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<a href="https://soe.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/deborah-loewenberg-ball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deborah Loewenberg Ball</a> is the William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education and former dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan. According to her university profile, Ball says her research focuses on “leveraging the power of teaching to disrupt racism, marginalization, and inequity.”
Bell was featured in a July 2021 episode of the <a href="https://gsehd.gwu.edu/edfix-ts-ep23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EdFix Podcast</a>, where she argued that mathematics is racist. She claims that math is a “Harbor for whiteness” and said,
“&#8230;what’s also very difficult is to get people to see how the very nature of the knowledge and who’s produced it, and what has counted as Mathematics is itself also dominated by whiteness and by racism.” 
To provide an example of this racism, she states:
“This is really important because we do see patterns about who succeeds in Math in this country and it’s overwhelmingly white and Asian. It’s overwhelmingly still male once you get on with Mathematics.” 
She continues:
“So how about noticing that and being willing to open ourselves up to the question of how racism has permeated Mathematics and the way it’s represented in school and take the time to unfold that and to figure out what that would mean for looking at a better way of a curriculum and the pedagogy of Math in school.” 
Professor Ball wrote a March 2021 op-ed for the Detroit Free Press titled, <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2021/03/21/why-school-isnt-safe-place-every-child/6937638002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Why school isn’t a safe place for every child.”</a> In this article, she argues that schools are often unsafe for children of color and that COVID provided an opportunity for “many Black and Brown children to be out of the white gaze of punishment and deficit views” which “was a welcome respite from fear and control.”
She also argues that the curriculum in schools has been “unsafe,” writing:
“The images, knowledge, people and values that permeate history, science and art, as well as mathematics, language and text are harmful. They distort the experiences of Indigenous people, of Black communities and of immigrant groups. They reinscribe whiteness, heteronormativity and English as normal and desirable.” 
She concludes her op-ed by stating that schools need to “take a fuller view of the safety needed to dismantle anti-Blackness and white supremacy in our educational systems” as students and staff return to in-person schooling.
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You can contact the University of Michigan School of Education by phone at: 734-764-9470.
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Published &#8211; November 2, 2022

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

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

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

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

Assistant Professor of Education, <a href="https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/charles-hf-davis-iii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles H.F. Davis III</a>, once appeared on the Jesse Lee Peterson podcast to discuss race relations in America and the pro-Palestinian movement that was taking place on college campuses. 

In the following discussion from 2018, the host pointed out how Davis included several hashtags (#) on his <a href="http://hfdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, such as #FreePalestine and #FreethePeople. When asked why he did not include #FreetheJews on that list, Davis replied: 
“Well, I guess we could talk about in a particular context, and I think we have to think about what Jews we’re talking about. I’ve chosen to take those particular political stances based on the historical record, based on the social and political context that we find ourselves in today … 
“Just to be clear I’m very much opposed to anti-semitism in any particular form or fashion, but I wouldn’t want to conflate any of the [hashtags] that you just mentioned to suggest otherwise.”
<iframe title="'DESTROY WHITENESS': Black Men Whining Like Little Girls: Charles HF Davis III, PhD, an INTELLECTUAL" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPflNs_kPEI" width="1159" height="652" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Davis’ <a href="http://hfdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> —which now includes #BlackLivesMatter and #PoliceFreeCampus — contains several short essays and articles calling for an end to campus policing. In a publication co-authored with <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/kamariabporter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaria B. Porter</a>, entitled <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/6578c9261d9df2675a7329d4/1702414630458/Davis+%26+Porter+%282023%29+%E2%80%93%C2%A0A+Case+for+Abolishing+Campus+Police.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Case for Abolishing Campus Police</a>, Davis wrote:

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Davis spreads anti-American and anti-white ideologies through his course “Race, Racism and Anti-Blackness,” in which he says, “[The] course is a deep dive into understanding how systemic racism and structural racism function in society and in higher education contexts.”

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For years, Davis’ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hfdavis/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> feeds have been full of racial ideology as well as anti-Jewish and anti-police rhetoric. Using the <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter handle</a> “Palestine Will Be Free,” he also posted support for the pro-Palestinian campus protests that started in April 2024.

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I don’t have adequate language (or theological expertise) to describe the levels of blasphemy for racist, murderous institution like the NYPD to host a gospel festival.
This is almost as bad as the FBI recognizing MLK Day. <a href="https://t.co/VwGPP5wsVh">https://t.co/VwGPP5wsVh</a>

— Palestine Will Be Free 🍉 (@hfdavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis/status/1787886515906818439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When <a href="https://youtu.be/JPflNs_kPEI?t=104" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> if Jewish people should be freed from radical Islamic terrorism, Davis responded:

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When asked if he wanted to “eliminate whiteness,” Davis said, “I want to destroy whiteness to be more specific.” When asked to define whiteness, he declared:
“Whiteness is an ideological construct … it’s a set of behaviors, beliefs, and practices that not only normalize the white way of seeing the world but white way of doing society. That structure has proven to be violent towards people of color … 
“So, I think that needs to be destroyed in order for the liberation of the people of color from white supremacy to take place. Now, to be sure, that is not to conflate whiteness with white people — although all white people do benefit from whiteness.”
Please send updates and information on Charles H.F. Davis III to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Updated - May 8, 2024
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Charles H.F. Davis is an Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. He previously taught at the University of Southern California. According to his university biography, Davis’s research and teaching focuses on, “race and racism, systems of oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education and its social contexts.”

Davis previously rose to notoriety in 2017 for a series of <a href="https://twitter.com/hfdavis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">racially inflammatory tweets</a>. As reported by <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-professor-defends-tweet-promoting-violence-whiteness/">The College Fix</a>, he tweeted that “whiteness” must be destroyed and alluded to the necessity of violence in confronting it.

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The background photo of his Twitter account at the time featured a black woman pointing a gun at a pig that clearly represents a caricature of a police officer. 

When contacted <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-professor-defends-tweet-promoting-violence-whiteness/">The College Fix</a> over his remarks, Davis responded, “To be clear, I am decidedly against whiteness as a social and political ideology, which systematically marginalize and disenfranchise people of color from opportunities for societal advancement. In addition, I am against the institution of policing, which has historically and continuously enacted racial terror, sexual violence, and economic exploitation against racial minorities, women and LGBTQ communities, and economically disadvantaged working-class people.”

When asked if any of these tweets might make students uncomfortable, Davis <a href="http://hfdavis.com/blog/an-interview-with-a-conservative">responded</a> that any discomfort experienced by his white students is a result of their “white fragility.” 

Davis had previously advocated for the right of students to disrupt conservative speakers on campus. In the wake of <a href="https://badgerherald.com/news/2016/11/17/conservative-pundit-ben-shapiro-lectures-to-turbulent-crowd-on-safe-spaces-freedom-of-speech/">protesters heckling</a> Ben Shapiro’s lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison, school regents approved a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-university-of-wisconsin-protest-punishment-20171006-story.html">policy</a> to suspend or expel students that purposefully disrupt events. Davis’s subsequent <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-university-of-wisconsin-protest-punishment-20171006-story.html">op-ed</a> at Inside Higher Ed argued that this only reinforced white supremacy: “To be clear, it is a decision that reinforces institutionalized white supremacy -- and other oppressive forms of systemic power.” Davis argues that conservative speakers like Shapiro have hijacked the First Amendment to push “white supremacist agendas.”  

Davis’s website, which is listed by the University of Michigan on his biography, <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/5edaf71d1ab0434751b2e960/1591408468354/HF+Davis+%E2%80%93%C2%A0EPK.pdf">advertises </a>that he has taught the issues of “ race, racism, and systemic oppression in education and society” to over “7,000 students, educators and institutional leaders.” The <a href="http://hfdavis.com/">home page</a> of the site also features links to organizations that advocate for the Black Lives Matter movement, abolishing the police, and boycotting the nation of Israel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Racial Ideology

Deborah Loewenberg Ball

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<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/christina-wolbrecht/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Wolbrecht</a> is a Professor of Political Science and the C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty in the Gender Studies Program and a Faculty Fellow of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. According to her university profile, Wolbrecht’s expertise is in “American politics, gender/women and politics, political parties, and American political development.”
In June 2021, Professor Wolbrecht signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary &#8211; including suspending the filibuster &#8211; in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Wolbrecht, listed as an expert on this topic, stated: “Marginalized and intersectional communities have been crucial leaders in the contemporary struggle to defend and secure voting rights. Black women in particular have turned their commitment to community into sophisticated voter mobilization organizations.”
She added:
“It’s important to emphasize, however, that resisting and overcoming discriminatory voting rules requires time, energy and attention that these communities do not have in abundance and that distract from other work that advances human flourishing.”
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Published &#8211; November 23, 2022

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Tamara Kay is a <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/profile/tamara-kay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology</a> at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. She is also an ex-officio member of the Keough School’s Racial Justice Task Force.

<a href="https://irishrover.net/2022/10/keough-school-professor-offers-abortion-access-to-student/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Rover</a> reports that Professor Kay is helping students get abortions after an Indiana law banning abortions statewide took effect on September 15, 2022. She posted a sign on her office door that read: “This is a SAFE SPACE to get help and information on ALL Healthcare issues and access - confidentially with care and compassion.” The sign also contained her personal email address and a capital “J.”

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In a social media post, Kay explained: “We are here (as private citizens, not representatives of ND) to help you access healthcare when you need it, and we are prepared in every way. Look for the “J”, Spread the word to students!” The Rover reports that professors with the “J” on their doors offer help in obtaining Plan B “morning after” pills and “Plan C” abortion pills.

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/12/notre-dame-professor-offers-students-abortion-access-indiana-abortion-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Breitbart</a> reports that her Twitter account boasts about “important” organizations like “Abortion Finder” that provides information on how to get abortion pills online and get reimbursed for traveling out-of-state to obtain an abortion.
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It's SO IMPORTANT to use a vetted, verified, reliable organization for abortion health care information. <a href="https://twitter.com/Abortion_Finder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Abortion_Finder</a> is one: <a href="https://t.co/LQTgQLYMWz">https://t.co/LQTgQLYMWz</a>
— Dr. Tamara Kay: Abortion Rights &amp; Policy Scholar (@BuildSolidarity) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuildSolidarity/status/1580007466926215168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to The Rover, Professor Kay claims that her abortion advocacy is allowed because she’s “doing that as a private citizen,” saying, “that’s been cleared by the university … I talked to the dean and have also spoken to ND Media about policies.”

However, during the week of September 26, Kay changed her Twitter name from “Dr. Tamara Kay - Notre Dame abortion rights expert” to “Dr. Tamara Kay - Abortion Rights &amp; Policy Scholar.” She has also since deleted all tweets referencing abortions for students and removed the signs from her office.

Professor Kay has written many articles about abortion rights. One article, co-authored with Susan Ostermann, an assistant professor at the Keough School, is titled <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/05/04/forced-pregnancy-and-childbirth-are-violence-against-women--and-also-terrible-health-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Forced pregnancy and childbirth are violence against women - and also terrible health policy.”</a> The article argues that “forced pregnancy and childbirth is sexual abuse,” stating:
“Both require the sexual reproductive capacity of human bodies. Being forced to provide that capacity, and to endure the physical intrusion and penetration of the body that both pregnancy and childbirth require, is nothing less than sexual abuse.” 
The article argues that “abortion access is freedom-enhancing,” saying:
“Consistent with integral human development that emphasizes social justice and human dignity, abortion access respects the inherent dignity of women, their freedom to make choices and to evaluate medical and other risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth.” 
It concludes:
“Perhaps most important, abortion access also prioritizes and values women’s freedom from experiencing violence, sexual abuse and trauma through forced pregnancy and childbirth. When the state supports forced pregnancy and childbirth, it is complicit in this violence.”
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You can contact the Keough School by email:keoughschool@nd.edu or by phone: 574-631-3426
Published - October 14, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/luis-ricardo-fraga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luis Ricardo Fraga</a> is the Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C, Professor of Transformative Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. According to his university biography, he specializes in Latino politics, voting rights, immigration, and education.

In June 2021, Professor Fraga signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Fraga, listed as an expert on this topic, says that the United States is a “nation founded on the basis of slavery and its related racism.”

He explains:
“We have culture wars and our racist historical past and its lingering contemporary effects and immigration - particularly from Latin American - is identified as a threat to American identity and American ideals. Add to that people coming from Muslim countries, and this intensifies the culture wars.” 
He believes that the Republican Party wants to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/republicans-want-to-dehumanize-voters-who-threaten-white-identity-says-notre-dame-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“dehumanize” those who threaten “white identity,”</a> stating:
“All these things together have led to - and research backs this up - the importance of white identity. Working against this threatens the status of the Republican Party and spurs the gerrymandering/voting tricks. Their goal is to dehumanize the people who are the sources of that threat.” 
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://sites.nd.edu/michael-coppedge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Coppedge</a> is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

According to his university profile, he is a member of the highest decision-making body, the Principal Investigator Board, for the <a href="https://www.v-dem.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Varieties of Democracy</a> project. The project, also known as V-Dem, is a collaborative effort led by four principal investigators that has “produced new measures of hundreds of aspects of democracy and governance for nearly all countries since 1900.”

In June 2021, Professor Coppedge signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Professor Coppedge says that the V-Dem project demonstrates that there has been a “significant erosion of liberal democracy in the U.S. since 2016.”

V-Dem reports that no country in North America or Europe has advanced in democracy in the last decade and democracy in the U.S. has declined substantially. Coppedge states:
“A decline is already underway. If recent and pending state-level legislation erects more and more barriers to voting and makes the translation of votes into seats and electors even more distorted than it already is, I am sure this trend will worsen.” 
V-Dem’s 2021 report shows that the U.S. declined substantially on the Liberal Democracy Index from 2010 to 2020. Notre Dame News reports that the V-Dem researchers blame this decline on “former President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the media and opposition politicians, and the substantial weakening of the legislature’s de facto checks and balances on executive power.”
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Mainwaring</a> is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He’s also a faculty fellow at the <a href="https://kellogg.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellogg Institute of International Affairs</a>. According to his university profile, his research interests and teaching focus on “democratization and authoritarianism, political parties and party systems, and Latin American politics.”

In June 2021, Professor Mainwaring signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The news release says that Mainwaring “stresses that the overt attempts to suppress minority votes, the partisan manipulation of electoral administration and the refusal to accept Trump’s defeat are all harbingers of the demise of democracy.”

Notre Dame News quotes Mainwaring, writing:
“These practices represent a movement toward competitive authoritarian regimes, and they are a deep threat to democracy. As a student and scholar of democracy for more than 40 years, I am disheartened to see these practices.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/christina-wolbrecht/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Wolbrecht</a> is a Professor of Political Science and the C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty in the Gender Studies Program and a Faculty Fellow of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. According to her university profile, Wolbrecht’s expertise is in “American politics, gender/women and politics, political parties, and American political development.”

In June 2021, Professor Wolbrecht signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Wolbrecht, listed as an expert on this topic, stated: “Marginalized and intersectional communities have been crucial leaders in the contemporary struggle to defend and secure voting rights. Black women in particular have turned their commitment to community into sophisticated voter mobilization organizations.”

She added:
“It’s important to emphasize, however, that resisting and overcoming discriminatory voting rules requires time, energy and attention that these communities do not have in abundance and that distract from other work that advances human flourishing.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://keough.nd.edu/profile/anibal-perez-linan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aníbal Pérez-Liñán</a> is a Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs and Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. According to his <a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/anibal-perez-linan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile,</a> his areas of expertise include “democratization, political institutions, executive-legislative relations, and the rule of law.”

In June 2021, Professor Pérez-Liñán signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The article discusses how Pérez-Liñán “sees parallels in some Latin American countries to attempts by U.S. state Republican legislatures to restrict voting rules, thus securing long-term partisan control of their states.” He states:
“This strategy only works if federal legislation fails to enforce voting rights nationally. Students of Latin American politics call this phenomenon ‘boundary control.’ In Latin America, authoritarian governors are known to preserve power in their enclaves by fending off the influence of national governments.” 
Pérez-Liñán believes the filibuster is an “important maneuver that protects legislative minorities;” but adds,
“Paradoxically, however, some Republican senators are using this institution to disempower minorities in their own states. By blocking the adoption of federal legislation to defend voting rights, they sadly exercise boundary control to protect the adoption of restrictive voting laws.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://ftt.nd.edu/people/faculty/pamela-robertson-wojcik/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pamela Wojcik</a> is the Chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. According to her university profile, her research “focuses on American cinema with particular interest in examining the ways in which film negotiates and interrogates issues of modernity, gender, and cultural change.”

Wojcik is teaching a <a href="https://classsearch.nd.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fall 2023 course</a> titled, “What a Drag: Drag on Screen - Variations and Meanings.” The course description says it “provides an overview of the history of drag performance on screen.” Students will “be asked to read essays on drag, write weekly reflections, attend class discussions, and attend weekly screenings, as well as a symposium on drag and performance on November 3, 2023.”

Wojcik told <a href="https://irishrover.net/2023/09/drag-show-planned-at-notre-dame/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Rover</a> that the symposium will be on “efforts to ban drag” and confirmed it will include a drag performance. She said that drag “is a vital art form that has existed at least since Greek theater, through Shakespearean theater. There are currently claims about drag that seem ahistorical and confused about what it is. So I thought it would be helpful to have an informed, respectful conversation about it.”

Wojcik further told <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> the course would help educate students on drag:
“[B]ecause the national conversation about drag has this distorted view, it really is just trying to give students the opportunity to learn about something in a rational, intellectual environment, rather than through this sort of hysteria of Republicans trying to ban something that they don’t understand.” 
Professor Wojcik <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/notre-dame-professor-doesnt-see-any-conflict-with-drag-programs-and-university-mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not see any conflict</a> with the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution, hosting a drag show on campus. She stated, “There is no evidence of drag ever hurting anyone and I don’t think it’s counter to the teachings of the Church, I don’t think it’s counter to the teachings of Notre Dame.”

In March 2023, Pope Francis condemned gender ideology as “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations. He described gender ideology as “dangerous” because it “blurs differences and the value of men and women.”

The upcoming symposium will be sponsored by the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Gender Studies, Department of Music, Department of American Studies, and the Initiative on Race and Resilience. It is unclear at this time if the event is open to the public.

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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://anthropology.nd.edu/people/faculty/cara-ocobock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cara Ocobock</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame. Her research program “integrates human biology and anthropology, with a focus on the interaction between anatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment.”

In October 2023, Professor Ocobock and Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/charlesroseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a>, of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> in which they questioned the existence of only two genders. In the op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—they argue that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.”

The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Ocobock and Roseman state that the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”

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Published - November 3, 2023

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<a href="https://www.mcw.edu/departments/pediatrics/divisions/endocrinology/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susanne Cabrera</a> is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is an active member of the McGee Center for Diabetes Research and the Gender Health Program Director at <a href="https://childrenswi.org/physician-directory/c/cabrera-susanne-m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Wisconsin</a>.
According to the Children’s Wisconsin website, the <a href="https://childrenswi.org/medical-care/endocrine/gender-health-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Health Clinic</a> is “committed to improving the lives of all children and youth in any facet of their health and well-being.” The clinic meets with children up to 16 years of age and “the most common care plans include ongoing psychological, emotional or social support.”
The website adds:
“In some cases, our services may include reversible puberty-suppressing hormone therapy, gender-affirming hormone therapy, surgical treatments, and speech/voice training.” 
However, health experts question the claim that puberty-suppressing hormone therapy is reversible.
A November 2022 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230408212746/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> article says, “There is emerging evidence of potential harm from using blockers, according to reviews of scientific papers and interviews with more than 50 doctors and academic experts around the world. The drugs suppress estrogen and testosterone, hormones that help develop the reproductive system but also affect the bones, the brain and other parts of the body.”
The article also says:
“When adolescents are using blockers, bone density growth flatlines, on average, according to an analysis commissioned by The Times of observational studies examining the effects.” 
Despite this, Children’s Wisconsin says pediatric endocrinologists with the Gender Health Clinic “may prescribe puberty-suppressing hormone therapy and gender-affirming hormone therapy (testosterone and estrogen).”
In March 2023, Cabrera—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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<a href="https://www.mcw.edu/departments/pediatrics/divisions/endocrinology/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susanne Cabrera</a> is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is an active member of the McGee Center for Diabetes Research and the Gender Health Program Director at <a href="https://childrenswi.org/physician-directory/c/cabrera-susanne-m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Wisconsin</a>.

