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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 enquire with Tamir Bar-On (tamir.baron@gmail.com)

If you would like to join as a Doctoral Fellow, please contact Bàrbara (bmolas@yorku.ca). 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 short writing sample on a topic of the radical right, and a one-page cover letter. Applications will be considered bi-annually in June and December.

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
  • Dr Chris Allen Associate Professor, Centre for Hate Studies, University of Leicester.
    Specialist Research Areas: Islamophobia, Anti-Muslim Racism, Violent Extremism, Counter-Extremism, Counter-Terrorism
  • Professor Tamir Bar-On Head of Events, CARR. Professor-Researcher, School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey.
    Specialist Research Areas: French and European New Right, Fascism, Alt Right, Islamism, Terrorism
  • Professor Hans-Georg Betz Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Zurich.
    Specialist Research Areas: Islamophobia, Populism, Nativism, Globalisation, Right-Wing Populism
  • 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 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
  • Dr Ayal Feinberg Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
    Specialist Research Areas: Contemporary Anti-Semitism, Transnational Politics, Political Violence
  • 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
  • Dr Bernhard Forchtner Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester.
    Specialist Research Areas: Radical Right and Environmental Issues, Ideology, German Speaking World, Movements
  • Dr Bharath Ganesh Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Groningen. Visiting Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
    Specialist Research Areas: Digital Politics, Social Media, Race and Ethnicity, Online Hate Speech, Islamophobia
  • 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
  • Dr Paul Jackson Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton.
    Specialist Research Areas: Neo-Nazis, Anti-Fascism, History, Ideology, Terrorism
  • Dr Ariel Koch Researcher, The Middle East Network Analysis Desk at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
  • Dr Katherine Kondor Research Associate at Loughborough University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Hungary, Hate Studies, Street Movements, Recruitment, Pathways
  • Dr Eviane Leidig Head of Publishing, CARR. Postdoc affiliate at Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo.
    Specialist Research Areas: India, North America, Gender, Alt-Right, Hindu Nationalism
  • 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
  • Dr Henry Mead Academic Adviser, Oxford Programme of Undergraduate Studies. Tutor, Worcester College Visiting Students Programme. Research Fellow, Tallinn University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Religions, Fascism, Modern Ideologies, Intellectual Origins
  • Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss Head of Outreach, CARR. Professor of Education and Sociology, American University.
  • 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
  • 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 John E. Richardson Adjunct Associate Professor of Language & Linguistics, University of the Sunshine Coast.
    Specialist Research Areas: British Fascism, Discourse Analysis, Fascist Rhetoric, Fascist Ideology, Violence
  • Professor Dan Stone Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Holocaust Research Institute.
    Specialist Research Areas: The Holocaust, Genocide Studies, Race, Fascist Ideology, Eugenics
  • Professor Megan Squire Professor of Computer Science, Elon University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Database Systems, Data Mining, Network Analysis, Cybersecurity, Online Communities
  • 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
  • Dr Louie Dean Valencia-García Assistant Professor of Digital History, Texas State University. Research Editor, EuropeNow (Council for European Studies at Columbia University).
    Specialist Research Areas: History, Fascism, Youth, Europe, Spain
  • Dr Yannick David Veilleux-Lepage Assistant Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Terrorism, Social Movements, Online Radicalisation
  • Dr Matthias Wasser
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Economy between the Wars
  • 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
  • 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; prejudice; social exclusion; radicalisation; mainstream-extremism nexus.

Doctoral Fellows

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

  • Emmi Bevensee Doctoral student in School of Information, University of Arizona. Open Web Fellow, Mozilla. Consultant at Rebellious Data.
    Specialist Research Areas: Fascism, Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries, Red-Brown Crossover, Fascist Entryism on the Left, Geopolitics
  • 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
  • Sadie Chana Doctoral candidate, University of Kent.
    Specialist Research Areas: Hate Crime, Radical Right Protests
  • Michael Cole PhD Candidate at the University of Tartu.
    Specialist Research Areas: Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Discourse Analysis, Mainstreaming
  • Blyth Crawford Doctoral candidate in War Studies, King’s College London. Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.
    Specialist Research Areas: Online Radicalisation, Alt-Right, Ethnographic Examination, Online Cultures, Anthropology
  • Andreas Dafnos Doctoral candidate in Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.
    Specialist Research Areas: UK, Street Movements, Sociology, Protest Event Analysis, Radicalisation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Justin Gilmore Doctoral candidate in Department of History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz.
    Specialist Research Areas: Whiteness, Fascism, Political Science, Cultural Studies
  • Julian Göpffarth Doctoral candidate at European Institute, London School of Economics.
    Specialist Research Areas: Philosophy, The New Right, Radical Right Populism, Nationalist Ideologies, European Politics
  • 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
  • Brian Hughes Doctoral candidate in School of Communication, American University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Communication Technology, Religious Extremism, Fringe Culture, Terrorism
  • Natalie James Doctoral candidate in School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.
    Specialist Research Areas: Prevent, UK Counterterrorism, Threat Construction, Intersectionality
  • 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 Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Cambridge.
    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
  • Florence Keen PhD candidate in War Studies, King’s College London. Research Fellow at International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London.
    Specialist Research Areas: Terrorist Financing, Radicalisation, Far-Right Extremism, Political Violence, Terrorism
  • Ashton Kingdon PhD candidate in Web Science at the University of Southampton.
    Specialist Research Areas: Violent Extremism, Terrorism, Technology, Radicalisation, Weaponisation of History
  • Ofra Klein Doctoral candidate in Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Sociology, Political Communication, Social Media, Text Mining, Radical Right
  • Maximilian Kreter Doctoral candidate at Hannah Arendt Institute Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden.
    Specialist Research Areas: Music, Subcultures, Parties, Political Violence, Germany
  • Liam J Liburd Doctoral candidate in Department of History, University of Sheffield.
    Specialist Research Areas: Imperialism, Race, Gender, British Radical Right
  • 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
  • Bàrbara Molas Head of Doctoral Fellows, CARR. Doctoral candidate in Department of History, York University, Toronto.
    Specialist Research Areas: Far-Right Thought, Christian Nationalism, Transnational History
  • Simon Purdue Doctoral candidate in World History, Northeastern University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Gender, Global History, Violent Extreme-Right, Radicalisation, Propaganda
  • Alexander Reid Ross Doctoral candidate in Department of Geography, Portland State University.
    Specialist Research Areas: Political Ecology, Political Resilience, Fascism, Disinformation Campaigns
  • 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
  • K.E. Shropshire Doctoral candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University.
    Specialist Research Areas: North America, Cultural Studies, Hate Groups, Media, Conspiracy Theory
  • 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, 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
  • Cristina Ariza Research Analyst, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
    Specialist Research Areas: Extremism, Radicalisation, Terrorism, Online Networks, Counter Extremism
  • William Baldet Countering Violent Extremism practitioner. Consultant for the Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Member of the EU-funded Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Europe.
    Specialist Research Areas: Radicalisation, Violent Extremism, Civil Society Engagement, Counter-Extremism
  • 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 Chamila Liyanage Researcher/Content Developer, Radical-R: Radicalisation Research.
    Specialist Research Areas: Deep Web, Virtual Activism, Narratives, Conspiracy Theories, Fascist Mysticism
  • Dr Craig McCann Director, S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M. Universal Ltd.
    Specialist Research Areas: UK, State Responses to Terrorism, Intervention Programmes
  • Fiyaz Mughal OBE Founder and Director of Tell MAMA.
    Specialist Research Areas: Anti-Muslim Racism, Hate Crime, Violent Extremism, Racism, Islamophobia
  • 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