Prof. Dr. Elke Gaugele
Elke Gaugele is an empirical cultural scientist and Professor of Fashion and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a renowned expert on fashion and right-wing extremism and the author and editor of numerous international publications on aesthetic politics, global/social justice and decolonial and post-migrant perspectives on fashion. Elke Gaugele is principal investigator and project leader of the NeoFashFarRight research project.
Dr. phil. Sarah Held
Sarah Held is a cultural scientist and artist. She has conducted research on “The Materiality of Feminist Resistance” in the USA, Mexico, Chile and Australia and completed her doctorate on “Textile Agency against Sexualized Violence/Femicides” (2021). After many years of research in the field, she has been co-leading the FWF project “Neo Fash Far Right” since 2023. With the collective “Aufstand der Schwestern” she makes action art against femicides, for example as part of documenta fifteen. sarah Held is co-investigator and vice project leader of NeoFashFarRight.
Andrea Grippo, PhD
Andrea Grippo is a political sociologist and works as a post-doctoral researcher in the project. Already during his studies and later in his doctorate, Grippo dealt with right-wing extremism and social movements and has a lot of experience in the field research of right-wing groups.
Teresa Fischer, MA
Teresa Fischer is a media scientist, artist and pre-doc research associate. She is working on her Phd-in-Practice on the topics of photography, archive and queer representation.
Betti Wöss, BA
Betti Wöss is a master’s student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, specializing in fashion and styles as well as art and education. She also works as a freelance artist and activist. Since October 2023 Betti Wöss has been working as a Student Research Assistant on the project Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style.
Anna Berthold
Anna Berthold is graphic designer and art educator and studies Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since October 2023, they are part of the research team of the project Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style.
Cooperation partner
Prof. Dr. Cynthia Miller Idriss
Prof. Dr. Cynthia Miller Idriss is sociologist and professor at the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education of the American University in Washington, DC, where she is founder and head of the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the Center for University Excellence (CUE). Miller-Idriss has done pioneering research in the field of fashion and far-right extremism.
Advisory board
Prof. Dr. Katrine Fangen
Prof. Dr. Katrine Fangen is a sociologist at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, where she has been the thematic leader of C-Rex, the Center for Research on Extremism and head of the research group on Gender dimensions of extremism since 2016. Her research focuses on nationalism, right-wing extremism, gender, racism, and the anti-immigrant movement.
prof. Dr. Emanuele Toscano
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Toscano is Associate Professor for sociology at the Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi in Rome. Based on his major work on the methodologies and ethics of researching the far-right, Toscano will advise the Akbild research team on ethical questions and research practice issues in the early stages of the project preparation and the conduct of its fieldwork in Germany/Europe.
GabI Rohmann, MA
Gabi Rohman M.A. is a sociologist, co-head and co-founder of Archiv der Jugendkulturen, Berlin and founder of the data base SoMeRa for monitoring right-wing activities in youth cultures. As part of the advisory board, Rohmann will be available to support the archival research, the follow-up research, as well as gender-related issues of the team during the whole research process.
Prof. Dr. Simon Strick
Prof. Dr. Simon Strick is a gender researcher and media scholar at ZeM Brandenburg and professor of criminology in Hamburg. His research focuses on gender and racism theories, popular cultures, affect studies, media, and cultural analysis. He published the monograph “Rechte Gefühle. Affekte und Strategien des digitalen Faschismus” (2021) investigating how and why right-wing ideologies are prevalent in digital realms.
Prof. Dr. Hilary Pilkington
Prof. Dr. Hilary Pilkington is professor of sociology at the University of Manchester, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the expert group of the National Commission for Countering Extremism. She has been coordinator or principal investigator of over a dozen large research grants involving multiple international partners. She is currently coordinator of the H2020 DARE (Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality) project and independent Commissioner on the Preventing Hateful Extremism and Promoting Social Cohesion Commission.