Tracking Cancel Culture in Higher Education

Updated November 2024—This list, originally published in June 2020, will be updated periodically. The National Association of Scholars counts 294 academic cancellations in the United States and Canada. If you know of additional professors, administrators, or students who have been canceled, please let us know at [email protected].

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According to Dictionary.com, cancel culture “refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. Cancel culture is generally discussed as being performed on social media in the form of group shaming.” This new form of mob rule has dominated virtually every sector of American life for the last several years: politics, journalism, music & entertainment, sports, business, and of particular interest to the National Association of Scholars, higher education.

Academic administrators, students, and even professors risk “cancellation” when expressing viewpoints deemed unacceptable by the progressive ideologues ruling our colleges and universities. These allegedly abhorrent views need not be outside the Overton window—most aren’t—to anger the progressive mob. Indeed, radical academics and bureaucrats have shifted the window steadily leftward, such that those who espouse ideas considered uncontroversial even a few years ago are anathematized.

These intolerable sentiments allegedly offend progressive orthodoxy by “perpetuating” one of the myriad “isms” or “phobias” seen as cardinal sins by the modern left, including but not limited to racism, sexism/misogyny, ableism, sizeism, nationalism, climate change denialism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, fatphobia and islamophobia. In fact, academics are now expected to devote themselves to the “work” of being “anti-” all of the above (e.g. recent rhetoric surrounding “doing antiracist work”).

Academic cancellation usually goes something like this: 1) a professor, administrator, or student says or writes something considered heretical by progressives; 2) outcry ensues among the faculty and student body, who demand institutional discipline; 3) administrators cave to the mob and punish the “culprit.” In most cases, it really is that simple.

For untenured professors and administrators, this discipline may take the form of suspension or firing, but always with a large dose of public humiliation. Tenured faculty have more protections, but schools often make their jobs harder through burdensome investigations and never-ending “sensitivity” and “implicit bias” trainings. Canceled students may have their professional careers ruined before they’ve begun.

After punishment, victims of cancel culture rarely have the opportunity to fight back. Many are at-will employees and therefore lack the ability to pursue legal recourse. Even if they could, colleges and universities can almost always out-lawyer any individual with their internal or external legal teams paid out of hefty hedge funds sometimes called “endowments.” Sadly, the fate of most “cancelees” is banishment from their academic communities, leaving them either to disappear or to join fellow dissidents in the heterodox corners of the academic and professional world.

Consider the recent experience of Professor Gordon Klein, a lecturer in accounting at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He declined to accommodate demands to award lenient grades to his African-American students in the wake of George Floyd’s death. His email response was as follows:

Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota. Do you know the names of the classmates that are black? How can I identify them since we’ve been having online classes only? Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half? Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis? I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well. I am thinking that a white student from there might be possibly even more devastated by this, especially because some might think that they’re racist even if they are not. My TA is from Minneapolis, so if you don’t know, I can probably ask her. Can you guide me on how you think I should achieve a “no-harm” outcome since our sole course grade is from a final exam only? One last thing strikes me: Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the “color of their skin.” Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK’s admonition? Thanks, G. Klein

Abrupt? Perhaps. Racist? Of course not. And yet, Professor Klein has been “canceled” for his “woefully racist response”: he has been suspended, his classes have been assigned to other professors, and he is in police protection after receiving multiple death threats. Klein later stated that he was used as the “sacrificial lamb” to placate “those who threaten to riot.” And so, the cycle continues.

The National Association of Scholars believes that cancel culture within higher education has reached an extraordinary level. Indeed, many colleges and universities have become progressive seminaries. With every new societal crisis—COVID-19 and racialist protests/riots being two recent examples—comes a fresh wave of academic cancellations. The threat to academic freedom is obvious: when those within academia are unable to contradict progressive orthodoxy, the disinterested pursuit of truth is lost. Reasoned scholarship is traded in for the cheap, vapid substitute of political activism. And in the long run, higher education itself dies.

In an effort to cancel the cancel culture, NAS will track these incidents in higher education and record them in a downloadable archive. It’s our hope that this resource will help bring to light the widespread malfeasance of academic administrators in our colleges and universities for the sake of tangible accountability. Those who violate academic freedom must be called out, publicly exposed, and permanently marked for their misbehavior. Ideally, violators’ sullied reputations will then limit their ability to inflict further damage. This is not to form a counter-mob in opposition to the current one, but rather to hold the guilty parties responsible in the court of public opinion. Let the punishment fit the crime.

We need your help compiling a complete list of cases. If you know of academic cancellations not on our list, please email us at [email protected].

Below, we list the cases in reverse chronological order by approximate date of cancellation. Download the chart for more detailed information:

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09/27/2024 - Samuel Abrams - Sarah Lawrence College

Professor Abrams discovered during his course interview week that several student groups within a "Divestment Coalition" were pressuring students to boycott his classes due to Abrams's support of Israel's right to exist. His classes, which normally have waitlists, were underfilled because of the efforts of the pro-divestment, pro-Palestinian groups. 

05/14/2024 - Peter Groeneveld - University of Pennsylvania

A December 1, 2023 email from MSHP Co-Director Peter Groeneveld—which suggested that underrepresented minority, or URM, students in the program have struggled and dropped out. Groeneveld’s comments were sent to Co-Director Judy Shea as part of an internal email discussing the agenda for the program’s executive committee meeting on December 6, 2023. This email was obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper, and students in the MSHP program released a statement in January 2024 condemning Groeneveld and the email on URMs. The university launched an investigation and by March 20, 2024, Penn faculty members wrote a letter of concern expressing anger at the decision to not appoint an interim co-director while Groeneveld faced investigation. Groeneveled left his position at the end of the spring 2024 semester.

4/12/2024 - Nathan Cofnas - Cambridge University/Emmanuel College

Cambridge students created a petition to remove Cofnas after he wrote a post in February titled "A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution." In the article, Cofnas described his views on accepting "race realism," it was not accepted well by students. Cambridge University and Emmanuel College at first did not pursue investigations into Cofnas, upholding his "academic freedom." But in April, 2024, Cofnas received a termination letter from Emmanuel College, concluding that his blog post "amounted to, or could reasonably be construed as amounting to, a rejection of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI and EDI) policies."

7/5/2023 - Lois Banner - University of Southern California

In a talk at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Professor Banner said that she would have had an easier career if she were black. She allegedly made other comments perceived to be "homophobic" and "anti-Muslim."

6/30/2023 - Ann Atkinson - Arizona State University

Atkinson organized an event featuring conservative speakers Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager.

5/8/2023 - David Richardson - Madera Community College

Professor Richardson served Jeremy's Chocolate at an open house event at Madera Community College. Jeremy's Chocolate is associated with the conservative news outlet The Daily Wire. The chocolate bars "are labeled with the pronouns 'He/Him' and 'She/Her,' the former of which have nuts in them and the latter of which do not."

5/5/2023 -  Kenneth Zucker -  Archives of Sexual Behavior

Zucker published an article examining rapid onset gender dysphoria. This is the hypothesis that many cases of gender dysphoria, particularly in young people, are caused by social pressure rather than biology.

4/30/2023 - Mark Tykocinski - Thomas Jefferson University

President Tykocinski "liked" various Tweets critiquing COVID-19 vaccines and gender surgeries for minors.

4/14/2023 - Scott Gerber - Ohio Northern University

Professor Gerber was escorted out of class by campus security officers and armed police to the dean's office, where he was told to resign or be fired. Despite Gerber asking multiple times for specifics as to why he was receiving this treatment, the only response he got was alleged insufficient collegiality. He was then refused audience with leadership and rebuffed for trying to get to the bottom of the situation. 

April 2023 - Maziar Behrooz - San Fransisco State University

Professor Behrooz displayed an image of the prophet Muhammad in class.

April 2023 - Nicholas Perrin - Trinity International University

In a fundraising letter, President Perrin connected a Nashville school shooter's transgenderism with his violent actions.

3/28/2023 -  Jody Freeman -  Harvard University

Since 2012, Professor Freeman served on the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips, a major crude oil producer. Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, an activist group at the university, pressured Freeman to resign from this position, which it believes wrongfully promotes fossil fuels.

3/27/2023 -  Will Moravits -  St. Philip’s College

Moravits held class discussions on LGBTQ+ issues and police brutality that made at least one student "uncomfortable." According to a student, Moravits claimed that the LGBTQ+ movement contains many pedophiles.

3/27/2023 -  Ronen Shoval -  Princeton University

Shoval is generally known to be pro-Israel. He also founded Im Tirtzu, a Zionist organization that some have described as "ultra-nationalist."

3/24/23 - Katherine Bergeron - Connecticut College

President Bergeron scheduled a fundraiser at "Florida’s Everglades Club, which has long been accused of discriminating against Black and Jewish people." She has also been accused of "administrative overreach, micromanagement and [a] lack of transparency."

3/14/23 - Michael Fisch - Princeton Theological Seminary

Fisch has ties to a prison telecommunications company.

3/10/2023 -  Joy Alonzo -  Texas A&M University

In a lecture at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Alonzo made comments perceived to be critical of Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.

3/5/2023 -  Michael Joyner -  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Professor Joyner said that males have higher testosterone than females, and that this difference affects their performance in sports.

March 2023 - Tabia Lee - De Anza College

Lee "questioned antiracist 'orthodoxy,' objected to the college’s land acknowledgments for an Indigenous tribe, tried to bring a 'Jewish inclusion' event to campus, declined to join a 'socialist network,' refused to use the gender-neutral terms 'Latinx' and 'Filipinx,' inquired why the word 'Black' was capitalized but not 'white,' and allegedly disrespected a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement," among other actions.

1/25/2023 -  Yoel Inbar -  University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Inbar interviewed for a position at the University of California, Los Angeles' Department of Psychology. He believed a job offer was likely—his girlfriend had received an offer, and the university has a dual career program to facilitate partner appointments—but a group of more than fifty students petitioned UCLA to not offer Inbar the job. The students cited his criticism of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and other aspects of "woke" ideology on his podcast, Two Psychologists and Four Beers, as well as his "disconcerting" and "less than satisfactory" answers in a graduate student meeting at which he was questioned.

