Baltic | New Volume Explores Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Region

The Baltic Studies Program is pleased to announce the publication of Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, edited by Bradley D. Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė, and Darius Staliūnas. This collected volume offers an original perspective on the Baltic region by examining the intricate relationships between its diverse ethnic groups from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Rather than focusing solely on national narratives or comparisons of historical development, the book analyzes ethnic relations through the lenses of identity, governance, empire, and violence. The chapters were originally presented as papers at a conference held in October 2022 in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

 

Due to the generous financial support of the MacMillan Center and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), the book is freely available with open access. The volume is the fruit of the recent expansion of activities of Yale’s Baltic Studies Program and close cooperation between the program and scholars in Lithuania. Violeta Davoliūtė, the 2015–2016 Joseph P. Kazickas Associate Research Scholar in the Baltic Studies Program, is Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. Darius Staliūnas – co-organizer with Bradley Woodworth of the 2022 conference at Yale – is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. Bradley D. Woodworth is Baltic Studies Program Manager and Professor of History at the University of New Haven.