Books

Special Journal Issues (Editor)

Monuments, Museums and Institutions: Between Memory Activism and Public History (with Thomas Colvin and Violeta Davoliūtė), Politologija, a peer reviewed open access journal, Scopus, vol. 112, issue 4 (2023),  https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/issue/view/2392

Covid-19 as Collective Trauma in Global Politics: Disruption, Destruction and Resilience (with Erica Resende), Societies, a peer reviewed open access journal, Scopus, vol. 13, issue 5 (2023),  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/COVID_Destruction

Defending Memory: Exploring the Relationship between Mnemonical In/security and Crises in Global Politics (with Erica Resende and Douglas Becker), Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Scopus, vol. 6, issue 1 (2020), http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps/index

Beyond the Nation? In Search of Global Connections Between Traumatic Memories (with Erica Resende), Ethnicity Studies/Etniškumo Studijos, a peer-reviewed journal, 2015/2, http://ces.lt/en/ethnicity-studies/back-issues/ethnicity-studies-20152/

Journal Articles (in peer-reviewed publications)

„Memory Activism between Values and Interests:  Monuments, Museums and Institutions” (with Violeta Davoliūtė and Thomas Cauven), Politologija, Scopus, 112, no. 4 (2024), https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34490

“‘A Decolonizing Moment of Sorts’: The Baltic States’ Vicarious Identification with Ukraine and Related Domestic and Foreign Policy Developments,” Central European Journal for International and Security Studies, Scopus, 17, no. 4 (2023), https://doi.org/10.51870/YPIJ8030

“Mnemonic Conflicts and Cooperation in Memory Politics: Development of Narratives about Historical Traumas in Lithuania after 1991,” Parliamentary Studies, No. 32 (2022), published online on May 31, 2023, https://journals.lnb.lt/parliamentary-studies/article/view/803

“COVID-19 as a Collective Trauma in Global Politics: Disruption, Destruction and Resilience” (editorial, with Erica Resende), Societies, Scopus, vol. 13, no. 5 (2023), https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/5/106

“From Transnational to Local Remembrance: European Roma Genocide Memory and the Commemoration of Samudaripen in Lithuania,” Holocaust Studies, Scopus, vol. 29, no. 4 (2023), pp. 520-46, https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2116540

„Activist Memory and Human Rights: The Commemoration of the Roma Genocide in Lithuania,” Darbai ir Dienos (Days and Deeds, published by Vytautas Magnus University), vol. 77 (2022), pp. 123-44 https://doi.org/10.7220/2335-8769.77.7

“The Complexity of Memory after Communism: Multiple Actors, Multiple Memories?,” an essay for a book forum in Shofar, Scopus, vol. 40, no. 1 (2022), pp. 171-6 10.1353/sho.2022.0014

 “Cultural Diplomacy Taming Resurgent Mnemonic Conflicts and Anxieties: Crimean Tatar and Lithuanian American Diasporas” (with Didem Buhari-Gulmez), Uluslararasi Iliskiler (International Relations), SSCI, vol. 19, issue 73 (2022), pp. 17-32 https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1086514

“Gender, War, and Remembrance: ‘Points of Memory’ in the Narratives of Women Participants in the Partisan War in Lithuania” (in Lithuanian), Lietuvos Etnologija, 32 (30), 2021, pp. 127-48 https://doi.org/10.33918/25386522-2130005

“Memory Politics and the Study of Crises in International Relations: Insights from Ukraine and Lithuania,” Journal of International Relations and Development, SSCI, vol. 24, issue 4, December 2021, pp. 980-1000, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41268-021-00231-1

Reprinted in Different Shades of the Past: History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts, edited by Mateusz Kamionka and Przemysław Łukasik, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 11-39 (with post scriptum) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111000596-002

“ ‘Defending Memory’: Exploring the Relationship between Mnemonical In/security and Crisis in Global Politics” (with Erica Resende and Douglas Becker), a special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Scopus, vol. 6, no. 1, 2020, pp. 5-19, DOI: 10.1285/i20398573v6n1p5

