Rūta Vyšniauskaitė completed her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Birmingham in 2022 and earned a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in 2023. In 2025, she began her doctoral studies at the IIRPS (VU IIRPS) and is preparing a dissertation titled “Where Does the Lithuanian Political Community Begin and End? A Study of Public History Practices and Political Self-Identification in the Vilnius Region” (supervisor Prof. Dr. Violeta Davoliūtė).
She is also a recipient of the AABS Dissertation Grant for 2026–2027. Since 2023, she has been working as an international research projects administrator at VU IIRPS.
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