Arlie Hochschild is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and a writer. She has long focused on family, market culture, global patterns of care work, social psychology, with a recent focus on the relationship between culture, politics and emotion.

Her latest book is Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the American Right. It delves more deeply into the importance of pride and shame, and follows Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times Best Seller. Her other books include The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Managed Heart and So How’s the Family. Among other honors, she was recently awarded the Helmholz Medal from the Berlin Brandenberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her work has been translated into 18 languages.  

Free copies of Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the American Right will be handed out at the lecture.