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A Globe review of a passage from Gay’s dissertation found her language matched, nearly verbatim, the language from a 1996 paper from Harvard academics Bradley Palmquist and Stephen Voss, with only minor changes of word choice and punctuation.
Harvard University, in the face of mounting questions over possible plagiarism in the scholarly work of its president, Claudine Gay,
Gay is accused of lifting words, phrases, and sentences from other sources without proper attribution. See excerpts comparing her writing with that of the scholars listed.
Harvard University, in the face of mounting questions over possible plagiarism in the scholarly work of its president, Claudine Gay, said on Wednesday that it had found two additional instances of insufficient citation in her work. According to the New York Times, the issues were found in Dr. Gay’s 1997 doctoral dissertation, in which Harvard said it had found two examples of “duplicative language without appropriate attribution.”
