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Aneil Rallin is a Professor of rhetoric and composition at Soka University of America (SUA) in Aliso Viejo, California. He uses they/them pronouns when referring to himself.
In an academic article entitled <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/199944/pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Taming Queers”,</a> Rallin wrote about the medieval Iraqi poet Abu Nuwas. According to Rallin, Nuwas loved “wine and boys, and… felt no need to apologize or tame his desires.” He then quoted the following lines of Nuwas: 
“If I&#8217;m thirsty [he wrote] I&#8217;ll say: come on, be quick, some wine
And if I love a boy why keep silent about his name?”
In May of 2022, Rallin was <a href="https://www.thefire.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused by SUA’s administration</a> of not creating a safe space for his students in his “Writing the Body” course, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Interim Dean of Faculty Michael Weiner, in his <a href="https://www.thefire.org/soka-university-of-america-notice-of-charges-to-aneil-rallin-april-1-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Notice of Charges</a>, provided Rallin with a list of accusations based on student complaints. Some of the complaints addressed by Rallin in the Notice were: 
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“They [the students] felt violated since they were required to read graphic, deviant pornography, discussions on rape and assault, watch a video and a reading about the sexual activities of a couple, gratuitously violent material, etc.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“They indicated that the assigned material was disturbing and unrelated to the course.”</li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“At least one of your assigned readings suggested that “kink” was a way of healing childhood trauma, and that sex and sexual deviancy can be exciting new ways to understand their bodies.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“One student was a rape victim whose mental health issues were triggered as a result of the material and mandate to write with rage regarding her body. Another student was a survivor of sexual abuse.”</li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Students found a writing to be vaguely pedophilic.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“You censored and stifled alternative student views.”</li>
</ul>
Weiner also wrote that Rallin was charged with violating SUA’s principles of faculty conduct, and the university’s policy on teaching effectiveness.
In <a href="https://www.thefire.org/california-writing-professor-investigated-after-admin-claims-works-by-black-brown-queer-authors-were-triggering-deviant-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to the accusations against him</a>, Rallin said he was “outraged”: 
“I am the only tenured/tenure-track queer of color faculty member at SUA and I’m horrified that in its pursuit to oust me, SUA is deploying well-worn homophobic tropes such as ‘deviant pornography,’ ‘vaguely pedophilic,’ and ‘sexual deviancy.’ The current climate at SUA, created by a new set of administrators, is chilling.”
It is unknown what the current status of Rallin’s case is. However, Rallin is not listed as a faculty member of SUA. <a href="https://www.thefire.org/soka-professor-unjustly-punished-for-triggering-students-with-readings-on-writing-the-body-gets-split-decision-from-faculty-committee-of-just-two/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FIRE reported in June of 2022 </a>that the Dean would have to decide if Rallin should be fired or not. After the Dean decides, the President of SUA will make the final decision.

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Aneil Rallin is a Professor of rhetoric and composition at Soka University of America (SUA) in Aliso Viejo, California. He uses they/them pronouns when referring to himself.

In an academic article entitled <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/199944/pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Taming Queers”,</a> Rallin wrote about the medieval Iraqi poet Abu Nuwas. According to Rallin, Nuwas loved “wine and boys, and… felt no need to apologize or tame his desires.” He then quoted the following lines of Nuwas: 
“If I'm thirsty [he wrote] I'll say: come on, be quick, some wine
And if I love a boy why keep silent about his name?”
In May of 2022, Rallin was <a href="https://www.thefire.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused by SUA’s administration</a> of not creating a safe space for his students in his “Writing the Body” course, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Interim Dean of Faculty Michael Weiner, in his <a href="https://www.thefire.org/soka-university-of-america-notice-of-charges-to-aneil-rallin-april-1-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Notice of Charges</a>, provided Rallin with a list of accusations based on student complaints. Some of the complaints addressed by Rallin in the Notice were: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“They [the students] felt violated since they were required to read graphic, deviant pornography, discussions on rape and assault, watch a video and a reading about the sexual activities of a couple, gratuitously violent material, etc.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“They indicated that the assigned material was disturbing and unrelated to the course.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“At least one of your assigned readings suggested that “kink” was a way of healing childhood trauma, and that sex and sexual deviancy can be exciting new ways to understand their bodies.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“One student was a rape victim whose mental health issues were triggered as a result of the material and mandate to write with rage regarding her body. Another student was a survivor of sexual abuse.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Students found a writing to be vaguely pedophilic.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“You censored and stifled alternative student views.”</li>
</ul>
Weiner also wrote that Rallin was charged with violating SUA’s principles of faculty conduct, and the university’s policy on teaching effectiveness.

In <a href="https://www.thefire.org/california-writing-professor-investigated-after-admin-claims-works-by-black-brown-queer-authors-were-triggering-deviant-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to the accusations against him</a>, Rallin said he was “outraged”: 
“I am the only tenured/tenure-track queer of color faculty member at SUA and I’m horrified that in its pursuit to oust me, SUA is deploying well-worn homophobic tropes such as ‘deviant pornography,’ ‘vaguely pedophilic,’ and ‘sexual deviancy.’ The current climate at SUA, created by a new set of administrators, is chilling.”
It is unknown what the current status of Rallin’s case is. However, Rallin is not listed as a faculty member of SUA. <a href="https://www.thefire.org/soka-professor-unjustly-punished-for-triggering-students-with-readings-on-writing-the-body-gets-split-decision-from-faculty-committee-of-just-two/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FIRE reported in June of 2022 </a>that the Dean would have to decide if Rallin should be fired or not. After the Dean decides, the President of SUA will make the final decision.

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<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

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<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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Censorship
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.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1161 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-08T135906.192-e1615237216944-1024x358.png" alt="" width="580" height="203" />

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:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-2461" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-11.41.50-AM.png" alt="" width="448" height="131" />

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You can contact the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at (512) 245-2367
Published — October 31, 2022

COVID-19

Terry Scott Bertling

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<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=34110" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claire Coyne</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is also a part of the Gender Development Program at Lurie Children’s Hospital. According to her university <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/for-healthcare-professionals/education/medical-education-training/internships-and-externships/clinical-psychology-internship/meet-our-psychologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a>, her “primary research interests include psychosocial functioning and behavioral health interventions for transgender/gender-expansive youth.”
In March 2023, Coyne—along with <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of other professors</a>—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The full statement can be seen below:
We are clinicians and researchers who work with and study transgender and gender diverse youth. Many of us are involved in debates about how best to care for transgender and gender diverse youth – debates about to whom, when, and how gender affirming medical care might best be provided.  Discussion of some of these debates has moved into the public sphere. We hold varying perspectives on these issues and sometimes disagree.
However, often lost in the public version of these debates is our strong agreement about two central points that we wish to highlight here. First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care. As with all medical care, we believe an adolescent’s health care, including their access to gender affirming medical care, should be determined by the youth along with their families and health care teams. 
Recently, our internal debate and media reports of our debate concerning how best to care for transgender youth have been cited to support laws banning gender affirmative medical care for minors, punishing doctors who provide this care, or otherwise limiting this care. We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative medical care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.
We will continue to debate aspects of gender affirming care, just as clinicians and researchers in all areas of medicine debate aspects of care. We will continue to update our views as new data and more evidence are accrued. However, we request that politicians and others stop using our debates to justify bans of gender affirmative care. We wish to state for the public record, we do not support these efforts.
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Published &#8211; May 1, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28078" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Chen</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry &amp; Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. She is also the founding psychologist of Lurie Children’s Gender &amp; Sex Development Program.

Campus Reform reports that Chen was in charge of a study that was criticized for having no control group. The study—”<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones</a>”—analyzed 315 participants, between the ages of 12 and 20, over the course of two years.

Participants received “gender-affirming hormones,” which are hormones to make their male or female bodies resemble bodies of the opposite sex. Chen claims, “During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased.”

However, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>—an organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals—questioned the study’s lack of a control group. In a report provided to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>, Do No Harm calls the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific.” Stanley Goldfarb, board chair at Do No Harm, said:
“The absence of any control group raises the possibility that ongoing psychological counseling and therapy may explain the slight improvement in some parameters of the study.” 
Do No Harm’s report also notes:
“The researchers and four clinics featured in this study have a well-publicized history of radical activism and advocacy for the medical transition of children … Given this obvious bias, there is a high likelihood that study participants were steered towards responses that align with the activism promoted by these clinics.” 
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21832" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that Chen is now part of another study, called “A Longitudinal Study of Gender Nonconformity in Prepubescent Children.” The study looks at the effects of the social transition of kids as young as six years old.

In March 2023, Chen—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.”
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Published - April 12, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=11319#publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Garofalo</a> is a Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University and Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. According to his university profile, his “primary clinical and research activities relate to the care of marginalized youth populations including HIV+ and LGBT young people.”

Garofalo was part of a study—led by coworker <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/dianechen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Chen</a>—that was criticized for having no control group.  The study—”<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones</a>”—analyzed 315 participants, between the ages of 12 and 20, over the course of two years.

Participants received “gender-affirming hormones,” which are hormones to make their male or female bodies resemble bodies of the opposite sex. Chen claims, “During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased.”

However, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>—an organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals—questioned the study’s lack of a control group. In a report provided to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>, Do No Harm calls the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific.” Stanley Goldfarb, board chair at Do No Harm, said:
“The absence of any control group raises the possibility that ongoing psychological counseling and therapy may explain the slight improvement in some parameters of the study.” 
Do No Harm’s report also notes:
“The researchers and four clinics featured in this study have a well-publicized history of radical activism and advocacy for the medical transition of children … Given this obvious bias, there is a high likelihood that study participants were steered towards responses that align with the activism promoted by these clinics.” 
In March 2023, Garofalo—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.”
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Published - April 17, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Simons</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. According to her university profile, her “interests and expertise [are] in mental health care for adolescents, suicide prevention, LGBT health, and gender-affirming health care.”

In March 2023, Simons—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Simons is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/1768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.”
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Published - May 1, 2023

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

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=45471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aron Janssen</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is also the <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/doctors/janssen-aron-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice Chair</a> of Clinical Affairs for The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.

In March 2023, Dr. Janssen—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Dr. Janssen is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/431" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.” 
Dr. Janssen is outspoken about his political beliefs on Twitter, where he posted a letter he wrote to his daughters after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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A letter to my daughters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#RoeVsWade</a> <a href="https://t.co/KhLhWVQhrO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/KhLhWVQhrO</a>
— Dr. Aron Janssen (@LGBTDoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTDoc/status/1540389243834466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Janssen also shared his beliefs on <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtdoc?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control</a> after the tragic Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.

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Published - July 26, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/andrew-little">Dr. Andrew Little</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California in Berkeley. According to his university <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/andrew-little">biography</a>, Dr. Little’s research focuses on authoritarian politics, communication and information manipulation, and conflict.

While working as a professor at Cornell University, Dr. Little vocally opposed the hiring of conservative professors by the university. In an interview with The Cornell Daily Sun in October 2015, he stated that <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">the quality of research and academic integrity would suffer if universities hired conservative professors</a>.

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In the same article, titled “Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show,” reporters for the Cornell Daily Sun <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">note</a> that over 96% of the political donations of Cornell staff went to Democrats and only 4% were donated to Republican candidates.
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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ramon-grosfoguel-1/">Ramon Grosfoguel</a> is an associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to his university biography, Grosfoguel also specializes in decoloniality and the study of Islamophobia.

Grosfoguel is notable for his vocal opposition to the state of Israel and support for BDS. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1PCTNGgB8&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv">interview</a> with the Islamic Human Rights Commission during Al-Quds Day (an <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-quds-day-irans-leader-says-zionism-a-virus-that-must-be-eliminated/">Iranian holiday</a> dedicated to the destruction of Israel) not only did he claim that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, but that Israel is a threat to peace across the world. Grosfoguel claimed that Israel is infiltrating nations and aligning itself with openly fascist organizations in order to strangle freedom of speech.

Grosfoguel also claims that Jews <a href="https://www.okcir.com/Articles%20VII%202/Grosfoguel-FM.pdf">cynically use the Holocaust</a> to elicit sympathy from the world in order to commit atrocities against Arabs;

“The simplistic identity politics of the Holocaust hegemonic narrative that essentialized Jewish identity as homogenous eternal victims and always intentionally innocent ended with Gaza.”   

“These simplistic and reductionist narratives about the Holocaust and Jewish identity were exploited by the Zionists for the last 60 years to legitimate their fundamentalist Jewish state built upon the practices and methods of settler colonialism against the Palestinians.”                  

“Hitlerism as a continuation of colonial racist ideology came back to hunt Palestinians this time at the hands of European Jews who ironically were escaping from the Nazi Holocaust.” 

