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...
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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...
2020 Birnitis, Grundmanis, Saltups, Emerging Scholar, and Dissertation Awardees Announced
This year, AABS received twenty-six solid applications for its Birnitis, Grundmanis, Saltups, Emerging Scholar, and Dissertation grants and fellowships. Ineta Dabašinskienė, AABS' Vice President for Professional Development, reports that the higher number of...
2019 Birnitis, Grundmanis, Emerging Scholar, and Dissertation Awardees Announced
The AABS Board is pleased to announce that seven scholars and graduate students have been awarded the following 2019 grants and fellowships. The Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia Kristine Bekere Latvian Academy of...
Feminine and Masculine in the Poetry of 20th c. Latvian Women Poets
Anna Auziņa, University of Latvia, was awarded the 2017 Birnitis fellowship for “Woman’s Experience and Language in Vizma Belševica’s, Ārija Elksne’s and Monta Kroma’s Poetry” As a poet, I was interested for a long time in why sometimes I am given an award for...
Developing new techniques for teaching English language vocabulary
Baiba Kačanova received the 2016 Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia. In March, Baiba received her PhD from the University of Liepaja. I am an English teacher and I have been teaching English as a second language for about 14...
Congratulations to 2015 AABS Grant Recipients!
AABS announces the recipients of 2015 fellowships: Research Grants for Emerging Scholars Mart Kuldkepp, Tartu University Jānis Grundmanis Postgraduate Fellowship for Study in the U. S. Elina Ruka, Columbia College, Chicago The Aina Birnitis...