Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor of Education and Sociology at American University, Washington, D.C., USA. She also directs the International Training and Education Program and runs the bi-annual Global Education Forum. Her research is focused on far right youth subcultures and on the organization and production of knowledge about the world within U.S. universities. She is the author of The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (2018) and Seeing the World: How Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (with Mitchell Stevens and Seteney Shami, 2018).

Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. She has a long-standing research interest in youth and youth cultural practices, post-socialist societies and qualitative, especially ethnographic, research methods. Her most recent books include Loud and Proud: Passion and Politics in the English Defence League (2016) and Understanding Youth Participation across Europe: From survey to ethnography (2017). She has been coordinator of several large, collaborative research projects, including the FP7 MYPLACE project and the H2020-EU funded project DARE (Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality).