Erica Barbarossa
Research Lead, Center on Terrorism, Extremsim, and Counterterrorism
Erica Barbarossa is the Research Lead for the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. Prior to this position, Erica worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for CTEC’s online extremism project, which led to her interest in online extremism and radicalization. Other interests include accelerationism, right-wing terrorism, and Russian area studies. Before her involvement with the Middlebury Institute, Erica served as a William J. Fulbright English Teaching Assistant finalist in the Russian Federation. Erica has master’s degrees in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute and in International Relations – Global Security, Nuclear Politics, and WMD Proliferation from Moscow State Institute of International Studies (MGIMO). She received her bachelor’s in Russian and Slavic Studies from New York University.