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Protected by Decades-Old Power Structures, Three Renowned Harvard Anthropologists Face Allegations of Sexual Harassment
In 1986, a group of professors writing for the journal Current Anthropology found that the country’s most elite anthropology programs, including Harvard’s, operated based on a “hierarchy of prestige” dominated by powerful tenured faculty.
The Crimson Klan
When J. Max Bond Jr. ’55 entered Harvard at the age of 16, he was among 15 Black students in his class, most of whom lived in the north corner of Harvard Yard. As his freshman spring semester began, two other Harvard freshmen erected a wooden cross facing that corner of the Yard, formed by Stoughton and Holworthy Halls.
Ex-HBS Professor Sues Harvard for Allegedly Mishandling Tenure Review After Chinese Restaurant Email Spat
By Elias J. Schisgall and Sophia C. Scott, Crimson Staff Writers. In 2014, after former Harvard Business School associate professor Benjamin G. “Ben” Edelman ’02 ordered takeout food from the Sichuan Garden — a Chinese restaurant in Brookline — he discovered a $4 overcharge.
Embattled Harvard Chemistry Professor Charles Lieber Retires
Charles M. Lieber, the Harvard Chemistry professor convicted of lying to the FBI in 2021, quietly retired last month, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Lieber, who formerly chaired Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was found guilty on six felony counts, including two counts of lying to the government about his ties to the Chinese government and four tax offenses.
Harvard Alum Petitions Supreme Court of India to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
Growing up in the 2000s, Utkarsh Saxena wondered if he would ever “belong and be accepted” as a queer man in India. Saxena, who earned a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 2014 and a Master in Public Administration in International Developmentfrom Harvard Kennedy School in 2020, said he faced “a lot of phobia” around his identity.
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