Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has been accused of plagiarism, following the discovery that several sections of his 2019 Ed.D dissertation appear to be nearly identical to work from other academics. An analysis conducted by the Daily Wire found “multiple instances” of apparent plagiarism, with some passages replicating earlier academic papers word-for-word.
Among the examples is a passage from Bowman’s 141-page dissertation, titled “Community Schools: The Perceptions and Practices that Foster Broad-Based Collaboration among Leaders with the Community School Ecosystem.” In this section, the former Bronx middle school principal appears to lift University of Delaware Professor Rosalie Rolón-Dow’s summary of an introductory book on critical race theory (CRT.
Bowman includes Rolón-Dow in his citation but does not use quotation marks in the parts of his text that are verbatim to the academic. In another section, Bowman makes limited changes to Rolón-Dow’s writing, including adding in a typo and substituting “Latino” with “Latinx.
The Daily Wire discovered at least two other instances of apparent plagiarism, where Bowman summarizes the research of others by copying their exact text rather than paraphrasing. In one example, he appears to copy a 2006 piece by Rene Antrop-Gonzalez and Anthony De Jesus verbatim.
The allegations against Bowman come after earlier this year he defended disgraced former Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who resigned in January amid a plagiarism scandal of her own and criticism over her handling of antisemitism at the Ivy League school.
Bowman is currently facing off against Westchester County Executive George Latimer in the June 25 Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District. A recent Emerson College/WPIX poll showed Bowman trailing Latimer by 17 points among likely primary voters, with 21% undecided.
Bowman did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
