Elizabeth Weiss, an anthropology professor at San Jose State University, stands for a portrait in the anthropology department’ s curational facility in San Jose, California, on Oct. 1, 2021. - Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group/TNS
SAN JOSE — A controversial anthropology professor at San Jose State, who contended she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains and posing in a photo with an ancient skull, has agreed to leave the university next year. Professor Elizabeth Weiss and the university reached a settlement that allows her to retire with full benefits at the end of the 2023-2024 school year, after she claimed in a lawsuit that the university retaliated against her and violated her First Amendment rights when it locked her out of the collection of skeletal remains....
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