Leadership Team

Anthony F. Lemieux is Founding co-Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center and Professor of Communication at Georgia State University, and was previously an American Council on Education Fellow. He is a faculty member in the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative. In his administrative and leadership roles, Lemieux has prioritized support for collaborative, interdisciplinary research ...

Suraj Lakhani is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sussex. He also holds the roles of Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Research Fellow at VOX-Pol. Suraj is also part of: the Steering Board of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN), the Leadership ...

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Communication & Public Policy at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on malign digital campaigns (hate speech, extremism, disinformation) and utilizes computational methodologies to examine harmful narratives and digital messaging. She has published in journals including Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Cambridge Review of International ...

Maura Conway is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Ireland, Professor in Cyber Threats in CYTREC at Swansea University, UK, and was the founding Coordinator of VOX-Pol. Prof. Conway’s principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and ...

Julian Droogan is an Associate Professor of Terrorism Studies at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University where he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Routledge). Julian’s academic background encompasses the anthropology and history of religions. His research interests include violent extremism online, religious radicalisation, extremist narratives, ...

Jonathan Collins is a PhD candidate at the Department of Security Studies at Charles University, concentrating on the rise of the Far-Right as both a social movement and threat for violent mobilisation. Specifically, he aims to connect the current political, social, and economic grievances arising from the ongoing pandemic with the discursive recruitment and dissemination ...

Cori E. Dauber (@coridauber) is Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also a Research Fellow at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS.) She is co-editor of Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online Environment, (US Army War College Press, 2014) and the author of You ...

John Battersby is the NZ Police Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS), Massey University, Wellington, lecturing in Crime, Intelligence and Terrorism. John was a Research Historian with the Treaty Issues and International Law Team at the Crown Law Office, Wellington, followed by a number of years in law enforcement. He ...

Stephane Baele is Associate Professor in Security and Political Violence at the University of Exeter. His multi-methods research on extremist and violent political actors’ communications and international security has appeared in more than twenty different scientific journals across the social sciences. ...

Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University, UK. He is Co-Director of the University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) and Coordinator of the VOX-Pol Network. Stuart’s research focuses on terrorist’s use of the internet. Most recently, he has examined jihadist narratives, the strategies used to disseminate terrorist propaganda online, and regulatory ...