A Harvard University residential administrator has been removed from his position after a conservative campus publication revealed inflammatory social media posts comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and denouncing law enforcement as systematically prejudiced, according to correspondence obtained by The College Fix.
Gregory Davis no longer holds his former position overseeing Dunster House, internal communications to residents confirmed this week.
“We are writing to confirm that Gregory Davis is no longer serving as the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Dunster House, effective today,” Faculty Deans Shirley and Taeku Lee wrote Monday. “We thank Gregory for serving in this role and wish him and his family the best in their future endeavors.”
Harvard’s online directory entry for Davis has been scrubbed in recent days, internet archive records examined by The Fix show.
University media representatives declined to discuss the personnel decision when contacted. “We cannot comment on personnel matters,” a spokesperson told The Fix. The publication inquired whether Davis’s recently surfaced online statements played any role in his departure.
Davis ignored multiple interview requests sent to his university email address this week seeking clarification about why he left the role.
The Harvard Crimson, which initially broke the story, reported that Davis himself first notified the residential community through electronic correspondence on Monday.
“In the message — which was relayed to the Dunster community by a resident tutor — Davis wrote that he has been removed from the role and that, to his knowledge, no interim resident had been appointed.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as the Resident Dean for Dunster,” Davis wrote. “I will miss my work with students and staff immensely.”
In a separate email about two hours later to House affiliates, Dunster Faculty Dean Taeku Lee announced that Emilie Raymer — who served as interim dean this fall when Davis was on parental leave — would continue in the role.
But Lee did not address the circumstances around Davis’ removal or specify how long Raymer would remain in the role of interim dean.”
Last October, critics demanded Davis be fired after Yard Report, a recently launched right-leaning Harvard commentary site, published documentation of numerous social media posts where he attacked the president, ridiculed Rush Limbaugh’s passing, advocated hostility toward police, and criticized the concept of being white, The Fix previously documented.
Among the unearthed content from 2020, Davis suggested he understood those hoping for harm to befall Trump, pairing his statement with a widely recognized image from the boxing film “Rocky IV” captioned “If he dies, he dies.”
A 2019 post declared “Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it.” The following year, he characterized property destruction and civil unrest as legitimate democratic expression comparable to “voting and marching.” Additional screenshots from Yard Report showed him asserting that officers are “racist and evil.”
A 2016 post from Davis suggested Trump embodied the “worst of Nixon and Hitler.” Following the conservative radio personality’s 2021 death, Davis wrote “Rush Limbaugh is dead. Just as important: the Smucker’s Natural was on sale at the Safeway,” the screenshots revealed.
“These comments, and many others, made by Davis disqualify him from serving in his role at Harvard,” the non-bylined post on the Yard Report argued. “They reveal an ideology unbefitting of American society, let alone its most elite institution of higher education. The university must fire him immediately.”
After the exposé appeared, Davis addressed Dunster House residents regarding the controversial posts. “These posts do not reflect my current thinking or beliefs. I regret if my statements have any negative impact on the Dunster community,” the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time.
Davis subsequently erased his Instagram and X social media profiles.
His university responsibilities included supporting students with “their academic and wellness goals,” according to his official biography.
Dunster ranks among Harvard’s dozen undergraduate residential facilities, providing housing for approximately 475 students and 25 staff members, university records indicate.
The biography, now absent from Harvard’s digital presence, noted Davis also served as an advocate for “Dunster students to the College Ad Board as well as those who need help filing petitions and other requests with the College.”
“Students across the College should reach out to me if they are Black or otherwise of color, queer, neurodivergent (ADHD), first-generation, a public high school graduate, from a low-income background, or from urban areas like my hometown of Detroit, MI,” Davis’s bio stated. “As well, please reach out to me if you have aspirations in social psychology or law.”
Hopefully, other universities follow this example and begin pushing out staff that pushes anti-social views. There is no reason to give social reprobates an easy livelihood.
