Rebecca Naous

Rebecca Naous is a PhD candidate with the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and the Terrorism and Political Violence research group. She received an MA in Comparative History at Central European University, Vienna in 2022 as well as an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2020. Prior to her graduate studies, she double majored in Psychology and Studio Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2018. Her current research is concerned with identifying the micro and macro-level gendered differences in the contemporary American far-right. The titles of her MA theses are: “American White Supremacist Reactionism & Group Formation: A Comparative Analysis in the Wakes of Emancipation & Reconstruction (1863-1877) & the Black Lives Matter Movement (May 25, 2020-Present-Day)” and “Institutionalized Child Abuse and the State: A Psycho-Legal Critique of Ireland’s Compliance with its Obligations for Redress Under the UNCAT for Victims/Survivors of Torture in Ireland’s Industrial Schools”.