Rimantė Jaugaitė is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warsaw, where she is part of the MEPOST project, researching industrial heritage sites in Lithuania and Poland.

She graduated from the PhD program in Global Histories, Cultures, and Politics at the University of Bologna in March 2025. During her PhD studies, Rimantė was also a visiting researcher at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Culture and Memory Studies in Ljubljana. Her doctoral dissertation examined the artistic use of coffee rituals as a mnemonic device for commemorating the Srebrenica genocide in BiH and beyond.

She is drawn to alternative memory practices, counter-narratives and memory activism, nationalism and its impact on memory and identity, including hybrid and fluid identities. While most of her research has focused on the Balkans, Rimantė is also interested in the wider Eastern European region and holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES, University of Bologna).