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CURRICULUM VITAE
Günter J. Bischof Department of History University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70148 tel: 504-280-6882 fax: 504-280-6883 e-mail: [email protected]
BACKGROUND
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Harvard University 1989 M.A. Harvard University 1983 Mag. Phil. University of Innsbruck 1982 M.A. University of New Orleans 1980
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Professor of American History, Univ. of Innsbruck Spring 2020 Visiting Professor of American History, Univ. of Vienna May/June 2019 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University – Jerusalem June 2018 Marshall Plan Chair 2018- Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck Spring 2016 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem June 2014 39th UNO Innsbruck Summer School, Academic Director 2014 UNO University Research Professor 2011-2014 Marshall Plan Professor of History 2003-04, 2007- 39th UNO Innsbruck Summer School, Academic Director 2014 Director, CenterAustria 2002- 35th UNO Innsbruck Summer School, Academic Director 2010 Chair, UNO History Department 2006-08 Seminar Co-Chair “Transatlantic Relations,” European Forum Alpbach 2008 Director and Faculty Member, UNO Summer Seminar in Prague, Czech Republic 2008 Post-Katrina Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Fall 2005 30th UNO Innsbruck Summer School, Academic Director 2005 Guest Professor, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Spring 2005, Spring 2008, 2
Spring 2009, Spring 2010, 2012/13 Guest Professor, University of Economics, Prague May 2012 Guest Professor, Russian University for the Humanities, Moscow May 2012
Guest Professor, University of Innsbruck Spring 2004 Executive Director, Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce, UNO 2000- 26th UNO Innsbruck Summer School, Academic Director 2001 Professor of History, UNO 1999- Associate Director, Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce, UNO 1997-00 Associate Professor of History, UNO 1994-99 Associate Director, Eisenhower Center, UNO 1989-97 Guest Professor, Department of History, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg 1998 Guest Professor, Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna 1998 Guest Professor, Amerika Institut, Ludwig-Maximilian’s University Munich 1998 Visiting Lecturer (with rank of Associate Professor) Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 1992-94 Guest Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck 1993, 1994 Assistant Professor of History, UNO 1989-94 Instructor, Assistant and Associate Professor of History, UNO Summer School (Innsbruck) 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2012 Senior Thesis Advisor, Harvard University 1988-89 Head Teaching Fellow, Harvard University 1987-88 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University 1984-88 Visiting Instructor, University of New Orleans 1987
ACADEMIC COURSES TAUGHT
U.S. and World War II (seminar) Hitler Biography (graduate proseminar) The United States and World War I (1 sem lecture) World War I (1 sem. lecture) Thesis writing and methodology (seminar) Introduction to International History (seminar) New Perspectives on World War II (graduate proseminar) The 1960s and the Crisis Year 1968: Transnational Perspectives (graduate proseminar) The End of the Cold War in Europe (graduate proseminar) The Origins of World War II (graduate proseminar) 3
From Wilson to Schwarzenegger: Austrian – American Relations (graduate research seminar) Survey in American History (2 semester lecture) American Diplomatic History in the Twentieth Century (1 sem. lecture) American Empire (1 sem. Lecture) World War II (1 sem. lecture) The Cold War Era (1 sem. lecture) Rise of American Empire (1 sem. lecture) Modern China (1 sem. Lecture co-taught) The Politics of Anti-Communism in the U.S. (1 sem. lecture) The International History of World War II (1 sem. lecture) The Vietnam War (1 sem. proseminar or lecture) The American Presidency in the Cold War (1 sem. lecture) American Home Front during World War II (graduate seminar) Post-World War II Occupations (graduate seminar) The Marshall Plan (graduate seminar) Twentieth Century European Diplomatic History (grad.seminar) The Cold War (graduate proseminar and seminar) Origins of World War I (graduate proseminar) Origins of World War II and Interwar Diplomacy (grad. Proseminar) Hitler’s Germany (1 sem. lecture) History of the Habsburg Empire (1 sem. lecture) Austria in the Twentieth Century (1 sem. lecture) History of the Tyrol (1 sem. lecture) Conspiracy History (Privatissimum)
SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY:
1. PUBLICATIONS
Recipient of Festschrift Martin Eichtinger, Stefan Karner, Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, eds., Reassessing History from Two Continents: Festschrift Gűnter Bischof. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press 2013
A. Books a. Scholarly books
With Hannes Richter, Towards the American Century: Austrians in the United States. New Orleans: UNO Press, 2019
With Hans Petschar, The Marshall Plan - Since 1947: Saving Europe – Rebuilding 4
Austria. Vienna: Brandstätter 2017 German Edition: Der Marshall Plan - Seit 1947: Die Rettung Europas & der Wiederaufbau Österreichs. Vienna: Brandstätter 2017
With Barbara Stelzl-Marx and Alexandra Kofler, Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich: Entstehung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung. Vienna: Böhlau 2015
Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten: Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century (TRANSATLANTICA 4). Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2014
Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55: The Leverage of the Weak. Basingstoke: Macmillan-New York: St. Martin's Press 1999 Czech edition: Rakousko V První Studené Válce, 1945-1995: I slabí mají sílu (Prague: Academia, 2017) i. Refereed Edited Books
Ed., Quiet Invaders Revisited: Biographies of Twentieth Century Immigrants to the United States (TRANSATLANTICA, vol. 11). Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2017 with Christina Antenhofer, Robert L. Dupont, Ulrich Leitner, eds., Cities and Multiple Landscapes: Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans (Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung). Frankfurt a. M.: Campus 2016 with Jason Dawsey and Bernhard Fetz, eds., The Life and Work of Günther Anders: Émigré, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters (TRANSATLANTICA 8). Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2014
Ed., Regional Economic Development Compared: EU-Europe and the American South. innsbruck university press 2014 with Coleman Warner, eds., Museum Man: Essays in Honor of Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller. UNO Press 2014 with Stefan Karner, and Barbara Stelzl-Marx, eds., Vienna Summit 1961: Kennedy and Khrushchev (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2014, paperback edition 2016 ** Choice Outstanding Academic Title **
Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl, Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber, eds., Globalization and the City: Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2013 with Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Natalja Tomilina, Alexander Tschubarjan, Viktor Iščenko, Michail Prozumenščikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Gerhard Wettig, Manfred 5
Wilke, eds., Der Wiener Gipfel 1961: Kennedy – Chruschtschow. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2011 with Stefan Karner and Peter Ruggenthaler, eds. The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2010, paperback edition 2011 ** Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2010 ** with Dieter Stiefel, eds. & Hannes Richter, digital ed. Images of the Marshall Plan: Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters (TRANSATLANTICA) Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2009 with Ursula Mathis-Moser, eds., Acadians and Cajuns: The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America/Acadiens et Cajuns : Politique et culture de minorités francophones en Amérique du Nord (canadiana oenipontana 9). Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press 2009 with Stefan Karner, Natalja Tomilina, Alexander Tschubarian, Viktor Iscenko, Michael Prozumenscikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Oldrich Tuma, and Manfred Wilke, eds., Prager Frühling. Das internationale Krisenjahr 1968. Beiträge. Vienna: Böhlau 2008 with Stefan Karner, Natalja Tomilina, Alexander Tschubarian, Viktor Iscenko, Michael Prozumenscikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Oldrich Tuma, Manfred Wilke, Irina Kazina,Silke Stern, Aleksej Filitov, and Harald Knoll, eds., Prager Frühling. Das internationale Krisenjahr 1968. Dokumente. Vienna: Böhlau 2008 with Klaus Eisterer, eds. Transatlantic Relations: Austria and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries (TRANSATLANTICA, ed. Günter Bischof, vol. 1). Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2006. with Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Stefan Karner and Edith Petschnigg, eds. Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkrieges: Gefangennahme – Lagerleben - Rückkehr. Vienna-Munich: Oldenbourg 2005. with Michael Gehler, Volker Kühnhardt, and Rolf Steininger, eds., Towards a European Constitution: A Historical and Political Comparison with the United States. Vienna: Böhlau 2005 with Michael Gehler and Anton Pelinka, eds., Österreich in der EU: Bilanz einer Mitgliedschaft (Historische Forschungen des Arbeitskreises europäische Integration, vol. 5). Vienna: Böhlau 2003 with Michael Gehler and Rolf Steininger, eds., Austria in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture, ed. Günter Bischof). New Brunswick, NJ: Transcation 2002
6 with Wolfgang Krieger, eds., D-Day: Die Normandieinvasion 6. Juni 1944: Eine internationale Perspective (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, vol. 16) Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2001. with Saki Dockrill, eds., Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2000 with Dieter Stiefel, eds., 80 Dollar: 50 Jahre ERP-Fonds und Marshall-Plan in Österreich 1948-1998. Vienna: Ueberreuter, 1999 with Rüdiger Overmans, eds., Kriegsgefangenschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Eine Vergleichende Perspektive. Ternitz: Verlag Gerhard Höller 1999. with Robert Dupont, eds., The Pacific War Revisited. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1997. with Stephen E. Ambrose, eds., Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1995 with Stephen E. Ambrose, eds., Facts against Falsehood: Eisenhower and the German P.O.W.'s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1992. with Charles S. Maier, eds., The Marshall Plan and Germany: West German Development within the Framework of the European Recovery Program. Oxford-Hamburg-New York: Berg Publishers 1991. German edition: Deutschland und der Marshall-Plan. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 1992. with Rolf Steininger, Jürgen Weber, Thomas Albrich and Klaus Eisterer, eds., Die Doppelte Eindämmung: Europäische Sicherheit und deutsche Frage in den Fünfzigern, (Tutzinger Schriften zur Politik, vol. II). Munich: v.Hase & Koehler 1993.
Charles P. Kindleberger, The German Economy, 1945-1947: Charles P. Kindleberger's Letters from the Field, Historical Introduction, Select Bibliography, List of Names and Editorial Advice by Günter Bischof. Westport-London: Meckler Corporation 1989, pp. vii-xlvi. with Josef Leidenfrost, eds., Die bevormundete Nation: Österreich und die Alliierten, 1945-1949, (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, vol. 4, ed. Rolf Steininger). Innsbruck: Haymon Verlag 1988.
ii. Non-refereed Edited Books
With Marc Landry and Christian Karner, eds. Myths in Austrian History: Construction and 7
Deconstruction (CAS XXIX). New Orleans – Innsbruck: UNO Press – iup, 2020 [364 pp] with David M. Wineroither, eds., Democracy in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXVIII), New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO-iup Presses, 2019 [369 pp] with Dirk Rupnow, eds., Migration in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXVI), New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO-iup Presses, 2017 [316 pp] with Ferdinand Karlhofer, Austrian Studies Today (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXV), New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO-iup Presses, 2016 [284 pp] with Ferdinand Karlhofer, Austrian Federalism in Comparative Perspective (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXIV). New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO-iup Presses, 2015 [273 pp] with Ferdinand Karlhofer and Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., eds., 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXIII). New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO & innsbruck university press 2014 [394 pp] with Ferdinand Karlhofer, eds., Austria’s International Position after the End of the Cold War (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXII). New Orleans/Innsbruck: UNO Press/iup, 2013 [305 pp] with Fritz Plasser, Eva Maltschnig, eds., Austrian Lives (Contemporary Austrian Studies XXI). New Orleans/Innsbruck: UNO Press/iup, 2012 [483 pp] with Fritz Plasser, Anton Pelinka and Alexander Smith, eds., Global Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies XX). New Orleans/Innsbruck: UNO/iup 2011 [344 pp] with Fritz Plasser and Peter Berger, eds., From Empire to Republic: Post-World War I Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies XIX) New Orleans/Innsbruck: UNO/iup 2010 [443 pp] with Erich Marx, eds. Vor dem Sturm - The Soul of New Orleans: Fotografien von Michael P. Smith [exhibit catalogue]. Salzburg: Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum 2006 with Fritz Plasser, eds., The Schüssel Era in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XVIII) New Orleans/Innsbruck: UNO Press/innsbruck university press 2010 [377 pp] with Fritz Plasser and Barbara Stelzl-Marx, eds., New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XVII) New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2009 [373 pp]
8 with Fritz Plasser, eds., The Changing Austrian Voter (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XVI) New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2008 [338 pp] with Anton Pelinka, Dagmar Herzog and Josef Köstlbauer, eds., Sexuality in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XV) New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2007 [264 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Michael Gehler, eds., Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XIV), New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2006 [423 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., Religion in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XIII), New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2005 [297 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., The Americanization/Westernization of Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XII), New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2004 [316 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Alexander Lassner, eds., The Dolffuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria (Contemporary Studies, vol. XI). New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2003 [321 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Michael Gehler, eds., The EU and Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. X). New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2002 [354 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Ruth Wodak, eds., Neutrality in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. IX). New Brunswick-London: Transaction 2001 [376 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Dieter Stiefel, eds., The Marshall Plan in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. VIII). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 2000 [588 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Ferdinand Karlhofer, eds., The Vranitzky Era in Austria, (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. VII). New Brunswick-London: Transaction 1999 [305 pp]. with Anton Pelinka and Erika Thurner, eds., Women in Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. VI). New Brunswick-London: Transaction 1998 [309 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. V). New Brunswick-London: Transaction 1997 [399 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., Austro-Corporatism: Past - Present - Future, (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. IV). New Brunswick-London: Transaction, 1996 [428 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., Austria in the Nineteen Fifties, 9
(Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. III). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 1995 [311 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., The Kreisky Era in Austria, (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. II). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 1994 [267 pp]. with Anton Pelinka, eds., Austria in the New Europe, (Contemporary Austrian Studies), vol. I. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 1993 [211 pp].
B. Refereed/Invited Publications
a. Invited Book Chapters
“The Politics of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower toward Austria, 1943- 1955,” in: Stefan Karner/Barbara Stelzl-Marx, eds., The Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation, 1945-1955, trans. Alex J. Kay (Lanham. MD: Lexington Books, 2020), 3-21
“Postscript: Postwar Europe’s ‘Deplorable Plumbing’,” in: Robert Groß, Martin Knoll, Katharina Scharf, eds., Transformative Recovery? The European Recovery Program (ERP)/Marshall Plan in European Tourism. Innsbruck: Innsbruck university oppress, 2020, 147-64
“Finis Austriae 1938: Die Appeasement-Politik der Vereinigten Staaten, der „Anschluss“ und die Verreibung der Juden,“ in: Stefan Karner/Peter Ruggenthaler, eds., 1938: Der „Anschluss“ im internationalen Kontext (Graz: Leykam, 2019), 173-200.
“American Bucks and Austrian Buccaneers: Sun Valley: The Making of America’s First Winter Resort,” in: Philipp Strobl, Aneta Podkalicka, eds., Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts (Global Culture and Sport) (London: Palgrave, 2018), 143-160
“Eiserner Vorhang,” in: Monika Sommer/Heidemarie Uhl/Klaus Zeyringer, eds., 100 x Österreich: Neue Essays aus Literatur und Wissenschaft (Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau/Haus der Geschichte Österreich, 2018), 54-58
“Busy with Refugee Work”. Joseph Buttinger, Muriel Gardiner, and the Saving of Austrian Refugees, 1940–1941, in: Zeithistoriker – Archivar – Aufklärer: Festschrift für Winfried R. Garscha, ed. Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Christine Schindler im Auftrag des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes und der Zentralen österreichischen Foschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz (Vienna 2017), 115-126
“Der Marshallplan in Österreich: War Österreich ein ‘Special Case” im Europäischen 10
Wiederaufbau-Programm?,” in: Stefan Karner, ed., Festschrift in memoiram Karl W. Hardach (Graz: Leykam, 2016), pp. 165-176.
With Stefan Maurer, “’One hour east of Vienna….’ At the Crossroads of Europe: Vienna – Bridgehead and Bridge in the Cold War,” in: Katia Pizzi/Marjatta Hietala, eds., Cold War Cities: History, Culture and Memory (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016), pp. 45-74
“The Marshall Plan in Austria,” Bischof/Karlhofer, eds., Austrian Studies Today, pp. 69- 82
“The Malta Summit: German Unification, and the End of the Cold War,” in: Lucile Dreidemy, Richard Hufschmied, Agnes Meisinger, Berthold Molden, Eugen Pfister, Katharina Prager, Elisabeth Röhrlich, Florian Wenninger, Maria Wirth, eds., Bananen, Cola, Zeitgeschichte: Oliver Rathkolb und das lange 20. Jahrhundert, 2 vols (Vienna: Böhlau, 2015), 718-731
“Die Moskauer Deklaration und die österreichische Geschichtspolitik,” in: Stefan Karner/Alexander O. Tschubarijan, eds., Die Moskauer Deklaration 1943: “Österreich wieder herstellen” (Vienna: Böhlau, 2015), pp. 249-259
“Der wirtschaftliche, politische, moralische Wiederaufbau Österreichs nach der Katastrophe des Zweiten Weltkrieges,” in: Philipp Strobl, ed., Österreich in der Zweiten Republik: Ein Land im Wandel (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2014), pp. 13-34
“Bugging the German Generals: British and American Eavesdropping on German POWs during World War II,” in: Bischof/Warner, eds., Museum Man, pp. 279-299
With Michael Maier, “Sie Kommen”: From Defeat to Liberation – German and Austrian Memory of the Allied “Invasion” of June 6, 1944,“ in Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, and John Buckley, eds., D-Day in History and Memory: The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration (Denton, TX: University of North Texas, 2014), pp. 189-220.
"Österreich - ein 'geheimer Verbündeter' des Westens? Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitspolitische Fragen der Integration aus der Sicht der USA," in: Michael Gehler/Rolf Steininger, eds., Österreich und die europäische Integration 1945-1992. 2nd ed., Graz-Vienna-Weimar: Böhlau 2014, pp. 451-477 [= unrevised reprint of 1993 essay in volume of same title].
