Awards and Prizes

Nominations for Undergrad Paper Award

Has your student written a paper on a topic related to the Baltic States? Submit it for consideration  for the AABS Undergraduate Paper Award by March 15, 2018!  Nomination guidelines and instructions are available here.

Food Culture in the Baltic States receives Vitols Award

Food Culture in the Baltic States receives Vitols Award

The Vilis Vitols Award for Best Article published in the Journal of Baltic Studies went to Diana Mincyte and Ulrike Plath for their editorship of and short introduction to special issue 46.3: Food Culture in the Baltic States. The award is usually presented to a...

AABS Awards Book Prize to Power of Song

AABS Awards Book Prize to Power of Song

Guntis Smidchens’ The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution (University of Washington Press) received the 2016 AABS book prize. Smidchens expertly depicts how music, specifically singing, was used as a form of nonviolent...

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

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

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: Ellen Cassedy for We are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian...

AABS Honors Outstanding Histories of the Baltic Countries

AABS Honors Outstanding Histories of the Baltic Countries

  This year two books shared the AABS book prize for an outstanding English-language scholarly book in Baltic Studies (humanities and social sciences) published in 2010 or 2011. AABS honors Andres Kasekamps' A History of the Baltic States (Palgrave Macmillan,...

2012 Vilis Vitols Prize Winners for Best JBS Articles

  Alan V. Murray is recognized for his article "The Saracens of the Baltic: Pagan and Christian Lithuanians in the Perception of English and French Crusaders to Late Medieval Prussia," which appeared in the December 2010 issue of the JBS. Dr. Murray presents a...

2010-2011 AABS Book Prize Recipients

Andres Kasekamps A History of the Baltic States (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) Andrejs Plakans A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

2008-2009 AABS Book Prize Recipients

Laima Laučkaitė, Art in Vilnius 900-1915 (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2008) According to the recommendation by the AABS reviewers, Art in Vilnius is a "pioneering study in art history and the city of Vilnius. It presents Vilnius as a multicultural city in which different...

2006-2007 AABS Book Prize Recipients

Katrina Z.S. Schwartz Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) Iveta Silova From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Reconceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia (IAP,...