Memory and Justice Research Center at Mykolas Romeris University, NGO “Platform of European Memory and Conscience”
Dr. Monika Rogers is a Lithuanian historian specialising in the history of law, crime, and criminal prosecution in Lithuania and the USSR, post-Soviet transformation, transitional justice, genocide, repressions, crimes against humanity, victimology, and historical memory. She began her career at the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania in 2010 and earned a PhD in History from Vilnius University in 2017.
Dr. Rogers has held various academic and research positions, including Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen (2013-2014) and Project Coordinator at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (2015-2016). She co-authored the Lithuanian section in “Honoring Civil Courage: Developing Suggestions to Improve the Situation of Victims of Communist State Crimes” and led multiple research projects, notably at Vytautas Magnus University on gender-based violence in 20th century Lithuania.
In 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University and has worked at universities in Germany, Hungary, Sweden, and the USA, including Harvard as a Fulbright scholar in 2022. Dr. Rogers was a 2020/21 fellow of the “Re: Constitution – Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe”.
From 2022–2023, she researched universal jurisdiction for investigating war crimes in Ukraine at the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice as part of the “Create Lithuania” (Kurk Lietuvą) program. Currently, she heads the Memory and Justice Research Center at Mykolas Romeris University and works in other Lithuanian academic institutions; she also serves on the Supervisory Board of the NGO “Platform of European Memory and Conscience”.