With Martin Kofler, “’Vienna, A City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions’: John F. Kennedy and His European Summitry in Early June 1961,” in: Bischof/Karner/Stelzl-Marx, eds., Vienna Summit in International History, 83-124
With Stefan Karner/Barbara Stelzl-Marx, “Introduction: The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History,” in: Bischof/Karner/Stelzl-Marx, eds., Vienna 11
Summit in International History, 3-39
“’Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall’: Zur Berlinrede von Präsident Ronald Reagan am 12. Juni 1987,” in: Ferdinand Karlhofer/Sven Jeschke/Gunther Pallaver, eds., Medienzentrierte Demokratien: Befunde, Trends, Perspektiven. Festschrift fűr Univ.- Prof. Dr. Fritz Plasser, Vienna: facultas.wuv, 2013, 109-122
“Of Dwarfs and Giants: From Cold War Mediator to Bad Boy of Europe - Austria and the U.S. in the Transatlantic Arena (1990-2013),” in: Bischof/Karlhofer, eds., Austria’s International Position (CAS XXII), pp. 13-53
“Austria’s Loss - America’s Gain: Finis Austriae - The “Anschluss” and the Expulsion/Migration of Jewish Austrians to the U.S.,” in: Peter Eigner/Herbert Matis/Andreas Resch, eds., Entreprenership in schwierigen Zeiten: Unternehmertum, Karrieren und gewaltsame Diskontinuitäten von Lebensläufen während der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Beiträge gesammelt zu Ehren von Peter Berger (Veröffentlichungen der Österreichischen Geselleschaft fűr Unternehmungsgeschichte, vol. 30), Vienna: LIT, 2013, pp. 229-257
“The Post-World War II Allied Occupation of Austria: A Case Study in Successful Nation Building as a Template for the U.S. Occupation of Iraq?” in: Alfred Ableitinger/Martin Moll, eds., Licence to detect: Festschrift fűr Siegfried Beer zum 65. Geburtstag (Schriftenreihe des Instituts fűr Geschichte vol. 19) (Graz 2013), pp. 493-519
“Cold War U.S. Public Diplomacy and Beyond,“ in: Carlos Collado Seidel , ed., Geheimdienste, Diplomatie und Krieg: Das Räderwerk der Internationalen Beziehungen. Zum 65. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Krieger (Berlin: LIT, 2013), pp. 293-305
With Barbara Stelzl-Marx, “Hinter Stacheldraht: Parallele Lebensgeschichten österreichischer Kriegsgefangener des Zweiten Weltkrieges in sowjetischer und amerikanischer Hand,“ in: Barbara Stelzl-Marx and Gerald Schöpfer, eds., Wirtschaft. Macht. Geschichte: Brüche und Kontinuitäten im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift Stefan Karner (Graz: Leykam-Verlag, 2013), pp. 291-319 with Barbara Stelzl-Marx, “Lives behind Barbed Wire: A Comparative View of Austrian Prisoners of War during and after World War II in Soviet and American and Captivity, in: Bischof et. al., eds., Austrian Lives, pp. 327-58
“Cold War Miracle: The Austrian State Treaty of 1955 and Its 50th Anniversary in 2005,” in: Arnold Suppan, ed., Auflösung historischer Konflikte im Donauraun: Festschrift fűr Ferenz Glatz zum 70. Geburtstag (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2011), pp. 385-396 with Stefan Karner/Peter Ruggenthaler/Barbara Stelzl-Marx/Gerhard Wettig, “Der Wiener Gipfel 1961 und seine Bedeutung für die internationale Politik: Zur Einleitung,” in: Karner et al., eds., Der Wiener Gipfel 1961, pp. 17-74
12 with Martin Kofler, “’Vienna, a City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions’: John F. Kennedys Gipfeldiplomatie mit Freund und Feind in Europa im Mai/Juni 1961,” in: Karner et al., eds., Der Wiener Gipfel 1961, pp. 137-164 with Richard Williamson, „Berlin oder Abrüstung? Die Prioritäten der verpatzten Pariser Gipfelstürmerei von 1961,“ in: Karner et al., eds., Der Wiener Gipfel 1961, pp. 107-136 with Philipp Strobl, “California Dreaming: Arnold the Quintessential American Immigrant,” in: Michael Butter/Patrick Keller/Simon Wendt, eds., Arnold Schwarzenegger – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image (American Studies – A Monograph Series, vol. 198) (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011), pp. 237- 262
“Schumpeter versus Keynes: Der Marshallplan und der Wiederaufbau der österreichischen Wirtschaft. Motor der Innovationsförderung und Modernisierung?,” in: Peter Berger/Peter Eigner/Andreas Resch, eds., Die vielen Gesichter des wirtschaftlichen Wandels: Beiträge zur Innovationsgeschichte. Festschrift für Dieter Stiefel (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2011), pp. 161-180
“’No Action’: Die amerikanische Reaktion auf die Invasion der Tschechoslowakei im August 1968,” in: Ingrid Bőhler/Eva Pfanzelter/Thomas Spielbűchler/Rolf Steininger, eds., 1968 – Vorgeschichten – Folgen: Bestandaufnahme der ősterreichischen Zeitgeschichte. 7. Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2008 (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2010), S. 17-22.
“Selling the Marshall Plan – Selling America,” in: Images of the Marshall Plan in Europe, pp. 7-22.
„’No Action’: Die USA und die Invasion der Tschechoslowakei,“ in: Karner et al., eds., Prager Frühling, pp. 319-54 ; English Translation : «‘No Action’ : The Johnson Administration and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, » in: Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion 1968, pp. 215-36 ; Russian translation „No Action“. SŠA i vtorženie v Čechoslovakiju, in: N. G. Tomilina, S. Karner, A. O. Čubar´jan, I. V. Kazarina, M. Ju. Prozumenščikov, P. Ruggenthaler (Hg.), „Pražskaja vesna“ i meždunarodnyj krizis 1968 goda. Bd. 1 Issledovanija. Moskau 2010, S. 267- 300 ; Czech translation: «‘No Action’ : Johnsonova administrativa a invasze do Československa» [ trans, Kateřina a Markéta Tlachovy], in: Soudobé Dĕjiny: « Ozvĕny’pražského jara », 3-4 (2008) : 465-84
With Stefan Karner and Peter Ruggenthaler, “Introduction,” in: Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact Invasion 1968, pp. 3-34. with Michael S. Maier, “Reinventing Tradition and the Politics of History: Schűssel’s Restitution and Commemoration Policies,” in: Bischof/Plasser, eds., The Schűssel Era in Austria, pp. 206-34 13
with Stefan Karner, Manfred Wilke, Peter Ruggenthaler, „Vorwort,“ in Karner et al., eds. Prager Frühling, pp. 17-67
“The Era of European Integration,” in: Charles W. Ingrao and Franz A.J. Szabo, eds., The Germans and the East (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008), pp. 362-69 with Martin David, “Austrian and Czech Historical Memory of World War II, National Identity, and European Integration,” in:, Ingrao/Szabo, eds., The Germans and the East pp. 370-88
“Gedanken zum gemeinsamen europäischen historischen Gedächtnis an die Totalitarismen des 20. Jahrhunderts und eine europäische Wertegemeinschaft,“ in: Anton Pelinka/Fritz Plasser, eds.,Europäisch Denken und Lehren: Festschrift für Heinrich Neisser (Innsbruck: University of Innsbruck Press 2007), pp. 43-50 with Hans Jürgen Schröder, „’Nation Building’ in vergleichender Perspektive: Die USA als Besatzungsmacht in Österreich und Westdeutschland 1945–1955,“ in: Michael Gehler/Ingrid Böhler, eds., Verschiedene europäische Wege im Vergleich. Österreich und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945/49 bis zur Gegenwart. Festschrift für Rolf Steininger zum 65. Geburtstag (Innsbruck:StudienVerlag, 2007), pp. 155-176
“Am Rand der Weltgeschichte? Osttirol und die Welt,” in: Museum der Stadt Lienz Schloss Bruck, ed., Spurensuche 3: Randlange im Wandel: Osttirol – 1850 bis zur Gegenwart (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2007), pp. 20-29
“Marshall-Plan und Westintegration,” in: Helmut Alexander/Elisabeth Dietrich- Daum/Wolfgang Meixner, eds. Menschen - Regionen - Unternehmen. Festschrift für Franz Mathis zum 60. Geburtstag. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2006, pp. 31- 48.
“The Robust Assertion of Austrianism: Peaceful Coexistence in Austria after Stalin’s Death,” in: Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood, eds., The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, ed. Mark Kramer). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2006, pp. 233-56
“Two Sides of the Coin: The Americanization of Austria and Austrian Anti- Americanism,” in: Alexander Stephan, ed., The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945. New York: Berghahn 2006, 147-81.
“’Recapturing the Initiative’ and ‘Negotiating from Strength’: The Hidden Agenda of the Short Treaty Episode,” in: Arnold Suppan, Gerald Stourzh, and Wolfgang Mueller, eds., Staatvertrag 1955: Interntionale Strategie, rechtliche Relevanz, nationale Identität/The Austrian State Treaty 1955: International Strategy, Legal Relevance, National Identity. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005, 217-48. 14
With Michael Gehler, “Austrian Foreign Policy after World War II,” in: Bischof et al., eds., Austrian Foreign Policy, 1-24.
“Between East and West: The Origins of Post-World War II Austrian Foreign Policy,” in: ibid., 113-42.
“Die Amerikaner als Besatzungsmacht in Österreich, 1945-1955,” in: Manfried Rauchensteiner/Robert Kriechbaumer, eds., Die Gunst des Augenblicks: Neuere Forschungen zu Staatsvertrag und Neutralität. Vienna: Boehlau 2005, 75-112. with Stefan Karner and Barbara Stelzl-Marx, “Einleitung,” in Kriegesgefangene des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 9-19
“Kriegsgefangenschaft als internationals Forschungsthema”, in: Bischof et al., eds., Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 23-47
“Der Marshall-Plan in Österreich/The Marshall Plan in Austria”, in: Österreich Baut Auf/Rebuilding Austria, Vienna: Technical Museum 2005, 12-66
“Die Moskauer Erklärung vom 1. November 1943: “Magna Charta der Zweiten Republik,” in: Stefan Karner/Gottfried Stangler,eds., “Ősterreich ist frei!”: Der Österreichische Staatsvertrag 1955. Horn-Vienna: Verlag Berger 2005, 22-26 with Michael Gehler, “’Floundering Fathers’ or “Founding Fathers’? Comparative Aspects of Constitution-Making in EU Europe and the United States, in: Gehler/Bischof et al., eds., European Constitution, 11-36
“American Empire and Its Discontents: The United States and Europe Today,” in: Gehler/Bischof et al, eds., European Constitution, 185-207
“Austrian Anti-Americanism after World War II,” in: Thomas Michael Draxlbauer/Astrid M. Fellner/Froeschl, eds., (Anti)-Americanisms. Vienna: Lit Verlag 2004, 140-71
“A Soviet ‘New Look’ on the Danube and the Emancipation of Austrian Foreign Policy in 1953: Peaceful Coexistence in Austria after Stalin’s Death,” in: Siegfried Beer/Edith Marko-Stoekl/Marlies Raffler/Felix Schneider, eds., Focus Austria. Vom Vielvoelkerstaat zum EU-Staat. Festschrift fuer Alfred Ableitinger (Graz: Institut fuer Geschichte, 2003), 441-66.
“Watschenmann der europäischen Erinnerung”? Internationals Image und Vergangenheitspolitik der Schüssel/Riess-Passer-OeVP/FPOe-Koalitionsregierung,” in: Gehler/Pelinka/Bischof, eds., Austria in the European Union, 445-78
“Austria in McWorld,” in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., The Americanization/Westernization of 15
Austria, 1-17
With Martin Kofler, “Austria’s Postwar Occupation, the Marshall Plan, and Secret Rearmament as ‘Westernizing Agents’ 1945-1968,” in Bischof/Pelinka, eds., The Americanization/Westernization of Austria, 199-225
“Allied Plans and Policies for the Occupation of Austria, 1938-1955,” in: Steininger/Bischof/Gehler, eds., Austrian in the Twentieth Century, pp. 162-89
“Verliert Oesterreich seinen guten Ruf? Oesterreichs Image in den USA nach der Bildung der neuen OeVP/FPOe-Regierung,” in: Heinrich Neisser/Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann, eds., Europäisierung der ősterreichischen Politik. Konsequenzen der EU-Mitgliedschaft. Vienna: WUV Universitätsverlag, 2002, pp. 37-64
“Die Kontroverse unter den Alliierten um die ‘Zweite Front’,” in: Bischof/Krieger, eds., D-Day, pp. 89-104 with Rolf Steininger, “D-Day aus der Sicht von Zeitzeugen,” in: Bischof/Krieger, eds., D-Day, pp. 55-73
“Eindämmung und Koexistenz oder “Rollback” und Befreiung? Die Vereinigten Staaten, das Sowjetimperium und die Ungarnkrise im Kalten Krieg, 1948-1956,” in: Erwin A. Schmidl, ed., Die Ungarnkrise 1956 und Ősterreich. Vienna: Boehlau 2003, 101-27
“’Opfer’ Österreich?: Zur moralischen Ökonomie des österreichischen historischen Gedächtnisses,” in: Dieter Stiefel, ed., Die Politische Ökonomie des Holocaust: Zur wirtschaftlichen Logik von Verfolgung und ‘Wiedergutmachung’. Vienna-Munich: Geschichte und Politik/Oldenbourg 2001, pp. 305-35
“The Making of the Austrian Treaty and the Road to Geneva,” in: Bischof/Dockrill, eds., Cold War Respite, pp. 117-54 with Saki Dockrill, “Introduction,” in: Bischof/Dockrill, eds., Cold War Respite, pp. 1-20
Where May Meets Lazarsfeld: American Public Opinion toward Austria in the Early Cold War“,” in: Akira Iriye, ed., Rethinking International Relations: Ernest R. May and the Study of World Affairs. Chicago: Imprint Publications 1998, pp. 309-19. Repr. in Austrian Information (September & October/November 1999)
„Der Marshall Plan und die Wiederbelebung des österreichischen Fremdenverkehrs nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg,” in: Bischof/Stiefel, eds., 80 Dollar 50 Jahre ERP-Fonds und Marshall-Plan in Österreich, pp. 133-82.
“‘Conquering the Foreigner’: The Marshall Plan and the Revival of Postwar Austrian Tourism,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Stiefel, eds., The Marshall Plan in Austria, in: 16
Contemporary Austrian Studies vol. VIII [New Brunswick/NJ: Transaction, 2000, pp. 357-401.
“Einige Thesen zu einer Mentalitätsgeschichte deutscher Kriegsgefangenschaft in amerikanischer Gewahrsam,” in: Bischof/Overmans, eds., Kriegsgefangenschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg, pp. 175-212.
“Der Nationale Sicherheitsrat und die amerikanische Österreichpolitik im frühen Kalten Krieg,” in: Alfred Ableitinger/Siegfried Beer/Eduard G. Staudinger, eds., österreich unter alliierter Besatzung 1945-1955 (Vienna-Cologne-Graz: Böhlau, 1998), pp. 11-37.
"Anglo-Amerikanische Planungen und Überlegungen der österreichischen Emigration während des Zweiten Weltkrieges für Nachkriegsösterreich", in: Manfried Rauchensteiner/Wolfgang Etschmann, eds., Österreich 1945 - Ein Ende und viele Anfänge (Graz-Vienna: Styria, 1997), pp. 5-51.
"Die Planung und Politik der Alliierten 1940-1954," in: Michael Gehler/Rolf Steininger, eds., Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert, Bd. 2: Von der Zweiten Republik zur Gegenwart (Vienna: Böhlau 1997), pp. 107-46.
"Spielball der Mächtigen? Österreichs außenpolitischer Spielraum im beginnenden Kalten Krieg," in: Wolfgang Kos/Georg Rigele, eds., Inventur 45/55. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 1996, pp. 126-56.
"The Politics of Anti-Communism in the Executive Branch during the Early Cold War: Truman, Eisenhower and McCarthy(ism)", in: André Kaenel, ed., Anti-Communism and McCarthyism in the United States, 1945-1954: Essays in the Culture and Politics of the Cold War. Paris: Editions Messene 1995, pp. 53-77.
"'Ten Days of Red Terror'? Die amerikanische Perzeption der Arbeiterunruhen vom Herbst 1950 und ihre Auswirkungen auf Österreichs Sicherheitspolitik," in: Thomas Albrich/Klaus Eisterer/Michael Gehler/Rolf Steininger, eds., Österreich in den 1950igern. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 1995, pp. 183-209.
"Eisenhower, the Summit, and the Austrian Treaty, 1953-1955," in: Bischof/Ambrose, eds., Eisenhower, pp. 136-61. with Stephen E. Ambrose, "Introduction," in: Ambrose/Bischof, eds., Eisenhower, pp. 1-16. "Österreich - ein 'geheimer Verbündeter' des Westens? Wirtschafts- und Sicherheitspolitische Fragen der Integration aus der Sicht der USA," in: Michael Gehler/Rolf Steininger, eds., Österreich und die europäische Integration 1945-1992. Graz-Vienna-Weimar: Böhlau 1993, pp. 427-452.
"Österreichisch Neutralität, die deutsche Frage und europäische Sicherheit 1953-1955," in: Steininger et. al., eds., Die Doppelte Eindämmung, pp. 133-176 17
"The Historical Roots of a Special Relationship: Austro-German Relations Between Hegemony and Equality," in: Harald von Rieckhoff/Hanspeter Neuhold, eds., Unequal Partners: A Comparative Analysis of Relations between Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany and Between Canada and the United States. Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 57-92. with Stephen E. Ambrose, "Introduction," in: Bischof/Ambrose, eds., Eisenhower and the German POWs, pp. 1-25.
"Bacque and Historical Evidence," in: Bischof/Ambrose, eds., Eisenhower and the German POWs, pp. 199-234.
"Karl Gruber und die Anfänge des 'Neuen Kurses' in der österreichischen Aussenpolitik 1952/1953," in: Othmar Huber and Lothar Höbelt, eds., Für Österreichs Freiheit: Karl Gruber - Landeshauptmann und Aussenminister 1945-1953, (Innsbruck Studies of Contemporary History, vol. 7), Innsbruck: Haymon 1991, pp. 143-183. with Emil Brix, "The Central European Perspective," in Robert S. Jordan, ed., Europe and the Superpowers: Essays on European International Politics, London: Pinter Publishers 1991, pp. 217-234.
"Die Amerikaner, die Deutsche (Wieder)Vereinigung und Österreich," in Oliver Rathkolb/Georg Schmidt/Gernot Heiss, eds., Österreich und Deutschlands Grösse: Ein schlampiges Verhältnis, Salzburg: Otto Müller Verlag, 1990, pp. 224-234. with Josef Leidenfrost, "Österreich nach dem April 1945: Die bevormundete Nation - Über dieses Buch," in Bischof/Leidenfrost, eds., Die bevormundete Nation, pp. 11-43.
