Monographs and Edited Volumes
Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, edited with Bradley Woodworth and Darius Staliūnas, CEU Press, forthcoming 2025.
Turning Points of Public History, edited with Barbara Tornquist-Plewa and Dovilė Budrytė, DeGuyter book series Media and Cultural Memory, forthcoming 2025.
The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Eastern Europe, edited with Dovilė Budrytė, Routledge, forthcoming 2025.
Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity, co-authoredwith Nerijus Milerius, Lukas Brašiškis, Agnė Narušytė, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.
Narratives of Identity and Displacement in Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States; edited with Tomas Balkelis. Budapest: CEU Press, 2018.
Populations Displacement in 20th Century Lithuania: Experiences, Identities, Legacies; edited with Tomas Balkelis. Amsterdam: Brill, 2016.
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War. London: Routledge, 2014.
Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States; edited with Tomas Balkelis. Vilnius: ILLF, 2013.
Testimony: From the Poetics of Place to the Politics of Memory. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2004.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Continuity or Change? The Russo-Ukrainian War and Decolonization of Memory in Lithuania” (with Dovile Budryte), Global Studies Quarterly Journal, forthcoming 2025.
“The Topography of Transgression: Non-Jewish testimony to plunder during the Holocaust in the Lithuanian Provinces,” S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, 12:2 (2025).
“Decolonisation in Lithuania? Revisiting the Concept of Cultural Resistance under Foreign Rule since 1990,” kunsttexte.de, 1 (2024): 1-11.
“Perpetrator Postmemory and the Holocaust in Purple Mist (2019) and Izaokas (2019),” Slavic and East European Journal, 67.3 (2023): 363-379.
“The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania,” East European Politics and Societies 37.2 (2023): 493-511.
“The Rustic Turn during late Socialism and the Popular Movement against Soviet Rule,” Canadian Slavonic Papers, 65.1 (2023): 30-51, with Odeta Rudling.
“Agonistic homecomings: Holocaust postmemory, perspective and locality.” Memory Studies 15.3 (2022): 539–550.
“The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History,” Journal of Genocide Research. 24.2 (2022): 264-275.
“Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII,” Humanities 10 (2021): 129.
“Genealogical Writing and Memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania,” East European Jewish Affairs 51.3 (2021).
“The Aesthetics of Justice. Recognition and the Holocaust in Soviet Films of the Thaw,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 15.1 (2021).
“State of the Art in Studies of Late Socialism in the Baltic States,” Sovijus 8.1 (2020): 56-69.
“Cold War Cinema and the Traumatic Turn in Europe. Faktas as the Soviet Mirror of the Holocaust Film,” Studies in Soviet and Russian Cinema 14.1 (2020): 57-71.
“Painful pluralisation: Lithuania’s handling of the past,” Osteuropa 6 (2018): 91-100.
“Between the Public and the Personal: A New Stage of Holocaust Memory in Lithuania,” Cultures of History Forum (19 December 2018).
“Sovietizacija ir kinas: lytis, tapatybė, ideologija filme „Marytė“, 1947” (with Lina Kaminskaite-Jančoriene). Politologia 18.2 (2018): 34-64.
“The Entanglement of Historical Experiences. The Memory of the Soviet Deportation of Lithuanian Jews,” “L’imbrication des experiences historiques. La mémoire de la déportation des Juifs lituaniens par les Soviétiques,” Ethnologie française 2 (2018): 209-224.
“Heroes, Villains and Matters of State: The Partisan and Popular Memory in Lithuania Today,” Cultures of History Forum (17 November 2017).
“Sovietization and the Cinema in the Western Borderlands: Insurgency, Narrative, and Emancipation in Marytė (1947)” (with Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė). Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 3 (2016): 391-408.
“The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: Modernization, Transculturation and the Lettered City.” Journal of Baltic Studies. Special Issue on Post-Colonialism in the Baltic States 47.1 (2016).
“Multidirectional memory and the deportation of Lithuanian Jews.” Ethnicity Studies 2 (2015): 131–150.
“The Crisis in Ukraine and Lithuania’s European Choice” Transitions Online (7 October 2014).
“Post-war Reconstruction and the Imperial Sublime in Vilnius During Late Stalinism.” Ab Imperio 2014.1 (2014): 176-203.
Book Chapters
“The Habitus of Holocaust Remembrance during the Thaw in Soviet Lithuania,” in Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, edited by Violeta Davoliūtė, Darius Staliūnas and Bradley Woodworth, CEU Press, forthcoming 2025.
“Gendered Returns from Concentration Camps in Soviet-occupied Europe. The Life Stories of Hannah Rigler and Primo Levi,” in The Grey Zone of Rescue and Liberation of Holocaust Survivors by the Soviet Army, ed. Joanna Michlic and Nina Paulovicova, Purdue University Press, forthcoming 2025.
“The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States,” in Defending Memory, eds.Dovilė Budrytė and Erica Resende. Routledge: London, 2024.
“The Ethnographic Moment of Lithuanian Poetic Documentary: Last Summer of a Homestead (1971) by Robertas Verba,” in The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Literature, Film and Theatre in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, edited by Johanna Lindbladh and Anja Tippner, Vienna, CEU Press, forthcoming 2025.
