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 and evaluation of Holocaust education in Lithuania, based on extensive fieldwork and building on earlier publications. The issue of Holocaust education is of central importance to Lithuania’s integration in Europe in terms of political, cultural and educational matters.”
Dalia Leinarte, The Lithuanian Family in Its European Context, 1800-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
In its consideration of this book, the committee described it as “distinguished by the methodological diversity. [Parts of the book] present a microscopic view evaluating the subjective range of motives and perceptions of intelligentsia or peasants. At the same time, quantitative data and structural analyses are present…reconstructing long-term developmental tendencies.”
Vasilijus Safronovas, The Creation of National Spaces in a Pluricultural Region; The Case of Prussian Lithuania (Academic Studies Press, 2016)
The review committee commented that “this fascinating study makes a valuable and fresh contribution to recent historiography about Lithuania, as scholars have recovered multiple older meanings, usages, and imaginings of ‘Lithuania’ as a concept, often in significant contrast to current usage as the designation of a nation-state that has regained independence and statehood.”
Other Awards and Prizes News
AABS Book Prize Awarded to Una Bergmane for “Politics of Uncertainty”
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Una Bergmane has been awarded the 2024 AABS Book Prize for her monograph Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. The...
AABS Awards Vilis Vītols Prize to Best JBS Articles for 2022 and 2023
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce its selection of two Journal of Baltic Studies (JBS) articles to receive the 2022 and 2023 Vilis Vītols Article Prize. Kadri Aavik and Maarja Saar have been awarded the 2022 Prize for their...
AABS Announces 2022 Winners of the Undergraduate Paper in Baltic Studies Award
The AABS Board is pleased to announce two 2022 recipients of the Undergraduate Paper in Baltic Studies Award: Zachary Egan, for his paper "The Impact of Polish Culture on the Formation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569," and Ido Kons, for his paper, "A...