Sean Chabot is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Washington University and book review editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies. His book, "Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement" (2012), discusses the Gandhian repertoire's journey from the Indian independence movement to the U.S. civil rights movement. He has also published on the gay and lesbian movement, Brazil’s landless movement (MST), Iran's Green Movement, the Egyptian uprising, the violence of nonviolence, and revolutionary love. His current projects focus on decolonizing resistance and counter-stories of nonviolent resistance.