Christin Tonne

Christin Tonne completed her PhD in Anthropology and Sociology in 2022 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Using an ethnographic approach she investigated how the European Parliament has protected itself against far right actors at the EU level. She traced the nature of confrontation between EU institutional actors and the far right in the European Parliament since the first direct elections in 1979. Before starting the PhD she was herself employed as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament in Brussels. Next to her doctoral research, she worked as a Teaching Assistant from 2016-2019 in the ANSO and MINT departments at the Graduate Institute. She is currently affiliated with the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, IHEID, with a pilot project on democratic defenses against the far right in the EU institutions.