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Fellows

Become a Fellow

If you would like to join CARR as a Senior Fellow, please COntact Tamir Bar-On (tamir.baron@gmail.com).

If you would like to join as a Doctoral Fellow, please contact Mike (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.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN CARR AS A POLICY AND PRACTITIONER FELLOW, Please contact Eviane leidig (eviane.leidig@mf.no).

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 are considered bi-annually and due the last day of the month 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
  • 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 Policy, 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, Online Radicalization
  • 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 and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute Royal Holloway, University of London
    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 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
  • Dr Sara Kamali Holistic justice activist and public scholar of transnational White nationalist domestic terrorism
    Specialist Research Areas: Domestic Terrorism, Counterterrorism, White Nationalism, American History
  • Dr Justyna Kajta Post-doc at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław
    Specialist Research Areas: Radical Nationalism, Poland, Social Movements, Biographical Research, Discourse, Pathways to Radicalism, Radical Right Populism
  • Dr Jelena Đureinović Postdoctoral Researcher and Scientific Coordinator of the Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe”, University of Vienna
    Memory Studies, Radical Right and Populist Memory Politics, Postsocialism, Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space, Historical Revisionism, Contemporary History
  • 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.
    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, echo chambers and pathways to radicalization; risk factors for membership in youth and young adults in far-right groups; Prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts for schools, law enforcement, and policy makers
  • Susi Meret Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark.
    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, Mainstream Parties’ and civil society Reactions to Populist and Nativist appeals.

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 Head of Doctoral Fellows, CARR. 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 Publishing, 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
  • 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
  • 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; Community Construction; Gender Mainstreaming; Gender Role Dynamics