Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History, Member and former Chairperson of the UN CEDAW Committee. Leinarte writes extensively on women and family in Imperial Russia, and former Soviet Union. She is an author of The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945-1970 (Brill, 2010). She previously won a Fulbright award (2002-2003) and American Association of University Women (AAUW) international scholarship (2005 - 2006).
