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'''Damon Burchell,'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://african.wisc.edu/faculty/sajnani |title=Damon Sajnani {{!}} African Languages & Literature |website=african.wisc.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208125041/http://african.wisc.edu/faculty/sajnani |archive-date=2015-12-08}}</ref> better known by the aliases '''Professor D,''' '''ProfessorD.us''', and '''Damon Sajnani''', is a Canadian rapper and assistant professor based in the United States. He was the lead vocalist of [[The Dope Poet Society]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Levingston|first1=Ivan B. K.|title=Hidden Gem: Harvard's Hiphop Archive|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/flyby/article/2014/10/28/hidden-gem-harvards-hip/|accessdate=28 November 2015|agency=Harvard University|newspaper=The Crimson|date=28 October 2014}}</ref> and taught African Studies at the [[University of Wisconsin - Madison|University of Wisconsin - Madison
He is known for rapping about social issues and global politics with sophisticated rhyme structures and "tongue twisting flows."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Quinlan|first1=Thomas|title=Professor D.us — The Dope Poet Society: THIRD WORLD WARriors Vol. 1 (Review)|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/professor_dus-third_world_warriors_vol_1|accessdate=28 November 2015|agency=Exclaim! Media Inc.|publisher=Excalim.ca|date=23 September 2008}}</ref> Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director of Harvard's Hiphop Archive, says Professor D's work "represents the innovations and creativity of hiphop at its best."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Announces Second Class of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows|url=http://africa.harvard.edu/the-hutchins-center-for-african-and-african-american-research-announces-second-class-of-w-e-b-du-bois-research-institute-fellows-including-10-africanists/|accessdate=28 November 2015|agency=Harvard University|publisher=Hutchins Center Newsroom|date=16 April 2014|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208102929/http://africa.harvard.edu/the-hutchins-center-for-african-and-african-american-research-announces-second-class-of-w-e-b-du-bois-research-institute-fellows-including-10-africanists/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Professor D has released several critically acclaimed albums and published numerous scholarly articles, however following criminal charges related to his time at
In December 2016, Wisconsin legislators [[Stephen Nass]] and [[Dave Murphy (Wisconsin politician)|Dave Murphy]] asked
In June 2021, [https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2021FO001071&countyNo=13&index=0&mode=details a complaint was filed] against Burchell by the university police at
Burchell was then [https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2021CF002058&countyNo=13&index=0&mode=details#records charged] with [[felony]] theft between $2500 to $5000 in September 2021. He was accused of violating of Wisconsin statute [https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/943/iii/20/1/a 943.20(1)(a)] in May 2021, and was subsequently released on a $500 signature bond and ordered to have no unauthorized contact with any
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