Rate Professor Kathleen Blee

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982.

Research Interests: Gender, race, social movements, right-wing extremism.

Appointments: Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; Former Dean, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

Awards: Charles Horton Cooley Award for Inside Organized Racism (2003).

Publications:

• Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (University of California Press, 1991).
• Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (University of California Press, 2002).

Additional Contributions: Expert testimony on hate groups; public sociology initiatives.