the college or provide any form of support. 2. We will send this document to every Jewish High School in America to ensure that they know Muhlenberg is not a safe place for Jewish students.” 
As of publication, the petition had over 6,000 signatures.
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Published &#8211; November 6, 2023

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<a href="https://www.muhlenberg.edu/academics/soc-anth/facultyandstaff/maurafinkelstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maura Finkelstein</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College. She describes herself as an “anti-Zionist Jew” and teaches a course called “The Anthropology of Palestine.”

Finkelstein penned a 2021 article for <a href="https://www.academia.edu/64586569/May_Your_Classroom_Be_A_Sea_Of_Change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia</a> titled “May Your Classroom Be a Sea of Change: Further Thoughts on Teaching About Palestine.” She writes:
“When I teach my course on Palestine, I tell my students that this story is actually chillingly simple: when we turn on our televisions or open our newspapers, we are watching the unchecked oppression and violence of a settler colonial genocide play out before us, funded by the most powerful country in the world, the United States.” 
Finkelstein says students spend the first two weeks of her course reading about “settler colonialism” from North America before turning to Palestinian literature. She claims she is not interested in the course having a “both sides” discourse; rather, she is interested “in speaking truth to power.”

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3256" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-06-at-3.49.08-PM-1024x798.png" alt="" width="640" height="499" />

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Finkelstein took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share a photo of herself wearing a keffiyeh scarf and demanding a “stop [to] the ongoing genocide by the Israeli and American war machines.”

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3257" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-02-at-2.08.19-PM-502x1024.png" alt="" width="502" height="1024" />

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On October 16, 2023, Finkelstein <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf/status/1713915166700503200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a Google doc</a> on X titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16yk29XClwa-icZPDZ4zTZAzFAKOfpz5T4qhW3flz6Pw/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Questions/Answers About the Gaza Genocide</a>” that she drafted for the university’s student newspaper. When asked “Who is Hamas and what is their goal,” Finkelstein’s response neglects to mention that Hamas is a globally-recognized terrorist organization, referring to them instead as a “liberation group”:
“Hamas emerged in the 1970s, as activists established charities, schools, and medical centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a response to Israel occupying both territories in 1967. It was officially established as a liberation group in 1987, alongside the First Intifada (the uprising). Hamas, who favored armed resistance, didn’t enter politics until 2005, in opposition to the Fatah party, which favored negotiations with Israel. In 2006, an armed conflict left Hamas in charge of Gaza and Fatah in charge of the West Bank. Hamas’s goal is Palestinian liberation.” 
Finkelstein writes that “Palestinians have been living under apartheid for decades” and defines Gaza as the “largest open-air prison in the world.” She claims most Gazans want peace, but “Israel has no intention of allowing this.” She then writes, “With such a reality in mind, it’s understandable that some people in Gaza - particularly members of Hamas - would feel they have nothing to lose. Hence, the attacks on October 7th.”

Finkelstein concludes her comments by stating:
“This is not a war, this is genocide. If the US continues to support Israel’s actions of revenge as ethnic cleansing, this catastrophe is our responsibility, as much as theirs.”
Other examples of posts on Finkelstein’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_mauraf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X account</a> include:

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Finkelstein’s comments on social media prompted a petition to circulate on <a href="https://www.change.org/p/muhlenberg-college-must-remove-professor-finkelstein-for-dangerous-pro-hamas-rhetoric?redirect=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Change.org</a> calling for her removal as a professor. The petition—started by the Muhlenberg College Alumni and Supporters—lists several alleged offenses committed by Finkelstein, including a history of “Glorifying Hamas, the Terrorists, and Vilifying Israel.” The alumni write:
“If this is not addressed, we will 1. Not donate to the college or provide any form of support. 2. We will send this document to every Jewish High School in America to ensure that they know Muhlenberg is not a safe place for Jewish students.” 
As of publication, the petition had over 6,000 signatures.

