A leading academic told The National Desk (TND) Wednesday she is a victim of plagiarism at the hands of embattled Harvard University President Dr. Claudine Gay.
Dr. Carol Swain is a political scientist and legal scholar whose academic background includes institutions such as Yale University and the University of North Carolina. In an interview with TND Wednesday, Swain said her work was taken by Gay to pad the university president’s doctoral thesis, which eventually allowed her to assume her role at Harvard.
“She plagiarized my work as well as several other people,” Swain said. “It’s my understanding that 20 instances of plagiarism was found in her dissertation and publish words.”
Gay has faced calls to resign following her recent congressional testimony on campus antisemitism, during which she failed to unequivocally affirm that calls for Jewish genocide violate Harvard’s code of conduct. Accusations that she plagiarized her doctoral dissertation, which came out after the testimony, have further fueled those calls.
“There’s no way you can’t know it. My book won the highest prize in the profession and two other national prizes,” Swain continued. “It was cited by the US Supreme Court and numerous lower court decisions. There’s no way that Claudine Gay, her committee members, her reviewers, and other people didn’t know that she was drawing on my research.”
