Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės institutas / Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Tomasz Blaszczak
(Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania project lead)
Tomasz Błaszczak is a research fellow at the Czesław Miłosz Center in Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania) and part time research fellow at the Lithuanian Studies Unit at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. He also teaches at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities at Vytautas Magnus University. Tomasz holds a PhD in History from Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). His research interests include minority issues in the Baltic Sea Region and the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the interwar period. He is the author of Białorusini w Republice Litewskiej 1918-1940 (Białystok, 2017) (Belarusians in the Lithuanian Republic 1918-1940), and a member of several associations, including The Institute of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Rūstis Kamuntavičius
Director of the Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Associate professor, Department of History & Head of Czesław Miłosz Center, Vytautas Magnus University
Main fields of interest: The history, politics, culture and national narratives of Lithuania, Poland and Belarus; historical relations between Lithuania and Western European countries since the Middle ages. Full biography: rustis.lt/biografija
Tadas Šaulys
Tadas is an assistant in the Institute of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. PhD student at Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History. Historian at Kretinga Museum.
Scientific interests: History of interwar Lithuania, role of intellectual elite in public space in interwar Lithuania.
Ričardas Jaramičius
Ričardas is an assistant in the Institute of Grand Duchy of Lithuania and a PhD student at Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History.
Main scientific interests: Grand Duchy of Lithuania nobility in public life, the second half of the 16th century – the first half of the 17th century.