Continuing Conversations on Race is an ongoing program that meets on the first Monday of every month at 7 p.m. This month’s presentation, “Looking Back at the Capitol Insurrection: Growing Far-Right Extremism and the Future of American Democracy,” will focus on how we arrived at the events of Jan. 6, 2021, how the far-right has mobilized in the insurrection’s aftermath, and what we can expect in the future.
Cassie Miller is a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, where she arrived in 2016 as a Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies Public Fellow. She is an expert on the American far right, the white power movement and political violence. She regularly speaks on far-right extremism to academic audiences, community groups, religious organizations, government officials and the media. She holds a PhD in history from Carnegie Mellon University.
This event was recorded on January 3, 2022.