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Kathleen M. Blee, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982
Title: Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department
Campus Address: 2406 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7584
E-mail: kblee@pitt.edu
Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS
Department of Sociology
2400 WWPH
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 648-7580
email: kblee@pitt.edu
fax: 412-648-2799
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1982 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology)
M.S. 1976 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology)
B.A. 1974 Indiana University (Sociology), with highest honors
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Pittsburgh
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, 2007-present
Professor of Sociology, 1996-2006
Affiliated (secondary) appointments:
Department of History, 1997-present
Department of Psychology, 2007-present
Women’s Studies Program, 1996-present
Center for Race and Social Problems, 2005-present
University of Kentucky
Instructor to Professor, 1981-1996
Cornell University
Visiting Fellow, summer 1984
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Chair, Department of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh, 2008-present
Director, Women’s Studies Program
University of Pittsburgh, 1996-2001
Responsible for administration and advising for doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate certificates in Women’s Studies; developing and managing a graduate and undergraduate curriculum of interdisciplinary and cross-listed interdisciplinary courses; multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary programming on women’s and gender issues; promoting research on women and gender; supervising and evaluating administrative staff and part-time faculty.
Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Kentucky, 1989-1991; 1992
The College of Arts and Sciences had approximately 350 faculty and 9,000 undergraduate students. I was responsible for curricular oversight and review of undergraduate programs and interdisciplinary programs as well as faculty development and research administration in all social science and humanities departments including approval of external grant applications. I served as advisor to the dean on personnel, budgetary and policy matters, including faculty hiring, merit evaluation, and promotion/tenure decisions.
Director, Women's Studies Program
University of Kentucky, 1987-1989
Responsible for graduate and undergraduate curricular offerings and an undergraduate and graduate minor in Women’s Studies; promoting teaching and research on women and gender; supervising and evaluating administrative staff.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Named to Distinguished Professor rank, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (university-wide), 2007
University of Pittsburgh Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring (university-wide), 2007
American Association of University Women Senior Scholar Commendation of Honor, 2007
Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Pennsylvania Sociological Society, 2006
University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, Senior Scholar (university-wide career research award), 2004
Elected to Governing Council, American Sociological Association, 2004-07
YWCA-Pittsburgh Racial Justice Award, 2004
Selected as University of Kentucky Research Professor (university-wide career research award), 1994-1995
Elected to Sociological Research Association (honorary for outstanding research and scholarship), 1999
Elected as Chair, American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 1999-2000
BOOKS
2002 Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. University of California Press
Featured in author-meets-critics session, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, August, 2003.
Finalist, C. W. Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2003.
Honorable Mention, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, 2003.
Honorable Mention, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, 2003
Featured in author-meets-critics session, Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Philadelphia, February, 2003.
Featured in author-meets-critics session, Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Atlanta, March, 2004.
Feature articles about this book appeared in New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, Toronto Globe and Mail, and other places.
Reprinted in part and modified as “The Geography of Racial Activism: Defining Whiteness at Multiple Scales”pp. 49-68 in Colin Flint (ed.), Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Hate, Discrimination, and Intolerance in the United States (NY: Routledge, 2004).
Reprinted, in part and modified, as “The Place of Women in Racist Groups” in Abby Ferber (ed.), Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism (NY: Routledge, 2004): 49-74.
2001 Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice. Edited with France Winddance Twine. New York University Press.
2000 The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. (with Dwight Billings). Cambridge University Press.
Winner, Weatherly Appalachian Studies Association best book award, 2001
Featured in an authors meet critic session, Appalachian Studies Association, Snowshoe, WV, March, 2001
Featured as a Dialogue Session, Marxism 2000 Conference, Amherst, Mass, Sept 2000
Featured in symposium of responses by critics in Rethinking Marxism 16:1 (Jan, 2004).
Featured in a symposium of responses by critics from various disciplines, in Journal of Appalachian Studies 6:1-2 (Spring-Fall, 2000).
1998 No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. Editor. New York University Press.
1991 Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. University of California Press.
Named a centennial book of the University of California Press.
Selected as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights.
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Reprinted in part in Susan J. Ferguson (ed.), Mapping the Landscape: Readings in Sociology (Mayfield Publishing, 1996)
2009 Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Reissued with a new preface by University of California Press.
EDITED JOURNALS
- Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography on "Racist and Far-Right Groups.” Vol 36, No. 2 (April).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Emerging Social Movements. Book manuscript in progress, based on ethnographic study of social movement groups, funded by NSF.
Hate Violence off the Radar. Book manuscript in progress, based on study of hate violence, funded by Maurice Falk Medical Fund.
“Social Movement Studies in the Age of the Patriot Act.” (with Tim Vining). Under review.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2010 “Conservative and Right-Wing Movements” (with Kim Creasap). Annual Review of Sociology, forthcoming.
2010. “Access and Methods for Researching Hidden Communities.” E-Sharp (Scotland), forthcoming.
2009 “Trajectories of Action and Belief in U.S. Organized Racism.” in Bert Klandermans and Jacquelien van Stekelenburg (eds), Politicalisation and Radicalisation. London: Blackwell, forthcoming.
2009 “The Stigma of Racial Activism” in Fabrizio Butera and John Levine (eds.), Coping with Minority Status: Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
2008 “The Space of Racial Hate.” Hate Crimes. Barbara Perrry (ed.). New York: Praeger, pp. 41-50.
2008 “The Hidden Weight of the Past: Paths and Micro-History in the Study of Social Movements,” in John Walton, Chris DeCorse; and James Brooks (eds.), Microhistory. Sante Fe: School of Americas Research (SAR) Press.
2007 “Voyeurism, Ethics, and the Lure of the Extraordinary: Lessons from Studying America's Underground "Social Thought and Research, Vol. 28, pp. 3-22.
2007 “Interview on Social Movements.” Social Thought and Research, Vol. 28, pp. 23-33.
2007 “Ethnographies of the Far Right,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36(2): 119-28.
2007 “White Supremacism as Deviance”in Erich Goode and Angus Vail (eds.), Extreme Deviance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2007 “The Microdynamics of Hate Violence: Interpretive Analyses and Implications for Responses,” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 51, no. 2 special issue on Responding to Hate Violence: New Challenges, edited by Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovich, pp. 258-270.
2006 “Can We Learn from Racists?” Mobilization: An International Journal (December), pp. 479-82.
2006 "How Local Social Movement Groups Handle a Presidential Election" (with Ashley Currier). Qualitative Sociology 29(3): 261-280.
Reprinted with modifications as “Are National Politics Local? Social Movement Responses to the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election” in Javier Auyero (ed.), Politics Under the Microscope: Readings in Political Ethnography. Springer, 2008.
2005 “Women and Organized Racial Terrorism in the U.S.," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol 28, No. 3 (Sept/Oct), pp. 421-433.
Reprinted in Cindy Ness (ed). 2007. Female Terrorism and Militancy: Agency, Utility, and Organization (Contemporary Terrorism Studies). NY: Taylor and Francis.
2005 "Character-Building: The Dynamics of Emerging Social Movement Groups,” Mobilization: An International Journal (with Ashley Currier), vol 10, no. 1 (February), 129-44.
2005 “Racial Violence in the United States” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Issue 28:4 (July), pp. 599-619.
2005 “Positioning Hate” Journal of Hate Studies, Vol 3, pp. 95-206.
2005 "Racist Movements" Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 3000 words, forthcoming.
2004 “Social Origins of Appalachian Poverty: Markets, Cultural Strategies, and the State in an Appalachian Kentucky Community, 1804-1940,” Rethinking Marxism 16:1 (January): 19-36 (with Dwight Billings).
2003 “Studying the Enemy” In Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz (eds.), Our Studies, Ourselves. (Oxford University Press):13-23.
2002 “Ku Klux Klan” in Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson (eds.), Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (ABC-Clio Press), forthcoming.
2002 “The Banality of Violence” Contexts, (fall).
2002 “The Uses of Semi-Structured Interviews in Social Movement Research” (co-authored with Verta Taylor) in Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg (eds.), Methods in Social Movement Research. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 92-117.
2002 “The Gendered Organization of Hate: Women in the U.S. Ku Klux Klan” in Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power (eds.), Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World (New York: Routledge), pp. 101-114.
Reprinted in Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier, Feminist Frontiers 6, 2003.
2002 “Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity,” in Robyn Wiegman (ed.), Women’s Studies on Its Own (Durham: Duke University Press): 177-182.
2002 “Feuds and Violence -Media Coverage” (with Dwight Billings), in Encyclopedia of Appalachia, forthcoming.
2001 “What Else We Need to Know: Developing an Agenda for Studying the Racist Movement,” Research in Political Sociology, Vol 9, pp. 171-178.
Republished in Betty A. Dobratz et. al, The Politics of Social Inequality (New York: JAI/Elsevier Science), pp. 171-178.
2001 “Ku Klux Klan” in Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism (Routledge/Berkshire Reference Works, in press).
2000 “Authors’ Response” to “A Symposium on The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia” in Journal of Appalachian Studies 6: 1-2 (Spring-Fall, 2000): 29-34.
2000 Women and Racist Apocalyptic Organizing. Journal of Millennial Studies (on-line publication of Boston University).
2000 “White on White: Interviewing Women in U.S. White Supremacist Groups.” in France Winddance Twine and Jonathan Warren (eds.), Race-ing Research: Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas in Field Research. (New York: New York University Press), pp. 93-110.
2000 “Ku Klux Klan,” in Wade Clark Roof (ed.), Contemporary American Religion. New York: MacMillan Publishing).
1999 “From the Field to the Courthouse: The Perils of Privilege,” Law and Social Inquiry Vol 24, No. 4 (November): 401-405.
1999 "Ku Klux Klan" in Neil L. Shumsky (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs (N.Y.: AFL-CIO Publishers).
1999 "Where Bloodshed is a Pastime': Mountain Feuds and Appalachian Stereotyping" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) in Dwight Billings, Gurney Norman and Katherine Ledford, (eds.), Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk From an American Region. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, pp. 118-137.
1998 “Managing Emotion in the Study of Right-Wing Extremism.” Qualitative Sociology 21:4 (December), pp. 381-399.
1998 "Ku Klux Klan," "Radicalism," and "Antifeminism" in Wilma Mankiller et.al. (eds.), The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (NY: Houghton Mifflin).
1998 "Reading Racism: Toward an Understanding of Racist Group Affiliation" in Kathleen Blee (ed.), No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. New York University Press, pp. 1-15.
1998 “Women on the Left/Women on the Right” in Kathleen Blee (ed.), No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. New York University Press, pp. 180-198.
1997 “Motherhood in the Radical Right” in Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor (eds.), The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (Hanover: University Press of New England).
1996 "Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups" Gender & Society 10:6 (December), pp. 680-702.
Reprinted in Barbara Perry (ed.), Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004.
1996 "Race Differences in the Origin and Consequences of Chronic Poverty" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) Social Science History 20:3 (Fall), pp. 345-373.
Reprinted as “Race and the Roots of Appalachian Poverty: Clay County, Kentucky, 1850-1910" in John C. Inscoe (ed.), Appalachians and Race. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
1996 "Violence and Local State Formation: A Longitudinal Case Study of Appalachian Feuding" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) Law and Society Review 30:4 (November, pp.671-705.
1996 "'Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red': Writing Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) Southern Cultures 2:3-4, pp.328-352.
Reprinted in Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader, 1993-2008. Larry J. Griffin and Harry L. Watson (eds.). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
1996 "Engendering Conspiracy: Women in Rightist Theories and Movements" Pp. 91-112 in Eric Ward (ed.), Conspiracies: Real Grievances, Paranoia and Mass Movements. Seattle: PB Publishing.
1995 "Racial Differences in Men's Attitudes About Women's Gender Roles" (co-authored with Ann Tickamyer) Journal of Marriage and the Family, February: 1-10.
1995 "Agriculture in the Kentucky Mountains" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) in Pudup, M.B., D.B. Billings and A. Waller (eds.), Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1993 "Evidence, Empathy and Ethics: Lessons from Oral Histories of the Klan," Journal of American History 80:2 (September): 596-606.
Reprinted in Al Thomson and Robert B. Perks, Oral History Reader (London: Routledge, 1998.)
1992 "Appalachian Inequality in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Beech Creek, Kentucky" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) The Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, vol. 4 (March), pp. 113-123.
1991 "Women in the 1920's Klan Movement," Feminist Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, (Spring), pp. 57-77.
Reprinted in Nancy Hewitt et al (eds)., Women, Families, and Communities. Longman, 2005.
Reprinted in Claire G. Moses and Heidi Hartmann (eds.), Women in Struggle, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Reprinted in Nancy Hewitt and Kirsten Delegard, Women, Families, and Communities, Vol, II. New York: Longman/Pearson, 2007.
1991 "The Catholic Church and Central American Politics," in Kenneth Coleman and George Herring (eds.), Understanding the Central American Crisis: Sources of Conflict, U.S. Policy, and Options for Peace (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Press, pp. 55-75.
An earlier version appeared in Coleman and Herring (eds.), The Central American Crisis: Sources of Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Policy. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Press, 1985), pp. 55-71.)
1990 "The Racial Convergence Thesis in Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility" (co-authored with Ann Tickamyer) Social Science Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 4, (December), pp. 711-728.
1990 "Family Strategies in a Subsistence Economy: Beech Creek, Kentucky, 1850-1942" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) Sociological Perspectives, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 63-88.
1990 "Right-Wing Political Movements" in Angela Howard Zophy (ed.) Handbook of American Women's History. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 513-514 (revised, 1994; 1998; 2000).
1989 "The Family as a Socio-Economic Unit" in Helen Tierney (ed.) Women's Studies Encyclopedia. New York: Greenwood Press, pp. 129-132.
1989 "Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Appalachia: Subsistence Farming in Beech Creek, 1850-1880" (co-authored with Dwight Billings and Paul Weingartner) Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, vol. 1, pp. 70-80.
1987 "Gender Ideology and the Role of Women in the 1920's Klan Movement," Sociological Spectrum, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 73-97.
1986 "Black-White Differences in Mother-to-Daughter Transmission of Sex-Role Attitudes" (co-authored with Ann Tickamyer) Sociological Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2 (Summer), pp. 205-222 .
1986 "Reconstructing Daily Life in the Past: A Hermeneutic Approach to Ethnographic Data" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) Sociological Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4 (winter), pp. 443-462.
1986 "Bringing History Back In: The Historicity of Social Relations" (co-authored with Dwight Billings) Current Perspectives in Social Theory, vol. 7, pp. 51-68.
1986 "Teaching a Theory-Based Sociology of Gender Course", Teaching Sociology, vol. 14, no. 4 (July), pp. 162-167.
1986 “Culture, Family and Community in Pre-Industrial Appalachia," (co-authored with Dwight Billings and Louis E. Swanson) Appalachian Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 154-170.
1986 “The Question of Needs," Contemporary Sociology, vol. 15, no. 6 (November), pp. 823-826.
1986 "Culture, Family and Community: Response to Paul Salstrom," (co-authored with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson) Appalachian Journal, vol. 13, no. 4 (summer), pp. 350-352.
1985 "Family Patterns and the Politicization of Consumption Relations," Sociological Spectrum, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 295-316.
1985 "Mobility and Political Orientation: An Analysis of Sex Differences," Sociological Perspectives, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 385-400.
1985 "Women of the Right," Feminist Collections, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4-6.
1984 "Family Ties and Class Conflict: Politics of Immigrant Communities in the Great Lakes Region, 1890-1920," Social Problems, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 311-321.
