Founded on December 1, 1968, at the first conference on Baltic Studies at the University of Maryland, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) is an international educational and scholarly non-profit organization. It promotes research and education in Baltic Studies by sponsoring meetings and conferences, supporting publications, sustaining a program of scholarships, grants, and prizes, and disseminating news of current interest in Baltic Studies. Since 1991, it has been a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Membership in the AABS is open to anyone wishing to support the scholarly purposes of the Association. AABS members receive a subscription to the quarterly Journal of Baltic Studies, reduced registration fees at AABS conferences, and an annual report of the association’s activities.

For information contact the Administrative Executive Director at the Executive Office:

• Constitution (Acrobat PDF)
• By-Laws (Acrobat PDF)
  

• Annual Report 2004-2005 (Acrobat PDF)
  

• Guntis Smidchens, President
• Vejas Liulevicius, President-Elect
• Aldis Purs, Vice-President Conferences
• Daunis Auers, Vice-President Professional Development
• Bradley Woodworth, Vice-President Publications
• Laimonas Briedis, Secretary
• Kenneth Smith, Treasurer
• Amanda Swain, Student Representative
• Inta Carpenter, Director-at-Large

• Inta Gale Carpenter, Indiana University
  President
• Guntis Šmidchens, University of Washington-Seattle
  President-Elect
• Mara Lazda
  Vice-President Conferences
• Daunis Auers, University of Latvia
  Vice-President Professional Development
• Julija Šukys, McGill University
  Vice-President Publications
• Laimonas Briedis, University of British Columbia
  Secretary
• Kenneth Smith, Millersville University
  Treasurer
• Piibi-Kai Kivik, Indiana University
  Student Representative
• Thomas Salumets, University of British Columbia
  Director-at Large

List of Past Presidents of the Association

• Administrative Executive Director: Anita Juberts
  
• Editor, Journal of Baltic Studies: David J. Smith, University of Glasgow
  
• Academic Executive Director: Olavi Arens, Armstrong Atlantic University
  
• Australasian Committee: Robert Crawford, Monash University
  
• Senior Advisor: Valters Nollendorfs, Riga
  
• Webmaster: Peter Leonard, University of Washington
  

The Baltic Studies Fund (BSF) is an endowment fund created to ensure the future well-being of AABS; it also serves as the fundraising arm of the Association. Contributions, bequests and gifts to AABS are credited to the Baltic Studies Fund endowment; the income generated by the Fund is used for the benefit of the Association as the Association's AABS Board of Directors may direct. Also credited to BSF are any surplus funds which may from time to time be realized from AABS operations. The endowment fund is managed by the BSF Investment Committee which is appointed by the AABS Board of Directors; the overall fundraising activities of BSF are guided by its Board of Regents, which is appointed by the President of AABS.

• Juris Padegs, Esq., Chairman; Advisory Managing Director, Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc., New York, NY
• Mr. Nicholas Berkholtz, Engineer (Retired), Minneapolis, MN
• Dr. Visvaldis Dzenis, President, Dzenis Laboratories, Inc. Bloomfield, NJ
• Mr. Tiit Heinsoo, Managing Director (Retired), Montgomery Watson-Asia, Sherwood, OR
• Vladas Kaupas, MD, Physician (Retired), Clearwater, FL
• Prof. Kristaps J. Keggi, President, Keggi Orthopaedic Foundation, Waterbury, CT; Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yale University, New Haven CT.
• Prof. Gundar J. King, Dean (Emeritus), School of Business, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
• Prof. Toivo Raun, Chairman, Uralic & Altaic Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• Roberts Rusis, Esq., Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Executive Board, Bank of Latvia; Managing Director, Latvian Juridical Training Center, Riga, Latvia.
• Dr. Herbert Valdsaar, Research Associate (Retired), DuPont Co., Wilmington, DE
• Dr. Juris Viksnins, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
• Mr. Vilis A. Vitols, Chairman of the Board, Maras Bank, Riga, Latvia

• Past Performance and Future Plans (Acrobat PDF)
  (Paper presented at the 17th Conference on Baltic Studies, Georgetown University, 17 June 2000)
• Annual Report 2002 (Acrobat PDF)

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• 1982: Czeslaw Milosz, University of California, Berkeley
• 1984: Algirdas J. Greimas, College de France
• 1986: Esko Hakli, University of Helsinki
• 1990: Donald W. Treadgold, University of Washington