Dr Josefin Graef

Josefin Graef is an Associate Researcher at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her work centres on the place of far-right violence and terrorism in the social and political imagination of Europe and the global “West” since the end of the Second World War. She received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2017. She has previously been a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow at the American-German Institute, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC (summer/autumn 2023) and a Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin (2018-1019). Josefin has published on narrative methods, political violence, the populist radical right, and German politics. This paper draws on her PhD work as well as her book Imagining Far-right Terrorism: Violence, Migration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe, which was published as part of Routledge’s Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series in 2022.