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

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Drexel University

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

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Susanna Ashton

<a href="https://www.clemson.edu/caah/faculty-staff/facultyBio.html?id=71">Dr. Susanna Ashton</a> publicly called for shaming of all students who participated in a “Cripmas” party in which students dressed in a gang-related theme. She said that the 1st Amendment allowed for her and others to publicly shame these students and that all of their names should be revealed.

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Clemson University

<a href="https://www.clemson.edu/caah/faculty-staff/facultyBio.html?id=71">Dr. Susanna Ashton</a> publicly called for shaming of all students who participated in a “Cripmas” party in which students dressed in a gang-related theme. She said that the 1st Amendment allowed for her and others to publicly shame these students and that all of their names should be revealed.

<a href="https://www.usabart.nl/portfolio/#home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bart Knijnenburg</a> is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University. He teaches “Advanced Measurement &amp; Evaluation of HCC Systems” and “Adaptive Decision Support Systems.”

According to his Twitter profile, Knijnenburg identifies with the radical ideologies of BLM, LGBTQ+ and socialism.

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In 2017, Knijnenburg made headlines after he was accused of calling former president Donald Trump’s supporters “racist scum.” <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/clemson-prof-all-republicans-racist-scum/9626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> published an article with quotes from Knijnenburg, “‘All trump[sic] supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum’ … ‘All republicans?[sic] Yes,’ he confirmed in the comments section. ‘Your complacency made this happen. Pick a side: denounce your affiliation, or admit you’re a racist.’”

The Reform quoted Knijnenburg’s response to another commenter:

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The Reform said the posts were sourced from a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/usabart/posts/10101577493806609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> that’s no longer accessible.

<a href="https://www.independentmail.com/story/news/2017/09/01/clemson-professor-bart-knijnenburg/622140001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Independent Mail</a>, “The university [looked] into the situation and [analyzed] all aspects, said Mark Land, vice president of university relations. The university said it did not support the opinions in the post but did not want to infringe on anyone’s First Amendment rights.” 

Knijnenburg came under fire again in 2020 after another <a href="https://www.facebook.com/usabart/posts/10102683459896699" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> rant where he called Trump’s supporters “xenophobic and racist.” The following screenshot is sourced from Campus Reform. 

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The following concerning posts can be found on Knijnenburg’s social media.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Bart Knijnenburg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Updated - July 30, 2024

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Peter Rosnick

<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/peter-rosnick">Dr. Peter Rosnick</a>, a Professor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke, all but told his class to vote for Hillary Clinton, without saying it explicitly. Even worse, the school confirmed Rosnick made the same statement to both calculus classes he teaches.

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Mount Holyoke

<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/peter-rosnick">Dr. Peter Rosnick</a>, a Professor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke, all but told his class to vote for Hillary Clinton, without saying it explicitly. Even worse, the school confirmed Rosnick made the same statement to both calculus classes he teaches.

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<a href="https://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/bletiecq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bethany Letiecq</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Letiecq’s profile says she “[specializes] in the utilization of community-based participatory action research approaches, anti-racist research methods … and mixed method designs … in partnership with minoritized and marginalized families.”
On February 4, 2024, Letiecq <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article </a>entitled “Theorizing [w]hite heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality.” In the abstract, Letiecq states:
“Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3515 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555-1024x721.png" alt="" width="640" height="451" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555-1024x721.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555-300x211.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555-768x541.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555-1200x845.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
In the past, Letiecq received an Article of the Year award for her work on “structural racism and heteropatriarchy.”
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It is beyond humbling to be awarded the Article of the Year from <a href="https://twitter.com/ASA_Family?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASA_Family</a>. Co-authoring this article &#8220;interlinking structural racism &amp; heteropatriarchy&#8221; with the brilliant <a href="https://twitter.com/christinajcross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@christinajcross</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/p_fomby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@p_fomby</a> was so very rewarding. Grateful to the reviewers for this honor. 🙏🤯😂 <a href="https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8">https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8</a>
— Bethany Letiecq (@BethanyLetiecq) <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyLetiecq/status/1661133190226927616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, The College Fix featured Letiecq in an <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-seek-to-undo-the-unearned-benefits-of-family-privilege/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> after she spoke during a seminar called “Toward Dismantling Family Privilege and White Supremacy in Family Science.” The source linked to the <a href="https://www.ncfr.org/events/ncfr-webinars/toward-dismantling-family-privilege-and-white-supremacy-family-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminar description</a>, which says, “Family privilege is a structural mechanism ‘hidden’ within our [w]hite supremacist society that creates systemic barriers to equal opportunity and justice for all families.”
The seminar summary also said, “[A]ttendees will examine, recognize, and learn how to dismantle the manifestations of family privilege in our social systems by using an intersectional framework developed by critical feminist and race scholars.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3516 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369-1024x721.png" alt="" width="640" height="451" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369-1024x721.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369-300x211.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369-768x541.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369-1200x845.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Please send tips and information on Bethany Letiecq to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published &#8211; March 18, 2024

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George Mason University

<a href="https://www.prescott.edu/faculty-staff-directory/craig-willse">Craig Willse</a> is an associate faculty member of Social Environmental Arts Practice and Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College in Arizona. Craig led faculty and administrators at George Mason University in protesting the renaming of its law school after Antonin Scalia and regularly engages in Anti-Israel protests.

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In 2016, following an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/politics/george-mason-university-antonin-scalia-law-school-name-change">announcement</a> from George Mason University that they would be renaming their law school after the recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Willse, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/george-mason-university-professors-oppose-naming-law-school-after-antonin-n552501">according</a> to NBC, was then a cultural studies professor at  George Mason, led the protests by George Mason faculty and administration to oppose the decision. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonin-Scalia">Scalia </a>had served on the Supreme Court 30 years and was known for his  “originalism,” or interpretation of the United States Constitution as Scalia believes our founding fathers had intended.

As part of the protest, Willse <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/george-mason-university-professors-oppose-naming-law-school-after-antonin-n552501">authors</a> a letter protesting the university’s decision. The <a href="https://nojusticeforgmu.wordpress.com/">letter</a>, which appears on the site, “No Justice for GMU,” details Willse’s opposition to Scalia. He “denounces'' the renaming of the law school after Scalia and describes the university’s decision as an “affront” to those targeted by Scalia’s, “racism, sexism, and homophobia.” Willie specifically <a href="https://nojusticeforgmu.wordpress.com/who-was-scalia/">accuses</a> Scalia’s “constitutional originalism” of being “widely criticized” by historians and scholars, citing left-leaning publications such as Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, and The Huffington Post in doing so.

The same letter accuses Scalia of causing “direct harms” to GMU students, including “students of color, women, and LGBT students.”

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The protest was ultimately unsuccessful and the law school was officially <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/17/its-official-george-masons-law-school-is-named-in-honor-of-antonin-scalia/">renamed</a> the Antonin Scalia Law School later that year.

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Willse accuses Israel of being responsible for police brutality and racist profiling in the United States. In an article for the site, “Deadly Exchange” Willse <a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/building-safety-through-solidarity-an-interview-with-dean-spade-craig-willse/">states</a> that policing is a project of colonial and racial control.

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<a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/">Deadly Exchange</a> is a campaign by the anti-Israel group, <a href="https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/">Jewish Voice for Peace</a>. The campaign intends to end any collaboration between US and Israeli police forces. According to the official site for “Deadly Exchange,” security cooperation with Israel promotes “racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention, and attacks on human rights defenders.”

In the same <a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/building-safety-through-solidarity-an-interview-with-dean-spade-craig-willse/">article</a>, Willse compares policing with slave patrols in the Jim Crow-era and therefore says policing “fundamentally anti-black.” He states that police cannot be reformed, and his long-term goal is to abolish police and prisons.

As <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Craig_Willse">documented</a> by the site, <a href="https://canarymission.org/">Canary Mission</a>, Willse holds other anti-Israel stances and takes part in protests accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state.” In an article for the site Truthout, Willse <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-and-israeli-police-are-sharing-violent-and-repressive-tactics/">describes</a> Israel and the US “as the world's most racist, repressive and violent police and military forces.”

In the video below, Willse can be seen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e6jULCCh3Y&amp;ab_channel=AriWohlfeiler">disrupting</a> a pro-Israel parade in New York. As <a href="https://forward.com/scribe/373862/jvp-targeted-queer-jewish-youth-at-israel-parade/">reported</a> by The Forward, members of the New York Police Department stated that Willse and 4 others “targeted”  the parade on behalf of Jewish Voice for Peace and were arrested for disorderly conduct.

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To learn more, check out TPUSA Contributor Erin Elmore's <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/beware-of-prescott-college-professor-craig-willse">article</a> on Willse at TPUSA Live.

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<a href="https://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/bletiecq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bethany Letiecq</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Letiecq’s profile says she “[specializes] in the utilization of community-based participatory action research approaches, anti-racist research methods … and mixed method designs … in partnership with minoritized and marginalized families.”

On February 4, 2024, Letiecq <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article </a>entitled “Theorizing [w]hite heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality.” In the abstract, Letiecq states:
“Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.”
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3515 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-4-e1710807207555-1024x721.png" alt="" width="640" height="451" />

In the past, Letiecq received an Article of the Year award for her work on “structural racism and heteropatriarchy.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
It is beyond humbling to be awarded the Article of the Year from <a href="https://twitter.com/ASA_Family?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASA_Family</a>. Co-authoring this article "interlinking structural racism &amp; heteropatriarchy" with the brilliant <a href="https://twitter.com/christinajcross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@christinajcross</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/p_fomby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@p_fomby</a> was so very rewarding. Grateful to the reviewers for this honor. 🙏🤯😂 <a href="https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8">https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8</a>
— Bethany Letiecq (@BethanyLetiecq) <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyLetiecq/status/1661133190226927616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, The College Fix featured Letiecq in an <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-seek-to-undo-the-unearned-benefits-of-family-privilege/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> after she spoke during a seminar called “Toward Dismantling Family Privilege and White Supremacy in Family Science.” The source linked to the <a href="https://www.ncfr.org/events/ncfr-webinars/toward-dismantling-family-privilege-and-white-supremacy-family-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminar description</a>, which says, “Family privilege is a structural mechanism ‘hidden’ within our [w]hite supremacist society that creates systemic barriers to equal opportunity and justice for all families.”

The seminar summary also said, “[A]ttendees will examine, recognize, and learn how to dismantle the manifestations of family privilege in our social systems by using an intersectional framework developed by critical feminist and race scholars.”

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3516 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pwl-1-3-e1710807434369-1024x721.png" alt="" width="640" height="451" />

Please send tips and information on Bethany Letiecq to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - March 18, 2024

Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

Feminism

Racial Ideology

Bethany Letiecq

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Carol Lasser

<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 &#8230; 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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Send tips, updates, and information on Carol Lasser to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated &#8211; July 2024

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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:

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3738" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-3-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" />

<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>

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3739" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-4-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" />

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.

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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.

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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.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/cultural-and-critical-studies/ethnic-studies/faculty-and-staff.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timothy Messer-Kruse</a> is a Professor at Bowling Green State University. Kruse was a professor in the Ethnic Studies Department for 17 years, before transferring to the History Department in response to <a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/135/sb83" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio Senate Bill 83</a>.
<a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key=20620&amp;format=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduced</a> in March 2023, Ohio Senate Bill 83 is currently awaiting approval from the Ohio House and Governor. If passed, the bill will introduce new themes that all state institutions must include in a general education requirements course. According to an opinion piece Kruse wrote for <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2023/03/17/impact-of-ohio-senate-bill-83-professor-republicans-making-me-quit-my-department/70016359007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, the course must cover “the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, ‘5 essays from the Federalist Papers,’ the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’”
Kruse says he will have no problem teaching all of the concepts and theories that he used to teach in the Ethnic Studies department. To prove this, he shared part of a syllabus he’s working on to meet these requirements: 
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Week 1: Discuss leading theories of how the patriot’s determination to protect slavery led to the American Revolution and how the rise of “scientific” racism influenced Jefferson’s wording of the Declaration of Independence. </li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 2: Consider scholarly debates about the ways in which the U.S. Constitution advanced slavery and established a system of structural racism that denied African and Native Americans basic human rights. </li>
</ul>
 

<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 3: Examine the views and actions of the authors of the Federalist Papers. Why did Madison, Jay, and Hamilton all demand that Britain return the thousands of fugitive slaves they protected in New York City so they could be tortured and killed as a lesson to others? Why did Jay, who claimed to be an abolitionist, drag his young slave Abbe to Paris? Why did he have her hunted and thrown into a dungeon (where she perished) when she ran away? </li>
</ul>
 

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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 4: Exploration of Lincoln’s reluctance to turn the Civil war into one of liberation until African Americans forced his hand. Discussion of why, even after Emancipation, Lincoln tried to arrange the expulsion of all black Americans to Central America. </li>
</ul>
 

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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 5: How was the promise of the Gettysburg Address to “have a new birth of freedom” undermined by a conservative Supreme Court? Did pervasive white racism that cheered the growth of Jim Crow abort that birth? </li>
</ul>
 

<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 6: Discuss what King meant when he referred to the “white power structure” of Birmingham and America. What is this “structure” and how did it operate? We will attempt to understand the evils King complained of, such as “police brutality,” “racial injustice,” and “smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.””</li>
</ul>
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Kruse wrote a separate opinion piece in <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/06/01/interdisciplines-are-vulnerable-anti-wokeism-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed</a> titled, “Anti-Wokeism and the Vulnerability of Interdisciplinarity,” where he argues the department of ethnic studies is “ill protected by disciplinary norms of academic freedom.” He begins by claiming,
“Conservative attacks on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and anything labeled ‘woke’ have rekindled a national conversation over the proper role of the university in society.”
He continues:
“The threat to ethnic studies, and similar fields across the broad realm of cultural studies, is not only that it focuses its critical gaze squarely upon the most angry and festered spot on our body politic, but that its subject is increasingly viewed as something that cannot, or should not, be studied at all.” 
Kruse concludes his argument by writing:
“The operative theory underlying the tsunami of antiwoke legislation is that race (and sex/gender) are natural, given things that everyone should accept and no one should pay any attention to. This reflects a widespread public denial that scholars have gained any meaningful insights into the workings of racism or race itself. Such rejection is the inevitable consequence of seeing race as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of human experience and racism as a belief that can be as easily embraced as it is eschewed.”
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Published &#8211; August 3, 2023

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<a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/cultural-and-critical-studies/ethnic-studies/faculty-and-staff.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timothy Messer-Kruse</a> is a Professor at Bowling Green State University. Kruse was a professor in the Ethnic Studies Department for 17 years, before transferring to the History Department in response to <a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/135/sb83" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio Senate Bill 83</a>.

<a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key=20620&amp;format=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduced</a> in March 2023, Ohio Senate Bill 83 is currently awaiting approval from the Ohio House and Governor. If passed, the bill will introduce new themes that all state institutions must include in a general education requirements course. According to an opinion piece Kruse wrote for <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2023/03/17/impact-of-ohio-senate-bill-83-professor-republicans-making-me-quit-my-department/70016359007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, the course must cover “the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, ‘5 essays from the Federalist Papers,’ the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’”

Kruse says he will have no problem teaching all of the concepts and theories that he used to teach in the Ethnic Studies department. To prove this, he shared part of a syllabus he’s working on to meet these requirements: 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Week 1: Discuss leading theories of how the patriot’s determination to protect slavery led to the American Revolution and how the rise of “scientific” racism influenced Jefferson’s wording of the Declaration of Independence. </li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 2: Consider scholarly debates about the ways in which the U.S. Constitution advanced slavery and established a system of structural racism that denied African and Native Americans basic human rights. </li>
</ul>


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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 3: Examine the views and actions of the authors of the Federalist Papers. Why did Madison, Jay, and Hamilton all demand that Britain return the thousands of fugitive slaves they protected in New York City so they could be tortured and killed as a lesson to others? Why did Jay, who claimed to be an abolitionist, drag his young slave Abbe to Paris? Why did he have her hunted and thrown into a dungeon (where she perished) when she ran away? </li>
</ul>


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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 4: Exploration of Lincoln’s reluctance to turn the Civil war into one of liberation until African Americans forced his hand. Discussion of why, even after Emancipation, Lincoln tried to arrange the expulsion of all black Americans to Central America. </li>
</ul>


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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 5: How was the promise of the Gettysburg Address to “have a new birth of freedom” undermined by a conservative Supreme Court? Did pervasive white racism that cheered the growth of Jim Crow abort that birth? </li>
</ul>


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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Week 6: Discuss what King meant when he referred to the “white power structure” of Birmingham and America. What is this “structure” and how did it operate? We will attempt to understand the evils King complained of, such as “police brutality,” “racial injustice,” and “smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.””</li>
</ul>
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Kruse wrote a separate opinion piece in <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/06/01/interdisciplines-are-vulnerable-anti-wokeism-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed</a> titled, “Anti-Wokeism and the Vulnerability of Interdisciplinarity,” where he argues the department of ethnic studies is “ill protected by disciplinary norms of academic freedom.” He begins by claiming,
“Conservative attacks on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and anything labeled ‘woke’ have rekindled a national conversation over the proper role of the university in society.”
He continues:
“The threat to ethnic studies, and similar fields across the broad realm of cultural studies, is not only that it focuses its critical gaze squarely upon the most angry and festered spot on our body politic, but that its subject is increasingly viewed as something that cannot, or should not, be studied at all.” 
Kruse concludes his argument by writing:
“The operative theory underlying the tsunami of antiwoke legislation is that race (and sex/gender) are natural, given things that everyone should accept and no one should pay any attention to. This reflects a widespread public denial that scholars have gained any meaningful insights into the workings of racism or race itself. Such rejection is the inevitable consequence of seeing race as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of human experience and racism as a belief that can be as easily embraced as it is eschewed.”
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Published - August 3, 2023

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

Timothy Messer-Kruse

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Sara Pritchard

<a href="http://sts.cornell.edu/people/sbp65.cfm">Dr. Sara Pritchard</a> , a professor at Cornell University, has said that student evaluations of female professors are “pervasively slanted by gender bias” and thus prevents them from being more successful. Pritchard then goes on to say that because of blatant gender bias, female professors should be given bonus points in order to level the playing field.

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Cornell University

<a href="http://sts.cornell.edu/people/sbp65.cfm">Dr. Sara Pritchard</a> , a professor at Cornell University, has said that student evaluations of female professors are “pervasively slanted by gender bias” and thus prevents them from being more successful. Pritchard then goes on to say that because of blatant gender bias, female professors should be given bonus points in order to level the playing field.

<a href="https://history.cornell.edu/russell-rickford">Dr. Russell Rickford</a> is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. According to his university biography, Dr. Rickford “specializes in African-American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements.” In his various writings and teaching materials, Dr. Rickford frequently condemns the nation of Israel and alleges that the United States was founded on slavery and white supremacy.

In a book titled <a href="https://books.google.co.il/books?id=SEAeCwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA276&amp;lpg=PA276&amp;dq=Russell+Rickford+israel&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=vIzqNlUKjC&amp;sig=KRxT1-8CHqm0mHE_Fr8k_PI9bFQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiqg_3_t-DTAhUDIVAKHUUCDtMQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&amp;q=Russell%20Rickford%20israel&amp;f=false">Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader</a>, Dr. Rickford alleges that Israel bears ultimate responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On page 276, Dr. Rickford states: “The US media and opinion makers repeatedly went out of their way to twist the facts and distort the political realities of the Middle East by insisting that Osama bin Laden’s group’s murderous assaults had nothing to do with Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians. Nobody else in the world, with the possible exception of the Israeli’s, really believes that.”