"'Prag liegt westlich von Wien': Internationale Krisen im Jahre 1948 und ihr Einfluss auf Österreich," in Bischof/Leidenfrost., eds., Die bevormundete Nation, pp. 315-45.
b. Refereed Journal Articles
With Peter Berger, “‘Nicht lebensfähig?‘: Austria’s Economic Viability after the Two World Wars,” in: Myths in Austrian History [Contemporary Austrian Studies 29], 193-210
“Der Marshallplan und die Teilung Europas: “Jetzt sind wir endgültig hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang,” Europäische Rundschau vol. 45, no 2 (2017): 51-58
“Von Riesen und Zwergen – die USA und Österreich,” Europäische Rundschau, 44 (2016/2): 71-77
“Besuchsdiplomatie und Koalitionsreibereien im Kalten Krieg: Der Gorbach-Besuch bei 18
Kennedy im Mai 1961,” Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchivs (Festschrift für Lorenz Mikoletzky) 55 (2011): 1253-1276 with Martin Kofler, “Ost-West-Diplomatie und westliche Allianzpflege: John F. Kennedy und der Wiener Gipfel 1961,” HISTORICUM (Frühling-Sommer 2011): 40-55
“United States Responses to the Soviet Suppression of Rebellions in the German Democratic Republic,Hungary, and Czechoslovakia,“ in: Diplomacy & Statecraft vol. 22, no 1 (2011) : 1-20 [special commemorative issue in memory of Saki Dockrill]
“Vor 50 Jahren: Die schwierigen Anfänge der Präsidentschaft John F. Kennedys 1961,” Europäische Rundschau vol. 39, no.1 (2011): 83-91
“Empire Discourses: The ‘American Empire’ in Decline?,“ in : Kurswechesel No. 2 (2009) : 14-23
"’No action’: Die amerikanische Reaktion auf die Invasion der Tschechoslowakei im August 1968,“ in: HISTORICUM. Zeitschrift für Geschichte 98 (winter 2007/2008-spring 2008): 34-42
“Das Ende der ‘Exceptional Nation’? Herausforderungen an die Öffentliche Diplomatie der USA,“ Europäische Rundschau vol. 35, no 4 (2007): 59-72
“The Collapse of Liberation Rhetoric: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1956 Hungarian Crisis,” Hungarian Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (2006): 51-63 German version: “Beim Mittagsschläfchen ertappt” – Eisenhower und die Ungarnkrise im Herbst 1956,” Europäische Rundschau vol. 34, no. 3 (2006): 43-57 Hungarian translation: “Ebéd utáni szunyókálás: Eisenhower és az 1956-OS Magyar Válság,” Európai Szemle 17/2 (2006): 27-43 Reprinted in Hungary 1956 Reader: “Ebéd utáni szunyókálás: Eisenhower és az 1956-os magyar válság,” in: Gábor Gyáni/ Rainer M. János, eds., Ezerkilencszázötevenhat az újabb Történeti Irodalomban. Budapest” 1956-os Intézet 2007, pp. 295-312.
“Österreich und die USA seit 1945,” in: Wiener Zeitschtschrift zur Geschichte des Neuzeit 5/1 (2005), 104-18.
“The Advent of Neo-Revisionism?” in: Journal of Cold War Studies 7 (Winter 2005), 141-51.
With Ingrid Böhler, “Forschung un Lehre am Innsbrucker Institut für Zeitgeschichte (1983-2003). Die ‘Innsbrucker Schule’ in der österreichischen Zeitgeschichtsforschung,” in: Zeitgeschichte 30 (2003), 387-98.
“Victims? Perpetrators? “Punching Bags” of European Historical Memory? The 19
Austrians and Their World War II Legacies,” German Studies Review 27 (February 2004), 17-32.
Editorial “Kriegsgefangeschaft und Österrichbewusstsein im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” Zeitgeschichte vol. 29 (May-June 2002), 109-112.
“Das amerikanische Jahrhundert: Europas Niedergang - Amerikas Aufstieg,” Zeitgeschichte , vol. 28 (March-April 2001), 75-95.
“’Experiencing a Nasty Fall From Grace...’? Austria’s Image in the U.S. after the Formation of the New ÖVP/FPÖ Government,” in: Austria’s Image in the United States (Diplomatische Akademie Wien Occasional Paper 2/2000), 7-33.
“Restoration, Not Renewal: From Nazi to Four-Power Occupation - The Difficult Transition to Democracy in Austria after 1945,” Hungarian Studies 14/2 (2000), 207-31.
"Der Marshall-Plan in Europa 1947-1952," Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, B 22-23/97 (23 May 1997), 3-17.
"The Making of a Cold Warrior: Karl Gruber and Austrian Foreign Policy, 1945 to 1953," Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 26 (1995), 99-127.
"Die Instrumentalisierung der Moskauer Erklärung nach dem 2. Weltkrieg," Zeitgeschichte, vol. 20 (Nov.-Dec. 1993), 345-366.
"The Western Powers and Austrian Neutrality," Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs, vol. 42 (1992), 368-93.
"Mark Clark und die Aprilkrise 1946," Zeitgeschichte, vol. 13 (April 1986), 229-251.
c. Series (Co-)Editor
Contemporary Austrian Studies (29 volumes) with Transaction (17 volumes), and then UNO Press/innsbruck university press (12 volumes)
Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture (3 volumes) with Transaction
Studies in Central European Literature, History and Culture (4 volumes) with UNO Press
TRANSATLANTICA with StudienVerlag Innsbruck (11 volumes)
Eisenhower Center Studies of War and Peace with Louisiana State University Press (10 volumes) 20
C. Other Publications
With Marc Landry and Christian Karner, “Preface,” in: Myths in Austrian History [CAS 29], 11-18
“Introduction to ‘FORUM South Tyrol in the Twentieth Century,” in: Myths in Austrian History [CAS 29], 281-84
“Foreword,” in: Joshua Parker, ed., Blossoms in Snow: Austrian Refugee Poets in Manhattan (Studies in Central European Hidtory, Culture, & Literature, ed. Günter Bischof) (New Orleans: UNO Press, 2020), 17-23
“The Story of Austrian Catholic Resister Franz Jägerstätter,” Blog on Website of Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, National World War II Museum, New Orleans https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/story-austrian-catholic-resister-franz- jagerstatter
Contributor to Czaba Békés, ed., The Bibliography of New Cold War History, 2nd enl. ed. (Budapest: Cold War History Research Center, 2019)
“Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies,” in: Marija Wakouning/Ferdinand Kühnel, eds., East Central Europe at a Glance: People – Cultures – Developments (Vienna: Lit Verlag 2018), 39-46
“Preface,” in: Leidinger, ed., Habsburg’s Last War, 15-19
Introduction to FORUM “Austrians as Victims? Victimhood Discourses and Practices in the Age of World Wars,” in: An Environmental History of Austria (Contemporary Austrian Studies 27); ed. Marc Landry and Patrick Kupper (New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO Press-innsbruck university press, 2018), 241-243
With Dirk Rupnow, “Preface,” in: Bischof/Rupnow, eds., Migration in Austria, 13-20
“Introduction: ‘Quiet Invaders’ Revisited: Austrian Immigration to the United States,” in: Bischof, ed., Quiet Invader Revisited, 7-23
“Introduction,” Bischof/Karlhofer, eds, Austrian Studies Today, CAS 25, 13-21
“Preface,” in: Jägerstätter: A Play by Felix Mitterer, v-xiii
“Der aufgeschreckte Riese,” & “Der ewige Präsident,” Kleine Zeitung [Graz, Austria], May 6, 2015, 10-13, repr. in 1945: Vom Dritten Reich zur Zweiten Republik (Kleine Zeitung Spezial) (Graz: Styria, 2015), pp. 54-57. 21
“DerAnfang vom Ende,” Kleine Zeitung, May 14, 2015, 10f, repr. in 1945: Vom Dritten Reich zur Zweiten Republik (Kleine Zeitung Spezial) (Graz: Styria, 2015), pp. 86-87.
“Der rettende Plan: Der Marshall plan steht für die amerikanische Grosszügigkeit im Wiederaufbau des zerstörten Europas,” Kleine Zeitung, May 17, 2015, 30f, repr. In: 1945: Vom Dritten Reich zur Zweiten Republik (Kleine Zeitung Spezial) (Graz: Styria, 2015), pp. 154-155.
With Ferdinand Karlhofer, “Preface” in: CAS XXIV, xi-xv
“Center Austria: Faculty Exchanges,” in: Marija Wakounig/Markus Peter Beham, eds., Mind and Memory Discourse: Critical Concepts and Constructions (Europa Orientalis vol. 15) (Vienna: LIT Verlag 2015), 47-56.
“Preface,” in: Bischof et al., eds., Life and Work of Günther Anders, 7-9
“Introduction,” in: Bischof/Warner, eds., Museum Man, vii-xvii
“Preface,” in: Bischof, ed., Regional Economic Development,7-12
“Preface,” in: Bischof/Karlhofer/Williamson, eds., 1914 (CAS 23), xiii-xvii
“Austrian-American Relations: From Cold War to Post-Cold War,” Austrian Information (Summer/Fall 2013): 7-10
“CenterAustria: 2012 Activities Report,” in: Marija Wakounig/Markus Peter Beham, eds., Transgressing Boundaries: Humanities in Flux (Europa Orientalis 14),V(ienna: LIT Verlag, 2013), 55-64
“Preface,” in: Bischof/Karlhofer, eds., Austria’s International Position (CAS XXII), ix-xi
“Preface,” Berndt Ostendorf, New Orleans: Creolization and all that Jazz, (TRANSATLANTICA, vol. 7), 9-11
“Die US-Wahlen und die amerikanische Aussenpolitik,” Die Zukunft 10/2012, 20-22
“Preface,” in: Bischof et. al., eds., Austrian Lives, ix-xvii
“Geleitwort,” in: Thomas König. Die Frühgeschichte des Fulbright Program in Österreich Transatlantische „Fühlungnahme auf dem Gebiete der Erziehung“ (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2012), 7-10
“CenterAustria: University of New Orleans,” in: Marija Wakounig, ed., From Collective Memories to Intercultural Exchanges (Europa Orientalis 13) (Vienna: Lit, 2012), 35-42 22
“Ein bescheidener Gigant: Nachruf auf Charles H. Dameron (11.11.1914–8.1.2022), in: Brigitte Kepplinger and Irene Leitner, eds., Dameron Report: Bericht des War Crimes Investigation Teams No. 6824 der U.S. Army vom 17.7.1945 űber die Tötungsanstalt Hartheim (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2002), 23-30
“CenterAustria, University of New Orleans,” in: Marija Wakounig and Karlo Ruzicic- Kessler, eds., From Revolution to World War II in East Central Europe (Europa Orientalis vol. 12 (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2011), 29-34
“Geleitwort,” Peter Moser, Bewegte Zeiten: 40 Jahre im auswärtigen Dienst (TRANSATLANTICA). Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2011, 9-13
“Preface: The Twentieth Anniversary Issue,” in: Bischof et al., eds., Global Austria, pp. 7-15
“Introduction to FORUM: The Globalization of Austrian Studies,” Bischof et al., eds., Global Austria, 257-262
“CenterAustria,” in Arnold Suppan/Maximilian Graf, eds., From Austrian Empire to Communist East Central Europe. Vienna: LIT Verlag 2010, 27-36
« Zwischen Kanisfluh und den Louisiana Bayous, » in : Georg Sutterlűtti, ed., Bregenzerwald Lesebuch (Dornbirn : unartproduktion, 2009), 122-26
« Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce – CenterAustria University of New Orleans, » in : Arnold Suppan/Richard Lein, eds., East European Identities in the 19th and 20th Century (Vienna : LIT, 2009), 31-36
« ’Can We Do It Again? ‘: Präsident Barack Obamas ‘New Deal’, oder das ‘Obamaist Manifesto’ ?, » in : Steirisches Jahrbuch für Politik 2008 (Graz 2009), 107-12 with Ursula Mathis-Moser, « Introduction – Avant-propos, » in : Politics and Culture of French Minorities, 7-21
Report on the "Images of the Marshall Plan" International Conference held from 19-20 May 2008 in Vienna, Austria, in: H-DIPLO, September 26, 2008, http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reports/PDF/ImagesOfTheMarshallPlan.pdf Report “Propaganda und Erfolg des Marshallplans,“ ORF-Science Online, June 2, 2008 http://science.orf.at/science/news/151646
“Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce CenterAustria, University of New Orleans,” in: Arnold Suppan and Richard Lein, eds., From the Habsburgs to Central Europe: The Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies. Vienna: Lit Verlag 2008, 45-55
23 with Fritz Plasser, “Introduction: The Changing Austrian Voter,” in: The Changing Austrian Voter, 1-11
“10-Year Anniversary of the Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce at the University of New Orleans,” Bridges 16 (Dec. 2007), http://www.ostina.org/content/view/2765/831/
“Aubruch zur Autonomie,” in: Das Land Südtirol, special issue 1957-2007: Aufbruch zur Autonomie, 11/2007, 1-3
“Preface,” in: Martin Sajdik/Michael Schwarzinger, European Union Enlargement: Background, Developments, Facts, in: Studies in Central and Eastern European History and Culture, ed. Günter Bischof. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 2007, xiii-xv
“Cold War Miracle: The Austrian State Treaty at 50,” in: Ferenc Glatz, ed., Der österreichische Staatsvertrag 1955 (Begegnungen: Schriftenreihe des Europa Institutes Budapest 26). Budapest: Europa Institut Budapest 2006, 13-19
“Die USA und Südtirol,” in: 60 (1946-2006): Pariser Vertrag, (Das Land Südtirol, September 2006), 35-37; “Gli USA e Bolzano,” in: 60 (1946-2006): Accordo Di Parigi (Provincia Autonoma Settembre 2006), 37-39
“Preface: The Fifteenth Anniversary Issue and the Stormy Season,” in: Bischof et. al., eds., Sexuality in Austria, 1-6
“Ein kongenialer Mitherausgeber,” in: Ellen Palli, Bettina Posch, Elibaeth Rieder, eds., Begegnungen mit Anton Pelinka Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2006, 15-17
“Vorwort,” in: Bischof/Marx, eds., Vor dem Sturm – The Soul of New Orleans, 7-9
“Preface,” in: Wagnleitner, ed., Satchmo Meets Amadeus, 13-15
With Klaus Eisterer, “Preface,” in: Eisterer/Bischof, eds., Transatlantic Relations, 7-15
With Hermann Denz & Anton Pelinka, “Introduction,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Denz, eds., Religion in Austria, 1-6
“National Socialist Art Looting during World War II and the Postwar Politics of Art Restitution: an Introduction,’ in: ibid.,176-81
“Generational Perspectives in Austria and the National Socialist Past: An Introduction,” in: ibid., 215-21
With Martin David, “Black is back, bye bye Blues,” Austrian Studies Newsletter (Winter 2003) 24
“Introduction,” in: Steininger/Bischof/Gehler, eds., Austria in the Twentieth Century, 1-9
With Brian Loring Villa, “HNN Debate: Was Ike Responsible for the Deaths of Hundreds of Thousands of German POW’s? Pro and Con,” History New Network http://hnn.us/articles/1266.html with Alexander Lassner, “Introduction,” in: Bischof/Pekinka/Lassner, eds., Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria, 1-9
Introduction to Forum “Commissioning History: Austria and World War II Restitution and Reconciliation,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Lassner, eds., Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria, 212-18
“Ein bescheidener Gigant”: Charles H. Dameron (1914-2002), in: Mitteilungen des Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes 15/6 (2002), 5-7 with Anton Pelinka Preface “Ten Years of Contemporary Austrian Studies,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Gehler, eds., Austrian in the European Union, 1-6
Introduction to Forum “World War II Crimes against Jews in Austria and Their Prosecution in Austrian Courts after the War,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Gehler, eds., Austria in the European Union, 271-76
Introduction to Historiography Roundtable “Gerald Stourzh’s Opus Magnum”in: Bischof/Pelinka/Wodak, eds., Neutrality in Austria, 236-39.
“Austria,” in: Hans H.J. Labohm, ed., The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan in Retrospect and in Prospect (Clingendael: Netherlands Institute of International Relations), The Hague 1997, 18-20.
"Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, pp. 1-20.
"What's right?," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrocorporatism, 280-88. with Anton Pelinka "Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrocorporatism, 1-4.
"Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austria in the Nineteen Fifties,1-11.
"Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., The Kreisky Era in Austria, pp. 1-8. with Anton Pelinka, "Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austria in the New Europe, 1-7.
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b. Academic Proceedings
“Die Geschichtspolitik um die Wehrmachtausstellung in Salzburg,” 18. März 1998, H- German/H-Net.
"Foreign Aid and Austria's Economic Recovery after World War II," in Werner J. Feld, ed., New Directions in Economic and Security Policy: U.S. - West European Relations in a Period of Crises and Indecision, Boulder-London: Westview 1985, pp. 79-91. b. 1. Encyclopedia Articles
“Eleanor Lansing Dulles,” “Bruno Kreisky,” “Llewelyn Edward Thompson, Jr.,” in: The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, Spencer Tucker, ed., Santa Barbara: ABC Clio 2008, vol. I: 377, II: 746, IV: 1285. with Peter Waldenberger, “Von Kaprun bis Olympiagold: Der Marshallplan in Österreich – eine nachhaltige Erfolgsgeschichte,” in: ORF Das Lexikon in 20 Bänden, vol. 11 (Lich- Meso). Mannheim: Duden, 2006, 417-22.
“Austrian State Treaty, “Bruno Kreisky,” and “Julius Raab”, in: Bernard A. Cook, ed., Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland 2001, pp. I: 59f, II: 748-50, 1051f.
“Marshall Plan,” in: Paul S. Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History. New York: Oxford University Press 2001, p. 475.
“Mark Wayne Clark," in: John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, vol. 4. New York: Oxford University Press 1998, pp. 940-42.
“Austrian State Treaty,” in: Edward Lazzerini, ed., Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History, vol. 2, Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1998, pp. 227-29.
"War Crimes Trials," in: Richard S. Kirkendall, ed., The Harry S. Truman Encyclopedia, Boston: G.K. Hall 1989, 386.
"Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.," and "Open Door Policy" [unattributed entries], in; Otis L. Graham Jr. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times, Boston: G.K. Hall 1985, 310-311, 403-404.
b.2. Historiographical Essays and Review Essays
“Exile Studies in Austria,” in: Günter Bischof/David M. Wineroither, eds., Democracy in 26
Austria (CAS 28) (New Orleans-Innsbruck: UNO Press/innsbruck university press, 2019), 309-318
Review essay on Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Rudolf Jeřábek, Wolfgang Mueller eds., Die Protokolle des Ministerrates der Zweiten Republik der Republik Österreich: Kabinett Leopold Figl I., Vol. 7–10 [Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016 –2017], in: Landry/Kupper, eds., an Envirnmental History of Austria (CAS 27) (New Orleans-Innsbruck: Uno Press-innsbruck university press, 2018), 302-313
H-Diplo Review Essay on Margit Reiter and Helga Embacher, eds. Europa und der 11. September 2011. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2011.URL: http://www.h- net.org/~diplo/essays/PDF/Bischof-Reiter-Embacher.pdf
“The Origins of the Cold War at Home and Abroad: 1945-1950,” in: Antonio S. Thompson/Christos G. Frentzos, eds., The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History: 1865 to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 169-176.
