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Maria Falina

Maria Falina is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe. She specializes in Eastern Europe, intellectual history, nationalism, and history of religion and politics. She holds a PhD in Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe from the Central European University, Budapest (2011). Before coming to DCU, she has held guest lectureships and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Moscow State University, Central European University and UCD.

Dr Falina co-authored the first synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe published by OUP in 2016. She is currently working on a comparative history of religious communities and conflict in Yugoslavia in the first half of the 20th century.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2023	Maria Falina (2023) Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity. UK: Bloomsbury. [Link]
	2018	Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopeček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Maria Falina, Mónika Baár, and Maciej Janowski (2018) A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Link]
	2018	Balázs Trencsenyi, Michal Kopeček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Maria Falina, and Mónika Baár (2018) A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Link]
	2016	Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Monika Baar, Maria Falina, and Michal Kopecek (2016) A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2021	Maria Falina (2021) 'Religious Diversity and Equality in Interwar Yugoslavia'. Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses, :1-21. [DOI]
	2019	Maria Falina (2019) 'Narrating democracy in interwar Yugoslavia: From state creation to its collapse'. Journal of Modern Euroean History, 17 (2):196-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/1611894419835750
	2012	Maria Falina,Balázs Trencsényi (2012) 'Introduction. Coping with Plurality: Nationalist and Multinational Frames of Mind in East Central European Political Thought, 1880-1940'. East Central Europe, .
	2007	Maria Falina (2007) 'Svetosavlje: A case-study in the Nationalization of Religion'. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte, 101 :505-527.
	2007	Falina, Maria (2007) 'Between 'Clerical Fascism'and Political Orthodoxy: Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Interwar Serbia'. TOTALITARIAN MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL RELIGIONS, :247-258.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2018	Maria Falina (2018) 'Can a good socialist embrace the nation? Balkans at the turn of the twentieth century' In: Nazionalismi e conflitti sociali nel secolo XX. Italy : Aracne Editrice. [Link] [DOI]
	2018	Maria Falina, John Paul Newman (2018) 'Conclusion: Wartime Experiences and Ensuing Transformations' In: World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflict and Military Experience. London UK : Bloomsbury.
	2015	Maria Falina (2015) 'Nikolaj Velimirović: Serbian Nation as Servant of God' In: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe, 1770-1945: Texts and Commentaries. Vol. IV Anti-Modernism: Radical Revisions of Collective Identity. Budapest : CEU Press.
	2008	Maria Falina (2008) 'Between ‘Clerical Fascism’ and Political Orthodoxy: Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Interwar Serbia' In: Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe. London & New York : Routledge.
	2015	Maria Falina (2015) 'Nikola Pašić: Sloga Srbo-Hrvata' In: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe, 1770-1945: Texts and Commentaries. Vol. IV Anti-Modernism: Radical Revisions of Collective Identity. Budapest : CEU Press.
	2013	Maria Falina (2013) 'Religion Visible and Invisible: The Case of Post-Yugoslav Anti-War Films' In: Liliya Berezhnaya and Christian Schmitt (eds.), IconicTurns: Religion and Nation in East European Films after 1989. Leiden : Brill.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2018	Judith Devlin, Maria Falina, John Paul Newman (Ed.). (2018) World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflict and Memory. UK: IB Tauris, [Link]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2013	Maria Falina (2013) 'Serbian Church and the National Idea' 17 (3-4) .

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2022	Maria Falina (2022) ASEEES Roundtable: Eastern Europe’s Russian Complex?: Projections on an Unruly Neighbour Chicago, US, .
	2022	Maria Falina (2022) Ukraine: Empire, War and Migration Symposium at University of Galway Accountability, responsibility and abuse of history in contemporary Russia Galway, 07/10/2022-08/10/2022.
	2022	Maria Falina (2022) Rethinking Intellectual History in East Central Europe “The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Values of Liberal Democracy” Bratislava, Slovakia, 02/09/2022-04/09/2022.
	2020	Maria Falina (2020) Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, ASEEES Managing Religious Diversity in Interwar Yugoslavia: Democracy, Equality and National Unity Washington DC, Virtual convention, .
	2020	Maria Falina (2020) Online book panel on Lea David's book The past can't heal us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights A critical discussion on the problematic correlation between human rights and memory Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, NUIM, .
	2019	Maria Falina (2019) ISSR International Society for the Sociology of Religion The Politics of Religion and Spirituality Paper: Secular Liberalism and Religious Diversity in Interwar Yugoslavia Barcelona, Spain, .
	2019	Maria Falina (2019) STATE AND NON-STATE ACTORS IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Annual international conference of the IARCEES Irish Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies DCU Dublin Ireland, 09/05/2019-11/05/2019.
	2017	Maria Falina (2017) ASN 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities Christians under secular command: Interwar Yugoslav approaches to religious diversity Columbia University, NYC, .
	2017	Maria Falina (2017) Narratives of Democracy – European Comparisons The Foundation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Conversation about the New Political Order after World War I University of Southern Denmark, Department of History, .
	2016	Maria Falina (2016) Narratives of Democracy State-building in East Central Europe after the First World War Hamburg Institute for Social Research, .
	2016	Maria Falina (2016) The 20th Century Slovak Political Thought in European Context Politics and Religion in the Interwar East Central Europe Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University, Bratislava, .
	2016	Maria Falina (2016) BASEES Annual Conference Religious Diversity as a Challenge for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge UK, .
	2014	Maria Falina (2014) ASN World Convention Nationalism, resistance and collaboration of/in the Serbian Orthodox Church during WWII Columbia University, NY, .

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2016	Maria Falina (2016) review of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903–1945 By John Paul Newman. BREV [Link]

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies, IARCEES	Committee member	-
	Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)	member	-

Languages

Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
Russian	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
Serbian	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
Dutch	Fluent	Functional	Functional
French	Functional	Functional	Functional

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary European history
Eastern and Central European history
intellectual history
history of political thought
history of democracy
religion & modernity
nationalism studies
history of ethnic and religious minorities
history of historiography

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Nationalism in Modern Europe Theory & Practic	HY333
2020	Intro. to Modern European Political Thought	HY319
2022	Modern Europe, 1848-1945	HY325
2022	Russia's Twentieth Century	HY228
2022	Inter-war Europe	HY323