Vilius Kubekas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, Lithuania. He holds a Doctoral degree in Comparative History from Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He has previously been granted fellowships at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany, the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, Germany, and the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include the intellectual history of East Central Europe, the intersection of politics and religion, and modern European political history.

His current project investigates the creation of the philosophical and political outlook of Lithuanian Catholicism during the Great War and its aftermath, focusing on Stasys Šalkauskis (1886–1941), the leading Lithuanian Catholic philosopher in the interwar period, and intellectuals connected with him. Exploring how their key ideas were first formulated during the Great War and institutionalized in interwar Lithuania, the project asks about the relationship between philosophy and politics in that particular juncture of time.

Another project he is currently working on concerns the history of Christian democracy in East Central Europe, focusing on its development from 1945 to the present day.