Conservatives do not know their geography

The National Association of Scholars is back in Brunswick this week, trying to kick up some more muck for its failed report on Bowdoin College.  As director of gender and women's studies, and a scholar of Eastern Europe, I was in the crosshairs of this report more than any other faculty member.  But even after almost a year of having this report on their website, the National Association of Scholars has not bothered to fact check it.  Consider the following excerpt from page 31 of the report:

Anyone who looks at my website for even two seconds would see that my research focuses on Bulgaria, not on "the communist regime in Romania."  They footnote my faculty website as the source of the quote, and at a quick glance, I can see that the word "Bulgaria" appears at least six times on my home page, including in the title of one of my books.  The word "Romania" appears nowhere on this page.  I have puzzled over this mistake for months, and I have come to the conclusion that either 1) the authors intentionally said I studied Romania because they were worried that their readers would not know where Bulgaria was, or 2) that they themselves did not know the difference between Romania and Bulgaria.  I learned from the Dean of Faculty Affairs at Bowdoin that the authors have gone back and corrected several other factual mistakes in their report, but I logged on today (2-2-2014) and the Romania reference still remains.  Perhaps if they had taken one of my "specialized" courses on Eastern Europe, the authors would know the difference between these two countries, both of which, by the way, are now NATO allies and members of the European Union.