Name Kathleen Blee | ||
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Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Books Women of the Klan, Inside Organized Racism, The Road to Poverty: The Maki, Democracy in the Making | ||
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Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953) is a professor of sociology and associate dean of graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest include gender, race and racism, social movements, and sociology of space and place.
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- Education
- Career
- Personal life
- Selected publications
- References
She is notable for her expertise on how gender influences racist movements, such as her work on women in the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
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Education
Blee completed a B.A. in sociology with highest honors in 1974 from Indiana University and an M.S. in 1976, and a Ph.D. 1982 (both in sociology) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
Before taking a position at University of Pittsburgh in 1996, she taught sociology at the University of Kentucky.
Personal life
Blee is the mother of two children, Eli and Sophie, and resides in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh.