Gordon said that exactly when Theidon’s case will move forward has yet to be determined.

In the meantime, Theidon is working in Washington, D.C., through a fellowship with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she is writing a book entitled “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations” as well as a series of articles based on her work in Colombia.

When the fellowship ends in 2015, Theidon will move back to the Boston area, this time as a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Democracy. Theidon will very likely enter the university in a tenure-track position, Gordon said.

“One way in which [academics denied tenure] are damaged…is they move to another institution. And they don’t move with tenure, because they don’t have tenure,” he said.

Theidon maintained that her action against the University is meant not only to vindicate her own allegations, but to end the “pattern of retaliation against faculty who speak up” at Harvard and at other universities.

—Staff writer Steven R. Watros can be reached at steven.watros@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @SteveWatros.