“...the Holocaust was always manipulated, abused, and institutionalized by the Israeli settler colonialist state from its foundation in 1948 until today to justify its colonial domination, expansion, and terror.”
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Grosfoguel specializes in anti-colonial rhetoric. Rather than a past vestige, Grosfoguel maintains that colonialism is an ongoing attempt by Western nations—particularly Israel and the United States, to maintain dominance throughout the world. Grosfoguel lectures that the capitalistic, Christian-centered West is able to bleed poorer nations dry to maintain their wealth. He claims that Christianity itself has given rise to genocides around the world, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8ISZolAMw&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=2m4s">“pre-modern” societies were far more peaceful</a> than modern, Western nations.

To Grosfoguel, the concept of human rights is a Western farce that is used to justify foreign invasions. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=9m46s">He has claimed</a> that America is a “rogue state” that has murdered upwards of 70 million people.

“Here comes the quintessential rogue state in the world, USA, calling other nations rogue states….This is really amazing, because this country, the last 60 years, has killed more than 70 million people.”  

In the same lecture, he held nothing back when grotesquely claiming that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=7m0s">should have been put to death</a> alongside Sadam Hussein for his crimes as an imperialist:

“So Donald Rumsfield should have been sitting alongside Sadam Hussein and been judged, ok? And been hanged together with him.”  

Grosfoguel travels frequently to speak about his views on decolonization and is renowned among the Left for his views on the subject. In 2018, he was invited to deliver <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwX2ZQl0C0&amp;t=3173s&amp;ab_channel=LuiginoBracciRoa-Situaci%C3%B3nenVenezuela">opening remarks</a> addressing this topic at a Caracas-based conference hosted by Nicholas Maduro. Grosfoguel was well received at the conference and can be seen warmly greeting the dictator below.

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/keith-feldman-1/">Keith Feldman</a> is a head graduate advisor and an associate professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.

Speaking before the Berkeley-based conference Critical Discourses on Islamophobia, Feldman reserved most of his speech to criticize Barack Obama for killing jihadists. Labeling the administration’s <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">use of drones to eliminate terrorists as Islamaphobic</a>—or what he termed as “racialization from above—he asked, “What happens when Islamophobia takes to the skies?”

Feldman compared the death of Osama bin Laden to a Jim Crow-era lynching. As he was describing his killing as the “residue of late nineteenth-century colonial settler violence,” Feldman <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">displayed a black lynching victim in the background to serve as an analogy to his death.</a>

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In 2015 while discussing his book, <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-shadow-over-palestine">A Shadow Over Palestine</a>, he claimed that <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22864/berkeley-prof-race-in-america-is-like-occupation">American ghettos are akin to the Warsaw ghetto</a> during the Holocaust, which itself is akin to modern-day Palestinian refugee camps.

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Feldman’s book praises the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/7244/a-radical-romance-with-the-palestinians">United World Conference Against Racism</a> held in Durban, South Africa. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/durban-and-911-ten-years-later">The gathering is notorious for its antisemitism</a>, with vendors <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/durban-i-un-conference-against-racism-2001">selling the conspiratorial</a> ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and displaying banners that read ‘What if Hitler Had Won?’ Feldman praises this conference for uniting “hundreds” of NGOs to declare that “Zionism is racism.”
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<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Zeus Leonardo</a> is a Professor in the<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Graduate School of Education</a> at the University of <a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California-Berkeley</a>. According to his university profile, Dr. Leonardo’s courses include: “Race, Whiteness Studies, and Education” and “Proseminar: Social Critique of Education.” Much of Dr. Leonardo’s work utilizes critical race theory to analyze areas such as race, class, culture, and gender in education.

Dr. Leonardo is also listed as an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at UC Berkeley. As part of the Graduate School of Education, the program explores the “<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/academics/ma-and-phd-programs/critical-studies-race-class-and-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">root causes and effects of white supremacy and settler colonialism in education</a>,” according to the official website.

Upon completion, those enrolled will earn a certification of “Designated Emphasis and Specialization in Critical Theory.” The university flaunts critical theory’s association with the Frankfurt School of Economics on its website. The Frankfurt School of Economics was <a href="https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/BG3567.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">composed of openly Marxist economists whose writings eventually formed the basis for critical race theory</a>.

<a href="http://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The page prominently hosts a picture of Angela Davis</a> alongside the post-modernist, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/herbert-marcuse-the-philosopher-behind-the-ideology-of-the-anti-fascists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herbert Marcuse</a>. Davis was a member of the Leninist-Black Panther Party as well as the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/viewhttps://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives</a> list for her role in the shooting deaths of four during the Marin County Civic Center Attacks.

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To learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

Dr. Leonardo has additionally published a number of other articles on critical race theory, race, and education. These include titles such as, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23793406.2016.1167111?journalCode=rree20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tropics of Whiteness</a>,” “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2013.822624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Story of Schooling: Critical Theory and the Educational Racial Contract</a>,” and, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613320120117180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Souls of White Folk</a>.” Another is titled, “<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203880371/race-whiteness-education-zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race, Whiteness, and Education</a>,” in which he affirms the “central role” racism plays in society.

Dr. Leonardo declares racism to be systematic rather than based on individuals and must be addressed as such. He outlines the paper’s intent to interrupt this “dangerous” assertion in order to confront “whiteness” and racism in education. Further, in the same paper, Dr. Leonardo advocates the blending of Marxism and whiteness studies to understand racism. He then addresses the “myth” that whites do not think of themselves exclusively along with racial terms and that capitalism has spread “whiteness” across the globe.

In a separate lecture, Dr. Leonardo lauds critical race theory in even more explicit terms. In a lecture titled, “Who is afraid of CRT?” hosted at George Washington University, the event was <a href="https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-critical-race-theory-and-what-exactly-it-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marketed as an examination of “critical race theory, marxism, and whiteness studies</a>”.

In the lecture, Dr. Leonardo states the intent of his work in whiteness studies is to solve the problem of “whiteness” itself.

“In whiteness studies, whiteness is  the problem to be posed, if not solved.”

In another clip–captured by the Twitter user, <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MYKE</a>—Dr. Leonardo states, “whites are not born white,” rather, they are “abused’ by their white parents and raised that way.
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Recommended reading from the professor of education at Berkeley includes concepts such as “white people are not born white”.
White people are “born human” and then “white parents physically and psychologically ABUSE them” into becoming “white people”. <a href="https://t.co/GOtjrFCC7m">pic.twitter.com/GOtjrFCC7m</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1450083463726518276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Video later emerged of Dr. Leonardo stating in a lecture that "to abolish whiteness is to abolish white people."
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UC Berkeley education professor Zeus Leonardo: "To abolish whiteness is to abolish white people. That's very uncomfortable perhaps, but it asks about our definitions of what race is and what racial justice might mean."
This is what teachers are learning.<a href="https://t.co/cLWEGSZ8tM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/cLWEGSZ8tM</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1498335108830486533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/">Graduate School of Education</a> of the University of California-Berkeley at (510) 643-6644 or at gsedean@berkeley.edu  
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<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/khiara-bridges/#tab_profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Khiara Bridges</a> is a <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California-Berkeley Law Professor</a>, critical race theorist, and an advocate for abortion. She has further claimed that men can give birth and has refused to say whether unborn babies are worthy of dignity.

Dr. Bridges condemned the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.—<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-1392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</a>—as an <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/24/khiara-m-bridges-court-abortion-ruling-is-an-assault-on-women-and-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“assault” against both women and democracy.</a> Dr. Bridges further alleged that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/californians-express-outrage-over-roe-163817289.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning abortion is a form of racism</a>:

“When you have a law that makes abortion unavailable, you have a law that makes unavailable a service upon which Black people disproportionately rely, so there’s a specific racial impact.”

Since the 1973 ruling, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/since-roe-abortion-has-killed-more-black-babies-than-the-entire-black-population-of-the-u-s-in-1960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 20 million black children have been murdered via abortion</a>.

Speaking before a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?521318-1/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-abortion-access-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate hearing</a> regarding abortion policy, Dr. Bridges refused to address John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) question regarding disproportionate rates of black abortion. She again refused to answer when asked if an unborn baby has any value.
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Cornyn: "Do you think a baby delivered alive has value?"
Demo abortion witness: "Yes."

Cornyn: "Do you think that a baby that is not yet born has value?"

Dem abortion witness: "I believe that a person with the capacity for pregnancy has value." <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/eYaOYumYSJ</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546889853031383042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During her testimony, Dr. Bridges referenced “persons with the capacity for pregnancy” when speaking about individuals who sought abortions. When questioned by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) if she was referring to pregnant women, Dr. Bridges replied that she was referring to all “cis-women, trans-men, and non-binary people.”

When further pressed if abortion is a women’s rights issue, Dr. Bridges accused Hawley of asking questions that exposed “trans people to violence.”

Dr. Bridges then asked Hawley if he believes that men can become pregnant. Astonished, Hawley replied, “No, I don’t think men can get pregnant,” she further accused him of denying that trans people exist.
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Hawley: Why are you using the term "person with a capacity for pregnancy" instead of "woman?"
Bridges: "Your line of questioning is transphobic and opens trans people to violence."

Hawley: "You're saying I'm opening up people to violence by saying women can have pregnancies?" <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Yi46NlQCr0</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546891926997188608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bridges is a scholar of critical race theory and author of “<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Critical_Race_Theory.html?id=VMhDvAEACAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory, A Primer.</a>” At Berkeley, her biography lists her as an expert in “Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,” “Critical Legal Theory,” and “Racial and Social Justice.”

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Published - July 18, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jahred Adelman is an <a href="https://www.niu.edu/jadelman/index.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Physics at Northern Illinois University (NIU).</a> He has worked for the university since 2014 and currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Physics Department.
A tip received through the <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/professor-refusing-to-wear-mask-is-racism-will-be-removed-from-class/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young America’s Foundation’s</a> Campus Bias Tip Line claimed Professor Adelman is still requiring masks in his classroom. The course syllabus for PHYS 253 states:
“Refusing to mask indoors is a manifestation of ableism and racism, an exercise of individual privilege that tells the most vulnerable that their health and the health of their loved ones does not matter. Thus, masks are required here. They are NOT optional.” 
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NIU <a href="https://www.niu.edu/protecting-the-pack/communication/messaging/2-26-22-mask-guidance-update-from-provost.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped its mask requirements in February 2022</a>, but states on its website that “faculty members can require masks be worn in their teaching spaces.” In an email to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-professor-says-going-maskless-indoors-manifestation-racism-boot-non-compliant-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>, Professor Adelman writes:
“The university allows professors to set mask policy in their classrooms and laboratories. I cannot and would not tell students what to do outside of my class, but if I can do my part to keep everyone a little safer while we learn physics, I will do so. Of particular concern to me is protecting those students of color and those with special health demands and needs, whom studies have shown are disproportionately impacted by the virus.” 
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You can contact the Physics Department at Northern Illinois University by email: <a href="mailto:physics@niu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physics@niu.edu</a> or phone: 815-753-1772.
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Jahred Adelman is an <a href="https://www.niu.edu/jadelman/index.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Physics at Northern Illinois University (NIU).</a> He has worked for the university since 2014 and currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Physics Department.

A tip received through the <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/professor-refusing-to-wear-mask-is-racism-will-be-removed-from-class/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young America’s Foundation’s</a> Campus Bias Tip Line claimed Professor Adelman is still requiring masks in his classroom. The course syllabus for PHYS 253 states:
“Refusing to mask indoors is a manifestation of ableism and racism, an exercise of individual privilege that tells the most vulnerable that their health and the health of their loved ones does not matter. Thus, masks are required here. They are NOT optional.” 
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NIU <a href="https://www.niu.edu/protecting-the-pack/communication/messaging/2-26-22-mask-guidance-update-from-provost.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped its mask requirements in February 2022</a>, but states on its website that “faculty members can require masks be worn in their teaching spaces.” In an email to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-professor-says-going-maskless-indoors-manifestation-racism-boot-non-compliant-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>, Professor Adelman writes:
“The university allows professors to set mask policy in their classrooms and laboratories. I cannot and would not tell students what to do outside of my class, but if I can do my part to keep everyone a little safer while we learn physics, I will do so. Of particular concern to me is protecting those students of color and those with special health demands and needs, whom studies have shown are disproportionately impacted by the virus.” 
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You can contact the Physics Department at Northern Illinois University by email: <a href="mailto:physics@niu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physics@niu.edu</a> or phone: 815-753-1772.
Published - September 30, 2022

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<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sogie/sogie-team/tishelman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Tishelman</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She’s also the Director of Clinical Research in the Behavioral Health, Endocrinology and Urology Program, and Gender Multispecialty Service at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Tishelman’s HMS profile says she was “selected by the World Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) to be the international lead developing new global standards of care for prepubescent children.”
Tishelman, along with several “transgender specialists,” authored WPATH’s “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8</a>.” The publication was intended to “provide clinical guidelines for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort…”
Addressing gender identity in minor patients, Tishelman et al., stated:
“Our understanding of gender identity development in adolescence is continuing to evolve…For some youth, gender identity development appears fixed and is often expressed from a young age, while for others there may be a developmental process that contributes to gender identity development over time.”
The authors’ “Statement of Recommendation”  for healthcare professionals includes:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“&#8230;possess a general knowledge of gender diversity across the lifespan.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">…develop expertise in autism spectrum disorders and other neurodiversity or collaborate with an expert with relevant expertise when working with autistic/neurodivergent, gender-diverse children.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8230;respond supportively to children who desire to be acknowledged as the gender that matches their internal sense of gender identity.”</li>
</ul>
According to Tishelman et al., “At present, no clinical cohort studies have reported on profiles of adolescents who regret their initial decision or detransition after irreversible affirming treatment.”
Tishelman was a panel speaker during WPATH’s <a href="https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Upcoming%20Conferences/2022/WPATH%202022%20Prospectus%20Final.pdf?_t=1649279057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27th Scientific Symposium</a> in September 2022. WPATH’s stated goal is to work to “further the understanding of the range of interventions, modalities, medical and surgical gender-affirming treatments” while providing “opportunities for professionals to…communicate with each other in the context of research and treatment of gender incongruence…”
A portion of Tishelman’s Symposium presentation—where she admitted to manipulating age restriction information to avoid industry lawsuits— was leaked to social media:
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<a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/danielle-allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Allen</a> is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allen’s profile says “she is Founder and President for Partners In Democracy, where she continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy and drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all.”

