Guenter Bischof

Guenter Bischof holds a PhD from Harvard University and is the Marshall Plan Chair and Director of Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has taught contemporary American and European history at UNO since 1989. Dr. Bischof has also served as a guest professor at the Universities of Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Vienna, and the Universities of Economics and Business Administration both in Vienna and Prague, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the RGGU in Moscow, as well as a “post-Katrina visiting professor” at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. As director of Center Austria, he has been involved in bringing hundreds of students across the Atlantic in both directions, along with dozens of faculty members. Bischof directs the Center’s annual conferences, lectures, workshops, and art exhibits, all related to Austrian scholarship and culture. With Hans Petschar, he co-authored The Marshall Plan Since 1947: Saving Europe, Rebuilding Austria (both English and German editions 2017), and with Hannes Richter, Towards the American Century: Austrians in the United States (2019); his essays on U.S.-Austrian relations are published in Beziehungsgeschichten/Relationships: Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century (2014). Bischof is co-editor of the publication series Contemporary Austrian Studies (28 volumes), and editor of TRANSATLANTICA (11 volumes) and Studies in Austrian History, Literature and Culture (3 volumes).