Nigel Copsey is Professor of Modern History at Teesside University, UK. His area of specialist expertise is historical and contemporary fascism and anti-fascism. He first joined Teesside University in 1993. Prior to taking up his post at Teesside, his PhD was a comparative study of right-wing extremism in contemporary France and Britain. He has co-edited seven volumes on fascism and anti-fascism, with another two forthcoming. Professor Copsey was Leverhulme International Fellow at the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism (Ontario Tech University, 2022). He is currently completing a co-authored book, Anti-Fascism: A Global History. With Dr Graham Macklin, he also co-edits the book series 'Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right'.
- Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, 2008.
- Anti-Fascism in Britain, 2017.
- with Prof Matthew Worley: Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967, 2018.