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]