Their website states that the study of hate "needs a multi-disciplinary and international focus as well as one which examines local and jurisdiction-specific causes and responses."
"[8] Hate studies is an interdisciplinary field, with a scope which is not fully agreed or defined,[9] but includes the study of hostility towards identity categories based on race (racism), culture (cultural racism), religion (Islamophobia and antisemitism), ethnicity, and nationality (xenophobia), socio-economic class (classism), and sex and gender identity (homophobia and transphobia).
She argues that "its scope is so broad that it touches almost all aspects of life and it dwells within the hearts and minds of each one of us" and its core feature is a "devaluation of the other.
[12] Thus, Hate Studies continues to grow rather than prematurely delimit its field of valuable lines of inquiry, conceptualization, debate, intervention, practice, and policy.
Stern states that "various disciplines need to be integrated and cross-pollinated" in hate studies, and provides an analysis of some of the academic fields he considers relevant:[8]