Jason L Mast, Ph.D.

Jason L Mast is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow at the University of Trento and Yale University. His research investigates cultural codes in crisis in three series of events: the rise of Trumpism in the US, the prelude to the Brexit vote in the UK, and the successes of the far right in Germany. Currently, he is focusing on the first two case studies, and investigating how binary cultural codes operate as a foundation atop political actors articulate more situationally-specific cultural forms like national myths and populist narratives. Some of his recent writings can be found in the edited volumes, Populism in the Civil Sphere (2021, Polity), and Politics of Meaning /Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (2019, Palgrave Macmillan).