Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

Carolyn Gallaher is a professor at American University. She has written about rightwing paramilitaries in the U.S. and Northern Ireland. Her first book, On the Fault Line: Race, Class and the American Patriot Movement (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), looked at the rise of the Patriot movement in Kentucky after the Oklahoma City bombing. Her second book, After the Peace: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Postaccord Northern Ireland (Cornell, 2007), examined why loyalist paramilitaries took nearly 10 years after the 1998 peace agreement to decommission their weapons and stand down their fighters. | Priya Dixit is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. She has written about terrorism and political violence in Nepal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her first book, The State and ‘Terrorists’ in Nepal and Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2015), analyzed how states categorize events and actors as “terrorist” and the implications of such categorization. Her most recent book, Race, Popular Culture, and Far-right Extremism in the United States (Palgrave, 2022), examined US far-right extremists’ use of popular culture to justify their racism and violence.