Historiography
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…
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 to the major faculties in Vienna and Berlin to complete their studies, at the same time numerous Austrian and German…
This dissertation examines the emergence of public opinion research in Austria and Czechoslovakia. From interwar debates about ‘plebiscitary democracy’ to the post-socialist emergence of ‘Samizdat surveying’, via postwar reconstruction, consumerism, and prognostics, I tell a story about the forgotten work of pollsters in Vienna and Prague. Broadly, I hope to offer an alternative account of…