“Vom Elend der ősterreichischen Geschichtsschreibung zum Kalten Krieg,” in: Reinhard Krammer/Christoph Kűhberger/Franz Schausberger, eds., Der forschende Blick: Beiträge zur Geschichte Österreichs im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift fűr Ernst Hanisch zum 70. Geburtstag (Vienna: Bőhlau, 2010), pp. 371-390
“Austrian Exhibition-ism: The Year 2005 and Its Commemorations of the Recent Past in Exhibition Catalogues,” in: Bischof et al, eds., Sexuality in Austria, pp. 201-24.
“The Allied Occupation of Austria in Recent International and Austrian Historiography,” in: Bischof et al., eds., Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context, 305-18.
“Der unerwartete Triumph der ‘gnadenlos Guten’,” Zeitgeschichte, vol. 28 (November/December 2001), 331-41
“Austria after 1945--Success Story? Heroic Age? Review of Recent Literature,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Wodak, eds., Neutrality in Austria, pp. 293-318.
“Eine Historiographische Einführung: Die Ära des Kalten Krieges in Österreich,” in: Erwin Schmidl, ed., Österreich im frühen Kalten Krieg (Vienna: Böhlau, 2000), pp. 19- 53
“Zum Internationalen Stand der Marshallplan-Forschung: Die Forschungsdesiderata für Österreich,” in: Gertraud Diendorfer/Gerhard Jagchitz/Oliver Rathkolb, eds., Zeitgeschichte im Wandel: Zeitgeschichtetag 1997 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 1998), pp. 61-72
"Founding Myths and Compartmentalized Past: New Literature on the Construction, 27
Hibernation, and Deconstruction of World War II Memory in Postwar Austria," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, pp. 302-41.
"The Origins of West German Independence 1945-1955: From Occupation to Alliance," in: German Politics and Society, 27 (Fall 1992), 106-116.
"Der Marshall Plan und Österreich," in: Zeitgeschichte, 17 (August-September 1990), 463-74.
Review of 2 volumes of B. Kreisky's Memoirs, in: German Politics and Society, 19 (Spring 1990), 94-102.
b.3. Book Reviews
Review of Walter Rauscher, Die verzweifelte Republik, Österreich 1918-1922, in: Journal of Austrian Studies 52, No 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2019): 133-36
Review of Katrin Hammerstein, Gemeinsame Vergangenheit – getrennte Erinnerung? Der Nationalsozialismus in Gedächtnisdiskursen und Identitätskonstruktionen von Bundesrepublik Deutschland, DDR und Österreich, in Journal of Austrian Studies 51, no. 4 (Fall 2018): 109-11
Review of Martin Schulze Wessel, Prager Frühling: Aufbruch in eine neue Welt. Stuttgart: Reclam 2018 https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher- 29299?title=m-schulze-wessel-prager-fruehling&language=en
Review of Kuzmany/Gasternauer, eds., Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, in: Habsburg (August 2018) https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A %2F%2Fwww.h- net.org%2Freviews%2Fshowpdf.php%3Fid%3D51659&data=01%7C 01%7Cgjbischo%40uno.edu%7C5c5c731588334d9c225508d6028de632% 7C31d4dbf540044469bfeedf294a9de150%7C0&sdata=kil1r%2BvD ex2cJH5ihajho5MT5JGqdrdkMMmogsv%2FCtk%3D&reserved=0.
Review of Rohrbach/Wahl, Austria-A Soldier’s Guide, in: Austrian History Yearbook 44 (2018): 333-34
Review of Florian Traussnig, Militärischer Widerstand von Aussen and Georg Hoffmann, Fliegerjustiz, in: Bischof/Rupnow, eds., Migration in Austria, 297-304.
Review of Maximilian Graf, Österreich und die DDR 1949-1990, in: Zeitgeschichte, vol. 44, no. 2 (March/ April 2017): 131-133.
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Review of Bruno Kreisky, Erinnerungen: Das Vermächtnis des Jahrhundertpolitikers, ed. Oliver Rathkolb, in: Austrian History Yearbook 43 (2017): 330-31
Review of Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, eds. Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989, in: Austrian History Yearbook 47 (2016): 239f
Review of Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg, eds., The U.S. South and Europe: Translatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in: Journal of American Studies 49 (Nov. 2015): 930-932 http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/command/detail?sid=6609db55-ea08-4621-82ce- 9c99ed4c1f99%40sessionmgr4010&vid=6&hid=4105
Review of Timothy Barney, Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the framing of America’s International Power in: H-Diplo, Sept. 2105, https://www.h- net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=44891
Review of Christian Fleck, Etablierung in der Fremde: Vertriebene Wissenschaftler in den USA nach 1933, in: H-Soz-Kult http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu- berlin.de/index.asp?id=24621&view=pdf&pn=rezensionen&type=rezbuecher
Review of Cornelius Lenguth, Waldheim und die Folgen. Der parteipolitische Umgang mit den Nationalsozialismus in Österreich, Contemporary Austrian Studies 24 (2015): 255-267
Review of Christian Stifter, Zwischen geistiger Erneuerung und Restauration, in: Austrian History Yearbook 44 (2015): 441f
Review of Bernd Greiner, Tim B. Müller, and Klaas Voss, eds., Erbe des Kalten Krieges, Journal of Cold War Studies vol. 16, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 237-39
Introduction to “Nicole M. Phelps. U.S-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference: Sovereignty Transformed” H-Diplo Roundtable Review (13 October 2014) https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/roundtable-xvi-7.pdf
Review of Thomas Malaucci, Adenauer's Foreign Office: West German Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich' Central European History, in: Central European History vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2014): 472-474
Review of A.N. Wilson’s Hitler, in: Global War Studies vol. 10, no. 2 (2013)
Review of Serhii Plokhy, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, in: H- Diplo URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=41190.
Review of Benjamin Gilde: Österreich im KSZE-Prozess 1969-1983. Neutraler 29
Vermittler in humanitärer Mission, München: Oldenbourg 2013, in: sehepunkte 14 (2014), Nr. 2 [15.02.2014], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2014/02/24330.html
Review of Larry Bland et al., eds., The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, vol. 6, in: Journal of Military History 77/4 (Oct. 2013): 1440-42
Review of Igor Lukes, On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague, in: Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies 7/2 (2013): 182-87
“The Whole World in the Balance,” review of George Catlett Marshall Papers, vol. 6, in: Europäische Rundschau, 41/3 (2013): 119-121
H-Diplo Review Essay on Margit Reiter and Helga Embacher, eds. Europa und der 11. September 2011. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2011.URL: http://www.h- net.org/~diplo/essays/PDF/Bischof-Reiter-Embacher.pdf
Review of Margit Reiter/Helga Embacher, eds., Europa und der 11. September 2011, in: Bischof/Karlhofer, eds., Austria’s International Position after the End of the Cold War (CAS XXII), 292-298
Article review of Barbara Stelzl-Marx. "Death to Spies! Austrian Informants for Western Intelligence Services and Soviet Capital Punishment during the Occupation of Austria," Journal of Cold War Studies 14:4 (Fall 2012): 167-196 http://www.h- net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/AR417.pdf
Review of Elke Scherstjanoi, ed., Russlandheimkehrer. Die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen im Gedächtnis der Deutschen, in: Journal of Cold War Studies 15 (Spring 2013): 145-148
Review of Nicole Alecu de Flers, EU Foreign Policy and the Europeanization of Neutral States: Comparing Irish and Austrian Foreign Policy, in: Journal of Cold War Studies vol. 14, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 206f
Review of John Lewis Gaddis’ George F. Kennan: An American Life, in: Europäische Rundschau vol. 40, no. 2 (2012): 121-125
Review of Manfried Rauchensteiner, ed., Zwischen den Blöcken: NATO, Warschauer Pakt und Österreich; Muriel Blaive and Berthold Molden, Grenzfälle: Österreichische und tschechische Erfahrungen am Eisernen Vorhang, in: Journal of Cold War Studies vol. 13, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 261-65
Review of Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945, in: Passport: The Society of American Historians for Foreign Relations Review vol. 42, no. 2 (2011): 27-29 30
Review of Manfried Rauchensteiner, ed., Zwischen den Blöcken: NATO, Warschauer Pakt und Österreich, in: Journal of Intelligence, Propaganda, and Security Studies vol. 5, no. 1 (2011): 166-170
Review of Neville Wylie’s Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War, 1939-1945, in: Historische Zeitschrift vol. 292 (2011): 866-68
Review of Campbell Craig’s and Sergey Radchenko’s The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War in H-HistGeog (December 2010) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31508
Review of Anthony Kemp-Welch’s Poland under Communism: A Cold War History, in: Slavonic & East European Affairs vol. 88, no 4 (October 2010): 774-76
Review of Michael B. Petersen’s Peeneműnde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile, in: Central European History vol. 43 Number, no. 1 (March 2010): 195-98
Review of Jill Lewis, Workers and Politics in Occupied Austria, 1945-1955, in: Austrian History Yearbook 41 (2010), 298f
Review of Stefan Karner/Otmar Pickl, eds., Die Rote Armee in der Steiermark : Sowjetische Besatzung 1945, in : Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Winter 2010) : 175-77
Review of Elisabeth Roehrlich, Kreiskys Außenpolitik: Zwischen österreichischer Identität und internationalem Programm, in : H-Soz-u-Kult, February 2010 http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2010-1-131
Review of Robert Billinger’s Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State in : Journal of American History, Vol. 95, No. 4 (March 2009): 1219f
Review of Bernd Stöver. _Der Kalte Krieg: Geschichte eines radikalen Zeitalters 1947- 1991_. Munich: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2007 http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=23940 (April 2009)
Review of Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, in: Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (2008): 172-77
Review of Melyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War in: sehepunkte 8 (2008), Nr. 12 [15.12.2008] http://www.sehepunkte.de/2008/12/15256.html
Review of Norman Goda, Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War, in: American Historical Review Vol. 113, No. 2 (April 2008): 599f 31
Review of Vladislav Zubok, A Failed Empire. The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, in: sehepunkte 8 (2008), Nr. 4 [15.04.2008], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2008/04/13992.html
Review of John Lukacs, June 1941: Hitler and Stalin, in: Central European History, vol. 41, no. 1 (January 2008): 158-60
Review of Fritz Fellner and Doris A Corradini, eds., Österreichische Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Lexikon,“ in: Contemporary Austrian Studies XVI (2008): 318-327
Review of Michael Gehler’s Österreichs Aussenpolitik der Zweiten Republik, in: Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 284 (June 2007): 797-800
Review of Saki Dockrill’s The End of the Cold War, in: Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 18, no. 2 (June 2007): 471-73
Review of Michael Gehler’s Österreichische Aussenpolitikt der Zweiten Republic; Rolf Steininger’s Der Staatsvertrag; and Martin Kofler’s Kennedy und Österreich, in: Austrian History Yearbook 38 (2007): 266-68
Review of Frank Biess’s Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany, in: International History Review, vol. 29, no. 2 (June 2007): 423-25
Review of Louise Kransiewicz and Michael Blitz, Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Biography, in: H-German, 10 May 2007. http://www.h-net.org/reviews
“A ‚Special Case’ in Postwar Europe?” review of Michael Gehler, Vom Marshall Plan zur EU: Österreich und die Europäische Integration von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (2006), H-German and H-Diplo and Habsburg, 5 Feburary 2007, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=58921174662341
Review of Detlef Bald’s ‘Wider die Kriegsmaschinerie’: Kriegserfahrung und Motive des Widerstandes der “Weissen Rose”, in: German Studies Review 30/1 (2007): 13f
Review of Gerhard Weinberg, Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders, in: Central European History, vol. 39, no. 2 (2006): 343-45
Review of Stefan August Lütgenau, ed., Paul Esterházy, 1901-1989: Ein Leben im Zeitalter der Extreme, in: International History Review, vol. 28, no. 3 (September 2006): 621-23
Review of Paul Hollander, ed. Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Its Impact at Home and Abroad, in: International Affairs, vol. 82, no. 2 (March 2006): 385f 32
Review of Roger Chickering/Stig Förster, eds. In the Shadow of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939, in: sehepunkte 6 (2002), Nr. 2 [15.02.2006], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2006/02/7684.html
Review of Konrad Paul Liessmann, Insel der Seligen: Österreichische Erinnerungen, Die Presse-Spektrum, 13 May 2006, http://www.diepresse.com/textversion_article.aspx?id=558022
Review of Mathias Reiss, “Die Schwarzen waren unsere Freunde”: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft 1942-1946, in: Central European History, vol. 38, no. 2 (2005): 332-34
Review of Volker Berghahn’s Transatlantische Kulturkriege: Shepard Stone, die Ford- Stiftung und der europäische Antiamerikanismus, in: H-German, September 2005.http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=261371129663916
Review of Rolf Steininger, Der Staatsvertrag, and Manfried Rauchensteiner, Stalinplatz 4, in: Die Presse, 30 April 2005, VIII (Spectrum)
Review of Ernst Bruckmüller, The Austrian Nation: Cultural Consciousness and Socio- Political Process, in: German Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 381-83
Review of Jason P. Theriot, To Honor Our Veterans: An Oral History of World War II Veterans from the Bayou Country, in: Louisiana History, vol. 45, no. 4 (2004): 501-4
Review of Paul Hollander, ed., Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad, in: Der Standard, 1 October 2004 (Album Section)
Review of Lothar Hoebelt, Defiant Populist: Jőrg Haider and the Politics of Austria, 1986-2000, in: Austrian History Yearbook vol. 35(2004), 303-5
Review of James Jay Carafano, Waltzing into the Cold War: The Struggle for Occupied Austria, in: Journal for Cold War Studies, vol. 6, no. 3 (Summer 2004), 141-44
Review of William Glenn Gray, Germany’s Cold War, [email protected]
Review of Frank Schumacher, Kalter Krieg und Propaganda, in: The Journal of American History, vol. 90, no. 2 (September 2003), 716
Review of Philip Jenkins, Cold War at Home in: Zeitgeschichte, vol. 30, no. 1 2003), 50- 3
Review of William M. Leary, ed., MacArthur and the American Century, in: The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 100, no. 1 (2002), 107-10 33
Review of Peter Thaler, The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation- Building in a Modern Society, in: Austrian Studies Newsletter (Winter 2002), 12, 14
“Getting Lost in the Grand Narrative,” review of Robert Kriechbaumer, Die grossen Erzählungen in der Politik: Politische Kultur und Parteien in Ősterreich von der Jahrhundertwende bis 1945, in: Habsburg Reviews 2002/18, posted on Habsburg@H- NET.MSU.EDU
Review of Oscar G. Richard III, An American POW in Germany in: Louisiana History, vol. 43, no. 1 (2001), 113-15
Review of Anton Pelinka’s Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past in Austrian Studies Newsletter (Spring 2000), pp. 12, 21
Review of Ingo Juchler’s Die Studentenbewegungen in den Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in the sechziger Jahren, in: Journal of American History (September 1999), pp. 854f.
Review of Christian Stifter’s Die Wiederaufrüstung Österreichs, in: International History Review, vol. 21 (March 1999), pp. 222-24.
Review of Noel Annan’s Changing Enemies, H-German and H-Net(February 1999)
Review of Gerald Stourzh’s Um Einheit und Freiheit, in: Die Furche, 14 January 1999, p. 5.
Review of Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners, in: Die Furche, 2 May 1997, pp. 2f; Die Presse, 10 August 1996, p. V (Spektrum).
Review of Gunther Mai, Der Alliierte Kontrollrat, 1945-1948, in: International History Review, vol. 19 (1997), pp. 437-39.
Review of Karl-Heinz Füssl, Die Umerziehung der Deutschen, in: Journal of American History, vol. 83 (1996), pp. 273f.
Review of Joachim Arenth's Der Westen tut nichts!: Transatlantische Kooperation während der zweiten Berlin-Krise (1958-1962) im Spiegel neuer amerikanischer Akten and Eckart Conze's Die gaullistische Herausforderung: Die deutsch-französichen Beziehungen in der amerikanischen Europapolitik 1958-1963, in: Journal of American History (1996), 697-99.
Review of Daniel Rogers' Politics after Hitler: The Western Allies and the German Party System, in: German Politics and Society, vol. 14 (1996), 151-55.
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Review of Reinhold Wagnleitner's Coca-Colonization and Cold War, in: Journal of American History, vol. 82 (1995), 1279f.
Review of Michael Gehler's Karl Gruber Reden und Dokumente 1945-1953. Eine Auswahl, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen, vol. 54 (1995), 309f.
Review of Paul Brägelmann's Auf den Rheinwiesen 1945. 101 Tage Kriegsgefangenschaft, in: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen, vol. 54 (1995), 237f.
Review of Jörg Fisch's Reparationen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg and John Gimbel's Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany, in: Journal of Modern History, vol. 67 (1995), 493-96.
Review of Alexander DeConde's Ethnicity, Race and American Foreign Policy: A History, in: Amerikastudien, vol. 39 (1994), 445-447.
Review of Wolfgang Benz' and Angelika Schardt's, eds., Kriegsgefangenschaft, in: German Studies Review, vol. 16 (1993), 381-382.
Reviews of Helmut Hörner's A German Odyssey: The Journal of a German Prisoner of War, and Louis E. Keefer's Italian Prisoners of War in America, 1942-1946, in: Military History of the West, vol. 23 (1993), 80-83.
Die BRD: Von der besiegten Nation zum gleichwertigen Partner," in: Zeitgeschichte, vol. 19 (1992), 298-303.
Review of H.W. Brands' Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of American Empire, 1918-1961, in: American Historical Review, vol. 97 (1992), 1314-1315.
Review of Rolf Steininger's The German Question, in: Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 23 (1992), 286-289.
Review of Klaus Eisterer/Rolf Steininger, eds., Die Option: Südtirol zwischen Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus, in: German Studies Review vol. 15, no. 3 (Oct. 1992): 629f
Review of M. Rauchensteiner's Die Zwei, in: Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs, vol. 41 (1990), 409-412.
Review of J. Bacque's Der geplante Tod, in: Die Furche, 22. February 1990, 6.
Review of W. Mähr's Der Marshall Plan in Österreich, in: Die Furche, 7 December 1989, 7.
Review of R. Steininger's Los von Rom?, in: Informationen für Geschichtslehrer, 10 35
(1988), 31-33, 77-79.
