Vytautas Petronis

PhD in Humanities, research fellow

In 1994-1998 got a Bachelor's degree in history at Vytautas Magnus University. In 1999-2001 got Master's degree in Cultural History (University of Turku, Turku/Åbo, Finland); thesis: The Creation of Spatial Imagination in the Lithuanian National Movement (end of 19th - beginning of 20th centuries). 2003-2008 PhD in History (Stockholm University, in collaboration with BEEGS (Baltic and East European Graduate School (University of South Stockholm / Södertörns högskola, Stockholm, Sweden); thesis topic: Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914. 2010-2013 - research fellow at the Herder Institute (Marburg, Germany); member of the research group Gewaltgemeinschaften (University of Gießen) and EUCOWAS (European Cooperation on War Studies, Brussels, Belgium); research project: 'Paramilitärische Verbände in Ostmitteleuropa (1918-1944) - Selbstbild, Gewaltpraxis, Soziale Dynamik am Beispiel des "Eisernen Wolfes" in Litauen'. From 1 July 2013 - Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius).

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0312-1505

Scholarships/grants

• February-April 2013 -Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Germany) scholarship
• 2010-2013 - Research grant (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany).
• 2009-2010 Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the University of Glasgow (Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC), UK)
• 2008 May-August - Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant for research work in Swedish archives (Stockholm).
• 2002-2003 - scholarship for interdisciplinary doctoral lectures at the Ostsee-Kolleg at the Nordeuropa-Instut (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany).
• 1998-1999 - G. Soros Foundation scholarship to attend interdisciplinary lectures at the Open Society College (AVK, Vilnius).

Teaching

• April 2013 - public lecture Politischer und volkstümlicher Rechtsradikalismus in Litauen, 1918-1934, held at Academia Baltica (Oeversee, Germany).
• Krieg, Systemkonsolidierung und Gewaltformen in Ostmitteleuropa (July 2011 - public lecture with Prof. Peter Haslinger) 1914-1939 (Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany).
• June 2010 - Lecturer at the Summer School organised by the Centre for Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRCEES, University of Glasgow) (Budapest, Hungary); topic: Ethnic Cartography of Central Europe: Early Ethnic Mapping of the Habsburg Empire (1840s - 1880s).
• January-February 2010 - Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Central and East European Studies (CEES, University of Glasgow); course: Social Science and Humanities Research in Russia and Central Europe: Theory and Practice.
• 2001/2002 - Seminars at Vytautas Magnus University: Scandinavian History; Lithuanian Historiography; European Regions: Historiographical Perspective; Practical Research (Oral History).

Research interests

• History of science in the 19th century (in the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires)
• Political and social history of the Russian Empire in the 19th century
• Nationalisms
• History of the First World War
• History of Europe and Lithuania 1918-1940.
• Radical right movements in the interwar period
• Historical cartography

Main scientific publications

Monographies

• Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914 (ISBN 978-91-85445-79-0, Stockholm, Intellecta, 2007), 302 p. Recenzijos: Steven Seegel, Ab Imperio 1 (2008); Theodore R. Weeks, „Putting Lithuania on the Map in Imperial Russia“ Historisk tidskrift 2 (2008) 233-237; C. Vandermotten, BELGEO 1 (2009); Mikhail Dolbilov, The Russian Review 68(2) (2009) 355-356; Nick Baron, Imago Mundi 61(2) (2009) 267-268; Jörn Happel, H-Net, Clio-online 3-139 (2009); Karsten Brüggemann, Forschungen Zur Baltischen Geschichte 4 (2009) 327-330

