Ex-Tufts researcher files bias lawsuit

by E Wayne Ross on December 29, 2007

The Boston Globe: Ex-Tufts researcher files bias lawsuit

A former faculty member at Tufts University is suing the college and a prominent professor for allegedly firing her in retaliation after she accused the professor of discriminating against female and minority employees and of singling her out for her sexual orientation.

Susan Lautze, a researcher on humanitarianism who cofounded the Feinstein International Center at Tufts in 1996, says she was fired in 2005 after she accused her supervisor, Peter Walker, of harboring bias toward women and nonwhites.