University of Pittsburgh

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Kathleen M. Blee, PhD

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982

Title: Distinguished Professor
Campus Address: 2417 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7590
E-mail: kblee@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Fields

Gender; race and racism; social movements; sociology of space and place

Teaching

Feminist Theory; Research Methods; Family; Space and Power

Selected Publications

2002 Inside Organized Racism: Women and Men in the Hate Movement. University of California Press.

2001 Feminisms and Anti-Racisms: Transnational 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.

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.

Honors/Awards

Named as University of Kentucky Research Professor, 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

Project(s)

The micro-politics of new social movements; The ethnography of anti-Semitic crimes