ABOVE: Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the SAA meeting took place
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Archaeologists are petitioning the Society for American Archaeology to change its policies regarding sexual harassment and avoid a situation that unfolded last week at the society’s annual meeting in Albuquerque. David Yesner, a recently retired archaeology professor from the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) who had been banned from visiting the campus because of credible harassment claims, showed up to the archaeology meeting, where several of the women who identified themselves as victims of Yesner’s misconduct were present.
Norma Johnson, a graduate student at UAA and one of the women who filed a Title IX complaint against Yesner, recalls spotting him in the conference hall on Thursday (April 11). “I couldn’t believe it. I saw him from behind and I thought, ‘No, it can’t be him. This is crazy.’”
Johnson says she immediately buddied up with other UAA ...
