Beatričė Juškaitė Awarded 2025-2026 Dissertation Grant

May 4, 2025

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Beatričė Juškaitė has been awarded the 2025-2026 Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students.

AABS awards grants of up to $4,000 to support doctoral dissertation research and write-up in any field of Baltic Studies. Funds may be used for travel to research site, equipment, duplication or other needs as specified.

Proposals are evaluated according to the scholarly potential of the applicant, and the quality and scholarly importance of the proposed work, especially to the development of Baltic Studies. Applicants must currently be enrolled in a PhD or MA program and have completed all requirements for a PhD/MA except the dissertation. Applicants must be members of the AABS at the time of submitting their application.

The 2025 applications were evaluated by the AABS 2025-2026 Grants and Awards Committee consisting of AABS VP for Professional Development Dr. Kaarel Piirimäe, AABS President Dr. Jörg Hackmann, and AABS Director-at-Large Dr. Dovilė Budrytė. Learn about the other 2025-2026 recipients here.

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Beatričė Juškaitė is a DPhil (PhD) student in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. Her programme is jointly hosted by the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and the Oxford Department of International Development. Juškaitė is supervised by Dace Dzenovska and Madeleine Reeves.

Project Overview
Juškaitė’s doctoral project ethnographically examines the imperative to support Ukraine that emerged in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Based on fieldwork with individuals involved in grassroots efforts to aid Ukraine in Lithuania — such as hosting Ukrainian refugees in private homes, weaving camouflage nets, or producing trench candles, among other things — her research explores what helping does to the helpers, and how it has reconfigured political and social life in Lithuania. Juškaitė’s work engages with questions of political virtue, self-preservation, lived geopolitics, and humanitarianism. The AABS Dissertation Grant will fund the final year of her dissertation writing.