BDAR

Faculty

Who teaches what at the Institute?

Overview of the course offerings sorted by the lecturer in alphabetical order

Mgr Vidmantas AIRINI, position: Junior Lecturer; teaches since 2022

Subjects offered: Baltic Sea Region Military History, 16th to 19th C. (master, elective)

Dr Sigita BAGUŽAITĖ-TALAČKIENĖ
E-Mail: sigita.baguzaite@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Museology (bachelor, required);
Material Culture in the Eastern Baltics, First Millennium AD (bachelor, elective)

Doc Dr Arūnas BAUBLYS

Subjects offered: Basics of Museology (bachelor, elective), Numismatics (bachelor, elective)

Doc Dr Albertas BITINAS

Subjects offered: General Geology (bachelor, elective)

Doc Dr Audronė BLIUJIENĖ, position: Professor; teaches since 2006
E-Mail: audrone.bliujiene@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Baltic Sea Region during the Roman and Migration Period (bachelor, required), Viking Age Archaeology in Lithuania (bachelor, required);
Prehistoric Art (bachelor, elective)

Prof Dr Roma BONČKUTĖ
E-Mail: roma.bonckute@ku.lt

Subjects offered: History of Antiquity (bachelor, required), Latin (bachelor, required)

Mgr Gabrielė BURBULYTĖ-TSISKARISHVILI
E-Mail: gabriele.burbulyte-tsiskarishvili@ku.lt

Subjects offered: History of Political Thought

Prof Dr Linas DAUGNORA, position: Research professor; teaches since 2011
E-Mail; daugnora@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Anthropology and the Human History (bachelor, elective)

Dr Dainius ELERTAS
E-Mail: elertas@gmail.com

Subjects offered: History of Europe, mid-15th C. to the 18th C. (bachelor, required)

Doc Dr Aldis GEDUTIS
E-Mail: aldis.gedutis@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Logic (bachelor, required in one study programme and elective in another);
Philosophy of Science (master, elective)

Doc Dr Alma IMBRASIENĖ

Subjects offered: German 1 (bachelor, elective), German 2 (bachelor, elective)

Dr Marius IRŠĖNAS

Subjects offered: Visualization of Cultural Heritage (master, elective)

Dr Gintautas JAKŠTYS, position: Lecturer; teaches since 2022
E-Mail: gintautasjakstys@gmail.com

Subjects offered: History of Everyday Life (bachelor, elective), The History of Military Thought and Warfare (master, elective)

Doc Dr Vytautas JOKUBAUSKAS, position: Senior lecturer; teaches since 2011
E-Mail: vytautas.jokubauskas@ku.lt

Subjects offered: History of Warfare (bachelor, required);
Lithuanian Military History in the 13th to 20th C. (bachelor, elective), Lithuanian Defence in the Context of Baltic States, the 1920s and 1930s (master, elective)

Dr Darius JUODIS, position: Lecturer; teaches since 2021

Subjects offered: Resistance Movements in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century (master, elective)

Mgr Milda KONTRIMĖ

Subjects offered: History of Europe’s Pandemics (bachelor, elective)

Dr Liutautas KRANIAUSKAS
E-Mail: liutauras.kraniauskas@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Sociology (bachelor, required in one study programme and an elective in another)

Mgr Rokas KRANIAUSKAS

Subjects offered: Use of Digital Methods (bachelor, elective)

Dr Česlovas LAURINAVIČIUS

Subjects offered: Lithuanian-Russian Relations in 1918–1940 (master, elective)

Mgr Ieva MASIULIENĖ, position: Research associate; teaches since 2015
E-Mail: ieva.masiuliene@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Digital Methods in Archaeology (bachelor, required);
Archaeological Research Strategies (bachelor, elective)

Dr Rimantas MIKNYS, position: Professor; teaches since 1998
E-Mail: rimantas.miknys@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Nationalism and Modern Society in East-Central Europe and the Baltic Region, 19th C.–early 20th C. (master, required),
History of Poland (bachelor, elective)

Dr Raimonda NABAŽAITĖ, position: Research fellow.
E-Mail: r.nabazaite@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Archaeology of the Early Modern Period (bachelor, required);
Church Archaeology (bachelor, elective), Industrial Archaeology (bachelor, elective)

Dr Egidijus PAPEČKYS

Subjects offered: European Security and Terrorism from the 20th to the 21st Century (bachelor, elective)

Dr Klaidas PERMINAS, position: Lecturer; teaches since 2006
E-Mail: klaidas.perminas@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Introduction to Archaeological Studies (bachelor, required), Archaeological Fieldwork Practice (bachelor, required);
Archaeological Post-Excavation Practice (bachelor, elective), History of Navigation (bachelor, elective), History of Navigation in the Baltic Sea Region (bachelor, elective), Development of Navigation in Northern Europe (bachelor, elective)

Dr Gediminas PETRAUSKAS, position: Senior research fellow
E-mail: gediminas.petrauskas@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Conflict Archaeology of Modern Period (bachelor, required)

Doc Dr Silva POCYTĖ, position: Senior lecturer; teaches since 1995
E-mail: silva.pocyte@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Borderlands between National Cultures in the Baltic Sea Region (master, required);
Russian History (bachelor, elective), Lithuanian-German Relations, 19th to 20th C. (master, elective)

Mgr Akvilė POŠKIENĖ, position: Research associate; teaches since 2022
E-mail: akvile.poskiene@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Basic Principles of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (bachelor, elective)

