Lawrence Rosenthal is Chair and Lead Researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change for a dozen years before founding the Center in 2009. He has taught at UC Berkeley in the Sociology and Italian Studies Departments and was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Naples in Italy. He has studied the Right in the United States and in Italy and is currently working on a study of the contemporary American Right in comparison to movements of the Right in 20th century Europe. He is the author of Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism. He has co-edited Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party and The New Nationalism and the First World War. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Populism, the Nation, the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Foreign Policy and many others.
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JRWS Editor-in-Chief and Chair of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
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