“From Masculine Heroism to Everyday Violence? A Gendered Perspective on the Partisan War in Lithuania,” a special issue of Revue Ethnologie Française, Scopus, no 2, 2018, pp. 245-254, https://www.cairn.info/revue-ethnologie-francaise-2018-2-page-243.htm

“From Partisan Warfare to Memory Battlefields:  Two Women’s Stories about World War II and Its Aftermath in Lithuania,” Gender and History, SSCI, vol. 28, no. 3, November 2016, pp. 754-74, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12248

“Decolonization of Trauma and Memory Politics: Insights from Eastern Europe,” Humanities, no. 5:1 (2016), https://doi.org/10.3390/h5010007

Reprinted in Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism, edited by Sonya Andermahr, MDPI, 2016, pp. 153-68

“Points of Memory in the Narrative of a ‘Mnemonic Warrior’: Gender, Displacement, and the anti-Soviet War of Resistance in Lithuania,” Journal of Baltic Studies, SSCI, vol. 47, no. 4, December 2016, pp. 473-96, https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2016.1248671

Reprinted in Baltic Socialism Remembered: Memory and Life Story since 1989, edited by Ene Kõresaar, Routledge, 2018, pp. 43-66

“Foreword. Beyond the Nation? In Search of Global Connections between Traumatic Memories” (co-authored with Erica Resende), Ethnicity Studies/Etniškumo Studijos, 2015/2, pp. 5-18, http://ces.lt/en/ethnicity-studies/back-issues/ethnicity-studies-20152/

“From Ethnic Fear to Pragmatic Inclusiveness? Political Community Building in the Baltic States, 1988-2004,” Ethnicity Studies/Etniškumo studijos, no. 1/2 (2011), pp. 14-41, http://ces.lt/en/ethnicity-studies/back-issues/ethnicity-studies-2011//

“ ‘We Did Not Keep Diaries, You Know’: Memories of Trauma and Violence in the Narratives of Two Former Women Resistance Fighters,” Lituanus, vol. 57, no. 3 (2011), pp. 59-71, http://www.lituanus.org/2011/11_2_05Budryte.html

“The Experience of Trauma and Political Activism: A Case Study of Women ‘Agents of Memory’ in Lithuania,” Journal of Baltic Studies, SSCI, vol. 41, no. 3 (2010), pp. 331-50, https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2010.498191

Reprinted in Memory and Pluralism in the Baltic States, edited by Eva-Clarita Pettai, Routledge, 2011, pp. 55-74

“Minority Rights and the Majority’s Insecurities: Building Tolerant Political Communities in the Post–Soviet Baltic States,” Essays in Arts and Sciences, vol. 34, no. 2 (2005), pp. 37-54

“We Call It ‘Genocide’: Soviet Deportations and Repression in the Memory of Lithuanians,” BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 9, no. 3/4 (2002), pp. 223-51

Reprinted in The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond, edited by Robert S. Frey, Rowman and Littlefield/University Press of America, 2004, pp. 79-100.

Review Essays

“Conceptualizing the New ‘Turns’: Two Handbooks on Memory in International Politics,” International Affairs,  https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/99/6/2506/7337098?fbclid=IwAR1o4OgC8E_EEfh8CGTJETPAedkFXWmWNws4MsaAt66x4XTesNP2gMXna9I&login=true

“Memory and World Politics,” in Oxford Bibliographies, edited by Patrick James, Oxford University Press, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199743292-0273

“The ‘Nation’ State on Trial: Minority Rights, Othering and Exclusion in Europe during Times of Crisis,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, ESCI (Web of Science), vol. 23, no. 2 (2017), pp. 240-48, https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1311145

“Using Gender Lenses to Decolonize the Study of Trauma and Memory in IR” (with Erica Resende), E-International Relations, February 2016,  https://www.e-ir.info/2016/02/12/using-gender-lenses-to-decolonize-trauma-and-memory-in-ir/

“Women, Nationalism and Democracy: Three Feminist Perspectives on Traditional International Issues,” International Politics, SSCI, vol. 36, no. 4 (1999), pp. 559-70

