It violates all norms of scholarly integrity in my field.

It is unfortunately blatant and wholesale plagiarism in black and white.

Although the plagiarising academic now works in a different field, she has presumably benefited from having appeared to have earned a doctorate. In the last few years the President of Hungary and two leading German politicians have resigned from office when similar discoveries were made about their "PhDs". The question arises in this context of who can and should apply sanctions. This case is so flagrant that it calls for wider investigation of the culture and practices of the graduate school in which the perpetrator was educated. Is there adequate instruction about scholarly and academic practice and adequate inculcation of appropriate academic norms? What are the students taught about scholarly integrity? While an exemplary and deterrent case can be made of this individual, it would be shortsighted to do so without investigating how such violation of international standards was permitted to come about and whether there are more such instances.

This complies with no ethical norms at all. This person has simply copied my dissertation, in most cases word for word, for hundreds of pages.

There is no grey zone here. Nothing here is legitimate. There has been no attempt by the plagiarist to add original research or to give credit to the real author.

The plagiarist's Ph.D. granting institution should be notified that she received her degree under false pretenses. Further, since my dissertation was also published by Garland Press, they should be informed since they probably have a legal case against this person.

This writing is cut & paste wholesale plagiarism, and does not comply with any ethical norms that I know of.

NIo, the whole effort clearly qualifies as misconduct.

This is a flagrant, indeed shameless, plagiarism, and the outcome of the case should be a punishment that fits the crime. In my opinion, that means that whatever advantage this plagiarism gained the person, academic or economic, should be withdrawn or canceled. If this writing gained the person an academic post, it should be taken from her. At my institution, Amherst College (USA) she would be dismissed from her post and from working at the institution.

If the Romanian book is the same text, translated from English into Romanian, it shows truly bad faith and an intent to deceive. In my opinion, that calls for a further sanction.

At the same time, the CV shows a well-developed career of extensive teaching and publication in the area of Business English/Communications. This person is now in her early 40s probably, and is well established in this other area. I see no evidence in the documents you have sent me to suggest misconduct in this other area.

However, I think the possibility of misconduct in her other publications should be investigated

doesn't comply; a stark case of full and direct plagiarism.

no. But a full investigation would need to discover the norms and checks for producing doctoral or other academic work in this person's degree-granting institution; isolating a single flagrant case may distract from whatever lamentable situation allowed it. See answer to Q3.

This is very difficult to speculate about without knowing more about the particulars of the event and what's been done about it since then. The case itself is not subtle; once the source is identified, a child could see that this is a piece of work that has simply had a new name put to another's work. And obviously whatever that piece of work is supposed to subtend (viz., completion of a PhD) cannot in fact be upheld.

The most productive outcome I can contemplate would be a searching investigation of the structure of advising, funding, mentoring, assessing, critiquing, and defending doctoral or any academic work at the institution in question. A simple outcome might be adding the requirement of international external examiners of all humanities doctoral theses, as is common elsewhere. A more labor-intensive outcome would be requiring regular consultations between students and their faculty chairs and committee members. I imagine that results like this would not be likely if those two changes were made. Unlike many cases of undergraduate plagiarism (with which I am more familiar), the evidence here is not subtle. A blatant individual case like this suggests to me that the problem is systemic. Rather than think of procedures for handling this individual case (which I feel both unqualified and reluctant to do), I think that one important outcome would be deeper and fuller investigation of the relevant local context of academic production, by political scientists, anthropologists, and smart administrators given the freedom to question all elements of the system, and motivated by an imperative to remake the ways in which academic production in the humanities is supported and supervised in Romania.