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Areas of Research Interest: Political Sociology/Social Movements, Hate Crime, Gender and Sexuality
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Current Research Interests: My research focuses on social movements and hate crime, with attention to the relationship between systems of stratification and movements. I am interested in how structural characteristics of the social context influence levels of protest activity and hate crime. Recent projects include studies of the dynamics of student protest, social movement coalitions, and the factors influencing right-wing mobilization. I am currently conducting research on the AFL-CIO's Union Summer student internship program and how it has influenced student anti-sweatshop protests. I am also doing a study of the extent to which different social movements target the state versus non-state entities. Another current project examines how the gender composition of social movement organizations changes over time.
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Recent Publications:
Van Dyke, Nella. 2003. "Crossing Movement Boundaries: Factors That Facilitate Coalition Protest by American College Students, 1930-1990," Social Problems 50(2): 226-250.
Van Dyke, Nella and Sarah A. Soule. 2002. "Structural Social Change and the Mobilizing Effect of Threat: Explaining Levels of Patriot and Militia Mobilizing in the United States," Social Problems 49(4): 497-520.
Van Dyke, Nella, Sarah A. Soule and Rebecca Widom. 2001. "The Politics of Hate: Explaining Variation in the Incidence of Anti-Gay Hate Crime," Research in Political Sociology, The Politics of Social Inequality 9: 33-56.
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