1/2023 -  Johnson Varkey -  St. Philip’s College

Varkey taught that sex is determined by X and Y chromosomes. He has also been accused of "religious preaching, discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals, anti-abortion rhetoric, and misogynistic banter."

12/30/2022 - Gary Hahn - North Carolina State University

Hahn, longtime radio commentator for North Carolina State University's basketball and football teams, said during a broadcast of the Sun Bowl, “down among all the illegal aliens in El Paso it’s UCLA 14 and Pittsburgh 6.” According to the Raleigh News & Observer, the “Sun Bowl canceled its annual fan fest last week because the city’s convention center is being used to house migrants awaiting immigration decisions, making El Paso a hot-button topic for political commentary.”

12/13/2022 - Dan Jackson - Vanderbilt University

Coach Jackson posted on Facebook in support of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), although he was allegedly unaware of Ye's recent "racist and antisemitic remarks."

12/10/22 - Thomas Keon - Purdue University Northwest

During a commencement speech, Chancellor Keon imitated an Asian language in jest, saying that it was his "Asian version" of something unspecified.

December 2022 - Erika López Prater - Hamline University

Professor López Prater displayed a painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad in one of her classes. She warned students multiple times, both in writing and through class announcements, that she would be displaying the image. Many Muslims consider it blasphemous to depict Muhammad in visual art.

11/8/2022 - Ron McNinch - University of Guam

Professor McNinch criticized political candidates for wavering in their commitment to attend a debate at the University of Guam prior to the November 8 local elections.

11/3/2022 - Joe Scanlan - Princeton University

Professor Scanlan mentioned the N-word in a class discussion on a poem containing the word.

November 2022 - Liz Wheeler - Gonzaga University

Gonzaga University, a Jesuit Catholic institution, refused to allow a pro-life event by the campus Zags for Life group. Zags for Life wanted to host Catholic pro-life speaker Liz Wheeler with assistance from Young America’s Foundation, but the campus ministry office denied the request.

10/27/2022 - Holly O’Neill - Washburn University

Professor O'Neill dressed up as Michael Jackson for a Halloween party.

10/18/2022 - Robert Ternansky - University of California, San Diego

During class, Ternansky spoke to campus workers in the hallway in Spanish. He then asked students, “How do you say ‘quiet’ in Mexican?”

10/17/2022 - Steve Sviggum - University of Minnesota

In a Board of Regents meeting, Sviggum asked whether UMN Morris is "too diverse."

10/2022 - Matthew Garrett - Bakersfield College

"Tenured Bakersfield College history professor Matthew Garrett said he and other faculty members of a free speech coalition were targeted with false allegations after they asked questions during a campus diversity meeting last October."

10/2022 - Maribel Alvarez - University of Arizona

Dean Alvarez allegedly called the police on a gay black student in a wheelchair after the two had a heated verbal altercation.

9/30/2022 - Christopher Healy - Furman University

Professor Healy attended the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

9/28/2022 - Leigh Ann Courington - Wallace State Community College

In a private Facebook post, Courington stated that the devil is behind a pro-LGBT rally in Cullman, Alabama called "Cullman Comes Out."

9/21/2022 - Michael Stoil - George Washington University

Professor Stoil told his class that he used the N-word during a phone call with a provost. He did so to challenge the idea that blacks can say the N-word while whites can't.

9/16/2022 - David Kane - Simmons University

Kane has come under fire for a number of posts on his blog, EphBlog, which included statements that many of Williams College's black students may have been admitted because of their race, that the NBA has a "black supremacy" problem, and that Black Lives Matter is a racist organization.

9/14/2022 - Christy Hammer - University of Southern Maine

Professor Hammer stated in class that there are only two sexes.

8/2/2022 - Maitland Jones, Jr. - New York University

Professor Jones taught organic chemistry, a notoriously difficult "weed-out" course for would-be chemists and med-school applicants. Students complained that Jones' course was too difficult.

7/27/2022 - Clarence Thomas - George Washington University

After Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, over ten thousand people petitioned for him to be fired from his position at George Washington University, where he taught a constitutional law seminar.

7/24/2022 - Kristin Collier - University of Michigan

Students protested and staged a walkout of Dr. Collier's speech at the University of Michigan Medical School's White Coat Ceremony, citing her pro-life views. Students previously petitioned UMich's administration to cancel the event.

7/18/2022 - Timothy P. Farage - University of Texas, Dallas

In response to a news story reporting that most monkeypox patients are homosexual men, Professor Farage tweeted, "Can we at least try to find a cure for homosexuality, especially among men? Homosexual men have anal sex, which can lead to a variety of diseases."

7/1/2022 - Christian Zidouemba - George Washington University

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, over ten thousand people signed a petition to remove Justice Clarence Thomas from his position as lecturer at George Washington University. Zidouemba asked Student Association members to refrain from using their titles if they signed the petition, and allegedly threatened to fire them if they did so.

6/29/2022 - Mya Little - University of Houston

Little was a candidate for the Student Government Association (SGA) Supreme Court. She expressed her Christian beliefs, including citing a Bible verse, in her opening address to the SGA, prompting some senators to condemn her for her "bias."

6/25/2022 - Phoebe Gloeckner - University of Michigan

Professor Gloeckner allegedly committed various "microaggressions" against Latino students. She also allegedly included "racist caricatures" in her course Graphic Narratives.

6/14/2022 - Patrick Provost - Laval University

At a conference hosted by Reinfo Covid Quebec, Provost said that the risks of administering mRNA COVID vaccines to children outweigh the benefits.

5/24/2022 - Bryan Cullen - Duke University

Dr. Cullen received an email from his department announcing a mandatory DEI training, to which he replied "My initial reaction is I refuse to engage in left-wing Maoist political propaganda workshops." A Duke PhD student also claimed that Cullen made racist and homophobic comments in a 2018 guest lecture.

5/23/2022 - Stanley Goldfarb - University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Goldfarb responded to a recent journal article in Academic Medicine that reported black, Hispanic, and indigenous resident physicians were likely to have lower clinical performance assessments in graduate medical education with "Could it be they were just not good at being residents." He has also come under fire for his most recent book, Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine, and various articles he has written for his new nonprofit organization, Do No Harm.

5/15/2022 - Katrina Daly Thompson - University of Wisconsin–Madison

Professor Thompson and her colleague, Kathryn Mara, published an article in the African Studies Review titled “African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography.” In this essay, Thompson and Mara argue for "autoethnography" as a means to "decolonize" the field of African Studies. Autoethnography is “academic writing that draws on and analyzes or interprets the lived experience of the author." The two researchers were criticized for supporting this approach within African Studies because they are white.

5/15/2022 - Kathryn Mara - University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kathryn Mara and her colleague, Professor Katrina Daly Thompson, published an article in the African Studies Review titled “African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography.” In this essay, Thompson and Mara argue for "autoethnography" as a means to "decolonize" the field of African Studies. Autoethnography is “academic writing that draws on and analyzes or interprets the lived experience of the author." The two researchers were criticized for supporting this approach within African Studies because they are white.

5/4/2022 - Francis H. Buckley - George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Professor Buckley, when speculating about the Roe v. Wade opinion leak, alluded to Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a "stupid Latina."

4/18/22 - Devin Buckley - Harvard University

Dr. Buckley was scheduled to give a talk at Harvard about British romanticism and philosophy. The talk was then canceled after the university learned that Buckley is on the board of the Women's Liberation Front, an organization that affirms the importance of biological sex despite the claims of transgender ideology.

4/13/22 - David Azerrad - Saint Vincent College

Dr. Azerrad, a professor of government at Hillsdale College, delivered a talk to Saint Vincent College titled "Black Privilege and Racial Hysteria in Contemporary America." In the talk, he claims that black Americans now enjoy privileges that others don't, including "lower academic standards and de facto immunity in many cities from prosecution for low-level felonies."

4/2022 - Edmund Santurri - St. Olaf College

The Institute for Freedom & Community (IFC), which Professor Santurri directs, is known for bringing controversial speakers to campus. These events have provoked the ire of the St. Olaf community, most notably a recent lecture by Professor Peter Singer, who many believe promotes eugenics.

3/25/2022 - Paul J. Currie - Reed College

In a video posted on TikTok, Professor Currie appears to accuse employees at a local business of being illegal immigrants.

3/22/2022 - Michael J. Carley - University of Montreal

Professor Carley published a series of tweets supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He characterized invasion as "as a battle against 'a rotten fascist government in Ukraine' and 'Ukrainian Nazis.'" He also posted the letter Z on Facebook, a symbol suportive of the Russian military.

3/1/2022 - J. Angelo Corlett - San Diego State University

In two of his classes, one on critical thinking and another on race and racism, Professor Corlett displayed a slide containing racial epithets for black, Latino, white, and asian people. He verbalized these epithets in class.

2/23/2022 - Jeffrey Lieberman - Columbia University Medical Center

In a tweet, Professor Lieberman referred to Sudanese model Nyakim Gatwech as a "freak of nature." According to the Guiness Book of World Records, Gatwech has the darkest skin in the world.

2/19/2022 - Gregory P. Schulz - Concordia University Wisconsin

Professor Schulz wrote an essay for Christian News titled "Woke Dysphoria at Concordia," where he wrote that the school has experienced “dysphoria because it is coming under the influence of Woke-ism (that is, a potent cocktail of Progressivism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Marxism).”

2/17/2022 - Clayton Looney - University of Montana

Mr. Looney, a white man, allegedly used the N-word in texts to his black ex-wife, and allegedly called his daughter the N-word. He also allegedly referred to Muslims wearing "towel wraps."

