Dr. Eviane Leidig is an affiliated researcher at C-REX. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University, Netherlands. Her EU project explores the decision making process of platforms’ content moderation policies on far-right extremist and terrorist content.
Eviane's research specializes on the global far-right, gender, and online radicalization, recruitment, and propaganda, as well as platform governance. She has published in Social Politics, Journal of Language and Politics, Religions, Patterns of Prejudice, Media & Communication, Nations & Nationalism, ICCT Publications, and Routledge, as well as edited two volumes on the radical right (Ibidem verlag). Her latest book, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization, was published in September 2023 by Columbia University Press.
She is a founding co-editor of the Global Studies of the Far Right book series at Manchester University Press.
Prior to joining Tilburg University, Eviane was a Research Fellow in the Current and Emerging Threats programme at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague, where she advised policymakers on the dynamics of far-right movements, online radicalization, and P/CVE.
Previously, she was a postdoc on the Research Council of Norway-funded project, Intersecting Flows of Islamophobia (INTERSECT), in which she contributed with a study of social media influencer culture among far-right women in India and North America.
Eviane received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Oslo, funded by C-REX for the duration of her doctoral studies. Her PhD research situated the pivotal role of Indian diaspora and migrant online communities as a bridge between geographically dispersed far-right movements in India (Modi), the UK (Brexit), and US (Trump). During her PhD, she was a VOX-Pol sponsored visiting researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and a visiting researcher in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
An outward facing researcher, Eviane regularly contributes to international media outlets as well as consults for policy makers and practitioners. She has delivered talks for the U.S. State Department, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission, Council of Europe, UN, NATO, national and regional intelligence agencies, and has advised the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) and tech companies. She is affiliated with the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) and is an expert member of the European Research Community on Radicalisation for the EU’s Radicalisation Awareness Network.
For more, see her personal website: evianeleidig.com. To contact Eviane, please submit a request through the form on her website. Twitter/X: @evianeleidig.