Klaipėda University, Institute of Baltic Region History and Archeology (Lithuania).
Zigmas Vitkus is a research fellow at the Institute of Baltic Region History and Archeology, University of Klaipėda (Lithuania) and a publicist. He is a graduate of Vilnius University, Faculty of History and Centre for Religious Studies and Research. His fields of interest are politics of memory, culture of memorials, with the focus on memorials in genocide places, genocide history. He is an author of two monographies (one of which is a collective monography) and various articles on the above-mentioned topics.