Review of T. Albrich's Exodus durch Österreich, in: Europäische Rundschau, 3 (1988), 143-45.
Numerous book reviews in Die Furche (Vienna).
b.3. Newspaper Articles, Radio Interviews, Historical Documentaries
Regular contributor of historical portraits, articles and book reviews for the Viennese intellectual weekly Die Furche (1979-2000).
Articles, columns, and book reviews for Die Presse (Vienna), Der Standard (Vienna), Falter (Vienna), Kleine Zeitung (Graz), Zeitungszeugen, Austrian Information (Washington), Austria Kultur (New York), Austrian Center Newsmagazine (Minneapolis), as well as the online publications History News Network, ORF Science Online, Bridges, H-German, H-Diplo, H-HistGeog, Habsburg.
Op-Ed columns for New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans Advocate, Fox News Home Page, Der Standard, Die Presse, Falter, History News Network.
Talk show guest, interviews for and contributions to scholarly programs on WWL 870 AM, BBC Radio, Austrian National Radio, Austrian Radio International, Radio Blue Danube, Ö-1 (ORF), Radio Vorarlberg, Radio Salzburg and Radio Tirol, Bavarian Radio
Interviewed by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal (Europe), Baltimore Sun, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Austin Statesman-American, Veja (Brazil), Die Presse, Der Standard, Kurier, Wiener Zeitung, Profil, Falter, News, Trend, Salzburger Nachrichten, Tiroler Tageszeitung, Vorarlberger Tageszeitung, Der Spiegel, Stern
Consultant for America’s World War II Museum in New Orleans
Panelist on “D-Day Memories” in 70th anniversary meeting of D-Day at the National World War II Museum (taped for C-Span)
Consultant for D-Day documentary in preparation for the 50th D-Day anniversary (1994).
Historical Consultant for TV-documentary on euthanasia in Austria during World War II on Austrian National Television (1999)
b.4. Unpublished Writings
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"Between Responsibility and Rehabilitation: Austria in International Politics, 1940-1950," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2 vols. Harvard University 1989.
"Before the Break: The Relationship Between Eisenhower and McCarthy, 1952-1953," M.A. Thesis, University of New Orleans 1980.
"The New Nonfiction of the 1960's: The Writings of Tom Wolfe," M.A. Thesis in English, University of Innsbruck 1979.
"McCarthy and McCarthyism," M.A. Thesis in History, University of Innsbruck 1979.
5. OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
A. Conference Discussant, Lecture Series, Chair, Manuscript Reviewer, Prize Committees, Lectures
Exhibit opening and Book Presentation G. Bischof/Hannes Richter, Towards the American Century: Austrians in the United States (UNO Press 2019), Austrian Embassy, Washington, D.C., July 18, 2019
Chaired session in 10th Annual Cold War History International Student Conference, Cold War History research Center, Corvinus University, Budapest, June 4, 2019
Chaired session on “Vienna as a Place of International Summit Meetings in the Cold War” in conference Vor 40 Jahren: Gipfeltreffen zwischen Jimmy Carter und Leonid Breschnew [40 Years Ago: The Carter-Breshnev Summit in Vienna], St. Pölten, Austria, May 16, 2019
Chaired session “The South Tyrol and Austria: Center-Region-Borders” at the Austrian Studies Association Annual Conference 2019, Bowling Green, Ohio, April 12, 2019
Interviewed Eden McLean on her book Mussolini’s Children at “Meet the Author” presentation at National World War II Museum, February 7, 2019
Interviewed Nick Mueller on his forthcoming book in National World War II Museum’s International Conference, December1, 2018
Chaired Workshop “Self Determination, Socialist Revolution, or Democratic Governance,” Center Austria Workshop at National World War II Museum, December 2, 2018
Chaired workshop “Death and Thyme: Thomas Bernhard, Austria’s Enfant Terrible,” 37
Center Austria, UNO, Nov, 15, 2018
Chaired symposium “Summit of Austrian-American Organizations,” New Orleans, Nov. 12/13
Chaired roundtable on “80the Anniversary of the Anschluss: Manfred Flügge’s Stadt ohn Seele: Wien 1938,” 42nd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, Sept. 29, 2018
Chaired session “Seeking Common Ground: Exploring the Intersection of Austrian and European Studies Today,” ,” 42nd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, Sept. 30, 2018
“Center Austria at UNO,” presentation at “Summit for Austrian-American Organizations” in New Orleans, Nov. 12, 2018
“UNO’s Center Austria Activities,” presentation at the 12th Annual Meeting of Austrian Centers, Edmonton, Canada, Sept. 2, 2018
Chaired panel “Marying the Enemy: Japanese War Brides in America,” 10th Annual International History Conference on World War II, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Nov. 16-18, 2017
Chaired panel “Austrians and War Victims? Victimhood Discourses and Practices in the Age of World Wars,” 41st annual conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 6, 2017
Chaired session “”Scales of Diplomacy: Austria-Hungary, the United States, and Statecraft in Unlikely Places,” at the 131st meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver, CO, Jan. 8, 2017
Chaired session “Austrian-Hungary, the First World War, and Beyond” at the 40th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, Oct. 1, 2016 Chaired session “Austria and Migration: The Current Refugee Crisis in Historical Perspective” at the 40th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, Sept. 30, 2016
Chaired Workshop “Notions of Europe: Communist Policies, Perceptions, and Propaganda Toward European Integration” [Case Studies of Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria], Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, April 22, 2016
Chaired session “Yalta and Potsdam Conferences,” International World War II Conference, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Nov. 21, 2015
Chaired session “World War I Revisited: The Special Example of Regional 38
Historiography in Tyrol/Austria,” 39th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 4, 2015
Opening statement and session chair keynote address, in: “’Quiet Invaders’ Revisited,” Vienna June 17, 2015
Session chair “The Longue Dureé of Hungarian/Austrian Immigration to the United States,” in: “’Quiet Invaders’ Revisited,” Vienna June 18, 2015
Welcoming statement and chaired keynote, in “Cities and Landscapes: Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck as Multiple Landscapes,” Innsbruck, June 24, 2015
Session chair in “The Historical Reading of Cities,” in: “Cities and Landscapes: Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck as Multiple Landscapes,” Innsbruck, June 25, 2015
Session Chair “Fading Memories: Perspectives on Remembering the World Wars,” Annual Meeting of American Alliance of Museums, Atlanta, May 27, 2015
Session chair to keynote address “Valkyrie and the Fall of Tojo,” in 1944: Beyond All Boundaries, 2014 International Conference on WW II, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, December 6, 2014
Session chair “Auf dem Weg zum neuen Europa,” in conference Der Kreml und der Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs, Vienna-Diplomatic Academy, Oct. 25, 2014
Chaired session of keynote address “Hitler – Benes – Tito” at the Annual Convention of Austrian Centers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Sept. 16, 2014
Organizer and chair of session “Reassessing the Habsburg State: World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Empire” in the 38th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, Sept. 19, 2014
Chair of session “Austrian Orientalism: The Habsburg Monarchy in the Balkans and Beyond” in the 38th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, Sept. 21, 2014
Chair of keynote lecture on Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith, “Stemming the Nazi Tide: The End of the Beginning 1942-1943,” 7oth Anniversary Conference Series, National World War II Museum, December 6-8, 2012
Chair and Speaker session “CenterAustria, New Orleans,” 6th Annual Meeting of Austrian Studies Centers, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 26-28, 2012
Chair of session “Creating and Sustaining Loyalty to a Multinational Empire at War: 39
Austria-Hungary in World War I,” 36th annual conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 7, 2012
Commentator of session “Das Ende einer Epoche (1): Österreich und der Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs,” 36th annual conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 5, 2012
Panelist in concluding discussion of conference “1987: Der Ostblock vor dem Zusammenbruch,” Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Berlin, 31 May – June 2, 2012
Chair of session” Contemporary Global City,” in “Conference in World History: The Role and Function of the Global City,” Innsbruck Austria, November 3-4, 2011
Chair of session “Global Austria,” in 35th annual conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, Sept. 25, 2011
Chair of session “Der Wiener Gipfel,” Der Wiener Gipfel 1961, May 19 – 21, 2011, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria
Concluding Summary Remarks in Der Wiener Gipfel 1961, May 19 – 21, 2011, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria
Chaired session “Kriegsende – Der militärische und gesellschaftliche Zusammenbruch des ősterreichischen Raumes zu Kriegende 1945,” 34th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 8, 2010
Commentator on panel “’Austrian’ Soldiers in the Wehrmacht: Frontsoldaten, POWs, and Heimkehrer, 34th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 8, 2010
Workshop co-organizer and panelist on « The Stephen E. Ambrose Retrospective Symposium , » National World War II Museum, New Orleans, November 8, 2009
Panelist in Roundtable « ‘Marking Time’ Three Decades Later : Charles S. Maier and the Study of the History of American Foreign Relations, » Society for Historians for American Foreign Relations, Falls Church, VA, June 27, 2009-06-29
Chaired panel of World War II veterans, 65th Anniversary of D-Day Celebrations, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA, June 6, 2009
Commentator on Panel on « War and Diplomacy » at Third Regional International Security and Internal Safety Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, Februrary 21, 2009
Commentator on panel “Österreich 1968: Frühling nur in Prag?,“ 32nd annual meeting of 40 the German Studies Association, St. Paul, MN, October 5, 2008
Chair of "Die Nachbarländer Österreich und Deutschland 1968,“ in conference“Der “Prager Frühling”: Das internationale Krisenjahr 1968,“ Graz, Austria, August 22, 2008
Chair of Panel „Media Representations of the Marshall Plan in a Comparative European context, in conference “Images of the Marshall Plan: Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters, Vienna, May 19, 2008
Chair of keynote address by Antony Beevor (Birbeck College, University of London), “The War That Would Not Die” in Real to Reel, WW II Museum, April 11, 2008
Chair of “Behind Barbed Wire: Films on the Dark Side of World War II,” in Real to Reel, Nation WW II Museum, April 12, 2008
Chair of keynote Address by Mark Kramer (Harvard University), “The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion in Historical Perspective,” Prague Spring conference, UNO, April 3, 2008
Commentator “Going to War: The U.S., Germany, and Cold War Warfare,” 31st annual meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 5, 2007
Session Chair “A New Politics of Memory? Recent Tendencies of Public Remembrance in Central Europe,” 31st annual meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 5, 2007
Session Chair “Memory and Conflict in Austria: Johannes E. Trojer (1935-1991): Historian, Journalist, Writer,” 31st annual meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 6, 2007
“Introductory Remarks,” and Chair of Session on Politics, “Acadians and Cajuns: The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America,” Annual UNO – Innsbruck Symposium, 6 – 7 September 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
Chair of session “Atrocities, the POW Experience, and War Crimes to Genocide: The Holocaust in Context,” in: The International Conference on World War II “The War That Changed the World,” The National WW II Museum New Orleans, New Orleans, November 16-19, 2006
“The Hitler Syndrome,” roundtable discussant in book presentation, June 22, 2005, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna, Austria
[Programmed conference chair and commentator in annual meeting of German Studies Association Sept. 30-Oct.2, 2005, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, cancelled as a result of 41
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita]
Discussant in panel on “Anti-Americanism Today,” Webster University, Vienna, June 16, 2004
Discussant at symposium “The Foreigner in Economic Discourse,” organized by the Swiss Progress Foundation, Schwarzenberg, Austria, July 4 -5, 2003
Discussant on concluding panel on” Besatzung: Funktion und Gestalt militärischer Fremdherrschaft,” annual meeting of the German Military History Society, November, Augsburg, Germany
Organized and scheduled to chair session “New Research on the Postwar Austrian Occupation,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations, June 2002, Athens, GA [not able to attend due to death of my father]
With Martin Morgan, “I’ll Be Seeing You … America & World War II,” six-part lecture series of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities at The National D-Day Museum, March/April 2002, and with David Moore, Jefferson Parish Public Library, March/April and May/June 2003
Organized and co-chaired workshop “The Nuclear Era and the Threat of Ecocide,” European Association of American Studies Biannual Meeting, Graz, Austria, April 2000
Discussant of “Austrian Historical Memory of World War II,” 21st Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C. October 1997.
Discussant of "Postwar Occupations: German and Austrian Experiences," 15th Annual Conference of the German Studies, Los Angeles, September 1991.
Discussant of keynote address "The 1980's in the U.S.," Austrian Association for American Studies, Salzburg (Austria), November 1990.
Discussant of "Comparative Postwar Occupation in Austria and East Germany," Thirteenth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee (WI), October 1989.
Organized, submitted and chaired numerous sessions at the German Studies Association, Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations, European American Studies Association, Austrian Association for American Studies, German Association for American Studies
Reviewer of book manuscripts for Praeger, Berg Publishers, Columbia University Press, Louisiana State University Press, Berghahn Books, Transaction, The University of North Carolina Press, Central European University Press (Budapest), and Johns Hopkins 42
University Press.
Reviewer of article manuscripts for Journal of Contemporary History¸European Contemporary History, Zeitgeschichte, Diplomatic History, Austrian History Yearbook, Contemporary Austrian Studies, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Louisiana History, Intelligence and National Security, and Central European History.
Reviewer of book proposals for Routledge, Continuum Books
Reviewer of essays and books for the Best Foreign Language Article and Book Prizes for Organization of American Historians.
Regular reviewer of research proposals for the Austrian Science Foundation.
Reviewer for Austrian Academy of Sciences, Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Member of George Louis Beer Prize Committee for the best book in international history since 1895 2013-2016 Member Norman and Laura Graebner Award Committee, Society of American Historians for Foreign Relations (Chair, 2012) 2008-2014
Member of Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, prize committee for best book in Austrian History (1999)
Member of the Prize Committee for best article in the German Studies Review (2002)
B.1. Presentations at Professional Meetings/Conferences/Lectures
KEYNOTE Lecture “Austrian/European Images of the United States,” Austrian Marshal Plan Foundation Symposium, Vienna Architectural Center, June 18, 2019
Lecture “The Marshall Plan in Austria,” SOWI-Talks, University of Vienna, May 28, 2019
“KEYNOTE address “Towards the American Century: Austrian in the United States,” delivered at the conference Cultural Politics and Propaganda: Mediated Narratives and Images in Austrian-American Relations, Austrian Academy of Siences, Vienna, Austria, March 28, 2019
“Der Marshall Plan in Österreich,” Institute of Social, Economic and Entrepreneurial History, University of Graz, Austria, March 26, 2019
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“The Marshall Plan in Austria, Lecture delivered at Hebrew University-Jerusalem, Jun 11, 2018
“Selling the Marshall Plan,” presentation in Panel “New Approaches to the Cold War in Austria,” Austrian Studies Association Annual Conference, Burlington, Vermont, May 31, 2018
“The Marshall Plan in Austria,” Book Talk as part of “Austrian Lecture Series”, Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC, May 9, 2018
“Selling the Marshall Plan,” presentation in Panel “New Approaches to the Cold War in Austria,” Austrian Studies Association Annual Conference, Burlington, Vermont, May 31, 2018
(with Hans Petschar) “The Marshall Plan and the Survival of Democracy in Postwar Austria: US Foreign Aid and Economic and Political Reconstruction in Austria,” paper delivered in conference “Authoritarianism and Democracy: Austria, Germany and Europe 1918-2018,” University of California-Berkeley, April 18-19, 2018
“Marshall Plan und Wirtschaftspolitik: die Vereilung der Gegenwertmittel als Inveastmentsfonds der Republik Oesterreich,” Austrian Conference of Contemporary History, Vienna, Austria, April 6, 2018
“Austrian Contemporary History in a European and International Context,” Panelist in concluding panel, Austrian Conference of Contemporary History, Vienna, Austria, April 7, 2018
“Austrian Studies Today in the Contemporary History Field,” 41st annual conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 7, 2017
“The Use and Misuse of World War II Memory,” 2017 Winter Seminar of Association of Holocaust Organizations, Jan. 9, 2017, National World War Museum, New Orleans, LA
“Austrian Studies, the Austrian Presidential Election and Their Significance for Europe,” Center for European and Russian Studies, University of California-Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2016
”American Nation-Building and Postwar Reconstruction: The Marshall Plan in Austria,” keynote lunchtalk delivered at the 40th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, Oct. 1, 2016
“Austrians and the Holocaust,” guest lecture at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 13, 2015
“Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989,” guest lecture at the University of Nebraska, 44
Lincoln, April 13, 2015
“Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989,” guest lecture for Departmental Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2015
“Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989,” guest lecture, Department of History, Tulane University, November 6, 2014
“Die Beschleunigung der Geschichte: Reagan, Bush und das Ende des Kalten Krieges,” lecture delivered in conference Der Kreml und der Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs, Vienna- Diplomatic Academy, Oct. 25, 2014
“The U.S. in World War I,” lecture delivered in World War I seminar at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Oct. 20, 2014
“The Acceleration of History in 1989: The Bush Administration and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 18, 2014
Panelist “Historical Memory of D-Day,” National World War II Museum, June 7, 2014
“George H.W. Bush & the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe: The Acceleration of History in 1989,” The U.S. in World Affairs: The Cold War & Beyond Lecture Series, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, March 4, 2014
“The Acceleration of History in 1989: The Bush Administration and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe,” CenterAustria, UNO, February 19, 2014
“U.S. Policy and the Collapse of East European Communism,” paper delivered in Conference on the Fate of Communist Regimes, 1989-1991, Cold War Studies Center, Harvard University, November 20, 2013
“1989: Bush and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe,” lecture delivered to UNO Honors Seminar, September 10, 2013
“’Protecting the Right Flank’: Presidents Reagan & Bush and the End of the Cold War,” Lecture given in panel organized by Bischof Ending the Cold War in Central Europe in SHAEFR Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA, June 21, 2013
“Bush and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe,” panelist at Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC, June 19, 2013
“The Last Twenty Years: Austrian – American Relations, 1989-2012,” U.S. Embassy – Amerika Haus, Vienna, May 7, 2013
“The US and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe,” Economics University, 45
Bratislava, Slovakia, May 9, 2013
Lectures on “The Rise and Fall of the ‘American Century’,” Economics University Prague, Czech Republic, May 13-17, 2013
“’Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall’: President Ronald Reagan’s Berlin Speech, 12. June 1987,” Economics University, Prague, Czech Republic, May 14, 2013
“Österreichische Geschichtspolitik und die Moskauer Erklärung,” lecture delivered at the conference “Die Moskauer Deklaration – ein Grűndungsdokument der Zweiten Republik,” Vienna, Oct. 29, 2013
Annual Botstiber Lecture: Panelist in discussion on Austrian Embassy, “Espionage and Intelligence in the 21st Century: How did we get here and where do we go from here? – An Austrian American Discussion.” Washington,” D.C., May 30, 2014 with Robert Dupont, “ The University of New Orleans-University of Innsbruck Partnership: A Case Study of Transatlantic Cooperation,” conference Education Abroad Programs in German-Speaking Europe in an Age of Globalization and Virtuality, Emory University, March 21-23, 2013
“From the Americanization of Germany to German Europe: The Taming of the Germans,” Symposium Transatlantic Relations, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, November 9, 2012
“Reagan in Berlin 1987,” paper delivered in panel “Das Ende einer Epoche (2): Der Fall der Berliner Mauer und das Ende der Sowjetunion,” 36th annual conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 7, 2012
“President Johnson and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 1968,” Charles University Prague, May 8, 2012
“President Kennedy and the Vienna Summit of 1961,” University of Economics, Prague, May 16, 2012
“’Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall,” Reagan’s Speech in Berlin, June 12, 1987,” paper delivered in conference “1987: Der Ostblock vor dem Zusammenbruch,” Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Berlin, 31 May – June 2, 2012
“Der ‘Kalte Krieg’ und sein Ende: Reagans Aussenpolitik und die Folgen fűr Westeuropa und das neutrale Österreich,” Institute of Economic and Business History, University of Graz, June 18, 2012
“Quiet Invaders Revisited: Introducing a Research Project,” Guest Lecture, Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, June 19, 2012 46
“Religion and Politics in Austria,” Guest Lecture, Gordon College International Summer School in Salzburg, August 3, 2012
“John F. Kennedy and the Vienna Summit of 1961,” paper given in panel 50 Years After: New Perspectives on the Vienna Summit of 1961, Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Alexandria, Va, June 23, 2011
“The Vienna Summit of 1961,” lecture delivered at the Austrian Embassy, Washington, D.C., June 22, 2011
“Die USA und der Wiener Gipfel,” International Conference 50 Jahre: Der Wiener Gipfel 1961: Kennedy und Chruschtschow, May 19 – 21, 2011, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna
“Kennedy und der Wiener Gipfel, Juni 1961,” University of Vienna, May 23, 2011
“The Flight from Hitler’s Germany: Austrian Jewish Refugees,” Lunchbox Lecture Series, National World War II Museum, April 2010
“How US Foreign Policy Is Made,” Great Decisions Forum, World Affairs Council of New Orleans, Latter Library, April 20, 2011
“Kennedy and Modernization in the Third World,” University of Innsbruck, Austria, April 6, 2011
“Kennedy and the Vienna Summit,” The Vienna Summit, 1961: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, Symposium at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 25, 2011.
