Winter Johnson

Winter Johnson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from DePaul University in Chicago, IL and her Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, where she was the 2024-25 Fulbright Postgraduate Award grantee. Her MA dissertation focused on the role affective resonance plays in the co-production of reality on involuntary celibate online forums, including the ways in which online environments both exacerbate and mitigate embodied resonance. While at the University of Kent, Winter worked at the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. At West Virginia University, Winter holds a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in the department of Anthropology and Sociology. Her research interests include far-right nationalism, particularly Christian nationalism and fundamentalist Evangelicalism, online community building, propaganda utilization and radicalization pipelines online, the intersection of misogyny and white supremacy, and political violence.