About the CST

Polina Zavershinskaia

Polina Zavershinskaia is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Political Science, Leipzig University, a fellow of the Far-Right Analysis Network (FRAN) and a research investigator of Mapping the Far-Right Truth Industry (MAFTI) international research group. In her research, she examines how right-wing nationalists manipulate national memory to sacralize violence in Russian and German societies. Together with her co-author Beatriz Buarque, she has recently contributed to the volume Populism and Far-Right: Trends in Europe edited by Valerio Alfonso Bruno. She was also recently published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.