EUROPAST / Vilnius University (Lithuania).
Violeta Davoliūtė is Professor at Vilnius University, Institute of Political Science and International Relations, and Project Leader of Facing the Past: Public History for a Stronger Europe (Horizon Europe, 2022-2025). She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and has recently held fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Yale University, EHESS, and Uppsala University. She has published extensively on the topics of memory, historical trauma, identity, and nationalism. Her most recent publications include “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, and “Agonistic homecomings: Holocaust postmemory, perspective and locality.” Memory Studies 15.3 (2022): 539–550. Prof. Davoliūtė is a co-editor of the CEU Press book series Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe.