UGNĖ BARBORA STARKUTĖ is a researcher, educator and managing director of Anthropos. Ugnė is engaged in both applied and academic activities. She is a doctoral researcher at Vilnius University and a consultant anthropologist at the Lithuanian National Museum, House of Histories. Ugnė’s main areas of interest are indigenous movements, ethnicity, identity politics, coloniality and decolonisation, and minority representations.

KORNELIJA CEPYTE-EIVE’s areas of interest and current research include educational anthropology and sociology, education of students with migration experience, diversity and equal opportunities in education, nationalism and ethnic minorities, and critical policy studies. Kornelija received her master’s degree in social anthropology from Vytautas Magnus University in 2019. Currently is a PhD candidate and junior researcher at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology.

DAINA PUPKEVIČIŪTĖ is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and anthropologist researcher at Anthropos. She works in the field of environmental and ecological anthropology, focusing on multispecies relationships, such as those between humans, other animal and non-animal species, and landscapes, as well as in change in these relationships historically and in climate crisis context. She is interested in, writes about, and occasionally teaches on interdisciplinarity and mixed methods in anthropology and artistic research.

RENIDA BALTRUSAITYTE is a sociologist whose interests include the sociology of the body, sociology of art, and anthropology. She explores the body as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon, and a significant part of her work is related to circus arts, its social role, and the processes of professionalization within the cultural field.

GIEDRIUS JANKAUSKAS is interested in migration, migrant communities, and migrant integration. His research focuses on bureaucratic violence within immigration systems. Giedrius is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), and he has completed a Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology at Massey University (New Zealand).