Juraj Marušiak

Juraj Marusiak PhD. is a Slovak political scientist, historian, journalist and translator of a mixed Slovak-Polish descent. He represents a moderate social-democratic stream in Slovak political thinking.

Life

Marušiak graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 1996 he has been employed at the Institute of Political Science of SAS, where he obtained his PhD in 2003. From 2000 until 2009 he served as a Scientific Secretary of this Institute and since 2009 he has been head of the Scientific Board. From 2004 to 2010 he was chairman of the Society for Central and Eastern Europe. In 2013-2021 he was a member of the Presidium of Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Publications

Slovenská literatúra a moc v druhej polovici 50 rokov, Brno, 2001, 181 pp.
His professional articles are mostly about problems of Central and Eastern Europe in 20th and 21st centuries.