She Left Harvard. He Got to Stay.

The Chronicle for Higher Education
By Tom Bartlett
February 27, 2018

Terry Karl lost count of how many times he tried to kiss her.  In his office, in her office, at a hotel during a conference.  She remembers the night in her car when he confided that he would be the next department chairman, and that he woud review the book she was writing.  It was unfortunate, he said, that he had to decide the fates of people he liked.  He moved his hand to touch her thigh, beneath her skirt, and leaned in for a kiss.

It was November 5, 1981.  Karl had been at Harvard University for less than a year.  She was an assistant professor of government, and Jorge Dominguez was her senior colleague.  He had tenure; she didn't.  Dominguez would soon be president of the Latin American Studies Association; she studied Latin America.  He sat on the editorial boards of prestigious journals like American Political Science Review and Social Science Quarterly.  He was already named in the field, while she was still establishing hers.  He could be helpful to her - or not.

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