Editorial Boards

Neo Sithole is a non-resident research fellow at ECPS Foreign Policy Research Group. His Ph.D. at the University of Szeged, Hungary, examines the history and trends of populism and political communication in sub-Saharan Africa. Sithole...

Chloe Smith is a researcher at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, undertaking a PhD in religious populism in the cases of India and Indonesia. She is currently a research assistant in two...

Dr. Erkan Toguslu is a researcher at the Institute for Media Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris....

Dr. Semiha Topal is currently a visiting assistant professor of Religious Studies at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Dr. Topal’s research focuses on the question of subjectivity, self-construction, and women’s agency in contemporary Muslim...

Dr. Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science. Their main research includes far-right parties, populism and radicalisation, political discourse, narratives in times of crisis, political marketing and...

Simon P. Watmough is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leipzig in Germany and a non-resident research fellow in the research program on authoritarianism at ECPS. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the European University Institute...

Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.He has conducted research on nation-building; citizenship; ethnic-religious-political identities...