Lecturer of Political Science, Boston University
Rachel Meade is a full-time Lecturer of Political Science at Boston University, and previously attended Brown University for her Political Science PhD and Bard College for her BA in History and Latin American Studies. She studies comparative populism, with a focus on populist politicians and social movements in the US and Argentina. She uses ethnographic observation and interviews with populist supporters as well as discourse analysis of populist speech from populist politicians and media outlets in order to analyze why people support populism. She has published academic and journalistic work comparing Argentine and US populism, left and right populist social movements, and the populist attitudes held by anti-lockdown protestors during Covid-19. See more here: https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/rachel-meade/