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Neringa Klumbytė

Antropologijos ir Rytų Europos ir Rusijos studijų profesorė.

Išsilavinimas

1996 metais Vytauto Didžiojo universitete įgijo bakalauro laipsnį (Lietuvių kalba ir literatūra, psichologija). JAV Ilinojaus universitete Čikagoje 1997 metais pabaigė magistrą (Slavų ir Baltų kalbos ir literatūra, Antropologija). 

2000-2004 m. studijavo Sociologiją (doktorantūros programa) Vytauto Didžiojo universitete. 2006 metais Pitsburgo universitete, JAV įgijo daktaro laipsnį (Antropologija, Rytų Europos studijos, Vakarų Europos studijos, Europos Sąjungos studijos).

 

Pagrindinės mokslinių interesų kryptys

Baltijos šalys XX-XXI amžiuje; Rytų Europa ir Rusija; Ukraina; totalitariniai ir autoritariniai režimai; suverenumas; (ne)saugumo geopolitika; Holokaustas  ir genocidas; žmogaus teisės ir istorinis teisingumas; postkonfliktinės visuomenės; (post)kolonializmas, nacionalizmas, ir etniškumas; atminties studijos;; rinkiminė politika; politinis dalyvavimas; propaganda ir cenzūra; politinė satyra ir humoras; maistas; vartojimas, ir marketingas.

 

Mokslinis darbas

Mokslinė bendradarbė Vytauto Didžiojo universitete, socialinės antropologijos centre (nuo 2005 m.)

Havighursto Rusijos ir Postsovietinių studijų centro, Antropologijos departamento, lektorė, Miamio universitete (2008-2013 m.) 

Havighursto centro Rusijos ir Postsovietinėms studijoms Lietuvos programos direktorė, Miamio universitetas, JAV (nuo 2013 m. iki 2022 m.)

Vizituojanti tyrėja Lietuvos socialinių mokslų centro etninių studijų institute (2016-2018 m.)

Miamio universiteto J. E. Dolibois europinio centro Liuksemburge, docentė (2017 m. vasara)

Lietuvos programos direktorė Miamio universitete (nuo 2018 m.)

Miamio universiteto antropologijos departamento profesorė (nuo 2022 m.)

 

Publikacijos

Einamieji tyrimai

The Matter of Historical Violence: Robbery of Jewish Property and Possessions during the Holocaust in Lithuanian Provinces. With Dovilė Budrytė. Under review by Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Ideologies of Sovereignty and Representation of Soviet and German Occupations in Lithuania’s Leading Museums. With Dovilė Budrytė. Under review by Europe Asia Review.

Holocaust Moral Materialities: Human Rights and Local Historical Justice in Lithuania. With Dovilė Budrytė. To be Submitted to Global International Quarterly.

A Woman in a Military Overcoat: A Story of the WWII Veteran. Forthcoming.

Knygos, redaguoti leidiniai

2012 Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85. Co-editor with Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. Lexington Books.

2018 Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania: Ideas, Experiences, and Contexts. Coauthored with Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Andrius Marcinkevičius, and Kristina Šliavaitė. Vilnius: Socialinių tyrimų centras. 320 p. In Lithuanian.

2022 Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia Lithuania. Cornell UP. Winner of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Women’s Forum Award. Reviews in: Slavic Review; The Russian Review; The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review; Ab Imperio; Ethnologia Polona; Lituanus; Lietuvos Etnologija; Lietuvos Žurnalistų Sąjunga.

2024  Autoritarinis juokas: Politinis humoras ir sovietinė distopija Lietuvoje. (Translation and new edition of Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia Lithuania (Cornell UP). Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras.

