About the Author

Farid Hafez is Assistant Teaching Professor of International Relations at William and Mary. From 2021 to 2024, he was the Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College. Since 2017, he has been a nonresident researcher at Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative. He was a senior researcher at the University of Salzburg from 2014 to 2021. In 2017, he was Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Since 2010, Hafez has been the (founding) editor of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook, and since 2015 co-editor of the annual European Islamophobia Report. He has received the Bruno Kreisky Award for the political book of 2009 for his anthology Islamophobia in Austria (co-edited with John Bunzl) and has published more than 150 books and academic articles. His research has appeared in journals such as Politics and Religion, German Politics and Society, Journal for Religion, Society and Politics, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Patterns of Prejudice, and many others. Since 2020, Hafez also has been an editorial board member of the Journal of Austrian-American History (Pennsylvania State University Press). Hafez has taught and studied race, far-right politics in Europe, Muslim minorities, and political thought. His latest books include the anthology The Rise of Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, Race, and Islam (Manchester University Press), with Naved Bakali and Politicizing Islam in Austria. The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century (Rutgers University Press) with Reinhard Heinisch. Email: [email protected].