Professor
Sinisa Malesevic
BIO
I was appointed UCD Chair of Sociology in September 2011. Previously I held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague)- where I worked with late Ernest Gellner -, and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. I also held visiting professorships and fellowships at Uppsala University, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace Studies), the London School of Economics and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. I am 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). I am also Senior Fellow and Associated Researcher at CNAM, Paris. My main research interests include the study of war and organised violence, ethnicity and nationalism, ideology, sociological theory and the comparative historical sociology. Recent books include: Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2019), The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2017, Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association), Nation-States and Nationalisms: Organization, Ideology and Solidarity (Polity, 2013), The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2010, reprinted in 2012), Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism, (Palgrave, 2006), The Sociology of Ethnicity (Sage, 2004), Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State (Routledge 2002; reprinted in 2008; paperback edition 2016) and edited volumes Empires and Nation-States: Beyond the Dichotomy (Sage 2017), Ernest Gellner and Historical Sociology (Sage, 2015), Nationalism and War (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2007). I have also authored over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and have given more than 120 invited talks all over the world. My publications have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, Persian, Turkish, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Indonesian, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Spanish.More information available at http://sinisa2malesevic.wordpress.com/; Recent publications can be downloaded from https://ucd-ie.academia.edu/SinisaMalesevic.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS
- Full ProfessorUniversity College, Dublin, Sociology, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2011
- Head of SchoolUniversity College, Dublin, Sociology, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2011 - 31 Aug 2014
- Head of SubjectUniversity College, Dublin, Sociology, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2011
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Senior Fellow and Associate ResearcherConservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Security and Defense, Paris, France20 Oct 2019
- Visiting ScholarUppsala University, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala, Sweden1 May 2019 - 1 Jun 2019
- Adjunct ProfessorNational University of Ireland, Galway, Sociology and Political Science, Galway, Ireland1 Jan 2017 - 1 Jan 2022
- Visiting Professor/Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace StudiesUniversité Libre de Bruxelles, Political Science, Brussels, Belgium1 Jan 2014 - 1 Jan 2015
- Visiting ScholarLondon School of Economics, Government, London, United Kingdom1 Jan 2005 - 1 Jan 2006
- Senior LecturerNational University of Ireland, Galway, Sociology and Political Science, Galway, Ireland1 Jan 1998 - 1 Jan 2011
- Visiting Research FellowInstitute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria1 Jan 1996 - 1 Jan 1996
- Pre-Doctoral Research FellowCentral European University, Centre for the Study of Nationalism, Prague, Czech Republic1 Jan 1995 - 1 Jan 1996
DEGREES
- BAUniversity of Zagreb
- MALancaster University. UK
- PhDUniversity College Cork
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- GermanCan read
- CroatianCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- SerbianCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- BosnianCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- SlovenianCan read