Research

My PhD thesis:

“I joined for my grandchildren”: Women in the AfD. 2023. Cardiff University.


Media appearances:

BBC Thinking Allowed – Gender and Radicalisation, aired 08.10.24 (with Laurie Taylor and Dr Elizabeth Pearson)


Recent and forthcoming publications:

The Fantasy of Numbers: Government Statistics and Islamophobic Constructions of Crime by Female Members of Alternative für Deutschland (with Julius Schneider) – Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming)

Women and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) – Routledge

Women’s Engagement with the Far Right: The Quest for a More Holistic Understanding – Religion Compass 

Interviewing the ‘Unlovable’: On the Challenges of Conducting Feminist Research on Far-Right Women – Manchester University Press


Recent and forthcoming presentations:

Beatrix von Storch, elite cultural capital, and the German anti-choice movement – The Far Right, Materiality and Culture: A Critical-Political Approach workshop, Cardiff University, 15.09.26

Women as the power brokers of the far right – Emotion, Nationalism, Extremism: Contexts and Responses workshop, University of Northampton, 12.06.26

Women in the AfD – Extreme Right Research Network online seminar series, University of Northampton, 24.04.26

Situating women’s support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) – Centre for Social Change seminar series, Swansea University, 08.10.25

Interviewing the ‘unlovable’: On the challenges of conducting feminist research on far-right women – Reactionary Politics Research Network online seminar series, 20.02.25

Locating women’s support for the AfD in eastern Germany – Local Contexts, Extreme Politics online seminar, University of Northampton


All of my published work is on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9856-1717.