“The American Treatment of German POWs during and after World War II: The Case of Josef Bischof,” Pikes Peak Regional History Lecture Series, Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, Colorado Spring, March 19, 2011
“The Kennedy – Khrushchev Summit in Vienna (June 3-4, 1961): Neutral Austria as a Venue for East-West Diplomacy in the Cold War,” Louisiana State University, History Department Seminar, March 16, 2011
“The Kennedy – Khrushchev Summit in Vienna (June 3-4, 1961): Neutral Austria as a Venue for East-West Diplomacy in the Cold War,” Tulane University, February 25, 2011
“The Kennedy – Khrushchev Summit in Vienna (June 3-4, 1961): Neutral Austria as a Venue for East-West Diplomacy in the Cold War,” CenterAustria Lunchtalk, University of New Orleans, February 15, 2011
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“The Vienna Summit of 1961: Neutral Austria as a Venue for East-West Diplomacy in the Cold War,” Guest lecture to Central Europe Seminar, Air War College, Montgomery, AL, January 18, 2011
“The Eisenhower Administration: Austria and Hungary,” Workshop on Soviet Economic Policy towards Austria, Hungary, and Rumania, 1945-1949,” Budapest, Hungary, June 23, 2010
“Der Ost-West-Konflikt zu Beginn der 1960er Jahre aus Sicht der USA,” Nikita Chruchchev auf Staatsbesuch in Österreich 1960: Neue Dokumente – Neue Perspektiven,” Castle Schallaburg, Austria, June 25, 2010
“American Empire,” Seminar taught at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, June 18 – 21, 2010
Lunchbox Lecture “The Flight from Hitler’s Germany: Austrian Jewish Refugees,” Lunchbox Lecture Series, National World War II Museum, April 7, 2010
Guest Lecture « The Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968, » Department of Political Science, Tulane University, November 16, 2009
Commemorative Lecture « November 9, 2009 : The Fall of the Berlin Wall » Deutsches Haus, New Orleans, November 9, 2009-11-20
«Der Marshall Plan und Österreich » in Workshop »Sowjetische Wirtschaftsstrategien im Frühen Kalten Krieg – Die Besatzung Österreichs im internationalen Vergleich, » Graz, Austria, May 25, 2009
Book talk on « New Perspectives on Austrians in World War II », Austrian Embassy, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2009, Graz, Austria, May 25, 2009, Innsbruck, Austria, May 28, 2009
« Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, » Tulane University, January 22, 2009
“Kennedy, the Cold War and the Vienna Summit of 1961,” discussion paper given in Workshop “Wiener Gipfel 1961: Kennedy – Khrushchev,” Graz, Austria, November 28, 2008
“The Americanization of Austria,” lecture delivered in Americanization-Seminar, lecture delivered Department of History, University of Graz, Austria, November 27, 2008
“Autopsy of a Cold War Crisis: Johnson and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968,” lecture delivered at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, November 17, 2008
“Autopsy of a Crisis: LBJ and the Prague Spring 1968,” lecture delivered at Mississippi 48
State University, Starkville, MI, November 13, 2008
Panelist “The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 40 Years Later: Reassessing East- Bloc and Western Reactions to the Prague Spring,” Cold War Studies Seminar, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, October 7, 2008
“The Non-Reaction of the Johnson Administration to the Invasion of Czechoslovakia,” paper delivered in panel The Prague Spring and the International Year of Crisis 1968, 32nd annual meeting of the German Studies Association, St. Paul, MN, October 3, 2008
Panelist on GSA Book Forum “Gerald Stourzh, From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America, 32nd annual meeting of the German Studies Association, St. Paul, MN, October 4, 2008
“’No Action’: The Johnson Administration’s Response to Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968,” inaugural lecture on peace delivered on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary Celebration of Nicholls State University, September 23, 2008, Thibodeaux, Louisiana
Panelist on panel “Transatlantic Relations,” Politische Gespräche, Europäisches Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, Austria, August 24, 2008
„No action“: Die USA und die Invasion in der Tschechoslowakei,“ Lecture delivered at conference “Der “Prager Frühling”: Das internationale Krisenjahr 1968,“ Graz, Austria, August 21, 2008
„Respecting Cold War Boundaries: U.S. Responses to the Soviet Invasions of East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968),” Lecture delivered in conference in honor of Charles S. Maier “Crossing Boundaries: International History in a Global Age,” American Academy, Berlin, Germany, June 7, 1968
“The Johnson Administration and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia,” Lecture delivered at the Austrian Contemporary History Conference, Innsbruck, May 30, 2008
With Dieter Stiefel, “Memories of the Marshall Plan in Austria,” Lecture delivered in the conference Images of the Marshall Plan: Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters, Vienna, May 20, 2008
“The Johnson Administration’s Response to the Czech Crisis of 1968,” Lecture delivered in the conference “Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968”, UNO Library, April 4, 2008
“The Vietnam War in the Context of the Cold War,” lecture delivered at Ho Chi Minh National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, March 24, 2008
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“American Public Diplomacy: Past and Present” in Session “New Forms of Public Diplomacy” in Europäisches Forum Alpbach: Politische Gespräche 2007, 26. – 29. August 2007, Alpbach, Austria
“CenterAustria, University of New Orleans,” Annual Convention of the Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 1-3, 2007
“Die USA 1968: Von der Konfrontationspolitik zum ‘Brückenbau’,” lecture delivered in absentia at conference “Die Sowjetunion, Österreich und die internationale Krise 1958,” Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, May 31/June 1, 2007
“The Americanization of Europe: The Case of Austria,” Forum of Contemporary History, University of Oslo, May 16, 2007, Oslo, Norway
“The Post-World War II Occupation of Austria: A Case Study of Successful Nation Building?,” Norwegian Nobel Institute Seminars 2007, May 15, 2007, Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway
“Prisoners of War during World War II,” lunch talk at National World War II Museum, 3 January 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Winston s. Churchill and the Cold War, 1945-1955: In Search of Summitry and Détente with the Kremlin,” Lecture presented to the annual dinner of the Churchill Society of New Orleans, New Orleans, November 30, 2006
“The Johnson Administration, der Prager Frühling und die Invasion des Warschauer Paktes in der Tschechoslowakei 1968: Ein Thesenpapier,” lecture delivered in workshop Prager Frühling 1968, Graz, Austria, 4. October 2006
“The Collapse of Liberation Rhetoric: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1956 Hungarian Crisis,” lecture delivered at the conference The Hungarian Revolution off 1956 after 50 Years, March 3-5, 2006, University of Indiana Bloomington
“The Politics of History in Austria,” lecture delivered at the 15th anniversary conference of the Austrian Schumpeter Society Austria as a Mirror of Small States in the European Union, April 7, 2006, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
“The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Postwar Europe,” distance learning lecture delivered to a New Orleans and New Jersey High School during opening of Discovery Hall at the National D-Day Museum, April 21, 2006
“The Marshall Plan and Postwar Economic Reconstruction in Austria,” Mar. 16, 2005, Opening speaker (with Austrian Chancellor W. Schüssel) of exhibit “Östereich Baut Auf: Wiederaufbau & Marshall-Plan”, Technical Museum, Vienna, Austria. 50
“The Cold War and the Austrian State Treaty,” Mar. 28, 2005, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans.
“1945-1955: Austrian Republic and Austrian State Treaty,” May 21, 2005, lecture presented in symposium “An Austrian Celebration,” Ottawa, Canada.
“The Austrian State Treaty,” Apr. 25, 2005, Roundtable at the Austrian Center, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis.
“’Recapturing the Initiative” and ‘Negotiating from Strength”; The Hidden Agenda of the “Short Treaty’ Episode,” May 8-11, “Austrian State Treaty” anniversary conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
“The Austrian State Treaty,” June 9, 2005, symposium by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
“The Marshall Plan and European Integration,” June 22-23, 2005, conference on postwar Austria, Austrian Institute of Strategic Studies, Vienna, Austria.
“The Austrian State Treaty,” 28 June 2005, lecture at culture forum, Andelsbuch, Austria.
One-Day Briefing Seminar for new ambassador to Austria, Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Oct. 19, 2006, Washington, D.C..
“The End of Atlanticism? Europe and the U.S.A. in the Post-Cold War Era,” Nov. 16, 2005, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
“The Marshall Plan in Europe: Model for Post-Katrina Economic Reconstruction of New Orleans?,” Dec. 28, 2005, Lunch-Box Lecture, National D-Day Museum, New Orleans
“Between East and West: The Origins of Post-World War II Austrian Foreign Policy,” paper delivered in the 28th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington DC, 9 October 2004
“Austrian Anti-Americanism,” Paper delivered at the University of Munich, 7 July 2003
“Recent Historiographical Trends and the Austrian Occupation,” Symposium on the “Austrian Occupation”, Stanford University, June 4/5 2004
“The Two Sides of the Medal: The Americanization of Austria and Austrian Anti- Americanism,” Annual Transatlantic Lecture delivered at the University of Innsbruck, 10 March 2004
“Haider, the European Right and EU-Eastern Expansion,” lecture delivered to the “Great 51
Decisions Program” of the World Affairs Council of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 18, 2003
“US – Austrian/European Relations and the EU,” Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, March 25, 2003 [organized panel]
“America and its Discontents: The United States and Europe Today,” paper delivered in symposium “Towards a European Constitution?,” Innsbruck, Austria, May 6, 2003
“Kriegsgefangenschaft als Internationales Forschungsthema,” paper delivered in conference “Kriegsgefangene des 2. Weltkriegs,” Graz, Austria, May 9, 2003
“US – European Relations in the Bush Era,” Lecture given at the Institute of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, June 26, 2003
“The Austrian Occupation,” paper delivered in Innsbruck Workshop on “Austria – Americas Project,” Innsbruck, June 27, 2003
“Victims? Perpetrators? ‘Punching Bags’ of European Historical memory? The Austrians and Their World War II Legacies,” keynote lunch address delivered at the 27th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans, September 20, 2003.
“’Moralische Vergiftung der Seele’: Anti-Americanism in Postwar Austria,” paper delivered in panel “Love it or Leave It? Amerikakritik and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria” 27 annual meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans, September 20, 2003
Participant in roundtable, “Austrian Studies: Partners in the Quest to Understand Europe,” 27th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans, September 20, 2003
“Americanization of Austria and Austrian Anti-Americanism,” paper delivered in conference “American Culture in Europe: Americanization and Anti-Americanism after 1945,” Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK, 25 September, 2003
“Austrian Historical Memory of World War II,” presentation in “Memory and European Identity” conference, April 2002, York University, Toronto, Canada
With Martin Kofler “Austrian Postwar Occupation, the Marshall Plan, and the Secret Rearmament as ‘Westernizing Agents’ 1945-1968,” “Americanization of Austria”- Conference, May 2002, New Orleans
“’The Watschenmann of European Memory? Austria’s Historical Memory of World War II, National Identity and European Integration,” The Canadian Centre for Austrian and 52
Central European Studies conference “The Germans and the East,” September 2002, Edmonton, Canada
Comment on panel “Roots of Civil Society: Political and Economic Competition in Austria and Czechoslovakia,” annual meeting of the German Studies Association, October 2002, San Diego, CA [read in absentia due to Hurricane Lili]
Keynote lecture “Is There a Specific Austrian Anti-Americanism after World War II?,” annual meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies, November 2002, Vienna, Austria
“Austria’s Image in the U.S. after the Election of the New Schüssel/Riess-Passer Government,” Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Washington, D.C., June 2001 [organized panel U.S. – Austrian Relations after World War II].
Final conference commentary “The ‘New Rome’ in Old Germania,” International Symposium “GIs in Germany: The Social, Military and Political History of the American Military Presence, 1945-2000,” Heidelberg University, Germany, November 2000
Participant in Roundtable on the new Austrian Government Coalition, 24th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, TX, October 2000
“’Experiencing a Nasty Fall from Grace...? Austria’s Image in the U.S. after the Formation of the New ÖVP/FPÖ Coalition Government,” Austrian Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria, June 2000
“The Marshall Plan and the Postwar Genesis of European Integration,” MAIS-Seminar Spring lecture Series, Austrian Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria, June 2000
“Restoration, Not Renewal: From Nazi to Four-Power Occupation -- The Difficult Transition to Democracy in Austria after 1945,” in Gyorgy Ranki Hungarian Chair Conference “Political Transitions in Hungary in Comparative Perspective,” Indiana University, April 2000
“Peaceful Co-Existence in Austria after Stalin’s Death,”in conference “An Early End to the Cold War? The East-West Struggle in the Aftermath of Stalin’s Death,”Cold War History Group, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2000
“Niedergang Europas — Das amerikanische Jahrhundert”, in lecture series “Das grosse Finale: Bilanz eines ungeheuren Jahrhunderts”, Urania Graz, November 1999.
“James Bacque’s Conspiracies,” 22nd Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 1998 [organized the panel Fact or Fiction? The Historical Profession and James Bacque: A Roundtable]. 53
“The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Austrian Tourism,” The Marshall Plan in Austria, UNO-Innsbruck Annual Symposium, New Orleans, May 1998.
Three-part lecture series on “The Beginnings of Austrian Diplomacy after World War II and in the Early Cold War” at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, February 1998.
“The Making and Selling of Austria as Victim, 1945-1947,” Lecture at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, February 1998.
“Zur Mentalitätsgeschichte deutscher Kriegsgefangener in amerikanischer Gewahrsam,” Amerika House Munich, May 1998.
"Between Responsibility and Rehabilitation: Austria in the Early Cold War," Annual Meeting of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Annapolis, Md., June 1995.
"Alliierte Planungen für Österreich 1943-1945," Conference Österreich 1945 - Ein Ende und viele Anfänge, Vienna, May 1995.
"Spielball der Mächtigen? Österreichs außenpolitischer Spielraum im beginnenden Kalten Krieg," Conference Inventur 45/55, Vienna, May 1995.
"Strategic Bombing in Europe: Was It Worth It? The View from Below," Symposium How the War Was (Really) Won, McCormick Foundation and U.S. Naval Institute, Cantigny, Ill, March 1995.
"Besatzungsmacht USA," Symposium Österreich unter Alliierter Besatzung, Graz, Austria, October 1994.
"Die Alliierten und die 'zweite Front' in Europa," Ring Lecture Series, 6. Juni 1944: Die alliierte Invasion in Historischer Perspektive, University of Munich, May 1994.
"The Germans and D-Day," Symposium D-Day Remembered, Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans, May 1994.
"American Treatment of German POWs in World War II," 17th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 1993 [organized panel].
"The Marshall Plan and Austria's Western Integration," presentation at the Economic History Workshop of Bielefeld University, July 1993.
"Austria in the Cold War: A Historiographical Approach," presentation at the Workshop for Contemporary and Social History, Institute of Contemporary History, University of 54
Innsbruck, June 1993.
"'Ten Days of Red Terror'?: Die amerikanische Perzeption der Arbeiterunruhen vom Herbst 19950 und ihre Auswirkungen auf Österreichs Sicherheitspolitik," paper given at the UNO-Innsbruck Symposium "Austria 1949-1961," May 1993.
"American Treatment of German POWs in World War II," paper delivered at the Eisenhower Center Symposium "The Treatment of German POWs during World War II: A Global Comparison," UNO, October 1992.
"The Making of a Cold Warrior: Austrian Foreign Policy à la Gruber, 1945-1953," paper given the 16th annual meeting of the German Studies Association, October 1992 [organized panel].
"American Treatment of German POWs during and after World War II: An Historiographical Analysis," paper given at the annual Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations meeting, Vassar, June 1992 [organized panel].
"Making Peace: The Austrian State Treaty," paper given at the Harvard conference on Comparative Postwar American Occupations, Cambridge, March 1991.
"Österreich, die Deutsche Frage und die Westmächte, 1952-1955," paper given at the conference The German Question and European Security in the Bavarian Political Academy, Tutzing (Munich), May 1991.
"Bacque and the Use/Abuse of Oral History," paper given at the UNO-Eisenhower Center symposium Eisenhower and the German POWs, December 1990.
