The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Gary Uzonyi 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....
Emerging Scholars Grants
AABS Announces 2022-2023 Grant and Fellowship Awardees
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of several awards in their 2022-2023 cycles. For more information on each award and its recipient, please click the appropriate link below.Jānis Grundmanis Fellowships for...
Congratulations to Michael Casper, recipient of the 2022–2023 Research Grant for Emerging Scholars
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....
Jānis Juzefovičs, Maarja Merivoo-Parro, Charles Perrin, and David Trimbach Awarded AABS 2021 Emerging Scholars Grants
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...
Weary Sun: Tango in Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia
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...
Women’s Representation and Gender Dynamics in Latvian Politics: A Report on the 2019–2020 AABS Emerging Scholars Grant
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...
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...
The Baltic Question and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
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...