1982 "The Political Economy of Exploitation: A Revision," (co-authored with Glenn Yago) The Insurgent Sociologist, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 63-72.
1980 "The Emergence of Socialist Political Culture Among Finnish Immigrants in Minnesota Mining Communities," (co-authored with Al Gedicks) in Maurice Zeitlin (ed.) Classes, Class Conflict and the State: Empirical Studies in Class Analysis. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers, pp. 172-192.
RESEARCH REPORTS
2004 “Racial Dynamics and Poverty in Appalachia” Report to the State Legislature of Kentucky.
1994 "Historical Origins of Chronic Poverty: A Longitudinal Case Study," Report to the Small Grants Program of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 86 p.
1992 "Appalachian Feuding: A Case Study of Violent Disputing," Report to the Fund for Research on Dispute Resolution of the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (with Dwight Billings). 110 p.
1991 "Causes and Consequences of Persistent Rural Poverty: A Longitudinal Case Study of an Appalachian Community," Report to the Rural Economic Program of the Ford Foundation and the Aspen Institute (with Dwight Billings). 180 p.
BOOK REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS
2009 Review of K. Creager et al, Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives. American Journal of Sociology. Vol 113, no 3.
2007 Review of E. Schlatter, Aryan Cowboys, Western Historical Quarterly
2007 Review of Monica McDermott, Working-Class White. Contemporary Sociology 36(3): 226-7.
2005 Review of David Cunningham, There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, The Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence, Contemporary Sociology
2004 Review of Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, eds.. 2004. Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion. Critical Mass: The Bulletin of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association.
2004 Review of Ammu Joseph and Kalpana Sharma, Terror, Counter Terror: Women Speak Out. Feminist Theory, Vol 5, no. 3.
2004 Review of Mattias Gardell, Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Journal of Contemporary Religion, October (forthcoming).
2004 Review of Silke Roth, Building Movement Bridges. American Journal of Sociology, 109: 6 (May): 1521-2.
2003 “Troubling Women’s History: Women in Right-Wing and Colonial Politics” Review of June Melby Benowitz. Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933-1945; Kim E. Nielsen. Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare; and Lora Wildenthal. German Women for Empire, 1884-1945, Journal of Women’s History, forthcoming.
2003 Review of Carol Swain, The New White Nationalism in America. Journal of American History (April): 547-8.
2002 Review of Encyclopedia of White Power Rural Sociology (June) 67:2, p306-9.
2001 Review of Rebecca Klatch, A Generation Divided : the New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s, Social Forces, forthcoming.
2001 Review of Sandra Barney, Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930, Journal of Appalachian Studies, forthcoming.
1999 “Might Makes Right.” Review of Sara Diamond, Not By Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right; Jean Hardisty, Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers; and Donna Minkowitz, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury, Women’s Review of Books, Vol 17, No. 3 (December):4-6.
1999 Review of George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and ‘Legal Lynchings’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 22:4 (July), pp.774-775.
1998 Review of Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg, The Revival of Right-Wing Extremism in the Nineties, Contemporary Sociology 27:3 (May): 303-4.
1998 Review of Renate Siebert, Secrets of Life and Death, Contemporary Sociology 26:5 (Sept.): 619-620.
1999 Review of Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Common Knowledge 7:3 (winter):183-4.
1998 Review of Susan Marshall, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage, American Journal of Sociology 104:2 (Sept.): 537-539.
1997 Review of Philip Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, Journal of American History (December), 1114-1115.
1997 Review essay of Dan Carter, The Politics of Race; Kenneth Stern, A Force Upon the Plain; and Chip Berlet, Eyes Right, Contemporary Sociology 26:1 (January): 26-28.
1996 Review of George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, Contemporary Sociology 25:4 (July), 443.
1995 Review of James Aho, This Thing of Darkness, Contemporary Sociology 24:6 (November), 817-818.
1995 Review of Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry, Contemporary Sociology 24:3 (May), 346-7.
1995 Review of Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.
1994 Review of Mary Jackman, The Velvet Glove, Contemporary Sociology 23:6 (November): 792-793.
1994 Review of William B. Hixson, Jr., Search for the American Right Wing: An Analysis of the Social Science Record, Journal of American History, June: 347-8.
1994 Review of Steven Seidman, Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America, Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (Jan):480-482.
1993 Review of Douglas Rose (ed.), The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race, Contemporary Sociology 22:3 (May): 384-385.
1993 Review of Shawn Lay (ed.), The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, in The Historian 55:3 (Spring): 586-587.
1992 Review of Leonard Moore, Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928 and Richard Tucker, The Dragon and The Cross: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Middle America, in Journal of American History, (December): 1219-1221.
1992 Review of Michael Newton and Judy Ann Newton, The Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 433-434.
1991 Review of David Blankenhorn et. al. (eds.), Rebuilding the Nest, in Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol. 53, no. 4, p. 819.
1989 Review of Rebecca E. Klatch, Women of the New Right, in American Journal of Sociology, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 913-915.
1989 Review of Sandford M. Dornbusch and Myra H. Strober (eds.), Feminism, Children, and the New Families, in Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1093-1094.
1988 Review of Janet Sayers, et al. (eds.), Engels Revisited: New Feminist Essays, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 143.
1987 Review of Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher (eds.), Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History," in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 777.
1986 Review of Ruth Milkman (ed.), Women, Work and Protest: A History of U.S. Women's Labor History, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 602-603.
1986 Review of Peter Kivisto, Immigrant Socialists in the United States: The Case of Finns and the Left, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 15, no.1, pp. 141-142.
1985 Review of Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Women of the Depression, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 78-80.
1983 Reviews of Lydia Sargent (ed.), Women and Revolution and Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Sociology, in Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 175-177.
1980 Review of Christopher Jencks, "Heredity, Environment and Public Policy Reconsidered," in Feminist Collections, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 11.
1979 Review of Kathleen McCourt, Working Class Women and Grass-Roots Politics, in The Insurgent Sociologist, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 98-99.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2009 “Defining and Communicating Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research.” Report of Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation.
2004 “Evaluating Qualitative Research” Report and Proceedings from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop on the Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research.
2002 “What is [Still] to be Done? Ideas for Studying the Racist Right,” The Public Eye.
2002 “The Other Half” Intelligence Report [The publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center) (spring).
1998 Kathleen M. Blee, "Interdisciplinary Conversations: Issues of Understanding and Dialogue Across Disciplines" in ASA Section on Sex and Gender Newsletter.
1997 Kathleen M. Blee, “Proseminar in Race, Class and Gender” in ASA Teaching Resources Guide in Race, Gender and Class. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1996 Kathleen M. Blee, "Proseminar in Work, Gender and Inequality" in ASA Teaching Resources Guide in Sex and Gender. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1994 Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen Blee, "Agricultural Development and Poverty" (equal co-authors). Paper Series of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty.
1992 “Communities, Diversity, and Oral History.” Videocassette of teleconference talk, held October 15, 1992 in Cleveland. Available from Oral History Association.
1991 Kathleen M. Blee, "Social-Historical Perspectives on Work, Gender and Inequality" in Comparative-Historical Sociology: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1990 Kathleen M. Blee, "Theories of Gender," in The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching Materials (second edition). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Views of Gender and Family," in Barrie Thorne, et al., The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, pp. 173-177.
1985 Dwight Billings, Kathleen Blee and Louis Swanson, "Pre-Capitalist Modes of Social Cooperation: A Reinterpretation of Family and Community Bonds," Appalachian Center Occasional Paper Series, no. 4.
1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Critical Book Review," in Barrie Thorne, et al., The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, p. 130.
BOOK REVIEWS AND OPINION PIECES IN NEWSPAPERS
1992 "Don't Forget David Duke: Race Hate is Thriving," Review of Douglas Rose (ed.), The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race, Lexington Herald-Leader, August 30.
1992 "Recalling What the '60s Were - And Were Not," Review of David Chalmers, And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 7.
