Since September 2025, Annelotte works as a post-doctoral researcher at the ZZF in Potsdam. There, she investigates the practices and behaviors at far-right public events to explain far-right mobilization across Western Europe in 1951-1981. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council. Annelotte defended her PhD thesis at the History of International Relations section of Utrecht University in 2024. Her research focused on the internationalisation of right-wing extremism and violence between 1961 and 1980 and looked specifically at the emergence of networks between American and West German right-wing extremists. In June 2022, Annelotte received a Hofvijverkring Fellowship, which she will use to carry out research in various American archives on German-American right-wing extremist networks in the period from 1960 to the late 1990s. A year earlier, in May 2021, Annelotte was awarded the Best Student Paper Prize at the Society for Terrorism Research's 5th Annual Postgraduate Conference for her paper “From Letters to Bombs. Transnational Ties of West German Right-Wing Extremists, 1972-1978“. The paper was subsequently published as an article in STR’s peer reviewed journal Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression in 2021.
September 2025 – September 2027
Post-doctoral researcher, ZZF, Potsdam, Germany
- Project: “Bound by Rituals: Far-Right Public Events and Mobilization across Western Europe, 1951-1980”
January 2025 – April 2028
Post-doctoral fellow, Adapt!, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
May 2024 – September 2025
Post-doctoral researcher, TerInfo, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
September 2023 – December 2024
Researcher for Living Lab Rotterdam, School of Governance Consultancy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
October 2019 – December 2023
Ph.D., Dept. History of International Relations, Utrecht University (the Netherlands).
- Dissertation Title: “The Pursuit of ‘White Security’. Transnational entanglements between West-German and American right-wing extremism, 1961–1980”
- The dissertation comprehensively explored the topic of transnational violent right-wing extremism, which so far has only been the subject of rudimentary historical research. By bringing together primary sources from 19 archives in 6 countries, it reveals the pivotal role of transnational interactions, conferences, and clandestine meetings in the radicalization of the West German right-wing extremist movement between 1961 and 1980. It thereby challenges existing chronologies of radicalisation within the movement as well as explanations of the extreme right’s post-war return.