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In a paper for The New Labor Forum (a labor journal published by the <a href="https://slu.cuny.edu/about/murphy-institute/">Murphy Institute</a> at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies) titled <a href="https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2015/12/28/black-lives-matter-practice-of-mass-struggle/">Black Lives Matter: Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle</a>, Dr. Rickford praises the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as having “reinvigorated confrontation politics.” He describes the tactics of BLM as a commitment to “militancy,” referencing their history of “occupying highways, intersections, sporting events, retail stores, malls, campaign events, police stations, and municipal buildings.”

According to a <a href="https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to  95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">The Federalist</a> found 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.">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Dr. Rickford believes the motivations behind BLM riots are “police aggression and racist violence” instigated by law enforcement.  Dr. Rickford claims that white supremacy serves as the framework of our criminal justice system—causing law enforcement agencies to view BLM protestors as “enemy combatants.”

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Throughout his career, Dr. Rickford has delivered racially charged speeches and lectures. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU8G_neFEOY&amp;ab_channel=CornellReview">During a September 2014 protest at Cornell University, Dr. Rickford can be heard telling students</a> that each of them benefits from white supremacy.

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The full speech, captured by the Cornell Review, may be viewed below.

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Also in a 2014 lecture captured by The Cornell Review, Dr. Rickford urged his students to find white people that are “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsTQQQmYc88&amp;ab_channel=CornellReview">ready to commit race suicide</a>” on behalf of BLM and other racial justice movements.

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In a video captured at a BLM protest in 2016, Dr. Rickford tells a crowd of students and activists that a segment of white America is “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63J7oUdTQOE&amp;ab_channel=JoelBlizzard">overtly, irredeemably racist.</a>”

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<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/lights-of-liberty-vigal-remarks/">In an article for CounterPunch</a>, Dr. Rickford states bluntly that America was founded on genocide and slavery. He made a similar claim in a 2019 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl2deMaznt8&amp;t=240s&amp;ab_channel=TheColumbusDispatchTheColumbusDispatchVerified">speech</a> at the Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps in Ithaca, NY.

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<a href="https://as.cornell.edu/news/jelani-cobb-address-questions-policing-and-racial-justice-krieger-lecture">Cornell University frequently welcomes Dr. Rickford</a> to campus to discuss policing<a href="https://as.cornell.edu/news/racism-america-webinar-examine-protest-movements">, racism, and white supremacy</a>. He has also spoken at <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/09/cornell-faculty-take-a-knee-protest-hijacked-professor-leads-chant-of-free-palestine/">anti-Israel protests</a> at Cornell.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Dr. Rickford for comment but has not received a reply as of publication.
Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/">College of Arts and Sciences</a> at Cornell University at  (607) 255-1097.
Published - May 2021
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cornell-professor-hamas-attacks-exhilarating-students-want-him-fired-2023-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider</a>, during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAZcG-ZHOz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> made in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, Rickford stated that his observation of the conflict was “exhilarating.” He exclaimed the following:

“In those first few hours—even as horrific acts were being carried out, many of which we would not learn about until later—there were many Gazans of goodwill, many Palestinians of conscience … who were able to breathe.”

Rickford continued:
“They [Palestinians] were able to breathe for the first time in years. It was exhilarating. It was energizing. And if they weren't exhilarated by this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated.”
And:
“What has Hamas done? Hamas has shifted the balance of power. Hamas has punctured the illusion of invincibility.”
And:
“Hamas has challenged the monopoly of violence.”
<a href="https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cornell-university-community-demands-the">Online petitions have started</a>, calling for Rickford’s removal from Cornell University, but as of late October 2023 he remains on faculty there.
Updated - October 19, 2023
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In April 2024, Rickford returned to Cornell’s campus from his leave of absence to join a student-led pro-Palestinian protest.

According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/cornell-prof-russell-rickford-who-called-hamas-attack-exhilarating-is-back-on-campus-cheering-on-protesters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, Rickford was “behind a megaphone last week celebrating the students’ protest of the war in Gaza, which included ralliers setting up their own encampment Thursday in solidarity with the ‘tent city’ at Columbia University in Manhattan.”

Rickford stated the following of Israel and Palestine on April 25:
“The liberated territory is a concept. The liberated territory is in your head. Anytime you are ready, you can become a resident, an inhabitant, a member of the occupied territory, of the forces of liberation.” 
The university has not commented upon Rickford’s return to campus or his involvement in the protests.

Despite his leave from the university, Rickford wrote an article for <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2024/04/29/rickford-the-encampment-as-a-beloved-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cornell Daily Sun</a>  titled “The Encampment as a Beloved Community.” At the opening of the article, Rickford wrote favorably of the protests and unfavorably of the administration’s response, which he called “an obscene distortion:”
“In their ongoing effort to criminalize solidarity with those the western world deems disposable, Cornell administrators have <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2024/04/29/everything-that-happened-on-day-four-of-the-encampment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">portrayed</a> the encampment on the Arts Quad as a center of aggression and hatred.”
Concerning his time at the encampment, Rickford stated:
“In the few hours I spent at the encampment recently, I witnessed a safe, dynamic, radically inclusive space. Indeed, I saw an expression of what civil rights workers once called ‘the beloved community’ — a society that enshrines the practice of fellowship, mutuality and agape love.”
Rickford further addresses the encampment’s effect on the university:
“The encampment defies Cornell’s culture of conformity and narrow careerism. If the creed of individualism and the ethics of capitalist accumulation shape official campus life, a politics of caring and camaraderie guides the liberated zone. Its inhabitants rediscover themselves as political actors. They cease to be mere objects on the conveyor belt of professionalization.”
“The encampment is a makeshift university. It is a library, a cooperative, a mosque, a synagogue. It is hardly a utopia. Yet it is utopian in the sense that the terms of living that it demands are impossible under existing conditions.” 
Rickford concludes the article:
“The encampment is temporary, but it will surely spawn more ‘counterinstitutions’ able to counteract hegemonic values, unmask indecency and prefigure the just society. Prototypes of insurgent democracy will flourish as long as anticolonialism and principled internationalism are heretical and silent complicity in genocide remains the price of normalcy.”
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Updated - May 2, 2024

<a href="https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/bruce-monger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bruce Monger</a> is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for <a href="https://www.eas.cornell.edu/eas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Earth and Atmospheric Sciences</a> at <a href="https://www.cornell.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cornell University</a> in Ithaca, New York. According to his University profile, Dr. Monger teaches Introductory Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, and Satellite Remote Sensing.

In an interview, Dr. Monger—who describes himself as a socialist—admits his classes are taught for the purpose of creating revolutionaries.
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Cornell Oceanography Professor
“I tell my students at the start of class, the whole purpose of this is not this is a wave this is a tide; it’s is purpose I wanna create a revolution” 🙄<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Indoctrination?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Indoctrination</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GretaPimp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GretaPimp</a> <a href="https://t.co/oYJ0B4BETz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/oYJ0B4BETz</a>
— AZSuburbs (@noprezzie2012) <a href="https://twitter.com/noprezzie2012/status/1455052660629913603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Monger further uses his classroom to intimidate and bully students if they fail to adhere to Cornell’s COVID-19 policies. In a letter from October of 2021, the professor asks for help in identifying a “hook-nosed” student. He threatens to flunk him, as well as another student who allegedly did not wear their mask in class.

In July of 2021, the university <a href="https://covid.cornell.edu/updates/20210730-indoor-masks.cfm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mandated masks to be worn indoors at all times, regardless of vaccination status</a>. Cornell additionally <a href="https://covid.cornell.edu/vaccines/vaccination-cornell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend classes</a>.

In the course-wide email—obtained by the Twitter handle “<a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1455022824620376066?s=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Libs of Tik-Tok</a>”—Dr. Monger asks for help identifying two students who did not wear masks during the previous class period:

“I wanted to ask for your help in identifying two oceans students who were photographed with their masks off during the oceans class last Friday.”

Dr. Monger proceeds to detail the physical appearance of both students, stating that one had “a fairly prominent hooked nose.” He threatens to fail both students once they are identified by himself or another student.

“If/when I identify the students, I will be failing both of them for the semester as promised I would in class last Wednesday.” 
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Cornell professor sent out an email requesting help in identifying 2 students who didn’t wear masks. He writes “I will be failing both of them for the semester” <a href="https://t.co/Gku83vhz4O" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Gku83vhz4O</a>
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1455022824620376066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In a separate Reddit post on what appears to be his personal account, Dr. Monger states that he is “f****** pissed” that students are not wearing masks.
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This professor also reportedly said that he’s “f****** pissed” that people aren’t wearing masks <a href="https://t.co/xnAkazL49q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/xnAkazL49q</a>
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1455346045882232835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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When the email received significant media attention, Cornell University released a statement defending Dr. Monger. The University announced that Dr. Monger had acknowledged that he did not handle the situation in an “appropriate manner.” However, they still acknowledged his right to note the “potential consequences for failing to comply” with COVID-19 restrictions in his classroom.
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Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Here is our statement regarding Dr. Monger. <a href="https://t.co/3eqfsvzNaI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/3eqfsvzNaI</a>
— Cornell University (@Cornell) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cornell/status/1455273141031383053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Administration of Cornell University at (607) 255-3474
Updated - November 19, 2021

<a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/monica-cornejo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monica Cornejo</a> is an Assistant Professor of Interpersonal Communication at Cornell University. According to her university profile, Cornejo’s research “uses qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the structural barriers that lead to inequities among undocumented immigrants, how undocumented immigrants draw on communication identity management and advocacy strategies to challenge those barriers, and how those strategies relate to undocumented immigrants’ health and wellbeing.”

Cornejo was <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/cornell-professor-melts-ann-coulter-speech-escorted-cops-watch/25228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escorted out by police</a> after she interrupted Ann Coulter’s “Immigration: The Conspiracy To End America” lecture on Cornell University’s campus in April 2024. During the question portion of the event, Cornejo — wearing a shirt that read “Keep Migrants, Deport The Racists” — stated:
“I’m an assistant professor of communication here, and one of those illegals that you mentioned. I really appreciate you coming in and talking about these issues, that way I get to know how many racist people belong to this University.” 
Afterward, Cornejo <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2024/04/17/ann-coulter-84-appearance-leads-to-faculty-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued to interrupt</a> Coulter’s event, shouting “Racist” and putting up middle fingers in response to many of Coulter’s comments. Coulter eventually called for Cornejo’s removal, and she was arrested on the charge of disorderly conduct.

Cornejo was featured in an April 2023 article by <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2023/04/24/prof-monica-cornejo-shares-experiences-as-an-undocumented-immigrant-in-academia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cornell Daily Sun</a> titled, “Prof. Monica Cornejo Shares Experiences as an Undocumented Immigrant in Academia.” After describing Cornejo as “one of the first undocumented tenure-track faculty members at Cornell,” she was asked how her legal status has inspired her work as a professor.
“When we talk about academia, we have this very exclusive ivory tower, where only certain people get to be brought in and [contribute to the] broader movement to support oppressed and marginalized communities. Being part of that marginalized community has pushed me in that direction to want to make change.” 
Cornejo told the publication she believes the university could do more to help undocumented students. According to The Cornell Daily Sun, “tangible actions that the University could take include creating a center and full-time team to support undocumented students.”

In another interview with the <a href="https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/from-undocumented-petaluma-student-to-doctor-at-cornell-university/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Petaluma Argus-Courier</a>, Cornejo remarked that she negotiated her job offer with Cornell, and her acceptance was contingent on the school petitioning on her behalf for a green card. Cornejo said the university agreed to her demands and paid to hire her a lawyer for the petition process.

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Published - May 17, 2024

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<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/william-nash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Nash</a> is a Professor of American Studies and English at Middlebury College in Vermont. Nash’s faculty biography states that his current research “focuses on historical and contemporary representations of abolitionism and enslavement.” 
His university profile contains a list of courses and descriptions include but are not limited to:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Black Freedom Struggles—This course explores racial tensions of the present moment and situates them in the historical context of the ongoing struggles of black freedom. Topics discussed may include black reparations, abolitionism, mass incarceration, the Black Lives Matter movement and the Civil Rights Movement.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Livin’ for the City—In this course, we will engage the idea of the ‘ghetto’ as constructed through literature, film, music and television…consider its impact on urban African American space…”</li>
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Nash is <a href="https://antiracism.middcreate.net/people/anti-racist-taskforce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as a member of <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/news/2022/05/working-become-anti-racist-institution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Taskforce.</a> The taskforce <a href="https://midd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1b712b2d-9166-4e7d-9d5a-ad57013956f0&amp;start=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction video</a> describes racism as “an explicit and highly sophisticated piece of technology.”
In August 2023, Nash <a href="https://www.wfae.org/arts-culture/2023-08-30/with-goodbye-mary-molly-tuttle-extends-country-musics-lineage-of-reproductive-rights-songs-to-the-post-roe-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial</a> titled, “With ‘Goodbye Mary,’ Molly Tuttle extends country music’s lineage of reproductive rights songs to the post-Roe era.” Nash writes:
“Jason Aldean’s song ‘Try That in a Small Town’ extols small towns as bastions of conservative values standing up against a litany of violent big-city bogeyman…As an American Studies professor who teaches courses on country music, I am interested in the genre’s competing ‘liberal’ lineage.”
He continued:
“Perhaps the most striking of the new ‘abortion songs’ comes from acoustic guitar wizard Molly Tuttle…With ‘Goodbye Mary’&#8230;Tuttle creates an intimate portrait of a woman’s struggle for bodily autonomy that captures the potential terrors of a post-Roe America.”
The <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/william-nash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description</a> of Nash’s “Cultural Work Country Music” course says, “Arguably, aversion to American country music often tracks with class- and race-based assumptions about makers and consumers of this genre…”
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<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/william-nash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Nash</a> is a Professor of American Studies and English at Middlebury College in Vermont. Nash’s faculty biography states that his current research “focuses on historical and contemporary representations of abolitionism and enslavement.” 

His university profile contains a list of courses and descriptions include but are not limited to:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Black Freedom Struggles—This course explores racial tensions of the present moment and situates them in the historical context of the ongoing struggles of black freedom. Topics discussed may include black reparations, abolitionism, mass incarceration, the Black Lives Matter movement and the Civil Rights Movement.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Livin’ for the City—In this course, we will engage the idea of the ‘ghetto’ as constructed through literature, film, music and television…consider its impact on urban African American space…”</li>
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Nash is <a href="https://antiracism.middcreate.net/people/anti-racist-taskforce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as a member of <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/news/2022/05/working-become-anti-racist-institution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Taskforce.</a> The taskforce <a href="https://midd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1b712b2d-9166-4e7d-9d5a-ad57013956f0&amp;start=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction video</a> describes racism as “an explicit and highly sophisticated piece of technology.”

In August 2023, Nash <a href="https://www.wfae.org/arts-culture/2023-08-30/with-goodbye-mary-molly-tuttle-extends-country-musics-lineage-of-reproductive-rights-songs-to-the-post-roe-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial</a> titled, “With ‘Goodbye Mary,’ Molly Tuttle extends country music’s lineage of reproductive rights songs to the post-Roe era.” Nash writes:
“Jason Aldean’s song ‘Try That in a Small Town’ extols small towns as bastions of conservative values standing up against a litany of violent big-city bogeyman…As an American Studies professor who teaches courses on country music, I am interested in the genre’s competing ‘liberal’ lineage.”
He continued:
“Perhaps the most striking of the new ‘abortion songs’ comes from acoustic guitar wizard Molly Tuttle…With ‘Goodbye Mary’...Tuttle creates an intimate portrait of a woman’s struggle for bodily autonomy that captures the potential terrors of a post-Roe America.”
The <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/william-nash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description</a> of Nash’s “Cultural Work Country Music” course says, “Arguably, aversion to American country music often tracks with class- and race-based assumptions about makers and consumers of this genre…”

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<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/tara-affolter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tara Affolter</a> is an Associate Professor of Education Studies and the Faculty Director of Equity, Justice &amp; Inclusion at Middlebury College. According to her university profile, Affolter “has over 15 years of experience teaching high school English and theatre while working for racial and social justice within the public schools…” She also serves in Middlebury’s Academic Affairs, “Black Studies,” and Education Studies departments.

In the Fall of 2022, she taught a course titled “Teaching the 1619 Project” with the following description:
“In this course, we will explore various ways to approach teaching The 1619 Project and examine how the project pushes against miseducation within the U.S. education systems. We will also delve into various states’ bans against teaching the 1619 Project and scrutinize how CRT became wrapped in these bans.”
Affolter is the author of several books including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Through-Fog-Urban-Education-Studies-ebook/dp/B07QSC9VX6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BU03JAVU00JF&amp;keywords=through+the+fog%3A+towards+inclusive+anti-racist+teaching&amp;qid=1698171833&amp;sprefix=through+the+fog+towards+inclusive+anti-racist+teaching%2Caps%2C112&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B07QSC9VX6&amp;revisionId=cd77f78c&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Through the Fog: Towards Inclusive Anti-Racist Teaching</a>,” where she discussed topics such as “The Story of Race and the Creation of the White World,” “White Privilege” and “White Teachers.”  In the introduction, she writes:
“This book rests on the premise that as a nation, the United States is far from post-racial. Critical race theorists put this best in arguing that racism is endemic in the United States and shapes all of our institutions…
“The disproportionate emphasis on communities of color, the rhetoric of deficit that frames these communities as lacking and parents as not caring, the often-dysfunctional relationship between white educations and students of color, all help to illustrate the ways in which race continues to disrupt meaningful education for all students.” 

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Affolter was featured in <a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2022/11/freedom-dreaming-imagines-an-anti-racist-middlebury-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Middlebury Campus</a> after the production of her stage play “Freedom Dreaming: Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury.” The Middldlebury said, “Onstage, seven actors dressed in their everyday outfits as they read and acted out lines sewn together from interviews conducted with predominantly BIPOC [black, indigenous, people of color] students on campus.”

Affolter also partnered with Middlebury’s Student Government Association to lead a <a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/01/panel-discusses-implications-of-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-for-college-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research panel</a> to answer the question, “What would ending affirmative action mean for Middlebury.” Affolter is quoted saying that “student body diversity promotes cross-racial understanding and reduces prejudice, overall leading to more positive interethnic attitudes by the end of college.”

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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/james-sanchez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Sanchez</a> is an Assistant Professor of Writing &amp; Rhetoric at Middlebury College. His research interests include “cultural and racial rhetorics, public memory and writing assessment.”

Sanchez teaches a course titled “Documentaries, Social Justice” and another course titled “Race, Rhetoric, and Protest.” The latter is described as a “study [of] the theoretical and rhetorical underpinnings of racial protest in America…from bus boycotts to Black Power protests…”

In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Earth-Rhetoric-Preservation-Supremacy/dp/0814142230/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38TGSU3TSKABS&amp;keywords=Salt+of+the+Earth%3A+Rhetoric%2C+Preservation%2C+and+White+Supremacy&amp;qid=1699042342&amp;sprefix=salt+of+the+earth+rhetoric%2C+preservation%2C+and+white+supremacy%2Caps%2C106&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BGZF2GNB&amp;revisionId=7f11d136&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Salt of the Earth: Rhetoric, Preservation, and White Supremacy,” Sanchez discussed past life experiences while growing up in Grand Saline, Texas. He writes in the introduction:
“The ‘purity in Grand Saline is within the race of its people, or rather, the whiteness of the town. I define the term whiteness here as ‘a socially constructed category that is normalized within a system of privilege so that it is taken for granted by those who benefit from it…’”
Later in the book he states:
“The town preserves its white culture not out of necessity for life but out of fear of a white cultural death, an unfounded fear that has existed within white communities for centuries.”
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Sanchez is also a member of Middlebury’s “<a href="https://antiracism.middcreate.net/about-the-website/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Taskforce</a>.” In a Middlebury article titled <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/news/2022/05/working-become-anti-racist-institution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Working to Become an Anti-Racist Institution</a>, it is stated that the group was “created to develop a process to transform our community into one that is attentive to racism, addresses its destructive force, and creates the conditions to have courageous conversations.”

