Associate Professor II at the Center for Arts, Humanities and Letters, Universidade Federal Recôncavo da Bahia
Ângela Lucia Silva Figueiredo is Associate Professor II at the Center for Arts, Humanities and Letters at UFRB. She holds a degree in anthropology from the Federal University of Bahia (1994), a Master's in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Bahia (1998), a PhD in Sociology from the Brazilian Society of Instruction-SBI / IUPERJ (2003). She did her Postdoc in 2006 at the University of Virginia (UVA), in the department of African America Studies, and in 2017 at the University of Berkeley, in the department of Ethnic...
Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Arlie Hochschild's most recent research focuses on the rise of the American right—the topic of her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (finalist for the 2016 National Book Award). Based on intensive interviews with Tea Party enthusiasts in Louisiana—who later became ardent supporters of Donald Trump—and conducted over five years, Arlie tried to scale an “empathy wall” to learn how to see, think and feel as they do. She focused on what she...
Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, UCSF and Professor Emerita, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Dr. Joffe's most recent book is Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings, co-edited with Jennifer Reich. She is the author of four additional books:
Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us She also is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of reproductive health services and...
Senior Fellow, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and JRWS Managing Editor
Eliah Bures is a historian and editor. He is a former postdoctoral fellow in Spain and is currently a senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Right-Wing Studies. A specialist in social theory, cultural criticism, and intellectual history, Eliah is also a cofounder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies. He has published peer-reviewed academic articles as well as popular essays in publications such as Foreign Policy and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Eliah's academic writing focuses on fascism, radical conservatism, and the European New Right,...