In 2016, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moment-of-truth-we-must-stop-trump/2016/02/21/0172e788-d8a7-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html">published an opinion editorial</a> authored by Allen. She titled the piece “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” She starts the article by stating:
“Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany. Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.”
She further parallels former President Trump and Hitler, writing:
“To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German-Jewish  émigré philosopher <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437565/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0142437565&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=PQAKLU5NRJOETRXB%22%3EThe%20Portable%20Hannah%20Arendt%20(Penguin%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thewaspos09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Arendt</a> and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can understand themselves as ‘just doing their job,’ yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.”
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Allen was <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/03/harvard-kennedy-professor-danielle-allen-discusses-justice-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> in The Brown Daily Herald wherein the author covered a speaking engagement connected to the release of Allen’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Means-Democracy-Danielle-Allen-ebook/dp/B0BVC2FX2S/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VqxGd4owAqzRflOXiBODXN17y4JJUJ1SVHYoRKSEDi6q-l886siA49NkC9H1kQpqVTCFXCSP_tdMncZOaeI8qZRoOQSHNELNFHZcBBT7HIHiT1vCs5-ECUpnUkPX8MrgUwMYyWF99EapLhAECkgLZTSghDVrj8oaZbf6drUcWGl3zoSJputR0fYZybjA7eJTxgZ6VHZUCs4sELHMdEbmsJXcA3rlY8ymu77DAiOkKPg.jTBse05m42CEISz-twypjIyY7S93TNNoT9Q_KLXmonU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;gad_source=1&amp;hvadid=693980244929&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15248354058227898116--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=15248354058227898116&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1965987004000&amp;hydadcr=22158_13517514&amp;keywords=justice+by+means+of+democracy&amp;qid=1722025745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BVC2FX2S&amp;revisionId=f2ca3fa9&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice by Means of Democracy</a>.” The writer said, “Allen argued that American democracy has prioritized negative liberties over positive ones for too long, resulting in those with power ‘not listening to the people who are affected by policies’ being enacted.”

In the book, Allen asked, “What is the relationship between political economy, political philosophy, and a theory of justice?” She then states:
“As economic theorists from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith/The-Theory-of-Moral-Sentiments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Smith</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Marx</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/John-Maynard-Keynes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Maynard Keynes</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/F-A-Hayek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Hayek</a> have recognized, any given economic system is built out of a set of underlying rules of human interaction … All recognized that the rules of the game structuring human interaction and those generating particular forms of economy embodied distinctive sets of social ideals and could be redesigned.” 
She also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/26/allen-permissible-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> contrasting “academic freedom” with “free expression.” She said, “Harvard’s values statement contains two guidelines that help distinguish between good and bad speech … Scholarly standards and longstanding norms from the art of rhetoric make concrete how to live by these values.”

The following chart was included under the heading Speech Distinctions — Regime, Quality, Permissibility.

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<a href="https://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/faculty/jonathan-l-walton/">Dr. Jonathan L. Walton</a>, Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University and formerly of Harvard University, called the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization". In a sermon on campus after the Las Vegas mass shooting, Walton, who has a Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton, blamed "Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries [for] eating away at the soul of this nation," Walton later calls President Donald Trump a "Madman" who "embodies the worst aspects of our country's cultural disease."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/jason-bryan-silverstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Silverstein</a> is a Global Health and Social Medicine Lecturer and the Co-Director of Math of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical School. In May 2022, one month before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, Silverstein submitted a narrative to <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a39970410/abortion-saved-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men’s Health Magazine</a>. The article retells the story of a woman who underwent an abortion procedure that allegedly saved her life. Silverstein introduced the publication by stating, 

“While many states will make exceptions for the life of the mother, medical emergency exceptions are not as clear as they may seem—how close to death does a woman have to be before an abortion is legal isn’t black-and-white…What is clear is that many women are alive today because they could have an abortion…”

The woman that Silverstein wrote to Men’s Health about was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy —a potentially life-threatening condition caused by a fertilized egg growing outside the uterus (i.e. in the fallopian tubes). The abnormality can cause severe internal bleeding and laparoscopic surgery (which usually results in terminating the pregnancy) is often required to successfully treat the issue.

In September of the same year, Men’s Health <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a34044035/covid-19-need-real-lockdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a Silverstein article with the title, “We Can’t Beat COVID-19 Without a 6-Week Lockdown.” Under the heading, “Why a lockdown is a reasonable move,” Silverstein said,

“By now the evidence is clear: lockdowns work. We know that strict lockdowns worked in China, slowing down how fast the virus spreads. In Wuhanm, the unprecedented 76-day lockdown, in which people were barred [from] leaving the city or their homes for once every three days for food, stopped new infections by two-thirds.”

After praising lockdown policies in Italy, France and New Zealand, he continued,

“The lack of any real lockdown plus patchwork of state policies feels like a strategy designed by the COVID virus itself…Just as cases started to surge in the summer, states decided to relax what orders they had…[B]ecause the first lockdowns were half-assed, now the need for a second may be a death sentence for some small businesses…

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Published January 30, 2023
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<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/people/alex-keuroghlian-md-mph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Keuroghlian</a>, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Faculty Advisor for the LGBTQ+ and Allies at Harvard Medical School (<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAHMS</a>). Keuroghlian’s faculty profile says “[h]is clinical practice and research focus[es] on sexual and gender minority health.”

Keuroghlian is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-transgender-infants-intersex-540241339130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Keuroghlian’s course in a publication titled, “Harvard med school class isn’t about ‘trans infants.’” The source said, “Claim: A class at Harvard Medical School trains students to teach transgender infants. AP’s assessment: False. The Harvard class…discusses intersex infants in the context of their physical development…The portion of the course that focuses on infants does not cover gender identity or sexual orientation…”

The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Keuroghlian currently works as the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/search?Text=alex%20Keuroghlian&amp;Start=1&amp;MaxResults=10&amp;summary=context&amp;MethodName=getglobal&amp;PageNumber=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; he’s accepting new patients in his clinic. 

Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surgical</a> Program. The former “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The latter “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”

Keuroghlian is the Director of the Division of Education and Training at Boston’s Fenway Institute in Boston. <a href="https://fenwayhealth.org/we-must-replace-psychiatric-gatekeeping-with-informed-consent-for-gender-affirming-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a newsletter</a>—titled “We must replace psychiatric gatekeeping with informed consent for gender-affirming surgery”— the organization reflected on gender-affirming surgical protocols: 

“The prior standard requiring assessment of suitability for surgery by a mental health care professional was designed to prevent regret about undergoing surgical procedures [but]...regret for gender-affirming surgical procedures is very rare, and there is no evidence that presurgical mental health screening reduces rates of regret.”
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Alex Keuroghlian, MD MPH <a href="https://twitter.com/FenwayHealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FenwayHealth</a> on threats toward youth pursuing gender-affirming care, their families, and medical providers. <a href="https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q">https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q</a> <a href="https://t.co/yW2K1nuWSI">pic.twitter.com/yW2K1nuWSI</a>
— MGH Psychiatry (@MGHPsychiatry) <a href="https://twitter.com/MGHPsychiatry/status/1620266773290582017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published January 31, 2023

Alberto Puig is the <a href="https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/people/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Dean</a> for Undergraduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/18740/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the Clinician Educator Service in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

Puig’s MGH profile shows he’s a hospitalist who treats adults. However, Puig is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. 

The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program">Surgical</a> Program. 

The health program “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The surgical program  “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”
Published February 15, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/timothy-patrick-mccarthy">Timothy Patrick McCarthy</a> is a Lecturer on Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

According to his faculty profile, McCarthy “is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration.” He also “teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters.” 

McCarthy is an “award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/fire-professors-who-oppose-gender-affirming-care-harvard-faculty-chair-says/">The College Fix</a>, McCarthy was interviewed by <a href="https://nyunews.com/features/news/2025/02/24/affiliates-tied-to-anti-trans-practices/">Washington Square News</a> and stated that professors who oppose “gender-affirming” care should be “removed and stripped of their academic titles.”

In the interview, McCarthy stated “there’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world.”

The College Fix wrote to McCarthy for further information. His response was confrontational:

“I see what you’re doing here—it’s a tired, ancient playbook—and I hope you know that you have picked a fight with the wrong veteran of these culture wars,” McCarthy responded.

McCarthy told Washington Square News, those who question the validity of gender-affirming care “poison the waters” around the practice of “transgender” care. 

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote an <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/14/harvard-professor-calls-for-the-firing-of-any-faculty-not-supporting-gender-affirming-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> criticizing the comments of McCarthy. According to Turley, the professor “was targeting two professors at NYU who are affiliated with groups critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.” 

In 2017, McCarthy made the following comments about the play <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-timothy-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Crimson</a> “Hamilton”, alleging that the US founding was a matter of whiteness and masculinity. Certain characters based on US Founders are considered queer: 

“[T]his is a very masculine play, and the traditional reading of the founding is not just white but also male. The two characters that are most queer include Thomas Jefferson, who is widely criticized as a slave owner and a hypocrite and this Prince-like, purple-clad dandy who returns from Paris and asks, ‘What did I miss? What did I miss?’ and prances across the stage. The other queer character in ‘Hamilton’ is King George III, who shows up every once in awhile to bring a little sass and strut his stuff, and then leaves.” 
Published - March 17, 2025

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<a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/faculty-and-staff/maulana-karenga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Maulana Karenga</a> is Chair of <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Africana Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.csulb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California State University &#8211; Long Beach</a>. Dr. Karenga was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s and 1970s, during which time he founded the holiday, “Kwanzaa.” Prone to extremity and paranoia, Dr. Karenga was convicted for the imprisonment and torture of two women he falsely suspected of poisoning him.
Born Ronald McKinley Everett, Dr. Karenga founded <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/767.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kwanzaa as a pan-African holiday</a> in 1966. Despite that most American blacks are descended from West Africa, the name and traditions are based on East African Swahili. He would further <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/kwanzaa__a_madeup_holiday_.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state the holiday’s proximity to Christmas was intentional, as otherwise it wouldn&#8217;t be noticed</a> by the black community.
People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods [blacks] would be partying!
Dr. Kerenga intended for Kwanzaa to replace Christian and Jewish holidays. As he wrote in his book—Kawaida Theory—Western faith, “denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and achievement.&#8221; In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who&#8217;ve sinned and brought the wrath of an angry God on every generation&#8217;s head.”
Dr. Karenga adopted his current name after embracing black nationalism while living on the West Coast in the 1960s. He would go on to found his own group—titled, <a href="https://www.us-organization.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US</a>—as a more radical alternative to his rivals in the Black Panther Party.
<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Black Panthers</a>—known officially as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense—was a black-nationalist and Marxist organization that operated largely in California during the 1960s and 1970s. Known for their violent tactics and enforcement of party discipline, members would<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pour boiling water over suspected </a>police informants. Co-founder, Huey Newton, is <a href="https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected to have taken part in multiple murders</a> committed by the Panthers.
Dr. Karenga’s organization frequently clashed with the rival, Black Panthers. Following a dispute over who would lead the Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA, <a href="https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/600011/posts?page=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US members shot two Black Panthers to death on the campus in 1969</a> which set off a series of shootings across Los Angeles that summer. The incident caused Dr. Karenga to fall into paranoia and suspect his own followers of plotting to kill him.
On the evening of May 9th, 1970, Dr. Karenga and several of his followers confronted two women who were staying at his home. He accused both of placing poison “crystals” in his food and water. According to court testimony, the women were then stripped naked, bound, and ordered to confess. Dr. Karenga tortured both women over the next two days, beating each with an electrical cord, and then branded them with a soldering iron.
While awaiting trial, Dr. Karenga’s mental health continued to deteriorate. The court-appointed psychologist found him to be schizophrenic, and reportedly caught Dr. Karenga speaking to hallucinations in his jail cell:
“Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to a hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.” 
The court later sentenced him to one to ten years in jail for two counts of felonious assault, and one count of false imprisonment. However, he was granted parole in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1975 thanks to a letter-writing campaign by his followers.</a>
While in jail, Karenga converted his ideology from Black Nationalism to explicit Marxism. In 1978, just a few years after his release, Dr. Karenga was hired as the Chair of the African Studies department, where he now resides as of March 2022.
The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to the College of Liberal Arts for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may reach out to the <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Liberal Arts at California State University &#8211; Long Beach</a> at (562) 985-538 
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Update &#8211; March 30, 2022
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California State University - Long Beach

<a href="https://www.csulb.edu/office-of-the-president/president/about">Dr. Jane Close Conoley</a>, is the current President of California State University - Long Beach. In an op-ed from 2014, Conoley stated that if you are “light-skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege.” Moreover, these privileged individuals show distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” of those with another skin color.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, Michael Park is no longer listed as an instructor at California State University-Long Beach.*
Michael Park is an instructor at California State University-Long Beach. He used a media law class to disparage Tea Partiers and conservatives as being birthers. In an assignment, he implied that opposition to President Obama is based on a belief that he is not a "true American". This is similar to a class taught by Christopher Knap, a fellow CSULB professor that assigned a homework assignment implying Trump is homophobic/sexist.

