Deborah Gould

Deborah Gould is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the intersection of emotion, politics, and collective action. She is the author of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS (2009), which examines the role of emotion in social movements. Currently, she is writing Composing Collectivities: Appetite, Encounters, and the Not-Yet of Politics, exploring compositional tasks in left activism through affect and crowd dynamics.

Her work interrogates how political theory addresses emotion in democratic processes, challenging classical liberal frameworks that seek to exclude passion from politics. Gould’s recent talks address the role of 'frightening passions' in contemporary political crises like Brexit and Trumpism, advocating for a reimagined understanding of emotion’s role in democracy.

No specific scientific awards or grants are listed in the provided text. Her academic contributions focus on sociological theory, activism, and the politics of emotion.