Nicole Milman-Doerr

Nicole Milman-Doerr is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences. She joined in 2016 after roles at Harvard University and Mount Holyoke College. Her research focuses on visual digital sociology, climate activism, democracy, migration, and far-right movements. She directs the CoMMonS Research Center and participates in the Culture and Civil Society research group.

Education:

• PhD from European University Institute (EUI), Florence
• Marie Curie Fellowship at UC Irvine

Research Interests: Milman-Doerr employs visual and digital methods to study public debates around migration, climate change, and democracy. Her work analyzes far-right digital mobilization, queer/feminist grassroots coalitions, and political translation processes in social movements. Recent projects include analyzing far-right online imagery and climate activism's role in local democratic innovation.

Grants/Projects:

• Principal Investigator for CHANSE-Horizon Europe's 'PolarVis' (2022-2025)
• PI for 'Extreme Identities' (NORFACE funded, 2019-2023)
• Supervised EU-funded postdoc projects including those by Kamran Khan, Malgorzata Kurjanska, and María Florencia Langa

Labs/Teams: Leads CoMMonS Research Center for Political Mobilization Studies and collaborates with global institutions like Goethe Universität and the University of Duisburg.