Academic freedom is under attack at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on this important development against one of our own, Dr. Janice Harper.?Harper is the author of the groundbreaking work, Endangered Species: Health, Illness, and Death Among Madagascar's People of the Forest (2002, Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series). See:? http://www.amazon.com/Endangered-Species-Madagascars-Ethnographic-Anthropology/dp/0890892385
Harper was investigating the nuclear industry in Tennessee and now all research has ceased. The Chronicle article is still a pay-per article, but here is the beginning of the piece: U. of Tennessee at Knoxville Janice Harper By Robin Wilson As of Friday, Janice Harper was no longer an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In a lawsuit she filed last spring in chancery court in Knoxville, Ms. Harper says her colleagues turned against her and the university denied her tenure after she complained of sexual harassment by a popular male lecturer. full: http://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Harassment-Complaint/47916/
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