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Last week Vilnius University invited all potential candidates interested in post-doctoral fellowship at Yale, established by dr. Joseph P. Kazickas, to learn more about this opportunity.
This Fellowship provides resources for visiting scholars and researchers from Lithuania to study and organize workshops and seminars about issues relevant to the Baltic Sea region on campus of one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
John Kazickas, who just arrived in Lithuania, participated at the discussion, as well as 2017 JPK fellows at Yale Jolanta Mickute and Vaidotas Vaicaitis, and program's coordinator at Yale Bradley Woodworth joined all via telebridge. KFF directors in Vilnius and New York Agne Vertelkaite and Neila Baumiiene also joined the discussion.
Program's participants who already took advantage of such opportunity shared their experiences gained at Yale, answered all the detailed questions. Dr. Jolanta Mickutė, (former Assistant Professor of History at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania) studied the political and cultural history of Jewish women in interwar Poland, including Vilnius and the surrounding region during her time at Yale, while Dr. Vaidotas Vaičaitis (Associate Professor of Law at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania) conitinued his research on Lithuanian constitutional law within the context of current, on-going European integration.
In 1947, while in Germany, Joseph P. Kazickas received a scholarship from Yale that enabled him and his family to emigrate to America as refugees from communist Lithuania. He completed his Ph.D. in economics in 1951 and pursued a successful career as a business entrepreneur. In 2012 the Kazickas Family Foundation established the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale to support the Baltic Studies program in the MacMillan Center's Council on European Studies.
More information regarding the program and application process.
Application deadline February 1, 2019.