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Please send information on James Sanchez to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 6, 2023

<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/midddata/caitlin-myers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caitlin Myers</a> is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. According to her profile, she teaches statistics, regression analysis, and causal inference.

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/unplanned-parenthood-professors-research-maps-out-post-roe-abortion-travel-destinations/23676" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Myers in an article titled “‘Unplanned Parenthood’ professor’s research maps out post-Roe abortion travel destinations.” The following map was included to show Myers’ cartography results.

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According to Campus Reform, “[Myers] created the ‘Myers Abortion Facility Database,’ which displays how legal changes to abortion access affect the abortion rate, birth rate, and changes the number of available abortion centers.”

The source said Myers’ project, which launched in 2021, included data from clinics that performed abortions from 2009 through 2023.

Myers is also outspoken about her support for abortion on social media:
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Just because abortions are up nationally doesn’t mean that people aren’t also trapped. Great coverage from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheUpshotNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theupshotNYT</a> of new work w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/danieldench1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@danieldench1</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/MayraPinedaT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayraPinedaT</a> providing the first estimates of the Dobbs' effects on births. Here’s the evidence….1/11<a href="https://t.co/g0Fju2uSVX">https://t.co/g0Fju2uSVX</a>
— Caitlin Knowles Myers (@Caitlin_K_Myers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlin_K_Myers/status/1727329764015313297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Proud to be part of this groundbreaking issue of the <a href="https://twitter.com/AEACSWEP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEACSWEP</a> newsletter on the changing landscape of abortion access. Took a brief trip through 5 decades of newsletter archives, and I'm pretty sure this is a first. Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/YanaRodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YanaRodgers</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/anusha_chari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@anusha_chari</a>!<a href="https://t.co/GjhhmNVfrv">https://t.co/GjhhmNVfrv</a> <a href="https://t.co/4gRy6BqOgP">pic.twitter.com/4gRy6BqOgP</a>
— Caitlin Knowles Myers (@Caitlin_K_Myers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlin_K_Myers/status/1705171416935481845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/10/professor-of-economics-caitlin-myers-maps-abortion-access-across-the-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Middlebury Campus</a> newspaper published an article praising Myers for her work on the abortion map. The source wrote, “When Myers is not teaching regression analysis or statistics … she engages with these issues in real-world contexts, gaining extensive experience as an expert witness and consultant for Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights … Myers’ abortion access dashboard has given her a platform to publish data that visually illustrates the causal effects of limiting access to reproductive care in the United States.”

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Please send tips and information on Caitlin Myers to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/search?query=Kriner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew Kriner</a> is Managing Director of the Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC), as well as the Director of Strategy, Partnerships and Intelligence at Middlebury’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC). (Note: as of publication, Kriner's faculty profile has been deleted).

In light of a gesture made by Elon Musk during the 47th Presidential Inauguration, Kriner wrote an <a href="https://theconversation.com/musks-inauguration-salute-is-not-the-only-apparent-fascist-signal-from-trumps-administration-248517">article</a> alleging a long-time connection between Nazism and conservatives in American politics. The title of the article is “Musk’s inauguration salute is not the only apparent fascist signal from Trump’s administration.”

Kriner wrote: 

“As a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e8ecZu8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholar of far-right extremism</a>, I regularly review instances of coded fascist symbols and other right-wing messages being sent by public figures and their supporters, some more obvious than others.”

Kriner claimed the stage at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference was shaped in the fashion of an odal rune, which he describes as “an ancient pagan symbol coopted by Germany’s Nazi regime and worn prominently during World War II on the uniforms of the brutal <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/waffen-ss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waffen SS</a> units.”

In 2021, MyPillow Founder Mike Lindell discounted a pillow from $49.88 to $14.88, which, according to Kriner, is allegedly “aligned with the 14-word white supremacist slogan and the numerical reference ‘88’ that white supremacists use to mean ‘Heil Hitler’ because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.”

At the article’s conclusion, Kriner claims these alleged coincidences of “fascism” and fascist symbolism with the American right-wing have a direct connection to Nazi Germany: 

“But as the old saying goes, ‘where there’s smoke there’s fire’ – and in this case the smoke is probably closer to a book-burning bonfire in Berlin than a tiki torch carried in Charlottesville.”

In a 2023 <a href="https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DoevMiddleburyComplaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, Kriner, among other defendants ( several of whom worked with Middlebury College), was accused of labor trafficking and not compensating an independent contractor in the same field of research (terrorism studies) as Kriner. The plaintiff, called Jane Doe in the lawsuit, sued the defendants on 11 counts.  

The plaintiff was initially asked to help Kriner with research in accelerationism:

“Defendant Matthew Kriner introduced himself to Doe on social media. He described himself as a private sector analyst who worked on similar topics. He was interested to learn more about accelerationism because  of her singular expertise on the subject matter…Kriner also  increasingly needed non-public information into her proprietary research to pitch the threat to high-level government officials. Kriner told Doe it ‘would be good to get more granularity from you on it all if you can.’”

In several research articles written by Kriner and defendants, Doe was not given credit or pay for her contributions and involvement in their scholarly work. Yet, she was continually asked for research assistance on following projects, which led to the same outcome for her. Over time, this treatment from the defendants allegedly led to the dilapidation of the plaintiff’s mental health. 

Toward the end of the complaint, the following claim is made: 

“Doe will never be able to return to the workplace or attain a doctorate as she intended due to the severe psychological injuries and enduring trauma caused by the Defendants.”

The case was <a href="http://portal-dc.tylertech.cloud/app/RegisterOfActions/#/A9FD50059C1B644BC03C64C2FF6F0570B090735330CC39DCD734F240CC06C74B23EE8F70682458011D8D106B0687D14A17F9A84303016DAFE983B2CC10EFA67BE210A368F7474E9F156C97AB7474C6EB/anon/portalembed">closed</a> several times despite the plaintiff’s repeated attempts to reopen it. The latest attempt was made in May of 2024, which was denied by Judge Todd E. Edelman.
Published - February 4, 2025

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Sean Iwamoto is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. According to his university <a href="https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/center-for-womens-health-research/about-us/-researchers/sean-iwamoto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a>, he is a Co-Founder of the <a href="https://www.uchealth.org/services/diabetes-endocrinology-care/uchealth-integrated-transgender-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program</a>. A few of his interests include transgender health, obesity, and more. 
Iwamoto also studies “the effects of gender-affirming hormones on vascular health and metabolic parameters in older versus younger adult transgender women (on estrogen) and transgender men (on testosterone) compared to age group-matched non-transgender women and men.”
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-seeks-males-for-testicle-removal-study/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Iwamoto is currently recruiting “30 gender dysphoric males to participate in a National Institutes of Health <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05195164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> on the benefits and consequences of testicle removal, also called an orchiectomy.”
However, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nih-recruiting-18-year-olds-study-unknown-side-effects-castration-surgery-gender-dysphoria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reports that it was uncertain if Iwamoto projected the long-term effects from the research prior to presenting his evidence. He shared that &#8220;It is important to develop studies that represent the transgender and gender diverse populations we see in Colorado. Our results will help inform future research, contribute to improvements in gender-affirming care, and improve confidence that shared decision making between patients and providers is more evidence-based.&#8221;
In one of Iwamoto’s <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10126651/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">articles</a>, he stated, “Gender-affirming surgeries in older TGD [‘transgender and gender diverse’] patients have become increasingly common and will only become more so in the future.” He concluded by stating that more data on older TGD adults is needed and guidelines would be helpful for gender-affirming surgeries. 
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Published – May 15, 2023

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Sean Iwamoto is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. According to his university <a href="https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/center-for-womens-health-research/about-us/-researchers/sean-iwamoto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a>, he is a Co-Founder of the <a href="https://www.uchealth.org/services/diabetes-endocrinology-care/uchealth-integrated-transgender-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program</a>. A few of his interests include transgender health, obesity, and more. 

Iwamoto also studies “the effects of gender-affirming hormones on vascular health and metabolic parameters in older versus younger adult transgender women (on estrogen) and transgender men (on testosterone) compared to age group-matched non-transgender women and men.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-seeks-males-for-testicle-removal-study/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Iwamoto is currently recruiting “30 gender dysphoric males to participate in a National Institutes of Health <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05195164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> on the benefits and consequences of testicle removal, also called an orchiectomy.”

However, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nih-recruiting-18-year-olds-study-unknown-side-effects-castration-surgery-gender-dysphoria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reports that it was uncertain if Iwamoto projected the long-term effects from the research prior to presenting his evidence. He shared that "It is important to develop studies that represent the transgender and gender diverse populations we see in Colorado. Our results will help inform future research, contribute to improvements in gender-affirming care, and improve confidence that shared decision making between patients and providers is more evidence-based."

In one of Iwamoto’s <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10126651/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">articles</a>, he stated, “Gender-affirming surgeries in older TGD [‘transgender and gender diverse’] patients have become increasingly common and will only become more so in the future.” He concluded by stating that more data on older TGD adults is needed and guidelines would be helpful for gender-affirming surgeries. 

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Published – May 15, 2023

LGBTQ

Sean Iwamoto

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<a href="https://www.txst.edu/history/people/faculty-staff/goldstone.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Dwonna Naomi Goldstone</a> is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the African-American Studies program at <a href="https://www.txst.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas State University</a>. Dr. Goldstone teaches two courses that are required for the African-American Studies program: AAS 2310: Intro to African American Studies, and AAS 4320: Global Perspectives on the African Diaspora.
According to Dr. Goldstone’s university profile, she is currently working on three essays: one about Barbara Conrad Smith, a black undergraduate student at the University of Texas in its first year of integration (1956-1957) who was removed from the school’s opera; a second titled “Teaching While Black: A Black Professor in Trump Land”; and a third on teaching feminism in a men’s prison. 
Dr. Goldstone gave a presentation “The ‘Last’ Vestige of Segregation at UT: Desegregating the Dormitories” at the Univesity of Texas at Austin on April 21, 2022. You can watch the presentation below:
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Additionally, Dr. Goldstone has made <a href="https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/life/2016/04/08/focus-racial-tension-still-evident-campus-society/82674382/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments referring to race, such as</a> “I have black and white students in my classes. I get the feeling a lot of the white students are there only because they have to take a diversity course. They sometimes seem resistant to the conversation. I have some students who try to speak their truth, only for it to be denied, or diminished by others. There is just not enough conversation between the races.”
These statements were made during an interview with The Leaf-Chronicle while she was a professor of English at <a href="https://www.apsu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin Peay State University</a>. Dr. Goldstone was in charge of the African-American studies minor program for the last six years; she stated: “I do feel that my job, as a black professor, is to help black students specifically, to get through, but I have students of all colors coming to my office, and I help everybody… I still believe that you have to be twice as good to be equal to white people.”
Published — September 29, 2022

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Texas State University

<a href="https://www.txstate.edu/history/people/faculty/bishop.html">Elizabeth Bishop</a> is an associate professor in the History Department at Texas State University (TXST).

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In 2017, Bishop attempted to have a conservative student and another professional fired from their jobs due to comments each made on Facebook with which Bishop disagreed.

The controversy began with a <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2017/04/01/texas-prof-tries-to-get-conservatives-fired-over-facebook-argument-n51022">post</a> by Texas State University Student Body Vice President, Colton Duncan, who objected to TXST hosting <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Angela-Davis">Angela Davis</a> as a speaker. Davis, a Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA, was once one of the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/view">FBI’s most wanted criminals </a>for the murder of a trial judge. PJ Media reports <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2017/04/01/texas-prof-tries-to-get-conservatives-fired-over-facebook-argument-n51022">Duncan calling Davis</a> an “American terrorist,” while simultaneously denying the College Republicans the opportunity to host their women’s empowerment summit.

According to Campus Reform, Bishop then <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9002">replied</a> to Duncan’s post, stating it was a “shame” that students didn’t know the difference between Hitler and Stalin.

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Alexander Morrisette, an employee of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), commented on Bishop’s reply, stating, “Enemies can have similar goals, interests, and dreams of autocratic control.”

Morrisette’s response evolved into a debate with Bishop in Facebook’s comment section. As each continued posting comments, an anonymous student, whose identity cannot be verified, proceeded to “like'' all of Morrisette’s comments. This prompted Bishop to call Texas State University department that employed the student who had “liked” Morrisette’s comments asking that the student, and those whom Bishop described as the student’s “associates,” be investigated for “hate speech.” According to Campus Reform, Bishop also <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9002">demanded</a> that the university department that employed dismiss her from all leadership positions.

In an attempt to damage Morrisette’s employment, Bishop also contacted TPPF claiming that Morrisette had made disparaging remarks about her. Bishop, however, <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2017/04/01/texas-prof-tries-to-get-conservatives-fired-over-facebook-argument-n51022">refused</a> to give any further details.

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To learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis">Angela Davis</a>, please see her profile on the Professor Watchlist.
You may contact Texas State University at (512) 245-2111
Updated Spring, 2021

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, Rick Henderson is no longer listed as a professor at Texas State University."
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<a href="https://www.polisci.txstate.edu/people/faculty-bios/henderson.html">Rick Henderson</a>, a Senior Lecturer at Texas State University, accused multiple Republican presidential candidates of “talking out of [their] ass[es],” including Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Rand Paul, and Carly Fiorina. According to an audio recording of the class, Henderson said “So I guess if you’re Rand Paul you just go, ‘hmm, what can I pull out my ass?’ And Carly Fiorina saying that marijuana is more dangerous than beer? Talking out of her ass! And Ted Cruz, I can’t tell the difference between his mouth and his ass. I mean, what are you talking about? Are you insane?’” The diatribe caused the department chair to remind “Professor Henderson of the need to maintain a classroom climate that honors the principles of free and open expression while maintaining an appropriate level of civility.”

<a href="https://www.txst.edu/history/people/faculty-staff/goldstone.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Dwonna Naomi Goldstone</a> is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the African-American Studies program at <a href="https://www.txst.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas State University</a>. Dr. Goldstone teaches two courses that are required for the African-American Studies program: AAS 2310: Intro to African American Studies, and AAS 4320: Global Perspectives on the African Diaspora.

According to Dr. Goldstone’s university profile, she is currently working on three essays: one about Barbara Conrad Smith, a black undergraduate student at the University of Texas in its first year of integration (1956-1957) who was removed from the school’s opera; a second titled “Teaching While Black: A Black Professor in Trump Land”; and a third on teaching feminism in a men’s prison. 

Dr. Goldstone gave a presentation “The ‘Last’ Vestige of Segregation at UT: Desegregating the Dormitories” at the Univesity of Texas at Austin on April 21, 2022. You can watch the presentation below:

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Additionally, Dr. Goldstone has made <a href="https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/life/2016/04/08/focus-racial-tension-still-evident-campus-society/82674382/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments referring to race, such as</a> “I have black and white students in my classes. I get the feeling a lot of the white students are there only because they have to take a diversity course. They sometimes seem resistant to the conversation. I have some students who try to speak their truth, only for it to be denied, or diminished by others. There is just not enough conversation between the races.”

These statements were made during an interview with The Leaf-Chronicle while she was a professor of English at <a href="https://www.apsu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin Peay State University</a>. Dr. Goldstone was in charge of the African-American studies minor program for the last six years; she stated: “I do feel that my job, as a black professor, is to help black students specifically, to get through, but I have students of all colors coming to my office, and I help everybody… I still believe that you have to be twice as good to be equal to white people.”
Published — September 29, 2022

<a href="https://www.masscomm.txst.edu/people/faculty/terry-bertling.html">Terry Scott Bertling</a> is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University. Bertling has been involved in the journalism field for many years, as stated on her university profile. 

According to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20480">Campus Reform</a>, students were assigned “an AP-style quiz” that mocked a conservative radio host who is deceased. The specific question [obtained by Campus Reform]  was multiple-choice and displayed with two examples of the same sentence: 

“He was the second right-wing radio host who mocked vaccines before dying of COVID-19” and “He was the second right wing radio host who mocked vaccines before dying of COVID-19.”

This quiz comes from the <a href="http://mycatalog.txstate.edu/undergraduate/fine-arts-communication/journalism-mass/#coursestext">“Editing and Managing Content” course</a> in the Mass Communication Department. The course description states: “Students will incorporate words, images, sound and data into storytelling across platforms. This course tightens the focus on audience, accuracy, meaning, logic, organization, style and form.”

Campus Reform reports that Office of Media Relations employee, Jayme Blaschke, “told Campus Reform that the ‘example sentences included in the assignment were all taken from published news articles.’”

Some retweets from her Twitter are attached below:

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You can contact the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at (512) 245-2367
Published — October 31, 2022

Dr. Dwonna Naomi Goldstone

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<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/597528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lorraine Moya Salas</a> is an Instructor in the <a href="https://socialwork.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Social Work</a> at <a href="https://campus.asu.edu/dohttps://campus.asu.edu/downtown-phoenixwntown-phoenix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona State University &#8211; Downtown Phoenix</a>.
During a lecture in one of her courses—titled, “Foundations of Social Work”—Dr. Lorraine can be heard describing the United States as a “white supremacist system,” that was founded for the benefit of white people at the expense of Native Americans and people of color.
In the class—recorded and provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist team by an anonymous source—Dr. Salas urges her students to confront the “implicit biases” present in themselves and American society. Claiming that stereotypes and prejudices construct implicit bias, she warns that unconscious actions can cause serious harm.
Attempting to provide an example to bolster her claim, Dr. Salas states that implicit bias causes doctors to act as if their black patients are slaves. She proceeds to cite a study that claims doctors give less pain medication to black patients as compared to white ones.
Dr. Salas alleges this is the product of the legacy of slavery; slave owners viewed blacks as subhuman and able to withstand a large amount of pain, so therefore doctors continue to believe that blacks can withstand a large amount of pain. Doctors will therefore prescribe black patients less pain medication.
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Dr. Salas additionally cites a study that claims teachers will call on boys more often than girls in their classrooms. She claims this as proof that teachers think boys answer questions correctly more often than girls.
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Throughout the lecture, Dr. Salas alleges that numerous racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in society are a result of implicit bias. She urges her students, as future social workers, to confront their own implicit biases and assigns an “implicit bias test” for them to complete before the next class.
Dr. Salas additionally claims that institutional racism produces inequality and disparities, attributing it to the legacy of slavery in the Americas. Although acknowledging that all cultures practiced slavery, she claims that no slave trade was enforced along racial lines until the Europeans did so in order to specifically oppress people of color.
Citing slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and discriminatory, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Salas claims that  America was constructed as a “white supremacist culture” for the sole benefit of white people who have maintained their “white power structures” ever since.
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In the accompanying slides, Dr. Salas cites Critical Race Theory to define white supremacy as a, “political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level”.
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As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.
Dr. Salas had previously published a paper on critical theory, titled, “Critical Theory: Pathway from Dichotomous to Integrated Social Work Practice.” In it, she urges social <a href="https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/file/4791/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workers to embrace critical theory in order to accomplish social justice</a> “at all levels of practice.”
Dr. Salas further states that while people of color can hold prejudiced views, they cannot be racist as they have no institutional power in a system that values whiteness. She urges white students in the class to be “allies” in order to help minorities access the resources available to them by way of “white privilege.”
The full audio of the lecture is provided below.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Salas prior for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the School of Social Work at Arizona State University &#8211; Downtown Phoenix at (602) 496-0800 or at <a href="mailto:social.work@asu.edu">social.work@asu.edu</a>
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Arizona State University Professor David Boyles—who <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while”—appeared to physically assault a Turning Point USA Frontlines cameraman.  

