ECPR - List of Members

List of Members - B

Name:	Simon Baalham
Address:	Department of History Oxford Brookes University OXFORD OX3 0BP United Kingdom
E-mail:	sbaalham@brookes.ac.uk
Interests:	Religion and the racist right in the USA

Name:	James Babb
Address:	Department of Politics School of Geography, Politics ans Sociology University of Newcastle NE3 4HB NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE United Kingdom
E-mail:	j.d.babb@newcastle.ac.uk
Interests:	The radical right in Japan, particularly the link between the extreme right, mainstream right and business

Name:	Gokhan Bacik
Address:	Department of International Relations Fatih University Hadimkoy Kampusu Buyukcekmece 34900 ISTANBUL Turkey
E-mail:	gbacik@fatih.edu.tr
Interests:	Extreme right parties (both nationalist and Islamist) in Turkey; theory and practice of the relationship between extremism and democracy; populism

Name:	Uwe Backes
Address:	Hannah-Arendt-Institut fur Totalitarismusforschung an der TU Dresden Helmholtzstrasse 6-8 01069 DRESDEN Germany
E-mail:	backes@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de
Interests:	Politcal extremism in Western Europe, in particular Germany

Name:	Gawdat Bahgat
Address:	Center for Middle Eastern Studies Department of Political Science Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA
E-mail:	gbahgat@iup.edu
Interests:	Militant Islam in the Middle East and Central Asia; energy and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Name:	Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
Address:	Dokumentationsarchiv des sterreichischen Widerstandes Wipplingerstraße 6-8 (Altes Rathaus) 1010 VIENNA Austria
E-mail:	brigitte.bailer@doew.at
Interests:	National Socialism; Fascism; neo-Nazism; right-wing extremism; anti-Semitism, racism; revisionism; populism

Name:	Péter Bajomi-Lázár
Address:	Department of Communication Kodolanyi University College Szabadsagharcos ut 59 8000 SZÉKESFEHÉRVAR Hungary
E-mail:	mediak@mail.datanet.hu
Interests:	Democratic media theory; party press; self-regulation of journalists

Name:	Veronika Bajt
Address:	Department of Sociology Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University Jostova 10 602 00 BRNO Czech Republic
E-mail:	bajt.veronika@siol.net
Interests:	Radical right politics and ideology; extreme prejudice and behaviour; intolerance towards national, ethnic, racial minorities; the role of the nation-state in the globalization era

Name:	Catherine Baker
Address:	UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London Gower Street LONDON, WC1E 6BT United Kingdom
E-mail:	cbakertwl@googlemail.com
Interests:	Popular music and national identity (contemporary Croatia and other ex-Yugoslav states); revision of public historical memory; populism and media; political symbolism

Name:	David Baker
Address:
E-mail:	dave_on_line@hotmail.com
Interests:	Extreme right ideologies in Western Europe; anti-EU nationalism and populism

Name:	Gianfrance Baldini
Address:	Faculty of Political Science University of Salerno Via Ponte don Melillo 84084 FISCIANO (SA) Italy
E-mail:	baldini@spbo.unibo.it
Interests:	Local politics; extreme right parties in Western Europe; electoral behaviour; Italian, French and British politics; neo-populism

Name:	Jeffrey M. Bale
Address:	Monterey Institute of International Studies Center for Nonproliferation Studies 425 Van Buren Street Monterey, CA 93940 USA
E-mail:	jeffrey.bale@miis.ed
Interests:	International terrorism; neo-fascism and the contemporary radical right; intelligence and covert action; unconventional warfare; political, cultural and religious extremism; radical Islamism; religious cults; youth countercultures; propaganda & disinformation

Name:	Tim Bale
Address:	Politics and Contemporary European Studies University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9SJ UK
E-mail:	t.p.bale@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:	Political parties, Europe, UK

Name:	James David Ballard
Address:	Department of Sociology California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street NORTHRIDGE, CA 91330-8318 USA
E-mail:	ballard@csun.edu
Interests:	Terrorism attacks against nuclear waste shipments; the social effects of terrorist victimisation

