Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor and Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES). Prof. Laruelle have widely published on Russia’s ideological landscape and Russia’s illiberal outreach in Europe with Oxford, Pittsburgh, and John Hopkins University Presses, Routledge, Palgrave/McMillan. Her latest book, Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East West, will be published by Cornell University Press in February 2021. Her new research project is devoted to illiberalism as a new grassroots political culture in Europe, with a focus on France, Italy, and Germany, and the transnational links to both the US and Russia. She teaches “Nationalisms in Eurasia” and “Illiberal Politics and Populism in Europe”.
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Jean-Yves Camus is Associate Researcher at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris and Director of the Observatory of Political Radicalism at Foundation Jean Jaures. He is also sits on the Scientific Board of the Délégation interministérielle pour la lutte contre le racisme, l’antisémtisme et la lutte contre l’homophobie (DILCRAH). Prior to this, he was research director at the European Center for Research on Racism and Anti-Semitism (CERA) in Paris. He was a member of the Île de France Equality Council, an official committee advising the municipality of Paris on anti-discrimination matters He is the author of seven books in French about the Front National and the rise of religious and political extremism, including Le Front national, histoire et analyse (Éditions Olivier Laurens, 1996), Le Front national (Éditions Milan), and Extrémismes en France : faut-il en avoir peur ? (Éditions Milan, 2006). He edited Les Extrémismes en Europe (La Tour d’Aigues, éditions de l’Aube, 1998). He has also published scholarly articles and opinion pieces on the Front National, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism in France in French, German, and Spanish. With Nicolas Lebourg, he recently co-authored The Extreme Rights in Europe (Harvard University Press, 2017).
Nicolas Lebourg is Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of Latin Europe (CEPEL) at Montpellier University, and a member of the National Agency for Research’s (ANR) VIORAMIL (Violence and Political Radicalism in France) project. An expert on far-right groups, he has published about fifty articles and chapters and several books, among others Les Nazis ont-ils survécu? Enquête sur les Internationales fascistes et les croisés de la race blanche (Seuil, 2019), Les Droites extrêmes en Europe (Seuil, 2015), Dans l’Ombre des Le Pen. Une histoire des n°2 du Front National (Nouveau Monde, 2012), and François Duprat, l’homme qui inventa le Front National (Denoël, 2012). His texts in English include Nicolas Lebourg, Jean-Yves Camus, and Jose Luis Rodriguez Jimenez, “Pro-Soviet Groups in the Cold War European Radical Right,” in Marlene Laruelle, ed., Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), 131-153; “Arriba Eurasia? The Difficult Establishment of Eurasianism in Spain,” in Marlene Laruelle, ed., Eurasianism and European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship (Lexington, 2015), 125-142; and The French Far Right in Russia’s Orbit, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, May 15, 2018. He also recently co-authored The Extreme Rights in Europe (Harvard University Press, 2017) with Jean-Yves Camus.
Ellen Rivera is an independent researcher who specializes in the post-war German far right, with a particular focus on post-war anti-communist organizations. In the framework of our project, she is a Research Fellow studying the current links between proponents of the German and the Russian far rights, mostly through extensive social network analyses and media monitoring. She co-authored “Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe: The Concept of Intermarium,” IERES Occasional Papers, no. 1 (March 2018) and “Collusion or Homegrown Collaboration? Connections between German Far Right and Russia,” Political Capital (Budapest), April 2018.
Périne Schir is one of our full-time Research Fellows for this project and a PhD student in political sociology. She holds an MA in Sociology and Philosophy from Rouen University and is an adjunct professor of Political Theory at the Faculty of Human Sciences at Rouen University. Her PhD research focuses on the growing role of women in European far-right movements.
Adrien Nonjon is a PhD student at the Research Center Europe-Eurasia (CREE) at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO), Paris. He holds a MA in Geopolitics and Political Science. His research focuses on the Ukrainian far right and the different political and cultural dynamics. Previously, he studied the Azov movement; nationalist countercultures such as “eco-nationalism,” white rock, and neopaganism; and the role of sport in the Ukrainian far-right movement. His PhD is devoted to the concept of Intermarium in its different pan-European incarnations.
Emmanuel Faye is professor of modern and contemporary philosophy at Rouen University. He has been working on a critical analysis of the different authors who contributed to legitimize the national-socialist worldviews in philosophy. He is the author, among others, of Heidegger. The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935(Translated by Michael B. Smith, Foreword by Tom Rockmore, Yale University Press, 2009), “Eric Voegelins Haltung zum Nationalsozialismus. Überlegungen zum Briefwechsel Krieck-Voegelin (1933-1934),” in Politisierung der Wissenschaft. Jüdische Wissenschaftler und ihre Gegner an der Universität Frankfurt vor und nach 1933, Herausgegeben von Moriz Epple, Johannes Fried, Raphael Gross und Janus Gudian, Schriftenreihe des Frankfurter Universitätsarchivs (Hg. von Notker Hammerstein und Michael Maaser), Bd. 05, Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, 2016) and Arendt et Heidegger. Extermination nazie et destruction de la pensée (Albin Michel, 2016). He has co-edited with Marlene Laruelle Heidegger, Black Notebooks, and Russia (Moscow: Delo Editions, 2018, in Russian).
Peter Rollberg is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. In 1988, he earned his Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of Leipzig. In 1990-1991, he taught at Duke University. Among his English-, German-, and Russian-language publications are articles on Aleksandr Pushkin, Feodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vasilii Grossman, Mikhail Prishvin, Vasilii Belov, Vladimir Makanin, and Anatolii Kim. He has also written about aspects of Russian and German cinema and media and edited The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures (Academic International Press, 1996). Peter Rollberg was the director of the GWU Honors Program from 2001 to 2003, director of the GWU Film Studies Program from 2000 to 2010, Chair of the German and Slavic Department from 1999 to 2001, and Chair of the Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures from 2006 to 2009. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2008), the expanded second edition of which was published in 2016 by Rowman and Littlefield. In 2014, he edited Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism (Ibidem-Verlag, 2018).
Stéphane François is Associate Scholar to the Laboratory Society, Religions, Laicity at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, member of the Scientific Committee of the project ‘Back to the land’ (Sorbonne, Nanterre, New School for Social Research, New York) and professor of political science at the Mons University in Belgium. His two latest books are L’Occultisme nazi. Entre la SS et l’ésotérisme (CNRS Éditions, 2020) and Un XXIe siècle irrationnel ? Analyses pluridisciplinaires de pensées « alternatives » (CNRS Éditions, 2018). Among his English-language publications: “Guillaume Faye, between Postmodernity and Identity” (in Mark Sedgwick (ed.), Key Thinkers of the Resurgent Right. Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019); “Musical Subcultures, Subversion and Neo-Fascists” (Retos Internacionales, Monterrey, no. 4, 2011); “Musical and political subculture : A review of attempts of entrism” (in Patrick Moreau & Uwe Backes (eds.), Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives, Oakville/Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011).
