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Girl, Interrupted: Who Was Sappho? (newyorker.com)
69 points by benbreen on March 9, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



My sister, a summa cum laude classics major gratuate from Princeton, analyzed and translated previously unknown fragments of Sappho as her senior thesis.

Her advisor stole her research wholesale, down to her direct phrasing and mistakes, and published it under his name.

Princeton's administration blew her off completely despite pretty overwhelming evidence he had plagiarized the research wholesale. Certainly more than enough evidence that any student would have been suspended or expelled for the same conduct.

It was very saddening.


Maybe write to the journal it was published in, and ask them to issue a retraction? If it was published as a thesis, it seems there should be a paper trail.


The new fragments were publicly discussed for several months at https://newsappho.wordpress.com/ and many scholars harshly criticized the lack of detailed information about the provenance of the papyrus, e.g. https://newsappho.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/discussing-the-tw...




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