Gabriel Piterberg, the UCLA professor of Middle East history accused of sexual harassment by several graduate students, on Sunday resigned from his Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The Daily Bruin, UCLA’s student paper, reports that a petition calling for his removal from EUI started by students there and at UCLA garnered 254 signatures. Piterberg earlier paid a $3,000 fine and forfeited one quarter’s pay. Two UCLA graduate students are suing the UC Regents for discouraging them from filing complaints against Piterberg.
Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
