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ProfessorSinisa Malesevic

Full Professor Of Sociology

School of Sociology

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  • Full Professor Of Sociology
    School of Sociology
  • 01 716 8504
  • University College Dublin, School of Sociology, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

empires, nation-states and nationalisms; the sociology of war and violence, theories of ideology; classical and contemporary sociological theory, comparative historical sociology, ethnicity and conflict and the political and historical sociology of the Balkans and Ireland;

Recent Research Grants:

 

2026-2031 - ERC  advance grant partner IDEO-Yemen: Ideology in Context: An Agential Approach to the Study of Houthism, Horizon EU (GRANT 136,086 Euros);

20206-2030 - Research Ireland PhD grant for Sara Corona, (GRANT 136,000 Euros);

- UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2025 (GRANT 3,800 Euros);

2023/24 - - ‘Spatialising Antagonism: A Post-Foundational Analysis Of Space, Violence, And The Political In Northern Ireland’, PI Irish Research Council, 2023-24 (GRANT 52, 441 Euros); 
2022/24 - PI - 'When nationalism fails: A Comparative study of Holocaust museums in ex collaborationist countries', Gerda Henkel Stiftung (GRANT 176,410 Euros) + 25,000 Euros renewal application in 2023;
2020/2022- PI - ‘World problem, national solutions? The impact of national past on behaviour during the pandemic’ Health Research Board, Ireland, PI 2020 (GRANT 185,340 Euros);
2020/2021 - College of Social Sciences and Law Research Funding Scheme 2019/20 (GRANT 2000 Euros) for conference ‘Honour and Shame’;
2021 - UCD OBRSS Research Support Grant (GRANT 3,027 Euros);
2017/19 - Human Rights, Memorialization and Nationalism , Horizon 2020, Marie Curie Actions, Principal Investigator with Dr. Lea David (GRANT 170000 Euros);
2018- UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme Grant (GRANT 1950 Euros)
2017 - UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme Grant (GRANT 1750 Euros)
2016 - UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme Grant (GRANT 1950 Euros)
2015/18 - IRC fellowship grant for a PhD student under my supervision (J. Guiterrez) (GRANT- 50,000 euros);
2014/15 - Sharing Power and Dividing Space: Ethnicity, Conflict and Territory in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina UCD Seed Funding - Horizon Scanning, Principal Investigator (GRANT 3000 Euros);
2014/15 - IRC post-doctoral grant for a research fellow under my supervision (D. Stjepanovic) (GRANT – 50,000 euros);

GRANTS

  • PROJECT GRANT
    Ideology in Context: An Agential Approach to the Study of Houthism (IDEO-YEMEN)
    Horizon Europe1 May 2026 - 30 Apr 2031
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Resisting Homogenisation: Sardinian Ethnic Identity in a World of Nation-States
    Research Ireland (IRC)1 Mar 2026 - 28 Feb 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • OTHER GRANT
    Spatialising Antagonism: A post-foundational analysis of space violence and the political in Northern Ireland
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    When Nationalism Fails. A Comparative Study of Holocaust Museums in Ex Collaborationist Countries’
    Gerda Henkel Foundation1 Sep 2022 - 1 Aug 2024
    Two year Grant - September 2022-2024
  • GRANT
    ‘World problem, national solutions? The impact of national past on behaviour during the pandemic’
    Health Research Board (Ireland)1 Dec 2020 - 1 May 2022
    nationalism and covid 19 responses in England, Germany, Sweden, Ireland and Serbia
  • GRANT
    World problem national solutions? The impact of national past on behaviour during the pandemic.
    Health Research Board (HRB)1 Dec 2020 - 31 May 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    Honour and Shame in Ireland
    University College Dublin (UCD)24 Feb 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    Human Rights Memorialization and Nationalism (HRMN)
    Horizon 20201 Sep 2017 - 31 Aug 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • OTHER GRANT
    OBRSS Research Support Scheme
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Nov 2016 - 31 Oct 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    Insurgent Institutions – Communities and the constitution of social fabric in the Colombian conflict
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Oct 2015 - 30 Sep 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    Sharing Power and Dividing Space: Ethnicity Conflict and Territory in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Apr 2014 - 30 Sep 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    The Creation of the Kazakh National Identity: An Analysis of the 20th Century Kazakh Intelligentsia
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Oct 2013 - 30 Sep 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S,
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States?
    Irish Research Council1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S
  • GRANT
    The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States?
    Research Ireland1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Malesevic S