Biography

Fedja Pavlovic  was born in 1992 in Cetinje, and completed his primary and secondary education in Podgorica, Montenegro. He holds a BA (cum laude) and MA in Philosophy (magna cum laude) from KU Leuven, as well as a MSc in Political Theory (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. As part of MA studies, he spent a semester as a visiting student at the University of Edinburgh. 

As a doctoral candidate in in Political Science at LMU Munich, he is currently working on a dissertation provisionally titled “Hegemony, Ressentiment and Revolt: a Nietzschean Critique of the ‘Populist Moment”, in which he employs select aspects of Nietzsche’s genealogical account of morality – crucially, his notion of ressentiment – to theorise the contemporary rise of the populist radical right in Europe and North America.

His research interests include populism, radicalism, the theory of political ideologies, radical democratic theory, post-structuralist discourse theory, political/electoral narrative. He has participated and presented at several domestic and international academic conferences. In addition to his research work, during the academic year 2020/21, he was engaged as a Teaching Associate on two undergraduate-level courses (Introduction to Sociology and Contemporary Political Systems) at the Faculty of State and European Studies (FDES) in Podgorica.