Sinisa Malesevic

Dr. Sinisa Malesevic is a Full Professor/Chair in the School of Sociology at the University College, Dublin and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. He is also an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy, Academia Europea and the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism (Prague) and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He also held visiting professorships/research fellowships at the Free University of Brussels (Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace Studies), the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), the London School of Economics, Uppsala University and NIOD/NIAS, Amsterdam. He has published extensively on ethnicity and nationalism, theories of ideology, war, violence and sociological theory. He is author of ten books and has edited another nine volumes as well as over 120 journal articles and book chapters. His recent books include: Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Cambridge UP, 2022), 'Contemporary Sociological Theory' (Sage 2020), 'Classical Sociological Theory' (Sage 2020, both with S. Loyal), Grounded Nationalisms (Cambridge UP, 2019), The Rise of Organised Brutality (Cambridge UP 2017), 'Nation-States and Nationalisms: Organization, Ideology and Solidarity' (Polity 2013),'The Sociology of War and Violence' (Cambridge UP 2010), 'Identity as Ideology' (Palgrave 2006), 'The Sociology of Ethnicity' (Sage, 2004) and the co-edited volumes 'Nationalism and War' (Cambridge UP 2013) and 'Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought' (Cambridge UP 2007).