The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, together with Ambassador Prosl (far left) and former Austrian Chancellor Gusenbauer (center).
Siegfried Beer, Director of the Institute, is professor for late modern and contemporary history at the University of Graz. In 2004 he founded the Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (ACIPSS) whose semi-annual journal JIPSS he edits. He has held guest professorships at Columbia University (2007), Harvard University (1996/7) and at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1992). His main areas of teaching and research are international relations, Anglo-American cultures and intelligence history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his major publications are: Der „unmoralische“ Anschluss (1988); Der Krieg aus der Luft (1992); Die britische Steiermark 1945-1955 (1995) and Public Power in Europe (2006). Siegfried.beer@uni-graz.at
Günter Bischof has taught contemporary history at the University of New Orleans since 1989. He has also served as a guest professor at the Universities of Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Vienna, and the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, as well as a “post-Katrina visiting professor” at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is the director of the Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce at the University of New Orleans and, as such, has been responsible for bringing thousands of students across the Atlantic in both directions, along with hundreds of faculty members. Dr. Bischof directs the Center’s annual conferences, lectures, workshops, art exhibits and concerts, all related to Austrian culture. He is responsible for the publication of the journal Contemporary Austrian Studies(17 volumes). guenterjbischof@gmail.com
Gary B. Cohen is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He served from 2001 through 2010 as director of the Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies and from 2001 to 2011 as Executive Editor of The Austrian History Yearbook. He was educated at the University of Southern California (B.A., 1970) and Princeton University (M.A., 1972; PhD., 1975). His publications include two books, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (Princeton University Press, 1981; rev. second ed. Purdue University Press, 2006) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (Purdue University Press, 1996); several edited books, articles in The Journal of Modern History, Central European History, The Austrian History Yearbook, The East European Quarterly, Jewish History, and The Social Science Quarterly; and numerous book chapters. gcohen@umn.edu
Alison Frank is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, where she teaches in the History Department. From 2002 until 2005, she was assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia(Harvard University Press, 2005). Raised in Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, Alison has also lived in Graz, Vienna, and Cracow. She currently resides in Arlington, Massachusetts. afrank@fas.harvard.edu
Reinhard Heinisch is Chair of Austrian Politics and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Previously, he served as Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, where he is now on leave. Reinhard Heinisch is also an affiliated faculty member and advisory board member of the Center of European Studies and European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. Born in Austria in 1963, Reinhard Heinisch received his degrees from the Universities of Vienna (BA 1986), Virginia Tech (MA 1987), and Michigan State (PhD 1994). In 1994, he joined the University of Pittsburgh specializing in comparative politics, European politics and international political economy. He is the author of Populism Proporz Pariah – Austria Turns Right (2002 Nova Science) as well as of numerous other publications. Reinhard Heinisch has lectured extensively internationally including the European Forum Alpbach and served in the preparation of the last three US ambassadors-designate to Austria. In Austria, Reinhard Heinisch was the initiator of the annual International Summer University Carinthia in Villach, of which he serves as the Academic Director. Since 2001 Reinhard Heinisch has led groups of international students on a service-learning project to rural Bolivia, during which the participants take part in the construction of a village orphanage and school. Reinhard.heinish2@sbg.ac.at
Pieter M. Judson is professor of History at Swarthmore College and Editor of the Austrian History Yearbook. He is the author or editor of four books and several articles and chapters dealing with the history of liberalism, of nationalism, of Empire, and of gender in the Hapsburg Monarchy and Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent book, Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard University Press, 2006), won the Jelavich prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Czechoslovak History Association book prize. pjudson@swarthmore.edu
Fatima Naqvi is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1993 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Currently she teaches courses on post-war literature and film, Vienna 1900, and the Austrian literary tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book, The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe 1970-2005 (New York: Palgrave, 2007), analyzes the pervasive rhetoric of victimhood in European culture since 1968. She has also written on Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Ransmayr, Michael Haneke, Thomas Bernhard, and Miroslav Tichý. Her book on the films of Michael Haneke is forthcoming in 2009 with Synema Verlagin Vienna. Naqvi@rci.rutgers.edu
Martin Rauchbauer joined Deutsches Haus in April 2011 as the Director of the institution. He studied German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Vienna and has an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy and Washington D.C. School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Concentration in European Studies and International Economics.
He worked as a journalist for Austrian Radio and Television (ORF) and the news magazine "Format" before joining the Austrian Foreign Ministry (now the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs) in 2000. From 2007 until January 2011 he was the Deputy Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City. Before that he was the Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Mexico City and a defense analyst in the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. martin.rauchbauer@nyu.edu
Harry Carl Schaub is Consul General a.D. of Austria in Philadelphia. He was a partner for 37 years with the Philadelphia law firm Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, where he now serves Of Counsel. During his long legal career, he has represented foreign investors for business and immigration purposes; non-profit organizations, both educational and charitable; investment companies and other issuers of securities under federal and state securities acts; and ski and other leisure resorts. Mr. Schaub has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Gamma honor societies, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. His publications include: "General Lahousen and the Abwehr Resistance" in 19 International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence 538-558 (Fall 2006). hschaub@mmwr.com
Andreas Stadler, born 1965 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, is a leading Austrian diplomat, cultural manager and curator, who studied political science in Vienna, Warsaw and Florence. Stadler was Deputy Ambassador of Austria in Zagreb, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, and advisor for science, art, and culture to the Austrian Federal President. He has been the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York since 2007 and publishes on international relations and cultural politics. Andreas.STADLER@bmeia.gv.at