Rate My Professor Dovile Budryte

Dovile Budrytė, Ph.D., is a professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in International Studies from Old Dominion University, a B.A. in Communications from Walsh University, and completed studies in Journalism at Vilnius University, Lithuania. In addition to her position at Georgia Gwinnett College, she serves as an invited researcher at the Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Center at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Her research interests encompass gender studies, memory politics, memory and trauma in international relations, Eastern Europe, and Baltic studies. Budrytė has published numerous articles on minority rights and memory politics, along with one single-authored book, Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States (2005), and six co-edited volumes, including Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (2025, eds. Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, Douglas Becker); Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective (2018, eds. Erica Resende, Dovile Budryte, Didem Buhari-Gulmez); Engaging Difference: Teaching Humanities and Social Science in Multicultural Environments (2017, ed. with Scott A. Boykin); Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates (2013, ed. with Erica Resende); and Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma and Empowerment in Post-Authoritarian Societies (2009, eds. with Lisa M. Vaughn and Natalya T. Riegg).

Recent peer-reviewed articles include “Continuity or Change? The Russo-Ukrainian War and Decolonization of Memory in Lithuania” (Global Studies Quarterly, 2025, with Violeta Davoliūtė); “‘Critical Situations’ and Mnemonic Legislation: Memory Politics in the Baltic States and the War in Ukraine” (The Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond, 2025); “No Peace without Justice? Two Perspectives on Historical Justice after Genocide” (Peacebuilding, 2024); and “‘A Decolonizing Moment of Sorts’: The Baltic States’ Vicarious Identification with Ukraine” (Central European Journal for International and Security Studies, 2023). In 2014, she received the University System of Georgia Excellence in Teaching Award. Budrytė served as President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) from 2022 to 2024, President-elect from 2020 to 2022, and Vice President for Publications from 2016 to 2020. In 2025, she was elected editor-in-chief of Lituanus, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Lithuanian and Baltic studies. She has delivered keynote addresses at international conferences and co-led research workshops, contributing to scholarly discourse on memory politics and trauma in global affairs.