Research & Publications
Current Projects
Accelerationism & new media
An alternative model for understanding the spread of neo-Nazism among Western youth
Buddism & 21st century esoteric neo-Nazism
Monographs
Culture and Politics in Irish History since the Famine
Under Review at Liverpool University Press
Editor and contributor
The Revolution Will Be Stolen: Western Appropriations of Global South in the Long ’68 Era
Proposal in progress
Sole authorship
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Noble Truths”: Buddhist Themes Within the Twenty-first Century Neo-Nazi and Neo-Fascist Underground
in progress
Our Past, Their Present: The Art and Aim of Living “In” a Previous Era
in progress
Building the Anthill: Lady Llanover, Invented Traditions, and the Hidden Politics of Welsh Cultural Nationalism
Welsh History Review, forthcoming
Siege: “Sheer political terror”
Extremism, forthcoming
Siege Culture after Siege: Anatomy of a neo-Nazi terrorist doctrine,’ The International Centre for Counter Terrorism (July)
Sexual Dysfunction in the “Eden of Love”: Psychosocial Responses to Impotence in British First World War Veterans
Guns, Gin, and Goyim: Jewish American Gangsters in the Age of the American Outlaw
Neshama: The Vassar College Journal of Jewish Studies (2015)
Book Chapters
A Digital Revolution: Accelerationist Neo-Nazism and Its Proliferation Online Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the ‘Alt-Right’ (forthcoming)
Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the ‘Alt-Right’ (forthcoming)
The radical right is weaponising COVID-19 online
The Radical Right During Crisis (Ibidem-Verlag), 114-117 (2021)
Far-Right Terrorism Is Now Britain’s Fastest Growing Problem
Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right (Ibidem-Verlag), 237-241 (2020)
This Flag is Your Flag, This Flag is My Flag: The Alt-Right’s Appropriation of the American Flag
Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally (Ibidem-Verlag), 217-224 (2019)
As referenced in ‘The Changing Meaning of the American Flag Under Trump,’ The New Yorker (14 October 2020)
Newspapers and Online Journals
Puppies & Kitties & Nazis, Oh My!: Animals in National Socialist Propaganda, Past and Present
Fair Observer (forthcoming)
Local Matters: A case study of far-right engagement with the environment
The Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right *co-authored with Louis Dean, (forthcoming 2021)
When Anti-Vax and 06 January Rallies Collide: Are Anti-Vax Protests the Canaries in the Coalmines of Coups to Come?
The Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (forthcoming 2021)
The Godfather of Fascist Terrorism
Fair Observer (17 August 2021) *co-authored with Matthew Feldman
Terrorism Outlawed: Why the UK’s Ban of Neo-Nazi Group The Base Is Important
The Race War May No Longer Be Digitised: James Mason’s Designation as a Terrorist Entity in Canada
GNET (July 2021) *co-authored with Matthew Feldman
The Radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeeze
The European Extreme Right and Its Methods for Funding Terror
Constructing a Neo-Nazi Group in the Age of New Media: A Small Case Study
Public Jurist, 23-32 (2020)
Boys to men: the violent teenagers of the radical right
Are We Ready to Drop the Term “Islamist in Reference to Terrorism?,
Republican Masculinity and the “Troubles”
The radical right is weaponising COVID-19 online
Far-Right Terrorism Is Now Britain’s Fastest-Growing Problem
The radical right’s search for new recruits among anti-corporate activists
Cancel Morrissey?: A Contemporary Debate About Music and Free Speech
What Makes a Christchurch-Style Attack Feel So Likely in Britain?
Tracking German Neo-Nazism Through Music
This Flag is Your Flag, This Flag is My Flag: The Alt-Right’s Appropriation of the American Flag
Live Media & Expert Commentary
Faces of Terrorism
BBC Documentary (forthcoming)
Teen terror grooming warnings from MI5
Bethan Johnson on youth, the stock market and rock & roll
An International Neo-Nazi Group Thought To Have Been Dissolved Is Recruiting Again in The US,’
Neo-Nazi groups banned in Canada and Europe set sights on Australia
The history of the American flag
Teenage Neo-Nazi Group Leader Becomes One of Britain’s Youngest Convicted Terrorists
Capitol Riots Reveal Larger Far-Right Movement
The European Extreme Right and Its Methods for Funding Terror
US election: how can we challenge right-wing extremism?
Far Right Teens: A growing problem?
U.S.: White Supremacy Spreading
Most neo-Nazi Music Festivals Are Closely Guarded Secrets—Not This One in Ukraine
Men Sentenced on Terrorism Charges
The Upcoming neo-Nazi Concert in Ukraine That No One Is Talking About
Research Presentations
Buddhist Themes Within Twenty-First Century White Supremacism
25th Annual World Convention, Association for the Study of Nationalities
Masculinity and the Irish Republican Psyche of the Troubles
Fifth Annual Cambridge-Edinburgh Joint Conference
Che in County Armagh, Mao in Monmouthshire: Irish and Welsh Nationalists' Cooptation of Non-Western Radical Thought, 1960-1980
New Postcolonial Concerns: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, University of Cambridge
40 years of Siege: the evolution and exportation of James Mason's "cookbook and guide" to extremism
Vortex - Variations of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism
University of Gothenburg
The Globalization of Nationalism: The IRA as Case Study
Fourth Annual Cambridge Edinburgh Joint Conference
Diagnosing the Hidden Disability: Recovering the Subjective Experiences of Impotent Great War Veterans Through the Archives
The First World War: Past, Present, Future
Edinburgh Napier University
Bombs & Borders: Celtic Fringe Nationalism's Embrace of Extreme Sectarian Violence and Mass Civil Unrest, 1960-1980
The Centre for Modern British Studies
Women's Work in Western Liberation Movements, 1960-1975
Thanks for Typing: Wives, Daughters, Mothers, and Other Women Behind Famous Men Conference, University of Oxford
Che in Spain, Fanon in France: The European Cooptation of Non-Western National Liberationsim, 1960-1980
24th Annual World Convention, Association for the Study of Nationalities
Women and Patriarchy in the Militant Separatist Groups of Western Europe and North America During the Long '68
University of Cambridge
Forms of Extreme Protest in the Post-War West
Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge
Cultures of Nationalist Militancy
Cultural History Workshop, University of Cambridge
Human Rights, Self-Determination, and the Rhetoric of Violent Separatists in Western Society, 1960-1970
The 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Ethnicities and Nationalism
Reassessing National Separatism in Late Franco Era Spain
Spain: Social Movements between Past and Present Conference