Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953) is a professor of sociology and Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh
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.
Biography
Blee completed a B.A. in sociology with highest honors in 1974 from
Indiana University
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Campuses
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*Indiana Universit ...
and an M.S. in 1976, and a Ph.D. 1982 (both in
sociology
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) from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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.
Before taking a position at University of Pittsburgh in 1996, she taught sociology at the
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...
.
Her areas of interest include gender, race and racism,
social movements, and sociology of space and place. Special interests include how gender influences racist movements, including work on women in the
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...
in the 1920s.
Selected publications
*Inside Organized Racism: Women and Men in the Hate Movement (2002, University of California Press)
*Feminism and Antiracism: Transnational Struggles for Justice (2001, New York University Press, Edited with
France Winddance Twine
France Winddance Twine is a Black and Native American sociologist, ethnographer, visual artist. and documentary filmmaker. Twine's research has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research in gender and sexuality studies, racism ...
)
*The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (2000, Cambridge University Press, written with Dwight Billings
*No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest (1998, New York University Press, Editor)
*Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (1991, New York University Press)
References
1953 births
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Articles lacking sources from February 2008
University of Pittsburgh faculty
American women sociologists
American sociologists
Indiana University alumni
Academics from Pennsylvania
People from Pittsburgh
21st-century American women
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