1992 "Race, Taxes and the Decline of American Liberalism," Review of Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics, Lexington Herald-Leader, February 2.
1991 "The Button-Down Racist: Under Duke and Others, Racism is Reworking Its Public Face, Constituency" Invited Guest Editorial, Lexington Herald-Leader, November.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
External Grants
2006-2007 P.I. “Research Experience for Undergraduates” award. National Science Foundation, $3,000
2006 P.I. for Ashley Currier Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant on “The Visibility of Social Movement Organizations in South Africa and Namibia”, National Science Foundation, $7,500.
2004-2006 “The Origins of Social Movements- Renewal Request” National Science Foundation, $97,000.
2003-2004 “The Origins of Social Movements” National Science Foundation, $57,000.
2003-2005 “Consequences of Ethnoviolence” Maurice Falk Medical Fund, $47,00 direct costs.
2002-2003 P.I. for Connie Oxford Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant on “Gender-Based Persecution in Asylum Policy and Law in the United States,” National Science Foundation, $7,356.
1999-2000 “New Scholarship on Women & Religion.” Grants in support of a Women’s Studies Symposium from The Pittsburgh Foundation ($1,000) and the American Jewish Committee-Pittsburgh ($200)
1994-95 "Gender and the Politics of Organized Hate" ($20,000 fellowship). American Council on Learned Societies" (declined to accept University of Kentucky Research Professorship)
1993-94 "Historical Origins of Chronic Poverty: A Longitudinal Case Study" ($15,000 direct costs). Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Principal Investigator with Dwight Billings.
1991-92 "Appalachian Feuding: A Longitudinal Case Study of Violent Disputing" ($65,000 direct costs). Fund for Research on Dispute Resolution. Principal Investigator with Dwight Billings.
1989-91 "Causes and Consequences of Persistent Rural Poverty: A Longitudinal Case Study of an Appalachian Community" ($52,000 direct costs). Rural Economic Program of the Ford Foundation and the Aspen Institute. Principal Investigator with Dwight Billings.
1988 Appalachian Studies Research Fellowship Award ($1330 direct costs). For coding tax roll data on "Beech Creek" Kentucky. Principal Investigator with Dwight Billings.
1987 Kentucky Foundation for Women. Research Award ($1500 direct costs). To do interviews on the Indiana Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
1987 Kentucky Humanities Council Grant ($400). For partial funding of the Women's Studies Symposium on Gender and Social Issues.
1986 National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Stipend Fellowship ($3000). To collect data on the Indiana Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
1986 Southern Regional Education Board. Faculty Research Support Grant ($662). To use archives at the Indiana State Library for research on Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
1984 National Endowment for the Humanities. "Travel to Collections" grant ($500). For research at the Library of Congress on women in U.S. Nazi Party and affiliated organizations.
1983-84 United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. Continuation of $41,500 grant "Appalachian Migration Study: Beech Creek" (James Hougland, Principal Investigator, Dwight Billings, Kathleen Blee and Louis Swanson, Co-Principal Investigators).
Internal Grants
2002-06 Grants for Social Movements Forum speaker series. University of Pittsburgh. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (with John Markoff, William Brustein, Deborah Gould).
2000-2001 Gender and Social Networks Speakers’ Series grant. University of Pittsburgh, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (with Patrick Doreian).
1998-99 “Ethnography of Racist Groups” $500. University of Pittsburgh, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
1994-95 "Women in Racist Politics," ($30,000). University of Kentucky Research Professorship for 1994-95.
1993 "Women's Roles and Gender Ideologies in Contemporary Far Right Movements" ($2,870). Research Committee, University of Kentucky.
1991-92 "Women's Labor Force Participation" ($12,000). Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky (with Ann Tickamyer).
1990-91 "Black and White Women's Labor Force Participation" ($12,000). Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky (with Ann Tickamyer).
1988-92 Faculty Research Support Award ($2500/yr for 3 years). For general research support, University of Kentucky.
1988 University Studies Program summer fellowship
1987 Food, Environment, Agric & Society in Transition summer fellowship
1986-87 University of Kentucky Research Committee award ($2300). "Maternal Influences on Daughters' and Sons' Work Behavior and Sex Role Attitudes." (with Ann Tickamyer).
1986 University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Small Grants Award ($354). To use archives at the New York Public Library for research on Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
1985 University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Small Grants Award ($600). To complete coding of manuscript census records for historical demography of family and community in "Beech Creek" Kentucky (with Dwight Billings).
1985 University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Small Grants Award ($525). To use archives at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Radcliffe College for research on women in the U.S. anti-female suffrage movement.
1984-85 University of Kentucky Research Committee award ($3200). "Historical Demography of 'Beech Creek,' Kentucky" (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).
1984 University of Kentucky. Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ($2400). For research on the 1920's Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
1984 University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Small Grants Award ($500). For transcription of oral history tapes on family and community history in Appalachian Kentucky (with Louis Swanson).
1984 University of Kentucky Computing Center. CPU grant ($2000). For analysis of longitudinal data on women's and men's labor force participation (with Ann Tickamyer).
1983-84 University of Kentucky Research Committee ($2295). "A Longitudinal Study of the Structure of Clerical Work and Female Labor Force Participation" (with Ann Tickamyer).
1983 University of Kentucky. Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ($1600). For research on women in right-wing political movements.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2009 “New Directions in Gender Research.” Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association Symposium, San Francisco (August).
2009 “Social Movement Studies in the Age of the Patriot Act” (with Tim Vining). International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL (May).
2008 “Social Movements and Oral Histories.” Organizer and commentator, Oral History Association Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh (October).
2008 “Women and Right Wing Political Movements”. Invited workshop leader. Berkshire Conference on Women’s History. Minneapolis (June)
2007 “Publicity and Visibility in Social Movements” Presentation at Collective Behavior and Social Movement Conference, August, New York.
2007 “State of the Field: Postwar Conservativism,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March, Minneapolis.
2006 “Social Movement Groups and Elections” Presentation at American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montreal (with Ashley Currier) (August).
2006 “Revisiting the State of Intersectionality” Presidential Plenary Panel at American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montreal (August).
2006 “Emerging Social Movement Groups” Presentation at Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research annual conference, Pittsburgh (July).
2005 “Awkward Movements: How to Study Illegal, Unpopular and Strange Social Movement Groups” Presentation at American Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia (August).
2005 “Rigor in Qualitative Research” Presentation at American Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia (August).
2004 Author-Meets-Critics Session on Blee, Inside Organized Racism. Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Atlanta (April).
2003 “Violence as Narrative and Strategy in the U.S. Far Right” Presidential Plenary Session, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta (August).
2003 “The Space of Racial Hate” Presidential Plenary Session, American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta (August).
2003 Author-Meets-Critic Session on Blee, Inside Organized Racism. American Sociological Association annual meetings, Atlanta (August).
2003 Author-Meets-Critic Session on Blee, Inside Organized Racism. Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, Philadelphia (February).
2003 Author-Meets-Critic Session on Francesca Polletta, Freedom is an Endless Meeting. Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, Philadelphia (February).
2002 “Authority in Contention” Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association ASA Pre-Conference, South Bend (August).
2002 “Writing About the Right” Comments at Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Storrs, CT (June)
2001 “Analyzing Gender in the White Supremacist Movement ” American Sociological Association annual meeting, Anaheim, California, August
2001 Appalachian Studies Conference, “Beech Creek Revisited: An Author Meets Critics Session on Kathleen Blee & Dwight Billings, The Road to Poverty
2000 “Social Origins of Appalachian Poverty” Response to a Symposium on Kathleen Blee & Dwight Billings, The Road to Poverty, Rethinking Marxism 2000, Amherst (October).
2000 “Entangled Emotions: Studying the Underbelly of Women’s History” Invited Plenary Address to the Women’s Caucus, Social Science History Association annual meeting, Pittsburgh (October).