Redaguoti moksliniai leidiniai

2013 Humor and Politics in Europe. Perspectives on Europe 43 (2): i–76.

2014 War, Sovereignty, and Social Change in Ukraine. Perspectives on Europe 44 (2): 1–99.

2014 Justice and Unfairness: Ethics of Law and Politics in Europe. Perspectives on Europe 44 (1): 1–89.

2015 Secrecy, Spectacle, and Power. Co-edited with Cristina Vatulescu. Perspectives on Europe 45 (1): 1–129.

2017 Guest editor for Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija special issue “Extraordinary Everyday: Society, History, and Power.” Co-edited with Kristina Šliavaitė. In Lithuanian and English. 2017 (17): 1–246.

2023 Guest editor Ethnologia Polona special issue “Research and Ideological (Dis)Engagement.” Co-edited with Cathy Wanner. 2023 (40): 1–204.

 

Redaguoti žurnalų forumai

2015 Ab Imperio Forum “Sovereign Futures: Politics of Justice and Governance in Lithuania, Kyrgystan, and Russia” (2): 155–251.

2019 Slavic Review Critical Discussion Forum “New War Frontiers and the End of Post-Socialism.” 78 (2): 325–367.

Recenzuojamose moksliniuose leidiniuose

1999 The Low Lithuanian Language in Kazimieras Prialgauskis’ Spasabai (1845) and Naujas altorius (1847). Archivum Lithuanicum 1: 106–114. In Lithuanian.

2000 Deconstructing the Scientific Paradigm of Traditional Ethnography in Postmodern Anthropology. Sociologija 1: 88–99. In Lithuanian.

2000 Narrative and Symbolic Construction of “Nation” in Lithuania in 1988–1991. Sociologija 4: 51–62.

2001 Mapping Problems in Ethnography: a Critique of Traditional Methods of Analysis. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 1: 261–274. In Lithuanian.

2003 Ethnographic Note on Nation: Narratives and Symbols of the Early Post-Socialist Nationalism in Lithuania. Dialectical Anthropology 27 (3–4): 279–295.

2004 People at the Margins of History: Memories of Soviet Times and Experiences of the Present in Village Communities. Politologija 3 (35): 63–83. In Lithuanian.

2009 Post-Socialist Sensations: Nostalgia, the Self, and Alterity in Lithuania. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 9 (18): 93–116.

2010 The Soviet Sausage Renaissance. American Anthropologist 112 (1): 22–37.

2010 Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies 41 (3): 295–313.

2011 Political Intimacy: Power, Laughter, and Coexistence in Late Soviet Lithuania. East European Politics and Societies 25 (4): 658–677.

2011 Europe and Its Fragments: Europeanization, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Provinciality in Lithuania. Slavic Review 70 (4): 844–872.

2013 Nation and Liberation: Remembering the National Movement for Independence (1987–1991) in Post-Soviet Lithuania. Ab Imperio. 2: 253–277.

2014 Communist Propaganda, Artistic Opposition, and Laughter in the Lithuanian Satire and Humor Journal Šluota, 1964–1985. Lituanus 63: 5–30.

2014 Of Power and Laughter: Carnivalesque Politics, Political Opposition, and Moral Citizenship in Lithuania. American Ethnologist 3: 473–490.

2017 Laiškų institucija ir kritinis pilietiškumas satyros ir humoro žurnale “Šluota” (Letters to The Broom: Laughter and Politics in Soviet Everyday Life). In: “Social Change and Everyday Life in Eastern Europe.” Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 17: 43–76. In Lithuanian.

2017 Bipolinės istorinio teisingumo struktūros ir politinė atskirtis. Lietuvos rusakalbių prisiminimai apie Antrąjį pasaulinį karą Lietuvos ir Rusijos istorijos politikos kontekste (Political Exclusion and Bipolar Structures of Historical Justice. Lithuanian Russian Memories of WWII in the Context of the Politics of History in Lithuania and Russia). Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 2 (41): 136–167. In Lithuanian.

2019 Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier. Slavic Review 78 (2): 336–347. Part of the Critical Discussion Forum “New War Frontiers and the End of Post-Socialism.”

