Sinisa Malesevic


Siniša Malešević, MRIA, MAE is an Irish scholar who is Full Professor/Chair of Sociology at the University College, Dublin, Ireland. He is also a Senior Fellow and Associate Researcher, at CNAM, Paris, France.

Work

His research interests include the comparative-historical and theoretical study of ethnicity, nationalism, ideology, war, violence and sociological theory. He is author of seven and editor or co-editor of eight books and volumes including influential monographs Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State, The Sociology of Ethnicity, Identity as Ideology The Sociology of War and Violence, Nation-States and Nationalisms, The Rise of Organised Brutality and Grounded Nationalisms .The Rise of Organised Brutality is a recipient of the outstanding book award from the American Sociological Association's Peace, War and Social Conflict Section . Professor Malesevic has also authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has given more than 120 invited talks all over the world . His work has been translated into numerous languages including Chinese, Croatian, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian and Serbian. Previously he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations, the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, CEU - where he worked with late Ernest Gellner -, and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He also held visiting professorships and fellowships at Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, the London School of Economics and Uppsala University. In March 2010 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy , in December 2012 he was elected associated member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in August 2014 he was elected a Member of Academia Europaea . In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Selected publications