Name:	Navin A. Bapat
Address:	Department of Political Science Penn State University 231 Pond Building UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 USA
E-mail:	nab12@psu.edu
Interests:	Transnational and interstate terrorism; conflict involving non-state actors; formal and statistical modeling

Name:	Eileen Barker
Address:	Department of Sociology London School of Economics Houghton St LONDON WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
E-mail:	e.barker@lse.ac.uk
Interests:	New religions

Name:	Michael Barkun
Address:	Department of Political Science Maxwell School 100 Eggers Hall Syracuse University SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1090 USA
E-mail:	mbarkun@maxwell.syr.edu
Interests:	Right-wing extremism in America; millenialist and apocalyptic groups; conspiracy

Name:	Mark Bassin
Address:	Department of Geography University College London 26 Bedford Way LONDON WC1H 0AP United Kingdom
E-mail:	mbassin@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Interests:	The Nouvelle Droite in Europe; extremist nationalism in Russia; history of nationalism; geopolitics; Konservative Revolution; Nouvelle Droite; extremist nationalism and ecology

Name:	Martin Bastl
Address:	Department of Political Science Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University Gorkeho 7 611 80 BRNO Czech Republic
E-mail:	mmares@fss.muni.cz
Interests:	Left-wing extremism and anarchism in the Czech Republic; information warfare

Name:	Steven Bastow
Address:	School of Social Science Kingston University Penrhyn Road KINGSTON Surrey KT1 2EE United Kingdom
E-mail:	s.bastow@kingston.ac.uk
Interests:	French fascism and right extremism (both pre-WW2 and post-WW2)

Name:	Agnes Batory
Address:	Centre of International Studies Cambridge University Lucy Cavendish College Lady Margaret Road Cambridge CB3 OBU United Kingdom
E-mail:	agnesbatory@hotmail.com
Interests:	East Central Europe, nationalism in party politics, Euroscepticism

Name:	Anna Bebenina
Address:	a/ya 84 EKATERINENBURG 620051 Russia
E-mail:	anyabeb@yahoo.com
Interests:	Extreme right parties in Western Europe

Name:	Torben Bech Dyrberg
Address:	Department of Social Science Roskilde University 4000 ROSKILDE Denmark
E-mail:	dyrberg@ruc.dk
Interests:	Nationalist, racist and populist discourses and parties in Europe; Euro-skepticism; elitism and democracy; identity politics; right/left distinction in politics

Name:	E.M. Beck
Address:	Department of Sociology University of Georgia ATHENS, GA 30602-1611 USA
E-mail:	wbeck@uga.edu
Interests:	American and European racism; ethnic violence; genocide; xenophobia; separatism

Name:	Paul J. Becker
Address:	Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work University of Dayton 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45469-1442 USA
E-mail:	Paul.Becker@notes.udayton.edu
Interests:	The extreme right in North America; hate crimes; responding to extremism; radical environmental movements; the use of the Internet and music by extremists; domestic terrorism in the U.S.

Name:	Timm Beichelt
Address:	Europa-Universität Viadrina Politikwissenschaft Postfach 1786 15207 FRANKFURT/ODER Germany
E-mail:	beichelt@euv-frankfurt-o.de
Interests:	Right-wing radicalism in post-socialist Europe; democracy in Europe; comparative politics of Western and Eastern Europe

Name:	Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Address:	Department of Psychology University of Haifa HAIFA 31905 Israel
E-mail:	benny@psy.haifa.ac.il
Interests:	Psychology of religion and religiosity; religious conversion; religious movements; religiosity and politics

Name:	Chedly Belkhodja
Address:	Département de science politique Université de Moncton MONCTON, N-B Canada E1A 3E9
E-mail:	belkhoc@umoncton.ca
Interests:	Populism in Canada and advanced democracies; anti-immigration values and attitudes

