The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of several awards in their 2022-2023 cycles. For more information on each award and its recipient, please click the appropriate link below.Jānis Grundmanis Fellowships for...
Dissertation Grants
Oliver Aas, Marija Norkunaite, Liisi Veski, and Laima Vincė to Receive 2021–2022 Dissertation Grants
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Oliver Aas, Marija Norkunaite, Liisi Veski, and Laima Vincė have been awarded the 2021–2022 Dissertation Grants for Graduate Students. The Dissertations Grants of up to $4,000 support...
Russian Information Operations in Estonia and Latvia: How the AABS Dissertation Grant Advanced my PhD Project
I was honored to receive the 2020 Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students on March 11, 2020, for my research project titled "Polarization and Paralysis: Russian Information Operations in Estonia and Latvia." The project’s core argument held that the objective of...
Intelligence and Identities in the Soviet Union, 1918–1953: How the AABS Dissertation Grant Advanced my PhD Project
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies generous funding enabled me to conduct necessary research in Latvia for my dissertation, Surveillance’s Double-Edged Sword: Intelligence and Identities in the Soviet Union, 1918-1953. The Dissertation Grant Award...
German Monuments in the Baltic Lands, and Their Many Afterlives: A Report on How the Dissertation Grant Advanced My Research
I am very grateful to the Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies for the Dissertation Grant Award that I received in spring 2019. My research focuses on the relationship between architectural heritage and contemporary society in various historical moments...
2020 Birnitis, Grundmanis, Saltups, Emerging Scholar, and Dissertation Awardees Announced
This year, AABS received twenty-six solid applications for its Birnitis, Grundmanis, Saltups, Emerging Scholar, and Dissertation grants and fellowships. Ineta Dabašinskienė, AABS' Vice President for Professional Development, reports that the higher number of...
2019 Birnitis, Grundmanis, Emerging Scholar, and Dissertation Awardees Announced
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...
Art, Artists and 19th c. Colonialism in the Baltic Provinces
Bart Pushaw received a 2018 Dissertation grant to complete archival research for his dissertation in Latvia. He will complete his PhD in Art History at the University of Maryland this spring. My dissertation “The Global Invention of ‘Art’: Race and Visual Sovereignty...
Dissertation grant supports archival research on LGBTQ history in Soviet Baltic
Feruza Aripova is a PhD Candidate in World History at Northeastern University, Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. My dissertation project,...