Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program
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Biography
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1996
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Guntis Šmidchens is Director of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies in UW's Jackson School of International Studies. He has research interests in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Languages, and Nordic and Baltic Folklore, Cultures, History and Politics. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic, and past President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS).
Teaching:
- Baltic Cultures (Scand 345/JSISA 345)
- Baltic History (Scand 454/HSTEU 454)
- Baltic Politics and Society Today (Scand 455/JSISA 455)
- Introduction to Scandinavia (Scand 100)
- Introduction to Folklore Studies (Scand 230/C Lit 230)
- Folk Narrative (Scand 331/C Lit 331)
- History of Scandinavia (Scand 381/HISTEU 381)
- JSIS A 504 Survey of Eurasia
- Scand 512 Institutions
- Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Languages