Election statement: Vytis was awarded research grants from Norwegian Research Council, Swedish Royal Academy, British Council, the US Fulbright Commission, University of Helsinki, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology and European Commission (for Delhi University).Recently led a national project on the impact of transnationalism on the young Lithuanian migrants’loyalties, currently is a part of international projects on inequalities of mobility in the Nordic migration space and on return migrations in post-socialist European regions. Editorial board member of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and an editor of the Lithuanian Ethnology. Member of the EASA since 1998. Authored, edited and co-edited volumes, journals and articles on transnationalism, identity politics, ethnicity, nationalism, anthropological theory and methodology, post-socialist anthropology from Central East European and North American perspective. Prof. Vytis Čiubrinskas, PhD, 1993 in Ethnology, Vilnius University. Head of the Centre for Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University, Assoc. Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University. Since 1992
Nominating member: Petr Skalník (University of Hradec Králové). Supporting member: Christian Giordano (University of Fribourg).