TPUSA’s Frontlines team confronted Boyles after <a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learning</a> that he founded the Arizona chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour. Boyles refused to respond to the Frontlines reporter who asked how long he’d had the obsession with sex education and why he felt children should be exposed to drag queens.

The video of Boyles assaulting the cameraman can be viewed below:
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🚨ASU Professor assaults TPUSA cameraman, caught on video 🚨
Our TPUSA Frontlines reporter tried to ask self-professed “sex education obsessed” queer ASU Professor David Boyles, a few simple questions. Refusing to answer, our cameras caught the exact moment Mr. Boyles assaulted,… <a href="https://t.co/YJWBEzSgRx">pic.twitter.com/YJWBEzSgRx</a>

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1712691864850317436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Security camera footage shows Boyles initiating physical contact:

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Following the attack of the TPUSA staff member, Boyles posted the following statement on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.boyles3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>: 

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According to<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/10/asu-professor-who-founded-drag-story-hour-assaults-reporter-claims-hes-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AZ Free News</a>, “Boyles accused the TPUSA men of terrorism for filming him while asking him questions…Boyles also stated on Instagram that he was jumped from behind by the TPUSA reporter.”

AZ Free News also reported, “The <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftempe-breaking%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fasu-police-investigating-after-queer-faculty-member-assaulted-in-tempe%2F71160761007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Republic</a> claimed in its headline that Boyles was targeted in a campus garage for his sexuality. The original headline read: ‘Targeted’: ASU Investigating After Queer Instructor Confronted by Turning Point USA ‘Crew.’”

12 News reports the incident from another angle as seen below:

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Turning Point USA said in a statement:
 Our team fully intends to share this footage with local law enforcement, and if our cameraman decides to press criminal charges against Professor Boyle, we will fully support that decision. @FrontlinesTPUSA
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/280652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Boyles</a> is a Professor of English Writing at Arizona State University (ASU). His “areas of expertise” include but are not limited to “Rhetoric,” “Public Communication,” and “Gender Studies.”

<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AZ Free News</a> featured Boyles in an article titled “Meet the ASU Professor Behind Arizona’s Drag Queen Story Hour.” The source writes:

“Boyles established Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona in 2019, a chapter of the national Drag Queen Story Hour organization…Boyles has been featured in several ‘The Art of Drag’ events alongside one of his drag queen storytellers…The most recent event occurred on Wednesday [September 20, 2023].  During the <a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a>, Boyles said that the notion that drag shows are harmful to children was a ‘myth.’ He also said that drag queens have been long considered the leaders of LGBTQ+ communities.”

During “<a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Drag</a>” talk, Boyles claimed Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona has been “targeted by acts of violence” and “neo-Nazis showing up to disrupt events.” He also presented what he believed to be the beginning of drag culture in America using the newspaper clip featured below:

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On May 16, 2023, Boyles <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a blog</a> - “Queer Joy Summer Planting #3: Promote Radical Queer Sex Education” - in which he stated he was “trying to plant more queer joy in the world.” He also said:

“Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while…In 2021, I did a three-part ‘<a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queering-sex-ed-part-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering Sex Ed</a>’ series on the history of sex education in America and the ways in which it has traditionally erased queer people, as well as the ways in which queer people have resisted this erasure and cared for their communities by creating their own sex ed underground.”

In the “Queer Sex Ed” blog, Boyles also wrote that sex education has been traditionally racist since “black people and immigrants were typically viewed as being sexually promiscuous and aggressive and sex education was designed to keep good white kids from being ‘infected’ by them.”

In <a href="https://lookoutphx.substack.com/p/bomb-threat-made-against-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another publication</a> promoting his Drag Queen Story Hour initiative, Boyles said:

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<a href="https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/faculty-and-leadership/faculty/gilgerbio">Kristin Gilger</a> is the Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism and the interim dean at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theres-No-Crying-Newsrooms-Learned/dp/1538121492">“There’s No Crying in Newsrooms”</a> and has served in various roles at ASU since 2002.

Gilger has been mired in controversy since assuming her role as dean this past summer. The previous candidate, Sonya Forte Duhe, was replaced by Gilger after <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/after-tweet-supporting-good-police-officers-arizona-state-revokes-journalism-dean-offer/">her offer was rescinded by the university</a>. After tweeting an image that was considered too positive towards police officers, Duhe was condemned by university faculty for showing “poor judgment.”

Gilger has come under fire after pressuring Rae’Lee Klein, a senior journalism major, and station manager for ASU’s Blaze radio, to resign from her position after <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/?preview_id=16209831">tweeting and soon deleting a New York Post article</a> detailing the warrant issued for Jacob Blake’s arrest;

“Always more to the story, folks. Please read this article to get to the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted“ 

Blake—who was wanted for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend—was shot in the back by police after resisting arrest and allegedly reaching for a knife on the floor of his car.

Facing immediate backlash for her tweet, the Board of Directors at the station <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/arizona-student-journalist-cancelled-over-jacob-blake-tweet/">voted unanimously to remove her from her position</a>. Later releasing a statement, the board announced that “Blaze Radio firmly believes that Black Lives Matter.”

“The board gave Klein an opportunity to step down under her own will. As of the time of this statement, Klein has not made the decision to resign…In light of this, we do not recognize Rae'Lee Klein as the station manager of Blaze Radio.”  

Gilger has claimed that the University is not moving to remove Klein. In a statement to the New York Post, Gilger stated that Klein is not being targeted by the university for her views.

“Any actions that are unfolding are not punishment for a tweet. I have been clear with Rae’Lee that she would not be removed as station manager of Blaze Radio, a student internet radio station, because of the views she expressed,”  

However, in email exchanges between Klein and Gilger, she did in fact act to pressure Klein to resign, contrary to her statement.

In their exchange (pictured below) Gilger clearly states that Klein remaining in her position, “is not an option,” as she had lost the confidence of the board.

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Although suggesting new roles that Klein may assume, Gilger cites the "Media Guidelines for Student Journalists" to warn her to refrain in the future from posting information “that could call into question your ability to act independently as a journalist.” This seems to contradict Gilger’s claim that Klein was not being targeted by the university for her views.

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At this time, Klein has refused to step down from her role, and officially remains the station’s manager.

Update: In February of 2021, Klein announced that she <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/college-pays-settlement-conservative-student-ousted-manager-role/">has reached a settlement with Gilger</a> over a lawsuit she had filed against ASU several months prior.
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UPDATE: I am happy to announce we've reached a resolution with Arizona State University for events that took place in September. With the support of my attorney, Jack Wilenchik, and countless other individuals, I am proud to have stood up, fought back and eventually, won.
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According to a <a href="https://newsroom.asu.edu/press/statement-latest-update-asu-and-klein-story-0">statement released by ASU</a>, the University agreed to pay Klein a total of $7,040 for "reimbursement of her school fees."

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Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asao Inoue</a> is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Science and Arts at Arizona State University. According to his University biography, Inoue’s <a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> focuses on “antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments.”

Prior to his role at Arizona State, Inoue served as the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Washington-Tacoma. As Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/college-writing-center-declares-american-grammar-a-racist-unjust-language-structure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Inoue <a href="\&quot;https://stjenglish.com/standing-against-racism-in-the-field-of-writing-dr-asao-inoue-uw-tacoma/\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> an anti-racist poster in an effort to ensure that his staff did not “embrace racist practices.” Inoue maintains that racism is embedded in the English language as well as in society itself, writing that “racism is the normal condition of things.

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According to the text of the poster, recorded by The College Fix, Inoue writes that his goal is to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-writing-center-combats-racist-unjust-language-structures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help students become more critical of “unjust language structures”</a> in order to succeed in what Inoue claims is a racist society.

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Inoue would later author a book on his beliefs titled, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom.” In an excerpt from the book, Inoue declares that he focuses on grading students for their efforts, and not the “quality” of their writing.

“This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

As Daily Wire reports, Inoue writes that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-state-dean-grading-writing-based-on-quality-is-racist-promotes-white-language-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beliefs and teaching practices are based on “critical-race theory,” or “labor-based theory.”</a>As Breitbart documents, c<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ritical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a> that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy.

He writes further that grading students only perpetuates white supremacy.

“The traditional purposes and methods used for grading writing turn out to be de facto racist and White supremacist….Grading by a standard, thus, is how White language supremacy is perpetuated in schools”

Inoue also draws an analogy between issuing grades for English and the institution of slavery, stating that grading is a “slave-making mechanism.”

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Inoue believes that even the physical proximity of white people causes racism. In a YouTube video of Inoue speaking before the 2019 Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Inoue <a href="https://youtu.be/brPGTewcDYY?t=994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states that even the presence of white people “perpetuates racism.</a>”

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Inoue delivered this speech while <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving as the Conference Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication</a>, which bills itself as the <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest professional organization for researching and teaching writing composition</a>. It is the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, which <a href="https://ncte.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts over 25,000 English and Language Arts teachers as members all over the country</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Inoue for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents May Contact Arizona State University at (855) 278-5080.
Updated - November 10, 2021

<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/597528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lorraine Moya Salas</a> is an Instructor in the <a href="https://socialwork.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Social Work</a> at <a href="https://campus.asu.edu/dohttps://campus.asu.edu/downtown-phoenixwntown-phoenix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix</a>.

During a lecture in one of her courses—titled, “Foundations of Social Work”—Dr. Lorraine can be heard describing the United States as a “white supremacist system,” that was founded for the benefit of white people at the expense of Native Americans and people of color.

In the class—recorded and provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist team by an anonymous source—Dr. Salas urges her students to confront the “implicit biases” present in themselves and American society. Claiming that stereotypes and prejudices construct implicit bias, she warns that unconscious actions can cause serious harm.

Attempting to provide an example to bolster her claim, Dr. Salas states that implicit bias causes doctors to act as if their black patients are slaves. She proceeds to cite a study that claims doctors give less pain medication to black patients as compared to white ones.

Dr. Salas alleges this is the product of the legacy of slavery; slave owners viewed blacks as subhuman and able to withstand a large amount of pain, so therefore doctors continue to believe that blacks can withstand a large amount of pain. Doctors will therefore prescribe black patients less pain medication.

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Dr. Salas additionally cites a study that claims teachers will call on boys more often than girls in their classrooms. She claims this as proof that teachers think boys answer questions correctly more often than girls.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. Salas alleges that numerous racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in society are a result of implicit bias. She urges her students, as future social workers, to confront their own implicit biases and assigns an “implicit bias test” for them to complete before the next class.

Dr. Salas additionally claims that institutional racism produces inequality and disparities, attributing it to the legacy of slavery in the Americas. Although acknowledging that all cultures practiced slavery, she claims that no slave trade was enforced along racial lines until the Europeans did so in order to specifically oppress people of color.

Citing slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and discriminatory, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Salas claims that  America was constructed as a “white supremacist culture” for the sole benefit of white people who have maintained their “white power structures” ever since.

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In the accompanying slides, Dr. Salas cites Critical Race Theory to define white supremacy as a, “political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level”.

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As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

Dr. Salas had previously published a paper on critical theory, titled, “Critical Theory: Pathway from Dichotomous to Integrated Social Work Practice.” In it, she urges social <a href="https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/file/4791/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workers to embrace critical theory in order to accomplish social justice</a> “at all levels of practice.”

Dr. Salas further states that while people of color can hold prejudiced views, they cannot be racist as they have no institutional power in a system that values whiteness. She urges white students in the class to be “allies” in order to help minorities access the resources available to them by way of “white privilege.”

The full audio of the lecture is provided below.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Salas prior for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the School of Social Work at Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix at (602) 496-0800 or at <a href="mailto:social.work@asu.edu">social.work@asu.edu</a>
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Updated - October 26, 2021
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/888543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katelyn Cooper</a> is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biology Education Research for Arizona State University’s  Center for Biology and Society Program . 

In 2019, Cooper founded the “<a href="https://katelyncooper1.wixsite.com/bioedlab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooper Biology Education Research Lab</a>” because she, as a gay woman, was “worried about biology research not being inclusive enough of “LGBTQ+ people,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/inclusive-lab-for-lgbt-students-created-by-arizona-state-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix. </a>

Cooper is “upset that heterosexual white [men] dominate the biological sciences.” She told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/professor-making-biology-education-inclusive-lgbtq-undergrads-rcna28813" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> that “The goal isn’t just to make classrooms more inclusive, she explained, but to bring more diversity to a field that has traditionally been dominated by straight white men.” 

Cooper also told NBC News her hopes for collegiate science education: “Cooper said science educators can make their classrooms more inclusive by being openly supportive of LGBTQ students.” According to Cooper, “Educators can, for example, put an inclusivity statement on their syllabus or website, foster safe environments for students to reveal their LGBTQ identities and familiarize themselves with on-campus LGBTQ resources in case students come to them for support.”

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="http://www.breannefahs.com/">Breanne Fahs</a>, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, believes women have been, more or less, brainwashed by "the patriarchy" and "sexism" to ignore the "liberatory, political, and social implications of fatness." Fahs, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and women's studies from the University of Michigan, came to this conclusion after she conducted an experiment in which all 20 of her subjects "expressed terror at the thought of suddenly gaining 100 pounds."

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2193787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Loebenberg</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her faculty profile says she “teaches a range of classes and seminars on urban spaces and landscape, architecture, cities, and…play and game studies.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was a protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone wp-image-2809 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3177657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Wheatley</a> teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise are “Cultural Anthropology” and “Transnational Migration.”

Wheatley is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2608679">Adam Rigoni</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. He teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “Special Topics.”

Rigoni is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3171591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Young</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include violence, “Colonial and Post-Colonial theory,” “American and Ethics Studies,” English, and “Critical Theory.”

Young is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2192175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Miller</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Miller teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction. Her areas of expertise include “20th Century American Literature,” “Film Studies,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Fong</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. <a href="https://sst.asu.edu/content/center-work-and-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Center</a> conducts research into election initiatives and organizes protests during times of political crisis.

Fong is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to read the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Honors Thesis," "Aesthetics and Society," and "Special Topics" with expertise in “Diaspora Studies,” “Digital Humanities,” and “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics.”

Fontinha de Alcantara is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.

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Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3333726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dagmar Van Engen</a> is an Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Writing Center at Arizona State University. As a member of the LGBT community, Van Engen’s preferred pronouns are they/them/their. Van Engen’s areas of expertise include “Gender and Sexuality,” “Feminist and Queer Theory," and "Science Fiction."

Van Engen is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.

Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Agruss</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include “Victorian Literature and Culture,” “Gender and Sexuality,” “Critical Theory,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Agruss is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/228488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Fette</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Fette teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “The Human Event.”

Fette is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2471599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Meloy</a> is an Associate Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics," "Individualized Instruction," and "Barrett Honors Internship."

Meloy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/675885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriella Soto</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “undocumented migration,” “migrant death and disappearance”, and “archaeology.” 

Soto is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3515243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgette Briggs</a> is a Senior Lecturer and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Honors Independent Study.”

Briggs is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3319768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irina Levin</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor, a Jewish Studies Faculty Affiliate, and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include the former Soviet Union, migration, nationalism, and gender and sexuality.

Levin is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/45849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacquie Scott-Lynch</a> is a Teaching Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fell at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics" and "Individualized Instruction." Her areas of expertise include Irish studies, world literature, and race and ethnicity.

Scott-Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/866912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Brian</a> is a Faculty Chair and a Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist and Queer Theory,” “Feminist Ethics,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Brian’s <a href="https://jennydyckbrian.com/">website</a> goes in further detail as to what she teaches. For instance, her “Queer Bioethics” seminar course covers the challenges “LGBTQIA” people supposedly face that stem from bioethics and health policy.

The course <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2187/92008/pdf;jsessionid=CF01C07A3B0D3B971CE00A931AEA8ACD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> — which  includes the “ethical issue” of “intersex children” gaining access to treatments — says:

“Some of the pressing ethical issues include access to health care and culturally competent mental health resources, treatments for intersex children, standards for blood donation from same-sex sexually active men, access to assisted reproductive technologies and adoption, health insurance coverage, violence (self and other-inflicted) toward gay and transgender youth, exclusion from clinical trials, and so-called ‘psychotherapies’ designed to change sexual orientation.”

The subjects of puberty blockers, gender diversity, transgenderism among adolescents, and gender dysphoria, are covered in the course. (See image of syllabus below):

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Brian is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/50294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Lynch</a> is a Principal Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Lynch teaches “Special Topics,” “Honors Directed Study,” and “Undergraduate Research.”  

Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/266886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Foy</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized Instruction.” 

Foy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph O’Neil</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University.  He teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “The Human Event.”

O’Neil is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/973834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Jakubczak</a> is an Affiliate Faculty member in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Jakubczak’s areas of expertise include Anthropology, Paleobotany, Climate Change, and Climate Science.

Jakubczak is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2457458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laurie Stoff</a> is the Assistant Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Stoff’s areas of expertise include “Russian and East European Studies,” “War and Society,” and “Women and Gender Studies.”

Stoff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2012013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Barca</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Barca’s area of expertise includes "Animal Studies," "Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability," and "Feminism and Gender Studies."

Barca is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2740395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mathew Sandoval</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Sandoval’s areas of expertise include “Activism and Social Movements,” “Cultural Studies,” and “Race and Ethnicity.”

Sandoval is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2454381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew Voorhees</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Voorhees teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Special Topics.”

Voorhees is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Ostling</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Ostling’s university biography says he’s a “religious studies scholar focusing on the history,  historiography, and representation of witches and witchcraft."

Ostling is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2009484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mina Suk</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Freshman Seminary,” “The Human Event,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Suk is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1992537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nilanjana Bhattacharjya</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Ethnomusicology,” “Film and Media Studies,” and “Popular Music.”

Bhattacharjya is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/85114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Schmidt</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “History of Ideas,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Schmidt is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4002947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Cortes</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized instruction.”

Cortes is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/247692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fedock</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist Ethics,” “Moral Psychology,” “Feminism and Gender Studies,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Fedock is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2450227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Soares</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “Spiritualism,” “Transatlantic Studies,” and “Print Culture.”

Soares is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/538564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Mack</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “The Human Event,” and “Special Topics.”

Mack is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1796349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Graff</a> is a Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Individualized Instruction,” “The Human Event, and “Special Topics.”

Graff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/786008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Hines</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include critical social theory and critical theory.

Hines is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/291312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashad Shabazz</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU). Shabazz’s university profile says his “academic expertise brings together human geography, black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.” He also holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Shabazz teaches several race-based courses including “<a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2227/88026">AFR301:</a> Race and Racism in the Black Diaspora.” The course description says, 

“Through slave rebellion in Haiti, black notions of freedom, black ideas of ‘being,’ and what on thinker calls ‘black reason,’ this class aims to show that race and racism is more than a tapestry of dominion, but…a reservoir of revolutionary ideas that…transform the world.”

In response to the killing of Tyre Nichols - a black man who was arrested and beaten and later died in the custody of black police officers - Shabazz <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-police-officers-arent-colorblind-theyre-infected-by-the-same-anti-black-bias-as-american-society-and-police-in-general-198721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> in The Conversation entitled, “Black police officers aren’t colorblind–they’re infected by the same anti-black bias as American society and police in general.”