2/11/2022 - Jeffrey Melnick - University of Massachusetts, Boston

"At a faculty council meeting on Zoom ... American studies professor Jeffrey Melnick [a white man] raised his digital hand, unmuted himself and then questioned the provost's decision to appoint the recently hired dean of liberal arts, Tyson King-Meadows [a black man], to lead the search" for UMass Boston's next education dean.

2/10/2022 - Franz Werro - Georgetown University

Professor Werro referred to a student in class as "Mr. Chinaman." Werro claims that as a non-native English speaker, he didn't know that the term is considered derogatory.

2/1/2022 - Stephen Kershnar - State University of New York at Fredonia

Professor Kershnar appeared on an episode of the Brain in a Vat podcast called "Sexual Tabboos." In the episode, he questioned whether "adult-chid sex" is always wrong.

2/2022 - Ryan Hall - Western Kentucky University

"Former Western Kentucky University English instructor Ryan Hall said he was fired after canceling his classes in protest of his school’s political bias to embrace and enforce diversity, equity and inclusion above free speech and academic freedom and discourse."

2/2022 - Maggie DeJong - Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

DeJong made various posts on social media that offended her progressive peers. These posts allegedly cause "emotional harm" and "worried" the students.

1/31/2022 - Ilya Shapiro - Georgetown University

Commenting on President Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, Shapiro tweeted: "Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. Even has identity politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American. But alas doesn’t fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get lesser black woman. Thank heaven for small favors?"

1/14/2022 - John McCuan - Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor McCuan wrote in a course syllabus, "If you’re sick, stay home. Don’t pass what you’ve got around to others. If you want an instructor who is hysterical concerning the scamdemic, perhaps I’m not your guy." McCuan also chooses not to wear a face mask in class, as Georgia Tech only has a mask recommendation, not a requirement.

1/2022 - Richard Bugg - Southern Utah University

Professor Bugg declined to refer to a so-called "nonbinary" student using "they/them" pronouns.

12/9/2021 - Randy Rapp - Purdue University

Professor Rapp used the term "Wuhan virus" to refer to COVID-19 in a course syllabus.

11/24/2021 - Scott Yenor - Boise State University

In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference, Professor Yenor critiqued feminism and the practice of professional fields actively recruiting women.

11/16/2021 - Allyn Walker - Old Dominion University

Professor Walker was interviewed by the Prostasia Foundation regarding his book A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity. In the interview, Walker advocated for the use of the term "Minor-Attracted Person" (MAP) rather than "pedophile," which he argues unnecessarily stigmatizes "non-offending" MAPs.

11/1/2021 - John Kormendy - University of Texas at Austin

Professor Kormendy published a paper titled "Metrics of research impact in astronomy: Predicting later impact from metrics measured 10-15 years after the PhD" at arXiv. Some readers found that the paper would "further bias against women and minorities" in the field of astronomy.

10/29/2021 - Christopher Trogan - Fordham University

Mr. Trogan mixed up the names of two black students, after which he sent a nine-page email in apology. The recipients of that email viewed it as excessive, as Trogan included information on his long history working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” among other details.

10/28/2021 - Jonathan Rieder - Barnard College

Professor Rieder said the N-word in class while quoting from the movie "8 Mile."

10/25/2021 - Sophia Nelson - Christopher Newport University'

Ms. Nelson tweeted "regarding a DC comic book character. She wrote, 'I don't get why this is necessary. I don't! What if Christian parents of children reading comic books don't want their kids exposed to bi-sexual characters? This is being pushed on kids.'"

10/22/2021 - Rob Smith - University of Montana

Professor Smith came under fire for various statements made on his personal blog, Upward Thought, which readers viewed as sexist, homophobic, and Islamophobic. Smith is a theologically conservative Mormon.

10/14/2021 - Christopher Nadon - Claremont McKenna College

Professor Nadon was reported for various reasons, including allegedly saying the N-word while referring to Huckleberry Finn and equating Black Lives Matter to Nazis.

10/1/2021 - Lars Jensen - Truckee Meadows Community College

Professor Jensen has been a vocal critic of TMCC's updates to its mathematics curriculum, which include removing a long-standing algebra requirement for some TMCC students. He handed out flyers at a Nevada System of Higher Education event in an effort to bring awareness to these changes.

10/1/2021 - Bright Sheng - University of Michigan

Professor Sheng showed to his class a film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, which featured an actor in blackface.

10/2021 - James Moore - University of Southern California

Professor Moore hung a "Blue Lives Matter" flag outside of his office door. Aggrieved students also referenced his past critiques of Title IX and diversity initiatives.

9/30/2021 - Dorian Abbot - University of Chicago

Professor Abbot was scheduled to deliver Massachusetts Institute of Technology's prestigious Carlson Lecture. He then came under fire for various statements he has made criticizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in higher education, arguing instead for a merit-based system of academic advancement.

9/16/2021 - Steven Earnest - Coastal Carolina University

"On September 16, a visiting artist spoke with two students of color who explained that they were hoping to connect with other non-white students on campus. The three of them subsequently wrote down the names of other students of color who might wish to connect and discuss their shared struggles. They left this list of names on a classroom's whiteboard; the next class saw it and thought that non-white students had been singled out for some nefarious purpose." Professor Earnest critiqued the subsequent response from his department's DEI committee, a response perceived as "racially insensitive."

9/13/2021 - Maddison Farris - Oklahoma State University

In a column for OSU's student newspaper The O'Colly, Farris criticized OSU's policy allowing professors to mandate masks in their classes.

9/2021 -  Daymon Johnson -  Bakersfield College

One of Professor Johnson's colleagues, Andrew Bond, called America a "f*cking piece of sh*t nation" on Facebook. In his response, Johnson called Bond an SJW (social justice warrior) and suggested that Bond move to China, given his apparent hatred of America.

September 2021 - Patricia Griffin - University of Southern Maine

Professor Griffin critiqued her university's COVID-19 mask mandate.

8/27/2021 - William Atto - University of Dallas

In a course syllabus, Professor Atto "referred to COVID-19 as the 'China virus.'"

6/30/2021 - Phylicia Rashad - Howard University

In response to the release of Bill Cosby, Rashad (who used to star with Cosby on The Cosby Show) tweeted, “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”

6/25/2021 - Monte Miller - East Carolina University

Professor Miller posted on Facebook "Hey there. How about F*CK Juneteenth!!!"

6/24/2021 - Dan Johnson - University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Professor Johnson posted on Facebook "Blow up Republicans." While the meaning of this was not originally clear, Johnson later clarified that he was frustrated by Republicans when he posted this, and that the post was meant to convey that in a hyperbolic way.

4/29/2021 - Hannah Berliner Fischthal - St. John’s University

Professor Fischthal said the N-word while reading aloud a passage from Mark Twain's novel Pudd’nhead Wilson.

4/27/2021 - Daniel Pollack-Pelzner - Linfield University

Professor Pollack-Pelzner posted a Twitter thread alleging that multiple Linfield University trustees had engaged in sexual misconduct. He also accused Linfield President Miles K. Davis of remarking on "Jewish noses."

4/24/2021 - Lee Strang - University of Toledo

Professor Strang was awarded the 2021 Inclusive Excellence Award by his employer, the University of Toledo. Strang won the award because he brings a diversity of viewpoint to the classroom, being one of the only conservative scholars on faculty. This provoked the ire of students, who took issue with sentiments Strang has expressed in past writings. For example, he wrote in a 2003 article that "a corrupt society that does not seek to prevent homosexual activity makes it more difficult for us to properly raise our children."

4/22/2021 - Michele Swers - Georgetown University

Professor Swers said the N-word in a class while quoting Ku Klux Klan leader Clarence Brandenburg. The word also appeared on one of her Powerpoint slides.

4/19/2021 - Erica Cope - Buffalo State College

In a class discussion on cancel culture, Cope said "I am sick of talking about Black Lives Matter." She later explained that while she supports Black Lives Matter, "she thinks that conversations about the movement can be performative, and that it should focus not just on police brutality but also on education, health care, poverty, and other issues that affect Black people in America."

4/13/2021 - Robert Jordan - San Diego State University

Jordan came under fire for a 50-second clip of a pre-recorded lecture for his Introduction to Cinema class. In the clip, Jordan is discussing racial assumptions students might encounter in films. He said, “I might have an assumption that Black people are just not as intelligent as white people ... Ooh, I can hear already all the people getting riled up, right? I could believe that. You know, that’s just the way I was raised and that’s just the way my values are. It doesn’t mean I’m going to come and lynch you. It doesn’t mean I’m going to attack you. It might mean I won’t hire you, but it’s the way I think.”

4/1/2021 - Dinah PoKempner - Columbia University

Professor PoKempner said the N-word 11 times during a class discussion on hate speech in legal proceedings.

3/25/2021 - Howard Bauchner - Journal of the American Medical Association

Dr. Bauchner said in a podcast that "structural racism" no longer exists in the United States.

3/23/2021 - Donna Hughes - University of Rhode Island

In an article for 4W, a "fourth-wave feminism" blog, Professor Hughes critiqued what she calls the "trans-sex fantasy." She writes, "The ‘gender identity’ movement is canceling people’s free speech and academic freedom for anyone who doesn’t fall in line, speaks out in opposition, or even calls for the right to debate."

3/18/2021 - Emily Oster - Brown University

Professor Oster wrote an article in The Atlantic titled "Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like A Vaccinated Grandma," in which she argued that, due to the low risks of COVID-19 for children, parents should take them on vacations this summer.

3/13/2021 - Aaron Kindsvatter - University of Vermont

Professor Kindsvatter posted a video on YouTube titled “Racism and the Secular Religion at the University of Vermont,” in which he, among other things, critiqued the concept of "whiteness" and expressed a feeling of ostracization due to it.

3/12/2021 - Thomas Smith - University of San Diego

In a blog post, Professor Smith wrote, “If you believe that the coronavirus did not escape from the lab in Wuhan, you have to at least consider that you are an idiot who is swallowing whole a lot of Chinese cock swaddle.” He later clarified that “It appears that some people are interpreting my reference to ‘Chinese cock swaddle,’ as a reference to an ethnic group. That is a misinterpretation. To be clear, I was referring to the Chinese government.”

