Kathleen M. Blee
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Kathleen M. Blee (1953-) is a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of intersst include: gender; race and racism; social movements; sociology of space and place. Much of her work has been focused on women in the Ku Klux Klan.
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[edit] Education
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology)—Ph.D., 1982
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology)—M.S., 1976
- Indiana University (Sociology), with highest honors—B.A., 1974
[edit] Academic Positions
University of Pittsburgh
- Professor of Sociology with tenure, 1996-present
Affiliated appointments:
- Department of History, 1997-present
- Women’s Studies Program, 1996-present
University of Kentucky
- Instructor to Professor, 1981-1996
Cornell University
- Visiting Fellow, summer 1984
[edit] Administrative Positions
University of Pittsburgh, 1996-2001
- Director, Women’s Studies Program
University of Kentucky, 1989-1991; 1992
- Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Kentucky, 1987-1989
- Director, Women's Studies Program
[edit] Honors and Awards
University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award,
Senior Scholar (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, 1994
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
[edit] Publications
- Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. University of California Press, 2002
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.
Featured in articles 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
- Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice. Edited with France Winddance Twine. New York University Press. 2001
- The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. (with Dwight Billings). Cambridge University Press. 2000
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).
No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. Editor. New York University Press. 1998
- Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. University of California Press. 1991
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)
