I see we're back on Hymes, so I'll share some additional sources about harassment and sexism in tenure decisions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/165eBQn0xS7HT5--Ek370PNHScMt-Ml2iWMa6IclrpaM/edit?usp=sharing https://twitter.com/yarimarbonilla/status/1283106399380213766

I find this section from Shirley Brice Heath's article in the Hymes memorial volume of AEQ helpful: "At GSE, students—Master of Arts principals and teachers as well as doctoral candidates—soon began to feel—as the objects of new passion often do—that they wanted more…

"They called to Dell’s attention the all-white, all-male tenured faculty of GSE. No female or person of color had ever achieved tenure at GSE…

"Dell’s passion for what he saw as the social justice promise of ethnography of communication in the world of education did not include his own institution…

"This situation was surprising to many, for Dell had written in 1969 one of the most radicalizing texts in the history of anthropology—Reinventing Anthropology (see, esp., his opening chapter in this volume on the critical, political, and personal aspects of anthropology, 1969).

"In this volume he argued that all anthropological knowledge is dubious, because it is gained under the conditions of colonialism, imperialism, and oppression.

"Yet, neither he nor other administrators in universities of that time viewed these descriptors as appropriate incentive to bring about infrastructural changes to ensure inclusion of women and minorities within the power structures of higher education." (pp. 401-402)

Heath, S. B. (2011). New love, long love: Keeping social justice and ethnography of education in mind. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 42(4), 397-403. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01147.x