Book Talk | Cynthia Miller-Idriss | Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 10th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Cynthia Miller-Idriss. She will discuss her new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism with Niobe Way and Ann Morning.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a sociologist and professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). An MSNBC columnist and a regular commentator in US and international media, Miller-Idriss is the author of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton), The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton), and Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany.Niobe Way is Professor of Developmental Psychology at NYU, the founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH; pach.org), creative advisor of agapi, and the Principal Investigator on the Listening Project. She was the President of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), received her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, her doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in the psychology department.
Ann Morning is a sociologist of race and ethnicity at New York University. Morning studies racial and ethnic classification and the conceptualization of descent-based difference. As of September 2023, she has served as the Arts & Science Divisional Dean for Social Sciences and Vice Dean for Global and Strategic Initiatives at NYU.