Audrius Justinas Rickus
- Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Audrius Rickus is a Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow with the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. He joined Yale from the University of Virginia, where he earned his PhD in History in 2026.
Audrius’s research deals with issues in twentieth-century international history. He is currently working on a book manuscript, which is based on his dissertation "The Global Concert: France and the International Order, 1974-1983." It analyzes French foreign policy to examine the crisis of democratic capitalism of the 1970s and 1980s, the relationship between the Global North and South, the rise of the neoliberal world order, and the intensification of European integration in the late twentieth-century.
Education
- PhD in History, University of Virginia, 2026
- MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas, 2020
- Master's in Economic Law, Sciences Po, Paris, 2018
- BA in History and Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, 2016