Rate My Professor Dovile Budryte

Dovile Budrytė, Ph.D., is a professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in International Studies from Old Dominion University, a B.A. in Communications from Walsh University, and completed studies in Journalism at Vilnius University, Lithuania. In addition to her position at Georgia Gwinnett College, she serves as an invited researcher at the Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Center at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Her research interests encompass gender studies, memory politics, memory and trauma in international relations, Eastern Europe, and Baltic studies. Budrytė has published numerous articles on minority rights and memory politics, along with one single-authored book, Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States (2005), and six co-edited volumes, including Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (2025, eds. Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, Douglas Becker); Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective (2018, eds. Erica Resende, Dovile Budryte, Didem Buhari-Gulmez); Engaging Difference: Teaching Humanities and Social Science in Multicultural Environments (2017, ed. with Scott A. Boykin); Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates (2013, ed. with Erica Resende); and Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma and Empowerment in Post-Authoritarian Societies (2009, eds. with Lisa M. Vaughn and Natalya T. Riegg).