Damir Skenderovic is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His field of research are the radical right, populism, migration history, counter cultures, and the sixties. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at New York University, the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), the University of California, Irvine and Berkeley, and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been the principal investigator of several research projects, primarily funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, on topics including right-wing populism, the history of election campaigns, colonialism and Catholic missions, the life reform movement, and counter-media. Since 2021, he has been a member of the expert group evaluating research funding into right-wing extremism at the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR ).
- Le traitement du passé fasciste en Suisse : une histoire difficile, in: Gabrielle Duboux, Nadja Eggert, Jean-Philippe Leresche, François Vallotton (eds.), Présences fascistes en Suisse. Autour du Doctorat honoris causa de Benito Mussolini (1937), Lausanne forthcoming.
- Un/doing Race – Rassifizierung in der Schweiz, Seismo : Zurich 2022 (3rd edition 2025), edited with Jovita dos Santos Pinto et al.
- The Radical Right in Switzerland. Continuity and Change, 1945-2000, Berghahn: New York, Oxford 2009.