Researcher Profiles
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Below are profiles of members of the WARN network.
Dr Nils Schuhmacher
Hamburg University
Nils Schuhmacher is a Social Scientist who studies contemporary transgressive and radical protests movements. He is particularly interested in researching self-organized anti-fascist politics
Dr Grzegorz Piotrowski
Gdansk University
Grzegorz Piotrowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Gdańsk and a senior researcher at European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, Poland. He focuses on research on radical social movements, civil society, and democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also a vice president of Zatoka Foundation, a Polish NGO focused on supporting and conducting research, and organising academic events
Dr Alex Carter
University of Birmingham
Alex Carter is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. A historian and social scientist, Alex’s research focuses on antifascist and far-right movements in the UK. He is currently researching the role of music and music subcultures within these scenes.
Prof Nigel Copsey
Teesside University
Nigel Copsey is a historian based at Teesside University (UK). He specialises in the study of both historical and contemporary forms of anti-fascism. His primary specialism has been the history of anti-fascism in Britain, but more recently he has been approaching anti-fascism from comparative, transnational, and global perspectives.
Dr Ali Jones
Coventry University
Ali Jones is a historian and political theorist who studies German radical movements since the 1970s.
Ms Christin Jänicke
WZB Berlin
Christin Jänicke is a social scientist from Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on civil society, far-right contention, and antifascist counterstrategies, particularly in East Germany. She is co-editor of “30 Jahre Antifa in Ostdeutschland“.
Dr Stanislav Vysotsky
University of the Fraser Valley
Stanislav Vysotsky is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley. His research analyzes the tactics and culture of antifascist and far-right movements.
Dr Anthony Ince
Cardiff University
Anthony Ince is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University. He specialises in the everyday politics of migration, including the spatial strategies of antifascist and far-right movements.
Dr Kasper Brasken
Helsinki University
Dr Hugo Garcia Fernandez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Hugo García is an associate professor of Modern History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has published widely on interwar antifascism and the Spanish Civil War and has recently found a stimulating complement in utopian studies.
Dr Daniel Jones
Northampton
Daniel Jones is Searchlight Archivist and Researcher in Far Right Studies at the University of Northampton, specialising in the print cultures and identity within the anglosphere Far Right and Antifascism.
Dr Günter Gassner
Günter Gassner is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersection of design studies, critical theory and political philosophy. He explores relationships between politics and aesthetics, antifascism and urbanism, queer militancy and antifascist theatre.
Dr Máté Zombory
HUN REN
ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr Joan Braune
Gonzaga
Joan Braune (she/her) is Long-Term Lecturer in Philosophy and Instructor in the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. Her research lies in Critical Theory and in the study of fascism and how to challenge it
Dr Marco Bresciani
Florence
Marco Bresciani is Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence
His main research field are the political and intellectual of Italian and European antifascism and anti-totalitarianism, the political and social history of fascism, nationalism and conservatism in interwar Europe, with a special focus on the post-Habsburg Upper Adriatic, and on socialism and liberalism in the transformations and transitions between the 1970s and 1990s.
Dr Jelena Đureinović
University of Vienna
Jelena Đureinović is a historian based at the University of Vienna interested in the history and memory of antifascism in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space. Her current project is a connected history of antifascism and anticolonialism after 1945, focusing on relations between Yugoslavia and anti-colonial liberation movements from Africa.
Dr. Ritwika Basu
Bristol University
Dr. Ritwika Basu is a Human Geographer and environmental social researcher. Her research practice sits at the intersections of extended political ecologies of labor and climate mobilities. She is currently working on how southern climate-economic transitions intersect with racialised governance amid authoritarian shifts in urban politics and culture.
Dr. Dragana Prvulović
Dragana Prvulović is a sociologist and ethnographer whose research focuses on minority politics, post-conflict societies, and nationalism
Dr. Robert Dickinson
Sussex
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