According to the Children’s Wisconsin website, the <a href="https://childrenswi.org/medical-care/endocrine/gender-health-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Health Clinic</a> is “committed to improving the lives of all children and youth in any facet of their health and well-being.” The clinic meets with children up to 16 years of age and “the most common care plans include ongoing psychological, emotional or social support.”

The website adds:
“In some cases, our services may include reversible puberty-suppressing hormone therapy, gender-affirming hormone therapy, surgical treatments, and speech/voice training.” 
However, health experts question the claim that puberty-suppressing hormone therapy is reversible.

A November 2022 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230408212746/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> article says, “There is emerging evidence of potential harm from using blockers, according to reviews of scientific papers and interviews with more than 50 doctors and academic experts around the world. The drugs suppress estrogen and testosterone, hormones that help develop the reproductive system but also affect the bones, the brain and other parts of the body.”

The article also says:
“When adolescents are using blockers, bone density growth flatlines, on average, according to an analysis commissioned by The Times of observational studies examining the effects.” 
Despite this, Children’s Wisconsin says pediatric endocrinologists with the Gender Health Clinic “may prescribe puberty-suppressing hormone therapy and gender-affirming hormone therapy (testosterone and estrogen).”

In March 2023, Cabrera—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 - May 1, 2023

<a href="https://www.mcw.edu/departments/pediatrics/divisions/Pediatric-Psychology-and-Developmental-Medicine/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacquelyn Smith</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatric Psychology and Developmental Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is also a Pediatric Psychologist with <a href="https://childrenswi.org/physician-directory/s/smith-jacquelyn-j" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children’s Wisconsin</a>.

In March 2023, Smith—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.” 
Smith is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/1133" 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

LGBTQ

Susanne Cabrera

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<a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/mguterl">Dr. Matthew Pratt Guterl</a> is a Professor of American Studies at Brown University. He criticized University of Chicago for opposing safe spaces and for allowing controversial speakers, calling it a &#8220;cold, Darwinian approach&#8221;. &#8220;It is not our job to make intellectual noise &#8212; a raucous debate, a clashing set of ideas, a hurtful back-and-forth &#8212; just because we can&#8221; he wrote.

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Brown University

<a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/mguterl">Dr. Matthew Pratt Guterl</a> is a Professor of American Studies at Brown University. He criticized University of Chicago for opposing safe spaces and for allowing controversial speakers, calling it a "cold, Darwinian approach". "It is not our job to make intellectual noise -- a raucous debate, a clashing set of ideas, a hurtful back-and-forth -- just because we can" he wrote.

Adrienne Keene is a faculty member and Assistant Professor of American Studies for Brown University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative. <a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/native-american-and-indigenous-studies/faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keene’s university profile</a> says her work “[engages] questions of creating Indigenous futures through higher education, specifically thinking through the role of college in projects of Indigenous nation building.”

Professor Keene, who identifies as a “citizen of the Cherokee Nation,” says Native American tribes are misrepresented in society, and imagery “is not representative of the vast diversity of Native America.” In 2015, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=9798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform reported</a> Keenee describing herself as a “‘white-coded indigenous woman.’” During that time she taught an online critical race theory course “to serve as ‘an online interactive space and resource hub.’”

<a href="https://youtu.be/-LHhzgSmc6k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an interview titled “Native Re-Appropriations,”</a> Keene describes cultural appropriation as “the taking of another culture that is not your own." She included "cultural markers, religious symbols, and spiritual practices" in her definition. Regarding the harmfulness of cultural appropriation, she said, “What happens is that cultural appropriation can’t really be separated from systems of power that are already in place.”

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Keene supported the removal of the Native Indian character who appeared on the packaging of Land O’Lakes dairy productions. <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/04/15/land-olakes-quietly-gets-rid-of-iconic-indian-maiden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the Minnesota Reformer</a>, “For Native Americans who have long criticized the use of Indian mascots, the change is a welcome one.” Professor Keene told the Reformer, “‘It’s a great move. It makes me really happy to think that there’s now going to be an entire generation of folks growing up without having to see that every time they walk into the grocery store.’”

Keene is the creator of <a href="http://nativeappropriations.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Native Appropriations</a>, a blog that discusses representations, stereotypes, cultural appropriations, and activism among Native peoples. Her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Notable-Native-People-Indigenous-Changemakers/dp/1984857940?asin=1984857940&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Notable Native People”</a> pays tribute to 50 Indigenous people who she believes made the greatest impact on history.

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<a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/bl2938/">Bettina L. Love</a> is a Professor of Education at Columbia University. A prominent critical race theorist, Dr. Love is responsible for the anti-racist curriculum that schools across the country use to teach students. Her work has been described as the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/abolishing-america-biden-and-bettina-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“single most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the ideology of the CRT movement in education.</a>”
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.
Dr. Love describes herself as an <a href="https://bettinalove.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolitionist and anti-racist activist educator</a> who works to understand and critique “systemic and structural racism in education.”<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/12/meet-bettina-l-love-a-critical-race-theorist-coming-to-a-school-near-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> She further details her beliefs</a> in her book, “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622408/we-want-to-do-more-than-survive-by-bettina-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Want to Do More Than Survive.</a>”
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Dr. Love is the founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN) whose goal is to provide educators with the resources for abolitionist teaching, which Dr. Love characterizes <a href="https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/news/2021/01/abolitionist-teaching-a-conversation-with-bettina-l-love.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as “calling out” fellow teachers who are racist, homophobic, or Islamophobic.”</a>
ATN’s own documents encourage abolitionist teachers to promote the “liberation” of people of color and “embody the spirit” of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The page is found in ATN’s “<a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8d4b8aa7-b12e-4df8-9836-081a29841523/downloads/ATN%20Guide%20to%20Racial%20and%20Restorative%20Justice%20in.pdf?ver=1639147237108" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guide to Racial and Restorative Justice.</a>” Dr. Love’s organization distributes the document to school districts across the country as a resource for teachers. The resource instructs educators to demand the following from their school districts:
&#8211; Hire more black, brown, and indigenous teachers,
&#8211; Hire abolitionist teachers,
&#8211; Free anti-racist therapy for white educators,
&#8211; Reduce class sizes for the benefit of black, brown, and indigenous children,
&#8211; Remove any and all police officers from schools,
&#8211; Reparations for minority children,
&#8211; Teaching standards that promote “Black, Brown, and Indigenous liberation.”
The document further accuses schools of the “spirit murder” of minority studies via disciplinary practices. Dr. Love uses this phrase in a separate article <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210106043843/https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-how-schools-are-spirit-murdering-black-and-brown-students/2019/05" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to accuse white educators of levying racist punishments to humiliate and “destroy” their students of color.</a>
The article appeared in EducationWeekly where Dr. Love contributes articles that are full of racial invectives and diatribes. One claims that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211011180846/https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-grit-is-in-our-dna-why-teaching-grit-is-inherently-anti-black/2019/02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching students to work hard is racist.</a> Her article—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210722025254/https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-dear-white-teachers-you-cant-love-your-black-students-if-you-dont-know-them/2019/03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dear White Teachers: You Can’t Love Your Black Students If You Don’t Know them</a>—accuses white teachers of being incapable of teaching black students.
Dr. Love&#8217;s work is promoted and incorporated into school districts across the country. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/critical-race-theory-activist-education-department-connections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Department of Education under the Biden administration once listed ATN and Dr. Love’s work as resources</a>. She was invited to address the Virginia Department of Education’s Equity Summit where she called to dismantle capitalism and systemic racism in schools.
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Dr. Love was also invited to the San Diego Unified School District, where she <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/radicals-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly told attendees that white teachers are responsible for the suffering of “dark children.”</a>  Slides presented during her lecture stated, “Whiteness reproduces poverty, failing schools, high unemployment, school closings, and trauma for people of color.”
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Love for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://coe.uga.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary France Early College of Education of the University of Georgia</a> at (706) 542-6446
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<a href="https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/dale-maharidge">Dale Maharidge</a> is a Journalism Professor at Columbia University who ironically does not take well to criticism. After finding out he was under investigation on Project Veritas' "To Catch A Journalist" he reacted with a series of explicit and sophomoric rants on social media.

<a href="http://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty/adjunct/kathy-boudin/">Dr. Kathy Boudin</a> teaches social work classes at Columbia University, despite having a lengthy criminal record. Boudin, a convicted murderer and a member of Bill Ayers' domestic terrorism group the Weather Underground, had no problem finding a job teaching at Columbia. According to The Daily Beast "In 1984, Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, a violent, oafish association of upper-class “revolutionaries,” pled guilty to second-degree murder in association with the infamous 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack, New York. Babbling in the language of anti-racism and anti-imperialism, Boudin assisted in ending the life of three people, including Waverly Brown, the first black police officer on the Nyack police force, and left nine children fatherless. She was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 2003, Boudin was released; by 2008 she had landed a coveted teaching position at an Ivy League university."

<a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kayum-ahmed">Kayum Ahmed</a> is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University. According to his university profile, “Ahmed serves as Division Director at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) where he leads the global portfolio on access to medicines and innovation at the Public Health Program based in New York.”

On April 22, Ahmed, along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 

Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
In October 2017, Professor Kayum Ahmed <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/lecturer-files-discrimination-complaint-speaker/10009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a “discrimination and harassment complaint” against the College Republicans after they invited Tommy Robinson to speak on campus, arguing that the invitation itself was an “act of violence” against him.
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<a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/williams-p.html">Patricia Williams </a>is a Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University. Williams, in an editorial for The Nation, wrote " the history of the right to bear arms is shaped by exclusionary privilege based on race and gender. It is almost exclusively white men who may “reasonably” carry firearms to protests outside Target or political conventions", although still 20% of Hispanic and African-American homes own guns according to Pew research.

<a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/khalidi-rashid/">Dr. Rashid Khalidi</a>, a Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, laced criticism of Trump's foreign policy with Anti-Semitism. Discussing Trump's position on Israel, Khalidi said "They have a vision whereby there is no such thing as the Palestinians. They have a vision whereby international law doesn’t exist. They have a vision whereby the United States can unilaterally cancel a decision of the United Nations. And unfortunately, these people infest the Trump transition team, these people are going to infest our government as of January 20th. And they are hand in glove with a similar group of people in the Israeli government and in Israeli political life who think that whatever they think can be imposed on reality."

<a href="https://mesaas.columbia.edu/faculty-directory/hamid-dabashi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamid Dabashi</a> is a Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. According to Dabashi’s university profile, “he is also the author of over 100 essays, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian and Islamic Studies, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics).”

On April 23, 2024, Dabashi wrote an article for <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-election-biden-trump-two-sides-murderous-coin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Eye</a> titled “US elections: Biden and Trump are two sides of the same murderous coin.” Towards the end of the article, Dabashi encouraged his readers to dismiss the American political system:
“We should all abandon any false hope in American democracy, and begin from the ruins of Gaza and the slaughtered corpses of Palestinians buried under those ruins and rebuild a new political imagination.”
“It is obscene to walk into any voting station and vote for anyone in this fundamentally flawed and irredeemable ‘American democracy.’ We cannot salvage this diabolical political system. We must save our own souls.”
On May 9, 2024, Dabashi wrote an article for the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-us-europe-bear-blame-Israel-war-Palestinian-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Eye</a> titled “US and Europe bear direct blame for Israel’s war on Palestinian education.” In the article, Dabashi claimed that Israel’s existence entails the destruction of Palestine: 
“Israel cannot seem to fathom a future for itself as a settler colony without simultaneously exuding a diabolical urge to destroy the very existence of Palestine. It is even scared of images of <a href="https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watermelon slices</a>.”
He then addresses Israel’s current military actions towards Palestine and their consequences and then issues a demand for the world to hold Zionists “accountable” and to aid them: 
“The message they are sending to the world is this: sit there and watch as Israel slaughters an entire nation, killing people in their tens of thousands, their bodies and souls, their minds and their very collective existence, with astounding savagery - and don’t you dare utter a word in protest, or we will label you an antisemite.”
“The world must hold the genocidal Zionists in their garrison state, and their enablers in the US and Europe, accountable. Provisions must be made for all major universities in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia to build campuses in Gaza and lend their resources to these institutions, which must be run, staffed and administered by and for Palestinians.”  
According to Dabashi: 
“Scholars from around the globe must be allowed to go to Gaza and spend sabbatical leave there. Palestinian scholars and students must be invited to spend time in North American and western European universities. Meanwhile, the <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/academic-boycott-against-israeli-universities-grows-every-day/3154023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">academic boycott</a> of Israeli universities must continue until they open their doors to Palestinian students and scholars from the entirety of the Palestinian homeland.”
As a board member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Dabashi is ferociously <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Hamid_Dabashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Israel</a>, going so far as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/education/mideast-tensions-are-getting-personal-on-campus-at-columbia.html">cancelling classes</a> so that his students can attend anti-Israel rallies.

When Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia, Dabashi was one of his most vocal defenders against fellow professors. <a href="https://www.nysun.com/new-york/columbia-professor-calls-bollinger-white/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Writing</a> for an Egyptian newspaper, Dabashi accused Ahmadinejad’s critics of racism, claiming “the most ridiculous clichés of the neocon propaganda machinery, wrapped in the missionary position of a white racist supremacist carrying the heavy burden of civilizing the world.”

In 2018, Dabashi received criticism for a now-deleted <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> in which he accused the Women’s March of being “deeply infiltrated” by “Zionists”, who want to hijack the organization to benefit Israel.
“The Woman’s (sic) March has now emerged as a major movement in the US and of course the Zionists have deeply infiltrated it the way they infiltrated the Civil rights Movement of the 1960s and sought to twist it to the advantage of Israel.” 
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<a href="https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/jeffrey-r-lax">Jeffery Lax</a> is a professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He also serves as Deputy Chair of Columbia's Political Science Department.

<a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=14870">In an online dispute</a> over the President of the United States, Lax publicly accosted a Columbia student online. After accusing the President of murdering Americans, Lax then attacked Gabriel Montalvo, a conservative, referring to him as “stupid” and “evil,” in posts provided by Montalvo on his <a href="https://twitter.com/Baron_Montalvo/status/1247164493748146178">twitter account</a>.

Further on, he referred to Montalvo, who is Hispanic, as a “neo-nazi” after telling him to “drop dead”. Lax called Montalvo a neo-Nazi multiple times in the exchange and even insinuated that he brandishes a swastika.

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<a href="https://directory.columbia.edu/people/uni?code=jbc2167">James Comey</a>–the former FBI director best known for directing the Russia investigation against President Trump– is now a lecturer at Columbia University <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/02/ex-fbi-director-james-comey-to-teach-at-columbia-law-school/">for the Spring 2021 semester</a>. Comey’s course is titled “Lawyers and Leaders.”  The <a href="https://reuben-mark.law.columbia.edu/content/reuben-mark-initiative-announces-spring-2021-leaders-residence">university’s website</a> writes that Comey’s experiences as a federal prosecutor and FBI director “represents a broadening of the Mark Initiative’s focus to include leadership of major public institutions, complementing existing offerings relating to corporations and law firms.”

In 2016 under Comey’s leadership, the FBI opened an investigation to determine whether the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russian government to defeat his opposing  Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. It is important to note that Special Counsel Robert Muller <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-collusion-attorney-general-william-barr-emily-zanotti">later determined that there was no evidence against President Trump.</a>

Much of the underlying information that formed the basis of the investigation was provided by a former-British spy, Christopher Steele– known as the “Steele Dossier.” <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/steeles-dossier-source-was-a-suspected-russian-spy/">Steele relied on a series of rumors from a sole source that was later determined to be a suspected Russian spy</a>. Members of Comey’s own <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged">FBI flagged the allegations in the dossier as false and were</a> ignored. This information was eventually used to obtain surveillance warrants for individuals involved with the Trump campaign. Despite being fired by the FBI for misconduct, <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/400810-opinion-how-a-senior-justice-official-helped-dems-on-trump-russia-case">Steele was still used as a source–with Bruce Ohr serving as his conduit to ferry information to the Bureau</a>.

Once Trump assumed office, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/11/why-did-obama-tell-the-fbi-to-hide-its-activities-from-the-trump-administration/">Comey withheld evidence from the Trump Administration</a> about his investigation. The FBI had briefed President Trump’s campaign regarding Russian interference into the election, but failed to disclose that members of the campaign were the subject of the investigation itself.

Comey played a pivotal role in the perjury trap that resulted in the firing and prosecution of General Michael Flynn. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified that <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/05/sally-yates-comey-went-rogue-in-launching-perjury-trap-on-flynn/">Comey “went rogue” in his pursuit to prosecute Flynn</a>. Sources claim that the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-official-on-mueller-team-says-flynn-prosecution-was-used-to-get-trump-says-collusion-probe-was-not-there">FBI zealously pursued the investigation of Flynn in order to get him to flip and inform on any potential crimes committed by Trump.</a>

An Inspector General’s Report later <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/latest-inspector-general-report-slams-comeys-fbi-for-massive-failures-to-document-fisa-claims/">excoriated Comey for the abuses that were committed under his leadership</a>. When questioned in a congressional hearing, Comey claimed that he<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/30/comey-its-not-my-job-to-make-sure-fisa-applications-are-accurate/"> bore no responsibility to ensure whether or not the information in the warrants were accurate</a> and could <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/01/supercut-james-comey-doesnt-recall-anything-about-anything/">remember little else about the investigation that he oversaw</a>.

Comey was also cited by the Department of Justice for <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-russia-comey/doj-declines-to-prosecute-comey-despite-finding-that-he-leaked-info-idUSKCN1VJ1UO">improperly leaking sensitive information to the press</a>. When Columbia announced that he had taken a position at their Law School, it was revealed that he would teach alongside the professor to whom <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-columbia-law-school-professor-leaked-trump">Comey leaked his private conversations with President Trump</a>.
Updated - Sping, 2021

<a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">Anthony Zenkus</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Columbia University and has also taught at Adelphi University in the Graduate School of Social Work. His Columbia University bio <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">describes</a> Zenkus as an “activist” on issues of racial justice and income inequality and that he was trained by former Vice President Al Gore as a presenter in the Climate Reality Project.

In addition, the biography <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">describes</a> Zenkus as an organizer with the <a href="http://occupywallst.org/about/">Occupy Wall Street</a> movement and that Zenkus advocates for raising the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.  Zenkus’s Columbia biography also <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">states</a> that in addition to his work as an adjunct lecturer, his work involves the training of professionals on trauma, child abuse, and family violence.
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Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10395">reports</a> that, in an exchange on Twitter, Zenkus <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/952967568851111937">states</a> that slavery, genocide, and World Wars I and II are the result of capitalism.

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In the same Twitter thread, Zenkus <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/953040573857976326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E953040573857976326%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsarahd-313035%2F2018%2F01%2F15%2Flunacy-is-fun-columbia-prof-totally-beclowns-himself-with-anti-capitalist-mini-rant%2F">responds</a> to a Twitter user who states that Nazism is “a movement of the left,” to which Zenkus alleges that Adolf Hitler was, in fact, a capitalist.