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Published - November 6, 2023

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<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/timothy-welbeck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timothy Welbeck</a> is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Africology and African American Studies and Director of the Center for Anti-Racism, both at Temple University. According to his university profile, Welbeck’s research includes “contemporary issues of racial identity in America [and] the intersection of racial classifications and the law in the American context.”
At the <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-11-30/temple-university-s-center-anti-racism-holds-grand-opening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center’s grand opening ceremony</a> in November 2022, Welbeck said the goal is to be a “hub of collaboration across the university as we seek to create scholarship that will shape the course of the discourse and help us better understand what racism is, how it reveals itself and how we can better fight against it.”
Welbeck further discussed his vision for the center in an interview with <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2021-10-05/unravelling-systemic-oppression-through-scholarship-advocacy-and-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a>. He said the Center “will examine the ways racism finds its way into systems and structures, like housing, the criminal justice system, healthcare, environmental concerns, city planning, etc.” He continues, “We’ll begin targeting our efforts and focus on various issues within the U.S. and specifically the North Philadelphia community.”
Welbeck has been outspoken about his <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-06-15/temple-experts-remain-committed-anti-racism-work-ahead-juneteenth-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support for critical race theory</a>, accusing those who are against it of trying to “keep productive conversations about race out of American classrooms.” He stated:
“It’s a very coordinated, deliberate campaign that’s funded and organized around trying to disarm any type of assessment of racial inequity in the United States, which is why if you look at some of the legislation from the 26 states that said to have banned critical race theory, they’re not actually banning critical race theory, but they’re banning terms like diversity, equity and inclusion.” 
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned affirmative action in June 2023, Welbeck participated in a panel discussion about the impact of the Court’s decision. Welbeck told <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-supreme-court-meaning-philadlephia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> that students of color are not on an equal playing field with their white counterparts and “Schools cannot consider trying to undo centuries of harm and racialized segregation.” Welbeck is quoted in a <a href="https://news.temple.edu/2023-07-19/temple-experts-weigh-supreme-court-s-affirmative-action-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a> article, saying:
“Historically, Black people were denied entry into every form of society like housing, medicine and education. They have racial impacts and disparities linked to this broader history that should be considered.” 
“We need the ability to target the centuries of exclusion of Black people in America and to not be afraid to talk about the actual problem itself. There was unique harm targeted at specific racial groups, so we need specific remedies to address it and to give them time to work.”
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Published &#8211; November 8, 2023

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<a href="https://sites.temple.edu/josephschwartz/">Dr. Joseph Schwartz</a>, a Professor of Political Science at Temple University, took over a College Republican discussion with a representative from Pennsylvania Right to Work Defense and Education Foundation. He and some of his students insulted the speaker and accused him of racism. Schwartz then exclaimed, “Oh come on, f*****g a--. I believe in the religion of foul language.”

<a href="https://www.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/sara-goldrick-rab-tug64840">Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab</a>, a Professor of Policy, Organizational, and Leadership Studies at Temple University, took to Twitter to compare Republican governor Scott Walker to Hitler. Her tweet said “My grandfather, a psychologist, just walked me through the similarities between Walker and Hitler. There are so many- it’s terrifying”. According to Campus Reform, the tweets followed a contentious battle over budgets and policy changes for the University of Wisconsin system.

On the day after the death of O.J. Simpson, Hill posted a YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgKqiBCGIL0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stream</a> titled, “O.J. Simpson is DEAD!!! Do NOT Make Him A Hero or a Martyr.” In the stream, Hill repeatedly asserts that Simpson is a “monster” and not a figure worth celebrating for the black community. He <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/opinion/left-is-still-defending-oj-because-race-is-more-important-to-them-than-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maintains Simpson was guilty</a> of the crimes he committed even though his "acquittal was the 'correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system.'"

This stream came after Hill posted his initial reaction to Simpson’s death, according to <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/cuny-professor-marc-lamont-hill-says-cold-blooded-killer-oj-simpsons-acquittal-was-correct-and-necessary-to-fight-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a>:
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O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system. But he’s still a monster, not a martyr.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1778461905268412472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Before addressing those crimes, Hill condemned Simpson for his lifestyle choices, which, he claims, were very much a dismissal and abandonment of the black community and culture: 
“O.J. Simpson is not a person who is our kind. O.J. Simpson became famous, moved to L.A. …  and created a social network that was filled with white people. He created a white reality.”
Hill stated that the white Ford Bronco that Al Cowlings (Simpson’s friend) and Simpson attempted to escape the police with was not the first time Simpson used a white vehicle to “escape a black reality.” Hill stated that Simpson “wanted no parts of the black community.”

