Welcome to the personal website of Daiva Repeckaite. This blog is predominantly in Lithuanian. Most of my English blog entries are available at the Wonderland blog.

A little bit about me. I was born on the 13th day, so I always get questions whether I feel unlucky. I have to tell you that quite the contrary – I like the number, and I believe I’m immune to superstitions. In 2003, after three fantastic years, I graduated from the Kaunas University of Technology Gymnasium (high school) and went to Vilnius University to study political science. In 2005-2006 I was an exchange student at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Since 2005 until recently I worked at the foreign news desk of the Atgimimas weekly, now I run a column on social issues. I got my MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). After coming back to Lithuania I worked as an analyst for the Public Policy and Management Institute, but in spring 2009 I left again, this time for Tokyo, Japan, where I was a visiting research fellow at the University of Tokyo. Currently I live in Israel, where I am a research student at Tel Aviv University.

Academically I’m interested in gender, ethnic and national stereotypes perpetuated by the media and advertising; cross-border migration from gender studies perspective; and culturally conditioned models of democracy.