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...
Baltic States
Blended Families: Researching Estonian-Russian Intermarriages
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...
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...
The Baltic Countries in U.S. and French Foreign Policy
The 2014 recipient of the Saltups Fellowship for short-term study or research in the United States is Una Bergmane. She recently updated AABS on how the fellowship supported her dissertation research. In the doctoral thesis that I'm completing at Sciences Po Paris...
Latvian Emigrant Identity and Ideas that Shape the Latvian State
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...
Analyzing the Role of Popular Literature in National Identity Formation
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...
AABS Emerging Scholar Explores Linguistic Landscape
In his project “Multilingualism and the internationalisation of higher education in the Baltic states: A linguistic landscape approach,” Josep Soler-Carbonell focuses his analysis on languages displayed in universities’ public space, i.e. their linguistic...
Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale for citizens of Lithuania
Yale University’s Program in Baltic Studies invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship of variable duration (four to nine months during the 2015-2016 academic year) in the following fields: law, economics, business and finance, environmental policy, political...
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...