What do QAnon and associated conspiracy adherents think and believe about domestic and international politics, the U.S. government, the larger world, and about culture, policy, and various demographic groups within the U.S.? Dr. Brandon M. Chapman (Instructor and Department Chair of Anthropology and Sociology, RCBC) will be addressing these questions and providing examples of and explaining popular, influential, and often viewed literature and media outlets consumed by Nationalists and other extremists within the Republican Party that shape their beliefs.
Dr. Chapman is a Cultural Anthropologist specializing in local and traditional knowledge, political and economic ethnography, political values and Cognitive Anthropology. He has done fieldwork in Russia, parts of the CIS and Eurasia, Arctic and sub-Arctic Alaska, Trindad/Tobago, Peru and Ecuador and has been published in several journals and popular science magazines.
This lecture and discussion is hosted by Temple Sinai of Cinnaminson, NJ. It is organized by their Social Action Committee and a part of their ongoing speakers series. This particular event is the first of a three part series spanning the 2021-2022 academic year in which Dr. Chapman will speak with Temple Sinai about his current research on the political opinions and beliefs of U.S. Nationalist voters.