31 Book Chapter, including:

“The Securitization of Memory in Baltic-Russian Relations, 1991-2023,” in History and Memory in International Relations, edited by Bartosz Dziewanoski-Stefańczyk, Kathrin Bachleitner and Rafał Rogulski, under review with Routledge, work in progress

 “ ‘Critical Situations’ and Mnemonic Legislation: Memory Politics in the Baltic States and the War in Ukraine,” in The Politics of Memory Laws in Time of War: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond, edited by Uladzislau Belavusau, Aleksandra Glyszczyńska-Grabias, Maria Mälksoo, and Angelika Nussberger, under contract with Hart-Bloomsbury, work in progress

“Gender Dimensions of Partisan Memory in Central and Eastern Europe,” in The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Central Eastern Europe, edited by Dovilė Budrytė and Violeta Davoliūtė, under contract with Routledge, work in progress

“Gender, War and Remembrance: ‘Heroic Subjects’ in Lithuania’s Fighting and Suffering Memory Regime,” in Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis, edited by Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė and Doug Becker, under contract with Routledge, work in progress

“The Construction of Mnemonic Conflicts about the Holocaust in Lithuania: Tensions, Contradictions, Contestations,” in World War II and the Holocaust in the Memory, Political and Public Historical Discourses of Eastern Central and Eastern Europe after 1989-91, edited by Paul Srodecki and Daria Kozlova, Brill, forthcoming in 2024

“Toward an Intersectional Pedagogy in IR: How to Take Feminist Interventions Seriously,” in Teaching International Relations, edited by James M. Scott et al., Edward Elgar, 2021, pp. 52-64, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107658.00011

“Deportation and Gulag as Gendered Processes,” in The Routledge International Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda, Routledge, 2021, pp. 321-29

“Open Educational Resources and Student Engagement: The Use of In-Class Exercises to Enhance OERs in Introductory American Government Classes” (with Michael Lewkowicz, Yohannes Gedamu and Scott Boykin), in Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices, edited by Molly Y. Zhou, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 187-209, https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1200-5.ch009

“Gendering ‘History of Fighting and Suffering’: War and Deportation in the Narratives of Women Resistance Fighters in Lithuania” in Narratives of Exile and Identity: Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, edited by Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis, Central European University Press, 2018, pp. 103-17

“Memory, War and Mnemonical In/Security: A Comparison of Lithuania and Ukraine” in Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective, edited by Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė and Didem Buhari-Gulmez, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 155-77, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78589-9

“Entangled History, History Education, and Affective Communities in Lithuania” (with Violeta Davoliūtė) in Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past and Looking toward the Future, edited by Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 323-44, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182171.016

“Bringing the Study of American Government to Life in a Diverse Classroom: Internationalization and Individualization” (with Michael Lewkowicz, Laura Young and Scott Boykin) in Handbook of Research on Curriculum Internationalization and the Future of Global Education, edited by Semire Dikli, Richard Rawls and Brian Etheridge, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1-17, https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2791-6.ch001

“Application of Concepts from Trauma Education in Political Science and History Classrooms” in Engaging Difference: Teaching Humanities and Social Science in Multicultural Environments, edited by Dovile Budryte and Scott Boykin, Rowman and Littlefield, 2017, pp. 31-39

“Transnational Memory as Traveling Trauma: Lithuanian Traumatic Memory after World War II,” in Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates, edited by Erica Resende and Dovile Budryte, Routledge, 2013, pp. 168-81

“War, Deportation and Trauma in the Narratives of Former Women Resistance Fighters” in Maps of Memory: Exile and Identity in the Testimonies of Gulag Exiles, edited by Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Press, 2012, pp. 137-52

“European Norms, Local Interpretations: Minority Rights and Related Discourses in Lithuania after EU Expansion,” in Diversity and the European Union, edited by Elisabeth Prügl and Markus Thiel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 221-33

