Dr. Robert Braun received his PhD from Cornell University in 2017. Before joining the University of California, Berkeley, he taught sociology and political science at Northwestern University. His research focuses on civil society and intergroup relationships in times of social upheaval and has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Social Forces. Dr. Braun’s first book Protectors of Pluralism (forthcoming by Cambridge University Press) tries to explain why some local communities step up to protect victims of mass persecution while others refrain from doing so. His second book project, Bogeymen, traces the evolution of fear in Central Europe throughout the 19th and 20th centuries by studying the spread of frightful figures in children’s stories.