research overview
- Teitelbaum’s interests include music and politics, reactionary ideology and aesthetics, Western esotericism, political theology, research ethics and Scandinavian traditional music and folklore.
- Contact Info
Teitelbaum, Benjamin Raphael
Positions
- Associate Professor, College of Music
- Faculty Fellow, Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
- Faculty Director, Govt Relations and Comm Eng
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- neofascism, Nordic folk music, ethnomusicology, right-wing populism,
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- The Rise and Fall of Hardbass Flash Mobs in the European Far Right 2025
- “Anti-Politics and Exit on the Horizon.” 2025
- “‘You Didn’t Mention Your Own Identity as a White Man’. Ideological Boundaries of Whiteness.” 2023
- Nova dereita: Tradicionalismo e projeto de destruição. 2023
- Racing Home Swedish Reception of Black/White Identity Politics in the 2016 US Presidential Election. 80-95. 2022
- Racing Home: Swedish Reception of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 2022
- “Music and the Immorality of Ethnography.” 2022
- “Traditionalism in the American Right.” 2021
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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right
2019
- Rap, Reggae, and White Minoritization 2017
- A Conversation with Hans Eppstein 2016
- Did Breivik Care about Race? The Study of Scandinavian Radical Nationalism. 131-150. 2016
- The Path of Dreams: Breivik, Music, and Neo-Nazism. 119-138. 2014
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journal article
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Sufi Traditionalism, the Radical Right, and Swedish Islam.
Journal of Religion in Europe.
375-401.
2025
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Killing the Fathers of Värmland: Sacrificial Violence in Scandinavian Folklore.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture.
2025
- Sufi Traditionalism, The Radical Right, and Swedish Islam: The Work and Legacy of Tage Lindbom. Journal of Religion in Europe. 2025
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Tracheomalacia in Adults: An Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea.
Cureus.
2023
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Delayed Presentation of Acute Tonsillitis Due to Monkeypox in an Immunocompromised Patient: Unique Cause of a Common Disease.
Cureus.
2023
- Debate: Donald Trump and fascism studies. Fascism. 2021
- The Study of Far right Music 2021
- Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America. Scandinavian Studies. 546-550. 2020
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Making Messiah Swedish: Localities of Music and Identity in Ethnotourist America.
American Music.
327-352.
2020
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Tremors from afar: negotiating the rise of Donald Trump on Sweden's populist right.
Patterns of Prejudice.
534-553.
2019
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Collaborating with the Radical Right: Scholar-Informant Solidarity and the Case for an Immoral Anthropology.
Current Anthropology.
414-435.
2019
- Missing Links: Politics and the Misrecognition of the Sweden Democrats (English translation). 50-66. 2018
- Nordic Whiteness: An Introduction. Scandinavian Studies. 151-158. 2017
- Implicitly White: Right-Wing Nihilism and the Politicizing of Ethnocentrism in Multiracial Sweden. Scandinavian Studies. 159-178. 2017
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Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing US Racisms Past and Present.
Journal of Anthropological Research.
121-122.
2017
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Ignorerade band. Politik och ofullständiga ontologier i forskning om Sverigedemokraterna.
93-110.
2016
- Aprentice & Court Poet: On the relationship between Olof von Dalin and Carl Michael Bellman. Scandinavian Studies. 416-419. 2015
- Saga's Sorrow: Femininities of Despair in the Music of Radical White Nationalism. Ethnomusicology. 405-430. 2014
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Sufi Traditionalism, the Radical Right, and Swedish Islam.
Journal of Religion in Europe.
375-401.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Brown University 2013
- M.A., Brown University 2009
- B.M., Bethany College 2007
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Brazil Country
- Denmark Country
- Europe Continent
- Hungary Country
- Netherlands Country
- South America Continent
- Sweden Country
- United Kingdom Country
- northern Europe Transnational Region