“Lithuania: Progressive Legislation without Popular Support” (with Vilana Pilinkaite-Sotirovic), in Minority Rights in Eastern and Central Europe, edited by Bernd Rechel, Routledge, 2009, pp. 151-65 (Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies)

“New Initiatives in Lithuania’s Foreign Policy after the Dual Enlargement,” in Global and Regional Challenges: A Baltic Outlook, edited by Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar and Tiago Marques, Tallinn University Press, 2006, pp. 63-85

“Democratisation of History? Remembering Stalinist Deportations and Repression in the Baltic States,” in Enlarging European Memory: Migration Movements in Historical Perspective, edited by Mareike Koenig and Rainer Ohliger, Jan Thorbecke Verlag (Osfildern), 2006, pp. 125-34

“The Idea of Europe in Selected World History Textbooks Used in the United States” (with Charles Perrin), in Transatlantic, edited by Camelia Elias and Andrea Birch, Aalborg University Press (Denmark), 2006, pp. 41-54 (Cultural Text Studies series)

“Lithuania’s New In/Security: Transatlantic Tensions and the Dilemma of Dual Loyalty,” in The Baltic States and Their Region: New Europe or Old?, edited by David J. Smith, Rodopi Publishers (the Netherlands), 2005, pp. 41-65 (series On the Boundary of Two Worlds)

“The Dilemma of ‘Dual Loyalty’: Lithuania and Transatlantic Tensions,” in Old Europe, New Europe and the US: Renegotiating Transatlantic Security in the Post 9/11 Era, edited by Blagovest Tashev and Tom Lansford, Ashgate Publishers, 2004, pp. 151-72

“Yesterday’s Embitterments and Today’s Politics: Ethnic Restructuring and Its Aftermath in the Baltic States,” in Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants in 20th Century Europe, edited by Rainer Münz and Rainer Ohliger, Frank Cass Publishers, 2003, pp. 206-220

“Coming to Terms with the Past: Memories of Displacement and Resistance in the Baltic States,” in Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition, edited by Robert Cribb and Kenneth Cristie, RoutledgeCurzon, 2002, pp. 118-38

Encyclopedia Entries

Three essays: „Lithuania,” „Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania,” and „International Commission to Investigate Crimes against Humanity,” in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice , edited by Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 286-93, pp. 218-22, and pp. 137-41. In 2018 I revised these essays for the second edition of Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice , Cambridge University Press,  2023, pp. 371-379 (vol. 2), pp. 201-206 (vol. 3) and pp. 302-307 (vol. 3).  https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/encyclopedia-of-transitional-justice/CA0F35DE904F62B915344C4E55D1E188#

Two essays: „Political Activities” and „Political Empowerment,” in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well Being Research , edited by Alex C. Michalos and peer-reviewed, Springer, 2014, pp. 4862-64 and 4876-79. In 2019 I revised these essays for the second edition of Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well Being Research , Springer, published in 2023:

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_2191-2

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_2196-2

Four essays: „Empowerment,” „Nation,” „Nationalization,” and „Transitional Regimes,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Science , edited by George T. Kurian and peer-reviewed, CQ Press, 2011, pp. 504-5, pp. 1074-75, pp. 1084-85, and pp. 1681-82

„Women in the Russian Military Since 1992,” an article in the Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Movements , edited by Norma C. Noonan and Carol Nechemias, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, pp. 354-56

Book and Film Reviews

Published twenty book and film reviews in Ab Imperio, BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal, The Business Journal of Hispanic Research, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Central European History, Contemporary Security Policy, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, International Affairs, International Politics, Journal of Baltic Studies, Lietuvos Etnologija, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, Perspectives on Politics, Slavic Review, and Oral History Review

Open Educational Materials

Lewkowicz, Michael; Budryte, Dovile; Boykin, Scott; Young, Laura; and Gedamu, Yohannes, „Classroom Activities for OpenStax American Government” (2019). Political Science Ancillary Materials. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/polisci-ancillary/2

Budryte, Dovile; Boykin, Scott; Lewkowicz, Michael; and Young, Laura, „American Government (GGC)” (2018). Political Science Grants Collections. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/polisci-collections/3