Darina Malová is full Professor of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava and has been contract teaching at MIREES Bologna University since 2017. Her research interests lie particularly in the democratization, transition, political institutions, nationalism, gender, ethnic and minority issues.
Education: Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, received MA in philosophy (1981) and PhD in political philosophy (1991).
Academic career: She worked as Assistant Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava since 1991, was promoted as Associate Professor in 1997 and since 2007 she became a Full Professor of Political Science. She served as a Vice Dean for International Relations at Faculty of Arts of the same university (2013-2018).
Teaching activities: Continuous teaching activities holding various course units in 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle degree programmes.
Scientific activities: Participation in numerous national and international research programmes.
Institutional activities and academic appointments:
Past or current member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Austrian Journal of Political Science, Acta Politologica, West European Politics, Studia Politica Slovaca, East Central Europe–L’Europe du center-Est. Her works have been published in a number of edited volumes and academic journals, including West European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Problems of Post-Communism, Political Psychology.
Fellowships: Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1993), European University Institute (1998), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (1994), WissenschaftsKolleg zu Berlin (1995), Illinois Wesleyan Univesity in Bloomington-Normal (1999), Karl. W. Deutsch Guest Professorship at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (2005), Colorado College (2004).
