Nomination Deadline: February 1, 2010
Up to $500.00
The Association awards the AABS Book Prize an outstanding English-language scholarly book in Baltic Studies (humanities and social sciences) published in 2008 or 2009. Books with a broadly historical, literary, social, or cultural significance are of particular interest. Narrowly specialized or overly technical books will not be considered. To nominate, please send three copies and a letter of nomination to Dr Daunis Auers at auers@lu.lv or by mail to:

Anyone may submit a nomination. Books will not be returned. The winner will be announced at the 2010 Baltic Studies Conference. Please contact AABS for more information on the prize. No applications will be accepted by email.

2004-2005: John Hiden, Defender of Minorities: Paul Shiemann, 1876-1944. London: Hurst, 2004. Honorable Mention: Magnus Ilmjärv, Silent Submission: Formation of Foreign Policy of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Period From Mid-20s to Annexation in 1940. Stockholm: Univerversitet Stockholms, 2004.

2006-2007:

Katrina Z.S. Schwartz, Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape (U of Pittsburgh P, 2006).

Iveta Silova, From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Reconceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia (IAP, 2006).

Honorable Mention: Jeff Johnson: The New Theatre of the Baltics: From Soviet to Western Influence in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (McFarland, 2007)