Vitols Article Prize

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 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...

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...

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...

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...