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.

James Morrow
Jim Morrow received a $5,000 BIAAS grant for the project “Designing the American Salzburg: Habsburg Austrian Culture in Colorado Mountain Communities,” which will examine how Habsburg Austrians who settled in Colorado used architecture and design to create a sense of togetherness. The proposed research has two objectives. The first will document how Habsburg Austrian emigres in two Colorado towns, Crested Butte and Aspen, influenced the development of American alpine culture. The second will give detail [...]
Steven Samols – Global Visions: Austrian Émigrés and Photojournalism, 1905-1965
Steven Samols received a 2019 BIAAS grant to further his dissertation research into transatlantic flows of visual communication between Austria and the United States in the twentieth century. […]
Anton Holzer
BIAAS awarded a grant for $9,500 to Anton Holzer for the research and writing on Jewish Austrian-American photographer and artist Robert Haas. […]
Margareth Szeless & Marion Krammer
BIAAS awared $13,100 to Margareth Szeless and Marion Krammer in order to research influence of American photojournalist, Yoichi Okamoto, on Austrian press photography after World War II. […]
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. […]