Hill alleges that L.A. Detective Mark Fuhrman—who investigated the crime scene at Simpson’s house in the aftermath of the murders of Nicole Brown, Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman—is solely to blame for the acquittal of Simpson. 
“O.J. Simpson should not have been found guilty because there was a police officer [Fuhrman], a racist police officer … who at the end of the day lied about using the n-word. He had a history of racist acts. Mark Fuhrman is the reason why O.J. Simpson spent the next few decades as a free man living in a white world. I’m not saying that O.J. Simpson should’ve gone to prison. I’m saying that O.J. Simpson was guilty of the crime.” 
Hill claims the Simpson case in 1994 and its outcome was a referendum on the allegedly racist U.S. justice system. He says Simpson was found innocent due to “reasonable doubt because of a racist cop.” However, he defends Johnnie Cochrane, Simpson’s attorney during that trial, and claims he and Simpson are two different species. Cochrane was a civil rights leader who fought the “racist” system by using O.J.’s case, according to Hill. 

Towards the end of the stream, Hill asserts the following.
“O.J. is a reminder that the world is racist, that the system is racist, that the cops are racist …  O.J. forced y’all to deal with white supremacy [and] structural racism.”
Of the response to Simpson’s death, Hill claims it will be celebratory for white people in the fashion of certain responses to the deaths of dictators or terrorists:
 “White people will act like it’s the fall of Sadaam Hussein.”
Published - April 16, 2024
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<a href="https://education.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/marc-lamont-hill-marchill">Marc Lamont Hill</a> is a Professor of Media Studies and Production and of Policy, Organizational, and Leadership Studies at Temple University.

In 2018, Marc Lamont Hill was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/media/marc-lamont-hill-cnn/index.html">fired</a> by CNN for his anti-Israel remarks. Speaking before the UN, Hill called for a "free Palestine from the river to the sea, " which are sentiments widely understood as a call for the elimination of the state of Israel and replacement with an Arab state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Hill was previously under fire for his relationship with the open anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. He has repeatedly <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/18/marc-lamont-hill-stands-brother-farrakhan-we-shoul/">refused</a> to condemn Farrakhan, stating, 

“Minister <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/louis-farrakhan/">Farrakhan</a> is my brother. The idea that we have to renounce him, denounce him, throw him away … in the black tradition, I ain’t got the luxury of throwing people who love us away. I ain’t got the luxury of taking people who come out of traditions that have saved us and cleaned us and throw them away. We can’t do that. We shouldn’t do that.”

<a href="https://law.temple.edu/contact/rachel-rebouche/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Rebouché</a> is the Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law, the James E. Beasley Professor of Law, and a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research. According to her university biography, Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law and family law.

Rebouché co-authored an opinion piece for The New York Times titled, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/opinion/abortion-pills-online-roe-v-wade.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Abortion Pills Will Change a Post-Roe World.”</a> The article praises abortion pills, claiming that “people who live in anti-abortion states and can’t travel will still be able to obtain safe abortions, often without the direct involvement of a medical provider and within the privacy of their homes.”

However, according to a report put together by Live Action and the Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ExecSummary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion pill poses a four-times higher risk of complication</a> than surgical abortion in the first trimester. Since the FDA approved the pills, there have been 24 reported maternal deaths and over 4,000 reports of adverse events including hemorrhage, excruciating abdominal pain, and severe life-threatening infections.

