Kathleen M. Blee
Kathleen M. Blee 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. 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 in the 1920s.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 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.- Inside Organized Racism: Women and Men in the Hate Movement
- Feminism and Antiracism: Transnational Struggles for Justice
- The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
- Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