3/11/2021 - David Batson - Georgetown University

In an online video meeting, Professor Sandra Sellers, one of Professor Batson's colleagues, lamented that the lowest performing students in her classes tend to be black. Batson did not denounce Sellers' statement during the meeting.

3/11/2021 - Sandra Sellers - Georgetown University

In an online video meeting, Professor Sellers lamented that the lowest performing students in her classes tend to be black. She said, "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks, happens almost every semester."

3/7/2021 - Janice Neil - Ryerson University

"Ryerson journalism students issued a public letter accusing the school of failing to represent and support Black, Indigenous, people of colour and LGBTQ students in the program. The letter said the school has contributed to an unsafe learning environment rife with discrimination that has left students traumatized."

3/7/2021 - Lisa Taylor - Ryerson University

"Ryerson journalism students issued a public letter accusing the school of failing to represent and support Black, Indigenous, people of colour and LGBTQ students in the program. The letter said the school has contributed to an unsafe learning environment rife with discrimination that has left students traumatized."

3/5/2021 - Bob Wood - University of South Alabama

Professor Wood allegedly dressed in a Confederate soldier's uniform during a 2014 Halloween party.

3/5/2021 - Alex Sharland - University of South Alabama

Professor Sharland allegedly posed with a whip and noose during a 2014 Halloween party.

3/5/2021 - Teresa Weldy - University of South Alabama

Professor Weldy allegedly posed with a whip and noose during a 2014 Halloween party.

2/25/2021 - Lora Burnett - Collin College

During the vice-presidential debate in October 2020 between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, Professor Burnett Tweeted “the moderator needs to talk over Mike Pence until he shuts his little demon mouth up.”

2/23/2021 - Veronique Machelidon - Meredith College

Professor Machelidon used the N-word several times in a lecture. The exact context is currently unknown. When students raised concerns, she defended herself by claiming that she is not American and that many from other countries do not know the word.

2/22/2021 - Rima Azar - Mount Allison University

Professor Azar has a blog called Bambi's Afkar, in which she has written numerous posts questioning the presence of "systemic racism" in New Brunswick, as well as in Canada more generally. She has also criticized Black Lives Matter as being "ill-disguised communist propaganda."

2/23/2021 - Gregory Manco - Saint Joseph's University

Professor Manco used an anonymous Twitter account to tweet several statements seen as controversial, including posts critiquing racial reparations and racial bias training.

2/18/2021 - J. Mark Ramseyer - Harvard University

Professor Ramseyer published an article, titled “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War,” in the International Review of Law and Economics. In it, he claims Korean and other women during WWII willingly prostituted themselves to Japenese soldiers, contradicting the more common narrative that these women were kidnapped and forced into sex slavery.

2/10/2021 - Jay Bergman - Central Connecticut State University

Professor Bergman sent letters to every public school superintendent in his home state of Connecticut, warning them against implementing history curricula based on The New York Times' "The 1619 Project." In response, Daniel P. Sullivan, the superintendent of Putnam County schools, sent a letter to Interim President of Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Jane Gates and President of Central Connecticut State University Zuma R. Toro, calling Bergman's letter and other writings "extremely inappropriate" and "extremely problematic." He also wrote that Bergman's letter will help "continue to perpetuate ... racist rhetoric." In response, Presidents Gates and Toro condemned Bergman's letter.

2/3/2021 - Melissa Hargrove - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Ms. Hargrove wrote the following phrase on a whiteboard during a class session: "Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished," which, when made into an acronym, spells out a form of the N-word. This was in reference to a Tupac Shakur song of the same title.

February 2021 - Peter Navarro - University of California-Irvine [Source: Personal correspondence with university officials]

Professor Emeritus Peter Navarro's online courses were abruptly canceled by the University of California-Irvine Division of Continuing Education. The courses were canceled shortly after Professor Navarro ended his service as a high-ranking official in the Trump administration. Professor Navarro repeatedly requested an explanation from UCI's Chancellor and other officials. No response was given. NAS reached out to UCI for comment and did not receive a reply.

February 2021 - Frank Gunter - Lehigh University

Professor Gunter created a video titled “Three Myths About Poverty,” in which he "attempted to debunk three myths concerning poverty—that poverty is mostly a matter of race, poverty is a generational curse, and the poor have no agency." This prompted backlash from many students, who claim that he handled the issues of race and poverty poorly and selectively.

February 2021 - Andrew J. Donadio - Tennessee Technological University

The Putnam County School Board (Tennessee) held a meeting to decide whether it would form a committee to change the team name/mascot of Algood Middle School, which is currently the Redskins. They decided not to form a committee, a decision Professor Donadio supported. Two of his colleagues then created a defamatory flier of him, featuring a picture from his Facebook page and a message reading "Professor Donadio and Turning Point USA: You are on our list. Your hate and hypocrisy are not welcome at Tennessee Tech. No unity with racists. Hate speech is not free speech." They distributed this flier in TTU's nursing building.

Spring 2021 - Eva Revesz - Claremont McKenna College

Professor Revesz allegedly said a racial slur while quoting from a book in class.

1/28/2021 - Audra Heaslip - Collin College

Professor Heaslip claims that her employment contract at Collin College was not renewed because she joined the Texas Faculty Association, an organization in support of "academic freedom and safe working conditions," and "helped draft a June Faculty Council resolution urging more online courses as coronavirus case counts rose in Texas."

1/28/2021 - Suzanne Jones - Collin College

Professor Jones claims that her employment contract at Collin College was not renewed because she 1) criticized the College's response to the coronavirus pandemic; 2) joined the Texas Faculty Association, an organization in support of "academic freedom and safe working conditions"; and 3) signed an open letter in support of removing a confederate monument in Dallas, Texas.

1/27/2021 - Nathan Scott - Illinois Institute of Technology

Scott attempted to start a chapter on Turning Point USA at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

1/24/2021 - Kevin Kit Parker - Harvard University

Professor Parker was to teach a new course titled Data Fusion in Complex Systems: A Case Study. In it, he planned to use data analysis to assess the effectiveness of Counter-Criminal Continuum policing, or C3, in Springfield, IL. C3 was originally developed in Afghanistan and is an effective method. Students allege that this course "supports violence against marginalized communities."

1/21/2021 - Douglas Farrow - McGill University

Professor Farrow has come under fire for several of his publications, including Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage and Theological Negotiations, in which he expresses an orthodox Christian view of human sexuality and gender.

1/9/2021 - John Eastman - Chapman University

Professor Eastman spoke at President Trump's Washington, D.C. rally on 1/6/2021. When asked if he supported the riot and violence that took place, he said “What a ridiculous question. Of course I do not condone the violence at the capitol. But it was not a riot. It was perhaps a hundred thugs out of a quarter-million or half-million people.”

1/8/2021 - Gary Hypes - Seton Hill University

Following the events in Washington, D.C. on 1/6/21, Professor Hypes allegedly posted on Facebook in support of the protest/riot, including the language “War is coming!” and “Finally, just maybe we will have the bloodshed that is needed to fix this country.” He denies posting said statements, claiming that his account may have been hacked. Previous posts indicate a support for President Trump.

January 2021 - Hakeem Oluseyi - George Mason University

Professor Oluseyi published an article on Medium disputing the claim that James Webb—former administrator of NASA—was homophobic.

January 2021 - Jason J. Kilborn - University of Illinois, Chicago

In a question on a civil procedure exam involving a hypothetical workplace discrimination case, Professor Kilborn included abbreviations for the words "n____" and "b____" in a case description, which he specified as being pejoratives for African American men and women, respectively. The terms were not printed in full but identified only by their first letters, "n" and "b."

2017-2021 - Stephen Porter - North Carolina State University

Over the past five years or so, Professor Porter has made numerous statements both in speech and in writing critiquing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within his field of study. He has also critiqued "woke" ideologies more broadly and is an outspoken conservative.

2016-21 - Peter Boghossian - Portland State University

Professor Boghossian questioned many aspects of what may be broadly referred to as "wokeism," including trigger warnings, safe spaces, DEI, and CRT. He also participated in the now famous "grievance studies affair," in which he contributed absurdist papers to peer-reviewed journals in an attempt to demonstrate the failings of postmodern academia.

12/29/2020 - Abbas Ghassemi - University of California, Merced

Professor Ghassemi came under fire after posting numerous Tweets perceived as antisemitic. One of them is an image of "The Zionist Brain," displaying many Jewish stereotypes as different parts of a brain, and he frequently refers to Israel as "Israhell."

12/19/2020 - Elizabeth Weiss - San Jose State University

In September, Professor Weiss published a book she co-wrote titled Repatriation and Erasing the Past (University Press of Florida). In it, they are critical of repatriationism, which they define as "any law, practice, or ideology that seeks to give Native Americans or their presumed spokesmen the power to censor anthropological research by controlling access to archaeological remains or by limiting topics of research and publication on those remains."

12/12/2020 - Joseph Epstein - Northwestern University

Epstein wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled "Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D." In the piece, Epstein questions First Lady Jill Biden's use of the "Doctor" honorific, given that she holds an Ed.D. degree rather than an M.D.

12/12/2020 - Pedro Domingos - University of Washington

Professor Domingos expressed his concern that the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (an event dedicated to new artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies) was rejecting papers for failing "ethics reviews." He Tweeted, “How do we guard against ideological biases in such reviews? Since when are scientific conferences in the business of policing the perceived ethics of technical papers?”

12/8/2020 - José Sartarelli - University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Chancellor Sartarelli declined to fire the late professor Mike Adams, who was widely criticized for various statements deemed controversial. Sartarelli also resisted efforts to promote Black Lives Matter on campus after the killing of George Floyd, stating “It’s going to be hard for me to do that because I believe all lives matter.”