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In another tweet, Zenkus <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/1317083235797565440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1317083235797565440%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fcolumbia-professor-american-flag-genocide">states</a> that the American flag is a symbol of genocide. Zenkus replies to a now-deleted tweet from another user that stated, "The hammer and sickle is a symbol of genocide. What are you gonna admire next, the swastika?”  In his retort, Zenkus claims that America has committed “centuries” of slavery and genocide.

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Zenkus maintains that capitalist societies are physically harmful to children that grow up in poverty. In a talk called, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1DVinPg98&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">“Watch the Gap: How Capitalism Negatively Affects Development</a>,” given at a TEDx event, Zenkus claims that capitalism is the cause of massive inequality and widespread poverty in the country.

At the same event, Zenkus <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1DVinPg98&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">attributes</a> everything from racism and brain damage in children to the inequality that he alleges is inherent in our society. In order to alleviate poverty, Zenkus calls for a “transformational distribution of wealth.”

Below is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1DVinPg98&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">video</a> of Professor Brandzel’s TEDx, "Watch the Gap."
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The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Zenkus for comment, but have not received a response by the time of publication.

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Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberle-w-crenshaw">Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> is a Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at the <a href="https://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)</a>. She also teaches law as a professor at the <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia School of Law</a>.

Dr. Crenshaw is best recognized as a founding scholar of critical race theory and intersectionality. She has continued to make significant contributions to each field throughout her career. Both concepts have been widely adopted by the radical left as the basis for their activism and movements.

Dr. Crenshaw <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3Ad80f43d375e3f40179924f768317a237&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first defined intersectionality in a landmark paper published for the Stanford Law Review, titled, “Mapping the Margins.</a>” In it, she praises identity politics as necessary to the lived experiences of American minorities.

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However, Dr. Crenshaw then comments that identity politics does not go nearly far enough, countering that intersectionality is needed to successfully combat what she alleges is the systemic oppression minorities face in America.

Intersectionality is used by activists and academics to depict racial and sexual oppression as interconnected amongst various minority groups. For example in “Mapping the Margins,” Dr. Crenshaw claims that a black woman would suffer from both systemic racism and sexism in America. She further characterizes the theory as the link between <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/">contemporary politics and postmodernism</a>. Academic James Lindsay describes <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality as the “birthplace of wokeness.”</a>

Much of intersectionality’s academic framework was used by Dr. Crenshaw to develop concepts of critical race theory. She drew additional inspiration from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/kimberle-crenshaw-the-woman-who-revolutionised-feminism-and-landed-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical legal studies, which, like critical race theory, posits that no American law can truly be neutral or impartial.</a>

Ben Shapiro defines critical race theory—also referred to as critical theory—in an article for Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of critical race theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Crenshaw herself further defined the concept in an appearance on MSNBC in July of 2021, She characterized her theory as a method to understand how racial inequality is produced—or acts as a “conduit”—from laws, institutions, and historical oppression, all of which are referenced interchangeably with white supremacy. The full video may be viewed below.

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One such institution that Dr. Crenshaw targets are police departments and policing as a whole. In a <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet from September 2020</a>, she demanded that all police departments be defunded, a move deemed necessary for the full dismantlement of “white nationalism.”
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The call to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DefundThePolice</a> should be a mandate to dismantle the hyper-militaristic, racist functions of the police as the coercive power of white nationalism.
Defunding the police needs to be a call for the de-weaponizing of white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn</a>

— Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) <a href="https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crenshaw’s work and activism have been instrumental to school districts adopting critical race theory into their curriculums. One district in Illinois allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-illinois-school-district-forced-students-on-privilege-walks-compared-whiteness-to-the-devil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregated students by race during a “privilege walk</a>” and compared “whiteness” to the devil during class lessons. Another school district in Buffalo, New York taught students that<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical-race-theory-curriculum" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> America is, “built on racism,” and all Americans, “have an implicit racial bias.</a>”

Dr. Crensaw’s work has spawned other prominent critical race theorists like Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project. She has described <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-does-intersectionality-mean-2021-kimberle-crenshaws-podcast-must-listen-way-learn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jones work as “phenomenal” to the rethinking of the American founding</a>.

Dr. Jones <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that 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. <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/07/21/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has-the-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

Readers can visit the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile of Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a> to learn more.

Despite evidence to the contrary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a number of pundits on the left claim that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools</a>. However, Dr. Crenshaw herself has written that the theory may serve as a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?s=27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“catch-all” for race-based scholarship</a>.
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Well well well, if it's isn't Kimberlé Crenshaw, founder of critical race theory, telling us that the term "critical race theory" can be "used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue"—exactly as I've been saying all along. 👍<a href="https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GP7mLZAm9x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/GP7mLZAm9x</a>
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Updated - September 21, 2021

Dr. Kendall Thomas is a <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kendall-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nash Professor of Law</a> at Columbia University. His areas of study include Family, Gender, &amp; Sexuality and Social Justice &amp; Human Rights. Dr. Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University, and he is co-editor of <a href="https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Founded the Movement</a> with fellow Professor Watchlist professors Dr. <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> and Dr. <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/garypellar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary Pellar</a>. In his free time, he is a professional jazz vocalist.

When Dr. Thomas isn’t teaching in the law classroom or singing jazz music, he can be found vehemently supporting critical race theory. <a href="https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2021-06-01/critical-race-theory-for-k-12-graders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a radio clip for Hawaii Public Radio</a>, Dr. Thomas discussed his beliefs about critical race theory in the classroom. In his opinion, critical race theory should be taught to children, including K-12 classrooms. He claims that the American Revolution of 1776 isn’t comprehensive of our country’s history, and we need to be teaching about the slavery that occured in 1619 to really understand this country.

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During <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/what-critical-race-theory-why-do-some-want-ban-1587389" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a conversation with a journalist at Newsweek</a>, Dr. Thomas discusses critical race theory and why some are against it. Dr. Thomas alleges that conservatives and others are “over-the-top attacking” critical race theory despite having no idea what CRT actually is. He asserts that conservatives want to shut down critical race theory so they won’t “lose the national debate… about institutional racism.”

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<a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/in-focus-shows/2021/06/13/teaching-critical-race-theory--it-s-about-history--not-guilt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a video interview with Spectrum News NY1</a>, Dr. Thomas discusses how he believes critical race theory is about history, not guilt. He argues that if you care about the future of our democratic republic, you need to support the teachings and learning that CRT stands for. Dr. Thomas states that critical race theory is a body of writing and method of research about the meaning of race both today and historically.

Dr. Thomas often takes to Twitter to discuss critical race theory, politics, and his disdain for conservatives. <a href="https://twitter.com/Ill_Legitimacy/status/1326013415178039302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In one tweet</a>, he accused conservatives of weaponizing the government in attempts to undo the 2020 presidential election results. Some of his tweets can be viewed below:

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https://twitter.com/Ill_Legitimacy/status/1457763685674496005

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaLaw/status/1393217815398821891

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<a href="https://gca.columbia.edu/people/flores-forbes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Flores Forbes</a> is an Associate Vice President for Community Affairs at Columbia University. Mr. Flores is a convicted murderer who served as Huey Newton’s enforcer in the Black Panther Party.

The organization was<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> formed by black nationalists, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, in 1966 as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.</a> The group’s early activities included monitoring police and social programs for urban communities.

<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The party was explicitly organized along</a> Marxist-Leninist lines. Members were <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/reflections-panthers-john-perazzo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required to read communist texts such as Mao Zedong’s, Red Book and Che Guevara</a>. Bobby Seale was known to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fondly quote Soviet Dictator, Joseph Stalin</a>.

Despite their alleged philanthropy, the Panthers used their community programs–dubbed survival programs—as a front for criminal activity. David Horowitz—who worked for the Panthers at the time—observed the Panthers' <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/pbs-propaganda-machine-black-panther-killers-frontpagemagcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embezzling and illegal trafficking operations based out of the Oakland Community Center.</a>

The Panthers were feared for their mob-like enforcement and brutality. Members were <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known to pour boiling water over suspected </a>police informants and fire-bomb the cars of journalists. Co-founder, Huey Newton, was convicted—which was later overturned by an appellate court—and spent time in prison for the murder of police officer, John Frey. He is further <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.

Known as Newton’s “internal enforcer”, Mr. Forbes carried out at least one execution on behalf of his boss. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/radical-son-frontpagemagcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flores was ordered to perform a hit against Crystal Gray</a>, who had witnessed Newton murder a prostitute—Kathleen Smith—and was set to testify in his trial.

However, Mr. Forbes and the other assassins mistakenly arrived at the address of a fellow Panther, who returned fire and injured Mr. Forbes before he was killed. Following a nationwide manhunt, Mr. Forbes turned himself in, where he was convicted and spent 5 years in prison for second-degree murder.

Mr. Forbes is also suspected in the murder of Betty Van Patter. As a book-maker for the Panthers, Patter <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160110093526/http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5016589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was a first-hand witness to the organization’s criminal activity and threatened to expose the Panthers to the press</a>. After missing for five weeks, her body was recovered in the San Francisco Bay.

Although Mr. Forbes is believed by Patter’s daughter and the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/radical-son-frontpagemagcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI to be responsible for her killing</a>, no arrests were made. Furthermore, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180330211353/http://fbidocs.com/betty-van-patter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI destroyed all files relating to Patter in 2009</a>, so the apparent murder will remain unsolved. The Black Panther party dissolved in 1984 and Huey Newton was murdered in 1989. Mr. Forbes went on to author a book about his time in the Panthers—titled, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Will-You-Die-Me-Panther/dp/0743482689" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will You Die with Me?</a>— and <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/cu-people-flores-forbes-urban-planner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has worked at Columbia since 2007</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://gca.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Office of Government and Community Affairs</a> at (212) 854-5915 or at communityaffairs@columbia.edu. 
Updated - March 15th, 2022

<a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/kf2119/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Karen Froud</a> is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Education at the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City.

In a letter to colleagues, Dr. Froud urged them to boycott Israel and its universities, accusing both of contributing to apartheid-like conditions in the Palestinian territories.

Her remarks were spurred by the comments of another colleague, Gerry Leisman, who asked fellow scientists to continue their reviews for his research. Dr. Talisman is a neuroscientist at the University of Haifa in Israel.

“Hi, 

I am the guest editor of a special issue of the Journal Brain Sciences and we are producing a special issue of the journal entitled, “The Brain Goes to School, details for which can be found at the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/.../brai.../special_issues/brain_school

We are recruiting both reviews and results of experimental studies that related to human learning, its difficulties, remediation strategies, models, cognitive science, cognitive neuropsychology all essentially attempting to translate 150 years of cognitive neuroscience into classroom Applications [sic].” 

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In her reply, Dr. Froud urges her colleagues to refuse the request <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/03/columbia-bds-professor-little-unclear.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the grounds that the University of Haifa is an “apartheid institution,” and adhere to the demands of the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement</a>.”

“Dear colleagues - 

I urge you to consider this request in light of the Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement for freedom and justice in Palestine. Like many/most academic institutions in Israel, Haifa University is an apartheid institution. 

<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/tags/haifa-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bdsmovement.net/tags/haifa-university</a>

I recognize that many of you work within this institution and hope you are also doing your part for academic freedom.

Warm wishes for a peaceful and just world - which after all is where educational neuroscience as a field points us. 

&nbsp;

Karen Froud, Ph.D

Program Director, Neuroscience &amp; Education

Columbia University Teachers College,”

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BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—supporters embrace the following three tenets as a feature of the campaign:

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel.

Mr. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, admits that the ultimate outcome of these steps is the <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantlement of the state of Israel</a>.
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WATCH: The video BDS doesn't want you to see!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BDS</a> co-founder Omar Barghouti admits that their goal means the end of Israel. <a href="https://t.co/wulUA5hqdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/wulUA5hqdE</a>
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Froud further serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Education, the Neurocognition of Language Lab, and the Chair of the Institutional Review Board.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Froud for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teachers College</a> of Columbia University at (212) 678-3000
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Updated - March 23rd, 2022

<a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/bl2938/">Bettina L. Love</a> is a Professor of Education at Columbia University. A prominent critical race theorist, Dr. Love is responsible for the anti-racist curriculum that schools across the country use to teach students. Her work has been described as the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/abolishing-america-biden-and-bettina-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“single most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the ideology of the CRT movement in education.</a>”

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.

Dr. Love describes herself as an <a href="https://bettinalove.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolitionist and anti-racist activist educator</a> who works to understand and critique “systemic and structural racism in education.”<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/12/meet-bettina-l-love-a-critical-race-theorist-coming-to-a-school-near-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> She further details her beliefs</a> in her book, “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622408/we-want-to-do-more-than-survive-by-bettina-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Want to Do More Than Survive.</a>”

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Dr. Love is the founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN) whose goal is to provide educators with the resources for abolitionist teaching, which Dr. Love characterizes <a href="https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/news/2021/01/abolitionist-teaching-a-conversation-with-bettina-l-love.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as “calling out” fellow teachers who are racist, homophobic, or Islamophobic.”</a>

ATN’s own documents encourage abolitionist teachers to promote the “liberation” of people of color and “embody the spirit” of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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The page is found in ATN’s “<a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8d4b8aa7-b12e-4df8-9836-081a29841523/downloads/ATN%20Guide%20to%20Racial%20and%20Restorative%20Justice%20in.pdf?ver=1639147237108" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guide to Racial and Restorative Justice.</a>” Dr. Love’s organization distributes the document to school districts across the country as a resource for teachers. The resource instructs educators to demand the following from their school districts:

- Hire more black, brown, and indigenous teachers,

- Hire abolitionist teachers,

- Free anti-racist therapy for white educators,

- Reduce class sizes for the benefit of black, brown, and indigenous children,

- Remove any and all police officers from schools,

- Reparations for minority children,

- Teaching standards that promote “Black, Brown, and Indigenous liberation.”

The document further accuses schools of the “spirit murder” of minority studies via disciplinary practices. Dr. Love uses this phrase in a separate article <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210106043843/https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-how-schools-are-spirit-murdering-black-and-brown-students/2019/05" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to accuse white educators of levying racist punishments to humiliate and “destroy” their students of color.</a>

The article appeared in EducationWeekly where Dr. Love contributes articles that are full of racial invectives and diatribes. One claims that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211011180846/https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-grit-is-in-our-dna-why-teaching-grit-is-inherently-anti-black/2019/02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching students to work hard is racist.</a> Her article—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210722025254/https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-dear-white-teachers-you-cant-love-your-black-students-if-you-dont-know-them/2019/03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dear White Teachers: You Can’t Love Your Black Students If You Don’t Know them</a>—accuses white teachers of being incapable of teaching black students.

Dr. Love's work is promoted and incorporated into school districts across the country. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/critical-race-theory-activist-education-department-connections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Department of Education under the Biden administration once listed ATN and Dr. Love’s work as resources</a>. She was invited to address the Virginia Department of Education’s Equity Summit where she called to dismantle capitalism and systemic racism in schools.

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Dr. Love was also invited to the San Diego Unified School District, where she <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/radicals-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly told attendees that white teachers are responsible for the suffering of “dark children.”</a>  Slides presented during her lecture stated, “Whiteness reproduces poverty, failing schools, high unemployment, school closings, and trauma for people of color.”
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Love for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://coe.uga.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary France Early College of Education of the University of Georgia</a> at (706) 542-6446
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Updated - March 30th, 2022
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<a href="https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/anders-levermann" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anders Levermann</a> is an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University.

On September 8, 2022, Dr. Levermann published a <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220907192546.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research paper</a> claiming that climate change leads to increased levels of hate speech online. The study utilizes the United Nations' definition of hate speech, which states, “Cases of discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, color, descent, gender or other identity factors.” 

The paper alleges that hate speech increases, regardless of income bracket or belief system, when the temperature rises above 86 degrees or falls beneath 54 degrees Fahrenheit. The study further states that hateful posts on Twitter decrease when the temperature is between 59 degrees to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Dr. Levermann states that “even in high-income areas where people may have air conditioning, an increase in hate speech was seen on ‘extremely hot days.’” Dr. Leverman concludes by claiming, “Protecting our climate from excessive global warming is also critical to our mental health.”

Dr. Levermann has a long history of <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20246" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate activism</a> and has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/individuals-climate-crisis-government-planet-priority" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “[I]t’s true: people drive too much, eat too much meat, and fly too often.” 

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Published - December 28, 2022
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is Columbia University’s professor of practice in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). A <a href="https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/secretary-hillary-rodham-clinton-will-join-sipa-faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the dean of SIPA says Clinton is “now bringing her leadership and expertise to SIPA…to prepare the next generation of global policy leaders…”

On January 5, 2023, <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/hillary-rodham-clinton-join-columbia-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia News announced</a> that Clinton “will help lead a major SIPA effort to convene outstanding policy thinkers from around the world to develop innovative policy solutions.” The publication also says she will help college executives “explore the fundamental questions on how to advance efforts to renew democracy and foster effective engagements with women and youth in [the United States] and around the world."

Columbia University <a href="https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/situationroom">announced</a> on March 22 that Clinton will be co-teaching a foreign policy course with Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo titled "Inside the Situation Room." The university stated that the goal of the course is: 
"[T]o give students a holistic understanding of the many facets of foreign policy decision-making. As future participants in the policy process, this course will provide vital background that they can draw on should they, too, find themselves facing high-pressure decisions with implications for national security and global stability. It will also enhance their ability to counsel intelligence officers, military leaders, advisors, or other government officials by improving their ability to anticipate other actors' actions, perceptions, and motivation."
Students at Columbia University must apply in order to take the course. 

Accompanying the course announcement is a skit featuring Clinton and Yarhi-Milo (see video below). In the skit, the co-teachers talk about basic details of the course after scenes are shown of students reacting to the news that Clinton “is running again,” (that is, running a new course). Clinton says that she will cover “what it was actually like in the [situation] room during the Bin-Laden Raid, the Iran Sanctions, the Gaza Cease Fire, [and] you name it.”

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Published - March 30, 2023
EARLY YEARS
Clinton—who graduated in 1969 from Wellesley College as Hillary Rodham—allegedly wrote her senior thesis on political activist and grassroots strategist Sal Alinski. In 1972, he <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Practical-Primer-Realistic/dp/0679721134/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FU7H88O8OXHA&amp;keywords=rules+for+radicals+by+saul+d.+alinsky&amp;qid=1673991341&amp;sprefix=rules+for+%2Caps%2C203&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=0679721134&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored</a> “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realist Radicals,” which centers on disrupting societies through revolutionary community organizing. Alinski infamously dedicated the volume of writing to the fallen angel and nemesis of God, Lucifer. Alinski is rumored to be Clinton’s “mentor” and a major influence on her flux from a stalwart Republican to a progressive Democrat by graduation. 

Although Clinton’s thesis is referenced in multiple media publications, the full composition is neither accessible through online archives nor searchable on her <a href="https://www.wellesley.edu/news/journalists/hillary-rodham-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wellesley alumni profile</a>. According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17388372" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, the academic paper is “available to anyone who visits the archive room of the prestigious women’s college outside Boston.”

Throughout her time at Wellesley, Clinton served as the head of Wellesley’s Young Republicans Club from 1966-67; she also pursued a research assistant internship for the House Republican Conference during the summer of 1968 in D.C. A <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/11/395302391/5-things-you-should-know-about-hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio</a> (NPR) article says, “In high school [Clinton]...considered herself a Republican and even became a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/barry_goldwater_of_arizona.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldwater</a> Girl.” NPR included a quote from Clinton’s book “Living History”:

“‘My ninth-grade history teacher…encouraged me to read Senator Barry Goldwater’s book, The Conscience of a Conservative. That inspired me to write my term paper on the American conservative movement…I liked Senator Goldwater because he was a rugged individualist who swam against the political tide.’”

