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Higher Education Working Group Members

The membership of the Higher Education Working Group is composed of leaders of some of the world’s most comprehensive “Hate Studies” programs. 

About Our Members

This working group is developing ways to support the growing interdisciplinary field of Hate Studies. Hate Studies is premised on the idea that to combat hate we need both to understand it as part of the human condition, and to weave knowledge from the various isolated academic fields together in order to provide usable theories about how hate works, and what to do about it.

Some of the key members of the Higher Education Working Group include:

Co-Chairs

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Kristine Hoover

Dr. Kristine Hoover

Professor, Chair of Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership Program, Gonzaga University; Past Director, Gonzaga Center for the Study of Hate

Dr. Kristine F. Hoover is a professor and chair of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program. She is also the past director for the Gonzaga Center for the Study of Hate. Under her leadership, the Gonzaga Center... Read More

Kenneth S. Stern

Mr. Stern is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where... Read More

Members

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Susan Baida

Inaugural Executive Director, Collaboratory Against Hate

Joan Braun

Charles L. Chavis

Founding Director, John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, & Race, The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; Assistant Professor of History and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

George Critchlow

Kathlyn Elliott Ph.D

Maia Ferdman

Founder and Principal, Bridges Intergroup Relations Consulting; Program Manager, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

Lunell Haught Ph.D

Amanda Haynes

Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, European Centre for the Study of Hate, University of Limerick

Rachel Hunkler

Senior Program Manager for Preventing Targeted Violence, McCain Institute at Arizona State University

Steven Leonard Jacobs

Danny Laesch

Managing Editor, Journal of Hate Studies, Gonzaga University; Psychotherapist, Connecting Branches Counseling

Brian Levin

Professor & Director Emeritus, California State University, San Bernardino, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism; Commissioner, CA Commission on the State of Hate

Jim Mohr

Amalia Mora

Academic Coordinator, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

David Myers

Director, Luskin Center for History and Policy; Director, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

Raymond Reyes

Associate Academic Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Gonzaga University

Jennifer Schweppe

Darcus Shorten

Homicide Detective, Houston Police Department

Mary Pat Theuthart J.D., LL.M.

Mark Walters

Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, Deputy Head of Sussex Law School, University of Sussex (UK)

Larry Weiser

Co-President, Spokane Area Jewish Family Services; Board Member, Gonzaga Center for the Study of Hate