Šarūnas Liekis is a Lithuanian historian and political scientist. He is Professor of Politics and dean of the faculty of politics and diplomacy at the

Vytautas Magnus University Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) (, VDU) is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the interwar period as an alternate national university. Initially it was known as the University of Lithuania, but ...

(since 2010). He is an expert on inter-ethnic relations and conflicts. Liekis studied at

Vilnius University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...

1987–1993 (earning an MA), at the

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1991–1992 (earning a Diploma), at the

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1995–1996, at

Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...

1993–1998 (earning a PhD), and earned the

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at Vilnius University in 2005. He worked as a diplomat 1992–1993, as a research and teaching assistant at Brandeis University 1993–1997, as Director of Programs at the Open Society Fund Lithuania 1997–2001, as deputy director of the Center for Stateless Cultures at Vilnius University 1998–2000, as assistant professor of history at Vilnius University 1999–2000, and as

Miles Lerman Miles Lerman (January 6, 1920 – January 22, 2008) was an American activist who helped plan and create both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the memorial at the Bełżec extermination camp. Lerman, a Holocaust ...

Research Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Holocaust Studies at the

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2001–2002. He has served, ''inter alia'', as an expert for the Lithuanian government Department for Minorities (since 2003), country deputy expert for the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) at the

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(since 2002), and country deputy expert for the EU

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in Vienna (since 2003).

Selected publications

*A State within a State? Jewish Autonomy in Lithuania 1918–1925, Vilnius, Versus Aureus, 2003 *The European Union and Its New Neighborhood: Different Countries, Common Interests, two volumes, Vilnius, Mykolas Romeris University, 2005 *1939: The Year that Changed Everything in Lithuania's History, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liekis, Sarunas 21st-century Lithuanian historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of Vytautas Magnus University