The controversy surrounding John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has divided the faculty, with scholars like Jill Lepore and Henry Louis Gates Jr. supporting their colleague.
Harvard faces a lawsuit by three graduate students who say for years it ignored their warnings and complaints about a prominent anthropologist before making minimal findings against him.
More than two weeks before controversy erupted over the institution’s denying scholars the right to be expert witnesses, one professor offered to take an unpaid leave to do so.
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