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![The truth begins to emerge, at last, about the Max Planck Society's smear campaign against archaeologist Nicole Boivin. Boivin tried to play by the rules, but underhanded motivations have led to her removal as a director at Jena for the second time. [Updated April 2]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rJuAUtPsTLHyBQK7C5JMCpU2ACJjJspomdacoL-tFQKCBt_9najrQBVkIttxhQWRLuspnXnbjTZVjdvOZ8f6bBNJPM6VsjSJyX9VDZJ_QybXaxb3_zIxP4bn22rxToZwXGY-m3tSFzRI05KfUL9yuR1AKkDaMi8gcv4bmhxXFMc6gOdtBO3leW9hkw/w680/Nicky.jpeg)
The truth begins to emerge, at last, about the Max Planck Society's smear campaign against archaeologist Nicole Boivin. Boivin tried to play by the rules, but underhanded motivations have led to her removal as a director at Jena for the second time. [Updated April 2]
Nicole Boivin For nearly five years, Canadian archaeologist Nicole Boivin has been fighting attempts by the Max Planck Society and a couple of former…
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California Public Records Act documents provide new insights into the departure of Danielle Kurin from UC Santa Barbara
Archaeologist Danielle Kurin is gone but not entirely forgotten in the UCSB anthropology building Last January, most members of the University of C…
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Support builds for Peruvian anthropologist Marcela Poirier, target of vicious retaliation by a powerful sexual harasser [Update April 4: Institute of Andean Studies issues strong statement of support'
As I reported earlier , Peruvian archaeologist and former culture minister Luis Jaime Castillo Butters has sued Peruvian anthropologist Marcela Poi…
Read more![Twice confirmed sexual harasser Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, archaeologist and former culture minister of Peru, uses his power and that of his university to retaliate against those who told the truth about him. An update on a grotesque #MeToo story. [Update: Court hearing is April 8] ][Updated April 4: Inst Andean Studies issues strong statement of support]]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCCBHTtk-Zi_nS2uL0uuu1XfvQFaN0A6xbWp925ZGGU0riBT7wH3k10F-melPn8ln8wYKlmdXQBfxyy4O97-v38VrM0fQ-OF8ByqOPauTxqcBmi3YBdova9jkcp3nJ4NGU4v6ynAwOYg-zvoQcdcjxW2sUJZF7R91dHJ5Ukl-u7oNaZorOijfeT1Q5mw=w680)
Twice confirmed sexual harasser Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, archaeologist and former culture minister of Peru, uses his power and that of his university to retaliate against those who told the truth about him. An update on a grotesque #MeToo story. [Update: Court hearing is April 8] ][Updated April 4: Inst Andean Studies issues strong statement of support]]
The man pictured above, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters--former culture minister of Peru and current archaeology professor at the Pontifical Catholic Uni…
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Paleontology's #MeToo enablers
Philip Currie /Jason Woodhead/ Wikimedia This past week has seen one of the most grotesque episodes in the long, sorry saga of sexual harassment and …
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Anatomy of a #MeToo coverup: The case of Danielle Kurin, the Institute for Field Research, and UC Santa Barbara
Willeke Wendrich, director of UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology In my previous post , I reported that University of Santa Barbara, Califor…
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- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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