Professor and Senior Researcher
Centre for Multidisciplenary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University, Sweden
Contact
mattias.gardell@cemfor.uu.se
Webpage
https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N96-202
Bio
Mattias Gardell is Nathan Söderblom Professor in Comparative Religion, and researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala University. He is an expert in the field of religion, politics, racism, and violence, and a leading scholar in areas such as fascism, black and white radical nationalism, white power culture, Islamophobia, political Islam, torture history, esoteric fascism, white nostalgia and the politics of memory, hate crime, and political violence. Gardell has experience in directing large research groups and building cross-disciplinary research environments. He was Director of Research at CEMFOR from 2017 to 2021, and served as Team leader and Steering Board member of the IMPACT of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy, Linnaeus Centre of Excellence at Uppsala University, from 2008 to 2019, involving 95 researchers of various disciplines. Gardell has supervised a considerable number of PhD-students and led 15 externally funded postdoctoral research projects. He has published 11 peer-reviewed research monographs and more than a hundred chapters and articles. Gardell served as an expert witness in the trial against Anders Behring Breivik. He contributes to NORFAS with his skills as an ethnographer with three decades of fieldwork experience in radical nationalist and other hard-to-get-into milieus in the United States, the Nordic countries, continental Europe, and the MENA region.
Research interests
- Racism
- Fascism
- Religion and politics
- Radical nationalism
- Political violence