Jokubauskas, Vytautas

2009 to 2013, a PhD student in history at Klaipėda University and of the Lithuanian Institute of History. On 2013, prepared PhD thesis: “The Lithuanian Military Doctrine and Its Implementation in the Context of the Countries of the North-Eastern Baltic Region in the Period 1923-1940”(under scientific supervision of Doc Dr Vygantas Vareikis). In 2014, the thesis was awarded a laureate diploma for the Best PhD Thesis for 2013 by the Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers. In 2011–2012, he taught in the capacity of an assistant lecturer at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, of Klaipėda University, 2014–2015 as a lecturer of the Department, and as of 2016 as an associate professor. In 2013, junior research fellow, research fellow in 2014, and from 2016 senior research fellow at the Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology of Klaipėda University. In 2022, he was awarded an academic title of docent (associate professor) by the Senate of Klaipėda University. Author of the monographs: “The Power of “Small Armies” and Paramilitarism: the Case of Interwar Lithuania“ (2014) and “An Indirect Approach and the Military Safety of Lithuania in 1919–1940 (2019)“, and a co-author of collective monographs: “The Will to Resist: Paramilitarism and the Problems of Lithuanian National Security“ (2015) and “The Great War in Culture and in Society: Lithuania and East Prussia“ (2018) as well as an author and co-author of more than forty research articles in the Lithuanian, English, Ukrainian, German and Russian languages. For special achievements in strengthening national defence, he was awarded National Defence System of the Republic of Lithuania Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service and Diploma in 2016. On November 9, 2018, he was granted an acknowledgment “for an exclusive contribution to the writing of Lithuanian modern history, active education activities and for the promotion of timeless values – truth, freedom, responsibility and common good” by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania.
From 2017, supervisor of Mindaugas Sereičikas PhD thesis “The Experiences of Lithuanian Civilian Populations in the Armed Conflicts (1918–1923)” in humanities (H 005 History and Archaeology) (under competition-based funding provided by the Research Council of Lithuania for a PhD project KD-17001). Since 2022, he has supervised the preparation by Nerijus Černius of his PhD thesis in humanities (H 005 History and Archaeology) “Military Conscription in Lithuania: the (non-) Desire to Serve in the Armed Forces, 1919–1940”.