"Eisenhower & Dulles, the Summit and the Austrian State Treaty, 1953-1955," lecture delivered for the UNO-Eisenhower Center Eisenhower Centenary Lecture Series, September 1990.
"The Eisenhower Administration and the Austrian State Treaty," paper given at the Centenary Conference Ike's America, Lawrence, KS, September 1990.
"The Western Powers and Austria, 1953-1954," paper given at the annual German Studies Association meeting, Buffalo, NY, October 1990 [organized panel].
"'Prague is West of Vienna': International Crises in 1948 and Their Impact on Austria," paper given at the annual Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations meeting, Williamsburg (VA), June 1989 [organized panel].
"The Great Powers and Austrian Neutrality 1953-1955," paper given at the Symposium Austria 1918-1988: Change and Continuity, at the 103rd Meeting of the American Historical Association, Cincinnati (OH), December 1988. 55
"General Mark W. Clark, the British and the Origins of the Cold War in Austria, 1945-46," Paper given at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Philadelphia (PA), October 1988 [co-organized panel]
"'Austria and Moscow's Wiles': The Western Powers, Neutrality and the Austrian State Treaty," Paper given at the Conference The United States and West European Security, 1950-1955, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, December 1987.
"The Historical Roots of a Special Relationship: Austro-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Century," Paper given at the Conference Unequal Partners: A Comparison of Relations between Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany / Canada and the United States, Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada), September 1987.
Lectured at the Universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, Graz, Prague, Bielefeld, Bochum, Giessen, Halle, Munich, Augsburg, Marburg, Oslo, Tulane, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Indiana, Minnesota, Kansas, Air War College, York, Alberta, Carleton, the Austrian Diplomatic Academy, the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as well as the Amerika Houses in Kiel, Hamburg and Munich.
B.2. Instigator, Coordinator and/or Organizer of International Conferences and Symposia
With Dirk Rupnow, “Debates about Immigration: American and European Experiences in a Comparative Perspective,” An International Symposium Organized by Center Austria, UNO, and the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck in Celebration of the University of Innsbruck’s 350th Anniversary, New Orleans, May 23- 24, 2019
Co-Organizer (with OEAD Vienna) of Annual Meeting of Austrian Centers, New Orleans, Oct. 9-11, 2017
Co-organizer (with Oliver Rathkolb and “Haus der Geschichte”), “Vienna 1900: Current Discourses on Fin-de-siècle Vienna,” International Workshop, Center Austria, UNO, Oct 24-25, 2016
Organizer “Quiet Invaders” Revisited Workshop: An Assessment of the State of Research of Austrian Migration Biographies to the United States,” Vienna, June 17-19, 2015
Co-organizer “Cities and Landscapes: Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck as Multiple Landscapes,” University of Innsbruck – University of New Orleans Annual Symposium, June 24, 2015 – June 27, 2015 56
CenterAustria/University of New Orleans – University of Innsbruck Annual Symposium, Enduring Cultures: Indigenous Responses to Changing Environments in the 21st Century, UNO, February 11-12, 2014
8th Annual Regional International Security/Internal Safety Conference, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Feb. 7-8, 2014
Workshop on Regional Economic Development in the European Union and the United States, organized by UNO’s CenterAustria and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation of Vienna, New Orleans, Oct. 20-21, 2013
Co-organizer of the annual UNO – University of Innsbruck Symposium “The Life and Work of Gűnther Anders: Émigré, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Literateur,” and chair of panel “Historical Contexts,” New Orleans, LA, March 14-15, 2013
Co-organizer of symposium at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 25, 2011
Chair, Annual Meeting of Austrian Studies Center, CenterAustria, New Orleans, October 27-30, 2010
Co-Chair, Annual International Security/Internal Safety (IS/IS) Conference, February 26/27, 2010, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA
Chair, International Student Mobility in the Global Age – Best Practices in Europe and the United States, February 12, 2010, Renaissance Arts Hotel, New Orleans
With the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and the University of Vienna, “Images of the Marshall Plan: Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters,” Vienna, May 19-20, 2008
Member of Program Committee for “Real to Reel: WW II in Film, Newsreels & Documentaries,” The National World War II Museum, New Orleans, April 10-12, 2008
With the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of the Consequences of War, Graz, Austria “Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968,” International Symposium, UNO Library, New Orleans, April 3-4, 2008
With the Department of English of the University of Innsbruck, “The Controversy about the Slave Trade in Britain,” International Workshop, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans, February 26, 2008
With the Canadian Studies Center of the University of Innsbruck “Acadians and Cajuns: The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America,” Annual UNO – Innsbruck Symposium, 6 – 7 September 2007, Innsbruck, Austria 57
Conference Co-Chair of The International Conference on World War II “The War That Changed the World,” The National WW II Museum New Orleans, New Orleans, November 16-19, 2006
“Satchmo Meets Amadeus,” joint conference CenterAustria/UNO with the University of Salzburg and the Salzburg Mozarteum, Sept. 28 – I Oct, 2006, with photo exhibit “Vor dem Sturm – The Soul of New Orleans: Fotografien von Michael P. Smith in Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Sept. 28- Jan. 7, 2007, Salzburg, Austria.
“Lessons from the Past for the Rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Postwar Europe,” co-chair with America’s World War II Museum, April 21, 2006
“’A Cold War Miracle’: The Austrian State Treaty at 50,” Mar. 28, 2005, Roundtable at CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
“Austrian – Latin American Relations,” June 17-18, 2005, joint conference CenterAustria/UNO with Institute of Contemporary History/University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
“Creole New Orleans,” Nov. 8-10, 2005, Austrian Association of American Studies Annual Conference jointly organized by CenterAustria/UNO with American Studies Department/University of Innsbruck [cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina]
“Theodor Herzl: Centennial of His Death,” Symposium organized by UNO’s CenterAustria and the Jewish Studies Program of Tulane University, October 4-5 2004
“The Privatization of Urban Space,” annual UNO – Univ. of Innsbruck Symposium, CenterAustria, UNO, New Orleans, February 26-28 2004
“Towards a European Constitution? Historical,“Political and Comparative Aspects: Europe – U.S.,” Annual UNO-Innsbruck Symposium organized by the University of Innsbruck’s Institute of Contemporary History, UNO’s Center Austria, the University of Bonn’s Center for European Integration Studies, Innsbruck, Austria, May 5 – 7, 2003
“Kriegsgefangene des 2. Weltkriegs,” international conference organized by UNO’s CenterAustria with the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgensforschung, Graz, Austria, May 8 – 10, 2003 [chaired session]
“Austria – Americas Project: Political, Social, Cultural, Migration,” CenterAustria workshop organized with the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck and the Institute of History, University of Vienna, Innsbruck, to define and launch multi- year and multinational research project, Austria, June 27 -28, 2003 [chaired meeting] 58
“Commissioning History in the United States, Germany, and Austria: Historical Commissions, Victims, and World War II Restitution,” International Conference organized by CenterAustria, the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., and The National D-Day Museum, The National D-Day Museum. New Orleans, LA [chaired session]
“The Americanization/Westernization of Austria in the Twentieth Century,” UNO- Innsbruck Symposium, New Orleans, May 2002 [chaired session]
“Austria and the EU,”UNO-Innsbruck Symposium, Innsbruck, May 2001
“Satchmo Meets Amadeus: New Orleans and Salzburg — Two Cities and Their Sounds of Music,” UNO-Innsbruck Symposium together with University of Salzburg, New Orleans, May 2000 [chaired sessions]
“A First Assessment of the Austrian EU-Presidency,” Center Austria Symposium, New Orleans, March 1999 [chaired session].
With Dieter Stiefel/Vienna, “The Marshall Plan in Austria,” UNO CenterAustria- Innsbruck Symposium, New Orleans, May 1998 [gave paper and chaired session]
With Berndt Ostendorf/Munich, lecture series “Kriegsgefangene, Besatzer und Besetzte am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs” in Bayern und Deutschland, Amerika House Munich, May/June 1998 [gave paper and chaired session]
With Saki Dockrill/London, "The Geneva Summit of 1995", Eisenhower Center Symposium, New Orleans, October 1995 [gave paper and chaired session].
With Franz Mathis/Innsbruck, "Historical Memory and the Creation of National Identity in a Comparative Perspective: Austria and the United States," University of New Orleans - University of Innsbruck Annual Symposium, Innsbruck, June 1995 [gave introduction and chaired session].
With Wolfgang Krieger and Hermann Graml/Munich, "6. Juni 1944: Die allierte Invasion in Historischer Perspektive," Ring Lecture Series, University of Munich, Summer Semester 1994 [gave lecture and chaired sessions].
With Stephen E. Ambrose, "D-Day Remembered," Eisenhower Center Conference, New Orleans, May 1994 [gave paper and chaired session].
Workshop coordinator/Munich, "American Isolationism after World War II," European Association for American Studies, Luxembourg, March 1994 [chair].
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With Rolf Steininger/Innsbruck and Rüdiger Overmans/Freiburg, "The Treatment of POWs during World War II," International Working Group on POWs, University of Innsbruck, November 1993 [chaired session].
With Rolf Steininger/Innsbruck, "Austria 1949-1961," UNO-Univ. of Innsbruck Annual Symposium, Univ. of Innsbruck, May 1992 [gave paper].
With Military History Office, Freiburg, and Institute of Contemporary History, Innsbruck, "The Treatment of POWs during and after World War II: A Global Comparison," Eisenhower Center symposium, New Orleans, October 1992.
With Center for War, Peace and the News Media/New York, European Security Network Regional Briefing Porgram for Journalists from the South, "Myths and Realities of European Integration," New Orleans December 1992.
"New Orleans Home Front during World War II," Gallery Talks at the Historic New Orleans Collection, Spring 1992.
With Stephen E. Ambrose, "Home Fronts During World War II: A Comparative Perspective," Eisenhower Center Annual Spring Conference, UNO [chaired session].
With Stephen E. Ambrose, "The Pacific War," Eisenhower Center Annual Spring Conference, UNO, April 1991 [chaired session].
With Rolf Steininger/Innsbruck, "Vom Atlantik zum Ural: Europäische Sicherheit und die deutsche Frage zu Beginn der fünfziger Jahre," Bavarian Political Academy, Tutzing, May 1991.
With Gunther Mai/Marburg, "'Allied Enemies' in a Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the Post-World War II Occupations on Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, and Korea," Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, March 1991.
With Stephen E. Ambrose, ”Eisenhower and the German POWs,” Eisenhower Center Conference, New Orleans, LA, December 1990
With Stephen E. Ambrose, "The French Resistance and the Battle of France 1944," Eisenhower Center Annual Spring Conference, New Orleans, May 1990 [chaired a session].
With Stephen E. Ambrose, "Eisenhower Centenary Lecture Series," Eisenhower Center Lectures, University of New Orleans, 1990.
With Metropolitan College, UNO, "The Velvet Revolution: Eastern Europe in Transition," Eisenhower Center Occasional Lectures, University of New Orleans, Spring 1990 [gave paper and chaired session]. 60
With Josef Leidenfrost/Vienna, "Die bevormundete Nation?: Österreich und die Alliierten 1945-1949,” Vienna 1987.
B.3. Exhibits
Co-Curator of Exhibit “Towards the American Century: Austrians in the United States,” commissioned by the Austrian Embassy, Washington, D.C.; opening at Austrian Embassy July 19, 2019
Curator of exhibit “1989 Year of Miracles: Austria and the End of the Cold War” commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and shown at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in New York City, and at Michigan State University (September 2009 – March 2010).
C. Editorships, Board Memberships, Professional Prize Committees
Advisory Board, Journal of Austrian-American History 2017-
Advisory Board Member of the Research Project “The Austrian Presidential Elections 2016: A Case Study in Visual Political Storytelling” 2017-2019
Advisory Board, Filmography, George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA 2017-2020
American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for best book in European international history since 1895 2013-2014
SHAEFR Prize Committee Member for Norman and Laura Graebner Award 2010-2014
Board Member, Salzburg Institute of Gordon College 2011-2018
Board member American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance 2008-2014
Board Member, Botstiber Institute for Austrian- American Relations 2008-
Presidential Counselor, National World War II Museum 2007- 61
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda, and Security Studies 2007-
Manuscripts Review Board of Zeitgeschichte 2004-
Board Member, Harvard Club of Louisiana 2011- 2014
Board of Editors, H-German [on H-Net] 1997-2005
Advisory Editor for Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols., Bernard Cook, ed. (New York: Garland Press, 2001).
Co-founding series editor of Eisenhower Center Studies of War and Peace published by Louisiana State University Press [10 volumes published].
Co-founding editor of Contemporary Austrian Studies published by Transaction, Rutgers University, N.J. and UNO Press-innsbruck university press [29 volumes published, 1 volume in progress, 1 volume in planning].
Founding editor of Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture published by Transaction [4 volumes published]
Founding Editor of TRANSATLANTICA published by Studienverlag Innsbruck, Austria [11 volumes published]
D. Professional Society Memberships (Current and Past)
American Historical Association Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations German Studies Association Austrian Studies Association Austrian Association for American Studies German Association for World War II Studies Foreign Relations Association of New Orleans
6. AWARDS AND PRIZES
“Scholar of the Year of the Austrian State of Vorarlberg: 2019
“UNO Author,” Earl K. Long Library, UNO 2019
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Recipient of the senior “Research, Creativity & Scholarship Award” from the UNO Office of Research & Sponsored Programs 2018
Elected as a regular member to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Class I, Philosophical and Cultural Studies 2014-2020
Advisory Board, Ludwig Boltzman-Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung publication series Kriegsfolgen-Forschung 2014-
UNO Gordon „Nick“ Mueller International Leadership Medallion 2013
Ehrenkreuz fűr Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1. Klasse [Cross for Science and the Arts 1st Class, Government of Austria] 2012
Guest Scholar Award at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna 2013
Grosse Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich [Grand Cross of Austria] 2007
Marquis Who’s Who in American Education 8th ed. 2007 – 2008
Honorary Citizen of the University of Innsbruck 2006
Who’s Who in the World 2006-
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2006
Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Education 59th ed. 2005
Marquis’ 2004-2005 Who’s Who in American Education, 6th edition 2004
Recipient Senior Research Award, UNO Alumni Association 2005
Biannual Research Prize of the Dr. Wilfried-Haslauer Library, Salzburg 2003
Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 26th ed. 1999
Nominated by UNO undergraduate Walter H. Claiborne for Who’s Who Among American Teachers 1998
Guest Scholar Award at the Institut für die 63
Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna 1998
The UNO Alumni Association Early Career Achievement Award in Research 1991
Co-recipient Ernest K. Gross Dissertation Award, Harvard History Dept. (“demonstrates the greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research”) 1990
Ludwig-Jedlicka Dissertation Award from the Austrian Ministry of Science for Best Dissertation in Austrian History 1990
Certificate of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Danforth Center, Harvard University 1986
Nominated for the Levenson Teaching Award, Harvard University 1989
Marcus B. Christian Award for Best History M.A. Thesis, University of New Orleans 1981
7. GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS a. Grants and Prizes
Visiting Fellow, European Forum, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2014
Research Award, Botstiber Foundation 2008-09
Visiting Fellow, Oslo University 2007
Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna 1998, 2013
Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft Travel Grant 1997
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Travel Grant 1993
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Summer Grant 1993
Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, 64
Travel Grants 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997
University of New Orleans Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant 1992
University of New Orleans Research Grant 1990-1991
Dissertation Fellow, Harry S. Truman Library Institute 1988-1989
Research Grants, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University 1987, 1985
Krupp Foundation Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University 1985-1986
b. Funding: Principal Investigator
Grant from the Zukunftsfonds der Repuiblik Österreich To write their 15-year history (with Barbara Stelzl-Marx) 2019-2020
Grant from the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation to write a history of „The Marshall Plan in Austria“ (with Hans Petschar) 2016-2017
Grant to raise Austrian Marshall Plan Chair Endowment From the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation ` 2016-2017
Grant from the Zukunftsfonds der Repuiblik Österreich To write their 10-year history (with Barbara Stelzl-Marx) 2015-2016
Grants from the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation 2015-2016
Multiple Grants, OEAD, Austrian Ministry of Science 2008- Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung
Grant awards from the Botstiber Foundation 2007-10
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung Graz research project „The Vienna Summit of 1961” 2009-11
Graz research project “The Prague Spring 1968” 2006-8
Austrian Marshall-Plan Anniversary Foundation, gift for rebuilding UNO after Hurricane Katrina 2006- 65
Austrian Marshall-Plan Anniversary Foundation, one-million dollar funding raised for “Marshall Plan Chair in Austrian Studies” and “Marshall Plan Professor in Austrian Studies” at University of New Orleans 2000-
Austrian Cultural Institute/New York Grant for the Symposium “Satchmo Meets Amadeus” [Principal Grant Writer] 2000
Austrian Cultural Institute/New York Grant for the Symposium “A First Assessment of the Austrian EU Presidency” [Principal Grant Writer] 1999
ERP-Fonds Grant for Contemporary Austrian Studies [Principal Grant Writer] 1999
ERP-Fonds of Austria Grant for the Center Austria Conference “The Marshall Plan in Austria” [Principal grant writer] 1998
Austrian Cultural Institute/New York grant for Center Austria Conference “The Marshall Plan in Austria” [Principal Grant writer] 1998