Name:	David S. Bell
Address:	Head of Social Studies and Law University of Leeds LEEDS, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT United Kingdom
E-mail:	d.s.bell@leeds.ac.uk
Interests:	Political extremism in France

Name:	Steven Beller
Address:	4419 Chesapeake Street, NW WASHINGTON, DC 20016 USA
E-mail:	stevenbeller@aol.com
Interests:	History of antisemitism and racism in Europe and America; modern Jewish history, including the Jewish contribution to modern culture and thought and the history of Zionism; the modern history of Austria and Central Europe

Name:	Danny Ben-Moshe
Address:	Institute for Community Engagement and Policy Alternatives Victoria University PO Box 14428 MELBOURNE 8001 Australia
E-mail:	danny.ben-moshe@vu.edu.au
Interests:	Anti-Semitism; Holocaust Denial; far-right in Australia; the new anti-Semitism, including left-wing anti-Semitism

Name:	David H. Bennett
Address:	Department of History Syracuse University 145 Eggers Hall SYRACUSE, NY 13210 USA
E-mail:	dhbennet@maxwell.syr.edu
Interests:	Right wing movements in American history and contemporary America; nativism

Name:	Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Address:	Faculty of Social Sciences Hebrew University Mount Scopus JERUSALEM 91905 Israel
E-mail:	msnahman@mscc.huji.ac.il
Interests:	Deviance amongst (extremist) Ultra Orthodox Jews; democracy vs. theocracy; witch hunting; politics and deviance; betrayal and treason; political assassinations

Name:	Mabel Berezin
Address:	Associate Professor of Sociology 354 Uris Hall, Sociology Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
E-mail:	mmb39@cornell.edu
Interests:	Right and left populism in France, Italy, and Sweden

Name:	Lena Berggren
Address:	Department of Historical, Religious and Philosophical Studies Umea University SE90187 UMEA Sweden
E-mail:	Lena.Berggren@historia.umu.se
Interests:	Fascism, right-wing extremism and political antisemitism particularly in Sweden/Scandinavia

Name:	Werner Bergmann
Address:	Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung Technische Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 D-10587 BERLIN Germany
E-mail:	berg0154@mailbox.tu-berlin.de
Interests:	Antisemitism; racism; xenophobia; right-wing extremism; nationalism, collective ethnic violence, genocide studies

Name:	Chip Berlet
Address:	Political Research Associates 1310 Broadway, Suite 201 Somerville, MA 02144-1731 USA
E-mail:	cberlet@igc.org
Interests:	Right-wing populism in America, apocalyptic and millennial frameworks, conspiracism as a narrative form of scapegoating, demonization and dehumanization, contemporary fascist and neonazi groups, racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism.

Name:	Marit Berntson
Address:	Department of Sociology Roanoke College 221 College Lane SALEM, VA 24153 USA
E-mail:	berntson@roanoke.edu
Interest:	Women in France's Front National and Mouvement National Républicain parties

Name:	David Berry
Address:	Department of European Studies Loughborough University LOUGHBOROUGH LE11 3TU United Kingdom
E-mail:	d.g.berry@lboro.ac.uk
Interests:	The history of the Left and of the labour movement in twentieth and early nineteenth century France, especially anarchism; Daniel Guérin

Name:	Robert L. Berry
Address:	Hoover Department Homeland Security and Immigration Public Safety Center 2020 Valleydale Rd. HOOVER, AL USA
E-mail:	berry1@ci.hoover.al.us
Interests:	Police and terrorism; US domestic security and right-wing extremism

Name:	Milan Besic
Address:	Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM) George Washington Boulevard 51, 3/48 81000 PODGORICA Serbia and Montenegro
E-mail:	beshagenije@yahoo.com
Interests:	Political extremism; public opinion research

Name:	Hans-Georg Betz
Address:	Canadian Centre for German and European Studies York University 230 York Lanes 4700 Keele Street TORONTO, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada
E-mail:	hgb56@hotmail.com
Interests:	Right-wing Populism in Europe and North America; parties and party systems; rational choice theory

