Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Faces Plagiarism Accusations Amid Growing Scandals
Harvard University’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, is facing a barrage of plagiarism allegations, with an anonymous complaint listing at least 40 instances of academic misconduct dating back to 2009. The accusations come on the heels of the recent resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who stepped down amid her own plagiarism scandal and controversy surrounding her handling of antisemitism on campus.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that the allegations against Charleston include failing to properly cite other scholars’ work, omitting references in footnotes, and even neglecting to attribute her husband’s study properly. The complaint claims that Charleston quoted or paraphrased numerous scholars without adequate attribution in her 2009 dissertation at the University of Michigan, a decade before she joined Harvard.
One specific allegation involves Charleston allegedly taking credit for a study authored by her husband, LaVar Charleston, who is currently the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion. The complaint contends that Charleston reused significant portions of her husband’s paper in a 2014 peer-reviewed article they co-authored, published in the Journal of Negro Education. The article allegedly replicated the findings, method, and survey subject descriptions from her husband’s original paper.
Social psychologist Lee Jussim from Rutgers University commented on the situation, stating, “You cannot just republish an old paper as if it is a new paper. If you do, that is not exactly plagiarism; it’s more like fraud.”
Charleston has not responded to requests for comment on the plagiarism allegations, and Harvard representatives have not indicated whether they are launching an investigation into the claims. The complaint has reportedly been filed not only with Harvard but also with the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sherri Ann Charleston, a historian, assumed the role of Harvard’s first Chief Diversity Officer in late 2020, transitioning from a similar position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These latest allegations add to a growing series of claims against individuals affiliated with Harvard.
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