The 2006-2007 Grants Competition is now closed. Thanks to all who applied. We are still accepting applications for subvention grants as well as nominees for the 2006-2007 AABS Book Prize, whose winner will be announced at the 2008 Baltic Studies Conference at Indiana University.

The AABS offers a number of grant, scholarship and fellowship opportunities for scholars. These include:

The Vilis Vītols annual award of $500 is presented to the author of the best article in a given year of the Journal of Baltic Studies. Details...

Application Deadline: November 15, 2007
The Association invites applications for grants to support doctoral dissertation research and write-up in any field of Baltic Studies. Funds may be used for travel to research site, equipment, duplication or other needs as specified. Proposals will be evaluated according to the scholarly potential of the applicant, and the quality and scholarly importance of the proposed work, especially to the development of Baltic Studies. Details...

Application Deadline: November 15, 2007
Applications are invited in any field of Baltic Studies. Proposals will be evaluated according to the scholarly potential of the applicant, and the quality and scholarly importance of the proposed work, especially to the development of Baltic Studies. Funds may be used for travel, duplication, materials, equipment, or other needs as specified. Applicants must have received PhD no earlier than January 1, 2002. Details...

The Association accepts applications for subvention grants on an ongoing basis. These grants support the publication of scholarly books and book-length translations in any field of Baltic Studies. AABS primarily supports scholarship in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Applications will be evaluated according to the scholarly accomplishments of the applicant, the merit of the proposed book, and its importance to the development of Baltic Studies. Details...

Nomination Deadline: February 1, 2008
Awarded to an outstanding English-language scholarly book in Baltic Studies (humanities and social sciences) published in 2006 or 2007. Books with a broadly historical, literary, social, or cultural significance are of particular interest. Narrowly specialized or overly technical books will not be considered. Details...

The 2007-2008 AABS Dissertation Grant has been awarded to Jennie Schulze, George Washington University. Schulze's project is entitled The Language of Belonging: Russian Minorities in the Baltic States .

2007-2008 AABS Emerging Scholar Grants have been awarded to:

Gediminas Lankauskas, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Regina. Lankauskas' project is entitled Modernity, Morality, and Pentecostal 'Civil Society' in Postsocialist Lithuania.

Kara Brown, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina. Brown's project is entitled The Politics of Preschool: Bilingual Education Possibilities and Problems in Estonian Kindergartens.

Indrė Čuplinskas, Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Alberta. Čuplinskas' project is entitled Controlling the Future of the Nation: the Lithuanian Government's 1930 Crackdown on the Ateitis Catholic Student Federation.

Congratulations to Bjorn Felder, winner of the 2006 AABS Dissertation Grant. Dr. Felder's dissertation was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History 2007 by the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History in London. A book based on his dissertation will be published the spring of 2008.

The 2006-2007 AABS Dissertation Grant has been awarded to Jolanta Mickutė, a PhD student in Modern Jewish History at Indiana University to support her work on marginalized historical narratives of Lithuanian and Polish Jewish women.

The 2006-2007 AABS Emerging Scholar Grant has been awarded to Brent McKenzie, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Guelph.

McKenzie's project is entitled From Soviet to Selver: Tallinna Kaubamaja -- 'Estonia's Department Store.' The Shaping of the Retail Sector in Estonia.

Oskars Stucis (Notre Dame University) has been awarded the 2006 Jānis Grundmanis Postgraduate Fellowship for study in the United States.