Jessica Krug

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Jessica A. Krug
Nationality United States
Other names Jess La Bombalera
Education The Barstow School (prep school) class of 1999[1][2]
Alma mater University of Kansas
Portland State University, M.A. (2007)[3]
University of Wisconsin at Madison, PhD (2012)[4]
Occupation Historian, author, activist, essayist
Employer George Washington University
Known for 2020 blog post revealing her claims of false racial and cultural identity (also referring to lifelong mental health issues)
Home town Overland Park, Kansas[5]
Awards Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2009)[4]

Jessica A. Krug, is an associate professor of history at George Washington University (GWU).[6]

Biography

Jessica A. Krug (sometimes posing as Jess La Bombalera[6][7][8]) is an associate professor of history at George Washington University (2012–present).[9] She is the author of Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom,[10] which treats the Quiçama people, at home in Angola and within diaspora, especially in Brazil.[11][4] The book was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize[12] and the Harriet Tubman Prize.[13] Krug's additional studies focus on African American history and Latin America.[4] According to Krug, her principal focus has been in advocacies on behalf of people of color as well as in anti-gentrification activism.[4] She has published essays in Essence and at the race-exploring website RaceBaitr.com.[14][15][16]

She was raised in the Kansas City metropolitan area and later attended the University of Kansas as a Jewish woman.[2][17] In her September 2020 blog post, Krug said she had "been battling some unaddressed mental health demons for my entire life" and, to escape from unspecified emotional "issues" and "severe trauma", began passing as a light-skinned person of color in her youth.[18]

Academic scandal

Krug lived for years under an assumed race and ethnicity until she disclosed the truth in a September 3, 2020, essay on the blog website Medium. Having assumed identities such as that of a Bronx-bred Afro-"boricua" (Afro-Puerto Rican), Krug, in the blog post entitled "The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies", wrote, "I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness."[19][20][4][21]

Hari Ziyad, the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr, a website where Krug had published articles, said she had only come forward with the revelation because her deception had been discovered by others and was about to be made public against her wishes. "She didn't do it out of benevolence," they said. "She did it because she had been found out."[6] Similarly, Michigan State University assistant professor Yomaira C. Figueroa believed that pending public revelations of Krug's true racial identity prompted her confession.[22]

GWU spokesperson Crystal Nosal said in emails to news organizations that the university was "aware of the post" and "looking into the situation".[6][23] GWU's department of history asked Krug to resign her tenured professorship.[24]

See also

References

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