Harvard’s president Claudine Gay faces 40 new allegations of plagiarism: Latest claims refer to seven publications she’s written and include ‘entire paragraphs lifted from other sources’

Controversial Harvard president Claudine Gay is facing new plagiarism charges, accusing her of 40 uses of other people's material, including deleting “entire paragraphs” from her academic writings.

In recent weeks, Gay, 53, has seen the investigation into anti-Semitism on the Ivy League school's campus evolve into an investigation into alleged plagiarism on her part.

During her infamous appearance before a Republican-led hearing, the under-fire president failed to convict students who publicly expressed support for Hamas in the wake of the group's barbaric attack on Israel on October 7.

The new allegations were first published in a shocking report by the The free beacon of Washington on Wednesday. The new allegations include seven publications written by Gay and contain missing quotes or “entire paragraphs” taken from other sources.

They range from missing quotes around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs removed verbatim.

Gay was accused of copying two paragraphs from the work of then-Harvard scholars D. Stephen Voss and Bradley Palmquist. One paragraph is almost identical, except for a few words

However, Gay did not use quotation marks or quotations in the text – Voss and Palmquist are not cited anywhere in her dissertation

Last week, Gay submitted two corrections to articles accusing her of plagiarism, adding “quotes and citations,” a university spokesperson said.

On Wednesday it was announced that Gay is correcting two more cases of inadequate source citation after the letter. The school told me the Boston Globe they found “examples of double language without appropriate attribution” in her 1997 dissertation.

“President Gay will update her thesis and correct these instances of inadequate citations.”

In a Substack post, investigative journalist Christopher Rufo reported that Gay had plagiarized parts of four works over 24 years, including her 1997 dissertation and a series of articles.

The university investigated the plagiarism allegations and said Friday that corrections had been made.

The corrections were made to a 2017 article titled “A Space for Yourself?” The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing,” in the Urban Affairs Review.

A 2001 article titled “The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation” in the American Political Science Review was also amended.

While the administration says they found no violation of school policy in Gay's work, The Harvard Crimson, which reviewed the examples of alleged plagiarism, found a different conclusion.

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The school's newspaper wrote that some of Gay's writings “appear to violate Harvard's current policies around plagiarism and academic integrity.”

It comes after the Washington Free Beacon and right-wing bloggers Rufo and Christopher Brunet alleged that Gay plagiarized parts of four academic works, including her Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard, entitled 'Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics.'

Billionaire Bill Ackman amplified the allegations as part of his campaign to oust Gay from the top job at his alma mater.

Gay defended her work to The Boston Globe: “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have ensured that my scholarship meets the highest academic standards.”

While the bloggers focused their claims on Gay's dissertation, The Free Beacon also looked at three other works by the scientist: a 1993 essay in the publication Origins and two articles from 2012 and 2017, when Gay was already a professor at Harvard.

While some of the Free Beacon's claims contain minor citation issues, the Crimson said others are “more substantial, including some paragraphs and sentences that are virtually identical to other work and contain no citations.”

The student publication notes Harvard's rule on what constitutes plagiarism, saying that when copying language “word for word,” scholars must “give credit to the author of the source material, either by placing the source material in quotation marks and providing a clear by citing the source, or by paraphrasing the source material and providing a clear source reference.'

Gay was accused of copying two paragraphs from the work of then-Harvard scholars D. Stephen Voss and Bradley Palmquist. One paragraph is almost identical, except for a few words.

However, Gay did not use quotation marks or quotations in the text – Voss and Palmquist are not cited anywhere in her dissertation.

It is unclear whether the same rules applied when Gay submitted her dissertation in 1997.

But Voss, who now teaches at the University of Kentucky, told The Crimson that while Gay “technically committed plagiarism,” it ranges from “minor to insignificant.”

He said, “This doesn't look sneaky at all… It seems like maybe she just had no idea what we normally tell students to do and not to do.”

Harvard professor Lawrence Lobo, one of those allegedly plagiarized by Gay, similarly told the Boston Globe, “I find myself unconcerned by these claims since our work is explicitly acknowledged.”