My new project is a history of tango in interwar Eastern Europe and Russia. At the heart of this history is Riga’s cosmopolitan community of musicians, performers, and poets, bohemians from across Europe and escapees from the Russian Revolution. Thanks to the support...
The fourth 2020 issue of Journal of Baltic Studies (Vol 51, Issue 4) is now available online. The issue contains articles on the political space and party competition in post-communist Lithuania; the engagement of the diaspora in Latvia’s economic development;...
My Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) 2019–2020 Emerging Scholars Grant was used to support fieldwork research on "Women's Representation and Gender Dynamics in Latvian Politics." With the support of this grant, I was able to travel to Latvia to...
The AABS Board is pleased to announce that Oxford University Press has been awarded the 2020 AABS Book Publication Subvention, for publishing "Politics of Uncertainty: The US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." The book, authored by Latvian...
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...
The aim of my dissertation “Maintaining the Idea of Latvia's Independence in Exile from the Mid-1940s to the Second Half of the 1980s: Political Activity,” whose completion was generously funded by the Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship, is to analyze...
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...
Baltic Studies Teaching and Learning Workshop April 16th-18th, 2021 Wingate University, Wingate, NC (USA)Working on a new project? Thinking about a new course you would like to teach? Looking for some feedback on the first chapter of a book? Join us this April for the...
The third 2020 issue of Journal of Baltic Studies (Vol 51, Issue 3) is now available online. The special issue Entangled Cultures in the Baltic Region contains articles on David Hilchen’s correspondence with humanists from the Low Countries; the model of entanglement...