Will Fitz joined CPOST as a Research Assistant in Summer 2023. He now serves as the Team Lead of CPOST's coordinated research efforts with the West Point Combating Terrorism Center. Will graduated from the University of Vermont in 2018 with a BA in European Studies and will begin the University of Chicago's Master's of Arts Program in the Social Sciences in 2024. He recently lived in former East Germany for three years to research far right extremism and had a unique opportunity to study the use of US-Confederate symbolism among the German far right.