Memory and Justice Research Centre – Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius – Lithuania)
Dr. Monika Rogers is a Lithuanian historian, working in such fields as law, criminology, victimology, gender and memory studies. Focus: criminal prosecution system in Lithuania and the USSR, post-Soviet transformation, transitional justice, genocide, repressions, gender-based violence, historical memory and remembrance. Monika worked at various universities (Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Sweden), Yale, and Harvard (USA). She was a 2020/21 fellow of the program “re:constitution – Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe.” In 2022-2023, at the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice, she researched the phenomenon of universal jurisdiction and the potential of this legal tool to be used to investigate war crimes in Ukraine. Monika Rogers is currently a principal investigator at Mykolas Romeris University. She is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the “Platform of European Memory and Conscience.” Her most relevant publications include the following:
- Monika Rogers, “Law, Crime and the Criminal Justice System’s Transformation in Post-Soviet Lithuania: Some Trends and Functioning”, Lithuanian Historical Studies, No. 27, 2023.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Understandings of Crime and Deviance in Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania”, Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences, eds. L. Zilinskiene, M. Ilic, Routledge, 2022.
- Vilius Ivanauskas, Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Lithuania’s Cultural Elite, Born from 1970 to 1980: Group, Class and Generational Identities”, Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences, eds. L. Zilinskiene, M. Ilic, Routledge, 2022.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Gulag Prisoners, Deportees and Their Family Members in Lithuanian SSR Under and After Stalinism: Legal, Ideological and Social Definitions”, Histories (Un)Spoken. Strategies of Survival and Social-Professional Integration in Political Prisoners’ Families in Communist Central and Eastern Europe in the ’50s and ’60s, Münster, Lit Verlag, 2018.