<a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/faculty-and-staff/maulana-karenga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Maulana Karenga</a> is Chair of <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Africana Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.csulb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California State University - Long Beach</a>. Dr. Karenga was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s and 1970s, during which time he founded the holiday, “Kwanzaa.” Prone to extremity and paranoia, Dr. Karenga was convicted for the imprisonment and torture of two women he falsely suspected of poisoning him.

Born Ronald McKinley Everett, Dr. Karenga founded <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/767.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kwanzaa as a pan-African holiday</a> in 1966. Despite that most American blacks are descended from West Africa, the name and traditions are based on East African Swahili. He would further <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/kwanzaa__a_madeup_holiday_.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state the holiday’s proximity to Christmas was intentional, as otherwise it wouldn't be noticed</a> by the black community.

People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods [blacks] would be partying!

Dr. Kerenga intended for Kwanzaa to replace Christian and Jewish holidays. As he wrote in his book—Kawaida Theory—Western faith, “denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and achievement." In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the wrath of an angry God on every generation's head.”

Dr. Karenga adopted his current name after embracing black nationalism while living on the West Coast in the 1960s. He would go on to found his own group—titled, <a href="https://www.us-organization.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US</a>—as a more radical alternative to his rivals in the Black Panther Party.

<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Black Panthers</a>—known officially as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense—was a black-nationalist and Marxist organization that operated largely in California during the 1960s and 1970s. Known for their violent tactics and enforcement of party discipline, members would<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pour boiling water over suspected </a>police informants. Co-founder, Huey Newton, is <a href="https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected to have taken part in multiple murders</a> committed by the Panthers.

Dr. Karenga’s organization frequently clashed with the rival, Black Panthers. Following a dispute over who would lead the Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA, <a href="https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/600011/posts?page=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization US members shot two Black Panthers to death on the campus in 1969</a> which set off a series of shootings across Los Angeles that summer. The incident caused Dr. Karenga to fall into paranoia and suspect his own followers of plotting to kill him.

On the evening of May 9th, 1970, Dr. Karenga and several of his followers confronted two women who were staying at his home. He accused both of placing poison “crystals” in his food and water. According to court testimony, the women were then stripped naked, bound, and ordered to confess. Dr. Karenga tortured both women over the next two days, beating each with an electrical cord, and then branded them with a soldering iron.

While awaiting trial, Dr. Karenga’s mental health continued to deteriorate. The court-appointed psychologist found him to be schizophrenic, and reportedly caught Dr. Karenga speaking to hallucinations in his jail cell:

“Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to a hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.” 

The court later sentenced him to one to ten years in jail for two counts of felonious assault, and one count of false imprisonment. However, he was granted parole in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1975 thanks to a letter-writing campaign by his followers.</a>

While in jail, Karenga converted his ideology from Black Nationalism to explicit Marxism. In 1978, just a few years after his release, Dr. Karenga was hired as the Chair of the African Studies department, where he now resides as of March 2022.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to the College of Liberal Arts for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may reach out to the <a href="https://cla.csulb.edu/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Liberal Arts at California State University - Long Beach</a> at (562) 985-538 
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Update - March 30, 2022
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<a href="https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-education/teacher-education/page/noah-asher-golden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noah Golden</a> is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at California State University, Long Beach. According to his university profile, his work “engages socio-cultural and critical approaches to literacy education, and centers on issues of equity and opportunity.” When asked about his research interests, Golden writes:
“My scholarship investigates the social positioning of minoritized students as well as these students’ endeavors to (re)position themselves along desired storylines and life trajectories. This research agenda includes the factors and sets of conditions that support student (re)positioning, including critical literacy practice, justice-oriented teacher education and activism, and responsive, strength-based teaching and learning.” 
Golden wrote an <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523987.2017.1391523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Critical digital literacies across scales and beneath the screen” in which he claimed that computer software helps perpetuate “systems of privilege and oppression” against minority children. In this piece, Golden wrote:
“Software plays a central role in maintaining separate and unequal educational opportunities for marginalized youth.” 
He claims software “converts lived realities, learner strengths, and communal needs into a number, cluster grouping, or other data points,” which can “produce or reproduce systems of privilege and oppression.”

He further argues that when schools use this software, “educational access and deservingness is outsourced to algorithms” that help in “maintaining racial and class privilege and contributing to the oppression of marginalized learners.”

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/computer-software-perpetuates-systemic-racism-prof-finds/10006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, reporting on the article, stated:
“To fight this, Golden argues that professors of digital literacy must further explore how algorithms and software can be used to perpetuate privilege and oppression, optimistically concluding that ‘there are possibilities for interrupting these hegemonic processes.’”
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Updated - August 2024

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Saida Grundy

<a href="http://www.bu.edu/afam/faculty/saida-grundy/">Dr. Saida Grundy</a> a professor at Boston University tweeted about white, college men being a ‘problem population’ according to Campus Reform. She tweeted, “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. and every year i find it nearly impossible.” Her tweets criticizing white people forced the president of the university to write a letter on the Boston University website addressing the tweets.

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<a href="http://www.bu.edu/afam/faculty/saida-grundy/">Dr. Saida Grundy</a> a professor at Boston University tweeted about white, college men being a ‘problem population’ according to Campus Reform. She tweeted, “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. and every year i find it nearly impossible.” Her tweets criticizing white people forced the president of the university to write a letter on the Boston University website addressing the tweets.

<a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/ibram-x-kendi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a>—Boston University professor, political commentator and author of “<a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to be Antiracist</a>”—allegedly fired racial minorities from the Center of Antiracist Research (CAR).

Kendi, who founded CAR after the death of George Floyd, published a statement on Twitter explaining his decision to terminate several employees:
“There will always be people who critique the job someone else is doing—but I stand by my decision to take the long view for CAR, especially when racial and social justice organizations are under attack. I am proud of the many accomplishments of CAR’s talented and committed staff…”

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My thoughts on the <a href="https://twitter.com/AntiracismCtr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AntiracismCtr</a> layoffs. <a href="https://t.co/yRXnPGTqdT">pic.twitter.com/yRXnPGTqdT</a>
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1705271803893911884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On October 5, 2023, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/boston-university-launches-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-center-for-antiracism-research-after-complaints-layoffs/24057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported the university’s probe into CAR that would “focus on the center’s work culture and financial management” after several complaints were published by the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/21/metro/i-had-take-long-view-ibram-x-kendi-defends-management-embattled-research-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Globe</a>.” Campus Reform said, “[E]mployees complained about dysfunction that hindered decision making, such as difficulty scheduling meetings with Kendi…”

In an interview with the Boston Globe, Kendi claimed that the layoffs “represent a strategic shift from operating as a high-growth startup pursuing many different projects…to becoming the world’s first residential fellowship program for antiracist intellectuals.”

In November, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/kendis-antiracist-center-mostly-fired-black-and-latino-employees-analysis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> conducted a formal review and found that Kendi fired “four black employees, four Hispanics, two Indians, one Asian and one Middle Eastern employee.”

The College Fix concluded, “One reason may be that the center was more inclined to hire non-white staff from the beginning. But according to Kendi, any policy that results in racial disparities flows from and is proof of racism.”

On November 7, the Boston Globe <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/07/metro/boston-university-audit-ibram-kendi-antiracist-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Boston University’s internal audit—a review of CAR’s $40 million portfolio—showed no misappropriation or mismanagement of funds.

Please send information on Ibram Kendi to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 9, 2023
Dr. <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/ibram-x-kendi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X Kendi</a> is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at <a href="https://www.bu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston University</a>. He also served as the <a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ibram-x-kendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University</a>. He is best known for authoring the New York Times bestseller, “<a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Be an Antiracist</a>,” along with “<a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/stamped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stamped from the Beginning</a>” and “<a href="https://bookshop.org/books/antiracist-baby-board-book/9780593110416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antiracist Baby</a>.” He further serves as the Director and founder of the <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Antiracist Research</a> at Boston University.

Dr. Kendi claims that racism is deeply embedded in American institutions and that every white American benefits from racism, regardless of their actions. During one event hosted by Google, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjpbDSoBCA&amp;t=2078s&amp;ab_channel=TalksatGoogle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kendi claimed that anyone raised in America is raised to be racist.</a>

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His speaking engagements are often very lucrative; the University of Michigan paid Dr. Kendi <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/university-michigan-ibram-x-kendi-20000-virtual-discussion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$20,000 for a virtual, one-hour speech on antiracism.</a>

During another lecture for the <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aspen Institute</a>, Dr. Kendi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuOlyyQlug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined racism as ANY policy—or support for a policy—in which the outcome results in racial disparities</a>.

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He would go on to explain the elimination of racial disparities by adopting far-Left policies—such as wealth redistribution to alleviate the racial income gap and universal health care— are examples of how one can be “anti-racist.”

Dr. Kendi wrote in “How to Be an Antiracist” that “<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-be-an-antiracist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the ultimate solution to racism or racial discrimination is discrimination itself</a>”.

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Dr. Kendi further advocates for an “<a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antiracist amendment” to the Constitution to monitor and punish officials with “racist” ideas</a>. Proposed policies in the amendment include:

- To deem racial inequity or racist ideas as unconstitutional

- Permanently fund a “Department of Antiracism”

- Mandatory monitoring of all federal, state, and local policies for racial inequity

- Mandatory monitoring of all public officials for racist ideas

- Ability to punish public officials who do not voluntarily change racist ideas or policies

Opposed to interracial families, Dr. Kendi has alleged that adopting a child from a separate race doesn’t make you “not racist.” During the 2020 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett—who has adopted two children from Haiti—Dr. Kendi insinuated that families like the Barretts—whom he describes as “white colonizers”—<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/bu-professor-suggests-amy-coney-barrett-is-a-white-colonizer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only adopt black children in a racist attempt to “civilize them.”</a>
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Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children. They "civilized" these "savage" children in the "superior" ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. <a href="https://t.co/XBE9rRnoqq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/XBE9rRnoqq</a>
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1309916696296198146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated mission</a> of the Center of Antiracist Research is to study racist inequality and propose more policies that would allegedly end racial inequity. Soon after its founding, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/tech/twitter-jack-dorsey-donates-10m-kendi-antiracist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the center received a $10,000,000 donation from Twitter Founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey</a>.

The <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated mission</a> of the Center of Antiracist Research is to study racist inequality and propose more policies that would allegedly end racial inequity. Soon after its founding, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/tech/twitter-jack-dorsey-donates-10m-kendi-antiracist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the center received a $10,000,000 donation from Twitter Founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact the Office of the Provost at Boston University at (617) 353-2230 or at provost@bu.edu
Updated - March 22, 2022

<a href="https://www.bu.edu/ssw/profile/phillipe-copeland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillipe Copeland</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University’s School of Social Work. His specialties include “Theories of Justice, Racial Justice,” “Black Lives Matter” and “Abolition of Mass Incarceration.”

Copeland also serves as a faculty lead for education and training at the <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston University Center for Antiracist Research</a>. The Center’s mission is to “convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequality and injustice.”

Copeland <a href="https://youtu.be/CWnHNPFrtIA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared on City Line</a> to provide commentary on why Americans should be talking more about racism in popular culture. Copeland said:

“...[W]e can really think of pop culture as another kind of classroom….And so what we see, what we hear, what we experience through pop culture…can shape our perceptions of ourselves, the world, and the problems that we need to solve—problems like racism.”

