Members

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  • Damir Skenderovic, Historian, University of Fribourg

    Damir Skenderovic is professor of contemporary history and head of the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg. His research focuses on populism, fascism, the extreme right and the New Right, as well as migration history and counterculture. His book “The Radical Right in Switzerland” (Berghahn 2009) has received widespread acclaim and is considered as a standard work on the subject. He is currently co-directing two research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation: Countermedia: Periodicals of the New Left and the New Right (2024-2028) and Fascism in Switzerland (1918–1945): New Perspectives on Mobilization, Culture, and Transnationality (2026-2030). He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at New York University, the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), University of California, Irvine and Berkeley, and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a reviewer for numerous scientific institutions, journals, and publishers, and is a member of the expert group on right-wing extremism research constituted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. As an expert, he regularly appears in both the national and international media.

    Latest publications:

    - Le traitement du passé fasciste en Suisse: une histoire difficile, in: Gabrielle Duboux, Nadja Eggert, Jean-Philippe Leresche, François Vallotton (eds), Présences fascistes en Suisse. Autour du Doctorat honoris causa de Benito Mussolini (1937), EPFL Press Lausanne 2026, 323-341. Open access

    - Un/doing Race – Rassifizierung in der Schweiz, 3rd edition, Seismo Zurich 2025 (editor with Jovita dos Santos Pinto et al.). Open access

    - Transnational, kolonial, aktuell. Neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte der Lebensreform, Schwabe Basel 2024 (editor with Stefan Rindlisbacher and Eva Locher). Open access

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  • Stefan Rindlisbacher, Historian, University of Fribourg

    Stefan Rindlisbacher is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg.

    In his postdoctoral project, The Ecological New Right in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, he examines the role of völkisch and far-right actors in nature conservation, homeland preservation and environmental movements, alternative and esoteric milieus, as well as in the founding of Green parties.

    He is also a member of the SNSF-funded research project Counter Media – Periodicals of the New Left and the New Right. His research focuses on how actors associated with the so-called New Right in the German-speaking world sought, between the 1960s and the 1980s, to build counter-publics, produce alternative forms of knowledge, and modernise far-right ideologies.

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  • Aurelia Rohrmann, Historian, University of Fribourg

    Aurelia Rohrmann is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg and at Humboldt University of Berlin.

    Her research project, A New Antifeminism? Transnational Networks, Practices, and Discourses of the Radical Right in Germany and Switzerland (1972–1989), examines how radical-right actors engaged with feminist demands and achievements concerning reproductive and sexual self-determination as well as gender equality. The project investigates the political, mobilising, and unifying functions of antifeminism for the radical right; transformations in its thinking, discourse, and practice; and, finally, authoritarian and democratic dynamics within an interconnected history of the Federal Republic of Germany and German-speaking Switzerland.

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