Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer has been hit with dozens of plagiarism allegations linked to her academic work – including one allegation she failed to properly cite her own husband’s research.
The Ivy League school received an anonymous complaint Monday listing at least 40 instances of alleged plagiarism by Sherri Ann Charleston dating back to 2009 — a decade before she joined Harvard, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The accusations, which include failing to properly cite the work of other scholars and not referencing it in footnotes, come just weeks after Harvard University president Claudine Gay resigned from her top post after being embroiled in a scandal over allegations that she plagiarized her work and handling it. antisemitism on campus.
According to the Beacon, which conducted its own analysis of the complaint, Charleston allegedly quoted or paraphrased a dozen scholars without adequate attribution in his 2009 dissertation at the University of Michigan.
The complaint also alleges Charleston ultimately took credit for a study that her husband, LaVar Charleston — now the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion — wrote in 2012.
Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, has been accused of plagiarism. Harvard University The complaint alleges that Charleston failed to properly cite a study written by her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2009. University of Wisconsin
That instance of alleged plagiarism came after Charleston redacted a large portion of her husband’s paper in a peer-reviewed article they co-authored in 2014, according to the complaint.
A 2014 article, published in the Journal of Negro Education, has the same findings, methods and description of survey subjects included in Charleston’s husband’s original paper, the complaint charges.
“You can’t just republish an old paper as if it were a new paper,” Lee Jussim, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, told the outlet. “If you do, it’s not plagiarism; it is more of a fraud.”
Charleston joins Harvard as the school’s first chief diversity officer in 2020. photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images
Charleston did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on the alleged plagiarism.
A representative for Harvard also did not respond to whether they were investigating the allegations.
In addition to Harvard, the complaint has reportedly been filed with the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Charleston, a historian, joined Harvard as the school’s first chief diversity officer in late 2020 after holding a similar role at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Former Harvard University president Claudine Gray resigned after being accused of plagiarism. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
The new charges are just the latest tranche of claims leveled against Harvard-affiliated researchers or employees after the Ivy League school’s president stepped down from his prestigious post following weeks of controversy over his own academic record.
Gay’s academic career came under serious scrutiny after he was hit with nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism or insufficient citations.
After The Post initially took Gay’s allegations of copying other people’s work to Harvard, the university denied them and brought in its legal attack dogs to threaten to seek “substantial” damages.
The anonymous complaint was filed at Harvard, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. David McGlynn
However, a few days later, Gay himself requested an investigation, and experts found that he needed to make some corrections to his academic record. In December, Gay had to correct his own dissertation.
Earlier this month, a Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, revealed it was working to retract or correct dozens of papers authored by four of its top researchers following an investigation into alleged data falsification.
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