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Helene S. York ’83 filed a sexual harassment complaint against Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson on Nov. 15, 1979 for trying to kiss her while she attended his office hours, where, according to York, she was seeking advice on a paper topic...
Then-Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky censured Kilson after the sexual harassment complaint came to light, asking him to write an apology letter to York. Kilson took a sick leave from the College during the spring term...
...letter that appeared in a 2000 edition of West Africa Review, Kilson referred to DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates’ film series Wonders of the African World as “intellectually atrocious...
...that letter, Kilson also expressed disappointment in other members of the Faculty, specifically naming former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71, among others, as members of “the younger age-cohort of progressive Black intellectuals at Harvard whom I thought would join” the scrutiny of Gates’ work...
...Frankly, given what Professor Kilson has written about other of his colleagues, this is not surprising,” Kennedy said. “This isn’t the only time he’s gone off half-cocked casting aspersions on colleagues...