CURRICULUM VITAE

Günter J. Bischof             Home Address:
Department of History         P.O. Box 1335
University of New Orleans     Larose, LA 70373
New Orleans, LA 70148         tel: 504-693-6849
tel: 504 280 6882             e-mail: gjbhi@mobiletel.com
fax: 504 280 6883
e-mail: gjbischo@uno.edu
Austrian citizen & permanent resident of U.S.

Married to Melanie Boulet (American citizen)
Children: Alexander Carroll (13), Marcus Christopher (14), Andrea Julia (16)


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

• Chair, UNO History Department 2006-

• Marshall Plan Professor of History 2003-04, 2007-09

• Post-Katrina Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Fall   2005

• UNO Innsbruck Summer School, Academic Director  2002,2005

• Guest Professor, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna Spring 2005

• Guest Professor, University of Innsbruck Spring 2004

• Director, CenterAustria 2002-

• 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

• 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

• 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)
• 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)
• The Cold War Era (1 sem. lecture)
• Rise of American Empire (1 sem. lecture)
• 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 (graduate PS)
• 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

A. Books

a. Scholarly books

Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55: The Leverage of the Weak. Basingstoke: Macmillan-New York: St. Martin's Press 1999

Beziehungsgeschichten. Ősterreich/Europa – USA [volume of essays in preparation for Studienverlag Innsbruck]

 
i. Refereed Edited Books

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 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: Bőhlau 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.

with Wolfgang Krieger, eds., D-Day: Die Normandieinvasion 6. Juni 1944: Eine internationale Perspective (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, vol. 16, ed. Rolf Steininger) 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.

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 Fritz Plasser, eds., The Changing Austrian Voter (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XVI) New Brunswick-London: Transaction [forthcoming 2008]

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, (Contemporaary Austrian Studies, vol. V). New Brunswick London: Transaction 1997 [399 pp].

with Anton Pelinka, eds., Austrocorporatism: Past   Present   Future, (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. IV). New Brunswick London: Transaction, 1996 [428 pp].

with Anton Pelinka, eds., Austria in the Nineteen Fifties,
(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].

 
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.


B. Refereed/Invited Publications


a. Invited Book Chapters

“Gedanken zum gemeinsamen europäischen historischen Gedächtnis an die Totalitarismen des 20. Jahrhunderts und eine europäische Wertegemeinschaft,“ in Festschrift für Heinrich Neisser (Innsbruck; University of Innsbruck Press 2008 forthcoming)

Günter Bischof/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.

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 Ősterreich, 1945-1955,” in: Manfried Rauchensteiner/Robert Kriechbaumer, eds., Die Gunst des Augenblicks: Neuere Forschungen zu Staatsvertrag und Neutralität. Vienna: Bőhlau 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/Frőschl, 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-ŐVP/FPŐ-Koalitionsregierung,” in: Gehler/Pelinka/Bischof, eds., Austria in the European Union, 445-78

“Austria in McWorld,” in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., The Americanization/Westernization of 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

“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-Stőckl/Marlies Raffler/Felix Schneider, eds., Focus Austria: Vom Vielvőlkerreich zum EU-Staat. Festschrift für Alfred Ableitinger zum 65. Geburtstag. Graz 2003, 441-66

“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 Ősterreich seinen guten Ruf? Ősterreichs Image in den USA nach der Bildung der neuen ŐVP/FPŐ-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: Bőhlau 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: 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.

"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

“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 version: “Ebéd utáni szunyókálás: Eisenhower és az 1956-OS Magyar Válság,” Európai Szemle 17/2 (2006):  27-43

“Ősterreich 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 Austrians and Their World War II Legacies,” German Studies Review 27 (February 2004), 17-32.

Editorial “Kriegsgefangeschaft und Ősterrichbewusstsein 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.

“Restoration, Not Renewal: From Nazi to Four-Power Occupation - The Difficult Transition to Democracy in Austria after 1945,” in: 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 Editor

Contemporary Austrian Studies (15 volumes) with Transaction

Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture (3 volumes) with Transaction

Transatlantica (2 volumes) with Studienverlag Innsbruck

Eisenhower Center Studies of War and Peace (10 volumes) with Louisiana State University Press


C. Other Publications

a.    Non refereed Articles, Introductions, Prefaces

“Cold War Miracle: The Austrian State Treaty at 50,” in: Ferenc Gatz, ed., Der österreichische Staatsvertrag 1955 (Begegnungen: Schriftenreihe des Europa Institutes Budapest 26). Budapest: Europa Institut Budapest 2006, pp. 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, pp. 1-6

“Ein kongenialer Mitherausgeber,” in: Ellen Palli, Bettina Posch, Elibaeth Rieder, eds., Begegnungen mit Anton Pelinka Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2006, pp. 15-17

“Vorwort,” in: Bischof/Marx, eds., Vor dem Sturm – The Soul of New Orleans, pp. 7-9

“Preface,” in: Wagnleitner, ed., Satchmo Meets Amadeus, pp. 13-15

With Klaus Eisterer, “Preface,” in: Eisterer/Bischof, eds., Transatlantic Relations, pp. 7-15

With Hermann Denz & Anton Pelinka, “Introduction,” in: Bischof/Pelinka/Denz, eds., Religion in Austria, pp. 1-6

“National Socialist Art Looting during World War II and the Postwar Politics of Art Restitution: an Introduction,’ in: ibid., pp. 176-81

“Generational Perspectives in Austria and the National Socialist Past: An Introduction,” in: ibid., pp. 215-21

With Martin David, “Black is back, bye bye Blues,” Austrian Studies Newsletter (Winter 2003)

“Introduction,” in: Steininger/Bischof/Gehler, eds., Austria in the Twentieth Century, pp. 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

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.

