Salma Aqida
Goethe University Frankfurt
Salma Aqida is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is a scholar in the field of digital politics, focusing on how digital innovation enables new forms of conservative populist mobilization and how authoritarianism evolves through participatory propaganda and the governance of digital crowds. Her dissertation research takes a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach to examining how the far right in Southeast Asia engages in protest mobilization. She is currently a visiting fellow at Cornell University, supported by the AIFIS-Henry Luce Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Her research has been published in a wide range of journals and popular outlets, including Indonesia (Cornell University Press), Muslim Politics Review, Fulcrum, and The Conversation. She has also received the Best Paper Award from the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
