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.
Elizabeth O’Neil
This dissertation tracks the careers of several Viennese scientists as they pursued questions about how organisms, minds, machines, ecosystems, disciplines, and even whole societies might be understood as "wholes," "systems," or "unities." By offering a new history of systems thinking in the 20th century, this project reframes current understandings of systems theory, cybernetics, behavioral science, and scientific internationalism in the US and Europe. Libby O'Neil is a PhD candidate at Yale University in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Niall Michael Buckley
This project concerns itself with the integral role that the United States of America, at both an institutional and societal level, played in the Habsburg story from 1916 to the 1945. A 2023 research trip is intended to forward my Transatlantic qualitative analysis of interwar, Second World War and early Cold War Habsburg Monarchist Reactionism as an international geo-political phenomenon. It will specifically examine republican and legitimist (pro-Habsburg) activism of Austrian exiles in the US from 1930-1955, perceptions of Central Europe, Austria and the Habsburg family within the US popular imagination and their impact on US foreign policy.
Max Ehrenfreund
Ehrenfreund's dissertation is a study of the socialist calculation debate, an intellectual exchange among interwar economists, journalists, and politicians who sought an economic theory for a socialist society. Using archival sources, Ehrenfreund presents a new interpretation of this debate in the context of contemporary shifts in the cultural meanings of calculation and the political valences of mathematics in Austria and the United States. With the Botstiber Institute's support, Ehrenfreund will travel to archives in Michigan [...]
Oskar Czendze
Oskar Czendze received a $3,500 BIAAS grant for his project, “From Loss to Invention: Galician Jews Between New York and East Central Europe, 1890-1938.” His project investigates the daily life experiences of Jewish immigrants from Austrian Galicia in New York’s Lower East Side. With the help of the Botstiber Research Grant, Czendze will collect autobiographical, Jewish communal and institutional records in archives in Austria, Poland, and Ukraine which will highlight the transnational nature of the [...]
Sang Pil Lee – Hans Hollein’s Expanded Environments: Austrian and American Architectural Exchange in the First Electronic Age, 1956–1976
Sang Pil Lee received a 2019 Botstiber grant to pursue research in Vienna for his project “Hans Hollein’s Expanded Environments: Austrian and American Architectural Exchange in the First Electronic Age, 1956–1976.” […]
Ohad Reiss-Sorokin – The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the “Geistkreis” from Vienna to the New World
Ohad Reiss-Sorokin’s Ph.D. dissertation “The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the ‘Geistkreis’ from Vienna to the New world”, follows the story of the ‘Geistkreis,’ an interdisciplinary intellectual circle that took place in Vienna in the Interwar period. […]
Lauren Wolfe – Figuring “Austria” Through Translation
Lauren K. Wolfe received a BIAAS grant in the amount of $12,584 to support her project “Figuring ‘Austria’ Through Translation.” This research project, which will be carried out at various literary archives in Klagenfurt and Vienna, focuses on the experimental and politically charged literary projects of two 20th century Austria writers, Karl Kraus and Werner Kofler, both of whom utilized collage as a mode of composition. […]
Jonathan Ward Singerton
BIAAS issued a grant of $9,875 to Jonathan Ward Singerton study the relationship between the Habsburg Monarchy and United States […]
Scott McDowell
BIAAS awarded a grant to Scott McDowell for $7,812 in order to examine the years-long diplomatic negotiations that took place between the U.S. and Austria-Hungary in the wake of the Lattimer Massacre […]
Hester Margreiter
BIAAS awarded a grant for $6,565 to Hester Margreiter in order to study the developments in tourism in Innsbruck (Tyrol) and New Orleans (Louisiana). […]