In the article, Shabazz argued, “Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies. From slave patrols…to the murder of George Floyd, and now the death of Nichols, law enforcement officers often have viewed black people as what…W.E.B. Du Bois called a ‘problem.’”

He continued, “It’s hard to investigate the minds of the officers who beat Nichols so savagely and say for sure what motivated them. But there is ample research that suggests anti-blackness is a factor in American policing. And black officers, agents of an institutionally racist system, are affected by this.” 

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2426729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stuart Rhoden</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona State University. He primarily teaches "Mindset Connections" and "Academic Success."

Rhoden is also a City of Scottsdale Human Relations Commission board member. According to the <a href="https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/human-relations-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commission’s website</a>, the organization “will advocate and promote all dimensions of diversity.” Board members also commit to making “recommendations on ways to encourage mutual respect and understanding among people to discourage prejudice and discrimination, and to work towards cultural awareness and unity.”

In April 2022, <a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2022/04/14/scottsdales-dei-gurus-accuse-black-dj-of-wearing-blackface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Daily Independent</a> featured Rhoden in an article titled, “Scottsdale’s DEI Gurus Accuse Black DJ of Wearing Blackface.” The Daily said, “[Rhoden]...attacked the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for hiring Koko Kim Hunter to host a charity auction.” Rhoden said he believed Hunter was wearing blackface during the event. After it was confirmed that Koko is in fact a black man, Rhoden clarified his position with the following social media post:

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Published March 1, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1658062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce McCall</a> is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. McCall’s biography says her research “centers on how race, class and culture impact educational equity in music learning and teaching.”

<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASU News</a> announced McCall’s position in 2021, stating that she was “one of the few scholars whose music education research focuses on race and racism through critical race theory [CRT] and double consciousness theory…”

The article goes on to say that McCall was the only African-American student to earn a doctorate in music education from ASU. McCall also reportedly said that she feels she can offer “an informed perspective based on experience and expertise” that can optimize K-12 learning experiences.

In July 2022, McCall was featured in a <a href="https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/critical-race-theory-music-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Classic FM article</a> titled, “Music professor breaks down [CRT] and why it’s crucial for 21st-century music education.” McCall told the publication:

“‘[CRT] is a tool that was conceptualized and born out of critical legal studies as a means to analyze, critique and to help dismantle racism…Even though…we like to think of ourselves as being more progressive and more innovative…When you look at a university curriculum in America, it gives you a really nice snapshot of Western Europe.’”

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In a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marginalized-Voices-Music-Education-Talbot/dp/0415788331/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JZJC8AXCLXQL&amp;keywords=marginalized+voices+in+music+education&amp;qid=1687280532&amp;sprefix=marginalized+voice%2Caps%2C161&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marginalized Voices in Music Education</a>,” McCall authored an introduction with the title, “Speak No Evil: Talking Race as an African American in Music Education.” McCall told “her story” about growing up in a predominantly white school and participating in band class. 

She informs readers of her experiences as an “African American in music education…whose structures and social actors attempted to silence [her] voice.” Although McCall experienced notable success and received much encouragement throughout her pursuits, she wrote: 

“Despite my professors and peers at ASU ensuring me that I was in a safe place, I didn’t believe it because I knew that outside of ASU, society viewed my voice differently and that the profession did not want to hear what I had to say. These were my perceptions…” 
Published - June 22, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3016173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Sampson</a> is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). According to Sampson’s faculty profile, “Her research focuses on educational leadership, policy, and equity from three interrelated perspectives—democracy, community advocacy, and politics.” Sampson’s areas of expertise include “Critical Race Theory,” “Feminist Theory,” “Race and Racism in Education,” and “Social Justice in Education.”

Sampson has published several gender- and race-based articles. In 2016, Sampson <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2020.1842346?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored</a> “Engaging (or not) in coalition politics: a case study of Black and Latinx community advocacy toward educational equity.” In the abstract notes, Sampson et al. state: 
“We use ‘Latinx’ as a gender-neutral reference to the people of Latin-American heritage. To not negate gendered experiences, we use Latino/Latina, or Chicano/a when acknowledging individuals or past research identifying with these gendered identities … Although both ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ are politicized categories, we recognize the reality of the identities are diverse, intersecting, and fluid.”
In an article titled “Over 1,200 ‘Educators for Palestine’ Sign Open Letter Demanding Ceasefire,” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-a-thousand-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20academics%20from%20universities,has%20killed%20more%20than%2011%2C000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout</a> gave a biased account of a statement signed by several university professors, including Sampson. The statement was crafted after the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel. 

Truthout said, “Hundreds of academics from universities and institutions of higher learning from … across North America have signed on to a joint letter, calling on their governments to demand Israeli ceasefire in Gaza … The signers, calling themselves ‘Educators for Palestine,’ are Palestinian academics and their allies who denounce Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BA7ddNwiUF9ns3zJK3t-nrTpn8R4s3ZB_wbZstAo2iY/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter Sampson signed</a> states, in part:
“We have paid careful attention to consistent invocations of children in public officials’ responses to and media portrayals of the attack in Israel on October 7, which took 1400 lives. We mourn this loss of life, and we are also struck by the ways that this concern for children does not extend to the unspeakable number of Palestinian children’s lives taken by Israeli state violence, harmed by apartheid rule, and traumatized by intergenerational experiences of settler colonial dispossession for over [75] years.”
Please send information on Carrie Sampson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Richard</a> is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Richard’s faculty profile — which contains the preferred pronouns of “they/them” — says his professional interests include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Trauma-informed psychotherapy”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender- and sexuality-affirmative interventions”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sex and kink positivity” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“LGBTQ+ workplace concerns”</li>
</ul>
Richard’s Instagram page, “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_punk_psychologist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Punk Psychologist</a>,” reveals an apparent obsession with anal sex, “transgenderism,” and multiple sexualities.

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The description for Richard’s 300+ level <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2241/28325" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biology of Human Sexuality</a> course states: “By the end of the semester you will be able to understand how the following behaviors[sic] in regards to their learning and motivation and the research involved in these discoveries. The list of behaviors includes, but is not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexuality Today”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Development and Education”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Adult Sexual Relationships”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“‘Alternative’ Sex and Polyamory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Power and Coercion”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexual Images and Selling Sex”</li>
</ul>
During ASU’s “<a href="https://eoss.asu.edu/cultural-connections/events/honor-heritage/trans-awareness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Awareness Week</a>” celebration in November 2023, Richard offered a session called “<a href="https://asu.campuslabs.com/engage/event/9588130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lunch with a Queer Psychologist</a>.” The event registration included the following description of Richard:

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Despite <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539">holding</a> multiple psychology degrees and participating in numerous presentations, Richard has only published one article in the field back in 2020. 

Please send tips and information on Dylan Richard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 25, 2024
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<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20240221-law-journalism-and-politics-jemele-hill-deliver-lecture-race-relations-asu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemele Hill</a> was the featured speaker at the 2024 A. Wade Smith and Elsie Moore Memorial Lecture on Race Relations at Arizona State University (ASU). Hill is primarily known for her incendiary commentary as an American sports journalist on ESPN from 2006 to 2017.  Hill departed from ESPN after posting tweets calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaining</a> about “conservative culture” in the workplace.

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Hill also tweeted a statement accusing artist Kid Rock of being racist:

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In an August 2022 article, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today published</a> comments from Hill about her departure from ESPN:
 “‘I wasn’t a good fit for the ‘SportsCenter’ culture. Definitely not a good fit for the management that was overseeing the ‘SportsCenter’ at the time. And I got tired. I got really tired of fighting everyday to be myself … It’s the conservative culture at ESPN and so this idea that ESPN is being run by flower children is just a lie. That’s not how it is. It’s the opposite, if anything … 
‘Once critics started seeing my face … then suddenly ESPN is too liberal because what they’re really trying to say is ‘Oh, y’all must be liberal-leaning because you got all these women and all these [b]lack people who are suddenly on my TV everyday.’”
Hill further details the ESPN incident in her book “<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250624376/uphill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uphill</a>.”

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In January 2024, <a href="https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/jemele-hill-agency-wme-1235887820/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety announced</a>, “Hill has signed with WME for representation in all areas … She is also a co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media. At present, Hill is an executive producer on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/01/colin-kaepernick-kneeling-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colin Kaepernick </a>documentary series … which is directed by Spike Lee and will air on ESPN.”

Around the same time, Hill <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-jemele-hill-race-baiter-fans-slam-ex-espn-analyst-post-criticizing-lions-hc-dan-campbell-resurfaces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went viral again</a> after past tweets resurfaced of her blaming Detroit Lions Coach Don Campbell for the lack of black head coaches in the NFL.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
This is who black coaches are losing opportunities to. <a href="https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q">https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q</a>
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1352377843758600197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In turn, one commenter declared Hill a “race baiter.”

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Please send tips and information on Jemele Hill to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4399703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shannon Portillo</a> is a Professor and the Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. According to Portillo’s biography, “Her work helps scholars and practitioners understand how inequities are institutionalized in public organizations … [She also] served as co-chair of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.”

Portillo’s <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw7ABu8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published works</a> include topics such as “Social Equity,” “Law &amp; Society,” and “Street-Level Bureaucracy.” She co-authored a paper entitled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advancing Social Equity in the Minnowbrook Tradition</a>,” which discussed the “goals of valuing social equity and using it as a guide in managing public programs.” 

In her work, Portillo refers to a meeting called Minnowbrook I that took place following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook 50 Social Equity Manifesto</a>, “[A] group of public administration scholars met to reflect on the implications of the social and environmental circumstances for [their] discipline … [Their] call to action … focused on ways to intersect and integrate social equity in the research, teaching, and practice of public administration.”
In the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook paper,</a> Portillo et al. wrote:
“In 40 years since Minnowbrook I, the concern for social equity has grown to the point where it now occupies a firm place within the academy … However, despite its growth and general acceptance as a core area of research and concern, evidence of gross societal inequities in the United States and the global community abound.”
Portillo was featured in the <a href="https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2022/02/17/public-administration-should-consider-effects-whiteness-masculinity-well-representation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KU News article</a> titled “Public administration should consider effects of whiteness, masculinity as well as presentation, researchers say,” where she offered her perspective on gender and racial discrimination in the industry.

Portillo states that during President Woodrow Wilson’s term, a push for segregation led to discrimination and the “normalization of white men in bureaucratic roles.” Any truth in this statement is neutralized by her contradictory claim that “[w]hite men have been in charge pretty much forever,” and, at the same time, “[w]e need more empirical evidence” to know whether white men in leadership have helped or harmed professional communities.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Shannon Portillo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4219914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lydia HaRim Ahn</a> is an Assistant Professor in Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. According to her university profile, Ahn’s academic interests include the following:

“1) examining the detrimental effects of racism and oppression on marginalized communities with an emphasis on within group differences, 2) developmental protective and risk factors between racism and health outcomes with a focus on ethnic-racial socialization and parenting, and 3) enhancing positive psychological outcomes and change through psychotherapy, evidence-based videos, and prevention and intervention programming.” 
In February, Ahn and Thomas P. Le co-wrote an <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Asian American Women’s Racial Dating Preferences: An Investigation of Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment against Racism, and Desire for Status.” In the abstract for the article, the authors state their purpose for writing it: 
“To further understand racialized desire among this underrepresented population, the present study examined the extent to which three sociocultural factors (i.e., internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status) were associated with two attraction outcome variables (i.e., dating preferences, physical attraction) across four racial categories of men: Asian men, Black men, Latino men, and White men.” 
They claim the factors of “internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status” have caused Asian American women to have a “stronger dating preference toward White men and weaker dating preference and physical attraction to Asian men.”  

In a section of the article titled “Internalized Racism,” the authors address their research on male dating preferences based on race. Focusing on Asian American women, the authors state that the demographic faces “gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism.” They then focus on the differences between Asian and white men with regard to Asian women and dating: 
“Asian American women have reported a desire to date White men for the sake of economic security, as well as to assimilate into White American society, even if their White male partners engaged in racial fetishization of Asian women (Nemoto, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2006</a>). This preference may promote stereotypes of Asian American men as undesirable and perpetually foreign (Wong &amp; McCullough, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a>) and Black and Latino men as inferior to white men (Cascalheira &amp; Smith, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>). Furthermore, Asian American women face gendered racism (Gamst et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023</a>), or experiences of discrimination that are based upon the intersections of their race and gender, which contributes to their disempowerment and negative self-worth within the United States (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>).”
The authors conclude their study:
“Overall, our findings highlight how Asian American women’s romantic and intimate desires may be shaped by internalized racism, resistance and empowerment, and desire for social status. Asian American women face gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>; Juang et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018</a>; Wei et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR68" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2008</a>).”
Published - June 3, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/202508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University. Lober also serves as the director of ASU’s Academy of Lactation Programs and the clinical research director at Banner University Medical Center–Phoenix.

During an ASU presentation in March 2023, Lober pointed out that part of the Lactation Programs vision is to “normalize breastfeeding and human milk feeding as an act of social justice and health promotion.”

View the presentation below.

<iframe title="Edson College Speakers Bureau - Angela Lober" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g9TnlMr0cAI" width="1039" height="584" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

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On August 30, 2024, Lober was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” Lober partnered with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jennyirish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> who <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized an event</a> to discuss abortion.

According to The Fix, “Lober opened the one-hour moderated discussion by stating she ‘got into this space because the United States hates women and everything the female body does.’” 

The School Board Watchlist did not uncover the original audio from the event. However, <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/cannibalism-forced-breeding-professors-fearmonger-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Action </a>pointed out:
“Lober also argued that she is discouraging her children from having children, and said the decline in birth rates is a good thing—because the planet is overpopulated. Yet, ironically, the ASU <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events page</a> states that Lober’s ‘research is focused on establishing lactation and breastfeeding as a public health imperative’ and that she ‘is dedicated to working for a better world for families’...How, exactly does not create a better world for families or better health for children by encouraging abortion?”
Conservative lawyer and journalist, Jonathan Turley, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/01/the-united-states-hates-women-asu-event-offers-dystopian-anti-capitalist-vision-of-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentioned</a> Lober in an article titled “‘The United States Hates Women’: ASU Event Offer Dystopian, Anti-Capitalist Vision of America.” Reflecting on Lober’s resolution for a future America without abortion, Turley said she called for the audience “to help ‘dismantle capitalism’ and ‘elect a female president.’”

Since the event, Lober has not commented publicly on her role in the conversation with Irish. Based on mainstream media reactions, both professors are committed to espousing anti-American and anti-family values. 
Please send tips and information on Professor Angela Lober to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1903524" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> is a Professor of English at Arizona State University.

In a 2023 <a href="https://www.kjzz.org/2024-04-30/content-1878588-stephen-king-seen-just-horror-author-asu-professor-argues-hes-much-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with 91.5 KJZZ Phoenix, Irish discussed her thoughts on horror author Stephen King, whose books are currently being <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-king-florida-book-ban-viral-post-1947396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from school libraries</a> in Florida. The KJZZ host asked Irish to comment on her “associations” with the King novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Stephen-King/dp/1984898108/ref=asc_df_1984898108/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=692875362841&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=14364719003284224040&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvtargid=pla-2281435178818&amp;psc=1&amp;mcid=d9f4354e402c38979d3d64dbfc2a5893&amp;hvocijid=14364719003284224040-1984898108-&amp;hvexpln=73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie</a>”—the story of a high school outcast with telekinetic powers who eventually murders her bullying classmates by setting the town on fire. 

Irish responded to the interviewer stating:
“‘Carrie’ is amazing in the fact that [it] was written 50 years ago, but there’s so much about it that feels pretty tragically contemporary. If Carrie White had had access to a decent sex ed class, the town of Chamberlain, Maine, would still be standing…[I]t’s not hard to think about that in the midst I feel of our current kind of sociopolitical moment, where there’s such an assault on bodily autonomy and considerations of the rights of people to define their own identity and their own bodies and their relationships to them.”
On August 30, 2024, Irish was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” In <a href="https://lincolncenter.asu.edu/wb-workshop-HATCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnership</a> with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angelalober" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a>, Irish <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted an event</a> centered on releasing her new book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hatch/9sHtEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover">Hatch</a>,” a collection of prose poems exploring the future of the human race surviving through AI.

According to <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146969/hatch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern University Press</a>:
“The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species. This apocalyptic vision engages with the most pressing concerns of this contemporary sociopolitical moment: reproductive rights, climate crises, and mass extinction; gender and racial bias in healthcare technology…and the possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence.”
In the following excerpt, Irish appears to describe an abortion from the artificial womb’s perspective.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3791" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-09-at-9.55.45 AM.png" alt="" width="533" height="320" />

The Professor Watchlist did not recover any original video of the “Hatch” presentation. However, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote, “Irish also talked about transgenderism and said there is an ‘all-out assault on the trans community and people’s ability to self-identify.’ It is disgusting, immoral, and wrong,’ she said.”

Please send tips and information on Professor Jenny Irish to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

*RECOMMENDED PROFESSOR*
<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/843137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Owen Anderson</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Arizona State University. He teaches courses focused on philosophy, morality, and religion. As a Christian in a secular institution, Dr. Anderson has been subjected to discrimination and exclusion by the college. 

On September 20, 2024, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix featured</a> Anderson in an article titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” Quoting Dr. Anderson’s phone interview, the Fix wrote:
“If a class does not have a general education designation, most students won’t enroll and his college will be hesitant to offer it because it won’t attract many students.” 
Dr. Anderson’s Intro to Christianity class was canceled because he said ASU “[doesn’t] want it taught from a Christian perspective.” He provided The Fix with a member from ASU <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/juliasarreal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor Julia Sarreal</a> who said, “The syllabus reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kids of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit">here</a>. A screenshot of the learning objectives can be viewed below. A detailed view of course requirements can be read <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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After being canceled by ASU, Dr. Anderson posted a response on social media:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Christian scholars and anyone who cares about academic freedom, I need your help. Please help me share widely to expose what is going on at ASU. <a href="https://twitter.com/HdxAcademy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HdxAcademy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CollegeFix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CollegeFix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prageru</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@megbasham</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConceptualJames</a> <a href="https://t.co/yDPIqyYl5i">pic.twitter.com/yDPIqyYl5i</a>
— Dr Owen Anderson (@dr_owenanderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_owenanderson/status/1831925907613007950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom">interview with Turning Point USA</a>, Dr. Anderson stated that he, and his colleagues, were asked to “decolonize” their course syllabi. He described decolonization according to ASU’s definition:
“Decolonize means you become aware of any Western, and especially Christian, influences in your syllabus, and you replace those with what they would call ‘Indigenous people’s perspectives.’ Decolonizing comes out of a communist philosophy…It’s a political philosophy that’s being adopted by ASU to push on the students.”
During the interview, Dr. Anderson also said since he teaches world religions and philosophies, he believes his courses are culturally diverse, therefore, his lesson plans don’t need to be revised.

On March 19, 2024, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Complaint-Final-with-exhibits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint</a> with the Arizona Board of Regents after ASU mandated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for faculty and staff members. In <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/case/dismantling-asus-discriminatory-dei-regime/">partnership</a> with the Goldwater Institute, he brought the lawsuit to prohibit the college from using race, ethnicity, or sex—which goes against state and federal laws—to hire and retain employees.

