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However, Harvard Professor of Anthropology Michael Herzfeld, who resigned from the editorial board of CUP in protest, interprets this matter much differently. He sees the decision as a clear violation of academic freedom. In an interview with The Crimson last week, Herzfeld said, "It is the moral duty of the university presses to defend [academic freedom] as far as they are able to and [CUP] did not do that...
...Herzfeld disputes CUP's fears of violent reprisals, claiming that CUP did not make a realistic assessment of the potential danger to their Greek employees. He attributes their fears to racist stereotypes of Greeks as "violent and uncontrollable." Karakasidou, who received police protection while at Harvard, says the issue is not nearly as volatile as it was two years ago. And Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Margaret B. Alexiou also concurs that the publication of the book would not seriously endanger CUP's employees in Greece...
...decision was based on the stereotype of Greeks as being violent and uncontrollable," Herzfeld said...
...Herzfeld asked for police protection for Karakasidou when she served at Harvard as a visiting scholar in 1994-95. But the fact that she was not threatened at Harvard is evidence "of the absence, not presence...of any substantial risk," he said...
...David Brent, the senior editor at the University of Chicago Press (UCP), said Herzfeld brought attention to Karakasidou's script after CUP turned it down...