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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Since 2008, both Vilnius and Riga have witnessed a growth in farmers' markets and other alternative systems of food provision. Consumers and farmers are experimenting with non-conventional food supply chains, for example, by adapting models of Community Supported...