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.
Patrick Hayes
At the Redemptorist Archives—a Smithsonian-grade religious archive in Philadelphia—we are aiming to place our collections online in order to facilitate greater access to knowledge about the Redemptorists, the Catholic Church in the United States, and more generally, religion in America.
Deborah Cohen – “The World Between Them: Reporters of the Lost Generation”
Deborah Cohen received a 2019 Botstiber Fellowship to finish her book about American foreign correspondents who spent their formative working years in Austria and the territories of the former Hapsburg empire. […]
Matti Bunzl – Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Modernist Residences in California
BIAAS awarded a grant to Matti Bunzl to fund the production of the English publication “Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Modernist Residences in California” (working title) by Andreas Nierhaus (text) and David Schreyer (photography). […]
Sina Hoche – VALIE EXPORT in Context: Transatlantic Affinities between Performance Art and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Austria and the U.S.
Sina Hoche received a BIAAS grant for her project “VALIE EXPORT in Context: Transatlantic Affinities between Performance Art and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Austria and the U.S.” in which she will be examining sketches, drafts, recordings, and other works stored at the VALIE EXPORT Research Center in Linz, Austria and the MoMA in New York City. […]
Monika Platzer – Cold War and Architecture: The Competing Forces that Reshaped Austria after 1945
In contrast to Berlin, Vienna is not perceived as the site of a politicized architectural debate during the Cold War. […]
Edward Muston
BIAAS gave a grant to Edward Muston to conduct research in support of his book project “American Ghosts: Das Amerikabild in Contemporary Austrian Literature.” […]
Joshua Parker
BIAAS granted Joshua Parker $5,800 in order to collect and translate short poetry by Austrian refugees […]
Ron Hassner
BIAAS issued a grant for $4,000 to Ron Hassner in order to publish an English translation of the play Der Herr Karl. […]
Teresa Carmody
BIAAS awarded an $8,450 grant to Teresa Carmody to produce a bilingual anthology of Austrian experimental writing, entitled An Austrian Avant-Garde. […]
Thomas Antonic
BIAAS issued a grant for $8,600 to Thomas Antonic in order to write a biography on the Austrian-American poet ruth weiss. […]