Alexandra Minna Stern, Ph.D., is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies ; and Associate Dean for the Humanities. Her fields of study are health and society, reproductive politics, genetics and social justice. She directs the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab at U-M. Her latest book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate (2019), applies the lenses of historical analysis, feminist studies, and critical race studies to deconstructing the core ideas of the alt-right and white nationalism. Stern undertakes a deep dive into the genealogy of the alt-right, unearthing its forerunners and ideological touchstones, and mapping the current contours of the movement by reconstructing its guiding concepts; reactionary notions of temporality, ethnocentric ideas of place and space, implacable biological essentialism, nationalism and misogyny.