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Fellows

Become a Fellow

If you would like to join CARR as a Senior Fellow or Policy and Practitioner Fellow, please contact William Allchorn (socialmedia@radicalrightanalysis.com).

If you would like to join CARR as a Doctoral Fellow, please contact Mike Cole (michael.cole@ut.ee). Please note that you are eligible to become a Doctoral Fellow only if you have at least a year until the submission of your dissertation.

All applicants for fellowships must send a CV, a 1,500 Word OP-Ed Style writing sample on a topic of the radical right, and a one-page cover letter. Applications are considered bi-annually and due the last day of the month in June and December. Please read the pre-requisites for each fellowship position (below) before applying.

Senior Fellows

Our Senior Fellows are academics at universities holding a PhD and higher.

  • Dr Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero Lecturer in English and German Philologies, University of Granada.
    Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right Discourse, Online Networks, Cyberislamophobia, Linguistics
  • Professor Dominic Alessio Professor of History, Richmond, The American International University in London.
    Specialist Research Areas: History, Proto-Fascism, Ideology, Religion, Popular Culture
  • Dr William Allchorn Associate Director, CARR. Associate Fellow, GNET Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leeds.
    Specialist Research Areas: UK Radical Right, Anti-Islam Protest Movements, Cumulative Extremism, Policy Responses, Radical Right Social Movements
  • Professor Hans-Georg Betz Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Zurich.
    Specialist Research Areas: Islamophobia, Populism, Nativism, Globalisation, Right-Wing Populism
  • Sophie Bjork-James Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University
  • Dr Valerio Alfonso Bruno Researcher, University of Fribourg.
    Specialist Research Areas: Populism, Technocracy, European Politics, Liberal Internationalism, Political Science
  • Dr Jean-Yves Camus Director, Observatoire des radicalités politiques.
    Specialist Research Areas: Movements, Neo-Nazism, Neo-Fascism, Political Violence, Terrorism
  • Dr Miranda Christou Associate Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Cyprus.
    Specialist Research Areas: Radicalisation, Feminism, Youth, Anti-Gender Campaigns
  • Dr Roland Clark Senior Lecturer in History, University of Liverpool.
    Specialist Research Areas: Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Romania, Anti-Communist Resistance, Social Movement Activism
  • Dr Julia R. DeCook Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago. Expert/Fellow, Institute for Research on Male Supremacism.
    Specialist Research Areas: Race and Gender, Masculinity, Online Networks, Communication, Science and Technology Studies
  • Dr James F. Downes Lecturer in Comparative Politics/ Head (Chair) of Undergraduate Admissions The Chinese University of Hong Kong Senior Fellow & Head of the Populism Research Unit (CARR)
    Specialist Research Areas: Right-Wing Party Competition, Immigration, Populist Radical Right, Global Populism
  • Dr Chelsea Ebin Assistant Professor of Politics, Centre College, Danville, KY Expert/Fellow at Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
    Specialist Research Areas: The Christian Right, Religion and politics, Public law, Gender, Male supremacism
  • Dr Maureen Eger Associate Professor of Sociology, Umeå University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right Parties, Radical Right Ideology, Radical Right Voting, Immigration, Neo-Nationalism
  • Dr Valery Engel President of the European Centre for Democracy Development in Latvia. Chairman of the Expert Board of the European International Tolerance Centre in Riga.
    Specialist Research Areas: Russian Jewry, European Xenophobia, Hate Crime, The Holocaust, Anti-Semitism
  • Professor Matthew Feldman Director, CARR. Visiting Professor, Richmond, The American University in London. Professorial Fellow, University of York. Member, Expert Witness Institute.
    Specialist Research Areas: Fascist ideology and practice since 1918, the Holocaust and Holocaust denial, neo-Nazi and ‘lone wolf’ terrorism, radical right movements and ideologues
  • Maik Fielitz Researcher at the Jena Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Doctoral Candidate in Department of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Greece, Germany, Violence and Terrorism, Digital Cultures
  • Dr Archie Henderson Head of Research, CARR. Attorney. Independent scholar.
  • Dr Tobias Hof Privatdozent for Modern and Contemporary History, History Department, Ludwig Maximilians University, München. Research Collaborator, UNC Chapel Hill.
    Specialist Research Areas: Terrorism, Fascism, Violence, Genocide, Cultural Representation
  • Professor Paul Jackson Professor in History, University of Northampton.
    Specialist Research Areas: Neo-Nazis, Anti-Fascism, History, Ideology, Terrorism
