Education

• 2018-2026 — University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Ph.D. in Political Science — Graduation Spring 2026 (expected)

  • Dissertation Title: The Enemy Within: The Emergence of Wartime Collaboration under Foreign Occupation

• 2015-2016 — University of Cambridge, M.Phil. in Politics and International Studies — Graduation October 2016

  • Thesis Title: Prometheus Tamed: The Moral Worlds of Nuclear Weapon Designers

• 2010-2013 — Interdisciplinary Center (Reichman University), B.A. in Government, Strategy and Diplomacy — Graduation August 2013 cum laude

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Malewich, Baruch. (2017). “Futile Superiority: Decision Making and the Development of New-Generation Nuclear Weapons”. Comparative Strategy, 36(2): 99-114.

Work in Progress

Under Review:

• Graefe, Carl, Baruch Malewich and Katelyn Shepardson. (under review). A State in All but Name: Statehood, Sovereignty and the Indigenous Polity in IR Databases. Perspective on Politics.

Working Papers:

• Malewich, Baruch and Carl Graefe. (2025). Synthetic Ideas with Violent Purpose: The Mediation of Violence through Battlefield Technologies.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2025). Doubt Thy Neighbor: Suspicion, Collaboration and Social Belonging in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2024). Theorizing the Enemy Within: The Emergence of Wartime Collaboration Under Occupation.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2023). Constructing the Enemy Within: Collaboration Discourse as Articulation of Life during Conflict.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2020). Vagaries of the Future: Technology, Language and the Erosion of the Nuclear Taboo.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2019). Accidental Knowledge: Phenomenology and the Nuclear Weapons Breakdown as Mode of Revealing.

Non-Academic Publications

• Malewich, Baruch. (August 9, 2020). “Anarchy in Balfour, in the positive sense (in Hebrew)”. Siha Mekomit.

• Malewich, Baruch. (January 2018). “On Nuclear Controllability and Nuclear Disasters”, The European Security and Defense Union, issue 29.

Research Experience

• University of Minnesota, Political Science Department — Doctoral Researcher, 2018-2026

• University of Minnesota, Political Science Department — Assistant Book Review Editor, Political Theory, 2020-2021

External Funding

• Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG). American Political Science Association, Washington DC (2024-2025) ($15,000)

Internal Funding

At the University of Minnesota Twin Cities:

• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). Highly competitive fellowship awarded to select Ph.D. candidates across the university. (2025-2026) ($25,000)

• Claggett Summer Research Fellowship. Department of Political Science (2025) ($6,000)

• Duvall Summer Fellowship. Department of Political Science (2025) ($3,200)

• William and Emma Maziar Graduate Fellowship. Graduate School (2025) ($3000)

• Andrew Dickinson Fellowship. Department of Political Science (2024) ($6000)

• Hella Mears Fellowship. Center for German and European Studies (2024) ($6000)

• Political Science Summer Fellowship. Department of Political Science (2018-2023) ($8000 per summer)

• Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Program. College of Liberal Arts (2021) ($3000)

• Efimenco Graduate Fellowship. Department of Political Science (2018-2019) ($16000)

At the Interdisciplinary Center (Reichman University):

• Presidential Fellowship. Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy. (2012-2013) (~$10000)

• Presidential Fellowship. Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy. (2011-2012) (~$10000)

• Presidential Fellowship. Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy. (2010-2011) (~$10000)

Invited Talks

• Malewich, Baruch. (2025). Doubt Thy Neighbor: Occupation, Counterinsurgency and the Construction of Wartime Collaboration. Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, Israel.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2024). Theorizing the Enemy Within: The Emergence of Wartime Collaboration Under Occupation. Minnesota International Relations Colloquium.

Conference and Workshop Participation

Conference Presentations:

• Malewich, Baruch and Carl Graefe (2025). Critique of Synthetic Reason. International Studies Association Annual Conference.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2024). Doubt Thy Neighbor: Suspicion, Collaboration and Social Belonging in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. International Studies Association Northeast Conference.

