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...
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Russian Information Operations in Estonia and Latvia: How the AABS Dissertation Grant Advanced my PhD Project
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 Activities of Latvian Exiles to Sustain the Idea of the Independence of Latvia: How the Birnitis Fellowship Advanced my Dissertation Project
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...
Intelligence and Identities in the Soviet Union, 1918–1953: How the AABS Dissertation Grant Advanced my PhD Project
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...
Call for Proposals: Baltic Studies Teaching and Learning Workshop
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...
Journal of Baltic Studies 51/3 Available Now
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...
Three Projects to Receive the 2020 Baumanis Grant
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is happy to announce that three projects have been awarded the 2020 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies. The Baumanis Grant is an award made to honor Velta Marija Baumanis of Mount Brydges,...
Baltic Memory of the Gulag: A Report on the 2019 Baumanis Grant
On June 14, 2020, I published the results of the project „Baltic Memory of the Gulag.“ It is available on our Gulag Online virtual museum, which is one of the Gulag.cz Association projects. Thanks to our cooperation with partners in all of the Baltic states – Misija...
German Monuments in the Baltic Lands, and Their Many Afterlives: A Report on How the Dissertation Grant Advanced My Research
I am very grateful to the Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies for the Dissertation Grant Award that I received in spring 2019. My research focuses on the relationship between architectural heritage and contemporary society in various historical moments...