JPKF

The Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale  (JPKF)

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 and organize workshops and seminars on campus about issues relevant to the Baltic Sea region. Starting 2016-2017 academic year, the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship for citizens of Lithuania will be available every year instead of every other year. It will further Baltic Studies program at Yale and will make an additional contribution to scholarship in Lithuania, one that will grow with the experience and knowledge the increasing number of recipients take back with them upon their return home.

Since 2013, Yale University’s Program in Baltic Studies invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship of variable duration (four to nine months) in the following fields: law, economics, business and finance, environmental policy, political science, international relations, and history.

For more information and to apply visit the Interfolio site.

JPKF'14 was Dr. Irina Matijosaitiene, Associate Professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture and Urbanism. Irina did her research on urban crime's association with social spatial structures of cities. 

JPKF'15 was Dr. Violeta Davoliute, Senior Researcher in the Faculty of History at Vilnius University and Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute, who engaged in continuing work on her ongoing research project on the work and lives of Lithuanian intellectuals during the German occupation of Lithuania from 1941 to 1945.

JPKF'16 had two recipients:

- Dr. Jolanta Mickutė, Assistant Professor of History at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. At Yale she studied the political and cultural history of Jewish women in interwar Poland, including Vilnius and the surrounding region.

- Dr. Vaidotas Vaičaitis, Associate Professor of Law at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania.  At Yale he studied Lithuanian constitutional law within the context of current, on-going European integration.

JPKF'17 was Dr. Arvydas Grisinas, Researcher at Kaunas University of Technology and Lecturer in Political Anthropology at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania whos work centers on post-Soviet political identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe. At Yale he completed his book titled "Politics with a Human Face: Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe" and presented photography exhibition by Juozas Kazlauskas focusing on the so called "January Events" in Lithuania.

JPKF'18 had two recipients:

- Dr. Mindaugas Sapoka, Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History.  He is a historian of early modern Eastern and Central Europe, especially Poland and Lithuania. At Yale he worked on his book "The Great Northern War, 1700-1721: The War Which Shaped Europe" which is the first assessment of the war in any language

- Dr. Monika Kareniauskaite, Senior Historian-Researcher at the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania. Her work is on criminal law and criminal justice in Lithuania and in the Soviet Union after 1917. She also focuses on anti-Soviet resistance, Soviet political trials and deportations, the dissident movement, and historical memory and the culture of remembrance in the former Eastern Bloc and the USSR.

JPKF'19 had two recipients:

- Dr. Vytautas Kuokstis, Associate Professor of Political Economy at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science. At Yale he work on his research "Baltic States' experience during the 2008-2010 Great Recession".

- Dr. Stanislovas Stasiulis, who received his Ph.D. in History from Vilnius University in 2018 focus on collecting data at the Yale library for his new research.

JPKF'20 recipient was:

- Dr. Gintare Venzlauskaite, an instructor at the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK), a Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow, and a Junior Researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania). At Yale she was working to turn her dissertation “From Post-War West to Post-Soviet East: Manifestations of Displacement, Collective Memory, and Lithuanian Diasporic Experience Revisited” into a monograph. The book discusses displaced persons and the resulting diasporas as both implicated and implicating Lithuanian grand narratives and national identity, while also eliciting the importance of plurality of memory and the multivocality of diasporic experience.

JPK'21 recipient Jogile Ulinskaite elected to complete her fellowship in the Spring 2022 semester.