The AABS Board is pleased to announce that seven scholars and graduate students have been awarded the following 2019 grants and fellowships.
The Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia
Kristine Bekere
Latvian Academy of Sciences Baltic Strategic Studies Centre
For the proposed research project, Activities of Latvian Exiles to sustain the idea of independence of Latvia
Jānis Grundmanis Postgraduate Fellowship for Study in the U. S.
Renate Prancane
Hunter College
Research Grants for Emerging Scholars
Laura Dean
Millikin University
For the proposed research project Gender dynamics both feminist and anti-feminist in Latvian politics
Catherine Gibson
European University Institute
For the proposed research project Mapping Religious Communities in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire
Eleonory Gilburd
University of Chicago
For the proposed research project Weary Sun: Tango in Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia
Dissertation Grants for Graduate Students
Kristina Jõekalda
Estonian Academy of Arts
For the proposed research project Local and National in the 19th-Century Baltic Heritage Discourse
Alexandra Sukalo
Stanford University
For the proposed research project Surveillance’s Double-Edged Sword: Intelligence and Identities in the Soviet Republics, 1918-1953