The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Oliver Aas, Marija Norkunaite, Liisi Veski, and Laima Vincė have been awarded the 2021–2022 Dissertation Grants for Graduate Students. The Dissertations Grants of up to $4,000 support...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Zane Vāgnere (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia) has been awarded the 2021–2022 Jānis Grundmanis Graduate Fellowship for Study in the U.S. to enroll in the Harvard Kennedy...
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is proud to announce that Vanda Visocka (University of Latvia) has been awarded the 2021–2022 Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia for her Ph.D. project, "Pottery...
The first 2021 issue of Journal of Baltic Studies (Vol 52, Issue 1) is now available online. The issue contains articles on belonging, gender, and sexuality in Heljo Liitoja’s autobiographies; discourses and rituals in Soviet Latvia in celebration of Rainis and...
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of William R. Schmalstieg, Sparks Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Baltic Linguistics, Penn State University, on January 22, 2021 at the age of 91. He died peacefully at home in Lancaster, PA surrounded by...
Indiana University’s Summer Language Workshop is proud to host the 2021 Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI), a cooperative project of the Baltic Languages Consortium and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, offering intensive Estonian, Latvian,...
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...