Sophie Schmalenberger

Dr. Schmalenberger is a researcher working at the intersection of extremism studies, memory politics and democratic resilience. Her work examines how far-right actors mobilize historical narratives, emotions and collective memory on social media. She defended her dissertation at Aarhus University a couple of years ago, and is doing her post-doc research at University of Duisburg-Essen. Alongside academic research, she collaborates with policy-oriented institutions such as the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and engages with questions of hybrid threats, anti-democratic ideologies, antisemitism and far-right extremist mobilization, primarily in digital environments.