Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Director, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Jackson School of International Studies
Fields of Interest
Education
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1996
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
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Selected Research
- DuBois, Thomas A., and Guntis Šmidchens. “Kristin Kuutma (1959–2025).” The Journal of American Folklore 139 (January 2026), pp. 219–21.
- Guntis Šmidchens, A Chain of Friendship: Reflections on the Baltic Way and Inspiration for Belarus. Foreign Policy Research Institute Baltic Bulletin, 31 August 2020.
- Guntis Šmidchens, Dziesmu vara: Nevardarbīga nacionālā kultūra Baltijas dziesmotajā revolūcijā. Latvian Translation of Power of Song, 2014. Riga, Latvia: Apgāds Mansards, 2017.
- Guntis Šmidchens, "A Heritage of Baltic Song Celebration Songs." Culture Crossroads 9 (2016): 7-19
- Guntis Šmidchens, "Singing Revolution, Past and Present" Foreign Policy Research Institute Baltic Bulletin, 12 October 2016
- Baltimaade üldlaulupidude laulutraditsioonid ja pärand. Mäetagused 63 (2016): 21-34.
- Guntis Šmidchens. Entries on "Riga" (published 2015) "Tallinn," and "Vilnius" (forthcoming) Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Guntis Šmidchens. The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Cultures in the Baltic Singing Revolution. University of Washington Press and Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Remembering the Baltic Singing Revolution on the National Mall, 1998." Washington DC: Smithsonian Folklife Festival: 2013.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Latvia, Poetry of." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed. 2012. 793-795.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Estonia, Poetry of." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed. 2012. 459-461.
- Guntis Šmidchens, "Herder and Lithuanian Folksongs," Lituanus 56,1 (2010): http://www.lituanus.org/2010/10_1_05%20Smidchens.html
- "My Motorcycle" 19 poems by Imants Ziedonis. Latvian Literature #7 (2008): 5-38.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Introduction: Fighting for Liberty in Lithuania." Lionginas Baliukevičius: The Diary of a Partisan. Vilnius: Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, 2008. 11-24.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "National Heroic Narratives in the Baltics as a Source for Non-Violent Political Action." Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 66.3 (2007): 484-508.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Notes on the Latvian National Epic Hero, Lacplesis." Journal of Folklore Research 43.3 (2006): 271-280.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Baltic Studies Summer Institute." Film. BALSSI Consortium: 2004.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Symposium on the Baltic in the 21st Century." Film. BALSSI Consortium: 2004.
- Guntis Šmidchens. Translation from Latvian to English, "Latvian Bourdon Songs." Baltic Voices. Harmonia Mundi, Volume 1, HMU 907311: 2003.
- Guntis Šmidchens. "Why Study Baltic Languages?" Newsnet: News of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 2003. 25-27.
Research Advised
- Toomet, Tiina. Female Agency and Violence in Danish and Estonian Folk Ballads. Master's Thesis, Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 2020.
- Roos, Liina-Ly. "Post-Soviet Identity in Nordic Fiction: Trauma of Occupation and Sex Trafficking in Sofi Oksanen's Purge and Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever." M.A. Thesis. University of Washington, 2014.
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Professional AffiliationsAssociation for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study