“Modern City-Making” in Europe and America:
Vienna and Chicago on the Threshold of the Twentieth Century

Embassy of Austria | May 17  | 6:30pm EST

John Boyer is Senior Advisor to the President and the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

A dedicated scholar and author of many books, Dr. Boyer is the recipient of numerous accolades from the Austrian government, including the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class (2004), in recognition of his work on the history of the Habsburg Empire, and the Austrian State Prize for Modern History (2006). In addition, his leadership at the University of Chicago has shaped a generation of historians who focus on Austria.

His recent book, Austria 1867-1955, is the first book to analyze comprehensively the political history of modern Austria on both sides of the traditional chronological divide of 1918, connecting the Imperial and Republican periods in one systematic narrative.

“In his brilliant opus magnum John Boyer shows why Austria needed three attempts to build a stable democracy and how co-operation of formerly antagonistic political elites finally succeeded in the years after World War II.”– Michael Mesch, Wiener Geschichtsblätter.