…because her father is a senior official in the Iranian government. The last time I looked, the “sins” of the parents were not grounds for removing a tenure-track faculty member from their job. Please email me if you have more information about what looks like a pretty blatant violation of the contractual rights of a faculty member.

(Thanks to Hengameh Saberi for the pointer.)

UPDATE: A couple of readers (not experts in this area) suggest that because sanctions apply to family members, they also preclude them from receiving payments or other support from U.S. institutions. So here the government-imposed sanctions trump the contractual protections.