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George Washington University Professor ‘Cancels’ Self Over Claiming She Is Black: ‘I’m a Culture Leech’

According to Krug’s George Washington University profile, she earned a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 and is a historian of “politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies.” She was also a finalist for the Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass book prizes, reports CBS News. A university spokesperson told CBS News they are working on a response.