A Yale professor appointed under the university’s now-defunct diversity initiative continues teaching courses rooted in socialist, anti-imperialist, and radical feminist ideologies. The visiting scholar’s presence raises concerns about the use of taxpayer-supported academic institutions to promote far-left worldviews while excluding intellectual diversity.
Gail Lewis, a former “Presidential Visiting Fellow,” remains on the faculty at Yale’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department even after the official end of Yale’s “Faculty Excellence and Diversity Initiative” in December 2024. Despite the program’s conclusion, Lewis continues to teach courses that reflect a deeply ideological framework, including “Black Feminist Theory” and “Subjectivity and its Discontents: Psychosocial Explorations in Black, Feminist, Queer.”
Course descriptions emphasize “epistemic transformations” and critique foundational concepts of personhood. The curriculum does not indicate any inclusion of traditional American values, classical liberal thought, or constitutional frameworks. Instead, it prioritizes themes of racial and sexual identity, systemic oppression, and anti-colonial narratives.
Lewis’s writings reinforce her political stance. In a 2019 article titled “Where Might We Go If We Dare,” she writes about moving beyond the “thick, suffocating fog of whiteness in feminism.” Another piece, “Birthing Racial Difference,” discusses race and psychic development in the context of British imperialism. Her work openly critiques Western civilization’s foundational institutions, aligning instead with Marxist and post-colonial theory.
