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Prof. Dr. Elke Gaugele<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. phil. Sarah Held<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Held is a cultural scientist and artist in the field of feminist material culture and critical fashion studies. Her interdisciplinary work critically engages with materiality, resistance, and the role of textiles and fashion in social justice, combining feminist art and activism to challenge cultures of violence. Sarah Held is co-investigator and vice project leader of NeoFashFarRight. Her work provides a critical analysis of far-right fashion and their construction of masculinity. She is also the founder of the art project Aufstand der Schwestern<\/em>, which creates performance art in response to femicides, including contributions to documenta fifteen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. phil. Sophie Uitz<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sophie Uitz is a theoretician and artistic researcher specializing in political, social, and decolonial theory and contemporary aesthetics. A postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2017, she employs artistic research and citizen science to study political amnesia, convivial epistemology, and democratic citizenship. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna and currently directs a socio-scientific study for the research project “Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teresa Fischer, MA<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Betti W\u00f6ss, BA<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Betti W\u00f6ss 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 W\u00f6ss has been working as a Student Research Assistant on the project Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anna Berthold<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Grippo, Phd<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Grippo is a political sociologist and worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the project (October 2023 \u2013 June 2025). 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cooperation partner<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Prof. Dr. Cynthia Miller Idriss<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Advisory board<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Prof. Dr. Katrine Fangen<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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prof. Dr. Emanuele Toscano<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Emanuele Toscano is Associate Professor for sociology at the Universit\u00e0 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GabI Rohmann, MA<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Dr. Simon Strick<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cRechte Gef\u00fchle. Affekte und Strategien des digitalen Faschismus\u201d (2021) investigating how and why right-wing ideologies are prevalent in digital realms. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Dr. Hilary Pilkington<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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