The book "Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered", edited by researchers of the Lithuanian Institute of History Dr. Darius Staliūnas and Dr. Violeta Davoliūtė (together with Prof. Bradley Woodworth),  has been awarded the AABS Book Publication Subvention.

This book re-examines the role of ethnic identity and nationality policy in the conflicts and crises of the Baltic states during the 19th and 20th centuries. The nearly constant re-drawing of geographic borders and boundaries among collectivities during this period destabilized fixed identities, generating novel, hybrid ways of self-identification along with a hardening of oppositions. Innovative forms of co-existence came with violent, sometimes genocidal conflicts. Based on significantly new sources and approaches (political history, nationalism and memory studies, cultural anthropology and sociology), by scholars deeply invested in the region, the studies in this volume provide a timely update to traditional perspectives on nations and nationalism. It not only highlights the most important episodes of ethnic coexistence and conflict in the Baltic in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also draws attention to issues that have received less scholarly attention.

The book will be available soon. It will be published by Central European University Press.