2021 Sovereignty and political belonging in post-Soviet Lithuania: ethnicity, migration, and historical justice. With Kristina Šliavaitė. Journal of Baltic Studies 3.

2022 Goddess in Disguise: Transsociality, Idiosyncracy, and the Art of Living. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 12 (2): 544–564.

2022 Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine. Current History 121 (837): 264–270.

2023 Rožytė—Vilniaus legenda: laisvė, mados estetika ir mistika Vidutės Gumbytės Vilniaus istorijoje. (Rosie as a Vilnius Legend: Freedom, Fashion Aesthetics, and Secrecy in Vidutė Gumbytė’s Vilnius Story). Lietuvos etnologija: socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos 23 (32): 47–79. In Lithuanian.

2024 Ukrainian War Humor and Civic Activism in 2022. Nationalities Papers. With Kateryna Yeremieieva. 31 October 2024. Pp. 1–38.

Monografijų, knygų skyriai

2008 The Post-Soviet Publics and Nostalgia for Soviet Times. In: Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe. Ingo Schroeder and Asta Vonderau, eds. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia. Max Planck Institute. LIT Verlag.

2009 The Geopolitics of Taste: “Euro” and “Soviet” Sausage Industry in Lithuania. In: Food and Everyday Life in Postsocialist World. Melissa L. Caldwell, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2011 Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania. In: Memory and Pluralism in the Baltic States. Routledge. Pp. 19–37.

2012 Soviet Ethical Citizenship: Morality, the State, and Laughter in Lithuania. In: Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85. Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, eds. Lexington Books. Pp. 91–116.

2012 Introduction. In: Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85. Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, eds. Lexington Books. Pp. 1–14.

2018 Tautybių atskirties ir bendrystės ideologijos istorinio teisingumo politikoje, viešoje ir kasdieninėje erdvėje (Ideologies of Ethnic Exclusion and Coexistence in the Politics of Historical Justice, Public and Everyday Space). In: Socialinis ir istorinis teisingumas daugiaetninėje Lietuvos visuomenėje: sampratos, patirtys ir kontekstai (Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania: Ideas, Experiences, and Contexts). Vilnius: Lithuanian Social Research Center. Pp. 101–139. In Lithuanian.

2018 Socialinio teisingumo sampratos ir patirtys: saugumas, lygybė, pasitikėjimas. (Ideas and Experiences of Social Justice: Security, Equality, and Trust). In: Socialinis ir istorinis teisingumas daugiaetninėje Lietuvos visuomenėje: sampratos, patirtys ir kontekstai (Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania: Ideas, Experiences, and Contexts). Vilnius: Lithuanian Social Research Center. Pp. 237–273. (co-authored with Kristina Sliavaite and Monika Frejute-Rakauskiene). In Lithuanian.

2019 “Joke” Elections: Satirical Activism and Political Opposition in Lithuania’s Electoral Politics. In: The Politics of Joking: Anthropological Engagements by Jana Kopelent-Rehak and Susanna Trnka, eds. New York: Routledge. Pp. 37–51.

2020 Sovereign Pain: Liberation and Suffering in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Lithuania. In: Norris, Stephen, ed. Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. Pp. 23–45.

2022 “Soviet Dystopia: Public Spaces and Modern Materialities in Late Soviet Lithuania.” In: Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania: Generational Experiences. Laima Žilinskiene and Melanie Ilic, eds. Routledge.

2025 Defending memory at the frontiers of war in Europe. In Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis. Erica Resende, Dovile Budryte, and Douglas Becker, eds. Routledge. 2025.

 

Recenzijos ir apžvalgos, enciklopediniai įrašai

Review of Baltic Postcolonialism. Kelertas, Violeta, ed. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. Published in the Chicago daily Draugas. 2006. June 17. No. 117. Pp. 6–8.

Review of Baltic Postcolonialism. Kelertas, Violeta, ed. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006 East European Politics and Societies. 2007, 21 (2): 382–392.

