Andreas Praher
Memory in Dialogue. Descendants of Jewish Families from Steyr in the United States The Museum of the Working World (Museum Arbeitswelt) and the Mauthausen committee Steyr create together a permanent exhibition in the former Synagogue…
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.
Alison Frank Johnson
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….
Christopher Long
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,…
Martin Kofler
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….
Erika Capovilla
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…
Charlotte Carayol
“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…
Miroslav Šedivý
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…
Bernardo Job Sandoval Lopez
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…
Szilveszter Dékány
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…
Tres Lambert
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…
Janek Wasserman
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…
Olga Sparschuh
Travelling Titles: Imported Doctorates and Educational Protectionism in a Globalizing World, 1890-1920. From the end of the 19th century, rapid globalization led to an increase in transatlantic educational mobility. While many American medical students went…
Benedikt Sepp and Thomas Rohringer
Selling ‘Kleinkrieg’. Austrian-American military-industrial entanglements 1960–1979. Austria was among the first countries to adopt a newly designed rifle in the innovative U.S. 5.56×45mm caliber in 1977. We argue that this marked more than just a…
Bianca Rauch
Gerda Lerner: Film, Politics and Activism. Gerda Lerner (1920–2013) is widely recognized as a pioneering feminist historian, yet her contributions to film remain largely understudied. This project addresses a critical gap by examining her involvement…
Sven Mörsdorf
Permanently Temporary: The Austro-Hungarian Consular Colonies in New York City and Rio de Janeiro, ca. 1900–1920s. Ever since its foundation in the late 1860s, the Austro-Hungarian Empire established so-called consular colonies around the world. These…
Nathan Marcus
The Vienna Black Market, 1943-1948. During and especially following the Second World War, official food rationing in Vienna guaranteed an equal distribution of supplies, but left many hungry and wanting for more. Hungry Viennese men…
Václav Horčička
Relations between the United States and Austria-Hungary during the Taft Administration. Before World War I, Austria-Hungary and the United States were linked by commercial interests or immigration. However, very little is known about the political…
Michael Haas
Discovering Karol Rathaus is a feature-length documentary chronicling the life and legacy of Jewish-Austrian composer Karol Rathaus, a major figure in European modernism and the first professor of composition at Queens College, CUNY. Through archival…
Dominika Czarnecka
THE ETHNOGRAPHIC GAZE OF EMIL HABDANK DUNIKOWSKI (1855-1924): TRACING CULTURAL TRANSFERS AND IDENTITY-FORMATION PROCESSES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRIAN GALICIA. Emil Habdank Dunikowski (1855–1924), a Galician geologist and traveller, traversed the American continent from…
Stephanie Buhmann
Vally Wieselthier: Sculpting Modernism, curated by Stephanie Buhmann at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, is the first comprehensive biographical exhibition in the United States dedicated to the Austrian-born ceramic artist Vally Wieselthier (1895–1945), a…