What stories do Europeans tell about terrorism across ideologies, media, and time, and how do these stories shape ideas and contestations of the liberal-democratic order? My research explores these questions, with a particular focus on far-right and White Supremacist terrorism in Germany and Scandinavia.
I am currently a Research Associate at the Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University, Birmingham. I was a Research Assistant at the Birmingham Business School (2017-18), a Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin (2018-19), and a Visiting Lecturer in Journalism at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (2021-22). I received my PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2017 for a thesis on media narratives of the German right-wing terrorist group "National Socialist Underground" (NSU).
My first monograph "Imagining Far-right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe” was published by Routledge in February 2022.
I co-convene the PSA German Politics Specialist Group (2017-).
Experience
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2022–presentResearch associate, Aston University, Birmingham
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2021–2022Visiting Lecturer, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences
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2018–2019Postdoctoral fellow, Hertie School, Berlin
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2017–2018Research assistant, University of Birmingham
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2014–2016Teaching Associate, University of Birmingham
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2013–2015Project Assistant, University of Birmingham
Education
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2017Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, PhD German Studies
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