A new book by Daunis Auers, former AABS board member, "provides an accessible, comprehensive and balanced comparative analysis of the political development and reinvention of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since seizing independence from a disintegrating Soviet Union...
Dr. Jennie Schulze, assistant professor of Political Science at Duquesne University, received an AABS Emerging Scholar award in 2012. Her project focuses on how Russia’s kin-state activism influences decision-making surrounding minority policies in Estonia and Latvia....
The University of Pittsburgh’s Slavic, East European, and Near Eastern Summer Language Institute proudly hosts The Baltic Studies Summer Institute June 8 – July 17, 2015 Beginning and intermediate Estonian Beginning and intermediate Latvian Beginning and intermediate...
Iveta Kesane, recipient of the 2014 Grundmanis Postgraduate Fellowship, is completing her PhD in Sociology at Kansas State University. She is currently conducting field work for her dissertation, carrying out public narrative analysis and interviews with people who...
Gita Siliņa, recipient of the first AABS Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia, is a Ph.D Candidate in Communications Science at the University of Latvia. The fellowship will support the completion of her thesis which examines...
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...
Jordan T. Kuck was the recipient of the 2011 AABS Dissertation Grant. He used the prize to fund the archival work for his dissertation, which is titled "The Dictator without a Uniform: Kārlis Ulmanis, Agrarian Nationalism, and Interwar Latvia." His work focuses on the...
In 2011, Dr. Amy Bryzgel was awarded an AABS Emerging Scholar Award to assist with the completion of her book, Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980. The book dedicates one chapter to an analysis of performance art in Latvia as...
Ilze Garoza, recipient of the 2009 Grundmanis Fellowship, gives AABS an update on her research in this post. As a Grundmanis Fellow, my graduate studies were in Comparative and International Development Education Program in the Department of Organizational Leadership,...