In a June 18 <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/06/my-university-required-dei-training-im-suing/">opinion editorial</a> titled “My University Required DEI Training. I’m Suing,” Dr. Anderson wrote:
“I’m in favor of each of those terms: Diversity…equity…and inclusion…are undoubtedly good things. But when I began the mandatory training, I found something troubling: It engaged in race blaming, warning of the supposed ‘problem’ of whiteness and encouraged judgment of people based on their skin color. I could not, in good conscience, continue such racist training.”
Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> TPUSA that he believes these cultural shifts occurred as a result of ASU’s evolving definition of “multiculturalism,” which he also said, “caused respect for Christians to deteriorate on campus.” 

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Send feedback on this post to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Dr. Anderson presents a balanced perspective in the classroom and encourages students to think objectively. He upholds constitutional, conservative values despite pressure and ostracism from fellow ASU faculty and administrators. 
The Professor Watchlist considers Dr. Anderson a good professor. 
Published - September 23, 2024
On January 27, Professor Anderson <a href="https://crossexamined.org/a-guide-to-choosing-a-humanities-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> “A Guide To Choosing a Humanities Professor” for Cross Examined. 

In the guide, Anderson listed a series of qualities and defects found in humanities professors throughout the U.S. that should be sought after or avoided by students. Overall, he says students should pursue a degree that prepares them for life and teaches them to be wise.

Anderson wrote:
“Many professors in these classes don’t know how to teach what is good or what it means to be wise.”
He then explains the purpose of a humanities degree:
“But what about a degree in the humanities? How does it prepare you for life? To do so it would have to teach you what is good for a human life.”
According to Anderson, a humanities degree encourages students to learn and gain wisdom and reach the highest good in life:
“Wisdom is understanding the highest good and knowing how to live your life in a way that helps you reach the good. What is good for a person depends on human nature…The highest good is the ultimate goal we aim for in everything we do. We might have smaller goals along the way, but those are just steps toward something greater. ”
For Anderson, seeking the knowledge of God is an endeavor to reach the highest good that should be embedded into a humanities program:
“Most philosophers agree that the ultimate good for a human is to know God. Thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, and Locke all point to this idea in their work, even if they describe it in different ways. Even philosophers who don’t use the word “God” often still believe that knowing the highest reality—whatever they call it—is what makes life truly good for a person.”
Anderson cautions students to avoid skeptics and nihilists, ask professors what they believe is good, and find a professor who knows what is good. 

“These three steps will help you determine if a professor is wise and capable of teaching you wisdom,” Anderson wrote.

Even if professors who fit Anderson’s criteria cannot be found, the professor concluded with the following consolation:

“The good news is that you can still graduate without taking their classes.”
Updated - January 31, 2025

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1429800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Sarreal</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. Sarreal’s research interests include Latin American Studies, Food, Drugs, and Capitalism. Her top area of expertise is “Consumerism.”

On September 20, 2024, Sarreal was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” The piece covers the cancelation of <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/drowenanderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Dr. Owen Anderson’s</a> religious studies course. 

After the college rejected his class, it was revealed that Sarreal objected to the premise of Christianity being taught on campus. The Fix recorded her comments:

“The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kinds of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need to have in order to study religious traditions.”

“Furthermore, the focus on ‘Western Civilization’ is problematic. It is true that Christianity has been ‘influential’ in European history, it has also been deeply influential elsewhere in ways that are completely ignored in the syllabus.” 

Based on the feedback Sarreal received from Dr. Anderson, it appears she either did not read the syllabus or chose to interpret the lesson plans through an objectionable lens. Sarreal specifically described one of the modules as being “focused on ‘the’ biblical worldview” and called this a “fraught oversimplification.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send tips, updates, and information on Julia Sarreal to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - September 25, 2024

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3924315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruben Espinosa</a> is Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University (ASU). According to his faculty profile, Espinosa’s studies are chiefly focused on the work of William Shakespeare. 

On September 16, 2024, ASU’s <a href="https://humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Humanities Institute</a> hosted a panel with Espinosa and Professor Curtis Austin on cultural appropriation concerning the plays of Shakespeare. The <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> is described by the university as such: 
“What constitutes cultural appropriation, and when is it unethical? Should we adopt voices beyond our own, and if so then what factors must be weighed beforehand?”
“Pressing on hard research questions may lead to ethical dilemmas of how to speak in relation to another. This panel will discuss what it means to think, research, and write across cultures and ways of being.”  
In an audio recording of a l<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecture</a> obtained by the College Fix, Espinosa connected the alleged “white exceptionalism” of January 6 rioters U.S. Capitol protesters to Shakespeare. These two are both claimed to be symbols of “white exceptionalism” and “racial hierarchy.” The professor stated:

“It kind of has this origin in anti-immigrant sentiments, right, all the way to January 6th, when we think about that white exceptionalism, and this notion of a kind of white ownership of Shakespeare.”
Espinosa believes that “Shakespeare is the epitome or the marker of white exceptionalism” and sits at the top of the “racial hierarchy.” Thereby, he attached the poet to “whiteness” exclusively over humanity independent of race. 

In 2021, Espinosa published a book titled “<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-on-the-Shades-of-Racism/Espinosa/p/book/9780367183004">Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism</a>.” The publisher’s description states:
“Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism.”
Please send information and tips on Ruben Espinosa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - September 30, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1256527" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lela Rankin</a> is a professor in the Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson. According to her faculty profile, “Rankin’s scholarship focuses on preventive interventions for children and families, particularly in vulnerable populations.”

According to a January report from the <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/maternal-instinct-is-socially-constructed-myth-arizona-state-u-professor-says/">College Fix</a>, in a lecture Rankin claimed that the maternal instinct is a fabricated myth with no biological reality. 

“[T]his idea of this maternal instinct, it struck me as potentially problematic because it really places the primacy on biological mothers, and then it relegates other people…to essentially secondary babysitters or assistants, right?”

The claims in this lecture are based on  research that can be found in a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953624006257#:~:text=We%20did%20not%20find%20empirical,knowledge%20strengthened%20attachment%20over%20time." target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> Rankin co-authored with Haley G. Krouskop b, Maryanne L. Fisher.

In the study, titled “Mother-infant attachment from the perspective of young mothers: Does the data support a maternal instinct?,” the authors claim the following:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We did not find empirical evidence to support an innate maternal instinct.•</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Young mothers' qualitative experiences with attachment at birth were diverse.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Physical touch-based parenting and parental stress impacted the bonding experience.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Reciprocity and parenting confidence/knowledge strengthened attachment over time.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Mothers developed an “instinct” through repetitive interactions with their infant.”</li>
</ul>
Further addressing the above points, the authors find that no maternal instinct is inherent during the processes of pregnancy and childbirth; rather, a mother infant connection is developed after birth during childcare:

“Despite diverse experiences with felt attachment at birth, all mothers perceived that the mother-infant connection was influenced by contextual factors after birth and was strengthened over time with more care-taking experience. ​​This suggests that mothers likely developed a ‘maternal instinct’ through repetitive interaction with their infant as the primary caretaker rather than a genetic predisposition to be superior nurturing parents.”

In the article’s conclusion, the authors maintain that caregiving and nurturing behaviors are a necessity and should be present during pregnancy or right at childbirth. They cite British psychoanalyst John Bowlby’s concept of attachment theory, among other theorists, in an attempt to backup their claims:  

“If mothers possess an innate instinct for the purposes of bonding, breastfeeding, and other caregiving behaviors… then arguably this instinct should be felt during pregnancy or at childbirth.”
Published - February 12, 2025

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sally L. Kitch</a> is a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. 

According to her faculty profile, Kitch “specializes in three major research and teaching areas: 
<ol>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“[F]eminist theory, including the intellectual history of gender and racial ideology in the U.S. and other countries and the impact of gender representation in visual and narrative culture on the lived realities of diverse women's lives; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">feminist epistemology, the epistemology of the humanities, and theories of interdisciplinary knowledge production; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">environmental humanities, including the importance of the humanities to sustainability science and the relationship of sustainability to gender and racial ideologies.”  </li>
</ol>
In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade through the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs Decision</a>, Kitch wrote an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369989167_Reproductive_Rights_and_Ecofeminism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism.” 

Ecofeminism is <a href="https://hcwc.college.harvard.edu/education/workshops/ecofeminism#:~:text=Ecofeminism%2C%20also%20called%20ecological%20feminism,merits%20of%20intuition%20and%20collaboration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> as a practice using “the basic feminist tenets of gender equality, a revaluing of non-patriarchal or nonlinear structures, and a view of the world that respects organic processes, holistic connections, and the merits of intuition and collaboration.”

In the article, Kitch aligns herself with ecofeminism, and argues that the “Dobbs decision invites an ecofeminist interpretation of its relationship to the destruction of our planet and to the biopolitics of environmental sustainability.”

The professor claimed that there is a connection between the bodies of women, enslaved, disabled, and racialized people, along with animals and nature as “terrains” of conquest: 

“Ecofeminism in the 2020s links those forces by articulating ‘a clear connection between the treatment of the bodies of women, the enslaved, the disabled, and the racialized, and the treatment of lands, animals, and plants: they are all naturalized terrains of experimentation or conquest.”

The term “ecofascist” is used in the article a few times. Kitch’s cited <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-november-december/feature/eco-fascism-uncovered-el-paso-texas">source</a> defines the term as “violence in the name of environmental conservation.” Kitch further writes on “ecofascists”:

“Many ecofascists in the U.S. oppose action to reduce global warming by eliminating carbon emissions as an affront to white patriarchal/capitalist/colonial power, which allegedly emanates from industrial might and its key driver, fossil fuels (Hernandez-Simmons 2022; Westervelt 2022).”

Kitch is still listed on the ASU faculty site as an active professor, yet the <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last course</a> she taught was a practicum in 2022.
Published - March 6, 2025

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1796349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Graff</a> is a Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Individualized Instruction,” “The Human Event, and “Special Topics.”
Graff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).
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Published February 14, 2023

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Sarah Graff

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<a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/roberts1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dorothy Roberts</a> is an “acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law” at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science &amp; Society in the Center for Africana Studies.
On October 17, 2023, Roberts <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/letter-biden-israel-ceasefire-legal-scholars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter</a> calling on President Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The letter was signed by 178 legal scholars and called Israel’s reaction to Hamas’s attacks “collective punishment” and “a moral catastrophe.” Roberts shared on X (formerly Twitter) that she felt “morally compelled” to sign the letter.
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“Collective punishment of two million civilians, nearly half of them children, is a moral catastrophe to which current U.S. policy critically contributes.” I was morally compelled to sign this US legal scholars’ letter. <a href="https://t.co/jCUHC87be9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/jCUHC87be9</a>
— Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) <a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/1714633667081883823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In the statement, the academics write:
“So too we condemn the Israeli government’s escalating response, which is killing and displacing unarmed families and children in Gaza with the apparent support of the United States government.” 
“We ask that President Biden act immediately, using all the means at his disposal to bring about a diplomatic solution to the present crisis. This means a cease-fire in Gaza and throughout the occupied territories, along with the unconditional restoration of food, water, electricity and medical care to the entire Gaza Strip.” 
Roberts has shared several <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-honors-radical-professor-who-accused-israel-of-genocide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-semitic articles</a> on her Twitter account, including one that <a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/429989648589672448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended divesting from Israel</a> and one titled “<a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/806513692720435204" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Are Jews White?</a>” In response to the latter, Roberts writes, “Race is a political invention, so who qualifies as ‘white’ depends on power, not biology.”
Roberts has called for an “<a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/7316-new-research-from-dorothy-roberts-argues-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolitionist approach to criminal law</a>” as an “alternative vision of criminal justice.”
“As an initial matter, democratizing criminal law requires acknowledging that the very definition of law breaking in the United States is biased against black people.” 
The type of criminal law Roberts advocates for includes:
“Ending stop-and-frisk practices, bail, monetary sanctions, and disenfranchisement; repealing harsh mandatory minimums for violent crimes and eliminating incarceration for nonviolent offenses, along with decriminalizing drug use and possession, as well as other conduct that poses little harm to others; and holding law enforcement accountable for brutality and rights violations.”
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Published &#8211; February 23, 2024

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University of Pennsylvania Professor <a href="https://rels.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> penned an MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> responding to the controversial 2024 Olympics' opening ceremony where “transgender” performers mocked Leonardo da Vinci’s depiction of The Last Supper.

Butler offered the following explanation in light of the sacrilegious production:
“[I]t wasn’t about the Last Supper at all. The so-called re-enactment was a scene of a bacchanal, a fest of the Greek god Dionysus …  Thell that, though, to those unable to see the scene outside the lens of their conservative religious convictions … Tolerance, sadly, isn’t what conservatives are noted for, especially since many of them deemed the 2024 Olympics ‘woke.’”
She further claimed that Christians have a “limited” worldview that “doesn’t consider views that fall outside their faith.”

Butler has a history of demonizing Christianity, including this quote from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Evangelical-Racism-Politics-Morality/dp/1469661179?asin=B08JG7NHXQ&amp;revisionId=37269deb&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1">her book</a>, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America” :
“White Evangelical Racism tells a concise history of the evangelical movement and—here is the hard part—the racist and racial elements that imbue its beliefs, practices, and social and political activism. It is racism that binds and blinds many white American evangelicals to the vilification of Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans … Racism is a feature, not a bug, of American evangelicalism.”
In response to the outrage among religious conservatives after viewing the Olympics ceremony, Butler <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:

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Butler’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the 2024-25 academic year.

Please send tips and updates on Anthea Butler to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 

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Updated - August 6, 2024
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<a href="https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> is an Associate Professor of African and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

Identity Politics

Butler advocates for professors to strike on the job in order to promote social justice causes. First tweeting her support for an NBA-style<a href="https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/emotional-frustrated-raptors-discussed-boycott-wake-jacob-blake-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strike</a> to protest “police violence,” Butler then created her own strike aimed at school and university staff called “Scholar Strike.” 

<a href="https://www.scholarstrike.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instructing</a> professors and faculty members of colleges and universities to walk out of their positions and teaching duties for two days, Scholar Strike intends to “call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash [sic] of police shootings and racialized violence.” As a result, hundreds of academics<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/28/professors-plan-strike-racial-justice"> pledged</a> to join the strike.

In a 2020 Twitter thread, Butler also<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15673" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> describes</a> conservatives as “craven and evil.” She levels<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ivy-league-professor-award-carson-coon-of-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> attacks</a> against Dr. Ben Carson as the  “the coon of the year” over comments he made regarding the confederate flag.<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Dr. Ben Carson</a> is a renowned neurosurgeon who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump Administration.

Butler believes that conservative candidates continue to receive support en masse from evangelicals due to fear.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-evangelicals-love-trump-aren-t-confused-about-why-no-ncna1046826" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Writing</a> for NBC News, Butler accuses conservatives of voting in order to preserve what political power they still have. Historically a dominant force, Butler states, evangelicals turn to authoritarians like Trump in order to protect themselves from societal change. She continues, stating that this is not a unique phenomenon, as Evangelicals have a long history of supporting racist movements and institutions.

The core of Butler’s popular authorship is her allegations of the overlap between evangelicalism and white supremacy, having written a book entitled,<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangelical-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> White Evangelical Racism</a> explaining this indictment. Interviewing on “Act. tv,” she<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZpsrYGLeA&amp;ab_channel=act.tv" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> claims</a> that the history of Christianity in the United States is interwoven with the institution of slavery and support of the Ku Klux Klan.

During the same interview, Butler claims that evangelicals believe that police are “ordained” by God to kill black people.

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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/AntheaButler/status/1351922696989380609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> from January 2021, Butler repeated a claim from the same book that racism is inherent in evangelicals.

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In 2013, Butler went as far as to claim that a “white-racist” is the god<a href="https://antheabutler.com/americas-racist-god/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> worshipped</a> by this country.

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Anthea Butler served as a<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/ncr-exclusive-campaign-names-three-dozen-catholics-biden-co-chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-chair</a> of “Catholics for Biden” in 2020.
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Published Spring 2021

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/jonathan-d-katz">Dr. Jonathan Katz</a> is an Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Practice and the History of Art at the <a href="https://www.upenn.edu/">University of Pennslyvania</a>. According to his university biography, Katz’s positions deal with the “intersections of art history and queer history.”

In a 2016 article, Professor Katz<a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2016/06/katz-orlando.html"> blamed</a> conservatives for the Pulse Nightclub shooting that claimed 49 lives. He wrote, “What we are trying to do here is camouflage the root of the problem, which is a long history of violent political rhetoric and homophobic policies by Republican officials and their conservative allies.”

Rather than Islamic Terrorism, he argued that anti-gay bigotry from the Christian right is a greater threat than ISIS.

Katz had previously<a href="https://www.catholicleague.org/the-american-taliban-catholic-league-2/"> referred</a> to The Catholic League, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, as “the American Taliban.”

<a href="https://mshp.med.upenn.edu/people/nadia-dowshen-md-mshp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadia Dowshen</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania’s (CHOP) Sexuality and Gender Development Clinic. According to her university profile, the clinic provides medical and psychosocial support to more than 500 gender variant children and adolescents.

The Post Millennial reports that Dr. Dowshen <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/chops-gender-clinic-founder-says-age-is-just-a-number-when-advocating-for-double-mastectomies-for-healthy-14-year-old-girls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified before the Pennsylvania Health Committee</a> in a September 2020 hearing titled “Appropriate Care Models for Transgender Adolescents.” During the hearing, Representative David Zimmerman asked Dowshen what would be the youngest age that her clinic would refer a girl for a double mastectomy, or the removal of a girl's healthy breasts.

Dowshen replied that the majority of bilateral mastectomies performed at the clinic are performed on girls ages 16 through 18 but that she would refer children “as young as age 14.” She justified her decision by saying:
“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number. As an adolescent medicine and development specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than the exact number of their age.” 
Dr. Dowshen also commented on puberty blockers for children, stating “the major medical intervention that is considered fully reversible is puberty blocking medication.” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-chop-gender-clinic-co-founder-praises-rachel-levines-initiatives-for-medical-transition-of-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a> reports that puberty blockers can cause brain swelling, vision loss, stunted growth, cognitive issues, and bone density loss, among other problems. When combined with cross-sex hormones, they can lead to sterility and a lack of sexual function.

During the Q&amp;A portion of the hearing, Dr. Dowshen admitted that the clinic <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-perform-medical-gender-transition-on-minors-in-foster-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepts referrals from youth homeless shelters and the foster care system.</a> When asked by Representative Pamela A. Delissio how children “find their way” to the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic, Dowshen replied:
“We are really getting referrals from a variety of resources. We’re also getting a lot more referrals from other institutions … Sometimes from within the foster care system, the mental health system, through homeless shelters for youth.” 
Dr. Dowshen co-published an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211227195726/https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/transgender-athletes-sports-ban-pennsylvania-new-jersey-20210610.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘They just want the chance to play’: Reject transgender sports bans.”</a> The article states:
“The authors of bills to deny trans youth these opportunities say they want to protect other children and, particularly, prevent transgender girls from having what they say is an unfair advantage over other girls.” 
Dowshen then argues that there are not biological differences between girls and boys in sports:
“But these claims are based on misunderstandings of biology and hormones, have not been backed by any concrete examples of unfair athlete advantage, and are irrelevant to K-12 school sports.”
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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/elle-lett-phd-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elle Lett</a>, Ph.D., is an Associate Fellow and MD Candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. According to his university profile, Lett is a transgender woman who “applies the theory and principles of Black feminism to understanding the health impacts of systemic racism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination on oppressed groups in the United States.”

Lett is also a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>, “the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender lives.” According to the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">center’s website</a>, their mission is to inform “policy-making and public discourse in ways that improve quality of life for the transgender community.”