11/30/2020 - Philip Carl Salzman - McGill University

In a document titled "Open Letter Demanding the Overhaul of McGill's Statement of Academi Freedom," eight McGill student associations called for greater restrictions on academic freedom and freedom of expression on campus. They cited Professor Salzman's writings as an example of academic freedom gone wrong. Describing his offenses, they write, "Salzman goes on to condemn multiculturalism, immigration, gender parity, cultural equality, social justice, and the Black Lives Matter movement, along with dismissing the existence of rape culture and systemic racism."

11/23/2020 - Thomas E. Brennan - Ferris State University

In a staff meeting, Professor Brennan called the COVID-19 pandemic a "leftist stunt to overthrow the United States government and destroy our [civil] liberties.” He also posted at least one Tweet involving the N-word, "to try to neutralize its power," and Tweeted that some Jewish elites are part of a globalist, technocratic conspiracy.

11/20/2020 - Dorian Abbot - University of Chicago

In a series of YouTube videos on his public channel, Professor Abbot questioned the merits of academic "diversity hiring," namely, favoring women or ethnic minorities over others who may be more qualified for the job. He also claimed that academia is biased against Chinese and Christian students.

11/16/2020 - Paul Ewell - Virginia Wesleyan University

Shortly after the November presidential election, Dean Ewell posted on Facebook that anyone who voted for Joe Biden is “ignorant, anti-American and anti-Christian.”

11/11/2020 - Daniel B. Ravicher - University of Miami

Ravicher has come under fire for numerous posts on his Twitter account, which have been characterized by colleagues as having "promoted baseless claims about fraud in the presidential election, suggested a need to use lethal force against protesters after the election, compared calls for political accountability to the Holocaust, groundlessly accused law faculty of retaliating against students for their political views and made several uninformed claims about race, ethnicity and identity in the United States."

10/29/2020 - Gregory Christainsen - California State University, East Bay

Professor Christainsen, well known for his writings on race, is characterized as writing "passages in which he compares the brain sizes and IQs of sub-Saharan Africans and Latinos to whites and Europeans, attributes the wealth of nations to those IQs, and rationalizes employment and pay discrimination along racial, ethnic and gender lines."

10/29/2020 - Jeffrey Leopold - University of Virginia

In a lecture, Professor Leopold allegedly joked that “Africans didn’t know what food meant.” The context for this remark is currently unknown.

10/21/2020 - Helen M. Alvaré - George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Professor Alvaré was invited by the Duke Federalist Society to speak at an event called "Putting Children at the Front Door of Family Law." A group of Duke law students wrote "A plea to disinvite Professor Alvare," citing her "unapologetic anti-LGBTQ+ -rights views." Alvaré is a Roman Catholic and holds to traditional Catholic teachings on matters of marriage, sexuality, and gender.

10/12/2020 - Mary K. Gayne - James Madison University

In a tweet about the 2020 election, Professor Gayne wrote “The Republican Party can die for all I care. ... F*ck ‘em all.”

10/12/2020 - Richard Paxton - Pacific University

Professor Paxton faced student complaints regarding various statements he has made in class regarding transgender people, women, Italians, and Jews. Paxton himself is Jewish.

October 2020 - Jay Bhattacharya - Stanford University

Professor Bhattacharya co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement signed by nearly one million people that questioned the government's response to COVID-19.

October 2020 - Martin Kulldorff - Harvard University

Professor Kulldorff co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement signed by nearly one million people that questioned the government's response to COV

10/1/2020 - Nathan Jun - Midwestern State University Texas

In a Facebook post, Professor Jun wrote "I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician." He claims this was a tongue-in-cheek reference to a quote attributed to 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

9/29/2020 - Craig Chapman - University of New Hampshire

Professor Chapman is alleged to have operated a Twitter account called "The Science Femme," in which he claimed to be a "WOC" (woman of color). The Science Femme claimed it was instrumental in "killing my dept’s woke statement on recent social unrest."

9/23/2020 - Verushka Lieutenant-Duval - University of Ottawa

Professor Lieutenant-Duval said the N-word while explaining to students how some groups have re-appropriated terms considered slurs.

9/17/2020 - John Ucker - University of Cincinnati

In an email to students, Ucker referred to COVID-19 as "the chinese virus."

9/11/2020 - Gary Shank - Duquesne University

Professor Shank repeatedly said the N-word in a class, claiming he was using it in "the pedagogical sense" by giving examples of how the word was used in years past.

9/11/2020 - Richard Taylor - St. John’s University

Professor Taylor led a classroom discussion about the Columbian exchange, questioning whether "the positives justify the negatives." This includes the transatlantic slave trade but was not limited to it. A student group called the "Radical Social Justice Warriors" then defamed Taylor on Instagram, calling him a "racist predator" and demanding his firing.

9/8/2020 - William Richard Conte - Casper College (Source: Personal correspondence.)

Professor Conte performed an impromptu “COVID Exorcism” in the theatre before a departmental meeting of students and faculty, much to the delight of the students. A colleague reported him to administration, and Conte was offered a buy-out of his contract in exchange for the suspension of an investigation that would have led to his termination for insubordination and egregious conduct.

9/7/2020 - Frances Widdowson - Mount Royal University

Professor Widdowson said in an interview that the Black Lives Matter movement has "destroyed MRU [Mount Royal University]" and that she "doesn't recognize the institution anymore."

9/4/2020 - Eliezer Gafni - University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Gafni responded to a student who requested that faculty refrain from using the term "Wuhan virus" to refer to COVID-19. Gafni told the student they were making a political issue out of the virus, questioned the student body's concern for "sensitivity" and political correctness, and mentioned the fact that he has a Chinese wife as evidence that he is not racist.

9/1/2020 - Gregory Patton - University of Southern California

Professor Patton repeatedly said the Mandarin word "nei ge" in class, which means "that" in English and sounds somewhat similar to the N-word. He said it to illustrate "the usage of a Chinese filler word for 'that,' comparing it to the usage of 'like,' 'um,' and other American filler words."

8/25/2020 - Jon Zubieta - Syracuse University

On a course syllabus, Professor Zubieta referred to COVID-19 as both the "Wuhan flu" and the "Chinese Communist Party Virus."

8/24/2020 - Joel Poor - University of Missouri

Professor Poor asked students in his Marketing 3000 class where they are from. One student said he is from Wuhan, China. Poor said jokingly, “Let me get my mask on, OK? Hold on."

8/24/2020 - James S. Spiegel - Taylor University

Professor Spiegel posted an original song on YouTube called "Little Hitler," in which he sings about how "there's a brutal killer in all of us." The song is meant to convey the Christian doctrine of original sin.

8/24/2020 - Mark Vinci - Skidmore College

Vinci attended a "Back the Blue" rally in Saratoga Springs, New York, expressing his support for the police.

8/24/2020 - David Peterson - Skidmore College

Professor Peterson attended a "Back the Blue" rally in Saratoga Springs, New York, expressing his support for the police.

8/24/2020 - Andrea Peterson - Skidmore College

Professor Peterson attended a "Back the Blue" rally in Saratoga Springs, New York, expressing her support for the police.

8/6/2020 - Cliff Mass - University of Washington

Professor Mass wrote a post on his popular blog, the Cliff Mass Weather Blog, titled "Seattle: A City in Fear Can Be Restored," which compared the current unrest of Seattle to Nazi Germany, specifically mentioning the Kristallnacht. He is also accused of "enabling climate denial and misogyny" in past posts.

8/2/2020 - Norman C. Wang - University of Pittsburgh

Professor Wang published an article in the Journal of the American Heart Association titled "Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the United States of America From 1969 to 2019." In this essay, Wang questions the merits and effectiveness of racial preferences in medical school admissions.

August 2020 - April Mustian - Winthrop University

Professor Mustian posted a veiled threat on Facebook directed toward white K-12 teachers who post "pro-police anti-Black rhetoric" on social media. The post read, in part, “This is a new day, folks. People are getting fired for being racist on social media…if your first thought is to delete me because of this post, chances are I already have some screenshots." This was then shared on the Young America's Foundation website, leading many to complain to Winthrop administration.

7/31/2020 - Ronald Caltabiano - DePaul University

Dean Caltabiano led a virtual forum "to address student concerns regarding diversity and inclusion amid the protests and growing nationwide unrest regarding the murder of George Floyd and many others at the hands of police." Students determined he lacked "sensitivity and understanding” and was “unprepared to lead this forum and lacked the empathy to fully comprehend the experiences of his students of color.”

7/31/2020 - Diane Klein - University of La Verne

Professor Klein, who is white, said in a Faculty Senate meeting that she would "assassinate" Jendayi Saada, the Assistant Dean of the University of La Verne Law School, who is black. Klein allegedly intended this as a rhetorical remark, in the sense of character assassination rather than literal assassination. The comment was perceived as racist.

7/30/2020 - Jeffrey Poelvoorde - Converse College

Professor Poelvoorde refused to complete two "diversity and antibias" training modules required of all Converse College faculty. The National Association of Scholars published his open letter written to the college's leadership.

7/27/2020 - Timothy Jackson - University of North Texas

Professor Jackson helps run the Journal of Schenkerian Studies (JSS), a UNT-based academic journal dedicated to the life and work of influential music theorist Heinrich Schenker. Philip Ewell of CUNY's Hunter College delivered a plenary address in which he argued that Schenker was a racist and helped enshrine "institutional racism" in the field of music theory. Jackson responded in the most recent issue of JSS, critiquing Ewell's analysis.

7/25/2020 - Lawrence Mead - New York University

Professor Mead's article "Poverty and Culture" was published in the journal Societyin July 2020. The essay is based on his 2019 book Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American Power. In both the book and article, Mead argues that certain groups of people are better prepared to thrive in America's individualist culture than others.

7/16/2020 - Derek Pyne - Thompson Rivers University

Professor Pyne posted a statement Facebook in which he criticized the Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association, claiming that it is opposed to academic freedom.