Name:	Nubert Biambouli-Boubeka
Address:	Arizona State University
E-mail:	nbiambou@asu.edu
Interests:	Politics of extremism and its culture

Name:	Florian Bieber
Address:	Department of Politics and International Relations Rutherford College University of Kent CANTERBURY, CT2 7NX United Kingdom
E-mail:	f.bieber@kent.ac.uk
Interests:	Causes and regulaton of ethnic conflict; extreme nationalism in former Yugoslavia

Name:	Jaak Billiet
Address:	Department of Sociology KU Leuven Van Evenstraat 2B 3000 LEUVEN Belgium
E-mail:	jaak.billiet@soc.kuleuven.ac.be
Interests:	Extreme right wing voting; ethnocentrism; methodology; Belgian general post electoral surveys (Flemish part)

Name:	Guenter Bischof
Address:	Center Austria Metropolitan College University of New Orleans Lakefront NEW ORLEANS, LA 70148 USA
E-mail:	gjbi@mobiletel.com
Interests:	Extremism/fundamentalism in Austria, Germany, USA

Name:	Tore Bjørgo
Address:	Norwegian Police University College Slemdalsveien 5 P.O.B. 5027 Majorstuen 0369 OSLO Norway
E-mail:	tore.bjorgo@phs.no
Interests:	Racist violence; right-wing extremism; neo-Nazism; terrorism; links between political extremism and (organised) crime

Name:	Tor Bjørklund
Address:	Department of Political Science University of Oslo Postbox 1097 Blindern 0317 OSLO Norway
E-mail:	tor.bjorklund@stv.uio.no
Interests:	Radical right parties in Scandinavia

Name:	Dallas A. Blanchard
Address:	11542 Clear Creek Drive PENSACOLA, FL 32514-9703 USA
E-mail:	dallasblan@aol.com
Interests:	Anti-abortion violence (individual and organizational); extremist militia groups

Name:	Kathleen M. Blee
Address:	Department of Sociology 2G03 WWPH University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, PA 15260 USA
E-mail:	kblee+@pitt.edu
Interests:	Organised racism and anti-Semitism in the US; women in the far right

Name:	Erik Bleich
Address:	Department of Political Science Munroe Hall Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 USA
E-mail:	ebleich@middlebury.edu
Interests:	Racism in Europe and North America; especially racist speech, violence, and racist groups and governments' responses to them; a particular interest in Britain and France (the subject of my forthcoming book) and Germany and the United States

Name:	Roland Bleiker
Address:	Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Politische Soziologie und Sozialpolitik Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10093 BERLIN Germany
E-mail:	roland.bleiker@sowi.hu-berlin.de
Interests:	Social movments; globalisation; international relations theory

Name:	Lorenz Boellinger
Address:	Department of Law University of Bremen P.O.Box 330440 28334 BREMEN Germany
E-mail:	boe@uni-bremen.de
Interests:	Terrorism and mass violence, mainly the socio-psychological background

Name:	Jacques Le Bohec
Address:	Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard Département Humanités - Site Sévenans 90010 BELFORT France
E-mail:	jacques.le-bohec@utbm.fr
Interests:	Front national; political communication

Name:	Victoria Bonnell
Address:	Department of Sociology University of California at Berkeley 260 Stephens Hall #2304 BERKELEY, CA 94720-2304 USA
E-mail:	vbonnell@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Interests:

Name:	Simon Bornschier
Address:	Institut für Politikwissenschaft Universität Zürich Seilergraben 53 8001 ZÜRICH Switzerland
E-mail:	siborn@pwi.unizh.ch
Interests:	Mobilization of right-wing populist parties

Name:	Stefan Borrmann
Address:	Deutsches Jugeninstitut (DJI) Nockherstr. 2 81541 MUNICH Germany
E-mail:	borrmann@dji.de
Interests:	Right-wing adolescents; youth cultures and right-wing extremism; group violence prevention work