2000 “Social Origins of Appalachian Poverty: Markets, Cultural Strategies, and the State in an Appalachian Kentucky Community, 1804-1940" Social Science History Association annual meeting, Pittsburgh (October).
1999 “Gender and InterEthnic Violence” Invited Plenary Address, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester (June).
1998 “The Ties That Bind: The Hidden Culture of Organized Racism” Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco (August).
1998 “Interdisciplinary Conversations,” Presentation to Teaching Workshop: Teaching Feminist Theory. Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco (August).
1998 “The Negotiation of Emotions in the Interview Process” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia (March).
1997 “Reading Racism: Women and Hate” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto (August).
1997 “White on White: Interview Narratives from Racial Activists,” Annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans (April).
1996 "Gender and Hate Politics," Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City (August).
1995 "Recruitment of Women into Organized Hate Groups," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. (August).
1994 "Gender and Political Participation in Social Movements," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles (August).
1993 "Racial Differences in Men's Gender Role Attitudes," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami (August), (with Ann Tickamyer).
1993 Commentator at session "The Problem of American Conservatism," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, California (April).
1993 Commentator at Berkshire Conference on the History of Women session on gender and Protestant fundamentalism (June).
1993 "Right Wing Motherhood" Invited presentation at Conference on Motherhood, Dartmouth College (May).
1992 "Evidence, Empathy and Ethics: Dilemmas of an Oral History of the Klan" Keynote address, Oral History Association annual meeting, Cleveland (October)
1991 "Racism, Hypernationalism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia: The Case of the Contemporary U.S.," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Cincinnati.
1991 "Wealth and Inequality in Preindustrial Appalachia: Beech Creek, Kentucky, 1850-1910," presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference, Berea, Kentucky (with Dwight Billings).
1990 "Causes and Consequences of Appalachian Poverty," Aspen Institute Conference on Rural Poverty in America (with Dwight Billings).
1989 "Land and Wealth in a Rural Appalachian Community," presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (with Dwight Billings).
1989 "Reactions to Altina Waller, Feuding," presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia.
1989 "Family Strategies in a Subsistence Economy," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco (with Dwight Billings).
1988 "Landownership and Household Composition in a Subsistence Appalachian Community," presented at the Appalachian Studies annual conference, Appalachian State University, (with Dwight Billings).
1988 "Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Appalachia: Subsistence Farming in Beech Creek, Kentucky, 1850-1880," presented at the Appalachian Studies annual conference, Appalachian State University (with Paul Weingartner and Dwight Billings).
1987 "Women's Mobilization into Right-Wing Politics: Insights from the 1920's Women of the Ku Klux Klan," presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
1987 "Household Composition and Tenancy in a Subsistence Economy," presented at the Southern Stratification meeting, Atlanta (with Dwight Billings).
1987 "Households and Farms in the Kentucky Mountains, 1850-1910," presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans (with Dwight Billings).
1986 "Black-White Differences in Mother-Daughter Transmissions of Sex Role Attitudes and Work Behavior," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York (with Ann Tickamyer).
1986 "Re-Reading Ethnographies: An Applied Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge," presented at the Southern Sociological annual meeting, New Orleans (with Dwight Billings).
1985 "Gender and Bureaucracy," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (with Ann Tickamyer).
1985 "Bringing History Back In: The Historicity of Social Relations," presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Philadelphia (with Dwight Billings).
1985 "Women's Political Mobilization: Insights from the 1920's Women of the Ku Klux Klan," presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Philadelphia.
1984 "Pre-Capitalist Modes of Social Cooperation: Appalachia and New England Compared," presented at the Eastern Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).
1983 "Large Scale Longitudinal Studies," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Detroit (with Dwight Billings).
1983 "Toward a Critical Re-reading of Classic Appalachian Studies," presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).
1983 "Consumption Relations, Class Struggle and the Family: A Comparative View," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Detroit.
1983 "Re-Reading the Classics: Family and Community," presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference annual meeting, Pipestem, West Virginia (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).
1982 "Family Ties and Inter-Class Political Struggle," presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, Bloomington, Indiana.
1982 "Political Ideology, Family Ideology: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Industrial Communities," presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, Des Moines.
1982 "Critical Issues in the Political Economy of the Family," presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, Des Moines.
1981 "The Political Economy of Class," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Toronto (with Glenn Yago).
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
Advisor to completed Ph.D. students:
Mahnaz Kousha, 1990, “Best Friends: Power Relations among Black Domestics and White Mistresses.” Current position: Chair and Professor, Macalester College
Diana Gurley, 1990, "The Context of Well Being After Significant Life Stress: Measuring Social Support and Obstruction" Current position: Researcher, Cleveland State University
Julia Ardery, 1995, “The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Sociology of Twentieth Century Folk Art”. Current position: independent writer
Launa G. Mallett, 1997, "Groups in Emergency Situations: Behavior and Interaction during Escapes from Mine Fires." Current position: Research Sociologist, Pittsburgh Research Center, Mining Safety and Health Research, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
Chishamiso Rowley, 1999, "Agency or Constraint: A Study of Values, Rule Expectations and the Maternity Identity of African-American Adolescent Mothers." Current position: Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Patricia K. Jennings, 2000, “Genetic Ties and Genetic Others: Race, Class, and Infertility” Current position: Assistant Professor, California State University, East Bay.
Chris Wienke, 2002, "Structure, Ideologies, Participants, and Staff of Fatherhood Programs". Current position: Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University.
Elizabeth Larsen, 2002, “Parked out or in the Lightening Lane? Maintenance and Erosion of Occupational Sex Segregation in the Family-owned Businesses of Harness Racing ”. Current position: Assistant Professor, California University of Pennsylvania.
Linda Morrison, 2003, "Talking Back to Psychiatry: Resistant Identities in the Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement". Current position: Assistant Professor, Oakland University
Francine Bush, 2005, “Barriers to Treatment for Drug- and Alcohol-Dependent Women.” Current position: Analyst: Social Security Administration
Connie Oxford, 2006, “Gender and Human Rights: Asylum Policies and Experiences”. Current position: Assistant Professor, SUNY-Plattsburgh.
Dana Reinke, 2006, “Making Sense of Place: Community Response to ‘Big Box’ Development”. Current position: Sociologist, Centers for Disease Control.
Christine Anthou Alex, 2007, “Ethnic Survival: The Endurance of Greek-American Institutions in Two 21st Century Suburbs.” Current position: Human Resources, Cleveland.
Ashley Currier, 2007, “The In/Visibility of Sexual Minority Movement Organizations in Namibia and South Africa.” Current position: Assistant Professor, Texas A& M University.
Lisa Huebner, 2007, “Sexual Harassment, Intimacy, and Migrant Nurses”. Current position: Assistant Professor, West Chester University.
Melissa Swauger, 2008, “Whatever Her Little Heart Desires: How Class and Race Influence Adolescent Girls’ Perceptions of the Future.” Current position: Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania..
Advisor to Current Ph.D Students:
Kathleen Bulger Gray
Tim Vining
Kim Creasap
Amy McDowell
Kelsy Burke
Lindsay Hughes
Marie Skocylas
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Seminars:
Microdynamics of Social Movements
Racialization and Racial Social Movements
Global Feminisms
Power, Identity, and Strategies of Resistance
Feminist Theory
Gender, Race, and Class Seminar
Feminist Methodologies and Pedagogies
Frontiers in Race, Gender and Organizational Studies
Theories of Gender
Gender and Political Movements
Proseminar in Work, Gender and Inequality
Theories of Gender and Family
Gender and Work
Graduate Courses on Methodology:
Worshopping Research Proposals and Products
Graduate Writing for Publication
Qualitative Methods
Research Design
Logics of Social Inquiry
Methods of Social Investigation
Advanced Graduate Methodology: Socio-Historical Methodology
Social History of Class, Work and Gender
Research Design for the Master's Thesis
Advanced Graduate Methodology: Longitudinal Analysis of Women's and Men's Labor Force Participation
Undergraduate Courses:
Research Methods (honors section; regular section)
Gender and Social Movements
Global Feminisms
Identities in a Postmodern World
Sexualities and the Body
The Family
Women and Men in Society
Introductory Sociology
Sex Differences, Sex Roles and Society
Sociological Perspectives on Women
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2009 “Ethnographic Methodologies for Far Right Research.” Invited lecture. Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps University (Marburg, Germany) (tentatively December).
