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.
The Center at Camden County College
The Center at Camden County College will be offering a five-part speaker series focusing on the influential Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud. The series will span from his prolific activities in Austria during the last century to his enormous impact on current culture, science, and the field of psychology in the United States. Audiences will gain an understanding of Austrian and US culture and life during the earlier part of the 20th century; and they will [...]
Leon Botstein and The Bard Music Festival
Leon Botstein and The Bard Music Festival received a BIAAS grant for its exploration of the life, work, and legacy of Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Korngold and His World: Bard Music Festival 2019 took take place at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in August 2019. […]
The Center at Camden County College
In the spring of 2019, The Center at Camden County College will present a five-part lecture series at its main campus in Blackwood, New Jersey on the impact of Austrians on filmmaking both in the USA and abroad. […]
Rutgers University
BIAAS awarded $12,000 to Rutgers University in order to fund a lecture series on Austrian-American studies. […]
Patrick Greaney
BIAAS issued a grant for $4,500 to Patrick Greaney to fund an exhibition of works by Heimrad Backer at the Contemporary Art Museum in Denver. […]
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
BIAAS funded a $33,000 grant for three events put on by the Austrian Cultural Forum. […]
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
BIAAS granted $13,000 to the Austrian Cultural Forum for two lecture series and one ceremony to be held both in New York and various locations around the United States. […]
Rutgers University, German Department
BIAAS funded a grant of $25,000 to Rutgers University for a series of seminars and conferences relating to the historic relationship between Austria and the United States to be held during the spring and fall semesters of 2009 and the spring semester of 2010. […]
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
BIAAS funded a grant of $40,000 to the Austrian Cultural Forum New York for six lecture and/or film series to be presented over the course of the 2008 fiscal year. […]
Columbia University
BIAAS awarded a grant of $100,000 to Columbia University to fund Siegfried Beer, a visiting history professor from Austria, for the fiscal year of 2007. […]