Rory McVeigh
Department of Sociology
Professor of Sociology
- Inequality and stratification
- Social movements
- Political sociology
- Race and ethnicity
McVeigh in the News
Associated Press
November 13, 2023
Rory McVeigh, sociology professor and director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, said politicians use protests to gauge public opinion and that media attention helps.
The Boston Globe
February 19, 2021
“We often see right-wing social movements when groups are experiencing economic loss, political loss, or status-based loss,” said Rory McVeigh, a sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of the 2019 book “The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment.”