Diana Wallens

Diana Wallens is a PhD student in Justice, Law, and Criminology program and Graduate Assistant at the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University specializing in the study of right-wing radicalization, the spread of technofascist philosophy in the sociopolitical mainstream, and transnational extremist networks. She is also a Junior Fellow at the Candian Institute for Far-Right Studies (CIFRS). Her publications include “He Has an Advanced Degree, So He Must Know All About Immigration!”: How Intellectualism Functions to Bring Far-Right Ideology to the General Public and Take Them at Their Word for the CIFRS blog and Two Paths, One Destination: Analysing White Nationalist Accounts X Accounts Amid the War in Gaza the Global Network on Extremism on Technology (GNET).