Uku Lember received the 2012-13 AABS Dissertation Grant to complete his dissertation, “Silenced Ethnicity: Russian-Estonian Intermarriages in Soviet Estonia (an Oral History).” The AABS Dissertation Grant was crucial to his research -- it enabled him to conduct and...
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Art Patronage of the Tallinn Brotherhood of the Black Heads
Lehti Keelmann, an Art History Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, received a 2014 AABS Dissertation Grant. She is investigating art patronage of the Tallinn Brotherhood of the Black Heads during the 15th and 16th centuries. Single, and...
Juris Padegs Research Fellowship at Yale for citizens of Estonia or Latvia
Yale University’s Program in Baltic Studies invites applications for a predoctoral or postdoctoral research fellowship (four to nine months during the 2015-16 academic year) in any field in the humanities or social sciences. Only citizens of Estonia and Latvia may...
Language Policy in Estonia — AABS Dissertation Grant
Delaney Michael Skerrett, Ph.D. Candidate and Associate Lecturer at The University of Queensland, received an AABS dissertation grant in 2011. He updates AABS on his research outcomes in this report: I carried out a critical analysis of language policy and planning...
AABS Members Receive Estonian State Medals
Three AABS members -Toivo Raun, Guntis Šmidchens and Mare Taagepera - have been awarded state decorations by the Republic of Estonia for services to the state. From the official press release of the Office of the President of the Republic of Estonia: "As the Head of...