Lett was quoted in a September 2021 article for STAT titled, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/23/health-equity-tourists-white-scholars-colonizing-health-disparities-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities.”</a> The paper discusses how the field of health equity research has grown in recent years, but argues “researchers with little or no background or training in health research, often white and already well-funded, are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.”

Lett states, “For this to be ethical and just, it requires you to redistribute some of your privilege and benefit.”

The article goes on to discuss a study, led by a white author, that “documented the lack of black medical school faculty.” STAT claims the study had similar findings to a study published three years earlier by black researchers, including Lett. In response to this, Lett says:
“It is troubling that a white man, who has had every privilege conferred on him, is writing a paper about the plight of Black academics. He is extracting from our pain for his career advancement.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

Political Science Professor <a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/anne-norton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Norton</a> was featured on the StopAntisemitism Twitter account after the announcement of her Norton’s <a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/node/9810" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new course</a> called “Why Palestine Matters to America.”

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Shocking new low at UPenn - Anne Norton is set to teach a class on “Why Palestine Matters to America.”
The same Anne Norton that claims Jews play the victim card and calls for physical violence - “kneecap then”.

Why has this barbaric antisemite not been fired by UPenn? <a href="https://t.co/vv3qZjAGam">https://t.co/vv3qZjAGam</a> <a href="https://t.co/7SUPvu3acR">pic.twitter.com/7SUPvu3acR</a>

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1856150222381941066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In October, the Twitter account belonging to Eyal Yakoby <a href="https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1845981387741860343?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">republished</a> a post liked by <a href="https://x.com/annenortonnow?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norton</a> that said, “Playing the victim is what Jews are best at.”

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Norton was featured in an <a href="https://jewishunpacked.com/when-professors-cross-the-line-into-antisemitism-on-social-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by Yakoby wherein he discussed Norton and other UPenn professors who used their personal social media accounts to promote “hatred for the Jewish people.” In particular, Norton was quoted telling her audience “Please don’t amplify” allegedly speaking about the Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. The <a href="https://www.ajc.org/IsraelHamasWar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violent terrorist attack</a> included rape, kidnapping, slaughtering infants, and burning victims alive.

Norton also made headlines in May 2024 when the media arm of Stop Antisemitism <a href="https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/anne-norton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a profile revealing her leftist views on Israel. Additionally, Norton was named in a 2023 <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/news/upenns-anne-norton-losing-professorship-over-anti-israel-posts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by the New York Post that said top donors were divesting from the university due to her outspoken antisemitic views. The Post said:

“Investors…confirmed to the Post they are in talks with UPenn to cut ties with Norton following a string of controversial posts and tweets, including endorsing a post claiming Jewish people are best at ‘playing the victim.’ The [donors] have sponsored Norton through [her] President’s Distinguished Professorship since 2018.” 

As of publication, the University of Pennsylvania has neither released a statement denouncing Norton’s views. 

Please send tips and updates on Anne Norton to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - November 19, 2024
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<a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/anne-norton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Norton</a> is the Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. According to her university profile, Norton’s research interests include “identity and history, gender and race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and tradition and revolution.”

Professor Norton has been outspoken about her support for the student-led <a href="https://www.fossilfreepenn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fossil Free Penn</a> club. In November 2019, she <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter supporting the group</a> after the club interrupted a Board of Trustees meeting and demanded a town hall meeting with leadership about fossil fuel divestment.

The letter reads:
“While not all of us agree on every tactic the students may employ, we as faculty urge our colleagues and University administrators to hear them out, engage them constructively, and take much bolder action.”
It continues:
“Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.” 
In April 2022, Norton <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/04/49-penn-faculty-support-ffp-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed another letter</a> in support of Fossil Free Penn — the activist group had camped out for six days on campus to urge the university “to take a leadership role in stabilizing the world’s climate.” The letter says: “We believe that student activists are right to call for Penn to do more and we support their peaceful protest.”

In June 2021, Professor Norton signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.”
Published - December 13, 2022

<a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/beans-velocci">Beans Velocci</a>, who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science and Core Faculty in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Velocci describes her work as using “queer, trans, and feminist methods to interrogate classification systems and how they become regarded as biological truths, primarily in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States and its colonial and white supremacist context.”

In a Penn Today article titled, “<a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/going-beyond-binary-historical-explorations-sex-and-gender">Going beyond the binary in historical explorations of sex and gender</a>,” Velocci describes how she first became interested in the field. She recounts being in an undergraduate course and reading a book called “Herculine Barbin,”—“a memoir of a person described as a ‘hermaphrodite.’” Velocci says:
“And it was in that moment that I was like, ‘There’s not something wrong with me. The issue is that gender is constructed!’” 
Velocci says she began plotting a career path with the goal, “to be a historian and destroy the gender binary with history and primary source analysis.”

When asked by Penn Today about the relevancy of her work, Velocci says:
“I don’t have the privilege to not be relevant; state legislators are making it impossible not to be. I hope the conversations we have in class help my students think about and make sense of what’s going on in the world right now.” 
In June 2020, Velocci wrote an article titled “<a href="https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2020/06/04/these-uncertain-times/">These Uncertain Times</a>.” In this piece, she argues that much of what the news and social media classify as ‘uncertain’ is rather ‘inconvenient knowledge’ or ‘manufactured ignorance’ that someone is benefitting from. To provide an example, she claims:
“The US government acknowledging that people aren’t so easily classified as male and female would, at the very least, mean they would have to find something to do other than legislate against trans people trying to pee in public (maybe they could have spent that time preparing for a pandemic instead).” 
Velocci argues that “Covid-19 is disproportionately killing black and brown people” and “the Trump administration has spent the pandemic thus far artificially lowering the caseload numbers by refusing to make testing widely accessible (how’s that for manufactured ignorance).” She claims:

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/mae-eskenazi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mae Eskenazi</a> is a Graduate Associate in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eskenazi is teaching a fall 2023 course titled, “Intro to Disability Studies.” According to the course description, this class “fuses disability studies, queer theory, Black feminist theory, visuality studies, film theory, and disabled artistic practices.”

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<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/06/disability-studies-new-fall-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> reports, “Eskenazi said that the questions explored through the course remain extremely relevant to the contemporary world, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, current financial precarity, and ‘ongoing racialized and gendered logics of colonialism and imperialism.’” Additional <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-disability-studies-course-to-fuse-visuality-studies-queer-black-feminist-and-film-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course topics</a> include crip theory, the AIDS epidemic, and sensorial artistic practice, among others.

When discussing the course, Eskenazi stated:
“Disability, debilitation, and illness are facets of everydayness, so I hope that this course removes disability from the visual spectacle that it causes and instead posits lived experiences of disability and debilitation into everyday life for the students who are studying.” 
According to Eskenazi’s university profile, she is a “transgender person” who uses they/them pronouns. Her profile reads,
“Mae Eskenazi (they/them) is a visual artist and ritualist whose interdisciplinary approach extends across sculpture, lens-based media, installation, plant medicine, and performance. Calling upon lineages of disabled/trans carework, Mae is interested in the enmeshment of BDSM, the medical industrial complex, mobility, and disability as it relates to biopolitical surveillance, control, and dichotomies of pain/pleasure. 
Curious about the invocation of the somatic and haptic, their work situates itself within questions of grief, memory, and collective amnesia as it unfolds beyond teleological temporalities within trans, disabled, chronically ill, and queer life.” 
Her <a href="https://www.meskenazi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> features several pieces of her “work,” including the “(Im)Mobility Appendage.

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The description reads,
“(Im)Mobility Appendage is a live performance that explores the tension between the visible wound and the tacit wound. Over the course of one hour, viewers watch a kneeling figure get pierced twenty-six times followed by each piercing being strung to the wall like outstretched wings. The performance calls upon viewers to actively bear witness to the intimacy and eroticization of pain.” 
Eskenazi’s other works include projects titled “The Tetherings” and “Offerings to Bob Flanagan” among other less family-friendly projects that can be found on her website.

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Published - July 7, 2023

<a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/melissa-e-sanchez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Sanchez</a> is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the Director of the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies</a> and the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/center/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies</a>. According to her university profile, Sanchez’s research and literature focuses on “feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.”

Sanchez is the author of three books.“<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Faith-Promiscuity-Tradition-Cultures/dp/1479840866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Faith</a>: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition” reassesses “key texts of the pre-history of modern monogamy - from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare - to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the perversity of desire and the elusiveness of self-knowledge.”

Her other books are “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Queer-Theory/dp/1474256678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shakespeare and Queer Theory</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Subjects-Sexuality-Politics-Literature/dp/0199754756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erotic Subjects</a>: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature.” The latter “examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers used scenarios of erotic violence and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance.”

In April 2022, Sanchez participated in one of the School of Arts and Sciences “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PennSAS/videos/60-second-lecture-melissa-sanchez/1309588992779918/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-Second Lectures</a>.” She discussed why the executive board of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) changed the name of their research center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies (FQT Center).
“This change was meant to signal a more inclusive understanding of who our center is for, and more explicitly to demonstrate the center’s and the program’s commitment to solidarity with all women and all sexual and gendered minorities across campus.” 
Sanchez said GSWS and the FQT Center have a particular focus on “trans affirmative policies.” She discusses her opinion on the supposed lack of all-gender bathrooms on campus and the difficulty of accessing gender-affirming care. Sanchez claimed:
“These conditions in higher education are but a piece of a national climate in which the human rights and dignity of trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming persons are at best neglected and at worse willfully violated.” 
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Sanchez was quoted in an article titled, “‘<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/07/abortion-penn-philadelphia-supreme-court-roe-wade-upenn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A gut punch</a>’ Penn community reacts to uncertainty of abortion rights in Pennsylvania.” Sanchez stated:
“The ruling was like a gut punch, and in other ways it was exactly what I was expecting and exactly what’s been coming for decades. [This ruling is] not so much like a turning point as a culmination of what’s been happening since the 1970s. It’s more like a nail in the coffin.” 
Sanchez is also an outspoken supporter of <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divesting from fossil fuels</a>. In November 2019, students from Fossil Free Penn interrupted the University’s Board of Trustees meeting to demand that administrators agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment. In the wake of this incident, several faculty—including Sanchez—signed an open letter to the university that stated, in part:
“At the very least, the University leadership should agree to the town hall that the students are calling for and commit to a candid and open-minded deliberative dialogue on this uniquely pressing issue. Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.”
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Published - September 22, 2023

<a href="https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/people/huda-fakhreddine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huda Fakhreddine</a> is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Fakhreddine helped organize the <a href="https://nelc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2023/09/22/palestine-writes-literature-festival" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a> that was held on the University of Pennsylvania campus in September 2023. After the university came under fire for hosting the event, Fakhreddine said the festival’s promoters “reject the suggestion that we would invite or engage anyone who is antisemitic or endorses antisemitism.”

Fakhreddine shared her frustration with the “conflation between criticism of Israel and antisemitism.” She added, “The assumption that supporting Palestinians means antisemitic sentiment is ignorant and racist.”

However, festival participant Refaat Alareer was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/upenn-reportedly-sponsored-palestinian-writer-who-joked-about-hamas-burning-baby-in-oven-after-it-allegedly-ignored-warnings-/24292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after he “took to X to mock the Jewish baby that Hamas terrorists cooked alive in an oven during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.”

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<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/09/12/are-most-jews-evil-top-us-university-hosting-palestine-literature-festival-featuring-avid-anti-zionists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Algemeiner</a> notes that Alareer has shared antisemitic sentiments on his X/Twitter account since 2018, when he tweeted, “Are most Jews evil? Of course they are.”

On October 16, 2023, Fakhreddine <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/18/israeli-jew-has-bastardized-judaism-pro-palestinian-rally-upenn-descends-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a walkout</a> at the University of Pennsylvania to “protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.” Fakhreddine spoke at the walk-out rally, stating:
“Israel is the epitome of antisemitism … it desecrates the memory of the Holocaust victims. It humiliates every Jewish person.” 
<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/09/penn-palestine-writes-literature-festival-magill-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> reports that participants in the rally also criticized University President M. Elizabeth Magill’s statement on the conflict. Magill’s statement referred to the Hamas attacks as a “terrorist assault” and clarified the university’s stance on the Palestine Writes Literature Festival:
“The University did not, and emphatically does not, endorse these speakers or their views. While we did communicate, we should have moved faster to share our position strongly and more broadly with the Penn community.” 
In <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-walkout-palestine-rally-march-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to Magill’s comments</a>, Fakhreddine said, “[The statement] was a complete shock to me. I could not fathom that in the midst of actual literal genocide being broadcasted live on the air, [Magill] had time and energy to write that letter without a single mention of Palestine.”

On October 27, 2023, Fakhreddine posted a petition titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfklLdVWlH1yNSK3T4mINpIhbx8T6uiBxReVOMhTNb9EbitRQ/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academics Against the Assault on Gaza</a>” on her <a href="https://twitter.com/FakhreddineHuda/status/1717946669004710374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, with the message “Sign and Circulate.” The letter states:
“We are concerned academics watching with horror as Israel subjects 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, more than half of them refugees, to industrial-scale violence of unfathomable proportions, to war crime after grotesque war crime, to siege and starvation.”
“We say, ‘Enough!’ No to another forced mass displacement of Palestinians! No to fascist incitement! No to the sadistic collective punishment of a captive population! No to this nihilistic and gainless war!” 
Fakhreddine <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOnCRPGqU6IMiq9p_2xthefc9g8R_3UE0UOpXc6nlAO_FL_g/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">circulated another statement</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/FakhreddineHuda/status/1714944831649182082" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> that stated:
“Israel is a racist apartheid regime. It hates innocence so kills children. It hates the truth so kills journalists. It hates nature so uproots olive trees.”
It concludes:
“We, the undersigned, take this opportunity to stand with our people in Gaza, in particular, and Palestine in general, in solidarity with their legendary resilience and their struggle in defense of their historical right to their land. We salute their courageous stance against the forces of colonization, fascism, and racism.” 
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Published - November 3, 2023

<a href="https://creative.writing.upenn.edu/people/ahmad-almallah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ahmad Almallah</a> is a Palestinian poet and artist in Residence in the Creative Writing and English departments at the University of Pennsylvania.

On October 16, 2023, Almallah <a href="https://www.jns.org/upenn-fire-your-antisemitic-professors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a walkout</a> on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus to “protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.” Almallah was the first faculty member to speak at the rally and shared that he had missed two of his classes to be present at the event.

Professor Almallah led chants of “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” and “resistance is justified, when you are occupied.” <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/upenn-palestine-rally-what-the-editorials-wont-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Times of Israel</a> writes,
“The former implies a desire for a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and, consequently, the erasure of the State of Israel entirely. The latter seems to justify Palestinian terrorism without qualification, be it bombing civilians on buses or murdering entire families in Israeli villages.” 
Almallah told the crowd:
“When for 17 years, a piece of earth was removed from the world, only to sustain the slow murder of its jailed population … its mothers who have been giving birth to human animals, according to the other side. SHAME!” 
He concluded his speech by shouting “Intifada, intifada, intifada,” which has long been a Palestinian call to murder Jews and Jewish Israelis. The protest lasted roughly seven hours, with protesters waving Palestinian flags and <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/18/israeli-jew-has-bastardized-judaism-pro-palestinian-rally-upenn-descends-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chanting slogans</a> such as, “Israel, Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”

Almallah told <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-walkout-palestine-rally-march-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> he wanted to participate in the event because he wanted to “do something to reaffirm [his] humanity.” He also told the newspaper, “I feel as though I am a lonely Palestinian, that nobody has reached out from the institution or extended any words of sympathy to me.”

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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/sophie-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sophie Lewis</a> is a visiting scholar at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. According to her university profile, her scholarship “operates in the spheres of trans feminist cultural criticism and queer social reproduction theory, and [her] interests include utopian critiques of the family, Marxist feminisms, Black radicalism and antiwork theory.” Lewis authored “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Abolish-Family-Manifesto-Care-Liberation/dp/1839767197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation</a>” which makes the case for family abolition. She also wrote “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Full-Surrogacy-Now-Feminism-Against/dp/1786637294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family</a>” which advocates for higher rates of surrogacy to “overthrow” the family.

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Lewis <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> titled, “Writers in Solidarity with Palestine.” The letter begins, “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.”

Some of the letter’s claims include: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The west is actively backing the ongoing settler colonial project that endorses either a slow or fast genocide, but is genocide either way.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Any form of Palestinian resistance is in no way equivalent to the daily violence of ‘Israeli’ settlers, the IOF (‘Israeli’ Occupying Forces), and the entire ‘Israeli’ state apparatus. Palestinian resistance exists because settler colonial occupation exists.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the west, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobic and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine, heighten surveillance and policing domestically, and suppress any manner of showing solidarity with Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The writers end with several “calls to action” for the signatories and their institutions, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To stand in firm, vocal, and unwavering solidarity with Palestinian resistance against their occupation until liberation, by amplifying Palestinian voices in a time of mass disinformation and silencing; and by openly discussing the occupation in your workplace, home, on social media, in your work.” </li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To boycott all other literary institutions who profess Zionist affiliations.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To engage with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led movement to end international support for ‘Israel’s’ oppression of Palestinians and all institutions complicit in ‘Israeli’ apartheid and settler colonialism.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been removed but can still be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Lewis also shared the following on her <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>:

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Please send any information regarding Sophie Lewis to <a href="mailto:watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/dwayne-booth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dwayne Booth</a> is a Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Booth, who goes by the pen name Mr. Fish, joined the faculty in 2015 and has been a cartoonist for 20 years.

Booth came under fire after the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-lecturer-is-behind-grotesque-anti-semitic-cartoons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a> discovered political cartoons about the Israel-Hamas war that were posted on his website. The Free Beacon reports:
“[Booth] has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.” 
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Another cartoon shows Jews in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs with slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Gaza, The World’s Biggest Concentration Camp.”

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Several more examples of Booth’s cartoons can be seen below:

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In <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/dwayne-booth-penn-political-cartoons-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to Booth</a>, Penn’s Interim President J. Larry Jameson wrote:
“I will not, and should not, respond to every event on our campus, but I want it understood that these political cartoons, posted on a personal website, were not taught in the classroom and do not reflect the views of the University of Pennsylvania or me, personally. I find them reprehensible, with antisemitic symbols, and incongruent with our efforts to fight hate.” 
Jameson added:
“At Penn, we have a bedrock commitment to open expression and academic freedom, principles that were unanimously reaffirmed last week by our Faculty Senate Executive Committee. We also have a responsibility to challenge what we find offensive, and to do so acknowledging the right and ability of members of our community to express their views, however loathsome we find them.”
In a follow-up article, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-president-will-not-act-to-remove-anti-semitic-cartoonist-from-faculty-citing-bedrock-commitment-to-open-expression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Beacon</a> criticized Jameson’s response, saying he made it clear the university would not act to discipline or remove Booth from the faculty:
“Jameson’s tepid response … raises questions about whether the school has implemented meaningful changes in the wake of former president Liz Magill’s dismissal in December and the establishment of a task force on anti-Semitism.” 
In response to the university’s statement, Booth <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/penn-lecturer-criticized-for-creating-reprehensible-antisemitic-cartoons/3766737/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended his comments</a> and argued that work could be “misread.”
“Political artists have always had to grapple with the possibility that a misreading of their work, willing or otherwise, could disrupt the intention and usability of their commentary, thereby complicating the trajectory of whatever debate might follow.” 
“In the case of the international conversation about the current war in Gaza, it will be impossible to have a substantive debate over the specifics and potential outcomes so long as there remains a lazy conflation that makes the State of Israel and the politics that guide its actions as a nation inseparable from Judaism, itself.” 
On February 5, 2024, Booth <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-lecturer-political-cartoons-antisemitism-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a cartoon</a> entitled “Quiet!” which showed Uncle Sam with his hand over a person’s mouth. The caption read, “Critical thinking is bad for America.”
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Published - February 15, 2024

Antisemitism

Terror Supporter

Anti-Law Enforcement

<a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/roberts1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dorothy Roberts</a> is an “acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law” at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science &amp; Society in the Center for Africana Studies.

