The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Michael Casper has been awarded the 2022-2023 Research Grant for Emerging Scholars. The research grants of up to $6,000 support early-career scholars in any field of the Baltic studies....
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Jānis Juzefovičs, Maarja Merivoo-Parro, Charles Perrin, and David Trimbach have been awarded the 2021–2022 Research Grants for Emerging Scholars. The research grants of up to $6,000...
My new project is a history of tango in interwar Eastern Europe and Russia. At the heart of this history is Riga’s cosmopolitan community of musicians, performers, and poets, bohemians from across Europe and escapees from the Russian Revolution. Thanks to the support...
My Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) 2019–2020 Emerging Scholars Grant was used to support fieldwork research on "Women's Representation and Gender Dynamics in Latvian Politics." With the support of this grant, I was able to travel to Latvia to...
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...
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...
Una Bergmane is a Baltic Sea Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and a London School of Economics Fellow in Cold War History. She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Paris with highest distinction. Una received a 2018 Emerging Scholar Award to...
Arvīds Pelše, who became First Secretary of the Latvian Communist Party in 1959 after the conflict with the national communists, was seen as eminently reliable by Moscow, becoming only the second Balt to join the Politburo in 1966. Yet, little is known about the man,...
Pauli Heikkilä, who received his PhD from the University of Helsinki, was the 2016 AABS Emerging Scholar. My research deals with the political emigrants from Eastern Central Europe in the US during the Cold War, and especially their international cooperation, where...