Rebouché and her co-authors ignore these statistics and claim, with the fall of Roe v. Wade, the “anti-abortion movement is likely to continue to deploy another longstanding tactic: deceiving people.” They say crisis pregnancy centers “often imply that they provide abortions when their mission is actually to block people from getting abortions.”
“Expect anti-abortion activists to set up websites pretending to sell abortion pills or even selling fake abortion pills.” 
Lastly, Rebouché et al. advocate for social media companies and search companies like Google to treat abortion pill misinformation like Covid-19 misinformation. They write:
“These companies created policies that have tried to de-emphasize, remove or add disclaimers to Covid-19 misinformation. Given the immense complexity of the post-Roe legal and abortion access landscape, companies could enact similar policies governing abortion misinformation and websites that aim to deceive and entrap pregnant people.”
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Published - December 2, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/timothy-welbeck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timothy Welbeck</a> is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Africology and African American Studies and Director of the Center for Anti-Racism, both at Temple University. According to his university profile, Welbeck’s research includes “contemporary issues of racial identity in America [and] the intersection of racial classifications and the law in the American context.”

At the <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-11-30/temple-university-s-center-anti-racism-holds-grand-opening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center’s grand opening ceremony</a> in November 2022, Welbeck said the goal is to be a “hub of collaboration across the university as we seek to create scholarship that will shape the course of the discourse and help us better understand what racism is, how it reveals itself and how we can better fight against it.”

Welbeck further discussed his vision for the center in an interview with <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2021-10-05/unravelling-systemic-oppression-through-scholarship-advocacy-and-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a>. He said the Center “will examine the ways racism finds its way into systems and structures, like housing, the criminal justice system, healthcare, environmental concerns, city planning, etc.” He continues, “We’ll begin targeting our efforts and focus on various issues within the U.S. and specifically the North Philadelphia community.”

Welbeck has been outspoken about his <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-06-15/temple-experts-remain-committed-anti-racism-work-ahead-juneteenth-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support for critical race theory</a>, accusing those who are against it of trying to “keep productive conversations about race out of American classrooms.” He stated:
“It’s a very coordinated, deliberate campaign that’s funded and organized around trying to disarm any type of assessment of racial inequity in the United States, which is why if you look at some of the legislation from the 26 states that said to have banned critical race theory, they’re not actually banning critical race theory, but they’re banning terms like diversity, equity and inclusion.” 
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned affirmative action in June 2023, Welbeck participated in a panel discussion about the impact of the Court’s decision. Welbeck told <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-supreme-court-meaning-philadlephia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> that students of color are not on an equal playing field with their white counterparts and “Schools cannot consider trying to undo centuries of harm and racialized segregation.” Welbeck is quoted in a <a href="https://news.temple.edu/2023-07-19/temple-experts-weigh-supreme-court-s-affirmative-action-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a> article, saying:
“Historically, Black people were denied entry into every form of society like housing, medicine and education. They have racial impacts and disparities linked to this broader history that should be considered.” 
“We need the ability to target the centuries of exclusion of Black people in America and to not be afraid to talk about the actual problem itself. There was unique harm targeted at specific racial groups, so we need specific remedies to address it and to give them time to work.”
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Published - November 8, 2023

<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/fogg-davis-heath" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heath Fogg Davis</a> is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University. 

According to Davis’ <a href="https://heathfoggdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, the professor studies “discrimination and identity formation with the goal of puzzling out their complicated workings, while also highlighting the many organizations and individuals fighting for a better, more equitable world.”

Aside from teaching, Davis works “with companies and organizations to help them imagine, design, and achieve their diversity and inclusion goals.”

In a 2017 <a href="https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/do-we-need-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> for Powell’s City of Books titled “Do We Need Gender,” Davis writes about the subject of gender and its relevance to contemporary society.

