Dr. Devin Zane Shaw was included on a list of of academics with Twitter accounts linked to Antifa messaging.

The list was based a data analysis by Dr. Eoin Lenihan.

Shaw teaches philosophy at Douglas College in British Columbia. He is also listed as a former lecturer at Carleton University.

Lenihan said Shaw uses the platform as a soft advocate for extremism.

Shaw recently published “Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy” this year with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

On its website the publisher provides a brief description of the book noting Shaw advocates for “a broader militant movement.”

“Devin Shaw argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than principled nonviolence,” the book description reads. “Antifascism must focus on the systemic causes of the re-emergence of fascism, and thus must fight capital accumulation and the underlying white supremacism.”

The technique used by Lenihan to determine who to place on the list was a search of all Twitter bios including the word “professor” and cross-searching their Tweet’s for Antifa content.

“In recent years there have been several high-profile cases of university staff with direct links to Antifa who have not only brought their extremist views into the classroom but who have been defended by their institutions for doing so,” Lenihan said in the Medium article outing the lecturers.

Notable examples of academics with links to Antifa include include Mark Bray, the author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook”, who has advocated for violent protest.

Bray was disavowed by the Dartmouth’s president in 2017.

Lenihan said the analysis does not mean any of those identified are affiliated with violent rioting and looting throughout the nation.

“(T)here are several reasons that an academic may have close social-media ties with an extremist group and close ties does not, immediately, indicate any wrongdoing,” Lenihan said.