Harvard University’s chief diversity officer plagiarized large portions of her academic work, a complaint filed Monday with the Ivy League school alleges.
The allegations echo those against Claudine Gay, who stepped down as Harvard’s president earlier this month after a cascade of plagiarism allegations.
Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard’s first ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, plagiarized parts of every publication she wrote, at least 40 times total, claims the anonymous complaint filed with the university, which was first reported by The Washington Free Beacon.
She quoted or paraphrased nearly a dozen other academics without proper attribution in her 2009 dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, the complaint says.
Also, Charleston’s only peer-reviewed journal article, written in 2014 with her husband, lifted parts from a 2012 study her husband published,…
