Andrejs Plakans, a renowned Latvian-American historian and emeritus professor of history at Iowa State University, passed away on July 4, 2024 at age 83. Andrejs was a long-time member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies and served as AABS...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased share stories and experiences from its 2024 travel grant recipients who attended the 29th Biennial Conference on Baltic Studies (June 13-16, 2024, New Haven, Connecticut). AABS awarded a record number of...
AABS is pleased to recognize Kevin Axe for the completion of the grant associated with his dissertation “From “Model Pupils” to Model Teachers: Estonian Economists and the Globalization of the (Post)Socialist World," for which he received the AABS Dissertation Grant...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Sophie Peng has been awarded the 2024-2025 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies for her project “Lace Narratives: Hand-work (EE: Käsi-Töö)." The Baumanis Grant is an...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Jelena Šalaj has been awarded the 2024-2025 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies for her book project "North of Photography." The Baumanis Grant is an award made to...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Ornela Ramašauskaitė has been awarded the 2024-2025 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies for her project "Art Across Borders: The Baltic Visual Legacy Project." The...
AABS is pleased to recognize Anne Sauka for her completion of the 2023–2024 Mudīte I. Zīlīte Saltups Fellowship, a short-term study or research grant for up to eight weeks of study in the United States with a maximum stipend of $10,000.©Anne Sauka, 2024 Anne Sauka is...
AABS is pleased to recognize Emma Friedlander for the completion of the grant associated with her dissertation “The Soviet New Age: Alternative spirituality and the collapse of communism, 1975-2005," for which she received the AABS Dissertation Grant in the 2023-2024...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce two 2024 recipients of the Undergraduate Paper in Baltic Studies Award: Linda Ozola-Ozoliņa, for her paper "Latvian environmental term purvs: Problems and solutions in Latvian-English-Latvian...