As the $18 million Kurin v. Balter defamation lawsuit enters its second year, the battle intensifies between archaeologist Danielle Kurin and the reporter who exposed her misconduct. As the plaintiff threatens to file yet another lawsuit, the defendant asks the Court to sanction misconduct by Kurin and her attorney and dismiss the case.
Wikimedia Commons/ Perhelion As University of California, Santa Barbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin's defamation suit against me enters its s…
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Attorney for paleontology student accused of sexual misconduct in Canada threatens reporter with litigation
Aaron van der Reest/CBC Last month, a group of colleagues previously associated with the University of Alberta (UA) in Canada began contacting me wit…
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Attorneys for #MeToo reporter sued for defamation ask federal judge to protect him, survivors, and witnesses from attacks by plaintiff Danielle Kurin [Updated June 21]
Tomorrow, June 16, will mark one year since Danielle Kurin, an archaeology assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sued…
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Harvard strips anthropologist and sexual harasser Gary Urton of emeritus status and bans him from campus
The Harvard Crimson reports that Gary Urton has received his final judgement from Harvard for a heavy record of misconduct. Sometimes there are co…
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"Words for the Wise" has launched, with a number of posts already online.
Statue of Wisdom, in front of Central Library, University of Sindh, Jamshoro Fitrat69 I'm hoping that faithful readers of this blog will check …
Read more![Is UCSB archaeologist Danielle Kurin still married to Peruvian archaeologist Enmanuel Gomez? [Updated June 30 with Kurin's response]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj676ItJbUYlaOtEisOVvut87RnUux31cHiNVTRhNuGC3fAKO2pcqm1Ku2GO4mWHGrdKujcvPpIZbAYGqoisL1YT8SQoSRmBwvez1nvjEsxyDlXOqrhFchCiwKiOFYlq274Qu1tAqpvK1d3/w680/Kurin+Gomez+wedding+Peru.png)
Is UCSB archaeologist Danielle Kurin still married to Peruvian archaeologist Enmanuel Gomez? [Updated June 30 with Kurin's response]
Danielle Kurin and Enmanuel Gomez at their religious wedding in Peru, Sept 20, 2015 From the very beginning of the Kurin v. Balter defamation case , …
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Check out my new newsletter, "Words for the Wise" on Substack.
"The Weary Newsboy" by New York City artist James Henry Cafferty (1819-1869) After more than five years of writing about little other tha…
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Islands and Other Places: The Romance of Route 66.
Roy's Cafe, Amboy CA/ Wikimedia Commons/ Photographersnature Note: This article is adapted from an article I published in National Geographic Tr…
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Islands and Other Places: Sarah Bernhardt on Belle-Île-en-Mer
Claude Monet, Port Croton Note: This is article adapted from a piece I published in the International Herald Tribune in February 1991 and the Washing…
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- 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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