Arlie Hochschild is professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, who has long focused on family, market culture, global patterns of care work and social psychology, with a recent focus on the relationship between culture, politics and emotion. She is the author of “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,” a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times Best Seller, as well as “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.  

Free copies of Hothschild's latest book, “Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the American Right,” will be handed out at the event, which is part of the Spencer Trask series of public lectures.