Dissertation Grant from AABS

Congratulations to James Montgomery Baxenfield, recipient of the 2023–2024 Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) awarded James Montgomery Baxenfield (Tallinn University) a 2023–2024 Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students which was used for researching archival documents in Latvia and Lithuania. Specifically, the grant was used to examine the papers of the Latvian-Lithuanian Unity Society at the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga, and the corresponding Lithuanian-Latvian Unity Society at the Lithuanian Central State Archives in Vilnius. These collections represent an assortment of sources concerning the idea to establish a Latvian-Lithuanian state, essentially forming the main corpus of primary sources that connect ideas of common statehood before and after interwar independence.

Read the announcement on the AABS website.