Editorial Board

Joseph Lowndes

Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon

Kathleen Blee

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the Bailey Dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Kathleen Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the Bailey Dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. A highly productive scholar, Kathleen has published 7 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. Much of her scholarship is based on analysis of her up-close ethnographic observations and interviews with white supremacists in the United States, including her books Women in the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920 (University of California Press, 1991), Inside Organized Racism (...

Kelly Jones

JRWS Associate Editor

Kelly Jones is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Right-Wing Studies and Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs endowed doctoral fellow of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on language, culture, and ideology, specifically how language and metaphor shape individuals' understanding of the state. As a doctoral student, Jones uses machine learning to explore how metaphor creates conceptual frameworks that Supreme Court justices use to reason about complex issues such as abortion and affirmative action. Jones and colleagues...

Lawrence Rosenthal

JRWS Editor-in-Chief and Chair of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies

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...

Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak

Critical linguist, human rights activist, and Adjunct Professor, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Dr. Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak is a critical linguist, workshop trainer, and a human rights activist. She is an adjunct professor at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her research focuses on race and racism in contemporary public discourse, racist discourse and representations of Africans portrayed by media in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe. Margaret received her PhD in Linguistics on the representations of race in Polish media discourse from the University of Wroclaw. She participated in Black Europe Summer School in 2010. She was a Fulbright scholar at the...

Martina Avanza

Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology and at the Center for Gender Studies, Université de Lausanne

Maureen A. Eger

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden

Rick Perlstein

Author and Historian

Stephen A. Small

Professor of African American Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley

Teresa Córdova

Director of the Great Cities Institute (CGI) and a Professor of Urban Planning and Policy (CUPPA), University of Illinois at Chicago

Teresa Córdova is the director of the Great Cities Institute (CGI) and a Professor of Urban Planning and Policy (CUPPA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Cordova received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986.

Córdova has been an elected and appointed member and/or chair of national, regional and local boards, commissions and steering committees of federal, regional, county and city governments, community development corporations, grassroots organizations, editorial boards, research centers, professional associations...