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During the interview, Copeland shared “The Copeland Test”—a test he developed that allegedly detects antiracist themes in movies and TV shows. The assessment includes the following three categories:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Racism is portrayed as a systemic issue</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">People of color are not stereotyped or victims</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">White people working in solidarity with people of color</li>
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Copeland explained:

“Often people believe that racism is just a matter of blatant acts by whites of bigotry, discrimination or hatred. Sometimes racism looks like that. But sometimes it looks like policies or practices or belief systems that have similar effects to discrimination…An example [would be] the many voter suppression laws…[that] make it harder for black people to vote.”

In January 2023, Copeland published an article in the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/03/opinion/art-denial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Globe</a> titled, “The art of denial: How racism deniers obscure the reality of racism, minimizing its significance.” He claims that racism denial is a “political strategy” perpetuated by those who “attempt to convince people racism is no longer an issue.”

Drawing on Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist” philosophy, Copeland outlines racism denial into eight forms of evidence, including “minimizing,” “myopia” and “revising history.” The full list with definitions can be found <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/03/opinion/art-denial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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Resist <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RacismDenial?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RacismDenial</a> <a href="https://t.co/xSa1vjGoZM">pic.twitter.com/xSa1vjGoZM</a>
— Phillipe Copeland, PhD (@PTheeEducator) <a href="https://twitter.com/PTheeEducator/status/1613224995760574465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Catherine Clune-Taylor is an <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her interests are focused on the Philosophy of Sex, Gender and Sexuality, as well as Feminist Theory, Bioethics, and the work of Michel Foucault — a deceased philosopher and political activist.
Clune-Taylor was featured in a Princeton Alumni Weekly article titled “<a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/conversation-science-ethics-and-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Conversation: Science, Ethics, and Policy.</a>” Her research is described as taking “an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach to the science, bioethics, and biopolitics of medically managing intersex conditions in children.” In the article, she discussed her values and views on medical discrimination against “patients of color” and those on the gender spectrum.
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Her Princeton <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> states she earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation was in defense of “ethics and politics of medical production” in cisgendered people. “[The] project considers the revised treatment model of intersex conditions introduced in 2006 — which is controversially reclassified them as Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs).” 
Clune-Taylor’s <a href="https://www.clune-taylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says she’s an Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She further highlights her Ph.D. focus of “[exploring] the various bio-scientific, political, and bureaucratic efforts…to force individuals into ‘cisgendered futures.’” She also offers diversity, equity, and inclusion lectures across multiple academic disciplines.
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Published October 20, 2022

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Princeton Bioethics Professor Peter Singer made headlines after sharing his views on sex acts with animals. On November 8, 2023, Singer shared what he called a “thought-provoking article” titled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mOOHWhgfENSAz-Bl7kQb9fPHHzRqh9Dm/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible</a>.” Singer said that “[the article] challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual contact between humans and animals.”
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Another thought-provoking article is "Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible" by Fira Bensto (pseudonym), which is just out in the current issue of <a href="https://twitter.com/JConIdeas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JConIdeas</a>.
This piece challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual… <a href="https://t.co/32fIaJEJ1J">pic.twitter.com/32fIaJEJ1J</a>

— Peter Singer (@PeterSinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterSinger/status/1722440246972018857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The article Singer referred to states that “[s]ex with animals is a powerful social taboo that exposes its practitioners to utmost indignation and stigma.” The piece also claims, “Many people who have sex with animals do not strictly speaking have a zoophilic orientation, but use animals as surrogates for human sex partners.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/11/lifestyle/princeton-professor-ignites-outrage-by-calling-journal-article-about-sex-with-animals-thought-provoking-someone-check-his-hard-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Singer followed up his original post with an essay on Facebook where he clarified:
“I didn’t write the article on the permissibility of zoophilia [but] I am a co-editor for that journal. The fact that we judge an article worthy of publication does not indicate that I or my co-editors agree with the views contained in it…The Journal of Conversational Ideas is free and open access for everyone to read…
“Now imagine that you are an animal living with a person who cares for you and loves you in all the ways that most people love their companion animals, but in addition, this person sometimes has sexual contact with you, making sure that the contact does not hurt you, and leaving you free to move away if you don't like it…”
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One commenter said Singer was “adopting the language of predator abusers, the same words used to dismiss and denigrate [rape] survivors.”

In a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/peter-singer-compares-abortion-to-turning-off-a-computer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review article</a> titled, “Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer,” the author writes, “To understand Singer’s perspective: He doesn’t believe that human life has moral value simply because he or she is human. Rather, value has to be earned, primarily be being self-aware or able to value life [sic]. He argues that self-aware entities are ‘persons’ —including some animals.”

National Review continued, “[Singer] also believes that non-self-aware beings—including human infants, unborn babies, and people who have serious dementia, persistent unconsciousness or minimal consciousness—are not persons. Non-persons, in his view, have lower moral value than persons and can be killed or used instrumentally for the benefit of persons…”

Please send information on Peter Singer to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Peter Singer is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. As a philosopher and self-identified “<a href="https://longtermrisk.org/hedonistic-vs-preference-utilitarianism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hedonistic utilitarian</a>,” Dr. Singer holds a number of controversial views on human and animal ethics. These include stances on abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide.

More than an advocate for abortion, Dr. Singer claims there is nothing inherently immoral about killing a child.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5IZXGmk08&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During a debate at Harvard University</a>, Dr. Singer recognized that fetuses in the womb are living human beings. However, he added people—including those not yet born—have varying degrees of value based on whether or not they feel pain.

He further claimed that only people who are fully conscious or feel pain have a right to their own lives. Abortion, he argued, cannot be considered immoral. Dr. Singer acknowledges that his stance presents a “challenging” problem regarding recently-born children.
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Dr. Singer has also justified infanticide for babies who are disabled or have serious health conditions. In the 1979 edition of Practical Ethics, he wrote: “<a href="https://archive.org/details/practicalethics0000sing/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all</a>.”

Many have accused <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/peter-singer-eugenicist-wesley-j-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Singer of being sympathetic to eugenics</a> due to his apparent empathy towards parents who <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/peter-singer-eugenicist-wesley-j-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">select particular genes in human fetuses for more desirable children</a>.

During a 2015 radio interview, Dr. Singer argued that it was “reasonable” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ethics-professor-kill-severely-disabled-infants-under-obamacare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to euthanize disabled infants to prevent higher premiums under Obamacare</a>. In a Q&amp;A hosted on his personal website, Dr. Singer <a href="https://petersinger.info/faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims that newborns are not persons as they have “no sense of the future</a>.”

“[Killing] a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living.”

Dr. Singer added that although killing an infant is a “terrible thing to do,” parents should have the freedom to end the life of their newborn. He added that the presiding doctor would then take steps to “swiftly and humanely” end the child’s life.

According to his biography, Dr. Singer <a href="https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/peter-singer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been teaching at Princeton since 1999</a>. He authored other books on utilitarianism, veganism, and animal liberation.

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Published - August 18, 2022

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor#:~:text=Keeanga-Yamahtta%20Taylor%20is%20an%20Assistant%20Professor%20in%20the,and%20a%202020%20finalist%20for%20the%20Pulitzer%20in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor</a> is a Professor in the <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of African-American Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton University</a>. According to her University biography, Dr. Taylor is a scholar of racial inequity in public policymaking, and writes “extensively” about race, politics, and “radical activism.”

As a Professor and political commentator, Dr. Taylor offers her opinion across a wide variety of social media platforms and media outlets. She is known to condemn capitalism, the United States, and Israel while lauding socialism and the Soviet Union.

On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Dr. Taylor smears Israel as a racial, apartheid state that actively commits genocide against Arabs in the Middle East. In one tweet, she alleges that Israel is attempting to “annihilate” Palestine:
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The consequence of apartheid is not separation, it’s annihilation. End the occupation, free Palestine <a href="https://t.co/2jUOpL3oBq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/2jUOpL3oBq</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1392287946653503490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In another post, she flagrantly alleges that Israel is engaged in the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza, despite the <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/methodist-staffer-demonizes-israel-reveals-ignorance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resident Arab population quadrupling since 1948</a>,
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What we are witnessing is not the “eviction” of Palestinians from their homes. This is ethnic cleansing. This is the most basic expression of settler colonialism. This is the illegal and immoral expulsion of Palestinians with the expectation they are “accepted” elsewhere. <a href="https://t.co/erLUdzIdP8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/erLUdzIdP8</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1392286002950164480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Taylor likewise alleges the United States is a brutally racist and oppressive society. In an article for the Marxist publication, Jacobin,<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/reparations-slavery-racism-united-states-foundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> she depicts racism as foundational to the United States</a>.

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A frequent critic of policing, which she views as systemic racism embedded in the United States, Dr. Taylor lauds the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a “liberation struggle.” With communist, vice-presidential candidate, and Black Panther Party member, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis</a>, writing the forward, Dr. Taylor’s book—<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1646-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-expanded-second-edition">From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation</a>—she praises the movement for having “awakened a new generation of activists” that will fight for “black liberation.”

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder. After a jury acquitted Zimmerman in 2013, <a href="https://patrissecullors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrice Cullors</a> joined with <a href="https://aliciagarza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alicia Garza</a> and <a href="https://www.opaltometi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Opal Tometi</a> to found an organization, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as stated on its website</a>.

“....whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.” 

BLM came to further prominence following the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gunshots-looting-after-grand-jury-in-ferguson-case-does-not-indict-officer-in-michael-brown-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riots in Ferguson, Missouri</a> in reaction to the acquittal of police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of robbery suspect, Michael Brown. Although later determined that Brown had attacked the officer, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BLM was instrumental in spreading the lie</a> that Brown was shot at point-blank range with his hands raised.

To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/patrissecullors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrisse Cullors, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist.</a>

In an interview with the progressive news outlet, DemocracyNow, in June of 2020, Dr. Taylor praises the BLM movement’s fight against systemic racism, stating that our nation is witnessing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOG-W_X9m8&amp;ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an “uprising” against “racial terrorism” being inflicted upon black Americans by police officers</a>.

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According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

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In separate Twitter posts, Dr. Taylor has condemned capitalism as being inherently exploitative while promoting the merits of socialism.
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There is no good US capitalism. The so called golden age of capitalism relied on shackling women to the home, bolting LGBT people in the closet, restricting immigration to Europeans, &amp; segregating Black people into resource starved enclaves. Capitalism has always been the problem
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1144415575348862977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sequins are not too good for the working class! Socialism is about sharing the abundance not accepting the false idea of scarcity. <a href="https://t.co/Yd025LUrYd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/Yd025LUrYd</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1231334079968268289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Taylor’s positive view on socialism extends to the embrace of communist dictatorships. While attending the “This is Socialism!” conference in 2017, Dr. Taylor delivered a speech that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSASqMLYMg&amp;ab_channel=WeAreManyMedia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised the Russian Revolution</a> for its inspiration towards American communists and "revolution" against capitalism.

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Despite her praise, the Bolshevik Revolution and the resulting formation of the Soviet Union cost millions of lives. Upon overthrowing the Russian government in October 1917, Vladimir Lenin immediately set up <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lenin%27s+red+terror&amp;atb=v263-1&amp;ia=web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of concentration camps for political prisoners and led the Soviet secret police in a brutal crackdown</a> known as the “Red Terror.” As many as one million people perished before the carnage ended with the cessation of the Russian Civil War in 1921. Over the course of the USSR's existence, as <a href="https://fee.org/articles/the-staggering-toll-of-the-russian-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many as 60 million people perished under Soviet rule</a>.

In recognition of her work, Dr. Taylor was <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/news/2021-macarthur-fellow-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award</a> in 2021. The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/us/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-2021/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foundation grants $625,000</a> for each recipient's <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“exceptional creativity” and “track record of significant accomplishments.”</a>

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 Students and Parents may contact the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University at (609) 258-4270 or aas21@princeton.edu
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Updated - November 19, 2021

Wallace D. Best is a <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/wallace-d-best" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hughes-Rogers Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Religion</a> at Princeton University. He’s also the Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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Best was featured in a 2020 Princeton press release titled <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/wallace-best-leads-program-gender-and-sexuality-studies-dynamic-new-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wallace Best leads the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies into a dynamic new era</a>. In the article, Best responds to questions regarding his experience with feminine studies. When asked, “What is the value of studying gender and sexuality studies in the current era in America?,” Best said:
“It’s interdisciplinary in that it’s connected to more historically formal disciplines like sociology, political science and religion, but draws each in robust and engaging ways. I think about what’s happening with the Black Lives Matter movement, for example. Some of that activist work is born from the scholarship within the intellectual orbit — scholars who have centered issues of gender and sexuality in its inextricable connection to race, class, location and ethnicity.” 
He continued,
“So, when I see those protests, I feel quite proud that some of what the leaders say is born from the discourses of feminism, Black feminism, queer studies, and from gender and sexuality studies. So, I would say this is one of the most exciting times to be involved in this field.”
Best also holds a Ph.D. in Religion. His areas of research and teaching include African American religious history, religion and literature, Pentecostalism, and Womanist theology. One course Best teaches, <a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/courses/spring-2022/black-women-and-spiritual-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Black Women and Spiritual Narrative</a>,” focuses on “the hypothesis that religious metaphor and symbolism have figured prominently in Black women’s writing across literary genres.” He’s currently working on a book entitled “The Spiritual Capital of Black America: Twentieth Century Harlem’s World of Religion and Churches.”