“’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.
Posted in UNO’s CenterAustria Working Paper Series www.centeraustria.uno.edu.

“ 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.

"Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, pp. 1-20.

"What's right?", in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrocorporatism, pp. 280 88.

with Anton Pelinka "Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austrocorporatism, pp. 1 4.

 "Introduction," in: Bischof/Pelinka, eds., Austria in the Nineteen Fifties, pp. 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, pp. 1 7.


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 Dulles,” “Llewelyn Thompson,” and “Bruno Kreisky”in: Spencer Tucker, ed., Cold War Encyclopedia [forthcoming 2008]

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

“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, 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 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/showpdf.cgi?path=213151183909398

“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

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 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 Hőbelt, 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 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

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 William M. Leary, ed., MacArthur and the American Century: A Reader, in: The Register of  the Kentucky Historical Society 100 (Winter 2002), 107-110

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.

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 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 (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 (since 1979).

Articles and book reviews for Die Presse (Vienna), Der Standard (Vienna), Falter (Vienna), Austrian Information (Washington), Austria Kultur (New York),Austrian Center Newsletter (Minneapolis), as well as the online publications History News Network, ORF Science Online, Bridges, H-German, H-Diplo, Habsburg.

Op-Ed columns for New Orleans Times Picayune, 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, Austrian National Radio, Austrian Radio International, Radio Blue Danube, Radio Vorarlberg, Radio Salzburg and Radio Tirol, Bavarian Radio

Interviewed by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Austin Statesman-American, Die Presse, Der Standard, Kurier, Profil

Consultant for America’s World War II Museum in New Orleans

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

"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

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 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 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 University Press.

Reviewer of article manuscripts for Diplomatic History, Austrian History Yearbook, Contemporary Austrian Studies, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Louisiana History, Intelligence and National Security, and Central European History.

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

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

“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 & Marshalll-Plan”, Technical Museum, Vienna, Austria.

“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 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 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 by colleague 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].

“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 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, Ocotober 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.

"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, 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 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

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]

“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].

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, "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].

With Josef Leidenfrost/Vienna, "Die bevormundete Nation?: Österreich und die Alliierten 1945 1949,” Vienna 1987.


C. Editorships, Board Memberships

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda, and Security Studies                2007-

Manuscripts Review Board of Zeitgeschichte        2004-

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
[9 volumes published].

 Co founding editor of Contemporary Austrian Studies published by Transaction, Rutgers University, N.J. [15 volumes published, 1 volume in progress, 1 volumes in planning].

Founding editor of Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture published by Transaction [2 volumes published, 1 volume to be published fall 2006]

Founding Editor of TRANSATLANTICA published by Studienverlag Innsbruck, Austria [2 volumes published, 1 volume in planning]


D. Professional Society Memberships

American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations
German Studies Association
Austrian Association for American Studies
German Association for American Studies
Foreign Relations Association of New Orleans


6. AWARDS AND PRIZES

• 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 2005, 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 Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna 1998
• The UNO Alumni Association Early Career 
• Achievement Award in Research 1991
• Co recipient Ernest K. Gross Award for Best Dissertation in the Harvard History Dept. 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, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna 1998
• Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft Travel Grant 1997
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Travel Grant 1993
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Summer Grant 1993
• Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, 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

• Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung Graz research project “The Prague Spring 1968”        2006-8
• Austrian Marshall-Plan Anniversary Foundation, one-million dollar gift raised for rebuilding UNO after Hurricane Katrina 2006-
• 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:

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

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

William Fitzmorris, “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]

Chris 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 Centenary Assessment, 1995]


b.    Sat on M.A. Committees of:

Alan G. Gauthreaux, “An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924,” 2007

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, "Detroit Art Gallery," 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:

Mark Carson
Michael Jones
Alejandro Anton

d. Directed UNO Honors Thesis

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:

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

“Awakenings: The Impact of the Vietnam War and West German-American Relations in the 1960’s,” Temple University History Department, August 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


10. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

A. Manuscripts under submission [see # 2 above]

B. Course development

HIST 4570  The International History of the Second World War
                    [added to the catalogue in 1993]

HIST 4575  The Cold War Era [added to the catalogue in 1996]

HIST 2991      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

Chair, History Department, 2006-
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-

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-

Founder and organizer of UNO’s CenterAustria brown-bag lunch 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 1995 Liberal Arts Committee on Faculty Summer Grants.

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 hitherto 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 selection 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.


b. Off campus

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 D-Day 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 of New Orleans Council for International Visitors, 1990 1992.

Consultant for Eisenhower Center D Day Documentary and D-Day Museum.

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, January May 1992.

Lectured on the “Origins of World War“ for the Christwood Retirement Community lecture series on World War II, May 2000.

Lectured on “World War II Prisoners of War” for the German Club at Deutsches Haus 1998

 
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.