ProfessorSinisa Malesevic

Sinisa Malesevic is a Full Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology. He was appointed UCD Chair of Sociology in September 2011. Previously, he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague) - where he worked with the late Ernest Gellner -, and at the University of Galway. He also held visiting professorships and fellowships at NIAS/NIOD Amsterdam, Uppsala University, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace Studies), the London School of Economics, the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna and the Australian Defence College, Canberra. Prof Malesevic is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected in 2010), Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe, elected in 2014) and an Associated Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (elected in 2012). He is also a Senior Fellow and Associated Researcher at CNAM, Paris. 

Prof Malesevic's main research interests include the study of war and violence, ethnicity, nation-states, and nationalism, empires, ideology, sociological theory and comparative historical sociology. Recent books include: Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities (Cambridge UP, 2025, runner up/honourable mention, 2026 Hedley Bull  book award), Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Cambridge UP, 2022, winner of the 2023 outstanding book award from the American Sociological Association, PWSC section, shortlisted for the 2023 CRS book award), Comparative Sociological Theory (Sage 2021) + Classical Sociological Theory (Sage 2021), both with S. Loyal, Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2019, runner up/honourable mention, 2020 Stein Rokkan book award), The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence (Cambridge UP, 2017, winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association, PWSC section), Nation-States and Nationalisms: Organization, Ideology and Solidarity (Polity, 2013), and The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge UP, 2010, reprinted in 2012), He has also authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has given more than 250 invited talks all over the world. His publications have been translated into Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Albanian, Bosnian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Croatian, Persian/Farsi, Turkish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Serbian and Spanish. In 2023, Prof Malesevic received the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the American Sociological Association.

He also serves on the editorial boards of over 20 international academic journals. He has given interviews and has written op-eds for many international media outlets, including BBC, RTE, Euronews, Reuters, Al Jazeera, El Pais, ARTE, Toronto Star, TRT World, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New Scientist, Deutsche Welle, Al-Watan, Vecer, La Vanguardia, Volkskrant, and Friday Times, among others.

More information is available at http://sinisa2malesevic.wordpress.com/; Recent publications can be downloaded from https://ucd-ie.academia.edu/SinisaMalesevic.