There is a scandal at Harvard. The Harvard Crimson reports that psychologist and professor in the Department of Biological Anthropology Marc D. Hauser has been sanctioned for scientific misconduct. A popular teacher whose Evolution of Human Behavior (aka the sex course) is the second most popular course at Harvard (after Econ 10), Hauser used web-generated survey data to investigate the moral sense in humans, and ran a research lab for animal study.
Asking big questions of feminisms: Edyta Just at Women's Worlds 2011
I happened upon Edyta Just near the end of the third day of Women's Worlds 2011 in July, in the hall where she was sitting at a table with books from the European ATGENDER association. She was presenting at the conference the next day, on a panel entitled, "Teaching with Gender: Asian and European Perspectives."
She expressed an interest in learning how to attract more students into Gender/Women's/Feminist Studies during our interview. She complained about the misconceptions about the field, "those crazy feminists that want to send all the men to hell," and how once people become familiar with it those misconceptions fade away and are replaced with a new process of learning.