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Last spring, Garzilli filed a lawsuit against Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and of Indian Studies; Christoph J. Wolff, dean of the graduate school; Peter K. Bol, professor of Chinese history; and James W. Benson, former assistant professor of Sanskrit...
Garzilli alleged in the suit, which was amended and re-filed last week, that Eck and Benson made demeaning and harmful comments about her in departmental meeting and thus blocked her application to be a lecturer...
...exhibit in her complaint is a November 1993 letter from her attorney to Witzel, in which Witzel apologized for Benson's "uncollegial, disruptive, defamatory occurrences...
...wrote in a statement also filed in Garzilli's original lawsuit that the "defamed" Garzilli was a scholar of the highest ability, while Benson, the "defamer," had published noting but his dissertation and one article dealing with the same topic...
...Benson now teaches at Oxford University and refused to comment about the incident...