Awards and Prizes

AABS Book Prize Awarded to Klaus Richter

AABS Book Prize Awarded to Klaus Richter

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies announces that Klaus Richter’s Fragmentation in East Central Europe: Poland and the Baltics, 1915-1929 has been awarded the 2022 AABS Book Prize. The biennial prize of $1,000 is awarded to an outstanding...

AABS Awards Vilis Vītols Prize to Best JBS Articles for 2020 and 2021 

AABS Awards Vilis Vītols Prize to Best JBS Articles for 2020 and 2021 

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce its selection of three Journal of Baltic Studies articles to receive the 2020 and 2021 Vilis Vītols Article Prize. The Vilis Vītols annual award of $500 is presented to the author of the best...

AABS Recognizes Best Undergraduate Papers in Baltic Studies

AABS Recognizes Best Undergraduate Papers in Baltic Studies

AABS has selected two undergraduate students, Marija Čyvas and Gintarė Daulys, to receive the 2020 AABS Undergraduate Paper in Baltic Studies Award. The AABS committee for selecting the awardees of the Undergraduate Paper Award, chaired by Student Representative...

AABS Awards Best JBS Articles for 2018 and 2019

AABS Awards Best JBS Articles for 2018 and 2019

AABS announces that it has selected three Journal of Baltic Studies articles to receive the 2018 and 2019 Vilis Vītols Article Prize. The Vilis Vītols annual award of $500 is presented to the author of the best article in a given year of the Journal of Baltic Studies....

Vilis Vītols Article Prize Winners for 2016 and 2017

Vilis Vītols Article Prize Winners for 2016 and 2017

AABS awards the Vilis Vītols prize to the best article each year published in the Journal of Baltic Studies. 2017 Prize: "Liberals and nationalism: E. H. Carr, Walter Lippmann and the Baltic States from 1918 to 1944" by Kaarel Piirimäe. The review committee...

Three Books Receive AABS Honorable Mentions

Three books received Honorable Mentions for the 2018 AABS Book Prize: Christine Beresniova, Holocaust Education in Lithuania (Lexington Books, 2017) The review committee noted that the book "makes an original, comprehensive and significant contribution to the analysis...

AABS Book Prize awarded to Julija Šukys

AABS Book Prize awarded to Julija Šukys

  The AABS Board is pleased to announce that Julija Šukys has been awarded the 2018 AABS Book Prize for Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). The review committee noted that "rigorous scholarship with...