Karolis Dambrauska
Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, (visiting March-June 2024)
Email: dambrauskas@ces.lt
Karolis Dambrauskas is a junior researcher in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre of Social Sciences. His doctoral dissertation looked at the nexus of post-socialist land restitution and ethnicity (‘Mapping Ethnicity-Property Nexus: Framing and Negotiating Ethnicity in the Process of Land Restitution in South-Eastern Lithuania‘, 2022). As an independent expert, Karolis was involved in projects and research on minority contributing to following international projects: “Minority Institutions in Post-Communist Europe” (Queen’s University, Canada), “Minority Participation and Representation in National Societies” (EURAC Research, Bolzano Italy). Karolis Dambrauskas has published on national minorities in Lithuania as well as on relationship between nationalism and the economy. He is currently conducting a comparative postdoctoral research at Vilnius University on the nexus between ethnicity and post-socialist land restitution reforms in ethnically mixed regions of Lithuania, Slovakia and Romania.
She is interested in and collaborates on research on topics such as nationalism, ethnicity, national minorities and post-socialist anthropology.
Agarin T, Dambrauskas K. Pork Barrel and Identity Politics: Explaining a Minority Party’s Electoral Success in Lithuania. Nationalities Papers. Published online 2024:1-20. doi:10.1017/nps.2024.60
Popyk, A., Lesińska, M., & Dambrauskas, K. (2023). The evolution of post-accession diasporas and diaspora policies after 2004: a comparative analysis of Poland and Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies, 55(1), 69–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2180043
Dambrauskas, K. 2021. Re-interpretation of the Nationalism-Economy Nexus: Nation-State Building via Neoliberal Reforms During Post-Socialist Transformations in the Baltic States.//Filosofija. Sociologija. Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla. 2021, T. 32, Nr. 2, p. 141-149. ISSN 0235-7186.
Dambrauskas, K., Baradziej, E. 2021. “Don’t tell me that I don’t exist”:The construction and practice of Macedonian national identity.// Anthropology of East Europe Review, 37(1). p. 156-170. ISSN 2153-2931.
Dambrauskas, K. 2017. Minority Response to Ethnic Democracy: Poles in Lithuania after EU Accession.//Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2017. Vol. 3. No 4, p. 66-86. ISSN 2416-089X.