John Veugelers

John Veugelers is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Combining sociology, history, and political science, his publications have examined right-wing extremism and the politics of immigration in Europe and North America. His book Empire’s Legacy: Roots of a Far-Right Affinity in Contemporary France (Oxford University Press) received the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. Based on a study of neo-fascist activism in postwar Italy, his current project theorizes the relations between mass parties, social movements, and contentious action. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.

Recent Publication

Empire’s Legacy: Roots of a Far-Right Affinity in Contemporary France (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

“Both roads lead to Rome: Activist commitment and the identity-structure nexus in CasaPound.” Social Movement Studies 21/5 (2022): 590-607 (with Sébastien Parker).

“Militant Democracy and Successors to Authoritarian Ruling Parties in Post-1945 West Germany and Italy.” Democratization 29/4 (2022):736-53 (with Angela Bourne).

“Studying Local Context to Fathom Far Right Success.” Pp. 309-22 in Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by Stephen Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin, and Aaron Winter. London: Routledge, 2021.

“The Non-Party Sector of the Radical Right.” Pp. 285–304 in The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, edited by Jens Rydgren. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Gabriel Menard).