VITA

KATHLEEN M. BLEE

ADDRESS

Department of Sociology
2G03 Forbes Quad
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

(412) 648-7590 or (412) 624-6485

email/internet: kblee+@pitt.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1982 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology)

M.S. 1976 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sociology)

B.A. 1974 Indiana University (Sociology), with highest honors

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

University of Pittsburgh
Professor of Sociology with tenure, 1996-present
Affiliated appointment, Department of History, 1997-present

University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky Research Professor, 1994-1995
Instructor to Professor, 1981-1996

Cornell University
Visiting Fellow, summer 1984

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Director, Women’s Studies Program
University of Pittsburgh, 1996-present

Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Kentucky, 1989-1991; 1992

Director, Women's Studies Program
University of Kentucky, 1987-1989

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Sociology of Gender
Feminist Theory
Race, Class and Gender
Social Inequality and Social Stratification
Sociology of Racism
Social-Historical Methodology
Sociology of the Family
Political Movements and Social Change

BOOKS

2000 Racist Women. University of California Press, forthcoming.

2000 Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles. Edited with France Winddance Twine. New York University Press, forthcoming.

1999 The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in an American Region. (with Dwight Billings). Cambridge University Press, in press.

1998 No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. Kathleen M. Blee, Editor. New York University Press.

1991 Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. University of California Press.

A centennial book of the University of California Press.

Selected as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights.

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Reprinted in part in Susan J. Ferguson (ed.), Mapping the Landscape: Readings in Sociology (Mayfield Publishing, 1996)