Abstract
Chip Berlet is a widely published independent scholar who studies right-wing movements in the United States and Europe, as well as the global spread of conspiracy theories. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and photographer. Since the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, Berlet has appeared frequently in the media to discuss these issues. For over twenty years, Berlet was a senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), a non-profit think tank in the United States that tracks right-wing networks. Berlet is co-author (with Matthew N. Lyons) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford 2000) and more recently editor of Trumping Democracy: From Reagan to the Alt-Right (Routledge 2019).
Despite a lack of a college degree, Berlet has served on the advisory board of the Journal of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (now Politics, Religion & Ideology); and the advisory board for the Center of Millennial Studies at Boston University. He also served for over twenty years on the board of predecessor groups of what is now the Defending Dissent Foundation. He is active in the American Sociological Association in the sections on Collective Behavior and Social Movements and Marxism. Berlet’s main website is at http://www.researchforprogress.us/.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.29.06
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Recommended Citation
Berlet, Chip; Sewell, Kendall; Wentz, Matthew; and Zinkle, Austin
(2020)
"Reflections From a Lifetime of Activism. An Interview with Chip Berlet,"
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 29, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.29.06
Available at:
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol29/iss1/7
