Christin Jänicke is a social scientist at the Center for Civil Society Research, a joint initiative of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Freie University Berlin. Her research focuses on democracy, civil society, and responses to far-right contention, employing qualitative and quantitative methods informed by her practical experience in civil society organizations and civic education.
She is a doctoral researcher in the project "Organized Civil Society and Far-Right Interventions" and co-leads the project "Effective against the far right: Evidence-based strategies for dealing with the far right" at WZB. Her dissertation in political sociology examines these dynamics in Germany, with particular focus on East Germany, where the far right holds significant influence.
Before joining WZB, she researched police responses to right-wing youth at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, taught at Freie University Berlin, and managed public relations for Opferperspektive, a counseling center for victims of right-wing violence. She also worked as a student assistant at the Emil Julius Gumbel Research Department on Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremism, University of Potsdam.
During her two-month DAAD-funded research stay at the Center for Right-Wing Studies (through March) Christin will finish her dissertation and prepare for her defense. A key component is a comparative paper examining far-right collaboration across different organizational fields and regional contexts in Germany, bridging German and international perspectives on far-right normalization.
