Christopher Vials
Christopher Vials is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (2014) and co-editor, with Bill Mullen, of The U.S. Antifascism Reader (2020). His work recently appeared in Jacobin magazine, and he has been interviewed on NPR, CBC radio, and other radio programs to discuss fascism in the United States. He has been very active with public sector unions, and currently co-directs an organization called the Neighbor Fund, which works in coalition with other local groups to raise money for the deportation defense and legal defense of undocumented immigrants in eastern Connecticut.