BOSTON (MA)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 4, 2018
By Tom Bartlett and Nell Gluckman
Women in Harvard University’s development office learned to stay away from Jorge Domínguez. It wasn’t just the kisses on the cheeks and the hugs. It was also the requests to get drinks after work, the flirtatious emails, his asking one of them to sit next to him during a meeting. He could be “handsy in a creepy-old-man kind of way,” said one woman. His behavior was troubling enough that three women spoke to human resources about Domínguez, who was at the time vice provost for international affairs.
The allegations of sexual harassment against Domínguez, a government professor, span decades. In 1983 he was found guilty of “serious misconduct” by Harvard after Terry Karl, a junior professor in the department, reported that he had repeatedly groped, kissed, and propositioned her. Other women at Harvard say that Domínguez also touched them inappropriately, and that they had dropped classes and abandoned projects in order to avoid him.
In the wake of a Chronicle investigation that found 10 women who say Domínguez made them uncomfortable, more have come forward. The number is now 18, including women from all areas of university life: graduate students, undergraduates, fellow professors, and staff members.
The first allegation is from 1979. The latest is from 2015.
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