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Published October 20, 2022

Catherine Clune-Taylor is an <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her interests are focused on the Philosophy of Sex, Gender and Sexuality, as well as Feminist Theory, Bioethics, and the work of Michel Foucault — a deceased philosopher and political activist.

Clune-Taylor was featured in a Princeton Alumni Weekly article titled “<a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/conversation-science-ethics-and-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Conversation: Science, Ethics, and Policy.</a>” Her research is described as taking “an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach to the science, bioethics, and biopolitics of medically managing intersex conditions in children.” In the article, she discussed her values and views on medical discrimination against “patients of color” and those on the gender spectrum.

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Her Princeton <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> states she earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation was in defense of “ethics and politics of medical production” in cisgendered people. “[The] project considers the revised treatment model of intersex conditions introduced in 2006 — which is controversially reclassified them as Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs).” 

Clune-Taylor’s <a href="https://www.clune-taylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says she’s an Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She further highlights her Ph.D. focus of “[exploring] the various bio-scientific, political, and bureaucratic efforts…to force individuals into ‘cisgendered futures.’” She also offers diversity, equity, and inclusion lectures across multiple academic disciplines.

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Published October 20, 2022

Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/anne-mcclintock">Anne McClintock</a> is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. McClintock joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
McClintock and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Anne McClintock to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated - February 22, 2024
Anne McClintock is Princeton University’s <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/anne-mcclintock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a>. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty for the Princeton Environmental Institute and Department of English and serves on the Executive Committee of the Program in American Studies.

McClintock’s faculty profile says her “interdisciplinary and transitional work — both scholarly and creative — explores the intersections between race, gender and sexualities; imperialism and globalization.” Her interests also include sexual and gender violence, climate chaos, and animal studies.

McClintock is the author of “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imperial_Leather/wRwiAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest</a>.” The publisher notes that the book “chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling.” In one chapter called The White Family of Man, she says,
“King Solomon’s Mines was [sic] intimately concerned with events in South Africa following the discovery of diamonds and then gold: specifically, the reordering of women’s sexuality and work in the African homestead and the diversion of black male labor into the mines.”
She continues, 
“The Story illuminates not only relations between the imperial metropolis and the colonies but also the refashioning of gender relations in South Africa, as a nascent capitalism penetrated the region and disrupted already contested power relations with the homesteads.”
In 2019, McClintock was among several Princeton faculty members who participated in a campus strike. <a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-students-faculty-join-community-climate-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Alumni Weekly</a> listed her as an event speaker in a protest to “demand climate justice.” That same year, she was also featured in The Nation’s article titled “<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/princeton-students-are-sitting-in-for-title-ix-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Students are Sitting in for Title IX Reform</a>.” This protest was organized after “believe all women” posters appeared in campus bathrooms and “Title IX protects rapists” was graffitied on a walking path.

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Published October 20, 2022

Brian Herrera is the <a href="https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/people/brian-herrera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University</a> and the Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. 

Herrera also serves as a core faculty member in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research “examines the history of gender, sexuality and race within and through U.S. popular performance.” His interests include Latinx theatre, LGBTQ+ performance history, and equity and access in the Performing Arts.

In July 2022, Herrera received the Betty Jean Jones Award and was featured in an article for Princeton’s <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/07/theater-professor-brian-herrera-wins-betty-jean-jones-award-for-excellence-in-teaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lewis Center of Arts News</a>. The article says, “The annual award [established in 1997] honors individuals who have achieved excellence as college/university teachers and mentors in the field of American theater.” The award committee further notes, “Herrera’s personal impact on students is especially resonant for students of color, first generation, and LGBTQ+ students who are buoyed by the ‘representation in action’ that is generated by [his] highly participatory presence.”

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Herrera has written several books and articles on gender ideology and hosts a <a href="https://www.brianherrera.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> that provides instructions on essay writing. In January 2021, he published a blog titled “<a href="https://www.brianherrera.org/2021/01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Write an Essay on Gender and Sexuality?</a>” He acknowledged that “students all over the world get writing assignments on this topic” and offered practical tips for arranging a successful paper. In 2009, he was published in <a href="https://glreview.org/article/article-570/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gay &amp; Lesbian Review</a> where he reflected on his admiration for the gay activist and politician named Harvey Milk.

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Published October 20, 2022

Ruha Benjamin serves as the <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/ruha-benjamin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of Graduate Affairs and a Professor for the Department of African American Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her university profile says she “specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social equity.” 

Professor Benjamin is the author of several publications including a book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Race_After_Technology/G6-hDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code</a>.” The book explores how “emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.”

The introduction contains a section called Race as Technology where she states that technology is “designed to separate, stratify, and sanctify the many forms of injustice experienced by members of racialized groups, but one that people routinely reimagine and redeploy to other ends.”
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In a <a href="https://youtu.be/rY8RkET3KC0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video discussing her reasons for writing</a> “Race After Technology,” Benjamin gave an example of how technology is racist. She said, “Two friends [were] using an automated soap dispenser and the soap wouldn’t come out [for] the individual with darker skin because darker skin absorbs light. So if it’s infrared technology, it’s not going to work as effectively.”

Professor Benjamin <a href="https://youtu.be/_8RrX4hjCr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also gave a Ted Talk</a> where she used laboratory and park benches to discuss how “the idea of discriminatory design is a global phenomenon.” She also says, “I think at the heart of discriminatory design is this idea that we can create technological fixes for social crises…we create short-term responses that often get the issues out of sight, out of mind.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Princeton English Professor <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/gayle-salamon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gayle Salamon</a> was featured in a 2019 <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2019/12/princeton-professor-shares-research-on-gender-identity-u-s-judiciary-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Princeton professor shares research on gender identity, U.S. judiciary system.” The report states that Salamon <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/research/faculty-bookshelf/life-and-death-latisha-king-critical-phenomenology-transphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed the case</a> of Larry “Latisha” King, a male who “transitioned” to female and was later killed by a classmate. Salamon was quoted stating that she aimed to “carefully study the misrecognition at the heart of the case and how gender identity was misread as sexual identity.”

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Salamon is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Salamon joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).”
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Salamon and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine…”

Please send information on Gayle Salamon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated - February 14, 2024
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Gayle Salamon is a <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/gayle-salamon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Salamon’s faculty profile says her research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, contemporary Continental philosophy, and disability studies.

In Salamon’s Introductory to Gender and Sexual Studies course, she tackles questions such as: “What does it mean to be a woman or a man? Or neither?” “How do gender and sexuality, those seemingly most personal and private of attributes, emerge from networks of power and social relations?”

Her published works include two manuscripts, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Assuming_a_Body/s-idAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=assuming+a+body&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality,”</a>  and<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_and_Death_of_Latisha_King/bb84DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+life+and+death+of+latisha+king&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia."</a> She also published a peer-reviewed article titled <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Meontology-of-Masculinity%3A-Notes-on-Castration-Salamon/3784451626c47802e5acd00654de96bf5a7f8222#paper-header" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Meontology of Masculinity: Notes on Castration Elation</a>. (Meontology is the philosophical study of non-being.)

In the Meontology of Masculinity abstract, Salamon cites LGBT “scholars” and says, “Gender is a matter of behavior, but also a result of ‘the more subtle channels of posture, carriage, gaze, and manner of leaning into some (more masculine) things away from other (more feminine) things.’ [Gender scholars] call for a phenomenology of lived gender experiences, to do justice to the variety of ways in which gender can be experienced and also perceived.”

In a <a href="https://thecriticallede.com/066-interview-with-gayle-salamon-author-of-assuming-a-body/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2012 podcast interview with The Critical Lede,</a> Salamon discussed her book “Assuming a Body.” In thinking about the idea of “a man trapped in a woman’s body, and a woman trapped in a man’s body,” she said, “I keep looking for a book that was going to engage both of those things at the same time…My hope was to try to bring together some of the ideas about how we come to inhabit our bodies [and] what is the relationship between the body that everybody else in the world sees and the body that I feel myself to have.”

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<a href="https://politics.princeton.edu/people/richard-falk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Falk</a> is a Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and a Research Associate at the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California - Santa Barbara. 

Dr. Falk has labeled Israel a racist, apartheid state that’s committing an ongoing genocide. 

The term “apartheid” refers to the legal system of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid/Opposition-to-apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial discrimination and separation in South Africa</a> from the 1950s to 1994. He has further alleged the true identity of the 9/11 hijackers has been covered up and blamed Israel for terrorist attacks in America. 

In an article titled, “<a href="http://www.oldsite.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust</a>,” Falk compares Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. He claims that Israel’s actions are “morally far worse” than the genocides committed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Further in the article, Falk defends the terrorist organization Hamas as the duly elected representative of the Palestinian people. He claims the group has renounced violence and is willing to make peace with Israel. 

During a separate interview with DemocracyNow!, Falk praised the group for its “spirit of resistance” and again claimed that Hamas seeks “peaceful, co-existence with Israel.”
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An Islamist terrorist group, Hamas’s charter calls for the <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destruction of Israel and the death of all Jews:</a>
“Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.” - Hamas Charter
The organization is known to <a href="https://palwatch.org/page/18217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deploy suicide bombers</a> and <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/prelude-to-war-palestinian-terrorists-fire-hundreds-of-rockets-at-israel-from-and-to-civilian-areas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fire rockets</a> that target civilian areas; Hamas is responsible for the deaths of <a href="https://www.fdd.org/in_the_news/2021/05/26/faq-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of Israelis and at least 25 Americans</a>. 

Despite his views, Dr. Falk was chosen by the United Nations to serve as the Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights. From this position, he accused Israel of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in a report titled,”<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170316054753/https://www.unescwa.org/sites/www.unescwa.org/files/publications/files/israeli-practices-palestinian-people-apartheid-occupation-english.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Israeli Practices toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid.</a>” 

The report maligns Israel as a “racial state” that pursues “racial domination” and forcible displacement of the Palestinians. Falk recommends that Israel be investigated by the International Criminal Court and that international governments hold unilateral trials for Israeli officials. 

He urges businesses to boycott the state as part of the BDS campaign. BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—embraces the following three tenets as a feature of the campaign: 

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel. 

Following the publication of the document, Dr. Falk doubled down on his stance in an interview with The Forward, further calling for the <a href="https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/164986/richard-falk-calls-for-corporate-israel-boycott/#ixzz2APbfkSvl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boycott of any company</a> that does business in Israel:
“My main recommendation is that the businesses highlighted in the report – as well as the many other businesses that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise – should be boycotted until they bring their operations into line with international human rights and humanitarian law and standards.” 
Elsewhere, Dr. Falk has <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/un-anti-israel-bias-richard-falk-pro-iran-9-11-truther-investigates-jewish-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed that Al-Qaeda is solely responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks</a>. In an interview on the site, Truth Jihad, he endorsed the idea the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/special-rapporteur-for-911-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highjackings might have been a false-flag operation</a>. He further authored a blog post, “<a href="https://richardfalk.org/2013/04/19/a-commentary-on-the-marathon-murders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Commentary on the Marathon Murders</a>,” that blamed the Boston Bombings on the foreign policy of DC and Tel Aviv. 

Due to his views, Dr. Falk was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/19/israel-palestinian-territories-united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned from Israel in 2008</a>. Although officially retired from teaching, he still holds the position of professor emeritus at Princeton. 

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Published - October 31, 2022

Christopher Nunez is a formerly undocumented, visually impaired choreographer, educator, and accessibility consultant who was named Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2022-2024. Nunez’s university <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/03/princeton-arts-fellows-for-2022-2024-announced/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellowship announcement says</a>, “His performances have been presented at The Brooklyn Museum for The Immigrant Artist Biennale…” and “his work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times…” 

His personal biography webpage states,

“Since his arrival in NYC, Nunez has supported and worked for different social causes, groups, and organizations for the rights of undocumented, disabled, indigenous, and LGBT+ people. He has been the Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for Dance/NYC…[and was] a core member of the Artists of Color Council at Movement Research.”

“Nunez [is the] Founder of the Accessibility Advisory Team (AAT), a group of disabled artists who advise Movement Research on accessibility and inclusion practices through its various departments and platform.”

