Violeta Davoliūte

Violeta Davoliūtė, the 2015-2016 Joseph P. Kazickas Associate Research Scholar at Yale University, is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of History at Vilnius University and Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute. She has also been a Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Ethnography, where she worked on mass population displacements and deportations from Lithuania to the Soviet gulag.  She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2004 in the field of Comparative Literature.  Her doctoral thesis was titled “Testimony: From the Poetics of Place to the Politics of Memory.