Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

PhD, Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Munich, Germany, 2021 – 2025

  • Dissertation title: “The Pseudo-Radical Revolt’”
  • Primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karsten Fischer

MSc, Political Theory (Distinction), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

London, United Kingdom, 2019-2020

MA, Philosophy, KU Leuven, Higher Institute of Philosophy 

Leuven, Belgium, 2017-2018 

BA, Philosophy, KU Leuven, Higher Institute of Philosophy 

Leuven, Belgium, 2014-2017

  • Dissertation title: “The Highest Form of Poetry: a Kantian Account of The Aesthetics of The Sonnet” 
  • Thesis awarded 90% (summa cum laude), graduated cum laude.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS

“5th Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP5)”, University of Helsinki, Finland, “Always the Victim, Never the Victor: the Populist Radical Right and the Politics of Ressentiment” (conference paper), 03/2025.

“Populist rupture and the triumph of ‘peripheral Europeanism’ in Montenegro”, Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy (guest lecture), 12/2024.

“The Dynamics of Secularism, (Anti)Clericalism, Theology, and Science in Southeastern and Central Europe”, IAS, University of Montenegro, Petrovac, Montenegro, “Populist rupture and its aftermath in Montenegro (2020-2023)” (conference paper), 09/2024

“2024 Brave New World Postgraduate Conference” MANCEPT, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, “Pseudo-radicalism: a conceptual sketch” (conference paper), 07/2024.

“2024 ASCA Workshop: Resistance, Refusal, Fugitivity”, University of Amsterdam, “The Pseudo-Radical Zeitgeist” (conference paper), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 06/2024.

“Populism and Democratic Defence in Europe”, Roskilde University, “How radical is the populist radical right?” (conference paper), Roskilde, Denmark, 05/2024.

“Populism and its networks”, the European University Institute,  “Pseudo-Radicalism and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right” (conference paper), Florence, Italy, 05/2024

“Illiberal Democracy and Post-democracy: two contemporary challenges to the Western liberal-democratic order”, Beogradska otvorena škola, (guest lecture), Belgrade, Serbia, 12/2023

“The State, the Shrines, the European Path: a discourse-theoretical view at the contemporary politics of Montenegro”, University of Montenegro, Faculty of Philosophy (guest lecture), Nikšić, Montenegro, 10/2022

“Religion and Social Processes in Southeast Europe”, organised by the Institute for European Studies (IES) and European Research Institute for Strategic Studies (ERISS), “‘The Shrines’ vs. ‘our European path’: Contested Hegemonies in Montenegrin Politics” (conference paper), Belgrade, Serbia, 06/2022

“Populism: New Perspectives”, 5th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, organised by the UK’s Political Studies Association, “A Critique of the Ideational Conception of Populism” (conference paper), Cardiff, UK, 06/2021

“Petrovac Discussions: The European Idea in the Shadow of Populism”, organised by the Hanns Seidel Stiftung and the Univerzitet Donja Gorica (UDG), “Towards an Elite Theory of Populism” (conference paper), Petrovac, Montenegro, 10/2018

    RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

    Team Member, BAP 

    Podgorica, Montenegro, 2022 – 2024

    • Member of the research team of the project “Beyond the Anticlerical Paradigm: Rethinking Secularism in Contemporary Montenegro (BAP)” project, a 3-year research project conducted by the Institute of Advanced Studies and funded by the John Templeton Foundation as part of the “New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe” programme at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at University of Oxford.

    Team Member, BEPMNI 

    Podgorica, Montenegro, 2024 – 2027

    • Member of the research team of the project “Beyond Ethnification: Post-Nationalistic Perspectives of Montenegrin Identity (BEPMNI)”, a 3-year research project conducted by the Institute of Advanced Studies and funded by the Government of Montenegro’s Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation.

    Team Member, PSEUDOCON

    Podgorica, Montenegro, 2024 – 2027

    • Member of the research team of the project “Radical Distrust and Identity Formation: Investigating Popular Pseudoscience and Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Yugoslav Digital Public Sphere (PSEUDOCON)”, a 3-year research project conducted by the Institute of Advanced Studies and funded by the Government of Montenegro’s Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation.

    AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS

    DAAD Doctoral Research Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

    Munich, Germany, 10/2021-10/2025

    • Awarded the DAAD’s four-year doctoral research grant to support doctoral research at the LMU Munich’s Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science.

    Chevening Scholarship, UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office 

    London, United Kingdom, 09/2019-09/2020 

    • Awarded the UK’s Government Chevening Scholarship for postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

    Erasmus+ Scholarship Recipient, European Commission

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 09/2017-12/2017 

    • Awarded the European Commission’s Erasmus+ scholarship to support a semester-long stay (Fall 2017/8) as a visiting student at The University of Edinburgh.

    Co-founder, Organisation of Montenegrin Students Abroad 

    Podgorica, Montenegro, 02/2011-present 

    • Co-founded OMSA, an NGO dedicated to fostering these bonds between the academic diaspora to our institutions and line Ministries.