Kathleen Blee, PhD
- Distinguished University Professor & Dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies
My areas of interest are social movements, including racist/anti-Semitic, and right-wing movements, racial violence, and microsociology. I currently have two research projects: a study of unreported racial hate crimes and an ethnography of urban bus riding. I teach graduate courses and seminars in research methods, global feminism, qualitative methods, racialization and racial social movements, and writing for publication.
Education & Training
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982
- MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976
- BA, Indiana University, 1974
Representative Publications
2018. Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research. Routledge.
2012 Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form. Oxford University Press.
2012 Women of the Right: International and Transnational Perspectives, co-edited with Sandra D. Deutsch. Penn State University Press.
2002 Inside Organized Racism: Women and Men in the Hate Movement. University of California Press.
2001 Feminism and Anti-Racism: 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.
Research Interests
- Gender
- Race and racism
- Social movements
- Sociology of space and place
