

Kathleen Belew
White Power and Paramilitary America
- September 24, 2019
Co-Sponsor
About Kathleen Belew
Kathleen Belew is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago where her teaching and research focus on militarization, violence, racism, and identity in 20th-century America. Her recent book, Bring the War Home, explores white power activism from its roots in the Vietnam War to its collaboration with neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, skinhead, and militia movements. She has been featured on Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, CBS, and Frontline’s Documenting Hate. A graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in the history of ideas, she earned an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. She is currently a research fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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