Farid Hafez is Associate Teaching Professor of International Relations at William and Mary. Since 2017, he has been a non-resident Senior Researcher at Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative. From 2021-2024, he was the Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College. Before, he was a Senior Researcher at the University of Salzburg from 2014 to 2021. He earned his PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria. In 2017, he was a Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Since 2010, Hafez has been the founding editor of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook, and since 2015 co-editor of the annual European Islamophobia Report. He has received the Bruno Kreisky Award for the political book of the year, for his anthology Islamophobia in Austria (co-ed. with John Bunzl, 2009), and published more than 150 books and academic articles including 40 in peer-reviewed journals. Hafez has taught courses on race and racism, far-right politics in Europe and the United States, politics and religion, Muslim minorities, political thought, theories of democracy, and human rights. His latest publications include Governing Islam in Austria and Germany: From Colonial Times to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2026). His main areas of study include politics and religion, far-right parties and movements, race and racism, and decolonial studies.
Email: fh342@georgetown.edu