Aurelien Mondon is a Senior Lecturer in French and comparative politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses predominantly on elite discourse and the mainstreaming of far right politics, particularly through the use of populism and racism. His first monograph A Populist Hegemony?:The mainstreaming of the extreme right in France and Australia was published in 2013.

Aaron Winter is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of East London. His research focuses on the far right in terms of racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and terrorism. He is co-editor of Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (2010) and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice (forthcoming), and a contributor to Extremism in America (2013) and the Handbook of Terrorism and Counterterrorism (forthcoming).