Review of From Pioneers to Target Group: Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community. Kristina Sliavaite. Lund, Sweden: Department of Sociology, Lund University, 2005. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 2008, 8 (17): 163–167. In Lithuanian.

Review of Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia. Buckley, Cynthia J., Ruble, Blair A., with Erin Trouth Hofmann, eds. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Perspectives on Politics.

“Socialism.” Entry for Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Vincent N. Parrillo et al., eds. SAGE Publications, Inc. 2008.

Review of Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class. Jennifer Patico. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Anthropology of East Europe Review 2009, 27 (3): 258–259.

Review of Re-visioning Europe: Frontiers, Place Identities and Journeys in Debatable Lands. Ullrich Kockel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 2011, 11 (20): 182. In Lithuanian.

Review of Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. Timothy de Waal Malefyt and Robert J. Morais. London: Berg, 2012. 186 pp. American Ethnologist 2012, 41 (4): 785–786.

Review of Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow. Jarrett Zigon. Leiden: Brill, 2010. East Central Europe 2013 (40): 381–382.

Review of A Death Transformed: The Political and Social Consequences of Romas Kalanta’s Self Immolation, Soviet Lithuania, 1972. Amanda Jeanne Swain. Russian Studies Dissertation Reviews. 2014. http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6235.

Review of After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia. Jessica Greenberg. Stanford University Press, 2014. Anthropology of East Europe Review 2014, 32 (2): 91–92.

Review of Sąjūdžio ištakų beieškant: Nepaklusniųjų tinklaveikos galia (In Search of Sąjūdis Orignis: The Networking Power of the Dissobedient). Jūratė Kavaliauskaitė and Ainė Ramonaitė, eds. Baltos lankos, 2011. Lithuanian Historical Studies 2014 (19): 221–225.

Review of Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era. Ideology and Exchange. Dina Fainberg and Artemy M. Kalinovsky, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. The Russian Review 2017 76 (3): 581–582.

Review of Sovietinis ,,generalgubernatorius”: Komunistų partijų antrieji sekretoriai Sovietų Sąjungos respublikose. Saulius Grybkauskas. Vilnius: Lietuvos istorijos institutas, 2016. Lithuanian Historical Studies 2017 (21): 204–208.

Review of The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania. Gediminas Lankauskas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Lietuvos etnologija: socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos 2017 (17): 215–218.

Review of Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands. Epp Annus. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Slavic Review 78 (2). 2019.

Review of State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture by Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol. Oxford University Press, 2024. Slavic Review 82 (4): 1105-1106.

Review of Marija Gimbutas Transnational biography, feminist reception, and the Controversy of Goddess Archaeology. Routledge. Lietuvos etnologija.

 

Apdovanojimai, įvertinimai

1995 Award of Distinction from Canadian Lithuanians.

1996 Vytautas Magnus University Rector B.Vaškelis’ Award of Distinction and the World Lithuanian Community Foundation Scholarship for the M.A. studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

1999 FULBRIGHT scholarship (IIE) for doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

2001 Lithuanian Foundation grant for doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

2001 Teaching Assistantship, University of Pittsburgh.

2002 Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.

2011 The Faculty Diversity Award nominee, Miami University.

2014 Miami University College of Arts and Science Distinguished Educator nominee.

2014 The Humanities Center Grant for the Conference “The Topos of Justice,” Miami University ($2,000).

2014 Havighurst Center Grant for the Conference “The Topos of Justice,” Miami University ($24,000).

2015 Havighurst Center Grant for founding and coordinating a Russian Language Summer School for Miami University students at Vilnius University, Lithuania ($10,000).

2015 Havighurst Center Grant for the Conference “Statehood and Its Discontents” in Vilnius Lithuania, Miami University ($20,000).

2015 The Altman Scholar, Humanities Center, Miami University.

2015 Miami University College of Arts and Science Distinguished Educator Award.

2020 Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence Fellow.

 

Kontaktai

El. paštas: neringa.klumbyte@istorija.lt