New allegations vs. Harvard prez

Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has been hit with a fresh complaint outlining more than 40 allegations of her plagiarizing the work of others.

The 37-page document compiles dozens of cases in which Gay, a political scientist, allegedly quoted or paraphrased authors without proper attribution in her academic works, going against the Ivy League school’s strict rules, according to the document, which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The outlet reports it independently verified the veracity of the allegations along with the identity of the author — a respected professor at another university, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.

“It is impossible that your office has already reviewed the entirety of these materials, as many . . . have not been previously reported or submitted,” reads the complaint, which was filed with Harvard Tuesday.

The university did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment Wednesday.

Plagiarism allegations against Gay first surfaced earlier this month, with accusations she lifted other scholars’ works in her 1997 doctoral thesis and that four papers published between 1993 and 2017 did not include proper attribution.

Carol Swain, a former political science professor at Vanderbilt University, said Gay copied sections of her 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress,” as well as an article published in 1997 titled “Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996.”

“Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution,” Swain wrote in a Wall Street Journal essay. “Many of those whose work she pilfered aren’t as incensed as I am. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.”

On Wednesday, Harvard announced that a recent review of Gay’s work revealed additional “examples of duplicative language without appropriate attribution” in Gay’s 1997 doctoral dissertation, The Boston Globe reported.

The university’s report stated it “will update her dissertation correcting these instances of inadequate citation,” with the Harvard Crimson saying it involved three other corrections to those already made to her work.

The review also confirmed that Harvard knew as early as Oct. 24 that The Post “was pursuing a story on allegations of plagiarism against President Gay.”

However, an independent threeperson panel failed to find the plagiarized material because it focused on “all of President Gay’s other published works,” and not her dissertation, according to the student paper report.

It was only “in response to new allegations” that the subcommittee “undertook a review of the dissertation,” the university review reportedly said.

Ivy League coverup

In the aftermath of the allegations, The Post revealed how Harvard covered up a weeks-long investigation into whether Gay had used other researchers’ work without crediting it and hired a bulldog law firm to help cover it up.

In a statement on Dec. 12, the Harvard Corporation said officials became aware of claims of plagiarism in late October and initiated an independent review.

Before its latest review, the school said it had uncovered three instances of “inadequate citation” on Gay’s part, but no misconduct.

The school claimed that the flawed citations did not amount to a “violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct” while stating its firm support for the leader. Gay has the unanimous support of the university’s board, the corporation said.

In a statement to The Boston Globe, Gay has vehemently defended her academic rigor, saying:

“I stand by the integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”