CEU Press Executes AABS Book Publication Subvention for Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered

Apr 26, 2026

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) is pleased to announce the publication by Central European University (CEU) Press of Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, edited by Bradley D. Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė, and Darius Staliūnas. Via support from an AABS Book Publication Subvention Grant awarded in 2025 and Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the book is available in open access. This collected volume offers an original perspective on the Baltic region by examining the intricate relationships between its diverse ethnic groups from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Rather than focusing solely on national narratives or comparisons of historical development, the book analyzes ethnic relations through the lenses of identity, governance, empire, and violence. The chapters were originally presented as papers at a conference held in October 2022 at the MacMillan Center.

Editor Bios:

Bradley D. Woodworth is Professor of History at the University of New Haven and Baltic Studies Program Manager at Yale University. He is co-editor with Karsten Brüggemann of Russland an der Ostsee: Imperiale Strategien der Macht und kulturelle Wahrnehmungsmuster (16. bis 20. Jahrhundert) (Cologne: Böhlau, 2012) and with Tõnu Tannberg of Vene impeerium ja Baltikum: venestus, rahvuslus ja moderniseerimine 19. sajandi teisel poolel ja 20. sajandi alguses [The Russian Empire and the Baltic: Russification, nationality and modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century] (Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv, 2009). His primary research interest is the multiethnic lands around the Baltic Sea. He is currently completing a book on civil society and nationality in late tsarist Tallinn.

Violeta Davoliūtė is Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History and Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She has published extensively on the topics of memory, historical trauma, population displacement, identity, and nationalism, and is a co-editor of the CEU Press book series, Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central Europe.

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Darius Staliūnas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History and also teaches at Vilnius University. His academic interests include Russia’s nationality policy in the so-called Northwestern Region (Lithuania and Belarus), ethnic conflicts, problems of historiography, and places of memory in Lithuania. He is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Budapest: CEU Press, 2015), and, with Dangiras Mačiulis, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015), among numerous other academic publications.

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What is the AABS Book Publication Subvention?

The AABS awards its Book Publication Subvention of up to $5,000 for individually authored books, edited volumes, and multiple-authored books in English that make a substantial scholarly contribution to Baltic Studies. The applications must be submitted by publishers, not authors. Priority will be given to single author’s first monographs.

AABS awards two Book Publication Subventions each year. Applications may be submitted for review anytime, on a rolling basis.

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