• Malewich, Baruch and Carl Graefe. (2024). Synthetic Ideas with Violent Purpose: The Mediation of Violence through Battlefield Technologies. International Studies Association Northeast Conference.

• Graefe, Carl, Baruch Malewich and Katelyn Shepardson. (2023). State Survival, Recognition and Undoing the Erasure of Race from IR Database. International Studies Association Northeast Conference.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2023). Constructing the Enemy Within: Collaboration Discourse as Articulation of Life during Conflict. International Studies Association Annual Conference.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2022). Accidental Knowledge: Phenomenology and the Nuclear Weapons Breakdown as Mode of Revealing. International Studies Association Annual Conference.

• Malewich, Baruch. (2022). Vagaries of the Future: Technology, Language and the Erosion of the Nuclear Taboo. International Studies Association Annual Conference.

Workshop Participation:

• Graduate Student Participant, International Studies Association Northeast Section’s Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies Workshop. Fall 2024.

• Contributing member, Graduate Writing Group, Society for Intelligence History. 2023-2024.

• Panel participant, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization’s 2nd Science Diplomacy Symposium. Summer 2018.

• Panel participant, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization’s Youth Group Conference. Fall 2017.

• Participant, Wilson Center Nuclear History Boot Camp. Summer 2016.

Discussant in Conferences and Workshops:

• Discussant, Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, University of Minnesota. Fall 2018 and Fall 2021.

• Discussant, Political Theory Colloquium, University of Minnesota. Fall 2020.

• Discussant, Graduate Student Conference, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University. Spring 2019.

Awards and Honors

• Argov Fellows Program in Leadership, Interdisciplinary Center, 2012-2013

• Dean’s List, Interdisciplinary Center, 2010-2012

• Ehud Sprinzak Outstanding Project Award, Interdisciplinary Center, 2010-2011

Teaching Experience

As Instructor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Political Science Department, 2021:

• POL 4891, The Politics of Nuclear Weapons, fall 2021. 60 students.

As Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Political Science Department, 2019-2023:

• POL 1201, Political Ideas, spring 2023. 76 students.

• POL 3251W, Power, Virtue and Vice: Ancient and Early Modern Political Theory, fall 2022. 55 students.

• POL 3306, Presidential Leadership and American Democracy, spring 2022; 55 students.

• POL 3462, Politics of Race, Class and Ethnicity, spring 2022; 34 students.

• POL 4492 / 5492, Law and (In)justice in Latin America, spring 2021; 57 students.

• POL 4891, Politics of Nuclear Weapons, fall 2020; 58 students.

• POL 4461W, European Government and Politics spring 2020; 30 students.

• POL 3810, Topics in IR: Critical Humanitarianism, fall 2019; 62 students.

As Teaching Assistant at the Interdisciplinary Center’s Lauder School of Government, 2014-2017:

• International Relations in the Nuclear Age (graduate level), spring 2017. 30 students.

• Topics in Non-Conventional Strategy (graduate level), fall 2016. 30 students.

• International Relations in the Nuclear Age (undergraduate level), spring 2016. 30 students.

• Topics in Non-Conventional Strategy (undergraduate level), fall 2015. 30 students.

• International Relations in the Nuclear Age (undergraduate level), spring 2015. 30 students.

• Topics in Non-Conventional Strategy (undergraduate level), fall 2014. 30 students.

• Topics in Non-Conventional Strategy (undergraduate level), spring 2014. 30 students.

Leadership and Service:

• Organizer, Reading Group in Philosophy of History and Historical Research Methods, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2023-2025

• Co-chair, Graduate Student Life Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2020-2021

• Student Representative, Graduate Work Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2020-2021

• Co-chair, Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, 2019-2020

Language Skills

• Hebrew – native

• English – fluent

• French – intermediate

• German – intermediate

• Arabic – basic

References

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