Name:	Karin Bottom
Address:	Department of Government University of Manchester MANCHESTER M13 9PL United Kingdom
E-mail:	karin.bottom@stud.man.ac.uk
Interests:	Outsider parties; anti-system characteristics and threats to democracy; political legitimacy; working relationships between traditional and small/new/(former) outsider parties

Name:	Gerhard Botz
Address:	Institut for Contemporary History University of Vienna Spitalgasse 2-4/I 1090 VIENNA Austria
E-mail:	gerhard.botz@univie.ac.at
Interests:	Political violence in Austria in the 20th Century; neo-Nazism

Name:	Stephen Bowers
Address:	Center for Security and Science James Madison University MSC 4017 HARRISONBURG VA 22807 USA
E-mail:	bowerssr@jmu.edu
Interests:	Extremism in the former USSR; Islamic radicalism in the post-Soviet region

Name:	Andras Bozoki
Address:	Department of Political Science Central European University Nador u. 9 1051 BUDAPEST Hungary
E-mail:	bozokia@ceu.hu
Interests:	Democratisation and political ideas; populism; moderate and radical right

Name:	Viviane Brachet-Márquez
Address:	El Colegio de México Centro de Estudios sociológicos, Apdo Postal 20-671, MÉXICO DF, CP 01000 Mexico
E-mail:	brachet@colmex.mx
Interests:	General comparative theorization of undemocratic politics; tensions between antidemocratic (extreme right and extreme left) forces in the formation of Spanish American States 1800-2000

Name:	Morten Brænder
Address:	Department of Political Science University of Aarhus DK-8000 AARHUS C Denmark
E-mail:	mortenb@ps.au.dk
Interests:	Warfare and civil religion

Name:	Ann Braeckman
Address:	Vakgroep Communicatiewetenschappen Universiteit Gent Korte Meer 9 9000 GENT Belgium
E-mail:	ann.braeckman@ugent.be
Interests:

Name:	Brenda E. Brasher
Address:	21 Meadway Court LONDON NW11 6PN United Kingdom
E-mail:	brashebe@yahoo.com
Interests:	Religious extremism in the Middle East, Western Europe, Ukraine; new religious movements; counter-cultural use of communications technologies; terrorism, technology and religion; relationship of cultural theory to religious extremism; gender and religious fundamentalism; law enforcement and religious communities in conflict

Name:	Aurel Braun
Address:	Department of Political Science University of Toronto 100 St. George st. TORONTO, Ontario M5S 3G3 Canada
E-mail:	abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Interests:	Extremism and democratisation in the post-Communist states; nationalism and identity

Name:	Jan Herman Brinks
Address:	Centre for German-Jewish Studies University of Sussex Falmer BRIGHTON BN1 9QN United Kingdom
E-mail:	j.h.brinks@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:	Conservatism; GDR-history; Germany's right-wing; German minorities

Name:	Robert A. Brown
Address:	Department of Political Science Emory University ATLANTA, GA, 30322 USA
E-mail:	rabrown@emory.edu
Interests:	Toleration; citizenship; social policy; welfarestate; economicinequality; race and racial discrimination

Name:	Rogers Brubaker
Address:	Department of Sociology UCLA 264 Haines Hall 375 Portola Plaza LOS ANGELES, CA 90095-1551 USA
E-mail:	brubaker@soc.ucla.edu
Interests:	Ethnicity and nationalism; ethnic violence; forced migration

Name:	William I. Brustein
Address:	Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 303 International Studies Bldg., MC-480 Champaign, IL 61820 USA
E-mail:	Brustein@uiuc.edu
Interests:	Fascism, Nazism, right-wing extremism, and European anti-Semitism before the Holocaust

Name:	Michael Bruter
Address:	Department of Government LSE Houghton Street LONDON WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
E-mail:	m.bruter@lse.ac.uk
Interests:	Electoral behaviour; public opinion; European integration; European Identity; research methods

