[INDOLOGY] Indologist at Center of Sexual Harassment Mess at Berkeley

[Audrey Truschke]

Everything shared on this thread has been reported in the mainstream media,
not tabloids.

I think that Indologists should be interested in the Blake Wentworth sexual
harassment scandal, not because it's sensational, but because sexual
harassment is a serious problem in our discipline and the academy more
widely. It's a hard truth, but a reality that affects many of us,
especially women.

Audrey

Audrey Truschke
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Rutgers University-Newark

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Walter Slaje <slaje at kabelmail.de> wrote:

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> 2016-10-05 18:03 GMT+02:00 Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY <
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>> From: Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan <Palaniappa at aol.com>
>> To: Audrey Truschke <audrey.truschke at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Indology List <indology at list.indology.info>
>> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:02:34 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Indologist at Center of Sexual Harassment Mess at
>> Berkeley
>> The case of Blake Wentworth might have played a part in the following
>> story regarding another South Asia specialist.
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-berkeley-chan
>> cellor-resign-20160816-snap-story.html
>>
>> Regards,
>> Palaniappan
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>> On Sep 29, 2016, at 10:52 AM, Audrey Truschke <audrey.truschke at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> List members may be interested in an ongoing sexual harassment scandal at
>> UC Berkeley involving an Indologist, Blake Wentworth.
>>
>> Wentworth, who works on classical Tamil literature, was found guilty of
>> sexual harassment and misconduct last year by the university, and three of
>> his victims came forward with details of the case (here
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/10/uc-berkeley-students-professor-sexual-harassment-complaint>
>> and here
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/uc-berkeley-sexual-harassment-scandal-blake-wentworth>)
>> after being frustrated with delays in firing Wentworth.
>>
>> Now Wentworth is trying to silence the women he harassed with a
>> defamation lawsuit (here
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/29/uc-berkeley-sexual-harassment-blake-wentworth-sues-victims>
>> ).
>>
>> As many of you know, sexual harassment is an ongoing issue in many
>> disciplines, and our corner of the academy, it seems, is no exception.
>>
>> Audrey Truschke
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of History
>> Rutgers University-Newark
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