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Stanislav Vysotsky is a scholar of far-right and antifascist movements and the conflicts between them. Dr. Vysotsky’s research on the far right focuses on the relationship between ideology and violence as transmitted through movement culture and online interaction. This research has been published in numerous journal articles and book chapters. His research on the militant antifascist movement and the relationship between threat, space, subculture, and social movement activism was published in the book American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism (Routledge) as well as in scholarly journals. He serves as the North American coordinator of the Worldwide Antifascism Research Network. His current research focuses on accelerationism on the far right as well as antifascist conceptions of self-defense.

• Ph.D. in Sociology. 2010. Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

• 2025  "Antifascism, Self-Defense, and the Right to the City." Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference. Helsinki, Finland. 

• 2025  "The Anti-Fascist Song": A Content Analysis of Anti-Fascist Music. Anti-Fascism: Actors, Practices, Meanings After 1989 Conference. Reggio Emilia, Italy.

• 2024  "Manifesting Hate: Ideological Production and Reproduction in the Manifestos of Hate-Motivated Mass Shooters." International Network for Hate Studies Biennial Conference. Cape Town, South Africa.

• 2024  "Thinking Beyond Extremism: Critical Criminology and the Future Study of Collective Violence." Western Society of Criminology Annual Conference. Long Beach, CA

• 2023  "Beyond Anomie: Modernizing and Applying Subculture Theory in Criminology." American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA

• 2023  "The Place of Antifascism in Hate Studies: Revisions and Reconsiderations." 7^th International Conference on Hate Studies. Spokane, WA.

• Vysotsky, Stanislav. Forthcoming 2026. Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Vysotsky, Stanislav. Forthcoming 2025. "'Fuck Nazi Sympathy': Punk, Anarchism, And Antifascism." In Anarchism and Punk in Action: Iteration, Prefiguration, and Politicisation. Bristol: Active Distribution Publishing.

• Vysotsky, Stanislav and Donna Manion. 2024. "'Let’s All Be Friends': Emotional Labor and Insider Research of Punk Subculture." In Interpreting Subcultures: Sense-making from Insider and Outsider Perspectives edited by J. Patrick Williams. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

• Vysotsky, Stanislav. 2023. "The Accelerationists: White Supremacist Movement Culture and the Strategy of Mass Shootings in the United States." Pp. 105-119 in All American Massacre: The Tragic Role of American Culture and Society in Mass Shootings edited by Eric Madfis and Adam Lankford. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.