Harvard University’s embattled president has been hit with a further six accusations of plagiarism, bringing the total number of copying claims to nearly 50.
Of Claudine Gay’s 17 published academic works, seven have been accused of plagiarism – but the new charges now have hit another piece of her writing.
Gay’s 2001 article is accused of plagiarizing nearly half a page of material from another scholar, David Canon of the University of Wisconsin, reports Free Beacon.
The first complaint was made in December, containing nearly 40 allegations of plagiarism by Gay that arrived at the university’s Research Integrity Office.
The examples span seven publications authored by Gay and include missing quotation marks or entire paragraphs lifted from other sources.
Of Claudine Gay’s 17 published academic works, seven have been accused of plagiarism – but the new charges now have hit another piece of her writing
They range from missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim.
Last week, Gay submitted two corrections to articles where she was accused of plagiarism, adding ‘quotation marks and citations,’ a university spokesman said.
It was also revealed that Gay is correcting two more instances of inadequate citation following the letter. The school told the Boston Globe they found ‘examples of duplicative language without appropriate attribution’ in her 1997 PhD dissertation.
‘President Gay will update her dissertation correcting these instances of inadequate citation.’
In a Substack post, investigative journalist Christopher Rufo reported that Gay had plagiarized portions of four works over 24 years, including her 1997 Ph.D dissertation and a series of articles.
The university investigated the plagiarism allegations, and said corrections had been made.
The corrections were made to a 2017 article titled ‘A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing,’ in the Urban Affairs Review.