On October 17, 2023, Roberts <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/letter-biden-israel-ceasefire-legal-scholars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter</a> calling on President Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The letter was signed by 178 legal scholars and called Israel’s reaction to Hamas’s attacks “collective punishment” and “a moral catastrophe.” Roberts shared on X (formerly Twitter) that she felt “morally compelled” to sign the letter.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
“Collective punishment of two million civilians, nearly half of them children, is a moral catastrophe to which current U.S. policy critically contributes.” I was morally compelled to sign this US legal scholars’ letter. <a href="https://t.co/jCUHC87be9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/jCUHC87be9</a>
— Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) <a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/1714633667081883823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In the statement, the academics write:
“So too we condemn the Israeli government’s escalating response, which is killing and displacing unarmed families and children in Gaza with the apparent support of the United States government.” 
“We ask that President Biden act immediately, using all the means at his disposal to bring about a diplomatic solution to the present crisis. This means a cease-fire in Gaza and throughout the occupied territories, along with the unconditional restoration of food, water, electricity and medical care to the entire Gaza Strip.” 
Roberts has shared several <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-honors-radical-professor-who-accused-israel-of-genocide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-semitic articles</a> on her Twitter account, including one that <a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/429989648589672448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended divesting from Israel</a> and one titled “<a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/806513692720435204" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Are Jews White?</a>” In response to the latter, Roberts writes, “Race is a political invention, so who qualifies as ‘white’ depends on power, not biology.”

Roberts has called for an “<a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/7316-new-research-from-dorothy-roberts-argues-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolitionist approach to criminal law</a>” as an “alternative vision of criminal justice.”
“As an initial matter, democratizing criminal law requires acknowledging that the very definition of law breaking in the United States is biased against black people.” 
The type of criminal law Roberts advocates for includes:
“Ending stop-and-frisk practices, bail, monetary sanctions, and disenfranchisement; repealing harsh mandatory minimums for violent crimes and eliminating incarceration for nonviolent offenses, along with decriminalizing drug use and possession, as well as other conduct that poses little harm to others; and holding law enforcement accountable for brutality and rights violations.”
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Published - February 23, 2024

Dorothy Roberts

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Dr. <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/gsas/admissions/contact.html">Kate Slater</a> is the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Brandeis University. On her personal website, Dr. Slater <a href="https://kateaslater.com/about">describes herself as a “white anti-racist scholar and educator.</a>” In this capacity, Dr. Slater writes that she studies how “white racial identity formation and how racism operates individually, organizationally, and systemically.”
In a now-highly-publicized post on her private Instagram page—obtained by The College Fix—Dr. Slater launched into a<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/brandeis-university-dean-yes-all-white-people-are-racist/"> racially inflammatory attack on white people and defended the teaching of Critical Race Theory</a>. Writing that, “all white people are racist,” she claims that American society conditions white people—including herself—to be racist, which justifies the need for critical theory in education.
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Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory, is an <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/">intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with and perpetuate white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of Critical Race Theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”
Dr. Slater’s website also <a href="https://kateaslater.com/trainings">offers anti-racism training and courses on Critical Race Theory for universities and K-12 institutions</a>. On the promotional page for one such lecture titled 4 Steps to Begin an Antiracist Education—<a href="https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2020/07/world-shaped-race">sponsored and promoted by the University of New Hampshire</a>—skin color is described as the determining factor for how successful one&#8217;s life will be.
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In the lecture itself, Dr. Slater states that an antiracist worldview begins with the understanding that a <a href="https://media.unh.edu/media/In-Depth+on+InclusionA+4+Steps+to+Begin+An+Anti-Racist+Education/1_8lg7eccx">white person is never NOT racist in American society</a>. She further divides individuals into two categories: Those with a racist worldview, and those who take antiracist actions.
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Dr. Slater urges her white students to personally engage in antiracism throughout the lecture. She even encourages a teacher who was present at the lecture to discuss her stances on antiracism with her own students. At one point, Dr. Slater states that all white people are the “oppressors” and therefore cannot have opinions about racism.
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In addition to teaching, Dr. <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/how-be-anti-racist-what-new-steps-you-should-take-t208711">Slater frequently contributes articles to NBC</a> on topics such as antiracism, <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/defund-police-protests-call-abolish-reform-allyship-t183808">defunding the police</a>, and what she claims is <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-systemic-racism-t207878">systemic racism</a> in the country.
Note: A previous quote of Slater has since been updated to better reflect her remarks.
Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/about/contact.html">Brandeis University</a> at (781) 736-2000 or the <a href="https://www.unh.edu/">University of New Hampshire</a> at (603) 862-1234. 
Updated &#8211; June 2021

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Brandeis University

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Dr. <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/gsas/admissions/contact.html">Kate Slater</a> is the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Brandeis University. On her personal website, Dr. Slater <a href="https://kateaslater.com/about">describes herself as a “white anti-racist scholar and educator.</a>” In this capacity, Dr. Slater writes that she studies how “white racial identity formation and how racism operates individually, organizationally, and systemically.”

In a now-highly-publicized post on her private Instagram page—obtained by The College Fix—Dr. Slater launched into a<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/brandeis-university-dean-yes-all-white-people-are-racist/"> racially inflammatory attack on white people and defended the teaching of Critical Race Theory</a>. Writing that, “all white people are racist,” she claims that American society conditions white people—including herself—to be racist, which justifies the need for critical theory in education.

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Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory, is an <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/">intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with and perpetuate white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of Critical Race Theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Slater’s website also <a href="https://kateaslater.com/trainings">offers anti-racism training and courses on Critical Race Theory for universities and K-12 institutions</a>. On the promotional page for one such lecture titled 4 Steps to Begin an Antiracist Education—<a href="https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2020/07/world-shaped-race">sponsored and promoted by the University of New Hampshire</a>—skin color is described as the determining factor for how successful one's life will be.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1434 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-09T135329.000-e1623272032664-1024x302.png" alt="" width="580" height="171" />

In the lecture itself, Dr. Slater states that an antiracist worldview begins with the understanding that a <a href="https://media.unh.edu/media/In-Depth+on+InclusionA+4+Steps+to+Begin+An+Anti-Racist+Education/1_8lg7eccx">white person is never NOT racist in American society</a>. She further divides individuals into two categories: Those with a racist worldview, and those who take antiracist actions.

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Dr. Slater urges her white students to personally engage in antiracism throughout the lecture. She even encourages a teacher who was present at the lecture to discuss her stances on antiracism with her own students. At one point, Dr. Slater states that all white people are the “oppressors” and therefore cannot have opinions about racism.

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In addition to teaching, Dr. <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/how-be-anti-racist-what-new-steps-you-should-take-t208711">Slater frequently contributes articles to NBC</a> on topics such as antiracism, <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/defund-police-protests-call-abolish-reform-allyship-t183808">defunding the police</a>, and what she claims is <a href="https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-systemic-racism-t207878">systemic racism</a> in the country.
Note: A previous quote of Slater has since been updated to better reflect her remarks.
Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/about/contact.html">Brandeis University</a> at (781) 736-2000 or the <a href="https://www.unh.edu/">University of New Hampshire</a> at (603) 862-1234. 
Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=6c9f9a9f50eb4c90a05d153652a15549d6bc2f60" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Varun Chaudhry</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an Affiliate Faculty member in African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. Chaudhry’s profile says she is “a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on gender, race, sexuality, and class in the United States.” 

Chaudhry identifies with the trans community and prefers the pronouns “they/he.” She is listed as a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior and Distinguished Fellow of CATS</a> (The Center for Applied Transgender Studies). The organization's About page says, “We are an independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.” 

In August 2021, Chaudhry was featured in a <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/11/remove-male-and-female-from-birth-certificates-her/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spokesman-Review article</a> titled “Remove ‘male’ and ‘female’ from birth certificates? Here’s why [the] nation’s largest group of physicians recommends it.” The column discusses the American Medical Association’s [AMA] efforts to remove binary gender designation from identification documents. 

Citing a June report, Spokesman-Review said, “The AMA’s LGBTQ+ advisory committee advised the organization to push for removing sex labels from the public part of the birth certificate…But some [LGBTQ+ advocates] cautioned against celebrating the news too soon.”

Chaudhry stated, “People are still really committed to a binary sex model…The recommendation may say sex is not important for something like a birth certificate, but if people are still committed to a binary sex model, they find other ways to determine those things.”

Later that year, Chaudhry participated in <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/arts-sciences/core/critical-conversations/2021-22/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Brandeis Core</a> — a panel discussion for “community” and “critical conversations.” The discussion titled “<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/arts-sciences/core/critical-conversations/2021-22/videos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs’ of LGBTQ+ Community</a>” focused on “the limits and possibilities for [the] queer and transgender community on a global scale, particularly how gender, race, class and nation complicate what community can and does mean.” 

In a discussion on the use of trans community identifying language, Chaudhry said:

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Published - December 6, 2022

<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/callender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Callender</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Brandon prefers the pronouns he/him/his. His research interests include 19th and 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Callender’s list of courses taught includes ENG 15B — Black Joy. The description says the course “explores the exuberant and sometimes strained relationship between black people and joy.” His course EN 175B — Getting Behind in Black Gay Men’s Literatures is a study of “black queer men’s sexualities…[including] varying attitudes black queer writers have toward cruising and intimacy [and] falling behind at work or in life, because of certain sexual pursuits.”

In 2022, Callender <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/article/31/1/67/314953/The-Devil-Finds-UseBlack-Queers-Do-The-Exorcist?guestAccessKey=cad74655-0591-48e0-b1a5-8566a7481c26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> titled “The Devil Finds Use: Black Queers Do The Exorcist.” The piece explores a critique of The Exorcist (1973 film) in James Baldwin's essay “The Devil Finds Work.” In the abstract, Callender says,

“Much of black horror studies today is premised on the assumption that true horror, for the black audience, is found not in the paranormal but in the normal and the systemic. It is now conventional, for instance, for scholars to preface their research with a personal anecdote that swaps out a supernatural on-screen threat for a more pressing — and more horrifying — social one.”

He continued,

“By swapping out superficial horrors for social ones, black subjects today enter into the horror genre as its rivals, if not its foils. Instead of reeling from horror’s intended ‘dreadful pleasures,’ they experience a horror that arises more traumatically, more personally, and more incidentally as a result of their racial consciousness.”

The Brandeis Department of English <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/podcast/callender-podcast.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a two-part podcast</a> with Callender as a special guest. The host asked Callender, “[W]hat were you like as a high schooler?” Callender said,

“My high school experience was largely spent, I think, trying to figure out who I was…There was a lot of racism that was pretty worn on the surface of our school…I have a deep difficulty rethinking what those years meant to me, because the same teacher who deeply inspired and moved me did not teach me anything about my experience as a black person, or as a queer person. That was not part of his agenda, his curriculum.”

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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/profile/anita_hannig/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anita Hannig</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She teaches courses in the departments of Anthropology, Health, Science, Society, and Policy, as well as Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Hannig’s faculty profile says she specializes in “socio-cultural and medical anthropology; anthropology of death and dying; anthropology of religion, gender and the body; and medical assistance in dying.” In 2015, she “launched a long-term, ethnographic research project on medical aid-in-dying in the United States. This project asked how assisted dying is transforming the ways Americans die.”

On July 6, 2022, Hannig wrote an op-ed titled “‘<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/july/assisted-dying-hannig.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assisted suicide’ deserves a different name. Here’s why</a>” in which she offers expert insight into an emerging industry that allows physicians to kill patients legally. In the article, Hannig cited a statistic that says “more than 20% of Americans already live in a state with access to medically assisted death.”

Hannig continued,

“Despite this rapidly changing legal climate, the language for describing this new way to die remains surprisingly antiquated. The term that continues to dominate media coverage on the issue is ‘assisted suicide.’ The American Medical Associate uses the term ‘physician-assisted suicide.’”

“As a cultural anthropologist, I know that how we name something determines how we think about it. Until just recently, the primary term in the English language for the purposeful, voluntary death of oneself was ‘suicide.’ Besides martyrdom or sacrifice, there was no other way to refer to an intentional self-death.”

“Assisted suicide” is not a new way to die, as Hannig claimed. In 2011, a notorious suicide physician named Dr. Jack Kevorkian passed away. During his 50 years of medical practice, Kevorkian — known as “Dr. Death” — killed more than 100 terminally-ill patients and was eventually convicted of second-degree murder. Britannica says, he lobbied for medical experiments on death-row inmates and advocated for establishing suicide clinics.

In her book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Day-Die-Untold-Assisted-America/dp/1728244919/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EBE8BKOSTN2L&amp;keywords=the+day+i+die+anita+hannig&amp;qid=1670948560&amp;sprefix=the+day+i+die%2Caps%2C132&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=1728244919&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Day I Die</a>,” Hannig includes a Q &amp; A in the About the Author section. When asked how she became involved in assisted suicides, she said, “I actually fell into this subject by accident. I was showing How to Die in Oregon (the best documentary on assisted dying, I think) in one of my anthropology classes at Brandeis, and I became immediately hooked.” 

Hannig’s book also provides assisted suicide websites that help facilitate conversations and offers tools to assist patients and families plan for premature death. 

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Published - December 20, 2022

<a href="https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/profile/keridwen_luis/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keridwen N. Luis</a> is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. 

According to her faculty profile, Luis’s “current research, ‘Fan Bodies and Fan Performance: Community, Identity, and Intersecting Selves,’ is a fieldwork and interview project examining gender, sexuality, race, and disability in science fiction and media fandom, and a book on this research is under contract with Palgrave-MacMillan.”

In 2018, Luis published a <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Herlands/rip0DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;pg=PA2&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> titled “Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States.” The publisher’s description for “Herlands” states:

“Rooted in 1970s feminist politics, they continue to thrive in a range of ways, from urban households to isolated rural communes, providing spaces where ideas about gender, sexuality, and sociality are challenged in both deliberate and accidental ways. Herlands, a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also have an impact on broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living.”

The book addresses the author’s interactions with the “women’s land movement” phenomenon, along with “lesbian separatism,” “traveling dykes,” and other singular isolated communities of feminist-minded women. According to Luis, as of 2018, there are over 100 such communities in the US. 

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-university-summer-course-examine-disability-fat-studies/27651" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that Luis will be teaching a summer course titled “Sick, Fat, Ugly, Useless: Disability and Fat Studies.”

The <a href="https://coursebrowser.dce.harvard.edu/course/sick-fat-ugly-useless-disability-and-fat-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> description asks the following questions, chiefly concerning “fatness”: 

“We are now in the twenty-first century: why do we still have so much prejudice about bodies that differ from the so-called norm? What, indeed, is the norm and why is it so important to us? In this course, students are introduced to fat studies and disability studies in tandem to explore the politics of the body.” 

Moreover, the course aims to examine and link together different fields of study with fatness, including “fatphobia and racism.”

“We examine questions drawn from disability studies about bioethics, community organization, and the use of technology; and we examine questions drawn from fat liberation about the construction of aesthetics, the history of fatphobia and racism, and the way we layer symbolic meaning on the body.”

Stereotypes “of disabled and fat people in media studies” will also be examined in the course. 

This course may contribute to a “Social Justice Graduate Certificate,” along with a  Religion Master’s Degree at Harvard, among other degree programs.

Kate Slater

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Anthea Butler

University of Pennsylvania Professor <a href="https://rels.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> penned an MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> responding to the controversial 2024 Olympics&#8217; opening ceremony where “transgender” performers mocked Leonardo da Vinci’s depiction of The Last Supper.
Butler offered the following explanation in light of the sacrilegious production:
“[I]t wasn’t about the Last Supper at all. The so-called re-enactment was a scene of a bacchanal, a fest of the Greek god Dionysus …  Thell that, though, to those unable to see the scene outside the lens of their conservative religious convictions … Tolerance, sadly, isn’t what conservatives are noted for, especially since many of them deemed the 2024 Olympics ‘woke.’”
She further claimed that Christians have a “limited” worldview that “doesn’t consider views that fall outside their faith.”
Butler has a history of demonizing Christianity, including this quote from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Evangelical-Racism-Politics-Morality/dp/1469661179?asin=B08JG7NHXQ&amp;revisionId=37269deb&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1">her book</a>, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America” :
“White Evangelical Racism tells a concise history of the evangelical movement and—here is the hard part—the racist and racial elements that imbue its beliefs, practices, and social and political activism. It is racism that binds and blinds many white American evangelicals to the vilification of Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans … Racism is a feature, not a bug, of American evangelicalism.”
In response to the outrage among religious conservatives after viewing the Olympics ceremony, Butler <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
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Butler’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the 2024-25 academic year.
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Updated &#8211; August 6, 2024 
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<a href="https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> is an Associate Professor of African and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.
Identity Politics
Butler advocates for professors to strike on the job in order to promote social justice causes. First tweeting her support for an NBA-style<a href="https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/emotional-frustrated-raptors-discussed-boycott-wake-jacob-blake-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strike</a> to protest “police violence,” Butler then created her own strike aimed at school and university staff called “Scholar Strike.” 
<a href="https://www.scholarstrike.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instructing</a> professors and faculty members of colleges and universities to walk out of their positions and teaching duties for two days, Scholar Strike intends to “call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash [sic] of police shootings and racialized violence.” As a result, hundreds of academics<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/28/professors-plan-strike-racial-justice"> pledged</a> to join the strike.
In a 2020 Twitter thread, Butler also<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15673" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> describes</a> conservatives as “craven and evil.” She levels<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ivy-league-professor-award-carson-coon-of-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> attacks</a> against Dr. Ben Carson as the  “the coon of the year” over comments he made regarding the confederate flag.<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Dr. Ben Carson</a> is a renowned neurosurgeon who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump Administration.
Butler believes that conservative candidates continue to receive support en masse from evangelicals due to fear.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-evangelicals-love-trump-aren-t-confused-about-why-no-ncna1046826" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Writing</a> for NBC News, Butler accuses conservatives of voting in order to preserve what political power they still have. Historically a dominant force, Butler states, evangelicals turn to authoritarians like Trump in order to protect themselves from societal change. She continues, stating that this is not a unique phenomenon, as Evangelicals have a long history of supporting racist movements and institutions.
The core of Butler’s popular authorship is her allegations of the overlap between evangelicalism and white supremacy, having written a book entitled,<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangelical-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> White Evangelical Racism</a> explaining this indictment. Interviewing on “Act. tv,” she<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZpsrYGLeA&amp;ab_channel=act.tv" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> claims</a> that the history of Christianity in the United States is interwoven with the institution of slavery and support of the Ku Klux Klan.
During the same interview, Butler claims that evangelicals believe that police are “ordained” by God to kill black people.
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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/AntheaButler/status/1351922696989380609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> from January 2021, Butler repeated a claim from the same book that racism is inherent in evangelicals.
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In 2013, Butler went as far as to claim that a “white-racist” is the god<a href="https://antheabutler.com/americas-racist-god/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> worshipped</a> by this country.
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Anthea Butler served as a<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/ncr-exclusive-campaign-names-three-dozen-catholics-biden-co-chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-chair</a> of “Catholics for Biden” in 2020.
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Published Spring 2021