  • Natalie James Doctoral candidate in School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.
    Specialist Research Areas: Prevent, UK Counterterrorism, Threat Construction, Intersectionality
  • Dr Justyna Kajta Post-doc at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Specialist Research Areas: Radical Nationalism, Poland, Social Movements, Biographical Research, Discourse, Pathways to Radicalism, Radical Right Populism
  • Professor Aristotle Kallis Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Keele University
    Specialist Research Areas: Fascist Ideology And Practice since 1918; The Holocaust; Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism; Radical Right Movements and Ideologues; Mass Violence And Genocide
  • Dr Sara Kamali Author, equity consultant, and holistic justice activist
    Specialist Research Areas: White nationalism; Transnational terrorist networks; Religion and violence; Antigovernment movements; Conspiracy theories; Disinformation; Cybersecurity; Counterterrorism
  • Dr Ariel Koch Research Fellow, The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University, Israel
    Specialist Research Areas: Salafi-Jihadism, Cumulative Extremism, Violent Extremism, Terrorism, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
  • Jason Luger Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Northumbria University
    Specialist Research Areas: Authoritarian state-society relations, The production of authoritarian and far-right urban space (offline /online), The everyday geographies of the far-right; Masculinity and the far-right
  • Dr Ico Maly Associate professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Editor-in-chief of Diggit Magazine.
    Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right and Digital Media, Metapolitics, Far Right Ideology, Identitarianism, Digital Culture Studies
  • Dr Haley McEwen Researcher, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). Associate Editor, International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies.
    Specialist Research Areas: Anti-Gender Movement, Coloniality, Critical Diversity Studies, South Africa
  • Susi Meret Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark.
    Specialist Research Areas: Populism; Populist Radical Right-wing Parties and Movements in Denmark and in Scandinavia; Islamophobia; Political Extremisms; Radical Right Ideology and Voters; the Radical Right and Gender
  • Dr. Bàrbara Molas Head of Consulting, CARR.
    Specialist Research Areas: Far-Right Thought, Christian Nationalism, Transnational History
  • Dr Mario Peucker Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
    Specialist Research Areas: Australia, Street Movements, Online Networks, Local Responses, Interactive Radicalisation
  • Mark Potok Freelance writer, speaker, consultant, expert on right-wing extremism.
    Specialist Research Areas: American Radical Right, Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalism, Neo Nazism, Men's Right Movement
  • Dr Shannon E. Reid Associate Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Commentator and analyst of youth and young adult involvement in alt-right/ far right groups.
    Specialist Research Areas: Youth gang involvement, including alt-right/ far right gangs; youth violence and criminality associated with far-right/ alt-right groups; radical right online communication and organization
  • Alexander Reid Ross Doctoral candidate in Department of Geography, Portland State University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Ecology, Political Resilience, Fascism, Disinformation Campaigns
  • Professor Dan Stone Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute Royal Holloway, University of London
    Specialist Research Areas: The Holocaust, Genocide Studies, Race, Fascist Ideology, Eugenics
  • Dr Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Parties, Discourse, Populism, Counter-Narratives, Communication Strategies
  • Chris Webb Founder, Holocaust Historical Society. Member, T4 Association.
    Specialist Research Areas: The Holocaust, Polish Jewry, Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism, Aktion Reinhardt
  • Professor Leonard Weinberg Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada. Senior Editor of the journal Democracy and Security.
    Specialist Research Areas: Right Wing Violence, Neo-Fascism, Conspiracy Theories
  • Dr Mette Wiggen Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.
    Specialist Research Areas: Norway, Scandinavia, Populism, Racism, Welfare Chauvanism
  • Professor Ruth Wodak Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University and University of Vienna.
    Specialist Research Areas: Discourse and Media Analysis, Far-Right Populism, Gender, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
  • Dr Andreas Önnerfors Professor in Intellectual History, University of Erfurt, Germany
    Specialist Research Areas: Intellectual History, Radicalisation Studies, Germany, European New Right Movements, Conspiracy Theories

Doctoral Fellows

Our Doctoral Fellows are those currently enrolled in a PhD programme.

