How has domestic extremism changed two years after Jan. 6?
ABC News interviewed CTEC Research Fellow Amy Cooter on the second anniversary of the Capitol riots. Cooter embedded with a militia group during her graduate research work.
Amy Cooter
Senior Research Fellow, Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism
- acooter@middlebury.edu
Dr. Amy Cooter is a Senior Research Fellow at CTEC who focuses on antigovernment extremism. She has studied a range of groups who use a nostalgic understanding of the past to justify their actions. Her primary expertise is on U.S. domestic militias, and groups of armed individuals who see it as their civic duty to uphold the Constitution the way they believe it should be interpreted.
She has published articles in outlets like Scientific American, The Conversation and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and has a book forthcoming with Taylor & Francis about nationalism and nostalgia in militias.
Amy has testified before U.S. Congress about her research, and regularly consults with academics, journalists, and law enforcement around the globe. You may find her quoted in such outlets as NPR, Rolling Stone, FiveThirtyEight, and The Washington Post.
Amy has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan and B.A. in sociology and psychology from Vanderbilt University.
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Oath Keepers convictions shed light on the limits of free speech—and the threat posed by militias
| by Stephen Diehl
Amy Cooter, senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, wrote an opinion piece for The Conversation, noting a possible change in public sentiment regarding limits of free speech.