We are pleased to announce our new editorial and management teams
President
Giedrius Subacius is the Chairman and President of Lituanus. He holds the Endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, his primary scholarly interests are in historical sociolinguistics, development of standard languages, history of linguistic thought, and history of Lithuanian immigration. Subacius is a founder and an editor of the scholarly journal Archivum Lithuanicum.
Editor in Chief
Born and raised in Vilnius, Dovilė Budrytė currently lives in Atlanta. She is Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College. She has also served as Invited Researcher at Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), 2024-2026. Her research interests include memory politics, trauma, Holocaust justice and gender studies. Her publications include articles on various topics related to minority rights and memory politics, one single authored and five co-edited books, including Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates (co-editor with Erica Resende), and Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (co-editor with Erica Resende and Doug Becker). In 2015, she was the recipient of the University System of Georgia Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2022-24, she served as the President of AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies)
Associate Editor
Dalia Cidzikaitė, Ph.D, is a chief researcher at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, and she also works as a freelance editor and translator. Her publications include articles on various topics related to cultural life of Lithuanian diaspora. Dalia authored or co-authored several books, including Giedrė (2023), Elementorius. Legendinis dramos būrelis ant Tauro kalno (2015), Manėm, kad greit grįšim. 18 pokalbių apie pasitraukimą į Vakarus 1940–1944 (co-editor with Dalia Stakė Anysas and Laima Petrauskaitė VanderStoep, 2014; in 2017, the book was translated into English under the title We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940–1944), Kitas lietuvių prozoje (2007). In 2007–2013, she was the editor in chief of the Lithuanian American daily Draugas.
Assistant Editor
Charles Perrin is a Part-Time Instructor at Georgia Gwinnett College in Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Georgia State University in 2013 and previously worked for the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on several themes in the history of modern Lithuania, including the national movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, anti-Semitism, and deportations during World War I. During the 2017–18 academic year he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania and Project Manager for the creation of the traveling exhibit Over the Ocean: A Century of Friendship between Lithuania and the United States. Dr. Perrin has been awarded several grants, including a Research Grant for Emerging Scholars from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. He is currently working on a manuscript titled “Forgotten Prisoners of the Tsar: East Prussian Deportees in Russia during World War I.”
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