Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist?
Harvard president Claudine Gay has problems. Touted as the first black woman to run the nation s most prestigious university, she assumed leadership with high expectations, but her tenure, which began this summer, has been mired in scandal. As dean and then president, Gay has been accused of bullying colleagues, suppressing free speech, overseeing a racist admissions program, and, following the Hamas terror campaign against Israel, failing to stand up to rampant anti-Semitism on campus.
We have obtained exclusive documentation demonstrating that President Gay may face yet another problem: plagiarism of sections of her Ph.D. dissertation, which would violate Harvard s own stated policies on academic integrity. (We reached out to President Gay for comment, but received no response.)
Gay published her dissertation, Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies, in 1997, as part of her doctorate in political science from Harvard. The paper deals with white-black political representation and racial attitudes. As evaluated under the university s plagiarism policy, the paper contains at least three problematic patterns of usage and citation.
Christopher F. Rufo.
At least she’s not a law professor from Yale. For completely irrational reasons, I maintain that a law prof from Yale would not stoop so low.