2009 “Radicalization of Ideas versus Radicalization of Action.” Invited lecture, University of California, San Diego (May).
2009 “New Directions in the Study of Gender, Race, and Violence.” Invited campus-wide lecture, Texas A&M University (February).
2008 "Hate: Its Construction, Deconstruction, and Undoing." Invited Lecture. Center for
Holocaust/Genocide Study, Drew University (October).
2008 “'Critical Issues in Researching Hidden Communities'” Invited Lecture, The University of
Glasgow (Scotland) (October)
2008 “Racist Radicalization in the U.S." Invited Lecture, VU (Free) University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (July).
2008 “Strategies for Success for Minority Faculty.” Invited presentation to National Science Foundation-funded workshop. Ohio State University (July).
2008 “Women and Right Wing Political Movements”. Invited workshop leader. Berkshire Conference on Women’s History. Minneapolis (June)
2008 “The Women Inside Organized Racism.” Invited Lecture. Westminister College (April)
2008 “From Organized Racism to Grassroots Activism in Pittburgh: Some Lessons on the Emergence of Social Protest.” Presentation to Perlman Rountable, Pittsburgh (March).
2007 “The Stigma of Racist Activism”. Invited lecture. Centre de Recherches Politiques de Science, Science-Po, Paris, France (October).
2007 “The Making of a Social Movement.” University of Connecticut (April)
2007 “Rethinking Intersectionality and Fundamentalisms.” Invited Mini-Residency, Smith College (January)
2006 “Right Wing Terrorism.” Invited presentation at John Jay College, New York (November)
2006 “Ordinary/Extraordinary Racism.” Workshop at YWCA-Pittsburgh (October).
2006 “The Making of a Social Movement.” Invited departmental speaker, University of California-Santa Barbara (March).
2006 “Racism as a Social Movement.” Invited speaker, Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University (February).
2005 “Paths and Possibilities” Invited colloquium speaker, Harvard University (October)
2005 “Sociological Perspectives in Public Discourse” Invited Clark Lecturer, University of Kansas (September)
2005 “The Making of a Social Movement” Invited colloquium, University of Kansas (Sept)
2005 “MicroHistory and MicroSociology” Invited presentation at School for American Research, Sante Fe (July).
2005 “Standards in Sociology” Invited presentation at National Science Foundation Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research” Washington DC (May).
2005 “The Microdynamics of Hate Groups and Hate Crimes,” Invited Presentation to 2nd International Conference on Hate Crimes: Preventing Hate Violence,” Northeastern University, Boston, April 1-2.
2005 “Women Inside Racism” Invited Presentation, Morehead University, April.
2004 “Nativist Responses to Immigration” Invited address to Radcliffe Institute/Harvard University symposium, May 15.
2004 “The Sociology of Hate” Gorganza Institute on Hate symposium, Spokane, Washington, March 19.
2003 “Racial Violence,” Invited Lecture to Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, November 21.
2003 “Women in Organized Racism: Who Are They and What Difference Do They Make?,” Invited Presentation, Civil Rights Heritage Center, Indiana University, South Bend, November 13.
2003 “Ordinary and Extraordinary Racism,” Lecture joint with Lu-In Wang to Center for Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh, December 3.
2003 “Evaluating Qualitative Research” Invited Presentation, National Science Foundation Workshop on the Foundations of Qualitative Research, Washington, DC, October, 2003
2003 “What Social Movement Studies Teach About, and Can Learn From, the Study of Organized Racism” Invited Lecture, University of California-Irvine.
2002 “Teaching Children about Anti-Semitism” and “Anti-Semitism Today,” Presentations to Pittsburgh Hebrew School teachers, October.
2002 “Women and Hate” Plenary Speakers, Holocaust Center, Pittsburgh, October.
2002 “The Community versus Racism” Invited Lecture, Audrey Cohen College, New York City (October).
2002 “Studying Organized Racism: Lessons for Feminist Scholarship” Plenary Address to Provost Advisory Committee on Women’s Concerns Annual Reception for Faculty Women, University of Pittsburgh (November).
2002 “Hate Crimes” Presentation to YMCA Conference, Columbus, Ohio (October).
2001 “The Ordinariness of Evil.” Presentation to open the special exhibit of photography on lynching in American history, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, September 22.
2001 “Engendering Hate: How Women Become Racist Activists and How They Are Changing the Racist Movement" Invited Lecture, University of California-San Diego, Departments of Sociology and Women’s Studies, May 2.
2001 “Constructing a Racist Self: Insights from Life Histories of Women in the U.S. Hate Movement” Invited Lecture, University of Michigan Department of Sociology, March 16.
2001 “Inside Organized Racism” Invited Lecture, Cornell University, Dept of Rural Sociology, February 9.
2001 “Engendering Organized Racism” Invited Lecture, Smith College, Department of Sociology, February.
2000 Invited plenary speaker, Women’s Section, Social Science History Association annual meeting (October)
1999 Invited plenary speaker, workshop on hate groups for church leaders. Chicago. Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee (November).
1999 Invited plenary speaker, workshop on hate groups for leaders of minority communities in the Midwest. Chicago. Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee (July).
1999 “Racist Women at the Millennium.” Invited Lecture, Conference on Engendering the Millennium, Boston University (April).
1999 “The Cultural Practices of Organized Racism.” Invited Lecture, University of Washington-Seattle (February).
1998 “Engendering Race/Race-ing Gender: Trends in Scholarship and Teaching.” Featured presentation, Chancellor’s Faculty Diversity Seminar, University of Pittsburgh (May).
1998 “America’s Racist Underground.” Invited Lecture, Lock Haven State University (March).
1998 “Engendering the Analysis of Modern Organized Racism” Invited Lecture, North Carolina State University (February).
1997 “Engendering Racism: Women in Contemporary Racist Groups” Invited Lecture, Graduate Center, City University of New York (September).
1997 “The Ku Klux Klan.” Invited Address, West Virginia University (November).
1997 “Organized Anti-Semitism in America.” Invited talk, Hillel and American Jewish Committee, Pittsburgh (April).
1997 “The Landscape of Modern Hate.” Invited talk, American Association of University Women, Pittsburgh (March).
1996 "Women and Conservatism" Invited Lecture, Princeton University Symposium on American Conservatism (May).
1995 "Life Histories and Racism" Invited talk, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University (December).
1995 "America's Racist Underground" Witham Endowed University Lecture, Middle Tennessee State University (November).
1995 "Apocalyptic Thinking in the Racist Right" Invited talk, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University (October).
1995 "Engendering Conspiracy" Invited Lecture, Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment Symposium on Conspiracy Theory (October).
1995 "Using Oral History to Study the Right," Invited Lecture, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology (April).
1994 "Oral History and the Far Right," Invited Lecture, Center for European Studies, University of Minneapolis (January).
1993 "Gender and the Politics of Organized Hate," Bevier Endowed University Lecture, Loyola University, New Orleans (September).
1993 "Women of the Ku Klux Klan," Invited Address, University of Oklahoma, Norman (April).
1993 "Sex, Gender and the Politics of Organized Hate," Invited Address, Boston Area Feminist Theory Symposium, Boston (March).
1993 "Racism and Feminism," Invited Address, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia (March).
1993 "Racism and Gender in the 1920s," Invited Address, University of Louisville, Women's Studies Program (March).
