Aaron Winter

Aaron Winter (BA York, MA Warwick, DPhil Sussex), is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of East London. Prior to UEL, he taught at Abertay University, the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton.

His research is on right-wing extremism and terrorism, hate crime and racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia (with a particular focus on the US, Canada, Britain and France). He is co-editor of Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Routledge, Critical Terrorism Studies, 2010), New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Reflexivity in Criminological Research Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless (Palgrave, 2014), Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism (Routledge, 2018) and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge, 2020). His most recent book is Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream, co-authored with Aurelien Mondon and published by Verso. He has published in the journals Identities, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Political Ideologies, Sociological Research Online, Women and Performance. He has also written for The Independent, openDemocracy, Jacobin, Verso and Discover Society, and been interviewed by the BBC, NBC, LBC, The Times, Telegraph, Vice, Wired, HuffPost, Washington Post and the NewStatesman. He has also appeared on the following podcasts: Surviving Society, Politics Theory Other, The Malcolm Effect, The Sociology Show, This is Not a Pipe Podcast, Hope Not Hate. Aaron is also co-editor of the Manchester University Press book series Racism, Resistance and Social Change and the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.