Scholarship Migrates After Department Bans

When administrations or legislatures close or defund an academic program, activist scholarship often relocates into less visible forms — student theses, cross‑listed courses, archives, and informal divisions — allowing ideological work to continue under different labels. That migration complicates enforcement of subject‑area bans and blurs lines between scholarship and activism. — This matters because policymakers and the public who seek to curb funded activism need to track how academic work is re‑packaged and where public dollars still support contested content.