Ali Jones
Coventry University
United Kingdom

Ali Jones is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University. She researches the cultural history of the German radical Left ‘from below’. Her monograph on the history of Hamburg’s Rote Flora is forthcoming with OUP. She is currently co-authoring a book on Antifa ‘East and West’ with Grzegorz Piotrowski.

Grzegorz Piotrowski
University of Gdańsk
Poland

Grzegorz Piotrowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Gdańsk and a senior researcher at European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, Poland. He focuses on research on radical social movements, civil society, and democratisation. He is currently a PI in a project on political activism of Poles in the UK and in a project on feminist movements revitalising democracy in Europe (FIERCE). He is also a vice president of Zatoka Foundation (www.fundacjazatoka.org/en), a Polish NGO focused on supporting and conducting research, and organising academic events.

Nils Schuhmacher
University of Hamburg
Germany

Nils Schuhmacher is currently a researcher and lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Criminological Social Research.  His 2014 monograph, ‘Nichts Nichts Machen? Selbstdarstellungen politischen Handelns in der Autonomen Antifa’ (Don’t Do Nothing? Self-representations of political action in the Autonomous Antifa') remains the only scholarly study of the German Autonomous Antifa.  He is – in various mixing ratios – interested in youth cultures, contentious politics and the relationship between deviant behaviour and social control.