Nunez teaches a course called “<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/courses/introduction-to-radical-access-disability-justice-in-the-arts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to Radical Access: Disability Justice in the Arts.</a>”  The class introduction says, “Disability is front and center in a global social justice revolution…This course invites all artists, from choreographers to theater makers, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and composers to immerse in a highly collaborative, improvisational, experimental and inclusive community to explore Disability Justice…”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-agender-and-neurodivergent-performer-flaunts-disability-and-anti-technique/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix reports</a>, “The ‘Intro to Radical Access’ Princeton Dance program and Program for Community Engaged Scholarship hosted [a] ‘anti-technique’ performance.” However, Catholic students were moved to pray against evil spirits after attending the controversial dance performance that featured Nunez and two other "disabled" artists.

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The performance showcased the artistic abilities of the disabled, mentally ill, and trans-identifying students. According to the College Fix, Nunez said, “‘This is the first time that we get to experience in a more pragmatic, practical way what access, accessibility, and access artistry means.’”

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Published - November 3, 2022

Gabrie’l Atchison is the instructor for AAS 220/GSS 229: Body Politics: Black Queer Visibility and Representation at Princeton University. The <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?term=1234&amp;courseid=016604" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class description</a> states that the curriculum will “examine Black LGBTQ+ representation across various media including documentaries, television, social media, and literature.”

Atchison’s profile — which can only be found on the class description page — also shows her research “includes gender-based environmental violence, environmental racism/justice, ecofeminism, feminist/queer theology…Black church history…and African American women’s literary criticism.” 

Atchison contributes to a blog called <a href="https://www.antiracistdevotional.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racist Devotional</a>. On <a href="https://www.antiracistdevotional.org/dr-gabriel-atchison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atchison’s About page</a> she describes herself as a “Black Feminist theologian” and the Congregational Development Director at Trinity Episcopal Church who researches “the role of the church in the racial identity development of Black Episcopalians.”

In her book titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B6GQR4FJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?asin=B0B6GQR4FJ&amp;revisionId=ca68030b&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Are You the Unchurched?: How to Develop an Authentic Relationship with God inside or outside the Church</a>,” Atchison remarked on survey results from a Christian research institute. She said,

“Overwhelmingly, young adults who were studied named hostility toward [LGBTQ+] people as the reason they do not attend church…Based on my understanding of the research, the unchurched are Christians who are:
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In the opening paragraph of Atchison’s 2020 blog entry “<a href="https://gabrieljatchison.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/the-folly-of-hope/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Folly of Hope</a>,” she declared,


“Trump exposed all our fault lines due to systemic racism, class exploitation and greed. His initial election and very close re-election should act as a clarion call for us to enact sweeping and lasting social change…”

“Trump has no agenda, but his Puppet Masters do…This election exposed in a raw and unrelenting way, how many people in positions of power feel like people of color simply do not have the right to vote.”

Atchison goes on to identify herself as a “progressive [who finds] Joe Biden significantly inadequate for the task at hand.” She disagrees with any approach Biden may have to unite the nation and she believes the Democratic Party passed up “so many better qualified presidential candidates, with creative ideas…to elect a man whose platform is centrist and apolog[ist].”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/kevin-m-kruse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Kruse</a> is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University. His faculty biography says Kruse “studies the political social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America.” He’s also “focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion…[with] particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement.”

Kruse has published several manuscripts including a 2005 book entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Flight-Atlanta-Conservatism-Politics/dp/0691133867?asin=0691133867&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.</a>” Kruse introduces the novel by stating,

“This book explores the causes and course of white flight, with Atlanta serving as its vantage point…While many have assumed that white flight was little more than a literal movement of the white population, this book argues that it represented a much more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved.”

He continued,

“Because of their confrontation with the civil rights movement, white southern conservatives were forced to abandon their traditional, populist, and often starkly racist demagoguery and instead craft a new conservatism predicated on a language of rights, freedom, and individualism.”

In June 2022, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/double-standards-princeton-turns-blind-eye-to-plagiarism-from-woke-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> featured Kruse in an article titled “Double Standards: Princeton Turns Blind Eye to Plagiarism From Woke Professor.” According to the Beacon, “On December 6, the economic historian Phillip Magness emailed Princeton’s dean of faculty, Gene Jarrett, with evidence that [Kruse] plagiarized several passages of his 2015 book ‘One Nation Under God.’”

Magness cited passages of Kruse’s book as allegedly originating from a New York Times Article that was published in the mid-1960s. The Beacon said, “The university never replied to Magness’s email…and has not announced an investigation of Kruse.”

<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/08/kevin-kruse-plagiarism-allegations-academic-princeton-investigation-phillip-magness-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the Daily Princetonian</a>, “Kruse expressed ‘surprise’ at the allegations and attributed the lack of citations in one instance to an inadvertent oversight.” Kruse also allegedly plagiarized a professor in his 2000 Cornell University doctoral thesis. The Princetonian quoted an email response from Kruse stating,

“‘While I indicated my intellectual debts to [author] Prof. Baylor else in the text, endnotes and bibliography of the dissertation, I was surprised to see that there was an instance in the introduction [where] I failed to do so properly.’”

<a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/06/27/kevin-kruse-and-the-peak-political-plagiarism-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Plagiarism Today said</a>, “Kruse is not your typical alleged plagiarist…Kruse has made a career for himself as an activist that corrects and criticizes right-wing talking points on history. He has over half a million followers on Twitter and a high-profile position at Princeton, both of which have given him clout.”

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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/frederick-wherry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Wherry</a> is the Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. In June 2022, he was named the inaugural vice dean for diversity and inclusion by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Princeton’s Office of Communications <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/06/30/wherry-appointed-vice-dean-diversity-and-inclusion-princetons-office-dean-faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published Wherry’s appointment</a> in an announcement wherein the university president said, “‘After spending time with Professor Wherry and learning more about the impact and interventions of his scholarship, [and] his profound commitment to educating our students…he struck me as the ideal colleague to augur our efforts in fulfilling the vision of the vice dean for diversity and inclusion.’”

In the same publication, Wherry said,

“‘Diversity and inclusion are critical to our core mission. When our faculty and academic professionals can participate fully in our shared endeavor, we are all able to see problems in new ways, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, making way for innovation.’”

As the Director of the <a href="https://www.dignityanddebt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digntiy and Debt Network</a>, Wherry leads an organization of “experts” who research concepts of “dignity, respect, and fairness” in lending and debt collection. The organization studies debt along racial and socio-economic lines and states one of its goals is “to change the conversation about credit and debt among those measuring financial access and wellness…[b]y developing novel visualizations of dignity and debt…”

Wherry is in favor of canceling student loan debt. He believes borrowers are “victims” while lenders are “perpetrators.”
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We are in the Times today calling on Biden to fix the failures of the student loan program by bailing out the victims rather than the perpetrators of the mess w ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CharlieEatonPhD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CharlieEatonPhD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Amber_D?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amber_d</a>⁩_villa <a href="https://twitter.com/nytopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytopinion</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Princeton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Princeton</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ASAnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASAnews</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/r0mgNNO7kd">https://t.co/r0mgNNO7kd</a>
— frederick wherry ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 (@ProfessorWherry) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorWherry/status/1526509899001253889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Wherry participated in a panel discussion called “<a href="https://youtu.be/DP7SK_-fXA8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Native Son: Black Gay Leadership Forum</a>” to discuss ideas on wealth creation, social justice, and trauma within communities. When asked about the aspiration of building assets and stronger economic futures among black and gay people, Wherry stated,

“One of the things we have to keep in mind when building assets is that they look different for our community in part because we have a positive effect on our social networks and building assets. People help us out, sometimes we get that ‘white glove treatment’ by virtue of folks who can tell us how to most effectively take advantage of an opportunity when it arises.”

He continued,

“At the same time, we have to be realistic…our social networks also can deplete some of those traditional forms of asset building…When we are providing financial assistance to our kinfolk — when you compare us to our white counterparts, who don’t have the same kinds of requests coming in at the same level of occupation, at the same level of academic achievement — we just have less available for traditional asset-building.”

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/satyel-larson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Satyel Larson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Larson’s areas of instruction are “Anthropology,” “Law and society,” “The Maghreb” and “Women, gender and sexuality.” Her faculty profile says:
“Her research and teaching lie at the intersections of law, science, technology and society; women, gender and sexuality; reproduction, health and medicine; Islam and secularism; colonialism, postcolonialism and globality; historical anthropology and epistemology; political economy; and language, discourse and narrative.”
Larson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/princeton-anti-capitalist-class-teaching-black-people-considered-handicapped-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> for reportedly teaching a course “that claims black people can be considered disabled due to the purported systemic racism they face.” Princeton’s Undergraduate Courses-Fall 2023 <a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/courses">schedule</a> lists Larson as the instructor for “The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South.” The course description says the course:
“Introduces the transdisciplinary field of trauma studies by examining visions of humanity…Reorienting healing as a decolonizing process enables students to re-politicize personal trauma as it intersects with global legacies of violence, war, racism, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism and extractivism.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/princeton-anti-capitalist-class-teaching-black-people-considered-handicapped-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> highlighted Larson’s racialized course along with a textbook on the <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=016853&amp;term=1242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sample Reading List.</a> According to the publisher, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-Maim-Debility-Disability-Otherwise/dp/0822369184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CJIPSGV1XZ1X&amp;keywords=Jasbir+Puar%2C+The+Right+to+Maim%3A+Debility%2C+Capacity%2C+Disability&amp;qid=1693330890&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability</a>” by Rutgers professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jasbirpuar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a> is “an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which [Puar] outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” 

The publisher also wrote, “Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

On August 16, 2023, the Free Beacon featured Larson <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/satyel-larson-princeton-professor-anti-semitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in an article</a> titled “5 Things We Absolutely Love About Princeton Professor Satyel Larson.” The Beacon said, “Professor Larson, a white female redhead, brings a valuable diverse perspective to the university’s stable of anti-Semites.” The list with corresponding photos is below:

1. She has a beautiful mind
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2. She’s resourceful
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3. She doesn’t judge
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4. She respects the First Amendment
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5. She’s just as comfortable chilling on the back porch as she is teaching in the classroom
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According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/israeli-minister-asks-princeton-to-remove-antisemitic-propaganda-from-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, “The International Legal Forum, an Israel-based non-profit, criticized the decision to include [Puar’s] book in the course curriculum” and the “Israeli Minister and the International Legal Forum called for removing the book from the course.”

The Review also said, “Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, called for canceling the course and terminating [Larson].”
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Princeton University is not only sanctioning hate speech, but establishing fertile ground for a new generation of antisemitic thought leaders. I am calling on Princeton University to cancel the course in question immediately, fire its professor, Satyel Larson, and issue a public…
— Ronald S. Lauder (@lauder_ronald) <a href="https://twitter.com/lauder_ronald/status/1690872880014274560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://psych.princeton.edu/people/kristina-olson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristina Olson</a> is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. Her faculty profile says:
“I study how children think about social groups, like those based on race and gender. Much of my most recent work has focused on sex and gender-diverse children with ongoing longitudinal projects exploring gender development and well-being in transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex children.”
In 2019, Olson<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1909367116" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-authored a study</a> entitled “Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development.” In the study “Abstract,” Olson, et al. conclude, “Our findings suggest that early sex assignment and parental rearing based on that sex assignment do not always define how a child identifies or expresses gender later.”

The study goes on to state that “young transgender children are different from their cisgender peers in their unique gender socialization experience, having lived part of their childhoods treated as members of one gender (before transitioning) and part of their childhoods treated as members of another gender (after transitioning).”

Olson <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected">co-authored another study</a> on the effects of socially transitioning after five years. The study’s “methods” are based on data from the Trans Youth Project (TYP)—powered by Princeton University’s HUman[sic] Diversity Lab. The Lab reported data on 208 transgender girls and 109 transgender boys between ages 3 and 12 who had “made a ‘complete’ binary social transition.”

Notably, Olson is listed as the director of the HUman Diversity Lab <a href="https://hudl.princeton.edu/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the “People” page</a>. 

In the study “Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition,” Olson, et al. wrote:
“As part of the larger longitudinal study, parents and youth were regularly asked about whether they had begun using puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones…they were not asked about whether puberty had begun, though our available data suggests that…most participants were followed by an endocrinologist well before puberty began.”
In a discussion of the study’s findings, Olson, et al. concluded that “Five years after an initial binary social transition, 7% of youth had retransitioned at least once…Among those who had begun puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones, only 1 had transitioned to live as cisgender…” 

However, Olson et al. admit in the study that they “did not assess whether participants met criteria for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition, diagnosis of gender dysphoria in children” and further stated that “many parents did not believe such diagnoses were either ethical or useful…”

Olson told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/health/transgender-children-identity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>:
“There’s this sort of idea that the kids are going to start [transitioning] and that they’re going to change their minds…And at least in our sample, we’re not finding that.”
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Published - September 18, 2023

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/molly-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Molly Greene</a> is a Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. 

