Samuel Abrahám is a Rector/President of Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Executive Board member of ECOLAS and Editor-in-Chief of Journal Kritika & Kontext.
Emigrated in 1980 from Czechoslovakia to Canada. Studied International relations at the University of Toronto (International relations and Economics minor) and at Carleton University in Ottawa where he obtained PhD in Comparative Politics and Political Philosophy in 2001. Between 1990 and 2003, he taught political science and theory at Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 1996, he is the publisher and editor-in-chief of journal Kritika & Kontext published in English and Slovak (www.kritika.sk).
In 2006, he founded Bratislava International School of Liberal Education (BISLA) where he serves as an Associate Professor and rector (www.bisla.sk). He is co-founder (2008) and a member of Executive Board of ECOLAS – European Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences which is a network of over twenty liberal arts colleges, schools and programs in Europe (www.ecolas.eu). As the President of BISLA, he has been part of Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLAA).
He is author of three books: “An Attempt to Analyze Slovak Society” (2002), “A Crisis of European Identity” (2012) and “Slovakia: Pure Theory vs. Political Reality” (2012). Article Central Europe: Myth, Inspiration, or Premonition? (Rodopi, 2012). Recent articles dealing with liberal arts education are: BISLA and ECOLAS: Hubs of the Liberal Arts in Europe (AUC Press, 2017), Liberal Arts to Rescue Bachelor Degree in Europe (Rodopi Press, 2018) and The European Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Manifesto for the Reform of Undergraduate Education in Europe (Springer, 2023). There is a series of articles in Journal New Eastern Europe, published also in www.eurozine.eu: The Myth of Central Europe (2014), No Alternative to liberal democracy? (2917), The Intellectuals in Central Europe: Havel, Orbán, Walter (2019).