Name:	Jo Buelens
Address:	Vakgroep Politieke Wetenschappen Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 1050 BRUSSEL Belgium
E-mail:	jo.buelens@vub.ac.be
Interests:	Vlaams Blok, particularly organisation and organisational changes within the party; protest parties, and the evolution from protest to power (focussed on the Greens and Belgian regionalist parties)

Name:	Frank J. Buijs
Address:	IMES University of Amsterdam O.Z. Achterburgwal 237 1012 DL Amsterdam Netherlands
E-mail:	buijs@pscw.uva.nl
Interests:	Radical Islamic radicalism and European democratic order; political extremism

Name:	Anna Bull
Address:	Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY United Kingdom
E-mail:	mlsab@bath.ac.uk
Interests:	Political cultures and subcultures; and the Northern League

Name:	John Burdick
Address:	Department of Anthropology Syracuse University 209 Maxwell Hall SYRACUSE, NY 13224 USA
E-mail:	jsburdic@maxwell.syr.edu
Interests:	Christianities and politics in Brazil and Latin America; liberationist versions of Christianity in Latin America; evangelical Christianities and social politics in the United States

Name:	Verity Burgmann
Address:	Political Science Department University of Melbourne VICTORIA, 3010 Australia
E-mail:	vnb@unimelb.edu.au
Interests:	Anticapitalism/anticorporate globalisation movements; the Australian left in the twentieth century; green politics, especially within trade unions

Name:	Tom R. Burns
Address:	Uppsala Theory Circle Department of Sociology University of Uppsala UPPSALA 75108 Sweden
E-mail:	tom.burns@soc.uu.se
Interests:	Democratic institutios; theories of governance; the evolution of EU policymaking and institutions; racism and xenophobia in Europe

Name:	Lenka Bustikova-Siroky
Address:	Department of Political Science Duke University 326 Perkins Library Box 90204 DURHAM, NC 27708-0204 USA
E-mail:	lbs11@duke.edu
Interests:	Radical Right in Eastern Europe

Name:	Nickolai Butkevich
Address:	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews 1819 H. St., NW, Suite 230 Washington, DC 20006 USA
E-mail:	nbutkevich@ucsj.com
Interests:	Antisemitism, extremist movements, xenophobia and religious persecution in the former Soviet Union

Name:	Michael R. Butkovich
Address:	Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University 301 ICC Building WASHINGTON, DC 20057 USA
E-mail:	butkovim@georgetown.edu
Interests:	Leftist extremism in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Name:	Charles E. Butterworth
Address:	Department of Government & Politics 3140 Tydings Hall University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, MD 20742 USA
E-mail:	cebworth@gvpt.umd.edu
Interests:	Arabic and Islamic political philosophy as well as political thought, as expressed in literature, journalism, sermons, and legal edicts

Name:	Shahid Bux
Address:	PhD Candidate School of International Relations University of St.Andrews St Andrews Scotland KY16 9AL
E-mail:	sb556@st-andrews.ac.uk
Interests:	Ideology in radical and extremist movements, radicalization, recruitment, psychological processes, profiling, effects of terrorism

Name:	Jovan Byford
Address:	Department of Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University Burton Street Nottingham NG1 4BU United Kingdom
E-mail:	jovan.byford@ntu.ac.uk
Interests:	The rhetoric of conspiracy theory; discursive and rhetorical strategies through which conspiratorial accounts are made to appear credible and acceptable; right-wing elements within the Serbian Orthodox Church; the role of the Serbian religious authorities in the propagation of political extremism (especially anti-Semitism) and conspiratorial culture in the past and today

David Art
Department of Political Science
Tufts University
Eaton Hall
Medford, MA 02155
Email: david.art@tufts.edu

Elisabeth Carter
School of Politics, International Relations & Philosophy (SPIRE)
Keele University
Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG
United Kingdom
Email: e.carter@pol.keele.ac.uk

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