Intellectual History
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…
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…
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…
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…