Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an American sociologist. She is a professor in the Schools of Public Affairs and Education at American University. She is the founding director of the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL). ^[1]

Miller-Idriss has an AB in Sociology and German Area Studies from Cornell University and a MPP in Public Policy, MA in Sociology, and PhD in Sociology, from the University of Michigan. ^[2]

Books

• Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism (Princeton University Press, 2025) ^[3]
• Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2020) ^[4]
• with Mitchell Stevens and Seteney Shami Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2018) ^[5]
• The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton University Press, 2018) ^[6]
• Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany (Duke University Press, 2009) ^{[7] [8]}

Editor

• with Hilary Pilkington Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right: Mechanisms of Transmission and the Role of Educational Interventions (Routledge, 2019) ^[9]
• with Seteney Khalid Shami Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge (NYU Press, 2016) ^[10]

References

1. "Cynthia Miller-Idriss : Awards | Carnegie Corporation of New York".
2. "Professor, School of Public Affairs and School of Education". American University.
3. The 19th, Jasmine Mithani (September 21, 2025). "Want to stop political violence? Start by addressing hostile sexism". Salon.com.
4. Fangen, Katrine (June 1, 2022). "Book review: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right". YOUNG. 30 (3): 299–303. doi:10.1177/11033088211041726 – via SAGE Journals.
5. Medvetz, Thomas (November 24, 2019). "Seeing the World: How U.S. Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era by Mitchell L. Stevens, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, and Seteney Shami". American Journal of Sociology. 125 (3): 903–905. doi:10.1086/704923 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
6. "The extreme gone mainstream: Commercialization and far right youth culture in Germany | European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology | MIT Press".
7. Sprague-Jones, Jessica (September 24, 2010). "Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany (review)". Social Forces. 89 (1): 336–337. doi:10.1353/sof.2010.0050 – via Project MUSE.
8. Shoshan, Nitzan (September 24, 2010). "Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany by Cynthia Miller-Idriss". American Journal of Sociology. 116 (2): 716–718. doi:10.1086/656262 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
9. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/108127/1/dit_com_2019_05_11_book_review_gender_and_the_radical_and_extreme.pdf
10. Harris, Kevan (May 1, 2018). "Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge". Contemporary Sociology. 47 (3): 360–362. doi:10.1177/0094306118767651nn – via SAGE Journals.

External links

• Official website
• Cynthia Miller-Idriss at IMDb