Botstiber Institute For Austrian-American Studies 2011-2012 Grants
Individual/Organization |
Purpose of Grant |
Amount of Grant |
Academic Association at the University of Vienna |
Funding for archival research in New York on the early history of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1947-1957) |
$5,315 |
Argento New Music Project |
Funding for a DVD documentary and web media of performances and discussions with Austrian composers in the U.S. |
$20,500 |
Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission) |
Funding for Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professors in Austrian-American Studies |
$120,000 |
Austrian Cultural Forum – NYC |
Funding for a translation prize ceremony |
$5,000 |
Anette Baldauf |
The Gruen Project – funding for translation and editing of Victor Gruen’s autobiography |
$16,000 |
Elizabeth Danto |
Funding to assemble archival documentation of Josef Friedjung’s innovations in child welfare |
$4,000 |
Tamara Ehs |
Funding for travel to the U.S. to do research on the subject of the Frankfurter Kelsen Debate |
$3,876 |
Alys George |
Funding for archival research and writing about the transatlantic axis of Austrian and American literary and artistic modernism centered on the literary magazine The Dial |
$8,983 |
Michael LeMahieu |
Funding for travel to do archival research on the influence and erasure of logical positivist philosophy |
$2,500 |
Heather Morrison |
Funding for research on five Austrians who came to America in the 18th Century and the trajectories of their lives after they separated |
$16,273 |
Helga Schreckenberger |
Funding for research on Salka Viertel’s experience in Hollywood |
$2,000 |
Simon Walsh |
Funding for research to explore the American occupation’s role in fostering the postwar image of Austria as “The Land of Music” |
$4,970 |
| Tara Zahra | Funding for research on the effects of emigration from Eastern Europe to the U.S. and Western Europe | $6,583 |