2023 American Sociological Association Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War and Social Conflict Section for ‘Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (CUP, 2022);
2023 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service, American Sociological Association;
2023 Conflict Research Society book of the year award (shortlisted among four top books in conflicts studies);
2020 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research (runner up/honourable mention) for ‘Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis’ (July 2020);
2023/24 – Visiting Professor, Le Centre de Recherche sur l’Expérience de Guerre (CREG), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium;
2021 – NOID and NIAS Fellow, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands;
Appointed Senior Fellow and Associate Researcher, CNAM, Paris, France (October 2019);
Recipient of the American Sociological Association 2018 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War and Social Conflict Section for ‘The Rise of Organised Brutality’ (June 2018);
Visiting Professor (Adjunct), National University of Ireland, Galway (2017-2020);
Elected Member of the Academia Europae (The European Academy) August 2014;
Elected Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (December 2012);
Member of the RIA Social Science Committee (2010- 2012)
Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy (March 2010);
Area Editor for War, Violence, Conflict and Peace Section for International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Science, 2nd edition (2011-2015)
Joint chief editor of Journal of Power (Routledge) (2007-8)
Member of the International Advisory board of Nations and Nationalism (Wiley-Blackwell) (2012- present)
Member of the Editorial Advisory board of Thesis Eleven (Sage) (2016- present)
Member of the Editorial board of Nationalities Papers (CUP) (2018 – present)
Member of the Editorial board of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (Sage) (2014-2018)
Member of the Editorial board of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (2020- present)
Member of the International Editorial Board, Cultural Science (2017- present)
Member of the Editorial board of Austrian journal Contemporary Southeastern Europe (2014- present)
Member of the Editorial board of Russian journal Chelovek (2018-2022)
Member of the Editorial board of the Croatian Sociological Review (Revija za Sociologiju) (2009- present)
Member of the Editorial board Culturelink Journal (1994-2002)
Member of the Editorial board of the Polish bilingual journal Social Space/Przestrzeń Społeczna (2010- 2022)
Member of the Advisory board of the Brazilian bilingual journal World Tensions/ Tensoes Mundiais (2006 – present)
Member of the Editorial board of Societies (2017- present)
Member of the International Advisory Board of Slovakian journal Studia Politica Slovaca (2020- present)
Member of the Editorial board of the Croatian journal Anali HPD-a (2021- present)
Member of the Editorial board of the Swedish journal Journal of Balkan Studies (2023-present)
Member of the Editorial Board of Turkish journal Istanbul Policy Review (2022-present)
Member of International Editorial Committee Journal of Liberty and International Affairs (2021- present)
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Political Power (2021-present);
Member of Editorial Board, Irish Journal of Sociology, (2021- present);
Member of the Editorial Board, the Croatian journal Polemos (2023-present);
Member of the Editorial Board of the Croatian journal Sociologija i Prostor (2023-present);
Member of ASEN Steering Committee (2020 – present);
Member of the Advisory Board, Institute of Criminology, UCD (2014- present);
Member of the Centre for War Studies, UCD (2011- present);
Member of the International Advisory Board, The Centre for the Study of Balkans, Goldsmiths College, University of London (2023-present);
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts, CRIC, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013- 2017);
Co-Director Divided Societies Programme, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia (2014- present)
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh (Elisabeth Hope Murray) April 2011;
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Government, LSE (Mitchell Young) – December 2010 (thesis withdrawn);
PhD External Examiner at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark (Martin Ledstrup) -January 2016
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh (Eirik Fuglestad) – May 2016
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Sanjin Ulezic) – August 2017
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal (Ali Zeren) – September 2017;
PhD External Examiner at Department of Religion and Theology, Wolfson College, Oxford University (Michael Pomeroy) – June 2018;
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Governmnet, London School of Economics (Sara Correia) – December 2018;
PhD External Examiner at the Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal –(Mehri Ghazanjani) – December 2019;
PhD External Examiner at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy (Larrisa Daria Meier) – September 2020;
PhD External Examiner at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh (Taylor McConnell) – October 2020;
PhD External Examiner at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh (Johannes Langer) – February 2022;
External Examiner for MSc Programme in Sociology and Global Change, University of Edinburgh (2015-2019);
External Examiner for MSc Programme in Nationalism Studies, University of Edinburgh (2016- 2019);
External Examiner for BA programmes in sociology, Trinity College, Dublin (2021-2024);
PhD Internal Examiner at the School of Political Science, UCD (Justin Sinnott) and Sociology (Dave McInerney) – November 2014; November 2015;
PhD Internal Examiner for Lorenzo Posocco, UCD School of Sociology and Escole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris – December 2017;
Co-Director, ASEN Summer School ‘Nations and Nationalisms in the 21st century’, University of Zadar, Croatia (2022- present);
