V. Petronis |  R. Miknys  |  T. Bairašauskaitė  |  R. Griškaitė  |  A. Prašmantaitė  |  A. Katilius  |  D. Staliūnas I J.Paškauskas | L.Pocius I  O. Mastianica  |  V. Žaltauskaitė  |  G. Malinauskaitė  | G. Subačius | V. Nikšaitė | J. Andriejauskienė | S. Valiūnaitė | T. Krutulys |

PhD students: I. Šapokienė | J. Pukėnas |

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Vaida Nikšaitė

Doctor of Humanities, Researcher

In 2023, she defended her dissertation called “Dreaming and selling a nation: Lithuanian propaganda and crowdfunding, 1900–1923” at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), supervised by Pieter Lagrou and Petra James. In 2023–2025, she interned at the Faculty of History and Wolfson College, Oxford University (supervised by Katherine Lebow). Since 2025, she has been a researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian

Orcid: 0000-0001-9846-6666

Research interests

• 19th and 20th century European History
• Mass Politics and Communication
• Migration and Diasporas

Scholarships, Grants

• 2017–2018 – ULB Mini-ARC Doctoral Fellowship
• 2018–2022 – F.R.S.-FNRS Doctoral Fellowship
• 2021 – NATO Public Diplomacy Grant for the project “Heritage, Propaganda and Resilience on the Eastern Borders of NATO and the EU”
• 2023–2025 – Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research at the University of Oxford

Articles

• “Popular Fundraising in the Greater War: Patriotic War Bonds and the Rebirth of Poland” (with Robin J. C. Adams), Contemporary European History, 2025, 1–19 (online).
• "Turning investors into citizens: internal loans in Lithuania, 1918–1922", Journal of Baltic Studies, 56:3, 2025, 423–443.
• "Ethnic Fundraising in America and the Irish and Lithuanian Wars of Independence, 1918-1923" (with R. J. C. Adams), The Historical Journal, 65:3, 2022, 707-729.
• "Les procès par contumace des militaires allemands en Belgique", 20&21 Revue d'Histoire, 147, 2020, 31-43.

Book reviews

• Tomas Balkel, Andrea Griffante, eds. The Shaken Lands. Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923, Cahiers d’histoire Russe, Est-Europeenne, Caucasienne et Centrasiatique, 65:3-4, 2024.
• Maarten Van Ginderachter, The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium, Contemporanea, Vol. XLII, 2, 2020.

Pedagogical work

• 2025–2026 – Assistant lecturer of the ULB undergraduate course “Contemporary History” (Histoire de l’époque contemporaine, HIST-B115).
• Since November 2024 – Co-organizer of the seminar “Practices of Influence in the 20th and 21st Centuries” (Pratiques d’influence aux XXe et XXe siècles) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
• February 2024 – Visiting lecturer at the Oxford University postgraduate course on academic writing.
• September 2021 – January 2022 – Assistant lecturer at the ULB postgraduate course “The social role of historians: between expertise and popularisation” (L’historien et la demande sociale, entre expertise et vulgarisation, HIST-B5000). During this course, a ten-day study trip to Lithuania was organised for ULB history postgraduate students.

Awards

• 2023 – Van Buuren Prize for excellent doctoral research results.

Contacts
vaida.niksaite@istorija.lt; vaida.niksaite@ulb.be