Articles 

• „Lietuvos tautinės apsaugos „Geležinis vilkas“ Kauno grupės veiklos bruožai 1927–1930 m.“, Istorija 125, 1 (2022), pp. 43-58
• Right-Wing Russian Organizations in the City of Vil‘na and the North Western Provinces, 1905-1915, in: The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation. Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1905-1915, Staliūnas, Darius (editor), Aoshima, Yoko (editor), 2021, p. 287-325
• Vokiečių masonų karinės ložės Lietuvoje 1916–1918 metais, in: Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 1, Vilnius, 2021, p. 83-104. 
• Radikalios rusų monarchistinės organizacijos ir jų veikla Vilniuje 1906–1914 metais, in: Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2, Vilnius, 2020, p. 85-111.
• Nuosaikiosios dešiniosios rusų visuomeninės ir politinės organizacijos Vilniuje (1905–1915), Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2019, 2, Vilnius, 2019, 137-181.
• „Guarding the honor of the nation and the prosperity of the state: National Defense of Lithuania ‘Iron Wolf’ (1928-1930)“ Journal of Baltic Studies 49:2 (2018), p. 215-239
• (Kartu su Peter Haslinger, Mathias Voigtman, Wojciech Pieniazek) „Frontiers of violence. Paramilitärs als Gewaltgemeinschaften im Ostmitteleuropa der 1920er Jahre“, in: Gewaltgemeinschaften in der Geschichte. Entstehung, Kohäsionskraft und Zerfall (hg. W. Speitkampf) (Göttingen: Vanderenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), 233-254; ISBN 978-3-525-30116-6
• Neperkirstas Gordijaus mazgas: valstybinės prievartos prieš visuomenę Lietuvoje genezė (1918–1921), Lietuvos istorijos metraštis. 2015/1 (Vilnius, 2016), p. 69-95.
• “Vilnius ir vilniečiai: miesto ir jo bendruomenių kaitos bruožai XIX a. antrosios pusės oficialiojoje spaudoje“ Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2016 1 (2016), p. 21-48
• (Kartu su Joan Esculies) "Self-proclaimed diplomats: Catalan-Lithuanian cooperation during WWI" Nationalities Papers 44:2 (2016), p. 340-356; DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2015.1087487
• “Vilniaus religinių bendruomenių santykių kaita XIX amžiaus 5–6 dešimtmečiais“ Lietuvos Istorijos Metraštis. 2014 / The Year-Book of Lithuanian History. 2014, 2 (2015), p. 5–26.
• “The Emergence of Lithuanian Radical Right (1922–1927)” Journal of Baltic Studies 46:1 (2015), p. 75­95
• Guarding Honour of the Nation and Prosperity of the State: National Defence of Lithuania “Iron Wolf” (1928-1930) / Fascism on Peripheries - sudarytojai M. Kott, T. Dulic , Uppsala (priimta spaudai 2014 m.).
• Po sporto priedanga: radikalus dešinysis judėjimas ir „Geležinio Vilko“ Sporto Sąjunga Lietuvoje (1928-1930), Lietuvos Istorijos Metraštis (priimta spaudai 2014 m.).
• (Su Peter Haslinger) Erster Weltkrieg, Systemkonsolidierung und kollektive Gewalt in Ostmitteleuropa – Litauen und der ‚Eiserne Wolf‘ / Gewaltgemeinschaften. Von der Spätantike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert – sudarytojas W. Speitkamp, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2013, p. 341-367.
• (Su Karsten Brügemann), Introduction, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, t. 60(4), 2011, p. 491-493.
• Mapping Lithuanians: The Development of Russian Imperial Ethnic Cartography, 1840s-1870s, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, t. 63(1), 2011, p. 62-75.
• Pinge, Divide et Impera: взаимовлияние этнической картографии и национальной политики в позднеимперской России (вторая половина XIX века) / Imperium inter pares: Роль трансферов в истории Российской империи (1700—1917) – sudarytojai A. Miller, M. Aust, R. Vulpius, Москва, Новое литературное обозрение, 2010, p. 308-329.
• Att (re)konstruera Litauen. Etnisk kartering i Tsarryssland 1800-1914” (švedų kalba) [(Re-)konstruojant Lietuvą. Etninė kartografija carinėje Rusijoje 1800-1914], Ymer 2008: Kartan och Verkligheten, Stokholmas: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 2008, p. 223-234.
• Nuo etninės visuomenės kūrimo iki lietuviškojo liberalizmo, Darbai ir Dienos, t. 28, Kaunas: Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla, 2002, p. 268-272.

Reviews:

• Review: „Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century. Experiences, Identites and Legacies“ // Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte 13 (2018), p. 221-224; ISSN 1736-4132  
• Review: „Kaarel Piirimäe, ‚Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Baltic Question. Allied Relations during the Second World War‘“ // Journal of Baltic Studies, 2016, p. 155-157; ISSN: 0162-9778
• Review: „Juozas Gabrys, Auf Wache für die Nation. Erinnerungen der Weltkriegsagent Juozas Gabrys berichtet (1911-1918) (Eberhard Demm, Christina Nikolajew (Hrsg.)), PL Academic Research Series (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2013), 400 S., ISBN 978-3-631-64451-5“ // Lithuanian Historical Studies, 2013, p. 218-221
• Review: kn. Tomas Balkelis, The Making of Modern Lithuania, London, New York: Routledge, 2009, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, t. 61(2), 2012. 2.    Rec. kn. Robert W Heingartner, Lithuania in the 1920s: a Diplomat’s Diary, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, The Slavonic and East European Review, t. 89(3), 2011, p. 570-571. 3.    Rec. kn. Liekis, Šarūnas. 1939: The Year that Changed Everything in Lithuania’s History, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, The Russian Review, t. 70(3), 2011, p. 531-532.

Participation in editorial boards of scientific publications:

• Lithuanian Historical Studies.Publishing institution and country: publishers: the Lithuanian Historical Institute (Lithuania) and Brill N.V. (The Netherlands). Position: editor-in-chief. Dates: from 2016 to 2025.

Contacts

Email - vytautas.petronis@istorija.lt

Phone number- (+370) 5 262 68 56