Team

dr. Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė
Senior researcher, head of the department

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– research on ethnic identity;
– civic and political participation of ethnic minorities groups;
– non-governmental organizations of ethnic minorities;
– manifestations of racism, ethnic intolerance and xenophobia in public discourse;
– media discourse analysis.

ORCID
Research Gate

CONTACTS:
E-mail: monika@ces.lt


dr. Andrius Marcinkevičius
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– research on ethnic identity;
– social inclusion of ethnic minorities;
– history of ethnic minorities in public discourse;
– intercultural dialogue.

ORCID
Research Gate

CONTACTS:
E-mail: andrius@ces.lt


dr. Kristina Šliavaitė
SENIOR RESEARCHER 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– socio-cultural identities;
– ethnicity and social inclusion;
– ethnic/national minority groups and equal opportunities;
– education and equal opportunities, anthropology of education.

ORCID

CONTACTS:
E-mail: kristina@ces.lt


dr. Vilana Pilinkaitė Sotirovič
RESEARCH FELLOW 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– gender and equality policies: critical frame analysis;
– social and political intersectionality;
– gender based violence;
– migration research.

ORCID

CONTACTS:
E-mail: ces@ces.lt


Dr. Karolis Dambrauskas
junior researcher 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– nationalism;
– ethnic conflicts;
– governance of ethnic minorities;
– the anthropology of the state;
– governance studies.

ORCID

CONTACTS:
E-mail: dambrauskas@ces.lt


Agnieška Avin
junior researcher, phd student 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– social inequalities and social margnalization;
– politics and ethnic minorities;
– Roma community;
– migration and (im)mobility;
– childhood studies.
 

ORCID

CONTACTS:
E-mail: agneska.avin@gmail.com


Janina Koliato
specialist

CONTACTS:
E-mail: janina@ces.lt


KORNELIJA ČEPYTĖ
phd student 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– education and equal opportunities;
– anthropology of education and policy;
– social inequality and exclusion;
– NGO and public policy;
– anthropology of food.
 

ORCID

CONTACTS:
E-mail: kornelija.cepyte@lcss.lt


NATALIA POLISHCHUK
phd student 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– transgenerational trauma;
– displacement;
– sociology of emotions;
– memory and narrative studies.

CONTACTS:
E-mail: natalia.polishchuk@lcss.lt


DR. VIDMANTAS VYŠNIAUSKAS
POSTDOCTORAL fellow

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
– regionalism ;
– ethnicity;
– nationalism;
– Polish-Lithuanian relationships in the 20th and 21st centuries.

ORCID

CONTACTS:
E-mail: vysniauskasvi@gmail.com