In the article, Davis criticizes the “belief” that sex is determined by genitalia:  
“Many people still believe that sex is determined by genitalia. Girls have vaginas, and boys have penises … Most people who are born with penises and identified as male at birth go on to identify as boys and then men. And most people who are born with vaginas and identified as female at birth go on to identify as girls and then as women.”
He claims this belief can lead to transgender discrimination:
“This variation has repercussions for how we detect and fight transgender discrimination. Some people who identify as ‘trans’ experience transgender discrimination because others perceive them to have altered, or be in the process of changing their birth sex designation, or because they have disclosed such as transition. Some people who identify as trans do not experience transgender discrimination because they appear to others to be gender conforming. To further complicate matters, some people who do not identify as trans experience transgender discrimination because others perceive them as trans and/or gender non-conforming.” 
In another 2017 <a href="https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/why-testosterone-ranges-should-replace-sex-segregation-in-title-ix-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Why Testosterone Ranges Should Replace Sex-Segregation in Title IX Sports,” Davis argues in favor of athletes performing in sports based on their amount of testosterone rather than their biological gender. 
“[W]e can say that certain sex-related physiological features, such as muscle mass, lung capacity, and aggression, are relevant to ‘fair play.’ These mutable characteristics are affected by the amount of functional testosterone in an athlete’s body, not by the presence or absence of genitalia.”
He admits this change would not be easy and would result in certain social consequences:
“If we were to replace sex-segregation with testosterone levels in Title IX sports, we would, of course, not be making a trivial change. Part of the sense of ‘losing tradition’ is tied up with losing the social aspect of gender-based affinity that is considered formative to young athletes: girls and boys and women and men working together toward common goals and competing to achieve them”
Yet, Davis concludes the article by subtly expressing his favor for this form of collegiate athletics in light of other moves the NCAA has made:
“Replacing male and female competitive sports with hormone levels seems, on its face, radical, but the NCAA and other elite sports organizations have already begun rewriting the rules in favor of fair play.”
Please send information on Heath Fogg Davis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - June 10, 2024

<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/jennifer-pollitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Pollitt</a> is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Temple University. Her expertise includes “Sexuality and Gender Studies,” “Sexuality Education,” and “LGBTQIA Civil Rights.” She also organizes #MeToo conferences for academic and professional attendees. 

In May 2023, Pollitt was featured in a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/temple-university-has-a-porn-studies-class-2023-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider article</a> titled “Temple University now offers porn-studies course. In the class, students talk about things they ‘don’t even discuss with their closest friends.’” Pollitt told the Insider that her course “kept having a longer wait list” of students who were interested in the topic. She ultimately concluded that people “really want to talk about [sex].” 

The Insider wrote:

“[Pollitt] said her goal in creating the course was to use digital pornography as a jumping-off point to talk about race, ability, and the patriarchy. Pollitt added that she wanted to teach students how to get away with binary thinking: viewing porn as simply right versus wrong, good versus bad.”

Pollitt also said the discussion in her course venture into “racialized porn,” “disability porn,” and “trans porn.” However, in the past, she told <a href="https://19thnews.org/2023/07/porn-studies-temple-university-professor-jennifer-pollitt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19th News</a> that her course would not include watching pornographic movies and “[u]npacking the stigma about porn and sexuality is one of her goals as an educator.” 

The screenshot below shows a list of hypersexualized classes primarily taught by Pollitt.

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The university publication <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2023-09-14/what-you-need-know-watching-marvels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a> included Pollitt’s comments on a film called The Marvel, which features an all-female main cast. Pollitt was asked to share her thoughts on Nia DaCosta (a black woman) who directed the movie. Pollitt was quoted saying:

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In the article, Pollitt also took offense to the phrase “going all-female,” declaring that the film “challenges” views on women as superheroes and “reinforces that women are just as strong, brave, capable and resilient as men.” Apparently, Pollitt is unfamiliar with historic female heroines and lead characters such as Catwoman (1940), Wonder Woman (1941), Batwoman (1956), The Bionic Woman (1976), and Elasti-Girl/Woman (DC Comics, 1963; Disney, 2004).

When asked by <a href="https://19thnews.org/2023/07/porn-studies-temple-university-professor-jennifer-pollitt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19th News</a> about the purpose of her salacious class, Pollitt admitted that “porn studies” hasn’t been taken seriously in the past because the topic “was considered smut and a waste of time.” Considering the innumerable marriages and <a href="https://extension.usu.edu/relationships/research/effects-of-pornography-on-relationships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">relationships destroyed by pornography</a>—as well as <a href="https://www.theasservoproject.org/pornography-and-human-trafficking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the industry’s proven ties</a> to adult and child sex trafficking—Pollitt is doing a disservice to the education community at Temple University, if not the entire realm of academics.