Dr Elena PRANCKĖNAITĖ, position: Research fellow
E-mail: elena.pranckenaite@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Academic and Professional Ethics (bachelor, required), Settlement Archaeology (bachelor, required);
Methods of Underwater Research (bachelor, elective)

Dr Tomas RIMKUS, position: Lecturer; teaches since 2019
E-Mail: tomas.rimkus@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Stone and Bronze Ages (bachelor, required);
Technological Changes in Prehistory (bachelor, elective)

Dr Vasilijus SAFRONOVAS, position: Professor; teaches since 2008
E-Mail: vasilijus.safronovas@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Baltic Region: Concepts of Mental Geography and Spatial Imagination (master, required), Nationalism in German History (master, required, in collaboration with Hektoras Vitkus);
Klaipėda City and Region History (bachelor, elective), The Great War from the Eastern European Perspective (master, elective)

Dr Jolanta SKURDAUSKIENĖ, position: Lecturer; teaches since 2021
E-Mail: jolantaskurd@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Society and Economy in the Baltic Region (15th to 19th C.) (master, required)

Dr Justas STONČIUS, position: Research fellow; teaches since 2016
E-Mail: justston@gmail.com

Subjects offered: History of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (bachelor, required);
History of Poland (bachelor, elective)

Doc Dr Nijolė STRAKAUSKAITĖ, position: Senior research fellow; teaches since 1993
E-Mail: nijole.strakauskaite@gmail.com

Subjects offered: History of European Culture (bachelor, required);
History of Germany (bachelor, elective), East and West Prussian History, 16th to 20th C. (master, elective)

Doc Dr Marius ŠČAVINSKAS, position: Senior lecturer; teaches since 2005
E-Mail: scavinskas.marius@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Introduction to Historical Studies (bachelor, required), History of Medieval Europe (bachelor, required)
Lithuanian History in the Middle Ages: Controversial Issues (bachelor, elective), Medieval Lithuania: Comparative Social History Approach (master, elective), Crusades in the Baltic Rim: Ideology and Practice (master, elective)

Doc Dr Rita Regina TRIMONIENĖ, position: Professor; teaches since 2019
E-Mail: rita.trimone@gmail.com

Subjects offered: History of Lithuania from the Middle Ages to the Late 18th Century (bachelor, required), History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (13th C.–mid-16th C.) (bachelor, required), History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (mid-16th C.–18th C.) (bachelor, required);
History of Jagiellonian Europe from the Early 15th C. to 1526 (bachelor, elective), Approaches to Social History (master, elective)

Dr Edvinas UBIS, position: Research fellow; teaches since 2023
E-Mail: edvinas.ubis@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Artefactology (bachelor, elective)

Dr Miglė URBONAITĖ-UBĖ, position: Research fellow; teaches since 2020
E-Mail: migle.urbonaite-ube@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Medieval Archaeology (bachelor, required)

Dr Vykintas VAITKEVIČIUS, position: Professor; teaches since 2008
E-Mail: vykintas.vaitkevicius@ku.lt

Subjects offered: History of Archaeology (bachelor, required), Digital Humanities Practice (bachelor, required)
Archaeology of Baltic Religions (bachelor, elective); Lithuanian Studies in Archaeological Theory and Fieldwork (bachelor, elective)

Doc Dr Vacys VAIVADA

Subjects offered: Society and the Confessional Processes in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th–16th Centuries (master, elective)

Prof Dr Vygantas VAREIKIS, position: Professor; teaches since 1994
E-Mail: vygantas.vareikis@gmail.com

Subjects offered: History of Europe in the 19th Century (bachelor, required), History of Europe in the 20th Century (bachelor, required), Methodology of Historical Research (bachelor, required), Jewish History in Baltic Region and East-Central Europe master, required);
European History of Mentalities (bachelor, elective), History of Genocides in Europe (bachelor, elective, in collaboration with Hektoras Vitkus), History of Klaipėda in the Soviet Period (bachelor, elective)

Dr Ernestas VASILIAUSKAS, position: Senior lecturer; teaches since 2007
E-Mail: ernestas@inbox.lv

Subjects offered: Archival Practice (bachelor, required), Auxiliary Sciences of History (bachelor, required in one study programme and elective in another), Historical Cartography (bachelor, required);
Christianisation of the Eastern Baltics based on Archaeological Data (9th to 17th C.) (bachelor, elective)

Dr Hektoras VITKUS, position: Senior lecturer; teaches since 2003
E-Mail: hektoras.vitkus@ku.lt

Subjects offered: History of Ideologies (bachelor, required), Lithuanian History (19th to 20th C.) (bachelor, required), Nationalism in German History (master, required, in collaboration with Vasilijus Safronovas);
Archival Science (bachelor, elective), History of Genocides in Europe (bachelor, elective, in collaboration with Vygantas Vareikis), History of Latvia, Estonia and Finland (bachelor, elective), History of Scandinavian Countries (bachelor, elective), The History of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe (master, elective), Historiography and Methodology of the Military History (master, elective)

Dr Manvydas VITKŪNAS, position: Senior lecturer; teaches since 2021
E-Mail: manvydas.vitkunas@gmail.com

Subjects offered: Introduction to European Archaeology (bachelor, required);
European Colonial History (bachelor, elective)

Doc Dr Gintautas ZABIELA, position: Professor; teaches since 2006
E-Mail: gintautas.zabiela@ku.lt

Subjects offered: Archaeological Practice (bachelor, required), Heritage Conservation and Management (bachelor, required);
History of Fortification (master, elective)