1993 "Racism and the Politics of Gender," Invited Address, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (February).
1992 "Race, Class and Gender: The Hidden Debates of Election '92," Invited Address, presented to El Centro de Investigaciones sobre Unidos de America (Center for Research on the United States) of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (National University of Mexico), Mexico City (October).
1992 Participant in National Videoconference "Communities, Diversity and Oral History" presented by the Oral History Association (October).
1992 Keynote address, "Women: Visions, Voices, Vexations" Conference, Western Kentucky University (September).
1992 "Racism and Gender in the 1920s" Keynote address, Women's History Coalition of Kentucky annual meeting, Midway, Kentucky (March).
1992 "The Politics of Hate" Invited presentation, DeKalb College, Atlanta (February).
1992 "Racism and Gender" Invited presentation, Transylvania University, Lexington (March).
1992 "Women of the Klan" Invited presentation, American Association of University Women author's banquet, Louisville (March).
1991 "Racism and Gender in the 1920s" Invited presentation, University of New Orleans (November).
1991 "Racism and Gender in the 1920s" Invited presentation, University of Minnesota (October).
1991 "Gender and Politics of Racism" Keynote speaker, Women's Anti-Militarism Conference, Minneapolis (October).
1991 "Women of the Klan" Presentation for Gaines Center fellows family night, University of Kentucky (October).
1991 "Racism and Gender" Keynote speaker, Kentucky Association of Public Accountants, Lexington (October).
1991 "Women of the Klan" Invited presentation, Midway College, Midway, Kentucky (September).
1990 "Political Movements" Invited presentation, Indiana University, Political Economy Workshop.
1988 "Gender and Political Culture in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan," College of Arts and Sciences Forum, University of Kentucky.
1988 "Women of the Ku Klux Klan," Women's History Conference, Midway, Kentucky.
1987 "Women of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s," M.I. King Peal Gallery Lecture, University of Kentucky.
1987 "Historical View of Women, Work and Family," Keynote Address, Center for Labor Education and Research School for Union Women, Lexington.
1986 "Women of the Ku Klux Klan," Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, State of Kentucky.
1985 "Women of the Ku Klux Klan," Women's Studies Faculty Research Seminar, University of Kentucky.
1984 "Paradise Lost? Reconstructing Social Relations in Precapitalist Central Appalachia," Cornell University.
1983 "The Catholic Church and Central American Politics," University Seminar, Transylvania University.
1983 "On the Church and Social Change in Central America," University lecture, University of Kentucky, sponsored by Latin American Studies Program.
1983 "Teaching the Sociology of Gender," presentation to the Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky annual meeting, Louisville.
1983 "The Beech Creek Research," presentation to the Appalachian Studies Conference annual meeting, Pipestem, West Virginia (with Louis Swanson).
1983 "Power and Politics in the Workplace" and "Why Women's History?," University of Kentucky panel presentations, sponsored by the Women's Studies Program.
1982 "Career women: Juggling Work and Home," University of Kentucky panel presentation, sponsored by Community Education.
1979 "Teaching Critical Perspectives in Sociology," presentation to the Wisconsin Sociological Association annual meeting, Oshkosh.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
University of Pittsburgh:
Recruitment Committee for departmental chair, 1998-99 (chair)
Recruitment Committee, 1996-97 (chair); 1999-2000; 2000-2001; 2003-04
Special Review Committee, 1996-97 (chair); 2003-04; 2006-07
Graduate Committee, 1996-97; 1998-99; 1999-2000; 2000-01; 2002-03; 2004-05
Undergraduate Committee, 2004-05; 2005-06; 2006-2007
University of Kentucky:
Personnel Committee, 1988-89; 1991-92 (chair)
Policy Committee, 1990-91; 1991-92; 1992-93
Theory Committee, 1982-83; 1986-88 (chair, 1987-88)
Graduate Committee, 1985-85; 1987-88
Methods Committee, 1984-85; 1992-94 (chair, 1993-94); 1995-96
Undergraduate Committee, 1983-84; 1989-90
Work, Gender and Inequality Committee, 1984-present; chair, 1993-
O'Donnell Award Committee, 1983
Brown Bag Committee, 1981-82; 1984-85
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of Pittsburgh:
Provost Distinguished Faculty Selection Committee, 2007-2010
Chair, Academic Advisory Committee, Center for Race and Social Problems, 2007-2010
Provost Planning Committee for Annual Chairs’ Retreat
Presenter on Innovation during Budget Crisis at Provost Annual Chairs’ Retreat
Presentation on Career Planning for Junior Faculty, sponsored by Vice-Provost office and Women’s Studies Program
CIDDE Workshop, Presenter on “Mentoring Graduate Student Research,” May 2008
School of Arts and Sciences Tenure Council, 2005-07
Elected to A&S Tenure Council Selection Committee, 2005-06; 2006-07
Tenure Review Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2005-06
Selection Committee, Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award, 2004-2005
Provost's Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence, 2004-2007
Women’s Studies Program Advisory Committee, 1996-present
Provost’s Distinguished Research Award Selection Committee, 2004-2007
Cultural Studies Graduate Fellowship Committee, 2004-05
Academic Advisory Committee, Center on Race and Social Problems, 2004-2007
Center on Race and Social Problems Faculty Intergroup Relations Research Group, 2002-present
Semester at Sea Academic Advisory Committee, 2003-2006
Chair, Provost’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Concerns, 1997-98 (member, 1996-99)
Member, Chancellor’s Working Group on Diversity, 1996-99
Elected Member, FAS Academic Integrity Board, 2000-2002
Chair, FAS Nominations Committee, 2003
Senate Nominations Committee, 2003
Board of Trustees, Affirmative Action Committee, 2003; 2003-04
Elected Member, Senate Anti-Discriminatory Policies Committee, 1997-2000; 2004-2007
Member, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs Tenure/Promotion Committee, 1998-99
Member, History Department Search Committee, 1998
Co-Director, Faculty Diversity Seminar, 1996-97
Member, FAS Tenure/Promotion Committee, 1996; 1997; 1998
Affiliate, Center for Latin American Studies, 1996- present
University of Kentucky:
Chair, College Area Advisory Committee for tenure & promotion, 1993-94;1994-95
Chair, Committee to Review Department of Anthropology, 1995-96
Chair, Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Committee, 1993-94
Member, Research Advisory Committee Awards, 1994
Member, Undergraduate Research Awards Selection Committee, 1994
Member, Women's Studies Committee, 1982-present (Director, 1987-89)
Chair, Women's Studies Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1993-94
Presenter, College of Arts & Sciences Grantwriting Workshop, 1993
Member, Review Committee, Department of Communications, 1993
Member, Ad Hoc Committee to Review Sexual Harassment Policy, 1992-93
Chair, Senate Library Advisory Committee, 1991-93; member, 1993-94
Member, N.E.H. Summer Fellowship Review Committee, 1992
Chair, Committee to design a university-wide Social Science Research Institute, 1990-91
Member, Selection Committee for Associate Dean, Graduate School, 1991
Member, University Press of Kentucky Review Committee, 1991-92
Chair, Search Committee for Dean of Undergraduate Studies, 1990
Board Member, The University Press of Kentucky, 1989-91
Member, PEW Appalachian College Board, 1989-91
Member, Biological Research Support Grant Committee, 1987-90
Member, Sociology Department Chairperson Search Committee, 1989
Member, Psychology Department Chairperson Search Committee, 1988
Member, History Department Review Committee, 1987-88
Member, Arts and Sciences Library Advisory Committee, 1987-88
Presenter and workshop organizer, American Association of Colleges and
Universities Workshop on integrating women's studies into the
curriculum, 1987
Chair, UK Nominating Committee, National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipend Program, 1986
Member, Center for the Study of Women, organizing committee, 1985-87
Participant, Kentucky Coalition for Women's History Conference, 1987-88
Member, Multidisciplinary Conference on Longitudinal Community Studies,
organizing committee, 1985-86
Discussant, Symposium on Effective Teaching in the Social Sciences, 1986
Panelist, Integrative Studies Seminar, 1986
Moderator, session on work and family life, UK Conference on the German
Democratic Republic, 1985
Member, Ruby Scholarship Selection Committee, 1985
Latin American Studies Program affiliate, 1983-84; panelist for
Instructional Resources videotape on Central America, 1983
Moderator and Discussion Leader for film "The Emerging Woman," for
Women's History Week, 1982
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 2001-2004.
