Botstiber Institute for Austrian American Studies
Announcing the 2023 research, project, and event grantees
Our sincerest congratulations to the 18 individuals and their affiliated institutions who will be supported by BIAAS funding for their upcoming projects and events. We are excited to see what they accomplish, and we are happy to present the titles of their diverse projects, below.
Research & Project Grants:
Thomas Antonic, Allen Ginsberg in Austria: Research for a Book & CD Publication
Alison Clarke, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), Design Diplomacy: Austrian-American Dialogues and Development Agendas, 1950-1979
Anjeana Hans, Wellesley College (US), Trauma, Disruption, Reinvention: Independent Film in Austria
Benjamin Korstvedt, Clark University (US), Bruckner and/or Mahler: Changing Images of Two Austrian Composers in the Mirror of Sociopolitical Change in Austria and the United States, 1918-1996
Christopher Long, The University of Texas at Austin (US), Josef Frank: The Complete Writings (English Edition)
Laura MacDonald, Michigan State University (US), The Sound of America and the Sound of Austria: Circulating Musical Theatre Dreams in Europe and Asia
James McSpadden, University of Nevada, Reno (US), From Vienna to New York and Beyond: Transatlantic and International Interwar Austrian Political Networks
Elizabeth O’Neil, Yale University (US), The Sciences of Unity: Organicist Systems Thinking Between Vienna and the United States, 1900-1980
Hans Petschar, Austrian National Library (AT), Yoichi Okamoto. Presidential Photographer, Artist – Cold War Communication Strategist in Austria and the USA
Elisabeth Piller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (DE), The Hungriest People in Europe – US Food Aid to Austria and Post-War Transatlantic Relations
Anne Rothfeld, Art Historian Turned Trailblazer: Evelyn Tucker Fights for Restitution Wrongs in U.S. Occupied Austria, 1946-1949
Kathryn Sederberg, Kalamazoo College (US), Writing Home: Emigration Diaries of German and Austrian Jews
Filip Šír, National Museum (CZ), The First Ethnic Recordings Made by a New Yorker Ed. Jedlička: Mapping Early Sound Recordings Made For Ethnic Minorities that Came to the USA from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Despina Stratigakos, State University of New York at Buffalo, Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect and the Global Quest to Find Her
Event Grants:
Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Austrian Cultural Forum New York (AT), Max Reinhardt Commemorative Event: Hybrid Reading by Sunnyi Melles, Leonille Wittgenstein and Constantin Wittgenstein, followed by an Artist Talk with Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler
Hannes Richter, Embassy of Austria, Washington (AT), The Power of Images. Yoichi Okamoto. Presidential Photographer – Artist – Cold War Communication Strategist in Austria and in the U.S.A.
Michael Ruhling, Haydn Society of North America (US), Reassessing Haydn’s Sacred Music: Conference
Veronika Zwerger, Society of Friends of Austrian Archives for Exhile Studies (AT), Memories Live Within All Things
More information on individual research, project and event grants can be found in the database of funded projects.