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...
Lynn M. Morgan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College, with a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the joint program at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. She is author of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos (University of California Press, 2009) and close to 50 articles. Her current research centers on the tactics used in global antiabortion movements.
While a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies through March 2026, she is working on a...
Political Sociology, Université Paris Cité, France
Valentina Nava is a PhD candidate in political sociology at Université Paris Cité. She studies contemporary far-right politics in Italy through ethnography, with interests in fascist and post-fascist ideology and anti-LGBTQ+ politics. Her dissertation examines why a historically left-leaning rural community has shifted toward Fratelli d’Italia. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and archival research, the project traces how socioeconomic decline and perceived inequalities crystallize into moral judgments about labor and belonging that resonate with far-right appeals. Her...
PhD Student, Political Science, University of Innsbruck, and Visiting Scholar, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
I am a German political theorist pursuing a PhD at the University of Innsbruck. My dissertation is situated at the intersection of far-right studies, political theory, and gender studies, and focuses on the far right in the context of the climate crisis. The climate crisis generates profound uncertainty about humanity’s future, destabilizing expectations, undermining predictive horizons, etc. In my dissertation, I examine how far-right ideologies respond to this uncertainty by mobilizing specific conceptions of “nature.” I argue that the desire to dominate nature provides a...