Clinton earned a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 1973, joined the University of Arkansas Law School faculty in 1975, and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as a member of the board of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Clinton’s law career includes the controversial case of a 12-year-old sexual abuse survivor Kathy Shelton. Clinton, who served as legal counsel for rapist Thomas Alfred Taylor, worked to shorten his prison sentence. 

According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3729466/Child-rape-victim-comes-forward-time-40-years-call-Hillary-Clinton-liar-defended-rapist-smearing-blocking-evidence-callously-laughing-knew-guilty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyMail</a>, “One of Clinton’s first moves was to raise questions about the credibility of the…victim. In a July 18, 1975 affidavit, Clinton asked the court to order Shelton to undergo a psychiatric examination from a doctor selected by Taylor’s legal team.” Clinton accused Shelton of wanting attention from older men and subjected her to intense psychological interrogations. Clinton negotiated a plea deal and Taylor spent one year in county jail.

SECRETARY OF STATE
From 2009-2013, Clinton served as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. During this time, she used private email servers instead of State Department accounts to send classified, sensitive information. According to a <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> released by the FBI, “Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain.” 

The FBI goes further into detail on thousands of work-related emails that Clinton withheld, several of which included highly sensitive information on unclassified personal servers. The FBI also discovered Clinton was using her personal email in and out of the country.

In 2016, <a href="https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clinton-foundation-donations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Investors Business Daily</a> reported that Clinton and her organization, the Clinton Foundation, were also undergoing an FBI investigation for violating “tax laws by converting donations into personal or political use.” An annual report (below) shows donations plummeting when Clinton was not running for a public office, and sharp increases when she ran for President of the United States. After Clinton lost the election, donations fell by 88%.

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The Clintons, as well as advocates for the foundation, defended the organization’s reputation insisting that “the foundation was doing great work for mankind.” According to the <a href="https://observer.com/2016/08/the-six-clinton-foundation-scandals-everyone-needs-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Observer</a>, foreign countries such as “Australia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and a Canadian government agency…all donated to the Clinton Foundation.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> also reported that Saudi Arabia, a country that heavily restricts the rights of women, donated more than $10 million to the foundation during Hillary’s <a href="https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2016 Presidential Campaign</a>.

The screenshot below shows some of Clinton's campaign promises under "Women's Rights and Opportunity":

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RUSSIAGATE
Clinton spent her time in public office leveraging several foreign connections. During her time as First Lady, from 1993-2001, Clinton <a href="https://spectator.org/chinagate-and-the-clintons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">solicited foreign donations to the Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) from businessmen with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. The scandal would eventually be known as “Chinagate.” 

While serving as Secretary of State, Clinton approved the sale of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/10/23/7-uranium-one-facts-every-american-should-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20% of U.S. uranium reserves</a> to a Russian company. The financial backers of the venture funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation before the sale. Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow the same month the deal was finalized.  

In October 2016, Clinton released a statement via advisor Jake Sullivan—who was later appointed as <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-jake-sullivan-national-security-adviser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Security Advisor</a> to Joe Biden— accusing Donald Trump of coordinating with Vladimir Putin to hack the DNC’s servers and release sensitive information. She alleged this was accomplished through a backchannel to the Kremlin through Alfa Bank. 
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Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. <a href="https://t.co/8f8n9xMzUU">pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU</a>
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Although this was <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/21/fbi-file-disproves-trump-alfa-bank-link/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known to be false</a>, DNC lawyer Michael Sussman <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/sussmanns-cozy-relationship-with-the-fbi-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approached the FBI </a>and provided the agency with the fraudulent information. The <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/31/fec-fines-the-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-for-the-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton campaign also funded</a> what became known as the “Steele Dossier”—a document containing <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/31/key-source-identified-for-debunked-trump-russia-claim-in-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">salacious and fallacious information</a> alleging Trump was connected to Russian intelligence. Despite knowing the information was also unverified, the FBI used the dossier to obtain <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/04/16/new-fisa-abusegrassley-n2567020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warrants to surveil</a> Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign.

BENGHAZI
On September 11, 2012, four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/what-happened-during-after-benghazi-attack-2012" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed during an attack</a> on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/113/crpt/srpt134/CRPT-113srpt134.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate Select Committee’s Benghazi Report</a> shows Clinton ignored the “ample strategic warning that [the] security situation in eastern Libya was deteriorating and that U.S. facilities and personnel were at risk in Benghazi.” 

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/286438-obstruction-lies-and-dishonor-hillarys-benghazi-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified that he had identified</a> “three distinct capabilities” to deploy to Benghazi by 6 pm and had “issued the order to deploy the identified assets” by 7 pm. However, at 7:30 pm, a “Deputies Meeting” was convened in the White House. The meeting featured Clinton and deputies from State, the Pentagon, and the White House, while both the President and Secretary of Defense were absent. 

During this meeting, Clinton obstructed the direct order from the President, noting that her “State department emphasized any deployment of U.S. Forces into Libya needed approval from the Government of Libya.” 

The Americans in Benghazi were ultimately rescued by a group of former Gaddafi loyalists not affiliated with the Libyan government while American forces were in a “stand-by posture” awaiting the resolution of Secretary Clinton’s obstruction.  After the attacks, Secretary Clinton <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Benghazi-Ops-Alert-FOIA-Page-10-11.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued an official statement</a>, claiming the assault may have been in “a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.” 

However, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/03/03/new-documents-blow-lid-off-obamaclinton-benghazi-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request</a> by Judicial Watch show that Clinton’s top three staff members were forwarded an email on September 11, 2012, at 6:06 PM with the subject line “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU).” The email, from State Department Foreign Service Officer Lawrence Randolph, read: “(SBU) Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and call for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.” Despite knowing this, Clinton and other government officials stuck to the theory that the attacks were in response to a YouTube video.

Clinton will assume the position with Columbia University on February 1, 2023.
Published January 25, 2023

<a href="https://www.mabdou.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mohamed Abdou</a> (according to his <a href="https://www.mei.columbia.edu/scholars-and-fellows/mohamed-abdou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University profile</a>) is “a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island.”

In 2020, Abdou wrote an article for <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ROAR</a> titled “Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution.” He recommends that leftists support political alternatives to that of the current “liberal-progressive.” The thesis of the article reads:
“Repatriating Indigenous land and organizing anti-state Indigenous-Black-POC Power alternatives is better than pouring resources into the liberal-progressive vote.”
Abdou addressed his view of the origin of the U.S. and how that relates to the idea of “manifest destiny”:
“Need history remind us, the US was founded on the violent Euro-Christian crusading doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery. As Patrick Wolfe<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> notes</a>, 1492 is ‘not an event.’ Rather, it established a structure with a religious character known as ‘conquistador settler-colonialism’ as Tiffany Lethabo-King <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-black-shoals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argues</a> and many other Indigenous scholar-activists like<a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/557744ffe4b013bae3b7af63/t/570d362c9f7266ca3ced2285/1460483648296/Before_Dispossession_Or_Surviving_It_by.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Eve Tuck</a> and<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43811591/Red_Pedagogy_Native_American_Social_and_Political_Thought_Sandy_Grande" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Sandy Grande</a> have noted.”
He then claims that white supremacy influences both the conservative and leftist political movements:
“While white supremacist ideologies and assumptions inform conservative right-wing parties and positions, the greater danger is how they disguise themselves within (neo)liberal progressive and even leftist positions. Some perceive Heineken and Johnnie Walker-sponsored pride parades and Women’s Marches as resistance, despite the fact that these movements are often premised on <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38647128/Ph_D_Thesis_Islam_and_Queer_Muslims_Identity_and_Sexuality_in_the_Contemporary_CH2?email_work_card=title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bleached</a> notions of non-violence, gay marriage, coming-out narratives, pride and shame.”
Towards the conclusion of the article, Abdou mentions what “decolonization” means to him”:
“Decolonization means recognizing that struggles from ‘Jerusalem to the Grand River are one.’ That there is no freeing Palestine without freeing Indigenous and Black peoples in the heart of US Empire because all our fires are interconnected.”
“As an antidote, decolonization necessitates building non-statist, anti-authoritarian, land-based spiritual alternatives and being able to defend them tactically, with arms if need be. Decolonization means abolishing the punitive prison-judicial and imperialist-military industrial complexes and replacing them with transformative and not just restorative justice. Only the former addresses the underlying state structure of settler-colonialism that frames abolition and Indigenous sovereignty while the latter does not.”
During a U.S. Congressional hearing on campus anti-semitism, Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik was <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbia-president-shafik-antisemitism-israel-hamas-congress/5330062/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> about Abdou’s comments in response to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Abdou had expressed support for Hamas at that time and has since faced repercussions for such support. According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13349149/Im-Hamas-Hezbollah-professor-publicly-backed-Islamic-jihad-repeatedly-Oct-7-invasion-Israel-hired-teach-Columbia-House-speaker-Mike-Johnson-calls-President-Shafik-resign.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>, Abdou wrote the following on Facebook on October 11, 2024:

“I'm with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad but up to a point - given ultimate differences over our ethical political commitments; that's the difference between a strategy and tactic too.”
In January, Abdou <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Mohamed_Abdou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> “I might be with Hamas and support the resistance, absolutely.”

Shafik told the U.S. House Hearing Committee that Abdou has been terminated and that he “is grading his students’ papers and will never teach at Columbia again.” 

Abdou has been involved in a pro-Palestinain protest at Columbia University, where protesters have established an <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/ayfkm-columbia-president-told-congress-prof-terminated-now-appears-holding-class-inside-columbias-gates-among-pro-hamas-camp/25277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encampment</a> that has caused inconvenience to university members (see tweet below). Some have been unable to enter university buildings.
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Looks like Professor Mohamed Abdou hasn't lost his campus privileges after all. Here he is with the pro-terror mob on Columbia's campus today.
Days ago, Columbia president Dr. Shafik said that Abdou “will never work at Columbia again.”

After the Oct. 7 attack, Abdou announced:… <a href="https://t.co/5Avz9up0lQ">pic.twitter.com/5Avz9up0lQ</a>

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1781381759591977287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As of April 23, Abdou’s university profile has not been removed from the university’s site. According to his X posts, he remains active at the protest (see post below):
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Salam alikum &amp; peace be upon you-our siblings-from our zone to yours @ Zionist land grab Cornell

May Allah safeguard &amp; protect you all &amp; shine a light upon our paths

You’re with us in spirit

Keep us in yours

We are many &amp; one towards a free Turtle Island, Africa &amp; 🇵🇸 <a href="https://t.co/LksjXYBfHk">https://t.co/LksjXYBfHk</a> <a href="https://t.co/MLdzr7AjIf">pic.twitter.com/MLdzr7AjIf</a>
— Dr. مُحَمَّد‎ (@minuetinGmajor) <a href="https://twitter.com/minuetinGmajor/status/1783499837192708430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Published - April 25, 2024

<a href="https://history.columbia.edu/person/brown-christopher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Brown</a> is a Professor of History at Columbia University. According to his university profile, Brown’s “current research centers on the history of European experience on the African coast at the height of the Atlantic slave trade, and continues early commitments to the rise and fall of slavery in the British Empire.”

Brown was among <a href="https://bwog.com/2024/04/student-workers-and-faculty-hold-walkouts-to-demand-amnesty-for-students-and-faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several professors</a> who spoke in favor of the ongoing pro-Palestine protests at the university, including a tent encampment on campus. The protests — which have included a call for the university to divest funds from Israel — are causing considerable inconvenience to university members on campus who are not involved in the protest. Brown’s speech was captured on video and posted on X. 
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My marvelous colleague Prof Christopher Brown (<a href="https://twitter.com/CUHistoryDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@CUHistoryDept</a>) brought the 🔥 at today's Columbia faculty action opposing the arrests of students, suppression of free speech and the congressional threat to independence in higher education. Here's the whole thing.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoCopsOnCampus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#NoCopsOnCampus</a>… <a href="https://t.co/QuxLe5LWH3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/QuxLe5LWH3</a>
— Jennifer S. Hirsch #BlackLivesMatter (@JenniferSHirsch) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferSHirsch/status/1782535593320202497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Thursday, April 18, 2024, will be remembered as a shameful day in Coloumbia’s history,” Brown began his speech. 

The professor called Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s decision to employ “riot police” at the university in light of the protests “unprecedented, unjustified, disproportionate, divisive, and dangerous.”
“The NYPD does not belong on this campus except for [inaudible]. That show of force was a sign of weakness.”
Toward the close of his speech, Brown addressed the importance of Columbia University and how that is being undermined by the university’s current leadership: 
“The United States has the greatest colleges and universities in the world and that’s why people come from around the world to study here, research here, and to teach here. That’s our inheritance, universities like this one and we would be fools not to defend it in every quarter from those who do not believe in the academic in the pursuit of academic excellence.”
He finished his speech with the following exclamation, calling for Shafik’s resignment:
 “She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university.”
Published - April 25, 2024

<a href="https://mesaas.columbia.edu/faculty-directory/joseph-massad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Massad</a> is a professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University.

According to his university profile, Massad “has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion.”

In response to October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, Massad wrote an article for <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/just-another-battle-or-palestinian-war-liberation/38661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Electronic Intifada</a> titled “Just another battle or the Palestinian war of liberation?”

Massad opens his article with the following question:
“What can motorized paragliders do in the face of one of the most formidable militaries in the world?”
He answers that question in the subsequent paragraph:
“Apparently much in the hands of an innovative Palestinian resistance, which early on Saturday morning <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/hamas-fighters-gaza-storm-israel-capture-and-kill-soldiers/38631" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched a surprise attack</a> on Israel by air, land and sea. Indeed as stunning videos show, these paragliders have become the air force of the Palestinian resistance.”
In a favorable tone toward Hamas, Massad addresses what he deems the “major achievement” of the “Palestinian resistance”:
“Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them.”
Regarding the “<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-flee-rocket-and-gunfire-at-all-night-desert-nature-party-dozens-missing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of Israelis</a> [who] were fleeing through the desert on foot to escape the rockets and gunfire” Massad exclaims,
“In the interest of safeguarding their lives and their children’s future, the colonists’ [Israelis’] flight from these settlements may prove to be a permanent exodus. They [Israelis] may have finally realized that living on land stolen from another people [Palestinians] will never make them safe.”
Massad said he found “awesome… the scenes witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the news, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking through Israel’s prison fence or gliding over it by air.”

The article was concluded with the following observation for the future of the war:
“But as the ongoing war between the Israeli colonial army and the indigenous Palestinian resistance has only just begun, the days to come will surely be crucial in determining if this is the start of the Palestinian War of Liberation or yet another battle in the interminable struggle between the colonizer and the colonized.”
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-columbia-professor-called-hamas-terror-attacks-awesome-and-astounding-in-an-article-a-petition-for-his-removal-has-passed-34000-signatures-/articleshow/104473320.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider India</a>, a Columbia student started “an <a href="https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-the-immediate-removal-of-joseph-massad-from-columbia-s-faculty?recruiter=1319212248&amp;utm_campaign=signature_receipt&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=share_petition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online petitio</a>n” to remove Massad from the Columbia faculty.
Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/katherine-m-franke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine M. Franke</a> is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University (CU). Her specialty areas are “Gender and Sexuality Law” and “Racial Justice.” Her areas of study include, “Family, Gender, and Sexuality,” “Social Justice and Human Rights,” and “Legal History.”

According to Franke’s profile, she is the Director of the <a href="https://gender-sexuality.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Gender &amp; Sexuality Law</a>. “She is also on the Executive Committees of Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and the <a href="https://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Palestine Studies</a>. She is among the nation’s leading scholars writing on law, sexuality, race, and religion drawing from feminist, queer, and critical race theory.”

The Center of Sexuality and Gender’s mission is “to formulate new approaches to complex issues facing gender and sexual justice movements.” The Center’s main page states:
“In Spring 2022, as part of Professor Katherine Franke’s Gender Justice class exam final, she invited students to offer newly-seated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson advice on how ‘to sow the seeds for a new approach to reproductive rights.’”
During Justice Brown’s interview, she <a href="https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamously said</a> she could not define what a woman is.

On social media, Franke has spoken disapprovingly of CU President Minouche Shafik while commending the student protests that erupted across CU’s campus.
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The lawsuit filed ag <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> this week claims that Columbia has maintained an environment hostile to Jewish students. Peaceful student protests are described as "pro-Hamas mobs" &amp; the evidence of my antisemitism includes that I am teaching a course on the history of Palestine. <a href="https://t.co/kTV4Y9HGNV">pic.twitter.com/kTV4Y9HGNV</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1761135125016756376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The President of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> lied in her Congressional testimony on Wednesday. Several times. One of those times relates to comments I have made about the safety of our students at Columbia. Consider this a correction and a demand for an apology. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/O7PZLQJKji">pic.twitter.com/O7PZLQJKji</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1781456229115580586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In case you don't know: <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> suspended students before a hearing or evidence of misconduct. The suspensions meant they had 24 hours to leave university housing, lost access to dining halls/food &amp; to health care - never mind that they couldn't finish their classes. <a href="https://t.co/IiHrTDm6wc">https://t.co/IiHrTDm6wc</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1777518467228328084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Franke was featured in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/nyregion/jospeh-massad-katherine-franke-mohamed-abdou-columbia-university.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times article</a> entitled “Who Are the Columbia Professors Mentioned in the House Hearing?” The author <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/where-shafik-columbia-university-president-keeps-low-profile-fights-keep-job-amid-campus-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explains</a> how Franke and two other faculty members responded to Columbia University President Nemat Minouche Shafik’s <a href="https://youtu.be/qLDpp2Ruxys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional testimony</a>. 

New York Times wrote, “[Franke] … was also mentioned in the hearing for her activist role and a comment that ‘all Israeli students who served in the I.D.F. [Israeli Defense Forces] are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus.’”

Franke told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/the-columbia-university-professors-ripped-for-allegedly-antisemitism-pro-palestine-indoctrination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>:
“I actually said, ‘[M]any Israeli students who come to Columbia’s campus are coming right out of their military service and have been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus.”
Franke has also encouraged the general public to sign an open letter “making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic.”
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Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share. <a href="https://t.co/IXMCs2PxhN">https://t.co/IXMCs2PxhN</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1718404916194996717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The open letter states, in part:
“As scholars who are committed to robust inquiry about the most challenging matters of our time, we feel compelled to respond to those who label our students anti-Semitic if they express empathy for the lives and dignity of Palestinians, and/or if they signed on to a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHe5p0in9g4h9xURoTx6NPn-v2rb-m7k6ZIm4YNGqOPRVsFQ/viewform">student-written statement</a> that situated the military action begun on October 7 within the larger context of the occupation of Palestine by Israel… 
“In our view, the student statement aims to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years.”
The letter goes on to state, “One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation.”

Please send tips, updates, and information on Katherine Franke to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://classics.columbia.edu/joseph-howley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Howley</a> is an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. His research interests include “Intellectual history,” “Media History and Studies,” and “Early modern printing of Classical texts.”

Following pro-Palestinian protests and riots that began at Columbia University on April 17, 2024, Howley was allegedly caught on film praising students for getting arrested.
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Professor Howley of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> was speaking to a student today near the Hamas camp on the West Lawn. Someone inadvertently captured him praising a student for getting arrested in this video.
Howley states: “Well that was fun…So you got arrested . . . good for you . . . this is… <a href="https://t.co/DnEIykCEZi">pic.twitter.com/DnEIykCEZi</a>

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1783304445809319990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Howley was also filmed amid a Columbia protest encampment. 
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As of publication, the NYPD has <a href="https://youtu.be/8UDmYsHtav0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> more than 100 people (some nonstudents) associated with the Columbia protests. 

