Memories and Facades: Award-winning Books Look at Baltic Region

Aug 30, 2014

The recipients of the biennial AABS Book Prize and the annual Vilis Vitols Award for Best Article were announced at the Yale Conference on Baltic and Scandinavian Studies. Two authors split the book award:

we-are-here-bkbaltic-facadesEllen Cassedy for We are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust (University of Nebraska Press) and Aldis Purs for Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since 1945 (Reaktion Books—Contemporary Worlds.)

 

Epp Annus received the Vilis Vitols Award for 2012. Her article, “The Problem of Soviet Colonialism,” appeared in the Journal of Baltic Studies, issue 43.1. The 2013 award went to Kersti Lust for “The Impact of Baltic Emancipation Reforms on Peasant-Landlord Relations: A Historiographical Survey,” published in the Journal of Baltic Studies, issue 44.1.