Dr. Rasa Navickaitė

Dr. Rasa Navickaitė received her BA in Political Science from Vilnius University (Lithuania). In 2013 she received her MA cum laude in Gender and Ethnicity from Utrecht University (the Netherlands). She defended her doctoral dissertation in Comparative Gender Studies at the Central European University in 2020 (Hungary/Austria). During her doctoral studies she received CEU fellowship for a research stay at the Research Center for Historical Studies, University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and DAAD scholarship for a research stay at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany).

Her doctoral dissertation was published by Routledge as Marija Gimbutas: Transnational Biography, Feminist Reception, and the Controversy of Goddess Archaeology (2023). It was translated to Lithuanian and published as „Marija Gimbutienė. Archeologija, Didžiosios Deivės hipotezė, feminizmas” (trans. Rima Bartašavičiūtė, Kitos knygos, 2024).

Between 2021-2024 she has worked as a research fellow at the research platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe” and has been associated with RECET- Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna (Austria). In this context she has successfully finalized her postdoctoral research project “Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania” (MoSeLit), funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual postdoctoral fellowship (MSCA-IF).

Dr. Navickaitė has been invited to give public lectures at the Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) (Germany), University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Polish, Russian and Lithuanian Studies (USA), and the Research Center for Historical Studies (RCHS) University of Groningen (the Netherlands). She publishes her research in academic and non-academic venues in English and Lithuanian language. Her primary research interests are LGBTQ people’s history, homophobia and anti-gender movements, feminist theory, gender history, Eastern Europe and (post-) socialism.

Research projects and grants

„Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania“ (MoSeLit), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship, European Commission, 2021-2023.