Abby L. Ferber, Ph.D. Associate Professor  and Director of Women's Studies (WMST) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

She is the author of White Man Falling:  Race, Gender and White Supremacy, Rowman & Littlefield, (1998), and co-author of the American Sociological Associations' Hate Crime in America:  What Do We Know? (2000).  She is also the co-author of, Making a Difference:  University Students of Color Speak Out, Rowman & Littlefield (2002), and a co-edited anthology with Michael Kimmel, Privilege:  A Reader, Westview Press (2003)

Ferber is widely recognized as a leading scholar of the far right, and her articles have been widely published in academic journals (including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Rural Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Social Identities, Men and Masculinities, Sociological Focus and Teaching Sociology) as well as news outlets including The Denver Post and The Chronicle on Higher Education.  Ferber is a frequent presenter at the meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Ferber has also conducted many workshops on the far right, hate crime, and teaching about hate.  She has been widely interviewed by the press, and served as a panelist for the American Sociological Association's 1999 Press and Congressional Briefings on hate crime in America.  She is also the author of an upcoming edited volume Home Grown Hate:  Gender and Organized Racism, Routledge (2004)

Ferber received her Ph.D. (1994) in Sociology from the University of Oregon.   She received her M.A. (1989) from the University of Oregon and her B.S. from American University.  She currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of race, gender, and social theory.