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.

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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.