In an <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/encampments-faculty-cheerleader-oversees-columbias-core-curriculum-in-humanities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Encampent’s Faculty Cheerleader Oversees Columbia’s Core Curriculum in Humanities,” The Washington Free Beacon said:
“Since the encampment went up over a week ago, Howley has emerged as one of its most prominent champions, giving interviews from inside its perimeter and dismissing the idea that the unsanctioned protest — which has included calls to murder Jewish students and threats that ‘Columbia will burn’ — poses a safety risk.”
At one point, Howley used a bullhorn to address a crowd on the street outside the campus.
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I spoke to the crowd of faculty, postdocs, students and staff outside our locked gates today about how we got here, what we’ve learned, and who we are. <a href="https://twitter.com/Fsjp_cbt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fsjp_cbt</a> <a href="https://t.co/Nm9YR5ea9R">pic.twitter.com/Nm9YR5ea9R</a>
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1785798005326574012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He also posted about his media tour encouraging the protests, which he called a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
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Fulfilled the dream of every terminally online left twitter user and recorded a podcast with <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeerJeet</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/thenation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thenation</a> to talk about the Solidarity Encampment protest movement at Columbia and beyond from a faculty perspective. <a href="https://t.co/RhGpBDX0XM">https://t.co/RhGpBDX0XM</a>
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1784592903706194308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with <a href="https://www.thenation.com/podcast/activism/ttom-042824-howley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Nation</a>, Howley discussed his thoughts about police being called as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-tells-biden-to-see-antisemitism-virus-at-columbia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campus visit</a>. 

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A social media post from Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus revealed Howley’s attempt to show the campus protests in a victimized light.
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Pro-Hamas Professor Joseph Howley of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> enjoys playing the victim. He goes so far as to claim that “From day 1 this has been about suppressing protests on behalf of Palestine.” Howley also suggests that he approves of pro-Hamas mob going to the President Shafik’s home to… <a href="https://t.co/l4ZrBKe6fV">pic.twitter.com/l4ZrBKe6fV</a>
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1787133678507745640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Professor Howley’s article titled, “A Year Under the Palestine Exception at Columbia University,” was published today by The Nation.
In the article, Howley claims that JVP and SJP were unfairly suspended and that there is no evidence that Jewish students were being harassed by… <a href="https://t.co/TVevF6gPgW">pic.twitter.com/TVevF6gPgW</a>

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1787906637992231202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Students are opposing an historic atrocity carried out with the express approval of the country's ruling class, and most of the faculty supporting them in various ways have an incredible amount to lose.
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1787122815218421931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Please send tips and updates on Professor Joseph Howley to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://english.columbia.edu/content/bruce-robbins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Robbins</a> is a Professor at Columbia University. His research interests include “Transnational Literature,” “Political Theory,” “Marxism,” and “Critical Social Theory.”

On <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceRobbins6?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, Robbins referred to <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/marklamonthill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marc Lamont Hill</a> as a “person of high principle.” Hill was <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/05/penn-rally-marc-lamont-hill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invited to speak</a> at a rally during a pro-Palestinian protest at Penn State.  In 2018, Hill was fired from CNN for anti-Israel remarks, including the statement “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
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A person of high principle. <a href="https://t.co/BaPjP7Pkua">https://t.co/BaPjP7Pkua</a>
— Bruce Robbins (@BruceRobbins6) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceRobbins6/status/1782716749651087700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On April 22, 2024, Robbins wrote an <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> entitled “At Columbia,” commenting on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s response during her <a href="https://youtu.be/qLDpp2Ruxys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional testimony.</a> Robbins wrote:
“When Minouche Shafik … testified before the House of Representatives on 17 April, she didn’t fall into the traps set a few months earlier for the presidents of Penn, MIT, and Harvard, two of whom are now gone … She presented herself as a relentless scourge of antisemitism. Her head will not fall – at least not as a result of congressional displeasure.
“There is some question, however, about her future at Columbia. First, because of her craven and embarrassing submission to the House [Representatives]. And second, because on the following day she brought the police in to demolish a student tent encampment protesting against the Israeli slaughter in Gaza.”
Robbins announced his publication on social media using the photo below.
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— Bruce Robbins (@BruceRobbins6) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceRobbins6/status/1782507906765627635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Robbins also joined a panel to debate opposing views to the campus protests <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/28/gps-0428-college-campus-protests-over-gaza.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted by CNN</a>. When asked what he thought went wrong at Columbia, he stated:

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In light of Robbin’s views, Jewish students reported feeling unsafe on Columbia’s campus and stated that they had to hide their ethnicity.

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Robbins was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-prof-excuses-hamas-terrorism-we-shouldnt-allow-distracted-oct-7-massacre/25286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after publicly stating that he “[believed] in the Palestinian cause in spite of the fact that an atrocity was committed in that cause.”
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Professor Bruce Robbins of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a>’s Department of English and Comparative Literature joined the jihadists illegally occupying the West Lawn.
In this video posted on the pro-Hamas faculty’s social media account, Professor Robbins says, “We shouldn’t allow ourselves to be… <a href="https://t.co/bULTTfhmjq">pic.twitter.com/bULTTfhmjq</a>

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1782793438653546657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring issues with Bruce Robbins and Columbia University. Please send tips and updates to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 8, 2024

<a href="https://arts.columbia.edu/directory/munir-atalla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Munir Atalla</a> is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Columbia University. According to his university profile, “Munir’s narrative work explores unique subcultures across continents and time with a journalistic eye for detail and nuance.”

<a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Munir_Atalla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Canary Mission</a> reported that Atalla “<a href="https://archive.ph/F3ArP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> Hamas terrorist war crimes at an anti-Israel rally in <a href="https://archive.ph/F3ArP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 2023</a>. Atalla <a href="https://archive.ph/asjWX">co-organized</a> the rally as a member of the <a href="https://archive.ph/Di4Wp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)</a> chapter in New York, New York (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nycpym/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PYM NYC</a>).”

According to <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/pro-israel-pro-palestine-demonstrations-erupt-in-new-york-after-hamas-attack-8608757.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News 18</a>, Atalla made the following exclamation a day after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel:
“What we saw yesterday was the people of Gaza breaking out of their open-air prison. It’s impossible to view the events of this week, without first understanding the context that the Israeli regime is founded on violence… it’s founded on the erasure and annihilation of Palestinians.”
At this time Atalla also stated, “We want to show the world that when Palestine rises up in resistance, the diaspora rises with it.”

According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/columbia-professors-slammed-over-grotesque-rally-that-publicly-backed-ivy-league-schools-anti-israel-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, Munir Atalla was a participant in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” that took over Columbia University’s campus in April 2024. Atalla “was seen speaking with students inside the encampment” on April 23. 

On April 22, Atalla, along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 

Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
Published - May 9, 2024

<a href="https://music.columbia.edu/bios/russell-orourke">Russell J. O’Rourke</a> is a Core Lecturer in Music Humanities at Columbia University. 

O’Rourke sent an email to his students after the New York Police Department was called to clear out the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” stating he was “appalled by the decisions of the administration” concerning the student protests. He also said he would accommodate students regarding the course and provide assistance to those students who have been evicted due to their actions while protesting (see image below). 

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On April 22, O’Rourke along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 

Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
Published - May 9, 2024

<a href="https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/susan-bernofsky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Bernofsky</a> is an Associate Professor of Writing and the Director of Literary Translation at the Columbia University School of Arts. 

Amid pro-Palestinian protest encampments and reports of antisemitic demonstrations on Coumbia’s campus, Bernofsky provided favorable commentary in <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gaza-encampment-college-faculty-walkout-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article entitled</a> “College Faculty Members Are Teaching a Lesson in Solidarity.” 

She was also among over 200 Columbia faculty who staged a walkout on April 22, 2024, to protest police presence on campus. Bernofsky reportedly said:
“To stand there and watch policemen grabbing students and picking them up and dragging them out of campus was traumatic. We did not consent to police being brought onto campus to arrest students, and the administration did it anyway. Faculty members at Columbia have a wide range of political opinions about a lot of things, but we’re pretty united that we do not want our students mass arrested.”
During the walkout, Bernofsky posed with a sign that said, “Unsuspend My Students.”
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Professor Susan Bernofsky of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a>’s School of the Arts, Writing Program, advertised her support for the pro-Hamas students who’ve been suspended by the university for violating multiple school policies after numerous warnings.

This same professor also penned an op-ed with… <a href="https://t.co/qMARQOn1wr">pic.twitter.com/qMARQOn1wr</a>
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1782943661103215048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She further admonished police response on campus.
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Has <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> hit rock-bottom now, or is there still further down we can go? President Shafik and CU's trustees have failed us abysmally. (Also, as per the mayor's press conference last night, the 'outside agitators' myth was just a myth.) Some of our students are still in jail. <a href="https://t.co/eji5KCNKhn">https://t.co/eji5KCNKhn</a>
— Susan Bernofsky (@translationista) <a href="https://twitter.com/translationista/status/1786023767665234172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She reposted a tweet from gender and sexuality professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/katherinefranke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Franke</a>, who opposed Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLDpp2Ruxys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional testimony</a>.
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— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1788319312320561156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bernofsky has a history of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/susanbernofsky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and participating in anti-Israel protests.

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Bernofsky also participated in an anti-fossil fuel rally.
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Please send tips and updates on Susan Bernofsky to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 13, 2024

<a href="https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/life/community/students-faculty/faculty/james-schamus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Schamus</a> is a Professor of Professional Practice Film and Media Studies at Columbia University. Schamus is a also a notable producer, screenwriter, and CEO of Focus Features. 

In light of the White House’s withdrawal of $400 million dollars of funding from Columbia University, Schamus wrote an article for <a href="https://lithub.com/a-columbia-professors-message-to-his-fellow-jewish-faculty-members/">Literary Hub</a> in which he addressed his fellow Jewish faculty. 

Schamus claimed President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are striking a “white nationalist hammer” on Columbia University: 

“So the white nationalist hammer is coming down on Columbia University, which is being made an example of, in order to scare all institutions of higher education into falling in line with the Musk/Trump plan to destroy any and all potential civil society nodes of resistance to the authoritarian regime they are putting in place.”

He claims that Columbia University is being targeted by the White House under the guise of being an antisemitic institution: 

“Don’t be fooled: the excuse they are using to destroy the institution—that Columbia is incorrigibly antisemitic—is, of course, the exact opposite of what is happening. They are coming after Columbia precisely because the University is, to the (not-) “populist” base in front of whom they perform their Hitler salutes and at whom they hose their antisemitic memes, an emblem precisely of Jewishness: it’s ‘globalist,’ ‘cosmopolitan,’ New York-based, ‘liberal,’ etc.”

He concluded his address by directing his attention Columbia’s Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, <a href="https://stockwelllab.fas.columbia.edu/people/brent-r-stockwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brent Stockwell</a>, who is also Jewish. Stockwell had claimed, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/nyregion/trump-columbia-antisemitism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, that divesting money from the university will affect Jewish university members. Regarding Stockwell’s comments, Schamus stated: 

“They’re coming for the ‘good’ Jews too; indeed, they have already come—they’ve come today, for you. So we’re all in this together now. And by ‘we’ I mean not only us Jews, but every right-thinking defender of the values this university is supposed to stand for. And we should, and can, regardless of our differences of opinion over Israel, join now in common cause to fight the evil engulfing our students and colleagues.”
Published - March , 2025

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<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nicholas-montemarano.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicholas Montemarano</a> is the Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres and a Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 
Montemarano was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”
Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 
Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”
The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”
The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 
They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Nicholas Montemarano to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/quincy-amoah.html">Quincy Amoah</a> is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology/Africana Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

According to his university profile, Amoah “is obsessed with cattle, Nilotic [i.e. pertaining to the Nile River] ‘apparently irrational beliefs,’ and the meaning of ‘good’ when one and their community are dedicated to brigandage.”

Amoah was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America's Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Quincy Amoah to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - March 28, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/stephanie-mcnulty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephanie McNulty</a> is the Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. McNulty’s university profile states she is a “Latin Americanist with expertise in participatory governance, gender, decentralization, and development.”

In March 2021, McNulty co-authored an <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/03/12/colleges-must-acknowledge-challenges-facing-female-academics-who-juggle-work-and#.YHTMhYqX9L4.link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on equity. The authors put forth the following goal to resolve what they deem to be the lessening of diversity and equity caused by COVID-19:
“For starters, every institution must acknowledge the problem and openly address what can appear invisible and ignored to those of us living in this reality. The academy risks emerging from this pandemic with less diversity and gender equity than before unless we change course. The first step is initiating a conversation and listening. Once people have a space to talk openly about their challenges, a lot of problem solving and solutions naturally emerge.”\
McNulty was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Stephanie McNulty to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 2, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/maria-elena-aldea-agudo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maria Elena Aldea Agudo</a> is a Senior Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Language Center at Franklin and Marshall College. 

Aldea Agudo’s university profile describes her academic interest in Spanish history and how it has varied through the years:
“Initially, her scholarship focused on analyzing the idealized representations of war and heroic subjects by Spanish Fascist (Falangist) propaganda in the 1940s.
“After the 2008 economic crisis, her research examined the cinematic and literary depiction of that economic crisis in Spain and how identities were negotiated in this harsh situation. 
“Currently, her work focuses on trauma informed pedagogy.”
Aldea Agudo was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Maria Elena Aldea Agudo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 3, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/erik-anderson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erik Anderson</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, Anderson “specializes in creative nonfiction, with an emphasis on the literary essay, science writing, and hybrid/experimental forms. His current writing projects address topics as various as whiteness, pop music, and kinesthesia.” 

Anderson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Erik Anderson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/christine-chalifoux.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine Chalifoux</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states, “Her research explores how people forge kinship bonds across ethnic lines in a city where stereotypes bear the weight of colonial and postcolonial histories. She is also interested in rethinking the notions of both caregiving and resistance, and all of her work grapples with the dialectical relationship between intimacy and resentment.”

Chalifoux was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Christine Chalifoux to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/zohra-ansari-thomas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zohra Ansari-Thomas</a> is an Assistant Professor of Public Health &amp; Sociology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Ansari-Thomas’s university profile states her “research uses survey data and quantitative methods to examine social and structural inequalities in population health.”

Ansari-Thomas was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Zohra Ansari-Thomas to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/jaime-blair.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaime Blair</a> is a Professor of Biology and the Program Chair of Women's, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Blair was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Jaime Blair to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/tim-bechtel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Bechtel</a> is the Director of F&amp;M Science Outreach &amp; Senior Teaching Professor of Geosciences at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Bechtel was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America's Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Tim Bechtel to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/susan-dicklitch-nelson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Dicklitch-Nelson</a> is a Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that her “research focuses on human rights, specifically Global LGBTI human rights, civil society and democracy.” 

According to the same profile, Dicklitch-Nelson is also “the founder and Principal Investigator (PI) of the <a href="https://www.fandmglobalbarometers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F&amp;M Global Barometers,</a>which include the F&amp;M Global Barometer of Gay RightsTM (F&amp;M GBGR) and the F&amp;M Global Barometer of Transgender RightsTM (F&amp;M GBTR). The F&amp;M Global Barometers are part of the LGBTI Global Human Rights Initiative.”  

Moreover, Dicklitch-Nelson “launched the <a href="https://www.lgbtqiperceptionindex.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQI Perception Index</a>: the first-ever global survey that seeks to shed light on the lived human rights realities of LGBTQI individuals in 204 countries. The LGBTQI Perception Index will complement the <a href="https://www.fandmglobalbarometers.org/summit-for-democracy-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQI Human Rights Report Cards</a> that were prepared for the <a href="https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House Summit for Democracy</a>.”

Dicklitch-Nelson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Susan Dicklitch-Nelson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/bridget-guarasci.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bridget Guarasci</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Guarasci “is an environmental anthropologist whose work examines how war and conflict create ecological life in the Arab majority world … Her scholarship analyzes how the material effects of emplacing water ecologies is a form of political violence.”

Guarasci was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
 Please send information on Bridget Guarasci to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/shari-goldberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shari Goldberg</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her areas of specialization include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Care and Care Practices”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Illness and Disability”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“History of Psychology, especially Hypnotism and Trauma”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Witnessing and Human Rights”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Literary Theory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Restivism: the advocacy of rest, through restorative means”</li>
</ul>
Goldberg was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Shari Goldberg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/abby-schrader.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby M. Schrader</a> is a Professor of History and the Department Chair of History at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that she specializes in Russian literature. Additionally, she writes: 
“At F&amp;M, my teaching reflects my interests in Russian/Soviet and 18th- and 19th-century European history. I incorporate issues related to culture (including literary and visual culture), gender and sexuality, politics broadly conceived, and social trends in all of my courses.”  
Schrader was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Abby M. Schrader to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/josh-rottman.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Rottman</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Scientific &amp; Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Rottman's research lies at the intersection of cognitive development and moral psychology. His work primarily focuses on children's acquisition of moral norms, the role of disgust in moral judgment, and cognitive precursors of environmentalist ethics.” 

Rottman was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Joshua Rottman to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nicholas-montemarano.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicholas Montemarano</a> is the Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres and a Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Montemarano was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Nicholas Montemarano to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/van-gosse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Van Gosse</a> is a Professor of History at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, Gosse states that his “teaching and scholarship have focused on the African American struggle for citizenship, and politics and culture in the Global Cold War.”

Gosse was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Van Gosse to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/peter-fields.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Fields</a> is the Dr. E. Paul &amp; Frances H. Reiff Professor of Biology at Franklin &amp; Marshall University. According to his university profile, Fields’ research focuses on “the biochemical origins of coral bleaching [and] molecular dynamics simulations to describe the effect of environmental stresses on protein function.”

Fields was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Peter Fields to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/barbara-nimershiem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara E. Nimershiem</a> is a Professor of Mathematics at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Nimershiem was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Barbara E. Nimershiem to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/clara-moore.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clara S. Moore</a> is a Professor of Biology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Moore researches “Mouse models for Down syndrome, [and the] effects of trisomy on cardiovascular, skeletal, hematopoietic, and other systems during development.”

Moore was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Clara S. Moore to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/jeremy-moss.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy Moss</a> is an Associate Professor of Film, the Film &amp; Media Program Director, and the Department Chair of Art, Art History &amp; Film at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Jeremy Moss is a filmmaker whose recent experimental works explore fluidity, betweenness, and transgression: unstable boundaries, wavering bodies, shifting landscapes, unsteady frames.”

Moss was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Jeremy Moss to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/leanne-roncolato.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leanne M. Roncolato</a> is an Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Roncolato has “previously worked at the International [sic] Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Her early publications include work on international trade, structural change, and informal employment. Recently, she has been doing research on the economics of gay and lesbian households, the gendered division of care labor, and the economic experience of NYC subway dancers.” 

Roncolato was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Leanne M. Roncolato to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nadra-hebouche.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadra Hebouche</a> is an Associate Professor of Francophone Studies and French and Department Chair of French,Francophone Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that she researches “Francophone postcolonial literature, migrant literature, diasporic identities, [and] ecocriticism.”

Hebouche was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Nadra Hebouche to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/hollie-tripp.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollie L. Tripp</a> is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Tripp researches the following topics:
“[Tripp] researches individual decision-making behavior and government actions to conduct evaluations of public health policies. For example, she evaluated the Affordable Care Act by using qualitative research to explore how individuals navigated the marketplaces and quantitative research of how state variation of those websites affected user experience. Presently, she is using Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform, to understand how individuals make risky decisions about uncertain health outcomes. This study is being used to better understand individual responses to cigarette warning labels and inform tobacco regulations.” 
Tripp was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Hollie L. Tripp to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/firuzeh-shokooh-valle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Firuzeh Shokooh Valle</a> is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Valle “is a feminist sociologist and journalist from Puerto Rico. Her research examines how global development policy and discourse frames the relationships between gender, technology, and science, and the ways in which feminist digital activists mobilize around these issues in Latin America and other regions of the global South. Her work is located within a southern political geography that is in contention with the legacy, and persistence, of colonialism.”

