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This project investigates the cooperation between historians, church leaders, theologists, journalists, and local activists in Austria, the United States, and Germany to remove the traces of medieval blood libel legends from churches in Central Europe. It extends existing scholarship on the resurrection of medieval blood libel in modern Austria into the post-WW2 period, showing how…
Josef Frank: Complete Writings, Volume 4 includes the later theoretical writings of the important Austro-Swedish architect and designer Josef Frank (1885–1967), covering the period from 1938 to the early 1950s. In addition to Frank’s essays, Volume 4 will also feature several interpretive essays concerning his work of this period, as well as a long, previously…
Alpine Ambitions: Austrians and the Development of American Ski Culture and Resorts This public history project investigates the wholesale export of Austrian alpine expertise to the American ski mountains. It demonstrates that the modern U.S. ski industry is not merely a domestic success, but also a result of Austrian-American cultural and technical exchange. The project…
Friderike Zweig in American Exile: Cultural Networks and Intellectual Agency, 1940–1971 Although Friderike Maria Zweig (1882–1971) is best known as Stefan Zweig’s first wife, she was herself an accomplished writer, translator, literary agent, and cultural mediator whose work significantly shaped Austrian-American intellectual exchange after her exile to the United States. Drawing on archival materials held…
“I am conducting research on the German-speaking cabaret “Die Arche” which played in New York during World War II, from January 1943 to December 1944. This political cabaret was created by Austrian Zionists who had fled Europe. Though “Die Arche” I want to understand how Austrian Zionist maintained and reshaped their networks in exile, how…
Austrian Perceptions of America’s Role in the Emerging Global Order, 1840–1867 The project deals with US-Austrian relations in the mid-19th century and the way Austrian elites and broad public started to perceive the USA as both a new great power and an important player in European and world politics. In doing so, the project not…
19th-century Mexican Conservative Thought and the European Intervention (1861-67). This project analyses the perspective of three aristocrats who were involved in and/or affected by the European intervention that led to the establishment of Maximilian of Habsburg in Mexico. Through a close reading of the memoirs of these peripheral figures, cross-referencing them with social and political studies…
Visualizing Empire’s End: American Representations of the Habsburg World examines how the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy was represented in American visual and audiovisual media, including illustrated newspapers, press photography, rotogravure supplements, and early film. The project analyzes how American media transformed imperial dissolution into visual narratives of fragmentation, transition, national self-determination, and postwar reordering, with…
Red Vienna’s American Dreams This project examines the impact of America and Americana— literary and cultural products that capture the spirit of 1920s-1930s America—on the working-class literary imagination of Red Vienna, and especially in the works of Hugo Bettauer, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, and Felix Salten. At the center of my argument is the thesis that…
The World that Central Europeans Created: How A Group of Economists Reimagined their Region, the Global South, and the World This project explores the role played by Central European social scientists in engendering economic cooperation and development around the world during the twentieth century. Austrian and German actors contributed to international institutions such as the…