Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1996
Guntis Šmidchens has research interests in Baltic Studies; Baltic Languages and Cultures; Folklore; Russian Folklore; Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages and literatures. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic, Executive Board member at the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and past President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS).
Teaching:
- Baltic History (Scand 454/HSTEU 454)
- Baltic Cultures (Scand 345/JSISA 345)
- Baltic Politics and Society Today (Scand 455/JSISA 455)
- The Baltic States and Scandinavia (Scand 344/JSIS A 344)
- Introduction to Scandinavia (Scand 100)
- Introduction to Folklore Studies (Scand 230/C Lit 230)
- Folk Narrative (Scand 331/C Lit 331)
- Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Languages