Alex Newhouse
Senior Research Fellow, Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Alex Newhouse is a Senior Research Fellow at CTEC. He specializes in mixed-methods analysis of online extremism. His areas of focus include militant accelerationism, Christian nationalism, eco-fascism, conspiracy theories, and the exploitation of video games by violent extremists.
Alex helped start CTEC in 2018, when he was a graduate student at MIIS. He initially worked as an independent contractor then as a Research Lead before becoming Deputy Director in 2020. He now works as a Senior Research Fellow while pursuing his PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He previously worked at Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) on the data governance team, focusing on data privacy compliance issues. Before that, he spent time fighting credit card and payments fraud on PlayStation’s fraud management team. He also has experience working as a reporter for GameSpot.com.
Alex has an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute, an MS in Analytics from Georgia Tech, and a BA in Political Science and English from Middlebury College.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
