Harvard Sued for Institutional ‘Indifference’ to Harassment
https://sites.google.com/view/titleixattorney Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission All the Alarming Allegations in Harvard’s Sexual-Harassment Suit On Tuesday, a trio of Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court alleging that the university tacitly allowed a big-name anthropology professor — John Comaroff, who specializes in African and African American studies — to sexually harass and assault women who studied under him and that it declined to act when he used his “tentacular influence in the field” to retaliate against them. Comaroff strenuously denies the allegations, but Margaret Czerwienski, Lilia Kilburn, and Amulya Mandava allege they either heard about or experienced predation by Comaroff and that when they brought it to Harvard’s Title IX office, it waved them away before clearing Comaroff’s name — prioritizing his reputation over his students’ well-being. “For years,” the lawsuit alleges, Comaroff used his “power and his perc
