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.
Rachel E. Scott
Rachel E. Scott received a BIAAS grant to conduct research on Austrian music festivals held under American occupation. The project will explore the tensions between American and Austrian identity that were performed on musical stages during this period and provide insight into the relationship between Austria and the United States as both countries made strategic use of music festivals to achieve mutually beneficial goals. The grant will enable archival research at the National Archives in [...]
Michael Haas
Dr. Michael Hass received a $15,000 BIAAS grant for “Discovering Karol Rathaus,” a film about a Jewish composer of classical music posed to become one of the most influential composers of his generation. With the rise of the Nazis he escaped Germany but failed to reestablish himself in the hostile cultural and political atmosphere of McCarthy America. Hiding behind the facade of ‘happiness’, Rathaus became one of the many unacknowledged casualties of the Holocaust. The [...]
David H. Miller
David H. Miller received a $2,250 BIAAS grant to conduct research in the state of Washington for his monograph project “Musical Modernisms, Manuscripts, and Mountains, from the Austrian Alps to the North Cascades.” This project is centered around Hans and Rosaleen Moldenhauer, musicologists and music manuscript collectors from Spokane, WA who played key roles in shaping the circulation of music by Austrian modernist composers such as Anton Webern and Ernst Krenek during the second half [...]
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. […]
Christiane Tewinkel – American Pianists Studying with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna, 1878-1913
Christiane Tewinkel received a 2019 BIAAS grant for her project “American Students Studying with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna, 1878-1913”. […]
Jeremy Eichler
Jeremy Eichler received a BIAAS grant to study the musical memorialization of the Second World War and the Holocaust. […]
Joanna Curtis
Joanna Curtis received a BIAAS grant to examine Austrian musical life and cultural diplomacy during the Cold War. […]
Andrea Orzoff
Andrea Orzoff was awarded $25,000 to support research on classical musicians fleeing Nazi Europe for the global South. […]
Martin Nedbal
BIAAS issued a grant of $5,575 to Martin Nedbal for a project to study criticism of Mozart’s operas by Paul Nettl and Alexander von Zemlinsky […]
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. […]