Awards & Prizes

AABS Awards and Prizes further the Association’s mission of promoting research and education in Baltic Studies.

Undergraduate Paper Award

AABS Biennial Book Prize

Vilis Vītols Article Prize

AABS 2026 Book Prize Honorable Mention Awarded to Paula Oppermann

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Paula Oppermann has been awarded an 2026 AABS Book Prize Honorable Mention for her monograph Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia. The 2026 award covers books...

Other Awards & Prizes News

AABS 2026 Book Prize Awarded to Andris Banka

AABS 2026 Book Prize Awarded to Andris Banka

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Andris Banka has been awarded the 2026 AABS Book Prize for his monograph America, the Baltic States and the Making of an Unlikely Security Alliance. The biennial prize of $1,000 is...

AABS Awards Vilis Vītols Prize to Best JBS Articles for 2024 and 2025

AABS Awards Vilis Vītols Prize to Best JBS Articles for 2024 and 2025

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 2024 and 2025 Vilis Vītols Article Prize, and a third to receive an Honorable Mention. Karl Stuklis has been...