Peruvian anthropologist Marcela Poirier is taking a hit for survivors of abuse by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters. Now is the time for colleagues to step up and support her.
Since this blog has a large and long-time following, I want to appeal to all readers to support Marcela Poirier, who was on the losing end of a dec…
Read more![Still more evidence that disgraced @ucsantabarbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin exploited a mother’s grief to try to get tenure—and that the university administration knew, or should have known, she was doing it. [Updated June 10, 2022]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiWnTPSXoR2z0jDw1KfosFyljNbTi6KvteoD6vPgpjDc4KUKkVbgVgUN2W-MQGfN5G5zhL6U8hVfua6SJHDLM2uo178Kjntd5g15umQmuqLwqOYNVQTOyXhYVN2_IpCe5Qc7IEenHkUcrfVG07vkqITYRoe4pz1SuvR9Rs2yEbpwYaitx8bqJXmnTrJg/w680/Jack%20Cantin.jpeg)
Still more evidence that disgraced @ucsantabarbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin exploited a mother’s grief to try to get tenure—and that the university administration knew, or should have known, she was doing it. [Updated June 10, 2022]
Jack Cantin/ Noozhawk This past March, I reported on documents I had received via the California Public Records Act which shed new light on the resi…
Read more![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 June 9, 2022: Boivin's open letter to education/research minister gets coverage and traction]](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 June 9, 2022: Boivin's open letter to education/research minister gets coverage and traction]
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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