7/14/2020 - Austin Tong - Fordham University

Tong posted on his Instagram account a photograph of himself holding a rifle with the caption, “Don’t tread on me. #198964.” This hashtag is in reference to the date of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.

7/11/2020 - Stuart H. Hulbert - San Diego State University

Professor Hulbert has made multiple statements deemed controversial on topics such as Black Lives Matter, immigration, and globalism.

7/9/2020 - W.P. Chedester - West Virginia University

After the killing of George Floyd, Chedester co-hosted a virtual "Campus Conversation" over Zoom to discuss "systemic racism" and police brutality. On his wall was seen the Thin Blue Line Flag, a flag that has historically expressed support for the police but that some view as racist and white supremacist.

7/3/2020 - Steven Pinker - Harvard University

Professor Pinker has come under fire for a series of statements he made on Twitter and in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, all of which are perceived to be racist. Some of these statements contradict the idea that there exists "systemic racism" in policing.

7/1/2020 - Robert Dailyda - Stockton University

Dailyda used a photograph of President Trump as a Zoom background. He also made statements in a GroupMe group chat and a Facebook post that some deemed offensive and "intolerant."

July 2020 - Jesse Goldberg - Auburn University

In response to a news story of a plain-clothes police officer arresting a violent protestor in New York City, Goldberg posted a tweet which read, in part, "This is kidnapping. F*ck every cop. Every single one."

July 2020 - Joshua Katz - Princeton University

Professor Katz wrote a column for Quillette in response to a Princeton faculty letter on "anti-blackness" and "anti-racism." In the article, he calls the Black Justice League a "small local terrorist organization." He is also alleged to have "misgendered" one of the group's leaders.

July 2020 - Patricia Simon - Marymount Manhattan College

Professor Simon participated in a virtual town hall meeting held over Zoom, in which MMC presented its plans to implement an "anti-racist" institutional framework. She allegedly fell asleep during the presentation.

July 2020 - William McNally - Wilfrid Laurier University

Professor McNally and his colleague, Professor David M. Haskell, wrote an open letter to the WLU administration disputing its claim that the university is rife with "systemic racism."

July 2020 - David M. Haskell - Wilfrid Laurier University

Professor Haskell and his colleague, Professor William McNally, wrote an open letter to the WLU administration disputing its claim that the university is rife with "systemic racism."

6/26/2020 - Kylee McLaughlin - University of Oklahoma

McLaughlin critiqued "13th," a documentary about race and the American prison system showed to the volleyball team, after asked for her views. She also criticized the University of Texas for entertaining the idea of changing its fight song.

6/24/2020 - Elisa Parrett - Lake Washington Institute of Technology

Professor Parrett was required to attend a diversity training session called "Courageous Conversations," which was heavily inspired by Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility. During the session, Parrett asked for permission and then read aloud a five-minute statement expressing her disagreements with the format and content of the training.

6/22/2020 - Tim Boudreau - Central Michigan University

Professor Boudreau delivered a class lecture on a 1993 lawsuit between Central Michigan University and a basketball coach the school had fired at the time. Boudreau quoted the remarks that led to the coach's firing, which included two instances of the N-word.

6/22/2020 - Richard Grenell - Carnegie Mellon University

Grenell, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence, made various statements during his time in the Trump administration perceived as offensive.

6/21/2020 - Justine Murray - Syracuse University

Justine published a post on Instagram mocking the idea that Thanksgiving celebrates the "cultural genocide" of Native Americans, as many claim. She is also vocally pro-Israel on campus, provoking the ire of many professors and fellow students.

6/19/2020 - Matthew Hubbard - Laney College

Professor Hubbard allegedly asked a Vietnamese-American student to "anglicize" her legal name because it sounds like an "insult in English."

6/18/2020 - Michael Korenberg - University of British Columbia

Korenberg liked various Tweets posted by right-wing figures, including President Trump, Ann Coulter, and Dinesh D'Souza.

6/18/2020 - Margaret Wente - University of Toronto

Wente was due to become a senior fellow at the University of Toronto, but upon the school's announcement of her hiring, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and donors started a petition in protest, citing "her history of inflammatory columns dealing with race and multiple accusations of plagiarism."

6/15/2020 - Mike Gundy - Oklahoma State University

Coach Gundy wore a shirt displaying the name and logo of One American News (OAN), a right-wing news network.

6/15/2020 - Paul Kengor - Grove City College

Professor Kengor is accused of spreading "anti-Blackness," racism, and white nationalism through his writing for Grove City College's Institute for Faith and Freedom.

6/12/2020 - Harald Uhlig - University of Chicago

Professor Uhlig Tweeted two statements on the topic of race, including saying the the Black Lives Matter movement has "torpedoed itself, with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice." A 2017 blog post by Uhlig has also resurfaced, which includes his views on Colin Kaepernick.

6/10/2020 - Stephen Hsu - Michigan State University

Hsu has been criticized for various blog posts, interviews, and podcasts on the topics of race and sex from 2008-2020. One such podcast is with Stefan Molyneux, a figure Hsu claims was not controversial at the time but now is.

6/10/2020 - Adrianna San Marco - Syracuse University

San Marco published an opinion column in LifeZette titled "Why institutional racism is a myth." In it, she argues against the existence of "institutional racism," primarily relying on crime statistics to make her case.

6/9/2020 - Daniel Patrick Moloney - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moloney was asked to resign after sending an email to MIT's Roman Catholic community, in which he expressed doubt that the killing of George Floyd was racially motivated. He also criticized Floyd's character.

6/8/2020 - David Lesbarrères - Laurentian University

Dean Lesbarrères published a Tweet that included the hashtag #AllLivesMatters.

6/6/2020 - Tomáš Hudlický - Brock University

Professor Hudlický's essay "Organic synthesis — Where now?" was published by the prestigious German chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie. In it, Hudlický expresses reservations about preferential hiring on the basis of race and sex in his field.

6/6/2020 - William A. Jacobson - Cornell University

Professor Jacobson posted two articles criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement on his blog, Legal Insurrection.

6/5/2020 - Mike Adams - University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Professor Adams tweeted that he was living in a "slave state" due to COVID-19 restrictions. He also referred to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper as "Massa." Adams later tweeted remarks perceived as sexist.

6/5/2020 - Douglas Brooks - Miami University

Professor Brooks allegedly called a group of Black Lives Matter protesters "monkeys."

6/5/2020 - David Collum - Cornell University

Professor Collum tweeted in support of the Buffalo Police Department officers who were suspended without pay after a physical altercation with an elderly man at a racialist protest.

6/5/2020 - Vern Knopp - University of British Columbia

Coach Knopp liked a Tweet reading “Black Lives Matter is a leftist LIE.”

6/4/2020 - Sonya Duhé - Arizona State University

A group of Duhé's former students at Loyola University New Orleans claim that Duhé's remarks about an African American student's hairstyle were racist. She also recently tweeted in support of the police during Black Lives Matter protests.

6/4/2020 - Leslie Neal-Boylan - University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Dean Neal-Boylan sent an email to the Solomont School of Nursing in response to the recent racialist tensions around the country. In the email, she wrote "BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE'S LIFE MATTERS." The second half of this sentence was seen as racist among fellow administrators, faculty, and students.

6/4/2020 - Charles Negy - University of Central Florida

Professor Negy is under investigation for "displaying bias and unfair treatment in the classroom." However, the investigation began merely one day after Negy tweeted two statements on the topic of race. One contained the phrase "black privilege."

6/3/2020 - Gordon Klein - University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Klein faced student demands via email to award lenient grades to African-American students in the wake of George Floyd's death. Klein declined.

6/3/2020 - Carrie Menkel-Meadow - University of California, Irvine

Professor Menkel-Meadow said the N-word in one of her classes.

6/2/2020 - W. Ajax Peris - University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Peris read a portion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" aloud in class. The excerpt contained the N-word. He also showed a documentary about lynching.

6/1/2020 - Scott Senjo - Weber State University

Professor Senjo tweeted several statements supporting the police's role in combatting Black Lives Matter protests, including at least two that were perceived as threats.

June 2020 - Walter Block - Loyola University New Orleans

Professor Block is under fire for numerous statements on topics including slavery and the "gender pay gap." In 2017, he was disinvited from delivering a talk at Ramapo College for similar reasons.

5/29/2020 - Michael McConnell - Stanford Law School

Professor McConnell said the N-word while reading aloud from historical source material in class. The quote he read was allegedly by Patrick Henry.

5/12/2020 - Mark Herring - Winthrop University

Dr. Herring wrote an op-ed published by Against the Grain in which he referred to COVID-19 as the "Wuhan virus" and quoted a friend who called it the "Kung Flu."

May 2020 - John Tieso - The Catholic University of America

Professor Tieso drew the ire of his employer and students after posting allegedly racist tweets criticizing former President Obama and Senator Kamala Harris.

4/28/2020 - Rose Salseda - Stanford University

Professor Salseda said the N-word during a guest lecture while reading aloud the lyrics from a N.W.A. song.

3/24/2020 - Kathleen Lowrey - University of Alberta

Professor Lowrey is a self-described "gender-critical feminist," that is, she does not view biological sex as irrelevant to womens' issues as some segments of the LGBTQ movement do. She expressed these views in one of her classes.

Spring 2020 - Robin Root - Baruch College

Baruch College's Faculty of Color Caucus, part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, demanded that all white colleagues undergo so-called "white fragility training." They then presented a report, in which Professor Root claims to have been "singled out during a meeting without warning" and "ignored by administrators when she tried to file a formal discrimination complaint."

February 2020 - Bo Winegard - Marietta College

Professor Winegard led a seminar called “The Evolution of Human Diversity,” in which he discussed the theory of human population variation from a Darwinian perspective.

February 2020 - Colin Wright - Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Wright published several articles from 2018-20 critiquing contemporary notions of transgenderism and "gender identity," arguing that biological sex is not a social construct and that gender dysphoria is harmful to children.

