The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota announces the current Prize Competition to identify the best recent monograph and Ph.D. dissertation written by North American residents who hold U.S., Canadian, or Austrian citizenship. The work may be in any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, or fine arts regarding
- contemporary Austria
- contemporary Austria’s relationship with Central Europe and the European Union
- the history, society, and culture of Austria and the lands of Central and Eastern Europe with a Habsburg heritage
The Austrian Cultural Forum in New York funds the prizes. The purpose of the biennial competition is to encourage North American scholars in the full range of academic disciplines to do research in the field of Austrian and Habsburg studies.
Prize competition in Austrian studies for books published in the years 2006 and 2007
The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the current Prize Competition for the best book in the field of Austrian Studies. The award is funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. It is the purpose of the competition to encourage North American scholars in the full range of academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, or fine arts to publish research on
- contemporary Austria
- contemporary Austria’s relationship with Central Europe and the European Union
- the history, society, and culture of Austria and the lands of Central and Eastern Europe with a Habsburg heritage
The competition will judge works in any discipline relating to these fields. The prize is a monetary award in the amount of €2,000. All works must have been published between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007.
Nominations may be submitted by the author, publisher, or any other individual. Authors must be residents of North America and must hold U.S., Canadian, or Austrian citizenship. Send nominations with five copies of each nominated work to: Chair, Austrian Prize Committee, Center for Austrian Studies, 314 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave. S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2008. The winner will be announced at the GSA conference in St. Paul, MN, in October 2008.
Prize competition in Austrian studies for dissertations defended in the years 2006 and 2007
The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the current Prize Competition for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Austrian Studies. The award is funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. The purpose of the competition is to encourage North American scholars in the full range of academic disciplines to do research on
- contemporary Austria
- contemporary Austria’s relationship with Central Europe and the European Union
- the history, society, and culture of Austria and the lands of Central and Eastern Europe with a Habsburg heritage
The competition will judge works in any discipline relating to these fields. The prize is a monetary award in the amount of €2,000. All works must have been completed (date of successful defense for dissertations) between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007.
Nominations for dissertations may be submitted by the author or any other individual. Authors must be residents of North America and must hold US, Canadian, or Austrian citizenship. Dissertations must be completed at North American universities. Send nominations with three copies of the nominated work to: Chair, Austrian Prize Committee, Center for Austrian Studies, 314 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave. S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2008. The winner will be announced at the GSA conference in St. Paul, MN, in October 2008.
Previous ACF Prize Winners
Dissertation Prizes
- 2006: Tara Zahra, "Your Child Belongs to the Nation: Nationalization, Germanization, and Democracy in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1945," University of Michigan.
- 2004: Philip J. Howe, "Well-Tempered Discontent: Nationalism, Ethnic Group Politics, Electoral Institutions and Parliamentary Behavior in the Western Half of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867-1914, " U.C. San Diego.
- 2002: Alison Fleig Frank, "Austrian El Dorado: A History of the Oil Industry in Galicia, 1853-1923," Harvard University 2001.
- 2001: Christa Gaug, "Situating the City: The Textual and Spatial Construction of Late 19th-century Berlin and Vienna in City Texts by Theodor Fontane and Daniel Spitzer," University of Texas at Austin.
- 2000: Jeremy King, "Loyalty and Polity, Nation and State: A Town in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1948," Columbia University.
- 1999: Julie Johnson, "The Art of Women: Women's Art Exhibitions in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna," University of Chicago.
- 1998: Cathleen Giustino, "Architecture and the Nation: Modern Urban Design and Possibilities for Political Participation in Czech Prague 1900," University of Chicago.
- 1996-97: Julie Dorn Morrison, "Gustav Mahler at the Wiener Hofoper: A Study of Critical Reception in the Viennese Press (1897-1907)," Northwestern University.
- 1995-96: Dissertation Prize: William D. Godsey, "Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War," University of Virginia.
- 1994-95: Doris M. Klostermaier, "Marie von Ebner Eschenbach. The Victory of a Tenacious Will," University of Manitoba.
- 1993-94: Geoffrey D. W. Wawro, "The Austro-Prussian War: Politics, Strategy, and War in the Habsburg Monarchy 1859-1866," Yale University.
- 1992-93: Christopher Gibbs, "The Presence of Erlkönig: Reception and Reworkings of Schubert Lied," Columbia University.
- 1991-92: Joseph Francis Patrouch III, "Methods of Cultural Manipulation: The Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Province of Upper Austria, 1570-1650," University of California, Berkeley.
- 1990-91: William Bowman, "Priest, Parish, and Religious Practice: A Social History of Catholicism in the Archdiocese of Vienna, 1800-1879," Johns Hopkins University.
Book Prizes
- 2006: Alison Fleig Frank, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia, (Harvard University Press, 2005).
- 2004: Gitta Honegger, Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)
- 2002: Paula Sutter Fichtner, Emperor Maximilian II, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
- 2001: Evan Burr Bukey, Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-45, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- 2000: Eve Blau, The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934, MIT Press, 1999.
- 1999: Louis Rose, The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science, Wayne State University Press, 1998.
- 1998: Pieter M. Judson, Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1918, University of Michigan Press, 1996.
- 1996-97: Robert Rotenberg, Landscape and Power in Vienna, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
- 1995-96: Franz A. J. Szabo, Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism, 1758-1780, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- 1994-95: Sander Gilman, Freud, Race, and Gender, Princeton University Press, 1993.
- 1993-94: Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism, University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
- 1992-93: Carl Dolmetsch, "Our Famous Guest": Mark Twain in Vienna, University of Georgia Press, 1992.
- 1991-92: Helmut Gruber, Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919-1934, Oxford University Press, 1991.
- 1990-91: John Komlos, Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History, Princeton University Press, 1989.
ACF Article Prize
- 1989: Harry Ritter, "Progressive Historians and the Historical Imagination in Austria: Heinrich Friedjung and Richard Charmatz," Austrian History Yearbook 19-20, no. 1 (1983-1984): 45-90.* (Note: this AHY volume was actually published in 1988.)
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