Discussion | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd & David Austin Walsh | New Books on the Right
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group on October 24th at 5:30 PM for a dual book talk with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd and David Austin Walsh, two historians whose work focuses on the history of mid-20th century conservatism. AJ Bauer will moderate the discussion. This event will be hybrid, with Zoom links sent to registrants the day before the event.
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of the American academy, especially its relationship to the 20th century conservative movement. Her first book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), traced how movement conservatives used the college campus of the Sixties as a locus for recruiting and training the next generation of right-wing intellectuals and activists. Her commentary has been featured in BBC News, Sky News, Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, NPR, POLITICO, Slate, Vox, The Nation, Teen Vogue, Jacobin, News Nation, The Conversation, and Contingent Magazine. Shepherd is an instructor in the School of Education at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-Society for US Intellectual History Community Scholar.
David Austin Walsh is a historian and a College Advising Fellow at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, published by Yale University Press in 2024. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Boston Review, Jacobin, the Guardian, and the Journal of American History.
A.J. Bauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. His reporting has appeared in The Daily Texan, the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas Observer, The Patriot Ledger and the Boston Globe. He has also contributed essays and commentary to American Journalism, Columbia Journalism Review, Social Text: Periscope, The New Inquiry, The Guardian, and TV Guide. A member of the Writers for the 99% collective, he contributed to Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America. He is co-editor, with Anthony Nadler, of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures, and a former fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He also served on the board of directors of the Student Press Law Center from 2006-2012 and co-founded the Friends of the Daily Texan in 2013.