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MingQing Xiao is an <a href="https://math.siu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/xiao.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applied math professor at Southern Illinois University.</a> He specializes in partial differential equations, control theory, dynamical systems, and computational science.
On April 21, 2021, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mathematics-professor-and-university-researcher-indicted-grant-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced that a federal grand jury had returned an indictment</a> charging the professor with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. According to the press release:
“Xiao allegedly applied for and received National Science Foundation (NSF) grant funds for a project set to run from 2019 to 2022 without informing NSF about another, overlapping grant he had already received from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China.” 
Additionally:
“Xiao also allegedly failed to inform NSF that he was on the payroll of Shenzhen University, a public university in Guangdong Province, and that he had already committed to teaching and conducting research at Shenzhen University from 2018 to 2023.” 
The release also states that NSF questioned Xiao about any current or pending funding from “worldwide sources” and the indictment accuses him of falsely reporting to NSF that he had nothing else to disclose.
In October 2021, <a href="https://thesouthern.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/feds-pin-additional-charges-on-siu-math-professor-accused-of-scheming-for-grant-dollars/article_ce9c58d4-94a9-5f11-9d87-1db1b8c44782.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">additional charges were levied against Professor Xiao</a>, including tax fraud and failure to disclose a foreign bank account.
On May 5, 2022, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-professor-convicted-failing-report-chinese-bank-account-2022-05-05/">Reuters</a> reported that Xiao was convicted of failing to disclose a Chinese bank account on his 2017 to 2019 tax returns but was cleared of concealing his ties to China while seeking federal grant funding. The jury acquitted Xiao of making a false statement in connection with a NSF grant proposal and U.S. Judge Staci Yandle “found prosecutors failed to prove two related wire fraud charges.”
In September 2022, Professor Xiao was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-math-professor-gets-probation-not-prison-china-initiative-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced to 1 year of probation and given a $600 fine.</a> Xiao has been on paid administrative leave from SIUC since his indictment in April 2021. As of publication, he is still on leave.
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You may contact Southern Illinois University by phone at (618)-453-2121. 
Published &#8211; September 30, 2022

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MingQing Xiao is an <a href="https://math.siu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/xiao.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applied math professor at Southern Illinois University.</a> He specializes in partial differential equations, control theory, dynamical systems, and computational science.

On April 21, 2021, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mathematics-professor-and-university-researcher-indicted-grant-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced that a federal grand jury had returned an indictment</a> charging the professor with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. According to the press release:
“Xiao allegedly applied for and received National Science Foundation (NSF) grant funds for a project set to run from 2019 to 2022 without informing NSF about another, overlapping grant he had already received from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China.” 
Additionally:
“Xiao also allegedly failed to inform NSF that he was on the payroll of Shenzhen University, a public university in Guangdong Province, and that he had already committed to teaching and conducting research at Shenzhen University from 2018 to 2023.” 
The release also states that NSF questioned Xiao about any current or pending funding from “worldwide sources” and the indictment accuses him of falsely reporting to NSF that he had nothing else to disclose.

In October 2021, <a href="https://thesouthern.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/feds-pin-additional-charges-on-siu-math-professor-accused-of-scheming-for-grant-dollars/article_ce9c58d4-94a9-5f11-9d87-1db1b8c44782.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">additional charges were levied against Professor Xiao</a>, including tax fraud and failure to disclose a foreign bank account.

On May 5, 2022, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-professor-convicted-failing-report-chinese-bank-account-2022-05-05/">Reuters</a> reported that Xiao was convicted of failing to disclose a Chinese bank account on his 2017 to 2019 tax returns but was cleared of concealing his ties to China while seeking federal grant funding. The jury acquitted Xiao of making a false statement in connection with a NSF grant proposal and U.S. Judge Staci Yandle “found prosecutors failed to prove two related wire fraud charges.”

In September 2022, Professor Xiao was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-math-professor-gets-probation-not-prison-china-initiative-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced to 1 year of probation and given a $600 fine.</a> Xiao has been on paid administrative leave from SIUC since his indictment in April 2021. As of publication, he is still on leave.

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You may contact Southern Illinois University by phone at (618)-453-2121. 
Published - September 30, 2022