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Last week director of Yale University MacMilllan Center Baltic Studies program dr. Bradley Woodworth came to Lithuania to meet with the representatives of Lithuanian educational institutions in order to discuss dr. Joseph P. Kazickas post-doctoral fellowship at Yale offered to the citizens of Lithuania.
In 1947, while in Germany, Joseph P. Kazickas received a scholarship from Yale that enabled him and his family to emigrate to America as refugees from communist Lithuania. He completed his Ph.D. in economics in 1951 and pursued a successful career as a business entrepreneur.
In 2012 the Kazickas Family Foundation established the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale to support the Baltic Studies program in the MacMillan Center's Council on European Studies. The Fellowship provides resources for visiting scholars and researchers from Lithuania to study at Yale for four to nine months in the following fields: law, economics, business and finance, environmental policy, political science, international relations, history, and organize workshops and seminars on campus about issues relevant to the Baltic Sea region.
Five Lithuanian scholars, dr. Joseph P. Kazickas fellows, already returned to Lithuania to continue their work after completing their fellowships at Yale. Dr. Bradley Woodworth met with the program's alumni to discuss the ways to effectively spread the information regarding the fellowship at Yale to all qualified candidates in Lithuania. They also shared opinions and observations about the program itself, and discussed the reunion conference in New Haven, Connecticut next fall.
Dr. Bradley Woodworth also met with the representatives of Kaunas University of Technology, Vytautas Magnus University and Vilnius University to discuss the unique opportunity for the scholars to continue their work at Yale thanks to dr. Joseph. P. Kazickas fellowship. Presentations were followed by active discussions and sincere interest was shown. Representatives of the Universities assured that they will seek that this valuable information regarding the fellowship reaches all Lithuanian academia.
More infor: https://balticstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/grants-and-fellowships/kazickas-fellowship
To apply: the Interfolio site
Photo above: Dr. Bradley Woodworth with the KFF director in Vilnius Agne Vertelkaite and JPK fellows: Arvydas Grisinas, Jolanta Mickute, Violeta Davoliute and Vaidotas Vaicaitis
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