Kathleen Belew is an international authority on the white – power movement and specializes in the recent history of the United States, examining the long aftermath of warfare. She is the Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her teaching centers on the broad themes of race, gender, violence, id entity, and the meaning of war.

Her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America , explores how white power activists wrought a cohesive social movement through a common story about warfare and its weapons, uniforms, and technologies. By uniting previously disparate Ku Klux Klan, neo – Nazi, skinhead, and other groups, the movement carried out escalating acts of violence that reached a crescendo in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City.

She also co – edited A Field Guide to White Supremacy , with Ramón A. Gutiérrez. Her forthcoming book is titled Home at the End of the World .

Belew holds a doctoral degree in American Studies from Yale University (2011) She earned her undergraduate degree in the Comparative History of ldeas from the University of Washington in 2005, where she was named Dean’s Medalist in the Humanities.