Valle was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Firuzeh Shokooh Valle to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 10, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/elspeth-wilson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elspeth M. Wilson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall University. According to her faculty profile, Wilson’s “scholarship focuses on U.S. citizenship, civil rights, constitutional interpretation, and American political development. She is particularly interested in the problem of civic inequality in the United States and its connection to immigration policy and reproductive law. Her current book project, based on her dissertation (“The Reproduction of Citizenship”), examines how laws and judicial decisions targeting the intimate lives of Americans have shaped hierarchies in U.S. citizenship—particularly involving gender, race, class, religion, and sexuality—throughout the twentieth century.”  

Wilson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Elspeth M. Wilson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 10, 2024

Nicholas Montemarano

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John Streamas

<a href="https://slcr.wsu.edu/faculty/john-streamas/">John Streamas</a> is the Director of American Studies and Culture Ph.D. Program and an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. According to his university profile, Streamas’ teaching interests include “the literatures and cultures of people of color, cultural theory, immigration, and writing.”
In 2015, Streamas made national news after he included the <a href="https://iexaminer.org/wsu-ethnic-studies-professor-deals-with-controversial-fallout-over-syllabus/">following statement</a> in the syllabus for his “Introduction to Multicultural Literature” class:
“Reflect your grasp of history and social relations by respecting shy and quiet classmates, and by deferring to the experiences of people of color.” 
In response to the ensuing media attention, university administrators asked Streamas and two other professors with similar statements to change their syllabi. After arguing with administrators, Streamas changed the document to say “deferring to each other’s experiences.”
Streamas says the way he was treated is an act of racial harassment because he — a person of color — was being censored: “These three white administrators, who know nothing about the politics of race and gender, which happens to be the very field in which we specialize, were committing the very injustices about which we teach.”
This was not Streamas’ first run-in with university administrators. In 2006, Streamas was the subject of a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/professors-threaten-bad-grades-saying-illegal-alien-male-female/6770">formal complaint</a> after he referred to a student as a “white shitbag.”
The student who filed the complaint was the President of the Washington State University College Republicans. The student club was holding a political demonstration featuring a 24-foot, chain-link, cyclone fence intended to represent the border fence that the U.S. Congress had approved.
The club said the purpose of the demonstration was to “call attention to important public policy issues and ‘get out the vote’ a week before a national election.” During the course of the demonstration, Streamas approached the student and said “you are just a white shitbag.” After the student told the professor he had no right to call him that, the professor apologized saying, “OK, I’m sorry I did that.”
According to the university’s <a href="https://volokh.com/files/ryder.pdf">final investigation report</a>, Streamas stated that he “intended it as a derogatory term” and that he strongly believed the demonstration to be “racist against people of color.” The university’s report includes the following voicemail message Streamas left in response to a request to meet about the comments:
“The fence was a racist attack upon us. And … I think that we need to talk about that. … Whatever I said to one person is not equal to whatever that fence did to hundreds of people, attacking us personally and communally. And that’s the issue — the fence, what people said is not nearly as important as how racist an attack that fence is. … know some Republicans who themselves think that the fence was a racist insult and are ashamed of the College Republicans…”
“This is a racist university. Many of our students say that WSU stands for White Supremacist University. … Many, many people have been hurt. I don’t care about the hurt feelings of one white person; I care about the hurt feelings of many, many people of color and immigrants who were offended by that fence … That is what I care about. The feelings of one little hurt white boy whose got all his white skinned privilege are nothing compared to the hundreds of people he offended with his racist fence.” 
The university’s investigation concluded that Streamas “engaged in immature, intellectually unsophisticated and thoughtless conduct unbecoming any WSU employee and a member of the WSU faculty, in particular.” However, they found his conduct did not subject the student to “discrimination or discriminatory harassment in violation of WSU’s Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy.”
The investigation did not include any punishment for Streamas; as of publication, he is still employed by Washington State University.
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Updated &#8211; August 2024

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Washington State University

<a href="https://slcr.wsu.edu/faculty/john-streamas/">John Streamas</a> is the Director of American Studies and Culture Ph.D. Program and an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. According to his university profile, Streamas’ teaching interests include “the literatures and cultures of people of color, cultural theory, immigration, and writing.”

In 2015, Streamas made national news after he included the <a href="https://iexaminer.org/wsu-ethnic-studies-professor-deals-with-controversial-fallout-over-syllabus/">following statement</a> in the syllabus for his “Introduction to Multicultural Literature” class:
“Reflect your grasp of history and social relations by respecting shy and quiet classmates, and by deferring to the experiences of people of color.” 
In response to the ensuing media attention, university administrators asked Streamas and two other professors with similar statements to change their syllabi. After arguing with administrators, Streamas changed the document to say “deferring to each other’s experiences.”

Streamas says the way he was treated is an act of racial harassment because he — a person of color — was being censored: “These three white administrators, who know nothing about the politics of race and gender, which happens to be the very field in which we specialize, were committing the very injustices about which we teach.”

This was not Streamas’ first run-in with university administrators. In 2006, Streamas was the subject of a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/professors-threaten-bad-grades-saying-illegal-alien-male-female/6770">formal complaint</a> after he referred to a student as a “white shitbag.”

The student who filed the complaint was the President of the Washington State University College Republicans. The student club was holding a political demonstration featuring a 24-foot, chain-link, cyclone fence intended to represent the border fence that the U.S. Congress had approved.

The club said the purpose of the demonstration was to “call attention to important public policy issues and ‘get out the vote’ a week before a national election.” During the course of the demonstration, Streamas approached the student and said “you are just a white shitbag.” After the student told the professor he had no right to call him that, the professor apologized saying, “OK, I’m sorry I did that.”

According to the university’s <a href="https://volokh.com/files/ryder.pdf">final investigation report</a>, Streamas stated that he “intended it as a derogatory term” and that he strongly believed the demonstration to be “racist against people of color.” The university’s report includes the following voicemail message Streamas left in response to a request to meet about the comments:
“The fence was a racist attack upon us. And … I think that we need to talk about that. … Whatever I said to one person is not equal to whatever that fence did to hundreds of people, attacking us personally and communally. And that’s the issue — the fence, what people said is not nearly as important as how racist an attack that fence is. … know some Republicans who themselves think that the fence was a racist insult and are ashamed of the College Republicans…”
“This is a racist university. Many of our students say that WSU stands for White Supremacist University. … Many, many people have been hurt. I don’t care about the hurt feelings of one white person; I care about the hurt feelings of many, many people of color and immigrants who were offended by that fence … That is what I care about. The feelings of one little hurt white boy whose got all his white skinned privilege are nothing compared to the hundreds of people he offended with his racist fence.” 
The university’s investigation concluded that Streamas “engaged in immature, intellectually unsophisticated and thoughtless conduct unbecoming any WSU employee and a member of the WSU faculty, in particular.” However, they found his conduct did not subject the student to “discrimination or discriminatory harassment in violation of WSU’s Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy.”

The investigation did not include any punishment for Streamas; as of publication, he is still employed by Washington State University.

&nbsp;
Updated - August 2024

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, fowler is no longer listed as a professor at Washington State University."
Dr. Rebecca Fowler is a professor at Washington State University. In her “Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” class, Fowler takes one grade point away when a student uses the phrase “illegal alien” or “illegals.” The goal is that students will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist Team, Breikss no longer appears as a faculty member at Washington State University.*
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Dr. Selena Lester Breikss is an Associate Professor at Washington State University. In her “Women and Popular Culture” class, Breikss threatened to give students a failing grade for using verbiage she considers, “oppressive and hateful language.” The punishment includes, “but [is] not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and— in extreme cases— failure for the semester.”

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Subini Annamma

<a href="https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/subini">Dr. Subini Ancy Annamma</a> is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University. Following the controversial killing of an unarmed black woman by police officers in Seattle, Annamma tweeted that, &#8220;The systemic violence that killed Charleena Lyles is the very foundation of the country.&#8221; She then went even further by saying, &#8220;There is no time to return to make America great again, unless you are deeply invested in white supremacy &amp; killing of black &amp; brown people&#8230;to secure your own white property through racism, ableism, [and] cis-heteropatriarchy.&#8221; Her faculty bio says that her research focuses on &#8220;increasing access to equitable education for historically marginalized students and communities, particularly students of color with disabilities.&#8221;

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Stanford

Professor <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-palumbo-liu?tab=bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David P<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-palumbo-liu?tab=bio">a</a>lumbo-Liu</a> is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford University. He is ferociously anti-Israel and is actively involved with ANTIFA on campus.

As co-founder of the <a href="https://campusantifascistnetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Antifascist Network</a>, Palumbo-Liu describes the purpose of the network as to "help support, educate and defend faculty, students and staff, and share information on fascist organizing in the U.S., planned fascist activities, and organized antifascist responses."

In an article for the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whats-behind-the-explosio_b_8298362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huffington Post</a>, he repeated the antisemitic trope that Israel is preparing to demolish Al-Aqsa Mossque and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Palestians.

A vocal proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Liu has <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2015/01/modern-language-assoc-postpones-anti-israel-boycott-vote-until-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocated</a> for its passage both at Stanford and at the MLA (Modern Language Association).

Dr. Hakeem Jefferson is an <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/hakeem-jefferson?tab=bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assistant professor of Political Science</a> at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate with Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race &amp; Ethnicity. He focuses a majority of his research specifically on understanding the political views of Black Americans. Dr. Jefferson also often writes and speaks on white Americans and the threat that conservatives present to the United States.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1554 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-4-3-e1631052904912-1024x474.png" alt="" width="580" height="268" />

On January 8, 2021, Dr. Jefferson <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/storming-the-u-s-capitol-was-about-maintaining-white-power-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article for FiveThirtyEight</a> accusing white Americans and conservatives of leading the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, stating that it was because of their inability to accept the election results. He argues that it is not just coincidental that the people who stormed the Capitol were white and many conservatives are white. He further criticizes conservatives by stating that the storming of the Capitol symbolized white Americans’ violent belief that they should have an “unlimited hold” on power in the United States. According to Dr. Jefferson, actions like the storming of the Capitol are “to be expected” from white people whose power or identity is threatened by diversity.

The storming of the U.S. Capitol took place on January 6, 2021. Opposing the certification of election results, things turned tempestuous when some of the protestors decided to break into the Capitol. It has been <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined that these events were not planned</a> in advance or coordinated.

Dr. Jefferson <a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1323987468757073921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently takes to Twitter</a> to discuss his political views. This was no different for the 2020 elections. In the tweet below, Dr. Jefferson points at conservatives for fear-mongering during the 2020 presidential election.

https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1323479574114574336

Dr. Jefferson repeatedly discusses the threat of white conservatives to America. He maintains that conservatives are a “dangerous mob of grievous white people” who are worried that their power is being threatened by minorities and diversity in politics. Not only does he take this stance on social media, but he teaches these ideas in his classroom as well. Below is a clip from one of his lectures at Stanford:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7_ebQSwgnw

In a publication titled, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rh33nhu5m55e01k/Curious%20Case%20of%20Black%20Conservatives_Short.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Curious Case of Black Conservatives”</a>, Dr. Jefferson details why he believes some black Americans identify as conservative. In his research, he claims that black Americans only identify as conservative because they don’t understand the meaning of the words “liberal” or “conservative.” In turn, black Americans who self-identify as “conservative” are wrong and are actually liberal. He states that black Americans’ results from the 7-point liberal-conservative scale cannot be trusted because they are not cognizant of the true meanings of the words.

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https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/756279338878853125

The <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/fall01/gov317/nes48_98/node335.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7-point liberal-conservative scale</a> asks, on a scale of 1 (extremely liberal) to 7 (extremely conservative), where people believe they fall. This scale is just one of a multitude of different ways a person’s political ideology can be determined or measured.

In the two years since graduating from the University of Michigan with his Ph.D. in Political Science, Dr. Jefferson has made many assertions about not only white, conservative Americans, but also black Americans. His research, teachings, and social media all indicate that he believes white conservatives are a “<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/storming-the-u-s-capitol-was-about-maintaining-white-power-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous mob of grievous white people</a>,”  while black Americans don’t have the capacity or understanding to know the difference between being liberal and being conservative.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jefferson for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/maxe-crandall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxe Crandall</a> is the “Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University,” according to her university profile. 

The <a href="https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&amp;filter-coursestatus-Active=on&amp;q=COLLEGE%20103:%20Globally%20Queer&amp;academicYear=20222023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for Crandall’s course, “Globally Queer,”</a> states: 
“After all, are LGBTQ+ identities and rights one size-fits-all? Do they become a way for Western nations to once again set the standards by which others are judged developmentally deficient? In certain societies reference to a 'traditional' national way of thinking about gender and sexuality is simply a fig leaf for homophobia and transphobia.”
Crandall considers herself a poet and playwright. She has published nine print works and several articles. Among her works is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Reagan-Collection-Maxe-Crandall/dp/1733038418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Nancy Reagan Collection”</a> (1920), which, according to the description on Amazon, “is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS [during the Reagan era, the greatest era in American history]. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics and aesthetics of mourning.” 

The description further states, “Alternating chapters offer up a narrative throughline composed of hallucinogenic episodes from the perspective of a nameless, grieving protagonist in the midst of the global carnage of the Reagan dynasty. Part revenge, part fantasy, the book experiments with poetic practices that challenge conceptions of memory and morality, activism and escapism, grief and beauty.” On one page in “The Nancy Reagan Collection,” Crandall talks about Reagan’s “groping styles,” and a particular style of blouse she wears (see image below):

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In line with the content of her book, on Twitter Crandall tweeted that, during the AIDS Epidemic, First Lady Nancy Reagan abandoned the gay community which had been most afflicted by the disease. She tweeted the following (which has since been deleted upon the publication of this profile on November 2, 2022):
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"My book opens w/ a revenge poem called “Red Ribbon,” a dressing down of Nancy in this exact portrait. To me, this portrait is a creepy foreshadowing, a harbinger of mass death—her standing alone in her own shadow having abandoned us all <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/forevertraitor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#forevertraitor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#AIDS</a>"
In a poem called “Hands on Deck”, Crandall says the following:
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“I bend hard sex toward you
as if
starring
in a beach commercial
for my paradise of leaning”
Published -- November 2, 2022

<a href="https://markaz.stanford.edu/people/yusuf-zahurullah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yusuf Zahurullah</a> is an Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow and fourth-year student at Stanford University. 

According to Zahurullah’s university profile, “last year, he served as the inaugural Abbasi-Markaz Fellow. This year, he will serve as the Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow, a role in which he will work with Markaz staff to create a syllabus for and teach a 1-2 unit seminar through the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity titled ‘Interrogating Islamophobia.’”

Zahurullah told <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/27/csre-30-stanfords-first-ever-course-on-addressing-islamophobia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a> that, “There are certain political groups on campus, namely Stanford College Republicans, who in years past have brought in very Islamophobic speakers.”

He also told The Stanford Daily, “We’re trying to understand what are all the different ways in which you can think about Islamophobia and how Islamophobia actually manifests, whether it’s explicit, like hate crimes and verbal abuse, or more systemic things like the Muslim ban that Trump tried to pass.” 

Regarding the course’s influence on student, Zaharullah “hopes the class sparks dialogue on the history of Islamophobic incidents on Stanford campus.”
Published - December 30, 2022

<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/ameer-loggins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ameer Hasan Loggins</a> is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. He also appears to be <a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/ameer-hasan-loggins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employed</a> by the University of California - Berkeley in the African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies Department. 

According to <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2023/10/18/stanford-suspended-a-lecturer-for-identity-based-targeting-heres-what-students-say-happened/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a>, Loggins has been reported and investigated for “identity-based targeting of students, according to an Oct. 11 University statement.” 

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/stanford-teacher-suspended-for-singling-out-jewish-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports the following about Loggins’ actions in class in light of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in October 2023: 
“The lecturer… reportedly justified the slaughter of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas terrorists over the weekend, saying it was part of Palestinians’ resistance.”
“The teacher then asked Jewish students to raise their hands, separated them from their belongings and ordered them to stand in a corner, saying that is what Jews were doing to Palestinians, according to Nourya Cohen, one of the Israeli association presidents.”  
Loggins also asked his class, “how many Jews died in the Holocaust?” After a student responded “6 million,” Loggins replied, “Yes. Only 6 million.”

The university addressed Loggins’ status, in “<a href="https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/10/11/update-stanford-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Update for the Stanford Community</a>,”:
“We have received a report of a class in which a non-faculty instructor is reported to have addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds and identities. Without prejudging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students. The instructor in this course is not currently teaching while the university works to ascertain the facts of the situation.”
Published - October 23, 2023

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<a href="https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/subini">Dr. Subini Ancy Annamma</a> is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University. Following the controversial killing of an unarmed black woman by police officers in Seattle, Annamma tweeted that, "The systemic violence that killed Charleena Lyles is the very foundation of the country." She then went even further by saying, "There is no time to return to make America great again, unless you are deeply invested in white supremacy &amp; killing of black &amp; brown people...to secure your own white property through racism, ableism, [and] cis-heteropatriarchy." Her faculty bio says that her research focuses on "increasing access to equitable education for historically marginalized students and communities, particularly students of color with disabilities."

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<a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/experts/expert-detail.html?expert=jerusha.conner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerusha Conner</a> is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Counseling at Villanova University. According to her <a href="http://jerushaconner.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a>, her research focuses on “student engagement, student voice, youth activism, youth civic engagement, and youth organizing.”
Conner is a proponent of teaching critical race theory—”an academic framework that holds that racism is embedded in society”—to students in public schools. She wrote an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/critical-race-theory-sparks-activism-in-students-162649" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> titled, “Critical race theory sparks activism in students.” She argues that, when taught well, “the analytical tools of critical race theory can support valuable long-term education, professional, civil and political outcomes.”
Conner argues one of the benefits of teaching critical race theory to students is that it “ignites passion,” saying:
“In my research, I have observed that when youth organizers learn how power and privilege are reproduced from one generation to the next through racialized policies like redlining or discrimination in housing, funding school districts on the basis of property taxes, which favors wealthier school districts, and tracking students into different academic levels, they often become inspired to take action to redress unfair conditions.” 
She also discusses one youth organizing group where students teach each other about “the spiral of oppression.”
“This framework helps young people understand how societal oppression of groups of people, such as racial minorities, spirals as individuals from those groups internalize oppression and begin to act on the negative stereotypes they have internalized. These actions, in turn, lead to further oppression, such as greater police surveillance, supervision and state violence as the spiral continues.” 
Conner concludes by arguing:
“When politicians advance legislation to block the use of critical race theory in schools, they may actually be blocking an important means of fostering outcomes that would make America’s democracy even more robust and vibrant than it would otherwise be.”
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Dr. Elizabeth Kolsky is an <a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/asian/meetourfaculty.html?mail=elizabeth.kolsky@villanova.edu&amp;xsl=bio_long" target="_blank" rel="noopener">associate professor of History</a> and Director of Asian Studies at Villanova University. Her areas of interest include South Asian history, British Empire history, history of human rights, and gender studies. Dr. Kolsky has penned many publications on these subjects for various outlets ranging from The Washington Post to The Journal of Asian Studies.  She frequently writes about white supremacy in the United States, her disdain for conservatives, and underlying racism in U.S. institutions.

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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/03/autopsies-can-uphold-white-supremacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a perspective’s piece</a> published by The Washington Post, Dr. Kolsky accuses autopsies, an objective, postmortem examination to determine a person’s cause of death, of upholding white supremacy. According to Dr. Kolsky, modern medical tools, like autopsy reports, have historically legitimized racist structures of white supremacy. She discusses colonial India, citing that whiteness “functioned as a license to kill and law and medicine provided alibis.” She believes that autopsies should be viewed while keeping in mind that white supremacy built the foundations of law and violence.

https://twitter.com/ElizabethKolsky/status/1279000522704420864

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Another symbol of “white supremacy,” as claimed by Dr. Kolsky, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/03/it-is-time-reconsider-global-legacy-july-4-1776/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is the Fourth of July</a>. In her opinion, the United States was founded on the backs of slaves, and white supremacy of the United States and Britain intertwined after the U.S. gained independence. Dr. Kolsky maintains that, “British and American empires mutually reinforced the idea that black and indigenous lives don’t matter.” She goes on to cite the recent death of George Floyd as an example of America’s racist foundation still being present today.

Dr. Kolsky often takes to Twitter to discuss her work as well as share her political opinions. She regularly posts about her disdain for conservatives and Republicans. Below are some examples:

https://twitter.com/ElizabethKolsky/status/1336082018099191808

https://twitter.com/ElizabethKolsky/status/1280212510361206787

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Dr. Kolsky also perpetuates anti-police rhetoric on Twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizabethKolsky/status/1268792045860257792" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a tweet from June 4, 2020</a>, Dr. Kolsky writes, “They [police] use overwhelming and excessive force against the few to terrorize the many. Their goal is to teach people a lesson of obedience using the language of violence. This has been white supremacy’s strategy for centuries.”  <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizabethKolsky/status/1269420138207510528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In another tweet</a>, she alleges that, “structural racism isn't personal. Do you think only "bad people" can be racist? Do you think only "bad cops" brutally assault people? To borrow the language of a fellow historian, many of these are "ordinary people."

Dr. Kolsky appears to believe that not only is America racist at its core, but the institutions within the country are as well. She promotes dangerous ideals that white people use science and medicine to get away with murder and police officers are abusive, both at the structural and independent levels.

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<a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/experts/expert-detail.html?expert=jerusha.conner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerusha Conner</a> is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Counseling at Villanova University. According to her <a href="http://jerushaconner.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a>, her research focuses on “student engagement, student voice, youth activism, youth civic engagement, and youth organizing.”

Conner is a proponent of teaching critical race theory—”an academic framework that holds that racism is embedded in society”—to students in public schools. She wrote an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/critical-race-theory-sparks-activism-in-students-162649" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> titled, “Critical race theory sparks activism in students.” She argues that, when taught well, “the analytical tools of critical race theory can support valuable long-term education, professional, civil and political outcomes.”

Conner argues one of the benefits of teaching critical race theory to students is that it “ignites passion,” saying:
“In my research, I have observed that when youth organizers learn how power and privilege are reproduced from one generation to the next through racialized policies like redlining or discrimination in housing, funding school districts on the basis of property taxes, which favors wealthier school districts, and tracking students into different academic levels, they often become inspired to take action to redress unfair conditions.” 
She also discusses one youth organizing group where students teach each other about “the spiral of oppression.”
“This framework helps young people understand how societal oppression of groups of people, such as racial minorities, spirals as individuals from those groups internalize oppression and begin to act on the negative stereotypes they have internalized. These actions, in turn, lead to further oppression, such as greater police surveillance, supervision and state violence as the spiral continues.” 
Conner concludes by arguing:
“When politicians advance legislation to block the use of critical race theory in schools, they may actually be blocking an important means of fostering outcomes that would make America’s democracy even more robust and vibrant than it would otherwise be.”
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Published - July 19, 2023

<a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/political-science/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=deborah.seligsohn@villanova.edu&amp;xsl=bio_long" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deborah Seligsohn</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Villanova University. According to Seligsohn’s <a href="https://www.debseligsohn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, her career includes serving in the US State Department and the climate activist organization <a href="https://www.wri.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Resources Institute</a>. 

Seligsohn also <a href="https://www.chinafile.com/contributors/deborah-seligsohn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributes</a> to China File, an online commentary dedicated to COVID-19 and climate change efforts. One of Seligsohn’s <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecpo.12207?casa_token=j-KxN-HCxz8AAAAA%3Auyk62fV17ywXSf9FsOx-FrfDpSJfN-a3tvZC4z9eMFPm0ZL5lNFmhEQ_1ppvwE7O79M-wBbVWnuKfyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peer-reviewed papers</a>—“The Partisan Divide in U.S.-China Congressional Communications after the China Shock” — reveals her disdain for conservative lawmakers’ foreign relationships. 

In the Abstract, Seligsohn and her co-author stated:

“In this paper…[w]e propose a theory of China-bashing to explain how members of Congress frame the negative impacts of trade to their voters. Using press release data from members of Congress, we show that, even though Chinese import competition impacted both Republican- and Democrat-held districts, Republican politicians in adversely affected districts responded by increasing their anti-China rhetoric, while there is no similar difference among Democrats.”

As an outspoken advocate for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Seligsohn defended <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/25/1145472905/china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the regime’s handling</a> of the COVID-19 crisis despite two things— (1) lifting travel restrictions during peak infection times and (2) failing to accurately report infection spikes and rising death tolls. 

During a <a href="https://macrohive.com/hive-podcasts/ep-149-deborah-seligsohn-on-what-everyone-gets-wrong-on-chinas-covid-and-climate-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast interview</a> titled “Ep. 149: Deborah Seligsohn on What Everyone Gets Wrong on China’s COVID and Climate Policies,” she commented on Chinese citizens' responses to national mask mandates. She observed:

“By the time I was [in Beijing] in November…people were already really modifying their behavior. What they weren’t really modifying was mask use. Certainly, by the time I got there, the mask use was entirely for show. People would put them on to walk through a gate with a guard and then take it off again.” 

In 2021, The National Pulse <a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/archive-post/lab-leak-denier-is-ccp-advisor-and-fellow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed</a> Seligsohn as an advisor to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The source said she “addressed the Central Party School of the [CCP]” in 2011, spoke at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, and served as a research fellow at Nanjing University. The source also links to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cT5XZ06VX1nkv100fgJtQoBoJarbAK13/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seligsohn’s editorial</a> “Demands for a Lab Leak Investigation Are a Dangerous Distraction.”

During international calls for vaccine mandates, Seligsohn wrote:

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In June 2024, Seligsohn <a href="https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/events/decoding-chinas-climate-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated</a> in an event called “Decoding China’s Climate Agenda” where she spoke on topics such as “how climate is prioritized in China’s bureaucracy” and China’s role in “international climate diplomacy.”

Send tips and updates on Deborah Seligsohn to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Dr. Leana Wen is a <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/leana-wen-md-msc_faaem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research Professor of Health Policy and Management</a> at George Washington University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Wen is an emergency department medical doctor and a CNN Medical Analyst. She is also an op-ed columnist for a few different publications, and previously she was the President of Planned Parenthood &#8211; a tenure that lasted only eight months.
Over the last year and a half, the focus of Dr. Wen’s research and interest has been on COVID-19. She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/01/how-can-u-s-solve-problem-of-vaccine-hesitancy.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often speaks on the subject for CNN</a> and other news outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. In a video clip recently released by CNN, Dr. Wen compared unvaccinated Americans to drunk drivers. You can watch the clip below:
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Remaining unvaccinated &amp; going out in public is equivalent to driving under the influence. You want to be intoxicated? That’s your choice, but if you want to drive a car, that endangers others. No one should have the “choice” to infect others with a potentially deadly disease. <a href="https://t.co/a4itLS2upX">pic.twitter.com/a4itLS2upX</a>
&mdash; Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1436361021749334018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/bidens-six-step-covid-strategy-does-not-go-far-enough-compel-vaccinations/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article published by the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Wen alleges that President Biden’s six-pronged strategy for COVID vaccination doesn’t go far enough. In her opinion, he is not doing enough to compel the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, and he needs to do even more. She argues that “the administration can and must go much further.”
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One of her many complaints is that President Biden has not mandated vaccinations for plane and train travel. Dr. Wen believes the government should use its power to implement this mandate in order to “make it clear that there are consequences to remaining unvaccinated.” Dr. Wen alleges that travel is a privilege, not a right.
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Dr. Wen is a huge proponent of vaccine passports. She notes that Israel and the European Union have vaccine verification methods, and the United States should as well.
Dr. Wen also thinks that all children over 12 years old should be required to be vaccinated, and the COVID vaccine should be added to the other immunization requirements for children. Dr. Wen explains how she would convince parents to vaccinate their children <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9W7IJdig7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this video</a>.

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Dr. Leana Wen is a <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/leana-wen-md-msc_faaem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research Professor of Health Policy and Management</a> at George Washington University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Wen is an emergency department medical doctor and a CNN Medical Analyst. She is also an op-ed columnist for a few different publications, and previously she was the President of Planned Parenthood - a tenure that lasted only eight months.

Over the last year and a half, the focus of Dr. Wen’s research and interest has been on COVID-19. She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/01/how-can-u-s-solve-problem-of-vaccine-hesitancy.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often speaks on the subject for CNN</a> and other news outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. In a video clip recently released by CNN, Dr. Wen compared unvaccinated Americans to drunk drivers. You can watch the clip below:

https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1436361021749334018

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In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/bidens-six-step-covid-strategy-does-not-go-far-enough-compel-vaccinations/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article published by the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Wen alleges that President Biden’s six-pronged strategy for COVID vaccination doesn’t go far enough. In her opinion, he is not doing enough to compel the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, and he needs to do even more. She argues that “the administration can and must go much further.”

<img class="size-full wp-image-1678 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-19-at-8.45.17-AM.png" alt="" width="459" height="142" />

One of her many complaints is that President Biden has not mandated vaccinations for plane and train travel. Dr. Wen believes the government should use its power to implement this mandate in order to “make it clear that there are consequences to remaining unvaccinated.” Dr. Wen alleges that travel is a privilege, not a right.

<img class="size-full wp-image-1679 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-19-at-8.46.12-AM.png" alt="" width="470" height="176" />

Dr. Wen is a huge proponent of vaccine passports. She notes that Israel and the European Union have vaccine verification methods, and the United States should as well.

Dr. Wen also thinks that all children over 12 years old should be required to be vaccinated, and the COVID vaccine should be added to the other immunization requirements for children. Dr. Wen explains how she would convince parents to vaccinate their children <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9W7IJdig7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this video</a>.

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<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/center/caaas/nathan-alexander-moore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Alexander Moore</a> is an Assistant Professor of Black Trans and Queer Studies in the Department of Women &amp; Gender Studies at CU Boulder. A biological male, Moore identifies as a female and uses “she/they” pronouns when referring to himself. 
According to his university profile, Moore is an “interdisciplinary scholar who is interested in critical and creative methods to explore the nuances of Blackness, queerness, and temporality. [His] research and writing interests include Black transfemininity, Black speculative arts practices, Black temporalities, and Black visual art and literature.” He also describes himself as a “Black transfemme writer, scholar, and educator.”
In April, Moore published a fictional book titled “<a href="https://www.hajarpress.com/books/the-rupture-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Rupture Files</a>,” which centers around black queer characters. The book’s publisher, Hajar Press, describes it as follows: 
“Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. […]At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but human decisions. Traversing apocalypses both big and small, these captivating tales vibrate with the tensions between loss and growth; self and community; precarity and possibility.”
In 2023, Moore co-wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/118016610/A_Tranifesto_for_the_Dolls_Toward_a_Trans_Femme_of_Color_Theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory.” The article is a dialogue between “trans women and femme scholars of color” who discuss “what a trans femme of color theory might look like.” These academics ponder a theory “that positions trans femmes of color not only as objects of study but also as producers of knowledge and subjects central to the ﬁeld of trans studies.”
During Moore’s portion of dialogue, the professor criticizes “black normative gender performance” and argues that masculinity is allegedly the mode by which blacks have thought through their emancipation during history. 
“Black normative gender performance is one way that Black beings have attempted to lessen the violence that began with the transatlantic slave trade. What I ﬁnd most interesting is that gender, and more particularly maleness or masculinity, have been the key to thinking through one’s emancipation.”
Addressing masculinity further, Moore states: 
“If maleness and masculinity have meant one vector through which attempts at freedom have been actualized, then perhaps it is productive that we think about how femaleness, femininity, and speciﬁcally Black transfemininity is a space that ruptures these attempts, that unsettles the linear progression from enslaved fungible ﬂesh to Black normatively gendered citizen.”
For Moore, “Black transfemininity” — alluded to towards the end of the above paragraph — is the way to “rupture” black gender normativity (for instance, the supposed masculine image that represents the fight for freedom, according to Moore).
“Black transfemininity both moves with the weight of history, while at the same time pointing us toward those uncharted territories for more livable futures. In this way, Black transfemmes might be conceived as walking ruptures of temporality and the supposedly stable geographies of normative gender. I want to propose Black transfemininity as a space of rupturing, an opening up and a pulling apart of the social fabric, a rending of our discursive lexicons, and the productive unsettling of our imaginaries.”
Please send information on Nathan Alexander Moore to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published &#8211; July 9, 2024

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Dr. <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jennifer-ho">Jennifer Ho</a> is a Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Center for Humanities &amp; the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder. According to her university <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jennifer-ho">biography</a>, Professor Ho’s research interests include cultural studies, intersectionality, critical race studies, anti-racist theory, and critical mixed race studies.

Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory, is an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy. Furthermore, proponents of Critical Race Theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.” Some Critical Race Theorists, such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, also <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/">claim</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

In an <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">article</a> for The Conversation, titled, “White Supremacy is the Root of all race-related violence in the US,” Professor Ho alleges that all hate crimes committed in the United States are the result of white supremacy. The article is her response to the March 16th, 2021 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-shooting-georgia-massage-parlor-suspect-loose-n1261262">mass shooting</a> of massage parlors in Atlanta, George, that killed eight people, six of them being Asian-Americans.

Professor Ho attributes not just the March 2021 Atlanta shootings to white supremacy, but she actually attributes all hate crimes to white supremacy, regardless of whether or not they were committed by a white person. In the same <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">article</a>, Professor Ho lists a series of anti-Asian hate crimes perpetrated by black men before stating that white supremacy is the cause for all of them.

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Professor Ho further <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">describes</a> white supremacy as an ideology “ingrained” into American institutions and the driving force behind the dehumanizing of Asian-Americans as well Black Americans.

The University of Colorado-Boulder features Professor Ho’s work on the College of Arts and Science’s website, in a <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/04/08/anti-asian-racism-and-covid-19">web page</a> titled, “Anti-Asian Racism and Covid-19”. In addition to claiming that “millions” of unarmed black men have been killed by police, Professor Ho also alleges that it is also racist to state that COVID-19 originated in China.

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Professor Ho also co-<a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1#instructors">teaches</a> a class on anti-racism, titled, “Anti-Racism l”. According to the description of the course, participants will learn the following from Professor Ho:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How to critically discuss “Whiteness.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Recognize that all white people possess white privilege.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How the history of racism in the United States has created racial hierarchies that still exist.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The true foundations of the United States are that of “settler colonialism."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How white supremacy benefits white people.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Why the phrases, “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” are racist.</li>
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For more information on Critical Race Theory, readers may view TPUSA Founder and CEO Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36js0wIiulM&amp;ab_channel=CharlieKirkCharlieKirkVerified">explanation</a> of the field below.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Professor Ho for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/">University of Colorado-Boulder</a> at 303-492-7294.
Updated - May 2021

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/reiland-rabaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Reiland Rabaka</a> is a Professor of Africana Studies as well as Critical Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Ethnic Studies</a> at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado at Boulder</a>. He also serves as <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/humanities/reiland-rabaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Humanities</a> in the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/artsandsciences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a>.

Dr. Rabaka identifies publicly as a “democratic socialist” and a scholar of fields such as “black radical politics,” decolonial theory, and critical race theory. His lectures depict the United States as an inherently white-supremacist nation and herald the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a necessary counter to systematic racism.

In a video sponsored by the university, Dr. Rabaka describes American society as having <a href="https://www.coursera.org/lecture/antiracism-2/dr-reiland-rabaka-interventions-in-racist-terminologies-qp12a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culminated in the “social, economic, spiritual, and cultural” death of black people</a>. He attributes this to our nation's alleged addiction to “black death.”

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He repeated this accusation during a lecture for Florida Gulf Coast University’s <a href="https://www.fgcu.edu/ccres/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies</a>. During the event—hosted by professor and the Center Director, <a href="https://www.fgcu.edu/directory/tthornhill">Dr. Ted Thornill</a>—Dr. Rabaka <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsS6RAfiesI&amp;ab_channel=FGCUUniversityMarketingCommunications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterizes the nation as a “colonial project” that was built on racial and economic enslavement</a>.

To learn more about Dr. Thornhill, readers can view his <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tedthornhill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Rabaka addresses BLM at length during the Q&amp;A section, characterizing the movement as a response to the nation’s “deeply entrenched racism.” At one point, a member of the audience asks Dr. Rabaka how he would respond if BLM was characterized as a terrorist organization; Rather than answer the question, he proceeds to deflect and counter that Christopher Columbus should be considered a terrorist for committing a “holocaust” against Native Americans. He denounces both the Founding Fathers and Pilgrims in his tirade, accusing each of participating in “racial terrorism.”

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Continuing, he urges “white administrators” to invest in BLM-themed curriculums and workshops in order to raise consciousness about the movement. Dr. Rabaka <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/03/02/black-lives-matter-course-aims-foster-campus-transformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personally teaches a BLM-themed course at UC-Boulder</a>.

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman for his murder. Although purporting to be a civil-rights organization, the movement has been tied to violent confrontations and riots across the country.

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Throughout his lecture, Dr. Rabaka praises Angela Davis and Assata Shakur, whose work he considers instrumental to the BLM movement. Shakur is a former <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/black-lives-matter-praising-terrorist-assata-shakur/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted cop killer</a>. She currently resides in Cuba as a guest of the communist government; authorities have offered 2 million dollars for her capture.

Angela Davis is a former vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party and early member of the Black Panther Party. Davis is notoriously known for <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/hollywoods-undying-love-communist-angela-davis-arnold-ahlert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her role in the Marin County Civic Center Attack, which left 4 dead</a>.

To learn more about Angela Davis, users can view her <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

Another individual Dr. Rabaka praises in his lecture is scholar W.E.B Du Bois. A prominent author at the turn of the 20th century, Du Bois was a life-long adherent to communism, going <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/biographies/1953/03/16.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so far as to eulogize Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin after his death in 1953</a>.

In a separate lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Reiland+Rabaka+" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rabaka lauds Du Bois specifically for his contributions to socialism</a>. At one point, the professor displays pictures of Du Bois meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, hailing both as proof of Du Bois international standing.

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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mao-Zedong">Mao</a>—who chaired the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death in 1976—is widely considered one of the deadliest heads of state in history–<a href="https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 65 million Chinese perished from his regime</a>. Mao's deadliest campaign—referred to as the “Great Leap Forward”—<a href="https://www.hudson.org/research/7342-mao-s-great-leap-forward-and-the-power-of-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused an estimated 40 million to die from starvation and overwork in labor camps</a>.

All three lectures are listed at the bottom of the profile in full.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Rabaka for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder at (303) 492-7294.
Updated - October 13, 2021

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/soares" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kristie Soares</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women &amp; Gender Studies, and Co-Director of the LGBTQ Studies Certificate Program at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado Boulder</a>. 

On her <a href="https://www.kristiesoares.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, she states that her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfnX4ygH_Uc&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching</a> focuses on queer and performance methodologies. “I encourage students to ‘try out’ intellectual concepts using their bodies, through decolonial pedagogies such as Spoken Word Poetry and Theatre of the Oppressed.”

