THE ACADEMIC RIGHT: PROFESSORS WHO SUPPORT TRUMP.

An interesting challenge to political sociology theorizing and empirical research is the choice of research topics. Why do certain topics produce tremendous bodies of research and others go largely neglected. This is an intriguing sociology of knowledge question. Take, for example, scholars who support the Donald Trump presidency. There is in the sociology of intellectuals - one important subfield of political sociology - an important literature on left-leaning intellectuals. But intellectuals on the political right have received far less attention. There is considerable interest in populist movements, opinions, and political leadership particularly in Europe and the US, but strikingly little on scholars supporting populist agendas. Why? Politically right as well as left intellectuals can be influential in shaping political agendas. This paper will offer some plausible reasons for this lack of attention to conservative academics and it will look at the population of scholars who support the Trump presidency in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]