Elections 2024: Misinformation and White Nationalism

Kathleen Belew is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard, 2018, paperback 2019). She is also co-editor of and contributor to A Field Guide to White Supremacy (University of California Press, 2021) and contributed essays to Myth America (Basic Books, 2023) and The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2022. Recognized as a leading expert on white power, her work has featured prominently in documentaries such as Homegrown Hate: The War Among Us (ABC) and Documenting Hate: New American Nazis (Frontline).

Joan Donovan is an assistant professor of journalism at Boston University and the founder of the Critical Internet Studies Institute, a non-profit that fosters knowledge mobilization and organizes advocacy for a public interest internet. She is the co-author, with Emily Dreyfuss and Brian Friedberg, of  Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America (Bloomsbury, 2022). Previously, Donovan was Research Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy, where she directed the Technology and Social Change Research Project, and Research Lead for Data & Society’s Media Manipulation Initiative.

Joseph Masco is Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College at the University of Chicago and a 3CT fellow. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006; new edition 2020), The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror (Duke University Press, 2014), and The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making (Duke University Press, 2021). With Deborah Thomas, he is the co-editor of Sovereignty Unhinged: An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporary Derangements (Duke University Press, 2023), and with Lisa Wedeen, he is the co-editor of Conspiracy/Theory (Duke University Press, 2024).