Christina Jeffrey is an American political scientist who briefly served as Historian of the United States House of Representatives.
[1] Jeffrey also worked as a consultant to the United States Department of Education during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
[1] Gingrich and his staffers stated that he had not known about her comments,[1][9] but an aide to Jeffrey told The New York Times that he had been advised of the incident before appointing her to the role.
[8] Politicians such as Chuck Schumer accused Jeffrey of "showing surprising insensitivity to antisemitism and bigotry.
[3][9] She told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that attacks on her were actually aimed at Gingrich and that she considered it "a complete distortion", noting that the Department of Education had formally apologized for its treatment of her.
Julianne Malveaux, writing in Black Issues in Higher Education, asked what sides there were to present to the Ku Klux Klan or the Holocaust.
[20] Jeffrey left Kennesaw State and began working at Limestone University, where she chaired the department of political science.