“Lithuania. Fractured and Contested Memory Regimes,” in Ninna Mörner, ed. CBEES State of the Region Report 2020: Constructions and Instrumentalization of the Past. A Comparative Study on Memory Management in the Region. Stockholm: Elanders, 2020, 80-87.
“A Line in the Sand,” in Us/Them. Hate Speech in the Service of Politics, publisher: Projekt: Polska Foundation, Warsaw, 2020, 156-161.
“Legislated History in Post-Communist Lithuania” (with Tomas Balkelis). In Handbook on State Sponsored History after 1945. Edited by Nico Wouters and Berber Bevernage. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 121-138.
“Introduction”, Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis, eds. Narratives of Identity and Displacement in Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, Budapest: CEU Press, 2018, 1-15.
“We Are All Deportees: The Trauma of Displacement and the Consolidation of National Identity during the Popular Movement in Lithuania.” Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis, eds. Narratives of Identity and Displacement in Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, Budapest: CEU Press, 2018, 119-146.
“Entangled History, History Education, and Affective Communities in Lithuania” (with Dovilė Budrytė) Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past and Looking Toward the Future. Edited by Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 323-344.
“Introduction.” In Population Displacement in Lithuania in the 20th century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies. Amsterdam: Brill, 2016.
“A ‘Forgotten’ History of Soviet Deportation: The Case of Lithuanian Jews.” In Population Displacement in Lithuania in the 20th century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies. Amsterdam: Brill, 2016, 167-194.
“Representations of Historical Trauma in the Cinema of Late Twentieth Century France and Lithuania.” In Tatjana Kuharenoka, Irina Novikova, Ivars Orehovs, eds. Memory. Identity. Culture. Riga: LU Akdēmiskais Apgāds, 2015: 175-190.
“Introduction.” In Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States. Vilnius: LLTI, 2012.
Reports & Reviews
“Glorification, whitewashing, erasure: the populist challenge to dealing with the past in Lithuania,” in The Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation. Berlin: Berghof Foundation, 2025.
“The Russia-Ukraine War and Historical Memory in the Global South(s),” Lawfare 30 December 2024 (with Dovile Budrytė).
Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, edited by Ruth Leiserowitz, Gintarė Malinauskaitė and Hektoras Vitkus, Lithuanian Historical Studies 28 (2024): 261–265.
Neapykantos ribos: antisemitizmas Lietuvoje 1944–1990 metais, by Justas Stončius, The Yearbook of Lithuanian History 2 (2024).
Different shades of the past: history as an instrument of contemporary international conflicts, edited by Mateusz Kamionka and Przemysław Łukasik, Journal of Baltic Studies, 55.3 (2024): 698–700.
Politics of Uncertainty. The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, by Una Bergmane. H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review.15 April 2024 | https://hdiplo.org/to/RT25-9.
Lviv and Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? Myth, Memory, and Migration, c. 1890-Present. Edited by Jan Fellerer and Robert Pyrah, American Historical Review 128.1 (March 2023): 434–436.
Mediated Memories: Narratives and Iconographies of the Holocaust in Lithuania, by Gintarė Malinauskaitė, Lithuanian Historical Studies (2021): 259-264.
Revolution Rekindled. The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography, by Polly Jones, Lithuanian Historical Review 24 (2020): 251-261.
Holocaust Education in Lithuania. Community, Conflict, and the Making of Civil Society, by Christine Beresniova, Anthropology of East Europe Review 37.1 (2020): 55-58.
Baltic Socialism Remembered: Memory and Life Story since 1989, by Ene Koresaar (ed.), Journal of Baltic Studies 50:4, 2019: 558-559.
“Między publicznym i prywatnym: Nowy etap pamięci Holokaustu na Litwie,” Przegląd Bałtycki (7 January 2019).
The Literary Field under Communist Rule, by Aušra Jurgutienė and Dalia Satkauskytė (eds.), Lithuanian Historical Studies 23 (2019): 244-246.
“Revisiting the TV-Series “Holocaust” Thirty Years On,” Cultures of History Forum (17 May 2019).
“Bohaterowie, złoczyńcy i racja stanu. Partyzanci i pamięć zbiorowa we współczesnej Litwie,” Przegląd Bałtycki (28 November 2018).
“Šeimos ir tautos atmintis: kur brėšime grėsmės ribas?” Delfi (10 August 2018).
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: a Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists, by Tarik Cyril Amar. Journal of Baltic Studies 48:3 (2017): 391-393.
Vilnius Between Nations: 1795-2000, by Theodore R. Weeks. Journal of Modern History 89.3 (Sep 2017): 740 – 742.
Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States, by Eva-Clarita Pettai & Vello Pettai. Journal of Baltic Studies 47.3 (2016): 426-28.
“Two Speed Memory and Ownership of the Past,” Transitions Online (1 September 2016).
No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders, by Ellen Mickiewicz. Transitions Online (19 July 2016).
Children of Rus. Right Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation, by Faith Hillis. Transitions Online (11 December 2014).