Psychology
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 the Atlantic to the Pacific during his four scientific journeys (in 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1906). By investigating previously unexplored…
Eighty letters and postcards sent by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to Eduard Silberstein (1856-1925) are currently deposited at the Library of Congress (LoC). The project sets to trace the itinerary of this correspondence as a thing in motion, while also acknowledging it as text. How did two of the letters get to be published in a…
Phillip Henry received a 2021 Botstiber Grant to complete the research towards an intellectual history of interwar Freudian psychoanalysis. Titled States of Exception: The Interwar Crisis and the Remaking of Psychoanalysis, this monograph study focuses on the entwined practical and theoretical revisions of Freudianism over the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on a group of pioneering…
The Center at Camden County College will be offering a five-part speaker series focusing on the influential Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud. The series will span from his prolific activities in Austria during the last century to his enormous impact on current culture, science, and the field of psychology in the United States. Audiences will gain…
Carol Seigel received a 2019 BIAAS grant for a project to research and write an exhibition exploring the life of Muriel Gardiner.
Ohad Reiss-Sorokin’s Ph.D. dissertation “The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the ‘Geistkreis’ from Vienna to the New world”, follows the story of the ‘Geistkreis,’ an interdisciplinary intellectual circle that took place in Vienna in the Interwar period.
Katherine Sorrels received a BIAAS grant to research Jewish physicians and therapists who fled Nazi Vienna for Scotland, where they founded what would become a global network on intentional communities that cared for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
BIAAS issued a grant for $11,000 to Carol Seigel to fund an international symposium on Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham’s Hietzing school in 1920s Vienna.
BIAAS awarded a grant for $3,000 to Katherine Arens to study the philosophical transatlantic collaboration between Austria and the United States.
Margit Reiter was awarded a fellowship of $29,760 to support her work on a book that will examine the perceptions of United States President Woodrow Wilson in Austria.