  • Nicolas Bichay Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Parties, Elections, Political Economy, Europe
  • Vinícius Bivar Doctoral candidate in Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin.
    Specialist Research Areas: Transnational Radical Right in Central Europe and Latin America, Diaspora and Migration, Radical Right Ideologies
  • Beatriz Buarque PhD Candidate at the University of Manchester
    Specialist Research Areas: conspiracy theories; alt-right multitude; legitimation through authority and visibility; critical discourse analysis; politics of truth
  • Michael Cole Head of Doctoral Fellows, CARR. PhD Candidate at the University of Tartu.
    Specialist Research Areas: Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Discourse Analysis, Mainstreaming
  • Meghan Conroy PhD Candidate at Loughborough University's Online Civic Culture Centre
    Specialist Research Areas: Internet subcultures, influencer culture, reactionary narratives on legacy and social media, and the relationship between online discourse and offline mobilization
  • Dr. Andreas Dafnos Research Associate (PostDoc) in Comparative Digital Dynamics of Riots and Multi-Method Integration at the Institute of Political Science, Bundeswehr University Munich
    Specialist Research Areas: Social Movement Theory; Political Extremism and Radicalisation; Social Media Analytics; Far-Right Politics
  • Augusta Dell’Omo Head of Media, CARR. Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
    Specialist Research Areas: White Nationalism, US Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Christian Identity Extremists, Reagan Coalition
  • Callum Downes Doctoral candidate in Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter.
    Specialist Research Areas: British Radical Right, Epistemic Injustice, Radical Right Populism, Street Movements
  • Anna Duensing PhD candidate in the joint program in History and African American Studies at Yale University.
    Specialist Research Areas: United States; Germany; Fascism; Neo-Nazism; the Ku Klux Klan
  • Jaclyn Fox Doctoral candidate in School of International Service, American University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Online Far Right Networks, Far Right Violence, International Relations, US Militia Movements, Psychology
  • Lynda Gilby PhD Researcher in Global Health and Development at Tampere University, Finland.
    Specialist Research Areas: Populist Challenges to Global Health Governance, Right Wing Populism
  • Nino Gozalishvili PhD candidate at Central European University (CEU)
    Specialist Research Areas: National-populism, post-communist space, Georgia, contemporary history, right-wing nationalism
  • Clive Henry
  • Monika Huebscher PhD Candidate at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, Haifa University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Germany, Political Parties, Social Media, Antisemitism, Hate speech, Disinformation
  • Nicholas James Doctoral student in Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.
    Specialist Research Areas: Nationalism, Comparative Politics, European National Identity, Political Violence, Education and Language
  • Greta Jasser Doctoral candidate at Institute for Political Science and Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Online Networks, Male Supremacy, Alt-Tech, Social Movements
  • Bethan Johnson
    Specialist Research Areas: Violent Nationalism, Ethnonationalism, Separatism, Radicalisation, Political Violence
  • Daniel Jones Collections Officer, Searchlight Archive, University of Northampton. Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Northampton.
    Specialist Research Areas: British, Archives, History, Movements, Organisations
  • Ashton Kingdon PhD candidate in Web Science at the University of Southampton.
    Specialist Research Areas: Violent Extremism, Terrorism, Technology, Radicalisation, Weaponisation of History
  • Maximilian Kreter Doctoral candidate at Hannah Arendt Institute Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden.
    Specialist Research Areas: Music, Subcultures, Parties, Political Violence, Germany
  • Yannick Lengkeek PhD Candidate at the University of St Andrews
    Specialist Research Areas: Ludic practices and the radical right; dictatorships in Southern Europe; global fascism; microhistorical approaches to fascism and dictatorships
  • Balsa Lubarda Doctoral candidate in Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Sociology, Ethnography, Environmental/Far-Right Ecologism, Visegrad 4, The Balkans
  • Ashley Mattheis Doctoral candidate in Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    Specialist Research Areas: United States, Online Extremist Cultures, Gendered Ideology, Propaganda and Visual Culture, Cultural and Media Studies
  • Sophie Schmalenberger Doctoral Candidate at School of Culture and Society (Department of Global Studies), Aarhus University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Germany, Populism, Cultural Studies, Memory, Affect
  • Alessio Scopelliti Doctoral candidate in School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol.
    Specialist Research Areas: Cleavages, Populism, Parties, Western European Politics, Content Analysis
  • Catherine Tebaldi PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts and a member of the Sociolinguistics Lab at University College London
    Specialist Research Areas: Gender, Language, Nationalism, Education in the US/France, Linguistic Anthropology
  • Jessica Valisa PhD. Candidate at the University of Otago (NZ)
    Specialist Research Areas: Far-right thought; the influence of Information Technology on political discourse; contemporary Russian conservatism
  • Antonia Vaughan PhD Candidate at the University of Bath
    Specialist Research Areas: Ethics, US far right online movements, qualitative analysis, social network analysis
  • Sabine Volk Doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Science, Ethnography, Discourse, Street Movements, (East) Germany
  • Andrew Woods Doctoral candidate at Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario.
    Specialist Research Areas: United States, Brazil, Conspiracy Theories, Intellectual History, The New Right
  • Michael Zeller Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, Central European University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Social Movements, Far Right Mobilisation, Demonstration Politics, Process Tracing, Civil Society, Post-Soviet Politics

