Launch Event Participant

Ângela Lucia Silva Figueiredo

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...

Carole Joffe

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...

Daniel HoSang

Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, & Migration and American Studies, Yale University

Eliah Bures

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,...

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...

Terri Givens

Professor of Political Science, McGill University and Executive Director of the Edgemakers Institute, San Francisco, California

Troy Duster

Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University