is PhD in Sociology, works as a lector at Vytautas Magnus University
(Kaunas, Lithuania), Department of Sociology.
In 2002 she defended a doctoral thesis Environmental Consciousness
and Mass Communication: Construction of Public Opinion on the
Envirnment in the Mass Media.
She has published eight scientific articles on the problems of
Mass Communication and Environmental Sociology. Presently Kristina
Juratė is interested in Mass Media and Visual Sociology.
Kristina Juraitė studied sociolgy at Vytautas Magnus University
(1992-1996), Central European University in Warsaw (CEU, 1996-1997).
From 1997m. she teaches at Vytautas Magnus University, department
of Sociology, acitvely participating in research projects and
academic events.
Kristina Juraitė carried out research projects at different international:
Bergen University (Norway, 2000), Northwestern University (Evanston,
IL, 2000), Leipcig University (Germany, 1999-2000), Lund University
(Sweden, 1999), Oslo UniversitY (Norway, 1997) with grants of
Fulbright, DAAD, Norwegian Research Concil, Swedish institute.
Kristina Juraitė speaks English, French, German, Russian, Polish.
During the field work of A PORTRAIT OF KRAŽIAI she learned some
of the Samogitian dialect of the Lithuanian Language :)