12/2/2019 - Nathaniel Hiers - University of North Texas

Professor Hiers noticed a stack of fliers in the faculty lounge on the theory of "microaggressions," urging faculty members to avoid committing them. He proceeded to write on the chalkboard "Please don’t leave garbage lying around" with an arrow pointing to the fliers.

11/26/2019 - Dougal MacDonald - University of Alberta

MacDonald posted on Facebook doubting the historical veracity of the Holodomor, a widely recognized genocide against the Ukranian people by the Soviet Union in 1932-33.

11/20/2019 - Eric Rasmusen - Indiana University, Bloomington

Professor Rasmusen came under fire for several Tweets, including one in particular in which he questioned the benefit of women in academia and critiqued women's studies departments. In other Tweets, he expresses reservations about racial preferences in academic admissions and about homosexual men being allowed in academia.

11/18/2019 - Abigail Thompson - University of California, Davis

Professor Thompson, who is also a Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), wrote an essay in the AMS' Notices in which she expressed reservations about the use of "diversity" statements in faculty hiring.

November 2019 - Mark Richards - University of Washington

Provost Richards sent an email to students and faculty, part of which read “With ‘access and excellence’ as our mantra, we are working hard to more effectively link our capital investments to our academic mission and priorities.” The use of the word "mantra" taken as offensive toward Buddhists and Hindus, who "hold this term ... as a highly spiritual and religious experience, not to be used in the way Mark Richards did with nonchalance."

9/7/2019 - Mark Hecht - Mount Royal University

Hecht wrote an op-ed published by the Vancouver Sun titled "Can Social Trust and Diversity Co-Exist?" In it, he questions the merits of high ethnic diversity within a single country, encouraging Canada to emulate other nations such as Denmark, which he views as having low ethnic diversity and high "social cohesion."

9/5/2019 - Jamie R. Riley - University of Alabama

Multiple Tweets posted by Dean Riley in 2017 resurfaced through a Breitbart article, one of which read The [American flag emoji] flag represents a systemic history of racism for my people. Police are a part of that system. Is it that hard to see the correlation?"

8/28/2019 - Kursat Pekgoz - University of Southern California

Pekgoz filed a complaint against USC through the Office for Civil Rights, claiming that the university's scholarship opportunities open only to women violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

8/7/2019 - Daniel Povey - Johns Hopkins University

A group of Johns Hopkins students staged a sit-in, which was a response to a bill "that would allow Hopkins to create an armed campus police force, as well as the university’s contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." The building they occupied, the doors of which they locked up with chains, houses several university research servers. Professor Povey used boltcutters to enter the building, fearing that he and colleagues would lose research due to the lack of server maintenance.

6/10/2019 - Franz-Edward Kurtzke - University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia's First Nations House of Learning hosted an event titled "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: An Epidemic Crossing the Medicine Line." At this event, Kurtzke asked keynote speaker Marion Buller why she focused on cases of missing women, when, he claims, the majority of missing indigenous persons cases are men. He also asked why she focused on missing indigenous people and not missing Canadians in general.

6/4/2019 - Ricardo Duchesne - University of New Brunswick

Professor Duchesne frequently writes for a blog he co-founded called the Council of European Canadians. The views he expresses there and elsewhere are seen as white nationalist and racist. He has also appeared on a podcast with right-wing commentator Faith Goldy.

June 2019 - Laurie Sheck - The New School

Professor Sheck said the N-word while quoting from James Baldwin.

5/11/2019 - Ronald Sullivan - Harvard University

Professor Sullivan chose to join Harvey Weinstein's legal team.

5/1/2019 - Jason Hill - DePaul University

Professor Hill wrote an op-ed for The Federalist in which he expressed support for Israel's annexation of the West Bank and other territories. He also questioned Palestinians' ability to maintain a stable nation.

May 2019 - Susan Crockford - University of Victoria

Crockford runs a popular blog, polarbearscience.com, in which she presents zoological research arguing that polar bears are not in fact threatened by global warming. She believes that her dismissal from the University of Victoria is a result of environmentalists taking umbrage with the website.

April 2019 - Camille Paglia - University of the Arts

Professor Paglia critiqued the Me Too and transgender movements, calling into question the veracity of some womens' claims of sexual assault and the idea that one's gender can really change.

April 2019 - Timothy Wickham-Crowley - Georgetown University

Professor Wickham-Crowley said the n-word while reading aloud from a course textbook. He is also accused of invoking "harmful stereotypes about Black and Latinx people" and dismissing "students’ attempts to discuss representation and intersectionality."

3/11/2019 - Samuel Abrams - Sarah Lawrence College

Professor Abrams wrote an op-ed published by The New York Times titled "Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators." In it, he criticizes his school's Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement for sponsoring “a politically lopsided event” intended to bolster progressive sentiments on campus.

2/12/2019 - Tyler Toomey - State University of New York, Oswego

Toomey served as chair of SUNY Oswego's Young America's Foundation (YAF) chapter and helped organize an informational table in the school's student center supporting President Trump's proposed border wall.

January 2019 - Kenneth R. Mayer - University of Wisconsin, Madison

Just before the spring 2019 semester, Professor Mayer issued a syllabus to one of his classes, which included language some considered biased and inflammatory. For example, when speaking about Trump, he said “To others, he is a spectacularly unqualified and catastrophically unfit egomaniac who poses an overt threat to the Republic.” He was then condemned on Tucker Carlson Tonight and allegedly received death threats.

2019 - Steven Hayward - University of California, Berkeley

Professor Hayward announced a graduate seminar within UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy titled "Free-Market Environmentalism, Ecomodernism, Degrowth, and Other Heterodox Perspectives." Students then discovered Hayward's history of conservative views and began to call him various names on Twitter, including a "sexist" and "right-wing propagandist."

12/30/2018 - Kieran Bhattacharya - University of Virginia

Bhattacharya attended a panel discussion on the subject of microaggressions, during which he challenged one of the presenter's definition of the term. He then pushed back against the university for requiring him to be evaluated by psychological services in response to his questions during the event.

11/18/2018 - Javier Tapia - Virginia Commonwealth University

Professor Tapia called campus security after seeing Assistant Professor Caitlin Cherry in an area restricted to faculty only. Tapia did not know that Cherry was a faculty member and thought she was a student due to her "youthful appearance." Cherry is black and Tapia is a fair-skinned Latino.

11/16/2018 - Phillip C. Adamo - Augsburg University

Professor Adamo said the N-word while quoting from James Baldwin.

10/23/2018 - Rodney Clifton - University of Manitoba

Professor Clifton was scheduled to deliver a lecture at the University of Winnipeg Club's "Hot Lunch Speakers Series" called “What’s in a School’s Name? The Names Given to Residential Schools.” His past research on the topic was seen as controversial.

10/4/2018 - Mitchell Langbert - Brooklyn College

In a satirical blog post, Professor Langbert wrote "If someone did not commit sexual assault in high school, then he is not a member of the male sex. The Democrats have discovered that 15-year- olds play spin-the-bottle, and they have jumped on a series of supposed spin-the-bottle crimes during Kavanaugh's minority, which they characterize as rape, although no one complained or reported any crime for 40 years." This was perceived as promoting sexual assault and "rape culture."

September 2018 - Steven Gerrard - Williams College

Professor Gerrard and a small group of Williams faculty circulated the "Chicago Statement," a free speech policy statement written by Committee on Freedom of Expression at the University of Chicago.

8/27/2018 - Lisa Littman - Brown University

Professor Littman published a study in which she coined the term "rapid-onset gender dysphoria," that is, gender dysphoria that is primarily caused by social pressures, particularly in children.

8/24/2018 - Paul J. Zwier II - Emory University

Professor Zwier said the word "negro" when discussing a 1967 court case. The case surrounds an incident in which that word was used.

8/15/2018 - Garth Stevenson - Brock University

In response to the removal of a statue of John A. MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister, from Victoria, British Columbia's city hall, Professor Stevenson posted a series of Tweets criticizing aboriginal Canadians.

8/1/2018 - Stuart Reges - University of Washington

Reges published an article in Quillette titled "Why Women Don't Code," in which he challenges mainstream progressive narratives as to why women are "underrepresented" in the field of computer science.

7/12/2018 - Eric Clopper - Harvard University

Clopper participated in a play critiquing the custom of circumcision, in which he "stripped nude and referred to Jewish people as 'an unmasked genital mutilation cult.'"

March 2018 - Amy Wax - University of Pennsylvania

Professor Wax published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer in which she argues that all cultures are not equally equipped to thrive in an advanced economy. She also criticized affirmative action in a podcast.

2/6/2018 - Lawrence Rosen - Princeton University

During a class discussion about hate speech, Professor Rosen asked his students, “What is worse, a white man punching a black man, or a white man calling a black man a n****r?”

2/6/2018 - Eric Triffin - Southern Connecticut State University

Professor Triffin said the N-word while singing along to a song in class.

February 2018 - David B. Porter - Berea College

Professor Porter developed a survey to gauge views on academic freedom and hostile environments while teaching a course on industrial and organizational psychology.

1/30/2018 - Jean Laberge - Cégep du Vieux Montréal

In a Facebook post, Professor Laberge expressed his "disgust for homosexuals," calling homosexuality a "primitive reaction" that degrades male sexuality.

1/25/2018 - Nicholas Meriwether - Shawnee State University

Professor Meriwether refused to refer to a male student by his preferred, feminine pronouns, instead calling him "sir." Meriwether cited his personal religious beliefs as an evangelical Christian.

January 2018 - Rick Mehta - Acadia University

Professor Mehta, a tenured professor and self-described "free speech advocate," expressed allegedly controversial views both in the classroom and on social media on topics such as decolonization, immigration, and gender politics. He also called multiculturalism "a scam."

