Instead of accepting and utilizing the massive donation to enhance legal education at George Mason, the Faculty Senate charted an alternative course. They seek to:

… emphasize the university’s continuing support for groups that were slighted by Justice Scalia and that may have been offended by the university’s embrace of his legacy. Underscore the university’s support for civil discourse that bridges the great diversity present at the university .

Nobody should be surprised that professors on campus lack ideological diversity. However, when the leftist radicals in these taxpayer-funded jobs scold the rest of the country about how supposedly rigid and polarizing Justice Scalia was, it’s worth us taking a peek to see if they happen to have actual records of polarization and ideological rigidity.

Who are the professors at George Mason University leading the charge to brand Justice Scalia as a divisive figure far outside of the mainstream?

Well, it turns out that many of them are divisive figures themselves, teaching subjects far outside of the mainstream thanks to the largess of Virginia taxpayers. Let’s meet just a few:

Craig Willse

The opposition to honoring Scalia has been led by Craig Willse, a cultural studies professor whose work focuses on “neoliberalism, urbanism, biopolitics, and racial formations.”

According to Willse’s university bio, his scholarship “is informed by his political work outside the academy,” which has included “community organizing around housing access, social movements for trans justice and prison abolition, and queer anarchist anti-war activism.”

Willse is also the faculty adviser to GMU Students Against Israeli Apartheid.

This group supports the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel. In that role, Willse led the No Honor in Apartheid Campaign, which organized a walkout during the commencement speech given by Jewish businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison.

Willse believes naming the law school after Scalia is “so egregious,” calling the jurist “racist” and “homophobic.”

Dr. Rebecca Walter



Walter is the associate director for the “Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Education” at George Mason. According to her university bio, her scholarly interests include whiteness, critical race theory, and queer and feminist theories.

In 2010, Walters was a presenter at a “white privilege” conference. While her remarks could not be located online, some insight into her views can be found on her Facebook page, where she has posted a photo which exclaims: “Show up against White Terror.”

For her Facebook profile photo, Walter has chosen a graphic that reads: “Capitalism is not in crisis. Capitalism is the crisis.”



Roger Lancaster



Lancaster is a professor in GMU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research “tries to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a volatile world.”

His latest book, Sex Panic and the Punitive State, focuses on sex offenders and the laws which govern them. In an interview with the Washington Post, Lancaster argues that our treatment of sex offenders is “grossly unjust.”

He believes sex-offender registries “stoke unnecessary parental anxieties,” which can harm children.

Lancaster opposes variants of “Jessica’s Law,” which prevent sex offenders from living or working near areas trafficked by children. Such laws, argues Lancaster, “uproot sex offenders and their families,” and should be rethought.

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Giovanna Chesler

Chesler “is the director of the Film and Video Studies Program, associate professor in the Communication Department, and affiliated faculty in Women and Gender Studies and Film and Media Studies.” She is the producer of documentary Out in the Night, a documentary that explores self-defense of four black lesbians in New York City. She is also the creator of Period: The End of Menstruation, a film that explores the cultural and medical trends in suppression of menstrual periods.

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Angela Hattery

Hattery, a women and gender studies professor, views the whole Scalia renaming controversy as a plot by “two White, heterosexual, upper-class men” who made their decision because of their “positions of power.”

Hattery lists her current (Virginia taxpayer supported) academic interest as:

Gender Based Violence in the family as well as in social institutions, including the military, prisons, the Catholic Church, fraternities and Sports. My research is grounded in intersectional theory, with an explicit focus on race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Stefan Wheelock

English professor Stefan Wheelock teaches literature with a racial lens. His biography says he places “particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies.” —————————- Vicki Kirsch