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.
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. […]
Roman Hutter
Roman Hutter received a BIAAS fellowship to examine ways Western and Eastern European cultural institutions exerted influence on the Romanian-German writer Oskar Pastior during the Cold War. […]
Silvia Rief
Silvia Rief received a 2018 fellowship from BIAAS for work on her project, “Political philosophy, economy theory and society: Karl Polanyi’s ‘real utopia’ reconsidered.” […]
Günther Sandner
Günther Sandner received a 2018 fellowship from BIAAS for his project, “Rudolf Modley (1906-1976) – Viennese Picture Language in the USA.” […]
Andrea Orzoff
Andrea Orzoff was awarded $25,000 to support research on classical musicians fleeing Nazi Europe for the global South. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Stefanie Populorum
Stefanie Populorum was awarded $26,346 to support her dissertation which explored the interdependence between Austrian literacy and visual productions and economic theories within the context of two major economic crises […]
Tyler James Callaway
Tyler James Callaway was awarded a fellowship of $22,400 to support his dissertation research that examined how the late imperial Habsburg state realigned its focus on old diplomacy to accommodate the mass immigration of its subjects in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. […]
Ian Wasserman
Ian Wasserman was awarded a fellowship of $30,000 for a book project on the intellectual significance of the Austrian School of Economics in the Twentieth century. […]