Editorial Board, Contexts, 2005-08
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 2008-2011
Editorial Board, Gender & Society, 1997-2000.
Deputy Editorial Group and Editorial Board, Social Science History, 1998-2006.
Editorial Board, Sociological Focus, 1998-2001, 2006-2009
Editorial Board, Appalachian Journal, 1998-2006
Associate Editor, Sociological Focus, 1992-94
REVIEWING
Promotion dossier outside reviewer for University of New Orleans (1993), Wellesley College (1995), University of Michigan (1995), Northwestern University (1994), University of Minnesota (1993), University of New Orleans (1991), University of New Orleans (1996), University of California-Santa Barbara (1996), University of Washington (1997), University of California-Davis (1997), University of Memphis (1998), University of Idaho (1998), University of Iowa (1998), University of Minnesota (1999), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1999), University of Kentucky (2000), Smith College (2001), University of Memphis (2001), University of Michigan (2002), Indiana University (2002), Columbia University (2003), University of California-Irvine (2004), Indiana University (2004), Duquesne University (2004), University of Connecticut (2004), University of California-Santa Barbara (2005), Central European University (2005), Louisiana State University (2005), Ontario Technical University (2005), Indian Statistical Institute (2006), University of Vermont (2006), University of Louisville (2006), Northeastern University (2006), University of Southern Maine (2007), University of California-Irvine (2007); University of California-Santa Barbara (2007); University of Michigan (2007), California State University (2008), University of California-Davis (2008), University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown 2008); McGill University (2008); University of Nebraska (2008).
Frequent manuscript Reviewer for American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Forces, Rural Sociology, Journal of American History, Gender & Society, American Quarterly, The Sociological Quarterly, Social Science History, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Sociological Focus, Journal of Ethnic History, Social Science Quarterly and other journals.
External Program Reviewer
Wayne State University, Department of Sociology, 2009
Chair, University of Kansas, Sociology Department, 2008.
University of Cincinnati, Department of Sociology, 2005
Slippery Rock State University, Women’s Studies Program, 1997.
Reviewer, ACLS Faculty Fellowships, 2003-04, 2004-2005; 2005-2006
Reviewer, IGERT Proposals to NSF, 2002
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowships, 2002; 2003.
Reviewer, Woodrow Wilson Rural Policy Fellowships, 1989-91.
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1988-present.
Review Panelist, Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowships for Minorities, 1988-91.
Reviewer for National Science Foundation, 1988-present.
Manuscript reviewer for Sage, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, University of Kansas Press, New York University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, State University of New York Press, Wayne State University Press, University Press of Kentucky, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Wadsworth Publishing, West Publishers and other presses.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American Sociological Association, appointed to Committee on Professional Ethics, 2009- 2012.
INGRoup national conference program committte, 2007; 2008
American Sociological Association, elected member of (governing) Council, 2004-2007.
American Sociological Association Task Force on Academic Freedom, 2007-2008.
American Sociological Association, Organizer for all sessions on racism & anti-racism for annual meeting, 2007.
Participant, author’s conference, Harvard University, Center for International Studies, May 2007.
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 2006-2009.
Organizing Committee, IN-Group Annual Conference, 2006-2007.
Social Science History Association Sharlin Prize Committee for best book in social history, 2007-2010.
Organizer, Sessions on Racism and Anti-Racism, American Sociological Association, 2007.
Appointed member, American Sociological Association, Task Force on Academic Freedom, 2005-2010.
American Council on Learned Societies, final review panel member, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Ohio State University, Presenter at “Crime and Justice Summer Institute: Broadening Perspectives and Participation”; mentoring workshop for Faculty from Underrepresented Groups, summer 2006; summer 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Faculty Fellowships reviewer, 2003; 2004, 2005.
Chair, Faculty Mentoring System, Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association, 2004-2005
Organizer and discussant "Feminists in the Field" Panel session for North Central Sociological Association annual meeting, Pittsburg, April 2005.
Member, Selection Committee for Best Book Award, Social Science History Association, 2001, 2002, 2003.
Chair, Selection Committee for Best Article on Social Movements, American Sociological Association, 2002
Outside member on graduate dissertation committees at Rutgers University (Lauren Heberle) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (Meera Sehgal)
Member, Selection Committee for Best Book Award, Social Science History Association, 2001.
Member, Selection Committee for Best Book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2000.
Chair, Selection Committee for Best Graduate Student Paper, Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association, 1999-2000.
Member, American Sociological Association Public Understanding of Sociology Award Committee, 1999-2002.
Member, Selection Committee for Book Award, Oral History Association, 1998-99
Member, Selection Committee for Best Book on Tolerance, sponsored by Simon Wiesenthal Center, New York & Los Angeles, 1999
Co-organizer, International Conference on Researching Right-Wing Extremism, Toronto (August, 1997).
Organizer, Thematic Session “Race, Ethnicity and the State” for 1997 American Sociological Association annual meetings, Toronto (August, 1997).
Co-organizer, Session on Right-Wing Extremism for 1997 American Sociological Association annual meetings, Toronto.
Session Chair, Library of Congress Conference "Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era" (October, 1995).
Commentator, Session on international perspectives on women on the right, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Meeting, June 1996.
Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association, Article Prize Committee, 1993-94; 1995-96 (chair); 1996-97 (chair).
Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association, Student Paper Prize Committee, 1994-95
American Sociological Association, Selection Committee for the Award for a Distinguished Publication, 1993-95 (chair, 1993-94)
Collective Behavior/Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association, Elected to Section Council, 1995-98
Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association, Elected to Section Council, 1993-96
Session Organizer and Commentator, "The Shattered Mosaic," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 1994
American Sociological Association, Dissertation Award Committee,
1991-93.
Nominations Committee, Comparative-Historical Section of the American
Sociological Association, 1992-93
Coordinator of University of Kentucky site program, Fund for the
Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE)/Organization
of American Historians (OAH) program for curriculum integration
of third world women's history, 1988.
Newsletter Editor, Newsletter of the Comparative-Historical Section of
the American Sociological Association, 1987-89.
Participant, Program Administrators Session, National Women's
Studies Association annual meeting, Atlanta, 1987; Minneapolis,
1988.
Organizer and Presider, Session on Historical Sociology, Southern
Sociological Society annual meeting, Knoxville, 1984.
Moderator, Session on Divorce and Family Violence, GROW Conference
for Kentucky's Women Researchers, Richmond, 1984.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Board Member, Three Rivers Community Fund, Pittsburgh, 2008-present.
Consultant, Warhol Museum American History Project Timeline, 2007-08
Co-author, proposal for Obey-Porter funds for the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program for Minadeo Elementary School, Pittsburgh. Funded for $300,000. 1999-2002.
Interviewed on many national, international and local television and radio programs and interviewed by many reporters and writers from print media on David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan, hate crimes and violence, and organized racism, 1991-present
Speaker on racism and the Ku Klux Klan for many community organizations in Pittsburgh, New York, Minneapolis, Lexington, KY, and other places.
Governing Board Member, Fayette County Health Department Primary Care Unit, 1990-1994
Advisory Board Member, Women's Center of Central Kentucky, 1986-87
Speaker on the Catholic Church in Latin America for numerous churches and community organizations in Kentucky
Consultant, Alternatives for Women (drug abuse prevention program), 1982-83