In August 2023, Greene signed an <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/08/princeton-opinion-academic-freedom-zionism-israel-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> defending antisemitic sentiments from <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/satyellarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Satyel Larson</a>. While teaching a humanities course at Princeton, Larson assigned her students <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-right-to-maim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim</a>, written by anti-Israel author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jasbirpuar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a>. The Duke University Press website says Puar “outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.”

Greene is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Greene also joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Greene and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Molly Greene to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - February 14, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/andrew-cole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cole</a> is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Princeton University. Cole’s faculty profile describes him as a “critical theorist,” and links to an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about Woodrow Wilson’s racism. The 2015 article details how students protested to have Wilson’s name completely removed from the college. 

Cole’s profile also says, "Like Wilson, Andrew is from Georgia, but unlike Wilson, he works against these pernicious legacies of racism in his teaching, writing, and activism."

Cole is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Cole joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).”
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Cole and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Andrew Cole to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/eddie-s-glaude-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eddie Glaude Jr.</a> is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. In April 2023, Glaude <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/04/african-american-studies-department-princeton-university-glaude-eddie-stepping-down-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would step down from his position as chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton.

Glaude is the author of several race-focused publications, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Black-Still-Enslaves-American/dp/1522634940?asin=0804137439&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a book</a> entitled, “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul.” In the introduction, Glaude wrote:
“This book details what I call the Great Black Depression, and shows how the current rhetoric of economic recovery does not include the majority of black communities in this country. It challenges the pervasive silence about the crisis in black communities and puts forward an idea of American democracy shorn of its racist baggage.”
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Religion-Nation-Nineteenth-Century-America/dp/0226298205/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AHS2LRZ49TN3&amp;keywords=Exodus%21+Religion%2C+race+and+nation+in+Early+19th+century+black+america&amp;qid=1707509859&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=exodus+religion%2C+race+and+nation+in+early+19th+century+black+america%2Cstripbooks%2C121&amp;sr=1-1&amp;asin=0226298205&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In his novel</a> titled “Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation In Early 19th Century Black America,” Glaude compares the plight of African Americans to biblical accounts of Jews gaining freedom from slavery in Egypt. Glaude said his rendition explores “the ways the story became a source for a particular use of nation language among African Americans as well as a metaphorical framework for understanding the middle passage, enslavement, and quests for emancipation.”

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<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/liberal-prof-slams-conservatives-nyt-op-ed-calling-it-insidious-and-venomous/23785" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Glaude in an article highlighting his online altercation with journalist Christopher Rufo. The heated discussion, which took place over Twitter, included Glaude calling Rufo’s work “insidious” and labeling Rufo a racist.
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Princeton professor calls my support for colorblind equality “venomous” and “insidious.”
But the choice is simple: we can have equality, in which individuals are held to a single standard; or we can have equity, in which individuals are rewarded or punished based on their race. <a href="https://t.co/BJZ1ekGn7c">https://t.co/BJZ1ekGn7c</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1685320993781223424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Glaude also tweeted his thoughts after SCOTUS overturned affirmative action in June 2023.
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Imagine this: my mother and father couldn’t attend Princeton or Ole Miss (I group in Mississippi), because of long-standing discriminatory practices. The civil rights movement happens. Doors are opened. Colleges and universities are somewhat integrated 1/
— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) <a href="https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/1685307607576084480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Please send tips and information on Eddie Glaude, Jr. to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/max-weiss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Weiss</a> is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. His profile says, “[Weiss] studies the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of the modern Middle East, and is Associated Faculty in Comparative Literature.”

Weiss is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Weiss’ name tops the list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Weiss and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Max Weiss to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/joshua-b-guild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Guild</a> is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African American Studies at Princeton University. His profile says, “[Guild] specializes in 20th- and 21st-century African American social and cultural history, urban history, and the making of the modern African diaspora, with particular interests in migration, black internationalism, black popular music, and the black radical tradition.”

Guild is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Guild joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Guild and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Joshua Guild to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://bholmes.scholar.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooke Holmes</a> is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her research interests include “the history and philosophy of concepts,” “ancient philosophy,” “literary theory,” and “gender and sexuality studies.”

Holmes is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Holmes joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Holmes and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Brooke Holmes to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/meredith-martin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meredith Martin</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Martin’s profile says she “specializes in anglophone poetry, historical prosody, historical poetics, poetry and public culture, and disciplinary and pedagogical history.”

Martin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Martin joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Martin and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Meredith Martin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/zahid-r-chaudhary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zahid Chaudhary</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Chaudhary’s profile says he “specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory.”

Chaudhary is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Chaudhary joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Chaudhary and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Zahid Chaudhary to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/nancy-coffin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Coffin</a> is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Arabic Language Program at Princeton University. According to her faculty profile, her doctoral dissertation “examined Palestinian novels and resistance narratives [and] proposed fresh readings of a number of canonical Palestinian texts in light of influential postcolonial, feminist and Marxist theories.”

Coffin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Coffin joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Coffin and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Nancy Coffin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/susana-draper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susana Draper</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her research interests include “Latin American Marxisms,” “popular feminisms,” and “memory and social movements.”

Draper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Draper joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Draper and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Susana Draper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/gyan-prakash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gyan Prakash</a> is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. 

Prakash is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Prakash joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Prakash and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Gyan Prakash to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://plas.princeton.edu/news/2023/yarimar-bonilla-scholar-american-studies-latinoax-studies-and-caribbean-studies-appointed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yarimar Bonilla</a> is a Professor in American Studies and Latino/a/x Studies at Princeton University. Bonilla’s <a href="https://yarimarbonilla.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says: 
“[Bonilla] teaches and writes about questions of race, history, and political culture across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites and practices including: anti-colonial activism, race and social media, [and] the politics of the Trump presidency.”
Bonilla is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Bonilla joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Bonilla and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”
Please send information on Yarimar Bonilla to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/asper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colleen Asper</a> is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center of Arts at Princeton University. 

Asper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Asper joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Asper and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Colleen Asper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/rob-nixon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob Nixon</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Nixon’s teaching and areas of interest include “Postcolonialism,” “Literature and Ethnicity,” and “Contemporary Literature and Culture.”

Nixon is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Nixon joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Nixon and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Rob Nixon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/lara-harb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lara Harb</a> is an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Harb’s faculty profile says: 
“By looking at works of poetic criticism, philosophy, and theoretical treatments of the miraculousness of the Quran, Harb argues that the theorization of the aesthetic of wonder develops in the 11th century and represents a major paradigm shift from earlier criticism.” 
Harb is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Harb joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Harb and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Lara Harb to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/people/tehseen-thaver" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tehseen Thaver</a> is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. According to her profile, Thaver “teaches courses on the Qur’an and its interpretation, Sufism and Muslim Ethics, Muslim humanities, Shi’ism, and religion and culture of Iran.” 

Thaver is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Thaver joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Thaver and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Tehseen Thaver to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://classics.princeton.edu/people/faculty/core/dan-el-padilla-peralta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan-el Padilla Peralta</a> is an Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University. In his faculty profile, Padilla Peralta states: 
“I work on the religions and politics of the Roman Republic and Empire … The arc of Roman slavery in the period of Rome’s imperial expansion is central to my research and teaching, as are comparative histories of slavery, [and] Black feminist theory and historiography.”
Padilla Peralta is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Padilla Peralta joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Padilla Peralta and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Dan-El Padilla Peralta to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/daniel-sheffield" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Sheffield</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Sheffield “specializes in the religious, intellectual, and social history of the medieval and early modern Persian-speaking world.”

In April 2024, Sheffield signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.”
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Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/erin-besler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Besler</a>, who used the pronouns ”she/they,” is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. According to her university profile, her work is “characterized by a particular interest in construction technologies, social media, and other online platforms for producing and sharing content where digital interactions rely less on expertise and more on ubiquity.”

In April 2024, Besler signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/wendy-belcher-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wendy Belcher</a> is a Professor of African Literature with a joint appointment in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Department for African American Studies. 

Belcher’s university profile states: 
“Working at the intersection of diaspora, postcolonial, medieval, and early modern studies, she has a special interest in the literatures of Ethiopia and Ghana and is working to bring attention to early African literature (written between 1300 and 1900), particularly that in African languages, through her research and translation.”
In April 2024, Belcher signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/karen-emmerich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karen Emmerich</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. According to her university profile, her research focuses on “Modern Greek literature, theories and practices of translation, experimental translation, experimental poetics, textual scholarship, [and] migration and regimes of citizenship and belonging.” 

In April 2024, Emmerich signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.” </li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/julia-elyachar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Elyachar</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Elyachar is “broadly trained in economics, history of political and economic thought, political economy, social theory, Middle Eastern Studies, and Arabic language.”

In April 2024, Elyachar signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Elyachar also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://music.princeton.edu/people/gavin-steingo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Steingo</a> is a Professor of Music at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Steingo’s research “examines sound and music as fundamental features in the construction of global modernity, with research specializations in African music, sound studies, acoustic ecology, and music and philosophy.”

In April 2024, Steingo signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Steingo also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/anna-arabindan-kesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Arabindan-Kesson</a> is an Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Arabindan-Kesson’s research and teaching “focus on Black Diaspora Art, with an emphasis on histories of race, empire, and medicine in the long 19th century.”

In April 2024, Arabindan-Kesson signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/people/allison-carruth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allison Carruth</a> is a Professor in the Program in American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Carruth’s research interests include “environmental narrative and science communication; the role of artists and writers in contemporary American environmental and food justice movements; and evolving relationships in the United States between technology and ecology.”

In April 2024, Carruth signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/rena-lederman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rena Lederman</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Lederman’s interests include, but are not limited to the following: “gendered/sexed experience, meanings, and ideologies,” “bureaucratic and regulatory policies and practices, administrative law and democracy,” and “relationality, agency, expertise, and ethics.”

In April 2024, Lederman signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/visual-arts/visual-arts-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Welling</a> is a Lecturer with the Rank of Professor in Visual Arts at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Welling signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/spyros-papapetros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spyros Papapetros</a> is an Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. According to his university profile, his work “focuses on the historiography of art and architecture, the intersections between architecture and the visual arts, as well as, the relationship between architecture, psychoanalysis and the history of psychological aesthetics.”

In April 2024, Papapetros signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.”
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://spo.princeton.edu/people/pedro-meira-monteiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pedro Meira Monteiro</a> is the Arthur W. Marks ‘19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Monteiro signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.”
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://fit.princeton.edu/people/f-nick-nesbitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F. Nick Nesbitt</a> is a Professor in the Department of French &amp; Italian at Princeton University. According to his university profile, his teaching and research interests include “Haitian, French-Caribbean and African Studies,” “Postcolonial and Critical Theory,” and “Capitalism and Slavery.”

In April 2024, Nesbitt signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://german.princeton.edu/department/people/faculty/core/barbara-nagel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara Nagel</a> is an Associate Professor in the Princeton German Department and an Associate Faculty member of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests include “gender and sexuality, theology, psychoanalysis, law with a historical focus on the Baroque, literature around 1800, and realism.”

In April 2024, Nagel signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/behrooz-ghamari-tabrizi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi</a> is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Chair of the Near Eastern Studies Department, and Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Ghamari-Tabrizi signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
Ghamari-Tabrizi also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
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Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/agustin-fuentes">Agustín Fuentes</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Fuentes’ “research focuses on the biosocial, delving into the entanglement of biological systems with the social and cultural lives of humans, our ancestors, and a few of the other animals with whom humanity shares close relations.” 

His profile further states the nature of his research:
“From chasing monkeys in jungles and cities, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining human health, behavior, and diversity across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our close relations tick.”
In April 2024, Fuentes signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester. 

The statement begins: 
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following: 
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
In May 2023, Fuentes penned an opinion piece for Scientific American titled “<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/?amp;text=Here%27s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary</a>.” He began his article by stating: 
“There are those, politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex. They assert that men and women are defined by their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide.” 
Fuentes argued that this is “bad science” and that people who believe legal and policy decisions should be made based on sex “are arguing for a specific political, and discriminatory, definition of what is ‘natural’ and ‘right’ for humans based on a false representation of biology.” He went on to claim: 
“Over the past few centuries this process of misrepresentation of biology was, and still is, used to deny women rights and to justify legal and societal misogyny and inequity, to justify slavery, racialization, racism and to enforce multiple forms of discrimination and bias.” 
“Today dishonest ascriptions of what biology is are being deployed to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, target LGBTQIA+ individuals broadly and, most recently, attack the rights of transexual and transgender people.” 
Fuentes concluded his opinion piece: 
“Given what we know about biology across animals and in humans, efforts to represent human sex as binary based solely on what gametes one produces are not about biology but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in society.”
Published - May 1, 2024