Dr. Monika Rogers (former Kareniauskaite) specializes in Soviet and post-Soviet history, law, gender and criminality. She is currently a Researcher at the Lithuanian institute of History, Department of Twentieth-Century History.
Monika’s research and interests cover criminal prosecution systems in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania and the USSR, anti-Soviet resistance, Soviet political trials and deportations, the dissident movement and the culture of remembrance in the former Eastern Bloc. In 2017 she received a Ph.D. in History (Vilnius University). She has been a Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland, 2013-2014), a project coordinator and research assistant at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (2015), a leader of a research project on gender-based violence in twentieth-century Lithuania, a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University (2019), a visiting scholar at Bremen University (2021) and a Research Fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard University.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1495-8055