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The staff
History and Overview
The Faculty of History of then Vilnius National Pedagogical University was established in 1944. From 1975 to 1989 it was named the Faculty of History-Pedagogy.
At the present, the faculty has 4 departments, Centre of History Didactics, a local students’ union and student scientific society. 4 research centres and 3 resource rooms function under the departments. The faculty ensures ideal conditions for Lithuanian and foreign students to achieve bachelor and master degrees in Humanities (fields of history and religion) along with a teacher’s qualification.
In order to coordinate the study programmes with the changing needs of the labour market, considerable attention is paid to the disciplines and competences related to Applied History (a new study programme offered by the departments of the faculty, often referred to as Public History in the Western countries), which covers the application of historical knowledge in school education and its dissemination within the society using the most modern information and communication technologies as well as the application of the results of historical research to private and public fields of activity.
The Faculty of History is: a qualified team of lecturers; a particularly active local students’ union of the university; an active and the only scientific society of history students in Lithuania; continuous development of student competencies in foreign universities on the basis of the EU ERASMUS student exchange programme; immense attention to different professional practices in the course of studies (archaeological, ethnological, regional, museum, publishing, pedagogical, archival practices, etc.) and an ideal environment for research.
The faculty has 10 professors, 17 associate professors, 11 lecturers and 4 assistant lecturers. There are currently 557 undergraduate and 27 master students.
Departments and other divisions
Department of Baltic Prehistoric Studies
Department of Catholic Religion Education
Department of Lithuanian History
Department of Universal History
Centre of History Didactics
Offered undergraduate study programmes
History
Applied History
European History
Catholic Religion Education
Offered Master study programmes
Christian Anthropological Pedagogy
Local History of Lithuania
Research topics
Department of Baltic Prehistoric Studies
Baltic world and its development
Research team: Prof. Dr. E. Jovaiša, Prof. Dr. L. Klimka, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Malonaitis, Prof. Dr. I. Vaškevičiūtė, Assoc. Prof. M. Vitkūnas.
Published: 3 monographs, 24 articles in internationally reviewed scientific publications, 16 articles in peer-reviewed Lithuanian research publications, 1 article in an international conference, 1 review of research work, 1 educational book for higher education and 26 popular science articles.
Ethnography and science literature in Lithuanian philology
Research team: Prof. Dr. L. Klimka, Prof. Dr. L. Mardosa.
Published: 2 monographs, 20 articles in international scientific publications, 51 articles in peer-reviewed Lithuanian research publications, 23 articles in international conferences, 10 articles in national conferences, 2 reviews of research works and 89 popular science articles.
Department of Universal History
Relationships between Lithuania and foreign countries from the ancient times until the present day
Research team: Prof. Dr. J. Skirius, T. Baranauskas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Kniūraitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Mickevičius, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Pukienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Šmigelskytė-Stukienė.
Universal history in the Lithuanian Culture
Research team: Prof. Dr. J. Skirius, Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Alekna, Assoc. Prof. Dr. T. Aleknienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Juzefovičius.
During 2006-2011 the researchers have published: 2 monographs, 4 research articles journals belonging to the ISI database, 28 articles in other international peer-reviewed research journals, 65 articles in Lithuanian peer-reviewed research journals, 6 articles as printed peer-reviewed national and international conference materials, 7 articles as other printed national and international conference materials, 6 educational books for universities, 22 other publications (reviews, chronicles, sources, encyclopaedias, CDs, DVDs), 76 popular science articles.
Department of Catholic Religion Education
Christian anthropology
Research team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Gudauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. rev. S. Rumšas, Dr. rev. M. Ragaišis, Dr. rev. V. Solovej.
Conference cycle: “Christian Anthropology Research”. The results were published in a local publication.
Biblical studies
Research team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Gudauskienė, B. M. J. Rollin RA.
The research team published 4 scientific articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and constructed 7 scientific source publications.
Religious education methodology
Research team: G. R. Rugevičiūtė.
Over the past 5 years the researchers have published 4 scientific articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals referred in international databases; materials for 2 international scientific conferences; 8 methodical and education books for schools; conducted 24 qualification seminars for Religion teachers.
Department of Lithuanian History
Applied history (Local history research)
Research Team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aivas Ragauskas, Prof. Dr. Habil. Liudas Truska, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robertas Jurgaitis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deimantas Karvelis, Vigintas Stancelis, Dr. Mindaugas Tamošaitis.
The researchers published 2 monographs, 7 publications in international databases, 18 publications in peer-reviewed Lithuanian journals, 7 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and organised 3 conferences.
History of Lithuanian parliamentarism
Research team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aivas Ragauskas, Prof. Dr. Habil. Liudas Truska, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robertas Jurgaitis, Dr. Mindaugas Tamošaitis.
The researchers published 1 monograph, 8 publications in international databases, 11 publications in peer-reviewed Lithuanian journals, 1 publication in a peer-reviewed international journal and organised 1 conference.
Lithuanian history science during the 20th century
Research Team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aivas Ragauskas, Dr. Valdas Selenis.
The researchers published 1 monograph, 4 publications in international databases, 2 publications in peer-reviewed Lithuanian journals, 1 publication in a peer-reviewed international journal and organised 1 conference.
Centre of History Didactics
1st topic. History teaching innovations in Lithuania and European countries
2nd topic. History teaching development in Lithuania
Research team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Benediktas Šetkus, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sandra Grigaravičiūtė, Andrius Porutis, Egidijus Miltakis.
During 2006-2011 the researchers have published: 1 monograph, 14 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, 28 articles in peer-reviewed Lithuanian journals, 14 articles as international conference materials and 2 educational books. They have also organised 3 conferences.
Past and ongoing projects
Project financed by the Research Council of Lithuania and led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Darius Alekna “Iordanis Romana et Getica: Research, translation, scientific commentary and publication”, agreement no. LIT-4-14.
Project duration: 01 04 2011 – 30 03 2012.
Project financed by the Research Council of Lithuania and led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tatjana Aleknienė “Plotinus and Gnostics: Polemic dialogue”, agreement no. MIP-004/2011.
Project duration: 01 06 2011 – 31 01 2012.
Scientific legacy of the historian Adolfas Šapoka: research and publication
Adolfas Šapoka (1906-1961) is one most talented, productive and famous 20th century Lithuanian historians. This is evidenced not only by “Lietuvos istorija” (“Hystory of Lithuania”), edited by him and published several times, but also by his several monographs, tens of articles and the political, social and economic history topics of his reviews. Main task of this project: to investigate and publish the scientific legacy of the historian Adolfas Šapoka.