Network members

Meet our members

If you are working in this field and would like to be involved with the network, please email the network coordinator at brendon.oconnor@sydney.edu.au.

• David Blunt
  Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sydney and author of Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
• Julia Bowes
  Lecturer in History at The University of Melbourne and author of Every Man’s Home A Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2026).
• Danny Cooper
  Researcher at the University of Sydney and co-author with Brendon O’Connor of “Ideology and the Foreign Policy of Barack Obama: A Liberal-Realist Approach to International Affairs,” which was published in Presidential Studies Quarterly (2021).He is also the author of Neoconservatism and American Foreign Policy: A Critical Analysis (Routledge, 2011).
• Melinda Cooper
  Professor of Sociology at Australian National University and the author of Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance(Zone Books, 2024). She is also the author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism(Zone Books, 2017).
• Lloyd Cox
  Lecturer at the University of Sydney and co-author with Brendon O’Connor of “Trumpism, Fascism and Neoliberalism,” which was published in Distinktion (2026). He is also the author of Nationalism: Themes, Theories and Controversies(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
• Laura Field
  Non-resident fellow in the Governance Studies Program at Brookings, and author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right(Princeton University Press, 2026).
• Daniel Fleming
  Lecturer in US History at the University of Wollongong and the author of Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Day(University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
• Prudence Flowers
  Senior Lecturer in US History at Flinders University and author of The Reagan Revolution(Routledge, 2025).
• David Goodman
  Professor of US History at the University of Melbourne and author of “We Talk So Much about Democracy, and Do So Little about It: Surveying African American Soldiers in the Second World War,” in Social Survey in Global Perspective: 1900-2020, eds. Charlotte Greenhalgh, Clare Corbould, and Warwick Anderson.
• George Hawley
  Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama and author of The Moderate Majority: Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization(De Gruyter, 2024). He is also the author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right(Columbia University Press, 2019).
• Nicole Hemmer
  Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science and author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s(Basic Books, 2022).
• Alexandra Homolar
  Professor of International Security at University of Warick and author of The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics and US Hard Power After the Cold War(Cambridge University Press, 2023).
• John S. Huntington
  Professor in History at Houston Community College and author of Far Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
• Dolores Janiewski
  Emeritus Associate Professor of History at the Victoria University of Wellington and author of “From Moral Crusaders to New Conservatives: The Evolution of New Zealand’s Religious Right, 1970-2020," in Matthew Cunningham, Marinus LaRooij and Paul Spoonley (eds), Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in New Zealand (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2023).
• Peter Katzenstein
  Professor of International Studies at Cornell University and author of Entanglements in World Politics: The Power of Uncertainty(Cambridge University Press, 2025).
• Alexandre Lefebvre
  Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sydney and author of Liberalism as a Way of Life(Princeton University Press, 2024).
• Becca Lewis
  Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author with Angèle Christin of “the Politics of Engagement in Platform Governance” which was published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2024).
• Joseph Lowndes
  Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism(Yale University Press, 2008).
• James Loxton
  Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney and author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Conservative Party-Building in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2021)..
• Whitney McIntosh
  Assistant Professor in Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic University and author of “F.A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalisation of Money,” which was published in Modern American History (2024). Her current book project is entitled American Libertarianism: A Philosophy, a Movement, a Sensibility, 1960-1995.
• Henry Maher
  Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Sydney and author of “Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present,” which was published in Contemporary Political Theory (2024).
• Nick Marx
  Professor at Colorado State University and co-author with Matt Sienkiewicz of That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them(University of California Press, 2022). 
• Brendon O’Connor
  Professor of American Politics at the University of Sydney and US Studies Centre. Co-author with Lloyd Cox of “Trumpism, Fascism and Neoliberalism,” which was published in Distinktion (2026). He is also the author of Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA(Routledge, 2019).
• Katharina Rietzler
  Associate Professor in American History at University of Sussex and editor of Women’s International Thought: A New History(Cambridge University Press, 2021).
• Kathryn Robison
  Lecturer in American Studies at the US Studies Centre, author of numerous pieces on space policy including “The US is Serious about Its Space Program; We Should Be Too,” which was published by The Australian Institute of Public Affairs. She is currently writing a book on political communication and space.
• Stuart Rollo
  Lecturer at the University of Sydney and he is the author of Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire (2023).
• Quinn Slobodian
  Professor of International History at Boston University and co-author with Ben Tarnoff of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Allen Lane, 2026). He is also the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books, 2025).
• Daniel Smith
  Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Studies Centre. He is currently writing a book on the far-right and the rise of Donald Trump.
• David Smith
  Associate Professor in American Politics at the University of Sydney and US Studies Centre, author of Religious Persecution and Political Order in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Joshua Tait
  Historian of American conservatism and associate editor of The Bulwark. His book on the intellectual history of the conservative movement is under contract with Yale University Press. He also writes the Substack newsletter “To Live is To Maneuver.”
• Ben Tarnoff
  Writer and technologist, and co-author with Quinn Slobodian of “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed” (Allen Lane, 2026).
• Michael Thompson
  Writer and Researcher of American history, author of For God and Globe: Christian Internationalism in the United States between the Great War and the Cold War(Cornell University Press, 2015).
• Srdjan Vucetic
  Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations(Stanford University Press, 2011).
• David Austin Walsh
  Historian and Columnist at Boston Review and the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (Yale University Press, 2024).
• Jessica Whyte
  Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of NSW and the author of The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2019).
• Michael Williams
  Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and co-author with Jean-François Drolet of “The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought,” which was published in Review of International Studies (2021). He is also the co-author with Jean-François Drolet of “Radical conservatism and global order: international theory and the new right,” which was published in the Review of International Studies (2018).
• Nancy Young
  Professor of History at the University of Houston and the author of Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism (University Press of Kansas, 2019).

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