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Grants for Eisenhower Center Centenary Lecture Series [Principal grant writer] 1990
Louisiana 8-g Grant for the Humanities [grant support-writer with Metro College/Eisenhower Center] 1991
8. THESIS COMMITTEE SERVICE
a. Directed and Chaired M.A. Committees of:
James W. Weber, Jr., “The First Cut is the Deepest : George H.W. Bush and CHIREP at the U.N.1970–1971,” Spring 2020
Connie L. Gentry, “’The Jeep is Here to Stay!”: Projections of America and Franco- American Relations During World War II,” Spring 2020
Alexis M. Laguna, “’I Almost Hope I Get Hit Again Soon”’: The Wartime Service and Medical History of Leon C. Standifer, a WWII American Infantryman,” Spring 2019
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D’Otta Sniezak, “In Response to Totalitarianism: The Hawkish Cold War Foreign Diplomacy of the Europeans Kissinger and Brzezinski during American Détente,” Fall 2018
Claire DeLucca, “Both Sides of the Barbed Wire: German Prisoners of War and African American Lives in Camp Claiborne, Louisiana 1944-1946,” 2018
John D’Antoni, “The Home Front: The Experience of Soldiers and Civilians in the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940 and 1941,” 2018
Jacob H. Solbrig, “Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957-1990,” 2017
Peter Casey, “Following the Spirit of the Law: Col. Eberhard P. Deutsch and the Legal Division of United States Forces Austria, 1945-1946,” 2017
Dylan Canatella, “The General’s Take on Education: Anti-Intellectualism, The Cold War and Eisenhower’s Columbia University Presidency,” 2017
Ben Birdwhistell, “Manipulated Museum History and Silenced Memories of Aggression: Historical Revisionism and Japanese Government Censorship of Peace Museums,” 2017
Edward Lawrence, “’In this Dark Hour’”: Stefan Zweig and Historical Displacement in Brazil, 1941-1942,” 2017
Ted P. Tindell, “The Cultural and Collective Memory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956,” 2017
Saber Farhud, “The Second Intifada in the Palestinian City of Ramallah: Social, Economic and Political Consequences,” 2016
Brad Spencer, “Casey Saw It Through”: Guy “Machine Gun” Molony and the Creation of a Rugged Individual,” 2016
Daniel McCoy, “‘Our Responsibility and Privilege to Fight Freedom’s Fight’: Neoconservatism, the Project for the New American Century, and the Making of the Invasion of Iraq in 2003,” 2016
Brandon Keene, “A Crusade against the ‘Cowboy’? Austrian Anti-Americanism during the Presidency of George W. Bush, 2001-2009,” 2015
Hannah Dailey, “The History and Memory of the Assassination of Lord Moyne,” Spring 2014
Paul Hebert, “A Calculated Risk: The Effects of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Denunciation of the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia on US-Romanian Relations,” 2014 67
Dustin Craig Whittington, “A Panzer Commander ‘Working Toward the Führer’: The World War II Career of Generaloberst Hermann Hoth,” 2012
Stefan Louis Lallinger, “Madison, Hamilton, and Reagan: The Limits of Executive Power in Foreign Policy and the Reagan Intervention in Nicaragua," 2011
Fernando Rodriguez,” The 1991 Madrid Conference: U.S. Efforts Towards Lasting Peace in the Middle East Between Israel and Its Neighbors,” Spring 2011
Ryan B. Prechter, “’The Highest Type of Loyalty’: The Struggle for Americanism in Louisiana during the Age of Communist Ascendancy, 1930s-1960s,” 2011
Philipp L. Strobl, “’Too Little to Live and too Much to Die’: The Burgenländers’ Immigration to the United States during the Interwar Period,” 2010
Robert Janous. “’The War Comes First’: Lt. Col. Francis Carroll Grevemberg and the Development of a World War II Antiaircraft Artillery Officer,” 2010
Gregory J. Schloesser, “The Bomb on the Bayou: Nuclear Fear in New Orleans,” 2010
John S. Berteau, ”U.S.-Austrian Relations in the Pre-Anschluss Period: FDR’s Unwillingness for War,” 2007
Ronnie D. Johnson, “An Unlikely Champion: Congressman Mario Biaggi and the Beginnings of a Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland,“ 2007
Traci Donnellan Howerton, “The Southern Debate over the Passage of the Marshall Plan in Congress, 1947-1948,” 2007
Scott Manguno, “Egyptian-British-American Triangular Relations in the 1920s: Egypt’s Efforts to Break Free of Colonial Tutelage,” 2007
Kristi Renee Wallace, “Making Citizens in the South: Louisiana’s Fight for Progressive Education Reform in the 1930s,” 2006
Richard D. Williamson, “The Berlin Crisis of 1958/59: A Case of Pragmatic Restraint,” 2006
Charles J. Fontana III, “Eisenhower and Dulles and the Effects of Anti-Communist Policy in the Near East,” 2006
Alexander Shelby, “Anthony Eden, the Egypt Committee, and the Politics of Prestige during the Suez Crisis,” 2006
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Lucas T. Cuccia II, “Evolution of Mission: The Transformation of Marine Defense Battalions in the Second World War,” 2004
Tom A. Adams, “The Trial of Harry Dexter White: Soviet Agent of Influence,” 2004
Celine Grasset, “De Gaulle’s Third Way: The French Withdrawal from NATO,” 2004
Gerald J. Judd, “The Manchurian Candidate Revisited: The Treatment and Conditioning of American Prisoners of War in the Korean War, 1950-1953” 2003
Benjamin Crawford, “The U.S. and Neutrality in Austria and Laos,” 2003
John D. Fitzmorris III, “We Had Resigned from the Human Race: Combat Veterans and the Erosion of the Human Will,” 2002
Davis Butler, “Cold War Artillery Doctrine and Equipment: The Development of Counterfire and Its Use in the Persian Gulf War, 1972-1991,” 2000
Christopher Morton, “Crescent City Marines: A History of the Organized Marine Corps Reserve in New Orleans 1899-1945,” 2000
Günther Walder, “‘Waging Peace’: Eisenhower’s Psychological Warfare Cold War Strategies in Italy, 1952-1960,” 1999 [posted in UNO’s CenterAustria homepage www.centeraustria.uno.edu]
Christos Frentzos, “The Pueblo Incident: The Failure of America’s Intelligence Bureaucracy,” 1996
Staci E. Williams, “Making Politics: with a Friendly Tyrant: The Carter Administration’s Struggle with the U.S. House of Representatives over Human Rights and U.S. Security Assistance to Nicaragua,” 1996
Rudolph R. Horvath, “Cautious Politics: An Assessment of Eisenhower’s Reaction to the Challenge of Hungary, 1952-1956,” 1996
David W. Clarke, "The Utilization of P.O.W. Labor in Louisiana During World War II: A Comparison of Wehrmacht P.O.W. Labor Productivity With That of Prewar Civilian Agricultural Labor," 1994
Alexandra M. Friedrich, "POW's: Victims of the Cold War? A Comparative Analysis of the Prisoner of War Issue in the Korean and Vietnam War Armistice and Peace Negotiations,” 1993
Thomas M. Sisk, "Forging the Weapon: Dwight D. Eisenhower as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe," 1993 [published in Bischof/Ambrose, eds., Eisenhower: A 69
Centenary Assessment, 1995]
a. Sat on M.A. Committees of:
Sélène Allain-Kovacs, “’The Community for Educational Experiments’: The Alliance Israélite Universelle, Gender, and Jewish Education in Casablanca, Morocco, 1886- 1906,” Spring 2020
Melanie Gaumond, “An American Ambulance Driver in France during the Great War: The Lasting Memory and Relationship between Harry N. Deyo, the Men of Section 591, and French Civilians,” Spring 2020
Devan Gelle, “‘Where Do We Go from Here?’: Attitudes of Louisianans towards the Foundation of the State of Israel,” Spring 2019
Ralston P. Cole, “The Combat in France of the U.S. 360th Infantry Regiment and the Death of First Lieutenant George P. Cole on November 2, 1918, in the Battle of Meuse- Argonne,” 2018
Titus Firmin, “‘Geaux Guard’ and the Shift to the All-Volunteer Force: The Economics of the Louisiana Army National Guard, 1973-1991,” 2018
David Lee Bergeron, “Fighting for Survival: USS Yorktown (CV5) Damage Control Experiences in 1942,” 2016
Rhett Breerwood, “From Containing Communism to Fighting Floods: The Louisiana Army National Guard in the Cold War, 1946-1965,” 2015
Catherine Cauley, “Queering the WAC: The World War II Military Experience of Queer Women,” 2015
Patrick Stephens, “Major League Baseball and World War II: Protecting The Monopoly by Selling Major League Baseball as Patriotic,” Spring 2014
Kathryn Keenan Conley, “The Making of an American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans, and the Road to Central America,” Spring 2012
Megan Franich, “Works of Art, Arts for Work: Caroline Wogan Durieux, the Works Progress Administration, and the U.S. State Department” Spring 2010
Nels M. Abrams, “The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space,” 2010
Lydia A. Soileau, “The Germans of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation 70 and Making of a German-American Community in Acadia Parish, 1881-1917,” 2010
Robert Lorenz, “Catholic Student Protest and Campus Change at Loyola University in New Orleans, 1964-1971,” 2009
Stephen E. Martin “Explaining the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the ‘Heroic Nazi’,” 2009
Richard Christian Bilich, “Climate Change and the Great Plague Pandemics of History: Causal Link Between Global Climate Fluctuations and Yersinia Pestis Contagion?,” 2007
Alan G. Gauthreaux, “An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924,” 2007
David Patrick Johnson, “Selling ‘Operation Passage to Freedom’: Dr. Thomas Dooley and the Religious Overtones of Early American Involvement in Vietnam,” 2006
Daniela Jaeger, “The Worst ‘White Lynching’: Elites vs. Italians in New Orleans, 1891,” 2001
Markus Hünemörder,”The Local Side of Nation-building: Connecticut’s Ratification of the Constitution 1787-88,” 1996.
Shawn Savage, “Diego Rivera, Mutual Cultural Affinities, and the Detroit Industry Murals,” 1995.
Stelios Zachariou, "The Road to the Garrison State: Greek-American Relations 1952 to 1963," 1994 [published in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook vol. 14/15 1998/99].
Olga Ivanova, "Stalin's German Policy and the 'Missed Opportunities' of 1952," 1993
Mark Raphael, "The Intellectual Odyssey of William Appleman Williams," 1992.
Edith R. Ambrose, "Sarah Towles Reed and the Origins of Teacher Unions in New Orleans," 1991
Bruce J. Blank, "Camp Plauche: Germans under the Huey P. Long Bridge, 1991.
c. Served as initial advisers of, but did not complete committee work due to leave of absence:
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d. Directed UNO Honors Thesis
Jonathan Lumkin, “The Politics of Peace for Vietnam: The Paris Peace Conference 1972/1973 (Spring 2014)
Sarah Ormes, “A Masterable Past: Swiss Historical Memory of World War II” (Fall 2011)
Benjamin Linthicum, “Motives for Service in the Armed Forces of the United States; A Comparison Between the Men Who Served During World War II and the Vietnam War" (Spring 2000)
e. Advised Innsbruck M.A. theses and doctoral candidates during their UNO stay and in Innsbruck:
Chaired MA committee for Irian Kennedy’s thesis “Impediments to Nation-Building in Iraq: Blinded by Ideology, Disillusioned by Reality: In Consideration of Pedagogical Approaches to the Topic,” University of Innsbruck 2019
Chaired MA committee for Tanja Burchia “Heimkehr in die alte fremde Welt Heimkehr aus Krieg und Kriegsgefangenschaft. Familien und deren Lebenssituation nach dem Krieg,” University of Innsbruck 2019
Martin Kofler, “Berlin, Neutrality, and Cold War Propaganda: Nikita Khrushchev’s Visit in Austria in 1960,” 1998 [published in Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. VIII (2000) [published as an Innsbruck PhD thesis 2003].
Gerald Steinacher, "The OSS and 'Operationszone Alpenvorland', 1943-1945," 1996 [published as an Innsbruck PhD thesis in 2000].
Rainer Fadinger, "Eisenhower's Policy of Anti-Communism in Vietnam, 1953-1961," 1992 [202 pp].
Alexandra Friedrich, "A Failed Policy of Detente: Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War," 1992 [199 pp]. f. PhD Committees
Daniel Aschheim, „The Complex Dynamics of Post-World War II Jewish Identity and Politics: The Perplexing Case of Bruno Kreisky,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2020
Outside evaluator for PhD thesis of Tamara Asboth, “Mapping the Serbs: Ursprünge und Umdeutungen westlicher Geschichtsbilder über Serbien und die serbische Bevölkerung,” 72
University of Vienna 2019
Outside evaluator for PhD thesis of Inga Paslaviciute, “Petitionen an das Regime. (Rhetorische) Strategien in der Kommunikation mit der kommunistischen Bürokratie in der Litauischen Sozialistischen Sowjetrepublik 1953-1989,“ Dissertation, University of Vienna 2020
Jason Engle’s PhD Thesis “Die Schießstände” and the Roots of Paramilitarism in First Republican Austria,” University of Southern Mississippi 2018
John D. Fitzmorris III, “Bearing the Double Burden: Chaplains in Combat during the Vietnam War,” University of Southern Mississippi Department of History 2016
Eva Maltsching, “Austrian GI Brides after World War II,” Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration [prospectus approved]
Alexandra Friedrich, “Awakenings: The Impact of the Vietnam War and West German- American Relations in the 1960’s,” Temple University History Department 2000.
9. MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
American Diplomatic History The American Century: Americanization and Anti-Americanism The International History the Cold War Post-1945 U.S. History Post-1945 Austrian and German History World War II in Historical Memory The Treatment of Prisoners in and after World War II Post-World War II American Occupations Comparative Contemporary History and International Relations Oral History Methodology and Biography Biography
10. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HONORS
A. Manuscripts under submission
B. Course development
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[added to the catalogue in 1993]
HIST 4575 The Cold War Era [added to the catalogue in 1996]
HIST 2991 and HIST 4991 Austria in the Twentieth Century
Chaired LA committee on Minor in European Studies (added to course catalogue in 2000)
Participated in LA committee on B.A. degree in International Studies (passed by LSU Board 2001)
D. Academic service a. On-campus
Chaired “Graduate Committee” in History Department 2018-19
Chaired Committee on Faculty Evaluations, History Department 2018-19
QED, university-wide committee 2014/15
Chaired the History Department’s “Faculty Evaluations Committee,” Fall 2013
Member UNO Faculty Senate, Spring 2012
Co-Chair, Fundraising Steering Committee, Center for International Studies at UNO, 2008-2012
Chair, History Department, 2006-2008
Faculty Advisory Board of Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, 2003-
Graduate Advisory Committee, History Department, 2002-4
Organizer of George Windell Distinguished Lecture Series, UNO History Department, 1995-2005, 2010-
Founder and organizer of Joseph Logsdon distinguished Lecture Series, UNO History Department, 2000-
Founder and organizer of UNO’s CenterAustria Marshall Plan Anniversary Chair distinguished lecture series, 2001-
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Founder and organizer of UNO’s CenterAustria lunch talks series, 1999-
Member of Dean of Liberal Arts Committee on International Relations B.A. Program, 1996-97, resulting in letter of intent and adoption of new “Bachelor of Arts in International Studies”, initiated as a degree program in 2003
Member of College of Liberal Arts "Courses and Curriculum Committee", 1995-1997, 1999-2000
Member of Liberal Arts Committee on Faculty Summer Grants, 1995
Member of History Department Study Group on Distance Learning, 1996
Initiated Eisenhower Center Occasional Lecture Series and Seminars (some two dozen lectures given--mostly by international visitors--since coming to UNO); initiated a regular newsletter The Crusade to be published; planned, co-organized and helped internationalize the Eisenhower Center annual spring conferences [see 5.B.2.]; served on initial informal committees for the Eisenhower Center D-Day Museum Project.
Co-founding coordinator of the International Working Group on POWs under the auspices of the Eisenhower Center [with a dozen scholars from all over the world as permanent committee members]; 3 symposia organized and 2 panels at professional conference.
Serving on various UNO-Univ. of Innsbruck informal committees set up to implement the UNO-Innsbruck friendship treaty, such as organizing the annual symposia, serving as liaison in the selection and counseling of Innsbruck students at UNO, lecturing to the Innsbruck student program at UNO, and teaching for eight summers for the UNO Innsbruck summer school.
Organizing major funding (1 million dollars) and ongoing selection since 2000 of Marshall Plan Anniversary Chair of Austrian Studies at UNO
Lectured for Metro College evening lecture series such as Velvet Revolution, D-Day Remembered Education Program, and After the Gulf War.
Gave slide show on "Vienna: At the Crossroads of a New Europe" for the International Horizon dinner series of UNO Metro College.
Spoke to visiting school groups for the UNO Public Affairs Bureau.
Organized on-campus visits for various State Department/Council for International Visitors-sponsored future leaders from abroad; set up a visit from a representative of the German Bosch Foundation.
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b. Off-Campus (community service)
Lectured at Gretna German Heritage Center 2013, 2015
Board member, World Affairs Council of New Orleans 2012-2013
President, Harvard Club of Louisiana & Vice President for Programming 2009-2011
Vice President for Programming Harvard Club of LA 2008
Regular lecturer at public libraries for the RELIC-Program, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Presidential Counselor, regular consultant and member of Advisory Board and Education Committee of the future Center for the Study of the American National Spirit, America’s National WW II Museum (National World War II Museum), 2004-
Member of Education Committee, National World War II Museum 2004-
Founding Chair of International Advisory Board for Austrian Marshall-Plan Jubiläumsstiftung 2000-
Member of Austrian Vice Chancellor’s Expert Commission Österreich zukunftsreich: Denk-Pfeiler ins 21. Jahrhundert [The Future of Austria: Thinking about the 21st Century], Vienna 1998 Submitted sections to Stefan Karner, “Aus der Zeitgeschichte,” in: Stefan Karner, ed., Österreich Zukunftsreich: Denkpfeiler ins 21. Jahrhundert (Vienna: ManuMedia, 1999), 434-6, 439-40, 442-44.
Parents’ representative to Lafourche Public Schools Textbook Selection Committee 1999
Secretary-Treasurer, Harvard Club of Louisiana, 1996-97
Board member (and one-year term as Vice President) World Affairs Council of New Orleans 2002-2005, 2012-
Board member of New Orleans Council for International Visitors 1990-1992
Consultant for Eisenhower Center on D-Day Documentary 1994-1995
Consultant for the Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit Over Here! The New Orleans Home Front in World War II, and coordinator of the accompanying lecture series 1992. 76
Lectured on “World War II Prisoners of War,” “The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989” and “The Vienna Summit and the Building of the Berlin Wall, 1961” at Deutsches Haus in New Orleans 1998, 2009, 2012, 2014
Lectured on “Austrian National Holiday” for Club Schönbrunn, New Orleans 2007
Lectured on “Churchill and the Cold War” for Churchill Society of New Orleans 2006
Panelist in discussion on the Exhibition “Nazi Deadly Medicine”, National World War II Museum 2012
Lectured on “Marshall Plan,” “POWs in World War II” for National World War II Museum, “Life Behind Barbed Wire,” and “The Origins of the Cold War” in Lunchbox Series, National World War II Museum, New Orleans 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012
Lectures given at the German-American Cultural Center, Gretna, LA, 2012, 2015
Lectured on “German POWs in the United States during World War II,” Houma World War II Museum Roundtable, Terrebonne Public Library, Gray, LA 2012
Lectured for the Christwood Retirement Community lecture series on WWII, 2000.
Lectured on "The Origins of the Cold War" for the Navy War College Strategy and Policy Seminar, 1991
Lectured on "Austria in the New Europe" for the Foreign Relations Association of New Orleans, 1990
Lectured on "Austria and the Cold War" for the New Orleans Area History Seminar,1990