Additionally, her <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/kristie-soares/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current book project</a>, “Salsa Epistemology, engages with salsa — a music and dance tradition — to show how embodied playfulness figures as an integral part of queer activism in the Spanish Caribbean diaspora.”
Some of her featured publications include:

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/sites/default/files/attached-files/cuban_missile_crisis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cuban Missile Crisis of White Masculinity: Tito Bonito and the Burlesque Butt.</a>” The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America. Routledge (2017) 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">“but his sexuality and gender performance are queered by where he keeps his Cubanness—on his butt. He lifts the flag so that the audience can applaud his bare butt cheeks, which he gyrates enticingly before bending down to pick up just two props for his stage exit—his bright blue raft and the tiny American flag which he waves with a comic enthusiasm as he backs off of the stage, indicating the fragility of both U.S.-based and Cuban masculinities.”</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Reflections on Anti-Racist Feminist Pedagogy &amp; Organizing: This Bridge, 40 Years Later.” Forthcoming in a special issue of Feminist Studies. (2021)</li>
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Published — October 3, 2022

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/center/caaas/nathan-alexander-moore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Alexander Moore</a> is an Assistant Professor of Black Trans and Queer Studies in the Department of Women &amp; Gender Studies at CU Boulder. A biological male, Moore identifies as a female and uses “she/they” pronouns when referring to himself. 

According to his university profile, Moore is an “interdisciplinary scholar who is interested in critical and creative methods to explore the nuances of Blackness, queerness, and temporality. [His] research and writing interests include Black transfemininity, Black speculative arts practices, Black temporalities, and Black visual art and literature.” He also describes himself as a “Black transfemme writer, scholar, and educator.”

In April, Moore published a fictional book titled “<a href="https://www.hajarpress.com/books/the-rupture-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Rupture Files</a>,” which centers around black queer characters. The book’s publisher, Hajar Press, describes it as follows: 
“Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. […]At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but human decisions. Traversing apocalypses both big and small, these captivating tales vibrate with the tensions between loss and growth; self and community; precarity and possibility.”
In 2023, Moore co-wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/118016610/A_Tranifesto_for_the_Dolls_Toward_a_Trans_Femme_of_Color_Theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory.” The article is a dialogue between “trans women and femme scholars of color” who discuss “what a trans femme of color theory might look like.” These academics ponder a theory “that positions trans femmes of color not only as objects of study but also as producers of knowledge and subjects central to the ﬁeld of trans studies.”

During Moore’s portion of dialogue, the professor criticizes “black normative gender performance” and argues that masculinity is allegedly the mode by which blacks have thought through their emancipation during history. 
“Black normative gender performance is one way that Black beings have attempted to lessen the violence that began with the transatlantic slave trade. What I ﬁnd most interesting is that gender, and more particularly maleness or masculinity, have been the key to thinking through one’s emancipation.”
Addressing masculinity further, Moore states: 
“If maleness and masculinity have meant one vector through which attempts at freedom have been actualized, then perhaps it is productive that we think about how femaleness, femininity, and speciﬁcally Black transfemininity is a space that ruptures these attempts, that unsettles the linear progression from enslaved fungible ﬂesh to Black normatively gendered citizen.”
For Moore, “Black transfemininity” — alluded to towards the end of the above paragraph — is the way to “rupture” black gender normativity (for instance, the supposed masculine image that represents the fight for freedom, according to Moore).
“Black transfemininity both moves with the weight of history, while at the same time pointing us toward those uncharted territories for more livable futures. In this way, Black transfemmes might be conceived as walking ruptures of temporality and the supposedly stable geographies of normative gender. I want to propose Black transfemininity as a space of rupturing, an opening up and a pulling apart of the social fabric, a rending of our discursive lexicons, and the productive unsettling of our imaginaries.”
Please send information on Nathan Alexander Moore to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - July 9, 2024

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<a href="http://directory.csufresno.edu/detailsFacultyStaff.asp?ID=3249">Dr. Randa Jarrar</a> is an Associate Professor in the English Department at <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/">Fresno State University.</a>
On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar">Twitter account</a>, Dr. Jarrar castigates white people, praises terrorists, and even calls for the destruction of Israel.
One tweet calls to free Palestine from Israel by stating, “From the river to the sea,”
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literally lies. palestine should be free from the river to the sea= free of OPPRESSION, not jews. the fuck?? Free as in it should grant rights to ALL its citizens. the only people being thrown into the sea currently are Palestinians in GAZA. stop lying <a href="https://t.co/TqfkCBPshX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/TqfkCBPshX</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1394741026594643968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The phrase, “from the river to the sea”, was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popularized by terrorist groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> (PLO) and alludes to the destruction of Israel—and thus the genocide of the nation’s Jews—between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The chant is thought to originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was quoted by The New York Times stating, &#8220;If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.&#8221;
Dr. Jarrar—<a href="https://randajarrar.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who grew up in Egypt and Kuwait</a>—would later reveal that she attended PLO “after-school programs” to learn “resistance songs.”
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As a Palestinian child in the &#8217;80s I attended PLO-sponsored after school programs, learned about my history, and sang resistance songs.
As a Palestinian femme in 2021, I karaoke &#8220;Toxic&#8221; and flog asses and put the BDS in BDSM.
Free Palestine, bitch.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#pride</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1403477958405230593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet praises the terrorist, <a href="https://camera-uk.org/2018/03/05/evening-standard-omits-fact-that-acclaimed-palestinian-writer-was-also-a-pflp-terrorist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghassan Kanafani, </a>of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization known for the murder of 26 people during the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1550/justice-for-the-victims-of-the-lod-airport-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lod Airport Massacre</a>.
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Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian novelist and badass. He was assasinated by Israel three years after this. In this video he talks about Palestinian dignity and human rights and the ways that Israel’s colonialism is in opposition to life. <a href="https://t.co/z6MENFc2Ql" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/z6MENFc2Ql</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1143916995319980032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Her account berates white people as “privileged” and police as members of a “white militia”:
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No lie: I am LIVID to see white authors including women get huge advances and 2nd and 3rd chances with presses when their books don’t change lives the way mine have. IDGAF if that’s conceited. As Remy Ma says, “I’m conceited; I got a reason.”
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1269409702321901568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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******REMINDER******* 
*The police are the largest white militia in this country. 
We must abolish the police.
*This is not the worst president we have ever had&#8211; some presidents were enslavers and some killed 1.5 million iraqis.
*Stay focused: ACAB
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1313588149486940161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In other tweets, Dr. Jarrar states that she no longer reads from authors or answers questions from people who are white, or even hosts events for majority white audiences.
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i dont wanna talk about or read about these white dudes anymore. gonna focus on my loves and their work, celebrate their genius, and make our art.
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1490830321016709122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I no longer do events that are majority white. I will never agree to do an event if I am the only person of color on the panel. I will slap anyone who microagresses. I do not accept questions from the audience if they&#8217;re not from BIPOC.
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1469509947045990401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Further statements range from <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/i_still_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing white belly dancers of cultural appropriation</a> to demanding that all <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white editors step down from their positions</a>.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/professor-randa-jarrar-under-fire-for-calling-barbara-bush-a-racist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In 2018, Jarrar came under fire</a> after tweeting about former first lady, Barbara Bush, after her death. In one tweet about the former First Lady, she called Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” who “raised a war criminal.” In another tweet, she claimed to be “happy the witch is dead.”
After experiencing blowback for her remarks, Dr. Jarrar taunted her followers by claiming that she is a tenured professor who makes $100,000 a year and will never be fired.
When the university was asked to comment, <a href="http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2018/04/24/president-joseph-i-castro-letter-on-conclusion-of-review-regarding-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Castro stated</a>, “We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by Professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State. Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative of Fresno State.”
Dr. Jarrar faced no repercussions and returned to her teaching duties soon-there-after.
In the midst of the controversy, Dr. Jarrar wrote, “If you really wanna reach me, here’s my number ok?”, before <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2018/04/19/fresno-state-professor-randa-jarrar-prank-floods-asu-hotline-barbara-bush/532486002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting the landline of the ASU crisis line, causing the center to become inundated with calls</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jarrar for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://cah.fresnostate.edu/english/about/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of English</a> of Fresno State University at (559) 278-2553
Updated &#8211; March 15th, 2022

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Fresno State University

<a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-lmaischak.html">Lars Maischak</a> is a lecturer in the Department of History at <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/">California State University, Fresno</a>. According to his university <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-lmaischak.html">biography</a>, Maischak teaches the courses, Colonial Americas, American History to 1877, England and Empire, United States 1789-1865, and Topics in History - Marx and Hegel for Historians. Maischak uses his personal Twitter account to call for the execution of the 45th President, Donald Trump, and refers to conservatives as fascists.

Maischak claims that fascism is the eventual result of capitalism in a paper titled, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6fiDilfQWGpUrKEh2zzCrBo_iOUHA8C/view">There can be no Democracy without Socialism</a>, shared on Google Drive. Describing fascism as the “creature of capitalism,” Maischak claims that capitalism facilitates the exploitation of workers, or what he describes as the establishment of a “dictatorship of capital over labor."

Maischak further <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6fiDilfQWGpUrKEh2zzCrBo_iOUHA8C/view">cites</a> the territorial expansion, slave labor, and the outlawing of unions in Nazi Germany as examples of capitalism’s logical end. He later describes the liberties inherent in capitalism as the freedom to commit mass murder and barbarism.

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Maischak called for the assassination of then-President Donald Trump via hanging in now-deleted tweets on his personal Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak">account</a> in February of 2017.

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According to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/07/professor-trump-must-hang-republicans-should-be-executed-for-each-immigrant-deported/">Daily Caller </a>report, Maischak additionally calls for an “ethnic cleansing” of Republicans.

“#TheResistance #ethniccleansing Justice = The execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant.” - Lars Maischak

Once Maischak’s tweets were published by outlets like the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/07/professor-trump-must-hang-republicans-should-be-executed-for-each-immigrant-deported/">Daily Caller</a> and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/local/2017/04/13/fresno-state-fbi-secret-service-probing-history-instructor-over-trump-must-hang-tweet/">Breitbart</a>, Maischak offered an initial apology for his remarks. In a written statement to the <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article144293174.html">Fresno Bee</a>, Maischak asks for forgiveness and states, “It was never my intent to harm anyone, nor to encourage others to harm anyone.”

According to <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/07/after-anti-trump-tweets-fresno-state-removes-adjunct-professor-teaching-position">Inside Higher Ed</a>, Maischak’s classes were canceled by the university before he was later removed from his position following his remarks about President Trump. However, as of March 2021, Fresno State University still <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-lmaischak.html">lists</a> Maischak as a Lecturer in the History department. In addition, his personal Twitter account still <a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak">contains</a> tweets calling for former president Donald Trump to be hanged, and tweets referring to conservatives as “fascists” that must face “repression” that have not been removed or recanted.

<a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak/status/1346926703105359872"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1314" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.06.25-PM.png" alt="" width="450" height="248" /></a>

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Following initial coverage of Maischak’s remarks in 2017, the Fresno Bee <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article144293174.html">reports</a> that University President, Joseph Castro, stated in a conference call with reporters that he was cooperating with an investigation of Maischak by the Secret Service, Homeland Security, and the FBI. Following this statement, Fresno Bee also <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article144293174.html">reported</a> that Maischak then accused President Castro of allowing himself to be used by a “right-wing smear machine” for cooperating with the investigation.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Maischak for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact California State University-Fresno at (559) 278-4240
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Updated - April 2021

<a href="http://fresnostate.edu/chhs/public-health/faculty-staff/faculty/thatcher.html">Dr. William Thatcher </a>is a Professor of Public Health at Fresno State University. Recently, a pro-life group caught him on camera erasing pro-life messages written in chalk around campus. Thatcher also ordered his students to erase the messages, even though the group had permission to write the messages on the sidewalks.

<a href="http://directory.csufresno.edu/detailsFacultyStaff.asp?ID=3249">Dr. Randa Jarrar</a> is an Associate Professor in the English Department at <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/">Fresno State University.</a>

On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar">Twitter account</a>, Dr. Jarrar castigates white people, praises terrorists, and even calls for the destruction of Israel.

One tweet calls to free Palestine from Israel by stating, “From the river to the sea,”
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literally lies. palestine should be free from the river to the sea= free of OPPRESSION, not jews. the fuck?? Free as in it should grant rights to ALL its citizens. the only people being thrown into the sea currently are Palestinians in GAZA. stop lying <a href="https://t.co/TqfkCBPshX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/TqfkCBPshX</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1394741026594643968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The phrase, “from the river to the sea”, was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popularized by terrorist groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> (PLO) and alludes to the destruction of Israel—and thus the genocide of the nation’s Jews—between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The chant is thought to originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was quoted by The New York Times stating, "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea."

Dr. Jarrar—<a href="https://randajarrar.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who grew up in Egypt and Kuwait</a>—would later reveal that she attended PLO “after-school programs” to learn “resistance songs.”
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As a Palestinian child in the '80s I attended PLO-sponsored after school programs, learned about my history, and sang resistance songs.
As a Palestinian femme in 2021, I karaoke "Toxic" and flog asses and put the BDS in BDSM.

Free Palestine, bitch.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#pride</a>

— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1403477958405230593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet praises the terrorist, <a href="https://camera-uk.org/2018/03/05/evening-standard-omits-fact-that-acclaimed-palestinian-writer-was-also-a-pflp-terrorist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghassan Kanafani, </a>of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization known for the murder of 26 people during the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1550/justice-for-the-victims-of-the-lod-airport-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lod Airport Massacre</a>.
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Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian novelist and badass. He was assasinated by Israel three years after this. In this video he talks about Palestinian dignity and human rights and the ways that Israel’s colonialism is in opposition to life. <a href="https://t.co/z6MENFc2Ql" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/z6MENFc2Ql</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1143916995319980032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Her account berates white people as “privileged” and police as members of a “white militia”:
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No lie: I am LIVID to see white authors including women get huge advances and 2nd and 3rd chances with presses when their books don’t change lives the way mine have. IDGAF if that’s conceited. As Remy Ma says, “I’m conceited; I got a reason.”
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1269409702321901568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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******REMINDER*******
*The police are the largest white militia in this country.
We must abolish the police.
*This is not the worst president we have ever had-- some presidents were enslavers and some killed 1.5 million iraqis.

*Stay focused: ACAB

— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1313588149486940161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In other tweets, Dr. Jarrar states that she no longer reads from authors or answers questions from people who are white, or even hosts events for majority white audiences.
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i dont wanna talk about or read about these white dudes anymore. gonna focus on my loves and their work, celebrate their genius, and make our art.
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1490830321016709122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I no longer do events that are majority white. I will never agree to do an event if I am the only person of color on the panel. I will slap anyone who microagresses. I do not accept questions from the audience if they're not from BIPOC.
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1469509947045990401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Further statements range from <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/i_still_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing white belly dancers of cultural appropriation</a> to demanding that all <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white editors step down from their positions</a>.

<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/professor-randa-jarrar-under-fire-for-calling-barbara-bush-a-racist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In 2018, Jarrar came under fire</a> after tweeting about former first lady, Barbara Bush, after her death. In one tweet about the former First Lady, she called Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” who “raised a war criminal.” In another tweet, she claimed to be “happy the witch is dead.”

After experiencing blowback for her remarks, Dr. Jarrar taunted her followers by claiming that she is a tenured professor who makes $100,000 a year and will never be fired.

When the university was asked to comment, <a href="http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2018/04/24/president-joseph-i-castro-letter-on-conclusion-of-review-regarding-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Castro stated</a>, “We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by Professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State. Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative of Fresno State.”

Dr. Jarrar faced no repercussions and returned to her teaching duties soon-there-after.

In the midst of the controversy, Dr. Jarrar wrote, “If you really wanna reach me, here’s my number ok?”, before <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2018/04/19/fresno-state-professor-randa-jarrar-prank-floods-asu-hotline-barbara-bush/532486002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting the landline of the ASU crisis line, causing the center to become inundated with calls</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jarrar for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://cah.fresnostate.edu/english/about/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of English</a> of Fresno State University at (559) 278-2553
Updated - March 15th, 2022

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Katherine Kidd, Ph.D. is the Assistant Teaching Professor and English Studies Coordinator at Syracuse University in New York. <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/syracuse-u-professor-defends-sexually-explicit-k-12-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix</a> reported Kidd “defended the inclusion of a sexually explicit book in the nation’s K-12 Schools, saying she doesn’t see what is so ‘scandalous’ about it.”
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Queer-Memoir-Maia-Kobabe/dp/1549304003/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EIACJJXLR22Q&amp;keywords=gender+queer&amp;qid=1664832335&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjc5IiwicXNhIjoiMS42NSIsInFzcCI6IjEuNTEifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=gender+queer%2Caps%2C355&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Gender Queer”</a> is an autobiography written by Maia Kobabe, who identifies as nonbinary. The graphic novel memoir, published in 2014, is a guide on gender identity as well as Kobabe’s personal journey of explaining her sexuality and pronouns to her family. Due to explicit images and explanations, the book has been targeted for bans by several school boards across the United States including in North Carolina and Georgia.
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The <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/09/su-professors-emphasize-reading-banned-books-focusing-gender-sexuality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Orange</a> reported Kidd saying, “Seeing a book like ‘Gender Queer’ be challenged for pornographic material is scary, as the ultimate message of the book relies more on the ‘revelation of a personal experience of self-discovery,’ than the images it’s being censored for.’”
“Kidd does not shy away from challenging texts…[Her] appreciation for texts that are perceived as shocking has influenced the way [she] teaches literature courses. Often Kidd strives to include controversial novels and readings in order to expose her students to perspectives and ideas that differ from her own,&#8221; according to the Daily Orange.
Professor Kidd is the host and producer of her own <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/television-714-delaware-st-podcast/id1436455352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast, “714 Delaware St”</a> where she discusses various topics around “racist and offensive statements of Rosanne Barr.” Kidd’s LinkedIn profile says she specializes in American studies, working-class studies, queer studies, and television and pop culture.

Katherine Kidd, Ph.D. is the Assistant Teaching Professor and English Studies Coordinator at Syracuse University in New York. <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/syracuse-u-professor-defends-sexually-explicit-k-12-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix</a> reported Kidd “defended the inclusion of a sexually explicit book in the nation’s K-12 Schools, saying she doesn’t see what is so ‘scandalous’ about it.”

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Queer-Memoir-Maia-Kobabe/dp/1549304003/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EIACJJXLR22Q&amp;keywords=gender+queer&amp;qid=1664832335&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjc5IiwicXNhIjoiMS42NSIsInFzcCI6IjEuNTEifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=gender+queer%2Caps%2C355&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Gender Queer”</a> is an autobiography written by Maia Kobabe, who identifies as nonbinary. The graphic novel memoir, published in 2014, is a guide on gender identity as well as Kobabe’s personal journey of explaining her sexuality and pronouns to her family. Due to explicit images and explanations, the book has been targeted for bans by several school boards across the United States including in North Carolina and Georgia.

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The <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/09/su-professors-emphasize-reading-banned-books-focusing-gender-sexuality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Orange</a> reported Kidd saying, “Seeing a book like ‘Gender Queer’ be challenged for pornographic material is scary, as the ultimate message of the book relies more on the ‘revelation of a personal experience of self-discovery,’ than the images it’s being censored for.’”

“Kidd does not shy away from challenging texts…[Her] appreciation for texts that are perceived as shocking has influenced the way [she] teaches literature courses. Often Kidd strives to include controversial novels and readings in order to expose her students to perspectives and ideas that differ from her own," according to the Daily Orange.

Professor Kidd is the host and producer of her own <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/television-714-delaware-st-podcast/id1436455352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast, “714 Delaware St”</a> where she discusses various topics around “racist and offensive statements of Rosanne Barr.” Kidd’s LinkedIn profile says she specializes in American studies, working-class studies, queer studies, and television and pop culture.