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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
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Hi new followers— I'm a historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis. I also wrote a book about Turkish-German migration, which you can download free (tinyurl.com/kahnbk) or buy from Cambridge w/ discount FTHL2024. I also research queer fascism & gay neo-Nazis.
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This is absolutely catastrophic for research in the humanities and social sciences. Not only are these centers crucial sources of the limited research funding we have as grad students, but they have been interdisciplinary intellectual homes for so many of us at UNC. dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee...
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Today, the German ban on the #Hammerskins, which was enacted in 2023, is being negotiated in court in Germany.
@exifrecherche.bsky.social was at the #Hammerfest in #Milan in November 2025 and shows that German Hammerskins are completely unimpressed by the ban. Incredibly impressive research!
Trotz Verbot: Deutsche Hammerskins waren tonangebend auf Geheim-Treffen & Konzert am 15. November 2025 in Italien. Vor rund 500 Neonazis spielte dort die RechtsRock-Band «Spreegeschwader», die zu Hitlergrüßen und „Sieg Heil“-Rufen animierte.

Artikel: exif-recherche.org?p=13326
December 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Today is the official publication day of our Shattered Liberation co-edited volume. It is open access and already available for free download in your libraries. This book wouldn't be possible without the expertise and perseverance of our brilliant contributors. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712195/
Shattered Liberation
Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946 challenges the notion of joyous liberation of Holocaust survivors by the R...
www.press.purdue.edu
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
networks.h-net.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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After NYS Young Republicans club was disbanded for praising Hitler, the NYC Young Republican club chapter is rolling out the red carpet for leaders of Germany’s Nazi-cosplaying AfD party.

I condemn it in the strongest of terms, as should my New York GOP colleagues. The AfD is not welcome in NY-10.
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chair, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This week we released ISD’s Digital Policy Lab (DPL) brief, Fostering Healthy Masculinities: Building Resilience Against Online Misogyny. It draws on expert workshops held in September, exploring how online content shapes misogynistic beliefs & identifies ways to strengthen men’s & boys’ resilience.
Fostering Healthy Masculinities: Building Resilience Against Online Misogyny
This new brief examines what fuels online misogyny and evaluates current interventions, drawing on insights from a 2025 Digital Policy Lab working group.
www.isdglobal.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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An extraordinary dataset housed at Sciences Po, on what purports to be the largest far right network in history, the RSS. Which includes a participatory framework for citizens to add to the data repository.

rssproject.caravanmagazine.in
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My new open access article is out now! It continues my research into the Polish People's Republics' engagements with Francophone West Africa during the Cold War. Enjoy! resgestae.uken.krakow.pl/issue/view/802
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here’s your daily reminder to BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT FILES.
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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New York Times, always asking the tough questions no one else is brave enough to ask
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Interested in online far-right extremism and AI?

Check out my article in today’s @theconversation.com 👇

“Decades before AI, Telegram, and Nick Fuentes’ livestreams, far-right extremists embraced the early days of home computing and the internet.”

theconversation.com/far-right-ex...
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
Neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists were early adopters of bulletin board systems, pioneering online recruiting and radicalization techniques long before the social media revolution.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Suspected members of neo-Nazi terror group arrested in Spain. Three people are accused of belonging to the Base, an ‘accelerationist’ white power organisation founded in the US
Suspected members of neo-Nazi terror group arrested in Spain
Three people are accused of belonging to the Base, an ‘accelerationist’ white power organisation founded in the US
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Fascist ideology never overtakes more than 30% of a population, but no matter how pervasive it gets it cannot work without the willing participation of the centrists and liberals who put its cruel policies into malicious everyday action.
NEW: Transgender girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding from today, the organisation has said
Trans girls to be stopped from joining Girlguiding after Supreme Court ruling
www.thenational.scot
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Die neue AfD-Jugendorg "Generation Deutschland" ist eng mit völkisch-nalistischen Netzwerken verbunden und dient der systematischen Radikalisierung und langfristigen Durchsetzung einer völkisch-neofaschistischen Agenda innerhalb der AfD.

Bilderstrecke: www.recherche-nord.com/gallery/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Am ZZF sind derzeit drei Fellowships ausgeschrieben:

📍 Leibniz Summer Fellowships in the field of »German and/or European (including Eastern European) History in the Twentieth Century«
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 30.11.2025

Alle Infos zur Stelle: buff.ly/Y4C9x6Q
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Ende Mai erscheint mein neues Buch. Ende Mai starten auch die dazugehörigen Veranstaltungen
Wer das Buch rezensieren möchte, Mail an: presse@unrast-verlag.de
Wer eine Veranstaltung organisieren möchte,kann mich direkt anschreiben: Ismail.Kuepeli@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

unrast-verlag.de/produkt/grau...
April 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.

Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Important new article on Germany’s far-right party, AfD, and anti-gender and anti-trans ideology 👇
📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...

It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD

Key findings:

Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM