Dr. Rosita Garškaitė-Antonowicz

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Rosita Garškaitė-Antonowicz graduated from the Institute in 2012 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the IIRPS VU, in 2014 with a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics Magna Cum Laude, and in 2023 defended her dissertation “The role of Catholicism in everyday thinking about the European Union: Lithuanian case.” (supervised by Assoc, Prof. Dr. Inga Vinogradnaitė) and became the winner of the Best Dissertations competition.

During her studies, she had internships at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey (UK), the Centre for the Study of Political Life at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and the Institute of International Relations in Prague (Czech Republic). She strengthened her competences in qualitative methods at the ECPR Summer (2019) and Winter (2020, 2024) Methods Schools and the University of Essex Summer School (2021).

Rosita has almost ten years of experience working in the media. In 2018-2020, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the online newspaper Bernardinai.lt. She has also worked on museum exhibitions, contributed to the creation of the Centre for Civil Education, and curated the exhibition “Unforgettable Futures: Visions for Lithuania‘s Centenary”.

Research projects and grants

• 1 March 2025 – 28 February 2025 – postdoctoral fellow at the project „Religious Realignments and Democratic Resilience: A Comparative Study of Religious Responses to (geo)political Crises (RELIDEM)“, HERA/CHANSE financing, agreement No. S-HERA-25-2.
• 8 March 2021 – 31 December 2022 – junior researcher in the project “Postcommunist Transformation as Dismantling of the Soviet Modernity Project“, financed by the Research Council of Lithuania, agreement No. S-MOD-21-6.

Selected conference papers:

1. 14 March 2025, Seminar „Contemporary Histories of Populist Success in Central and Eastern Europe: Discourse, Culture, and Democratic Decline“, University of St. Andrews, „Religious Realignments and Democratic Resilience: A Comparative Study of Religious Responses to (geo)political Crises“, oral presentation.
2. 30 November 2023, Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Echoes of Polycrisis in Lithuania and the World”, with Jogilė Ulinskaitė „A look at the Lithuanian far-right: chronopolitics and emotions“, Vilnius, panel presentation.
3. 23 June 2023, Conference „Contested Legacies. Competing Central, Eastern, and Southern European narratives on authoritarian lieux de mémoire“, Jagiellonian University, Krokuva, „Post-communist Transformation as Contested Lieu de Mémoire: how people explain and right-wing populists exploit“, panel presentation.
4. 15 June 2023, The 15th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) “Turning Points: Values and Conflicting Futures in the Baltics”, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, „At home or in tension with ‘EU values’? Analyzing Lithuanian Catholic discourse“, panel presentation.
5. 28 October 2022, Conference „Christianity and Crisis in European Contexts“, Lund University, Sweden, „Lithuania – ‘the land of Mary’ or ‘the land of EU regulations’? How far-right narrate EU crisis and Catholics respond“, panel presentation.