Anthoula Malkopoulou

Anthoula Malkopoulou is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, specialised in democratic thought, conceptual history, the ethics of voting, populism and responses to extremism. She is the author of The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe (2015) and co-editor of Militant Democracy and its Critics (2019). Her forthcoming book Theories of Democratic Self-Defence won the 2022 York Political Theory Manuscript Award.

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Employment

2022- Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Uppsala University

2020-21 Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Lund University

2017-20 Adjunct Lecturer, Hellenic Open University

2019 Seeger Fellow, Princeton University

2013-18 Research Fellow at Engaging Vulnerability Programme, Docent (2018), Adjunct Lecturer, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, and Visiting postdoc, Uppsala University

2012 Erik Allard Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies

Education

2011 PhD, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

2004 MA, University of Copenhagen and European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization

2002 BA, Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki

International mobility (only postdoc):

2024 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

2019 Trinity College Dublin

2019 Princeton University

2016 LUISS Guido Carli University Rome

2016 Humboldt University Berlin

2016-19 University of Helsinki

2015 University of Adelaide

Other

Steering group, ECPR Standing Group on Political Concepts

Associate editor, Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory.

Convener, Political Theory seminar

Representative, Committee for Equal Opportunities

Media queries

Topics: Democracy, Populism, Participation, Parties, and Southern Europe.

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My main research areas are democratic self-defence and militant democracy, the theory of representative institutions such as compulsory voting, sortition and the ancient practice of ostracism, and related issues in democratic theory, political ethics, and rhetoric.

Theories of Democratic Self-Defence: Exclusion, Toleration, Integration, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2023-24)

Dilemmas of Democratic Self-Defence in European Public Broadcasting, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2021-24)

Populism and Democratic Defence in Europe, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (2020-24)

Recently concluded projects:

Contributivism, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2019-23).

Democratic Self-Defense: The Social Model, funded by Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (2019-22)