Peña is a self-professed radical who boasts of how she wants to dismantle the university from within & lays out an overtly ideological research agenda.
Colleges have always had radical faculty. What’s notable is Peña’s history of lavish funding and awards, including:
—the Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
—Future of Minority Studies Fellowship
—research support from the Ford Foundation
—research support from the Mellon Foundation
—the 2022 Angela Davis Prize for Public Scholarship
—a 2017 MIT Disobedience Award
List goes on. It’s no accident that we have so many faculty so out of line with the country. Huge and very intentionally craft career incentives brought us here.