Full Professor
Chair of Sociology University College Dublin
Address: University College Dublin, School of Sociology, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4, Ireland
Email:
sinisa.malesevic@ucd.ie
Siniša Malešević is a Full Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at the University College, Dublin. He is an elected member of Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea and an elected Associated Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also a Senior Fellow and Associate Researcher, at CNAM, Paris, France. Previously he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague), University of Galway, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Visiting Professor/Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace Studies), Uppsala University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam, the Australian Defence College in Canberra and the Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen.
Prof. Malešević’s recent books include Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2022, winner of the American Sociological Association PWSC outstanding book award 2023; shortlisted/finalist for the 2023 CRS book prize), Contemporary Sociological Theory (Sage, 2021) and Classical Sociological Theory (Sage, 2021) both with S. Loyal, Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2019, honorable mention in the 2020 Stein Rokkan book award), The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2017, winner of the American Sociological Association PWSC outstanding book award 2018). In 2023 Prof. Malešević received the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the American Sociological Association. He has also authored over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and 9 edited volumes. His work has been translated into 14 languages and he has given more than 200 invited talks all over the world.
Courses
Year of the study: 2
ECTS credits: MISSING
Type of instruction (number of hours L + E + S + e-learning): 2L+1S
Expected enrolment in the course: 25
Status of the course: Elective
