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Researcher
In 2004–2012, studied at Vilnius University, where obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural History and Anthropology and a Master’s degree in History. In 2012–2017, was a doctoral student at Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Institute of History; on September 29, 2017, defended the doctoral dissertation titled “Crime and Punishment in the Lithuanian SSR” (as Monika Kareniauskaitė).
From 2010 to 2020, worked intermittently at the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania as a specialist, senior specialist, and head of department. In 2018–2020, research fellow and project manager at Vytautas Magnus University. In 2020–2022, worked as a research fellow at the Law Institute of Lithuania. Has been a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History since 2020. Has teaching experience.
In 2013–2014, having received a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, conducted a fellowship at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid. In 2015, received a “Memory Work” program scholarship and interned at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. In 2019, worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MacMillan Center, Yale University (USA). In 2021, conducted a fellowship at the University of Bremen in Germany. In 2021–2022, was a visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
Main research interests: Soviet and post-Soviet criminal justice system; Legal history; Gender-based violence in history and the present; Crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide; Political repression and resistance; Memory studies; Historical criminology and victimology; Digital humanities, digitalization, and culture.
Key publications:
Co-authored Monograph:
- Sigita Černevičiūtė, Monika Kareniauskaitė, „Pati kalta? Smurto prieš moteris istorija XX a. Lietuvoje“, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2021.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications:
- 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, “Smurto lyties pagrindu sampratos Lietuvoje vėlyvuoju sovietmečiu ir posovietinės transformacijos metu”, Kriminologijos studijos, 2019, Nr. 7.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Faktiškai nekreipdavo dėmesio“: sovietinė teisėsauga ir smurto prieš moteris problema istoriniuose šaltiniuose”, Genocidas ir rezistencija, 2019, Nr. 2 (46).
- 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.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Tremtinio sąvoka ir trėmimų samprata Lietuvos sovietinės okupacijos metais: teisiniai, ideologiniai, administraciniai ir socialiniai aspektai”, Genocidas ir rezistencija, 2018, Nr. 1 (43).
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “The Criminal Justice System in Soviet Russia and the USSR (1917–1953: Emergence, Development and Transfer to the Lithuanian SSR”, Lithuanian Historical Studies, No. 20, 2016.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Organizacja i funkcjonowanie drugiego obiegu wydawniczego w Litewskiej SRR”, Drugi obieg w PRL na tle samizdatu w państwach bloku sowieckiego po 1956 roku, red. Przemysław Gasztold-Seń, Natalia Jarska, Jan Olaszek, Warszawa 2016.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Anti-Communist Tendencies in Soviet Lithuania between 1956 and 1988: Shape, Contents and Development”, Lithuanians and Poles against Communism after 1956. Parallel Ways to Freedom?, eds. K. Korzeniewska, A. Mielczarek, M. Stefanowicz and M. Kareniauskaitė, Vilnius, 2015.
- Korzeniewska, A. Mielczarek, M. Kareniauskaitė, M. Stefanowicz, “Anti-Communist Opposition in Poland and Lithuania – a Similar, Common, or Parallel Phenomenon?”, Lithuanians and Poles against Communism after 1956. Parallel Ways to Freedom?, K. Korzeniewska, A. Mielczarek, M. Stefanowicz and M. Kareniauskaitė (eds.), Vilnius, 2015.
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, “Baudžiamosios teisės sistema Lietuvos SSR: genezė, specifika, ryšys su neginkluotu antisovietiniu pasipriešinimu”, Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2013, Nr. 2 (34).
- Monika Kareniauskaitė, „Lietuvos neginkluotojo antisovietinio pasipriešinimo antrosios sovietų okupacijos metais ištakos ir veiksniai“, Genocidas ir rezistencija, 2011, Nr. 2 (30)
Case Studies:
Contacts:
Email: monika.karen@aya.yale.edu
OORCID: 0000-0002-1495-8055
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