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  • The Opportunists: Hannah Gurman

    Webinar

    Join us on February 5 at noon/MST as we welcome Professor Hannah Gurman, PhD, to discuss her latest book The Opportunists: The Crisis of Liberalism and the Remaking of Reactionary Politics. 

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    Hannah Gurman teaches U.S. History and American Studies NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work focuses on U.S. political and cultural history in the 20th century. Her latest book, The Opportunists,explores the rise of the "post-liberal" movement and the evolution of the New Right in the Trump era (The New Press, October 2026). She has also written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, empire, and national security. Her first book, The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2012) explores the politics of dissent in the State Department. She is also the editor of Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency (The New Press, 2013) and Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (co-edited with Kaeten Mistry, Columbia University Press, 2020), which was part of a collaborative research project funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her writing has been published in popular outlets, including The Nation, Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and The Baffler.

  • No One Loves an Angry Woman: Gemma Hartley

    Webinar

    Join us on February 19 at noon/MST as we welcome Gemma Hartley to discuss her new book "No One Loves an Angry Woman: An Exvangelical Coming of Rage Story".

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    Gemma Hartley is a freelance journalist, writing coach, and author of No One Loves An Angry Woman: an Exvangelical Coming-of-Rage Story and Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward. She is a distinguished speaker who has presented everywhere from corporate conferences to festivals at the Sydney Opera House. Her essays have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Women's Health, Glamour, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and many others. She lives in Reno, Nevada. Find her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/gemmalhartley/

    Gemma grew up in an Evangelical household where she was raised to become an obedient wife from the time she was a little girl. A sexual assault as a teenager upended her evangelical world, and that coupled with an upbringing steeped in purity culture led her to internalize guilt, silence… and anger.

  • Data Are Made, Not Found: danah boyd

    Webinar

    Join us on Friday, February 26 at 12p/MST for a conversation with Professor danah boyd. She'll discuss her new book Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census.

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    danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University, where she works on topics at the intersection of technology and society. She is also the founder of the research institute Data & Society and the author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens.

    An eye-opening story of the people who make the census, the United States’ largest and most consequential dataset, and the growing threats to their crucial work. 

  • Lost in Curiosity: Roberta Kwok

    Webinar

    Join us on Friday, March 5 at 12p/MST for a conversation with science journalist Roberta Kwok!  She'll discuss her new book Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown.

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    Roberta Kwok is a science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, Nature, New Scientist, Audubon, and other publications. She has received a fellowship from the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union. Before becoming a journalist, Kwok worked in a genetics lab at Stanford University.