Biography

Johannes Due Enstad is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, and has been an affiliate researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) since 2016. With a doctorate in history from the University of Oslo, he has previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).

Enstad’s research interests include contemporary antisemitism, violent extremism, the role of morality in politics, and Russian history. He is the author of Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and his work has appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Antisemitism Studies, and Terrorism & Political Violence.

Enstad has directed the research project Comparing Histories of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe (CHACE) (for details, see https://johannesdue.github.io/chaceweb/). He uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in his research and is particularly interested in understanding why antisemitic hostility varies over time and between countries in the 21st century.