Artūras Vasiliauskas

Artūras Vasiliauskas is employed at the Nordic Council of Ministers and coordinates financial support projects for the European Humanities University, the Belarusian institution of higher education operating in exile in Vilnius. He also teaches cultural and social history and historical anthropology at the Department of History in Vilnius University. In 2001–2005 he was director of the Invisible College Lithuania, a non-profit institution which provided gifted university students with supplementary training in research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He received his doctoral degree from King’s College, University of London, for a thesis on “Local Politics and Clientage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1587–1632” in 2001. His research interests lie in the political culture and legal mentality of the Lithuanian nobility in the seventeenth century. His recent publications include “Antyk i sarmatyzm,” in Kultura Wielkiego Ksiestwa Litewskiego: analizy i obrazy (Cracow, 2006), 1–21.

[from page xiii of Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth, published in 2009]