Sexual misconduct in the field

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Clancy, continuing a series on sexual harassment and anthropological fieldwork has an important post up on her Scientific American site. Exploitation of power is very common in grad school settings, where graduate students often have no positive options available to them when bad things happen. Being in the field, where convention dictates that normal social rules are altered, often doesn’t make those dynamics better. (h/t to John Hawks)

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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