Chip Berlet, an investigative journalist, and independent scholar coauthored the book Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford 2000). From 1981-2011 he was senior analyst at Political Research Associates. Berlet’s byline has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Des Moines Register, Columbia Journalism Review, Amnesty Now, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Progressive, Tikkun, Greenpeace Magazine, and In These Times.

Other works have appeared in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Contemporary Sociology, American Anthropologist, and Research in Political Sociology. His article about right-wing conspiracy theories, “Fears of Fédéralisme in the United States,” appeared in Fédéralisme Régionalisme; and he co-authored the Encyclopaedia Judaica’s entry on “Neo-Nazism.”

In 2012 the University of California Press will publish his chapter on the US Tea Party movement. Other chapters include “The United States: Messianism, Apocalypticism, and Political Religion” in The Sacred in Twentieth-Century Politics: Essays in Honour of Professor Stanley G. Payne (Palgrave Macmillan 2007); and “The New Political Right in the United States: Reaction, Rollback, and Resentment,” in Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America, (NYU Press 2008).