Talk of the Town
with Mike Aguirre and Co-Host Arthur Aguirre Sat 11am
POLITICAL BULLYING IN AMERICA with Professor Roddy Reid — from our Legacy Series and Still Pertinent at this Time in our History
Roddey Reid is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of French studies, science studies, communication, history, and cultural studies. He has studied and conducted research in the U.S., France, Italy, Belgium, and Japan. His teaching and scholarship at UCSD focused on the history of modern cultures and societies from the perspective of the changing ways in which citizenship and selfhood are shaped by particular cultural forms (literature, media, advertising, fashion), governmental policies, medical and scientific knowledge, and social movements. A former Japan Foundation Abe Fellow (awarded by the Social Science Research Council), his most recent book is titled, Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond (2017). He is also is author of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; (Stanford University Press, 1993), co-editor (with Sharon Traweek) of Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies Are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine (Routledge, 2000), and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan (Indiana University Press, 2005). His most recent research has been on cultures of intimidation and bullying in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
New edition of “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond”:
released September 2025 and is available in paperback and e-book versions in bookstores and online at Bookshop.org and Amazon.
https://roddeyreid.squarespace.com/new-book-1