National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Dr. Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė is a historian, Deputy Director General for Culture and Science of the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Vilnius), and Senior Researcher at the Department of the History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius). The main directions of her scholarly interests include social and political history of the 18th century Grand Duchy of Lithuania (political elite of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, noble confederations), dissemination of Enlightenment ideas in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Development of state institutions in modern times, partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė is the author and co-author or editor of 24 books and over 100 published papers in the fields of social and political history.