Dr Lisa Cook - unqualified DEI hire?

Shallow academic record with questionable scholarly quality focused on progressive racial activism.(1)(2)

In 2020 participated in cancelling University of Chicago economist Harald Uhlig for publicly opposing BLM’s defund the police and an unsubstantiated accusations in 2020 from a progressive racial activist who as a former student claimed he made insensitive remarks in 2014 about MLK. (3)(4)

(1) https://www.city-journal.org/article/lisa-d-cooks-careless-scholarship

(2) https://lisadcook.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Revised-CV-PDF-Edits-0521.pdf

(3)https://x.com/drlisadcook/status/1272173857068265475

(4) https://freebeacon.com/campus/prof-cleared-of-racism-charges-may-still-resign/

https://x.com/optimistcskeptc/status/1958492849286119858?s=46