Hate Studies

Hate studies is defined as “Inquiries into the human capacity to define, and then dehumanize or demonize, an ‘other,’ and the processes which inform and give expression to, or can curtail, control, or combat, that capacity.”

BCSH Director Kenneth S. Stern describes the idea for an interdisciplinary field of hate studies here.

Hate-related courses taught at Bard College: Spring 2023 are here. Fall 2022 are here. Spring 2022 are here. Fall 2021 are here. Spring 2021 are here. Fall 2020 are here. Spring 2020 are here, Fall 2019 are here.

The Journal of Hate Studies, published by Gonzaga University, is here.

Other Hate Studies Centers and Institutes:

The Gonzaga Center For Hate Studies

The International Network for Hate Studies

California State University at San Bernardino Center for The Study of Hate and Extremism

Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism (at University of Ontario Institute of Technology)

The Centre for Hate Studies (at University of Leister, England)

European Centre for the Study of Hate (University of Limerick)

Collaboratory Against Hate (University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University)

UCLA Initiative to Study Hate