STAFF

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies was established in 2008 in Media, Pennsylvania

BIAAS Lecture 2016

BIAAS Staff

Michael Burri is a Program Officer at the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) and editor of the Journal of Austrian-American History, sponsored by BIAAS and published by Penn State University Press. His articles have appeared in Austrian History Yearbook, Journal of Austrian Studies, and New German Critique, and he has published review essays and opinion pieces in leading Czech and American dailies. He is currently co-editing a volume of essays entitled After Vienna. Post-Imperial Salzburg as Austria’s Future Kulturstadt: 1919-1938 (Bloomsbury Press 2020), and his essay on Wolfgang Kraus and cultural diplomacy is forthcoming in German Studies Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

Luke D. Morgante is a Program Officer at the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, focusing primarily on communications, digital media, and grant management. He has served as host of The Botstiber Podcast, since 2022.

Morgante, originally from New Jersey, graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with degrees in Germanic Studies and International Studies, whilst specializing in diplomacy, security, and governance. At the age of 20, he began the multimedia brand MissedHistory, providing free historical and educational content to thousands of people worldwide.