Member of the Board of Directors, Centre for Humanitarian Action, UCD (2012-present)
Board Member – Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) NUI, Galway (2007-11)
Member of ESF College of Expert Reviewers (2018-21);
Member of the Evaluation Committee for Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Culture, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (2020-2022);
Research Associate, Irish Centre for Rural Transformation and Sustainability (ICERTS); NUI, Galway (2004-2008)
– Acting as a referee for the following journals: American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology, Theory and Society, Sociological Forum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, Ethnicities, Current Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, European Review of History, Thesis Eleven, Journal of Sociology, War and Society, Social Problems, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nationalities Papers, Geopolitics, Journal of Power, Sociological Research Online, Irish Journal of Sociology, European Journal of American Studies, Blackwell Sociology Compass, Societies without Borders, International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution, Culturelink, Journal of Migration and Ethnic Themes, Comparative Governance and Politics / Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (ZfVP), Croatian Journal of Sociology/Revija za Sociologiju; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; Oxford St. Antony’s International Review; Social Compass; Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Historical Sociology, International Studies Quarterly, Acta Sociologica, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, State of Nationalism, Anthropological Theory, Nature Human Behaviour, Security Dialogue, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Social Currents, Government & Opposition, Nationalities Papers, World Politics, Theory, Culture and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Ethnopolitics, Review of International Studies, Critical Military Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Sociological Focus, Social Forces, Societies, Cultural Sociology, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Anali HPD-a, Politicka Misao, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Cooperation and Conflict, Leisure Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, International Relations, Society, Journal of Tourism History, Journal of Military and Political Sociology, Security Dialogue. International Theory, International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
– Acting as a referee for the following book publishers: Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, Stanford University Press, Polity Press, Sage, Routledge, Palgrave/Macmillan, Wily/Blackwell, Rowman & Littlefield, Manchester University Press, Pearson/Longman, Bloomsbury Press, Berghahn Books, Pluto Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Illinois Press and Edwin Mellen Press, Bristol University Press.
Acting as a policy advisor, peer review referee for the project proposals, analyses and policy papers (division on Western Balkans) for the UK Government’s Department of International Development (2006-9);
Acting as a peer review referee for the grant project proposals for DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Berlin (2020);
Acting as peer review referee for the grant project proposals for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo; (2010);
Acting as peer review referee for grant project proposals for the Israel Science Foundation, Tel Aviv; (2011)
Acting as peer review referee for grant project proposals for Netherlands (NOW) Council for the Social Sciences (2013);
Acting as peer review referee for grant project proposals for the Austrian Science Fund, Vienna (2012);
Acting as peer review referee for grant project proposals for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015);
Acting as a peer review referee for grant project proposals for the Swiss National Science Foundation (2015);
Acting as a peer review referee for grant project proposals for the the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Netherlands (2016);
Acting as a peer review referee for grant project proposals for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Netherlands (2016);
Acting as a peer review referee for grant project proposals for the National Science Centre Poland (2017);
-Acting as a peer review referee for the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)/the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW) fellowships (2021);
– Member of several appointment, promotion and evaluation boards for the University of California, Los Angeles (Department of Sociology), McGill University (Department of Sociology), Rutgers University (Department of Sociology and Anthropology), University of Denver (Josef Korbel School of International Studies), Northwestern University (Department pf Political Science), Virginia Tech (School of Public and International Affairs); Copenhagen University (Department of Sociology), University of Edinburgh (School of Social and Political Science), University of Bristol, (Department of Sociology), St. Lawrence University, New York (Department of Sociology), Bar-Ilan University (Department of Sociology), University of Sarajevo (Department of Sociology), UCD (School of Sociology and School of Applied Social Sciences), University of Galway (School of Political Science and Sociology), University College, Cork (School of Sociology and Philosophy), National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Department of History and Department of Sociology), University of Limerick (Department of Government) and St. Angela’s College, Sligo;
– Member of the College Board for promotions to Associate Professor and Professor (UCD, 2013);
Research Grants Awarded:
– ‘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);
– ‘When Nationalism Fails. A Comparative Study of Holocaust Museums in Ex Collaborationist Countries’ Gerda Henkel Foundation, PI 2022-2024 (GRANT 176, 410 Euros+ 50,000 Euros renewal application in 2023).
– UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2023 (GRANT 3,100 Euros);
– UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2022 (GRANT 3,050 Euros);
– UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2021 (GRANT 2,635 Euros);
– UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2020 (GRANT 2,505 Euros);
– College of Social Sciences and Law Research Funding Scheme 2019/20 (GRANT 2000 Euros) for conference ‘Honour and Shame’;
– UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2019 (GRANT 3,050 Euros);
– UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2018 (GRANT 2,170 Euros);
‘World problem, national solutions? The impact of national past on behaviour during the pandemic’ Health Research Board, Ireland, PI 2020-2022 (GRANT 185,340 Euros);
College of Social Sciences and Law Research Funding Scheme 2019/20 (GRANT 2000 Euros) for conference ‘Honour and Shame’;
UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2019 (GRANT 3,050 Euros);
Marie Curie Actions two year EU grant for post-Doctoral fellowship (L.David) (2017-2019) (GRANT 200,000 euros);
UCD OBRSS Reserach Support Grant 2018 (GRANT 2,250 Euros).
UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme Grant 2017 (GRANT 1750 Euros)
UCD OBRSS Research Support Scheme 2016 (GRANT 1950 Euros)
IRC fellowship grant for a PhD student under my supervision (J. Guiterrez) (2015-2018) – (GRANT- 50,000 euros);
Sharing Power and Dividing Space: Ethnicity, Conflict and Territory in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina UCD Seed Funding – Horizon Scanning (2014/15) – Principal Investigator (GRANT 3000 Euros);
The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States? IRCHSS Research Development Initiative Scheme, (2011/12) – Principal Investigator (GRANT 47,802 Euros);
Negotiating an End to Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, RSF Strategic Initiative Scheme, NUI, Galway (2010/11) – Principal Investigator (GRANT 10,000 Euros);
Wars and Nationalisms Conference (2010/11) – Social Science Research Centre Conference Series Grant, NUI, Galway (GRANT – 3000 Euros);
IRCHSS/IRC fellowship grants for PhD students under my supervision (J. O’Connell, C. Staunton, O. Kesici) (2009/10, 2013) (GRANT 150,000 Euros);
IRCHSS Graduate Research Education Programme Exploratory Grant for the establishment of the The Atlantic Universities Social Sciences Graduate Programme, a team member (2006) (GRANT – 59,000 Euros);
The Political Economy of Change in Western Balkans, UK Department for International Development, Joint Principal Investigator (2006) (GRANT – £ 10,000);
Travel Grant Millennium Research Fund, NUI, Galway for the International Political Science Association XXth World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan (2006) – (GRANT- 1200 Euros);
Hot or Cold Nationalisms: The Perception of the Nation in the USA, UK and Ireland (2004-2005) – Millennium Research Fund, NUI, Galway (GRANT – 2500 Euros);
Ernest Gellner Conference (2005) – Social Science Research Centre Conference Series Grant, NUI, Galway (GRANT – 3000 Euro); Sociological Association of Ireland (GRANT – 500 Euro); Faculty of Arts (GRANT – 600 Euros);
Travel Grant Millennium Research Fund, NUI, Galway for the LSE Nationalism Debate Conference (2003/4) – (GRANT- 400 Euros);
Theorising Collectivities Conference (2000) – Social Science Research Centre Conference Series Grant, NUI, Galway (GRANT – 2000 £);
Ethnicity and Federalism in the Comparative Perspective (1997-2000) – International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka (a section on ethnicity and federalism in former Yugoslavia and its successor states) (GRANT: $ 500);
Ideology after Poststructuralism Conference (1999) – the British Academy and the School of Politics, Queens University, Belfast (GRANT 2000£);
Project head in an international research project – Culture in Central and Eastern Europe: Institutional and Value Changes (1995-1997) – Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam and UNESCO, Paris (GRANT: $ 8000)
Joint principal investigator with Dr. B. Cvjeticanin in an international research project – Changes in the Status and Function of Cultural Centers: A Study of Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition (1994-1995) – Institute for International Relations, Zagreb and Pro Helvetia, Zurich (GRANT: $ 6000)
Ethnic Identity Perceptions, Political Attitudes and Nationalism among the CEU Students (1995) – Department of Sociology, Central European University, Prague (a section on ethnic identity perceptions, conformism and individualism) (GRANT: $ 300);
The Potential Brain Drain of University Students from Croatia (1993) – Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (a section on the perceptions of an ideal society) (GRANT: $ 300);
Impact of the New European Countries on the Structure and Transformation of World Society (1993) – Institute for International Relations, Zagreb and World Society Foundation, Zurich ( a section on the identity problems of new European states) (GRANT $ 1000);
Nationalism, Political Attitudes and Ethnic Identity among Croatian Students (1993) – Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (a section on the perception of ethnic identity, ethnic distance and ‘life aims’) (GRANT: $ 500);
The Social Anatomy of Political and Cultural Determinants of Life-Words in Post-war Croatia (1992) – Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (a section on defeatism and ethnic distance) (GRANT: $ 300).
Siniša Malešević 