Margarita Markoviti

Margarita Markoviti is political scientist and research fellow at the Institute for European Studies, at the Université Libre of Brussles. She recently completed her participation in the GOODGOD project: ‘How Europe defines the “good god” – The European Union strategies to advocate freedom of religion and belief and to counter radicalization’ at CEVIPOL. Previously, she was research fellow at the European Research Council-funded project, ‘Grassrootsmobilise’, based at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (Eliamep) in Athens.

Margarita received her PhD from the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She holds a double Master’s degree in Affaires Européennes from Sciences Po, Paris and from the LSE and a BA in History from King’s College London. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Politics and European Studies at the Government Department of the London School of Economics, the Institute for European Studies at the ULB in Brussels and at IE University in Madrid and Segovia.

Margarita’s research lies in the intersection of religion, law and politics. She is particularly interested in the governance of religious pluralism and in the social, political and legal dimensions of religious freedoms and religiously-inspired radicalisation in a comparative European perspective. She has published, amongst other topics, on religion and education, religious freedoms and Europeanization, counter-radicalisation policies, religion, welfare and gender, LGBT rights, and grassroots mobilizations ‘in the shadow’ of European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence around religion and religious freedoms.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Political Science, IE University, Spain, 2017 – Present

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for European Studies, Politics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2018 – Present

• Research Fellow at the ‘GOODGOD project: The European Union strategies to advocate freedom of religion and belief and to counter radicalisation’ (FNRS), Belgium, 2018 – 2020

• European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, ‘Grassrootsmobilise’ (Examining Grassroots Mobilisations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence ), Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens, Greece, 2015 – 2018

• Princeton University, Aristotle University and Charles University Prague Summer School Professor: ‘Nationalism, Religion and Violence in Europe and the Mediterranean’, 2016

• Centre for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University, Visiting Scholar, USA, 2014 – 2015

• Graduate Teaching Assistant (Seminar Leader), ‘Politics and Institutions in Europe’, Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, 2010 – 2013