Policy & Practitioner Fellows

Our Policy and Practitioner Fellows are policy makers, practitioners, journalists, or researchers at think tanks or non-profits.

  • Sean Arbuthnot Local Prevent Co-ordinator & Training Consultant.
    Specialist Research Areas: UK Prevent Duty, Radicalisation, Extremism, CVE, Counterterrorism
  • Michael Colborne Journalist (Freelance).
    Specialist Research Areas: Movements, Extremism, Online Radicalisation, Transnational Radical Right Extremism
  • Jacob Davey Senior Research Manager, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
    Specialist Research Areas: Online Analysis of Extremist Networks
  • Dr Agata Kałabunowska Senior Analyst at the Institute for Western Affairs
    Specialist Research Areas: Right-wing extremism in Germany, Right wing-extremism in Central Europe, Islamophobia, Immigration issues
  • Krystel von Kumberg
    Specialist Research Areas: Violent Extremism and Radicalization, Far-Right and Islamist Terrorism, Counterinsurgency and Russia
  • Dr Chamila Liyanage Researcher/Content Developer, Radical-R: Radicalisation Research.
    Specialist Research Areas: Deep Web, Virtual Activism, Narratives, Conspiracy Theories, Fascist Mysticism
  • Gionathan Lo Mascolo Research and Project Coordinator
    Specialist Research Areas: Christian Nationalism; Islamophobia; Conspiracy narratives; Millennialist Movements; Occultism
  • Dr Craig McCann Director, S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M. Universal Ltd.
    Specialist Research Areas: UK, State Responses to Terrorism, Intervention Programmes
  • Simon Purdue Director of the Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor at MEMRI (The Middle Eastern Media Research Institute)
    Specialist Research Areas: Gender, Global History, Violent Extreme-Right, Radicalisation, Propaganda
  • Jared Shurin Head of Strategy, M&C Saatchi World Services
    Specialist Research Areas: Communications interventions; media, advertising, and adtech; extremist persuasion and influence; disinformation; counter- and alternative narratives
  • Dr Alan Waring Adjunct Professor, Centre for Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES), European University Cyprus.
    Specialist Research Areas: Ideology and Practice, Authoritarianism, Security Issues, Risk Analysis, Anti-Iranianism
  • Dr Jessica White Research Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict Group, Royal United Services Institute.
    Specialist Research Areas: CT Frameworks; Transferability; Transnational Links; Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Programme Design, Implementation, and Evaluation; Gender Role Dynamics
  • Kesa White Research Associate, Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) Academic Writer, Global Network on Extremism and Technology Associate Board Member, Anti-Defamation League
    Specialist Research Areas: Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism and ‘lone wolf’ terrorism; radical right movements and ideologies; radical right online methods of communication

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