Spencer Sunshine, PhD, is a researcher of Far Right movements.
In 1990, he co-founded an anti-racist youth group in the metro Atlanta, Georgia to combat the influence of the Nazi skinhead movement. Since 2005, he has written extensively about the U.S. Far Right, includes White Supremacists and the Patriot movement and militias. Because of this, he was one of only a tiny handful of people in the U.S. documenting the creation and rise to popularity of Far Right, from the Alt Right to the post-1/6 Trumpists.
Sunshine was present at the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016. In August 2017 he was part of the counter-demonstration against the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was in the crowd during the car attack which killed Heather Heyer and injured about 30 others.
Sunshine has a doctorate in Sociology and his articles have been published in a range of publications, including the SPLC, Daily Beast, New Republic, Colorlines, JTA, and the Journal of Peasant Studies, and has been translated into numerous languages. As an expert he’s been quoted in papers around the world, and he has appeared on dozens of podcasts, videos, and radio shows.
Sunshine’s book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of Jame Mason’s Siege (Routledge) was released in May 2024. He is also co-editor of the festschrift Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar (Routledge, 2021).
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