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.
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. […]
Robert Gross
Robert Gross was awarded $20,030 to support research dealing with the relevance of the Marshall Plan for the cultural construction of Austrian landscapes. […]
Vera Kropf
BIAAS issued a grant for $6,700 to Vera Kropf in order to study Ilse Lichtblau Lahn’s role in the film industry during the mid-20th century. […]
Kristina Elizabeth Poznan
Kristina Elizabeth Poznan was awarded $30,000 to support her dissertation research that examined the relationship between transatlantic migration, migrant identities, and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungary Empire […]
Frances Tanzer
BIAAS awarded a $4,253 grant to Frances Tanzer in order to study post-World War Two cultural reconstruction in Austria and Germany […]
Alison Orton
BIAAS issued a grant to Alison Orton for $13,475 in order to study beer in terms of its effects on ethnic and national self-definitions both in the Habsburg Empire and the United States. […]
Theresia Klugsberger
BIAAS issued a grant to Theresia Klugsberger for $11,100 in order to study the life of Austro-Hungarian journalist, newspaper publisher, and author Hans Habe. […]
Anna Katharina Windisch
BIAAS granted Anna Katharina Windisch $5,000 in order to study silent film music practices comparing Vienna and New York […]
Megan Brandow-Faller
BIAAS awarded a grant for $5,945 to Megan Brandow-Faller for the research of the Frauenkunst (women’s art) Movement. […]
Athan Biss
BIAAS granted $1,188 in order research the cultural diplomacy of Edith Sampson, an African American delegate to the United Nations […]