Database of Funded Projects

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies has generously funded academic research and public history projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria. The following search tools make it possible to explore these projects and to learn more about the scholars and organizations who have received BIAAS grants and fellowships.

2022-10-12T15:43:52+00:00

Julia Secklehner

2022
Topics: Research
Products: Conference, Digital Project, Exhibit

This online, six-week seminar series will bring together scholars focusing on pedagogy and design in a transatlantic network of exchange. Participants are selected from an open call for papers. There will also be two invited keynote speakers, including Prof. Rebecca House (Northern Illinois University). The seminar offers a platform of exchange and for new research. A website provides additional information with blog posts and an online exhibition.

2022-10-12T14:35:34+00:00

Nina Kaiser

2022
Topics: History, Science
Products: Article, Digital Project

Forensic science as a holistic discipline was developed in Austria in the late 19th century by Hans Gross. As an internationally well-connected researcher, he shaped the development of forensics worldwide. However, it appears that Gross appreciated one American colleague particularly: John H. Wigmore, Professor at the Northwestern University Chicago, who was also a highly influential character and laid the foundation of the modern American law of evidence. The appreciation was mutual but their relationship and influence on the development of criminal sciences on both sides of the Atlantic were never studied. Therefore, the presented archival research investigates this transatlantic relationship and its potential impact on the field.

2021-03-25T21:50:02+00:00

Samuel Albert

2020
Topics: Art, Culture, History, Painting
Products: Article, Book, Digital Project

Dr. Samuel David Albert received a $11,432 BIAAS grant for his project, "Bound but Unjoined: Austrian, Hungarian, and Austro-Hungarian Art Exhibits."  Dr. Albert’s project is a documentation and investigation of Austro-Hungarian, Austrian, and Hungarian international art exhibitions in the first four decades of the 20th century, which will explore the interrelationship between nationalism and artistic modernity as reflecting a strategy of national (and nationalist) representation. The grant will enable archival research in Vienna and Budapest, [...]