Harvard President Claudine Gay appears to have plagiarized sections of Ph.D. dissertation, according to research published Sunday evening by Christopher Rufo.<\/p>\n
“First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam\u2019s paper, ‘Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment,’ while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language,” Rufo reported<\/a> on his Substack along with journalist Christopher Brunet.<\/p>\n “Though Gay does provide a reference to the original authors, she uses their verbatim language, with a few trivial synonym substitutions, without providing quotation marks,” he reported.<\/p>\n “…Gay repeats this violation throughout the document, again using work from Bobo and Gilliam, as well as passages from Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan, which she reproduces nearly verbatim, without quotation marks.”<\/p>\n Rufo posted screenshots of the comparisons on his X account, arguing the examples are violations of Harvard’s academic integrity policy.<\/p>\n EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet<\/a> and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity.<\/p>\n This is a bombshell. \ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n — Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n