Rūta Vyšniauskaitė

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Rūta Vyšniauskaitė completed her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Birmingham in 2022 and earned a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in 2023. In 2025, she began her doctoral studies at the IIRPS (VU IIRPS) and is preparing a dissertation titled “Where Does the Lithuanian Political Community Begin and End? A Study of Public History Practices and Political Self-Identification in the Vilnius Region” (supervisor Prof. Dr. Violeta Davoliūtė).

Since 2024, she has been working as a junior researcher in the project “Facing the Past: Public History for a Stronger Europe” (EUROPAST), where, together with a multidisciplinary team of researchers from other VU faculties, she collects data on public history practices among memory institutions, memory activists, and national minority communities in the Vilnius region.

Since 2023, she has been working as an international research projects administrator at VU IIRPS.

Research projects and grants

Facing the Past: Public History for a Stronger Europe (EUROPAST), junior researcher, February 2024 – 30 November 2025, Financial agreement No. 101079466, ongoing.

Selected conference papers

1. 24 April 2025, The 16th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) „Converging Paths: The Baltic Between East and West“, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, „Voices of Public History at the National and Local Levels: the Case of the Vilnius Region”, oral presentation, https://aabs-balticstudies.org/cbse-2025-at-cambridge/.
2. 17 July 2025, 9th annual Memory Studies Association (MSA) conference „Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability”, Prague, „Voices of Public History at the National and Local Levels: the Case of the Vilnius Region”, oral presentation, https://msaprague2025.dryfta.com/.
3. 5 July 2024, EUROPAST mid-project conference „Public History and Community-Based Research“, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, „Data collection in public history projects“, oral presentation, https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/europast-mid-project-conference/.
4. 1 December 2023, Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference „The Echoes of Polycrisis in Lithuania and the World“, The Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius, „Visuomeninės istorijos praktikų reikšmė sudėtingame Lietuvos istorinės atminties kūrimo kontekste“, oral presentation, https://www.tspmi.vu.lt/konferencijos/metine-lietuvos-politikos-mokslu-konferencija-polikrizes-atgarsiai-lietuvoje-ir-pasaulyje/