2017-2018 - Allan Josephson - University of Louisville

Professor Josephson participated in a panel discussion hosted by The Heritage Foundation, in which he made various remarks regarding children suffering from gender dysphoria. Among these was, “the notion that gender identity should trump … reproductive organs, external genitalia … is counter to medical science.”

November 2017 - Lindsay Shepherd - Wilfrid Laurier University

While serving as a teaching assistant in a first-year Communications Studies class, Shepherd showed a video to students featuring a debate between Jordan Peterson and Nicholas Matte on the subject of gender-neutral pronouns.

10/20/2017 - Eric Thompson - Riverside Community College District

Professor Thompson expressed conservative views in class seen as "derogatory," including that "women who have children should not be out of the home." He also allegedly expressed 'only one view when discussing gender, gender identity or sexual orientation."

9/18/2017 - Bruce Gilley - Portland State University

Professor Gilley's article "The Case for Colonialism" was published in the journal Third World Quarterly. In it, he argues that “Anticolonialism ravaged countries as nationalist elites mobilized illiterate populations with appeals to destroy the market economies, pluralistic and constitutional polities, and rational policy processes of European colonizers.”

September 2017 - Rachel Fulton Brown - University of Chicago

Professor Fulton Brown, an acclaimed medievalist, was the subject of years-long criticism from fellow medieval scholar Dorothy Kim of Vassar College. On her blog In the Middle, Professor Kim published a post titled "Teaching Medieval Studies in a Time of White Supremacy," in which she argues that medieval European history has been "weaponized" by contemporary white supremacists. Fulton Brown responded in her own blog, Fencing Bear at Prayer, with her own article "How to Signal You Are Not a White Supremacist." Members and friends of the International Piers PlowmanSociety viewed Fulton Brown's response as racist in tone and content.

8/17/2017 - Matthew Halls - University of Oregon

Halls, a white, British conductor, allegedly mimicked the Southern accent of an African American colleague.

7/5/2017 - Masuma Khan - Dalhousie University

The Novia Scotia Young Progressive Conservatives posted criticism of the Dalhousie Student Union on Facebook, citing their refusal to participate in Canada 150 celebrations. Khan responded with a post of her own, saying "At this point, f*** you all ... I stand by the motion I put forward. I stand by Indigenous students. ... Be proud of this country? For what, over 400 years of genocide?"

June 2017 - Lisa Durden - Essex County College

Professor Durden appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss issues relating to Black Lives Matter. She supported the actions of BLM, including black-only events, stirring controversy within her institution.

May 2017 - Bret Weinstein - The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College has a longstanding tradition called the "Day of Absence," in which minority students and faculty would voluntarily refrain from coming to campus in order to demonstrate the weight of their absence, and therefore of their worth in the college. In 2017, the college announced that the tradition would be reversed, such that white students and professors would be asked to attend an off-campus program on racism, while minorities would stay on campus for their own program. Professor Weinstein objected, claiming that the school was in effect telling white people to "go away."

3/27/2017 - Dennis Gouws - Springfield College

In 2005, Professor Gouws was asked to teach a "Men in Literature" course, which he did periodically until 2015, when a student complained about the focus on men. Anne Herzog, Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Professional Studies, asked that he revise the course, and Gouws attempted to stand his ground.

3/21/2017 - Andrew Potter - McGill University

Potter wrote an op-ed published by Maclean's, in which he attempts to connect a massive snowstorm in Quebec to what he describes as the province's "mass breakdown in the social order."

3/3/2017 - Allison Stanger - Middlebury College

Dr. Charles Murray was invited to speak at Middlebury by the local chapter of the American Enterprise Institute. Some of his past research is seen as controversial, so students disrputed the event with a protest. This protest turned into a violent mob when Murray and Stanger attempted to leave. A student pulled Stanger's hair and twisted her neck, after which she went to the hospital and wore a neck brace.

February 2017 - Justine Schwarz - University of Minnesota

Schwarz allegedly enjoyed "playing devil's advocate" when discussing issues surrounding "diversity" and "social justice" with her students.

December 2016 - Sandor Dosman - Wilfrid Laurier University

Dosman posted a tongue-in-cheek employment ad on Facebook, in which he, among other things, stated that he needed "a new slave (full time staff member)." He was then reported by a student group, who had him escorted off of campus by security, effectively closing the cafe.

11/15/2016 - Joy Karega - Oberlin College

Professor Karega posted several statements on Facebook perceived as anti-semitic and anti-Israel. These include posts claiming that ISIS is run by the CIA and Mossad and that Israel orchestrated the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

11/2/2016 - Anthony Esolen - Providence College

Professor Esolen wrote two op-eds for Crisis, a Catholic magazine, critiquing his college's leftward drift on issues such as "diversity" and sexuality.

10/26/2016 - Michael Rectenwald - New York University

In September 2016, Professor Rectenwald created an anonymous Twitter account called "Deplorable NYU Prof," with which he critiqued various aspects of NYU's campus culture, including "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings." He then admitted to an NYU student newspaper that he was behind the account.

10/5/2016 - Jordan Peterson - University of Toronto

Professor Peterson released a Youtube video titled “Professor against political correctness: Part I,” in which he critiqued Canadian laws protecting various forms of gender expression. He also expressed doubt about the concept of the "gender spectrum" in general.

9/29/2016 - Anthony Hall - University of Lethbridge

In a Facebook post, Professor Hall suggested links between Israel and 9/11. He also expressed skepticism regarding certain events of the Holocaust.

7/27/2016 - Rohini Sethi - University of Houston

After five police officers were shot and killed during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, Sethi posted on Facebook “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter."

January 2016 - James Tracy - Florida Atlantic University

Professor Tracy got in hot water after school officials discovered some of his articles on Memory Hole Blog, including pieces that questioned the reported details of the Sandy Hook shooting.

December 2015 - Michael Persinger - Laurentian University

Professor Persinger distributed a survey to his introductory psychology course in which he asked students to sign off on the use of certain explitives in class, including "f*ck," "p*ssy," and "f*g." He claims that the use of these words is one of his pedagogical "techniques," as they provoke a particular reaction in those who say and hear them.

11/17/2015 - Andrea Quenette - University of Kansas

During a class discussion about race, Professor Quenette attempted to provide an example of her "white privilege" by saying the following: “As a white woman I just never have seen the racism. … It’s not like I see ‘n*gger’ spray painted on walls.”

11/12/2015 - Mary Spellman - Claremont McKenna College

Dean Spellman sent an email to a Latina student saying she would work to serve those who “don’t fit our CMC mold.”

10/31/2015 - Nicholas Christakis - Yale University

Erika Christakis, Nicholas Christakis' wife, sent an email to Yale undergraduates discussing the university's recent decision to issue guidance on which Halloween costumes are "appropriate" for students to wear. She expressed that free expression should remain unhindered, and that students should be responsible for "dressing yourselves."

10/31/2015 - Erika Christakis - Yale University

Christakis sent an email to Yale undergraduates discussing the university's recent decision to issue guidance on which Halloween costumes are "appropriate" for students to wear. She expressed that free expression should remain unhindered, and that students should be responsible for "dressing yourselves."

7/21/15 - Rick Coupland - St. Lawrence College

Sharing a Facebook article about rainbow flags, Professor Coupland wrote "It's the queers they should be hanging, not the flag ...."

2/18/2015 - Andrew Pessin - Connecticut College

Professor Pessin published a post on Facebook, which included the following: "One image which essentializes the current situation in Gaza might be this. You’ve got a rabid pit bull chained in a cage, regularly making mass efforts to escape. ... Anyone who fails to recognize that clear and obvious fact is demanding the release of a rabid pit bull." His critics believe he compared Palestinians to animals.

12/17/2014 - John McAdams - Marquette University

Cheryl Abbate, a Marquette teaching assistant, taught a "Theory of Ethics" undergraduate course. In that class she allegedly shut down a discussion about gay marriage for fearing of offending gay students in the class. Professor McAdams criticized this decision on his blog, Marquette Warrior.

8/1/2014 - Steven Salaita - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor Salaita posted hundreds of Tweets criticizing Israel's actions in the Gaza region.

July 2012 - Mark Regnerus - University of Texas at Austin

Professor Regnerus published an article in Social Science Research titled "How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study." It was alleged that Regnerus' study and findings are hateful towards LGBT groups.

January 2012 - Alexander Mirkovik - Arkansas Tech University

According to Mirkovik: "I was told that the university president overruled all the positive recommendation from lower levels of decision making, because I was 'too European' for the position in World History."

January 2012 - Joseph Khoury - University of California, Riverside

Professor Khoury is alleged to have misreported income received during sabbaticals. He claims that his dismissal was also due to his Republican political views, Lebanese heritage, and and advocacy for hiring minority professors.

2/10/2010 - James Enstrom - University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Enstrom was terminated from his 34-year research professor position at UCLA because his colleagues retaliated against him for publishing peer-reviewed research findings that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) does not cause premature deaths in California, and for identifying legal violations by UCLA and UC faculty members and a CARB employee.

June 2007 - Norman G. Finkelstein - DePaul University

Professor Finkelstein published various writings critiquing Zionism and what he calls the "Holocaust industry." This drew the ire of many Jewish scholars, most notably Alan Dershowitz, whose work Finkelstein critiqued.

2003 - J. Michael Bailey - Northwestern University

Professor Bailey published a book titled The Man Who Would Be Queen, in which he challenges the common belief that men with gender dysphoria are, in essence, "women trapped in men's bodies."

1988 - Stephan Thernstrom - Harvard University

Professor Thernstrom's views of slavery and Jim Crow laws expressed in class were seen as "racially insensitive" by some of his students.

1975 - Edward O. Wilson - Harvard University

Professor Wilson published a now-classic book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, in which he suggests that many social tendencies may be attributable to natural selection. This was perceived as supporting scientific racism and genetic determinism.

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Editor's Note: This article was originally published under the name "John David," the former pseudonym of NAS Communications & Research Associate David Acevedo. To learn more about why David no longer writes under this name, click here.

David Acevedo is Communications & Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars.