Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, is facing numerous allegations of plagiarism in connection to her academic work.
An anonymous complaint was submitted to the university on Monday, January 29, detailing at least 40 instances of alleged plagiarism by Charleston, dating back to 2009 — a decade before she joined Harvard, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
The allegations include claims of improper citation and failure to reference other scholars in footnotes. These accusations come shortly after Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned amidst a scandal involving charges of plagiarism and her handling of antisemitism on campus.
The complaint suggests that Charleston, in her 2009 dissertation at the University of Michigan, allegedly quoted or paraphrased a dozen scholars without providing adequate attribution. Additionally, it claims that she took credit for a study her husband, LaVar Charleston, wrote in 2012.
According to the complaint, Charleston reused substantial portions of her husband's paper in a peer-reviewed article they co-authored in 2014, published in the Journal of Negro Education. The article reportedly replicated the original paper's findings, methodology, and survey subject descriptions.
The latest plagiarism allegations against Harvard-affiliated individuals follow the resignation of the university's president, Claudine Gay, after facing numerous accusations of plagiarism and inadequate citation in her academic career.
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