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Austrian Cultural Forum Prizes

ACF announces Deadline for 2010 prizes

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota announce the 2010 prize competitions to identify the best recent monograph and best PhD dissertation written by North American citizens or permanent residents.

To be eligible, a book must have been published (or a dissertation defended) between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. Eligible works may be from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, or fine arts. The subject matter may deal with contemporary Austria, contemporary Austria’s relationship with Central Europe and the European Union, or the history, society, and culture of Austria and the lands of Central and Eastern Europe with a common Habsburg heritage.

The purpose of these biennial competitions is to encourage North American doctoral candidates and scholars in the full range of academic disciplines to do research in the field of Austrian and Habsburg studies. Multi-authored studies or multi-author collections of essays are not eligible for this competition.

Each prize carries a cash award of € 2,000.

Send 5 copies of each book (or 3 copies of each dissertation) to the Center for Austrian Studies, attention ACF Book (or Dissertation) Prize Committee.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2010. The winners will be announced in late 2010.

Center for Austrian Studies
University of Minnesota
Attn: Austrian Studies Newsletter
314 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Avenue S.
Minneapolis MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-9811; fax: 612-626-9004

Previous ACF Prize Winners

Dissertation Prizes

• 2008: David W. Gerlach, “For Nation and Gain: Economy, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-1948” (History, University of Pittsburgh, 2007).
• 2006: Tara Zahra, “Your Child Belongs to the Nation: Nationalism, Germanization, and Democracy in the Bohemian Lands” (History, University of Michigan, 2005).
• 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" (Political Science, U.C. San Diego).
• 2002: Alison Fleig Frank, "Austrian El Dorado: A History of the Oil Industry in Galicia, 1853-1923," (History, 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.
• 1998: Cathleen Giustino, "Architecture and the Nation: Modern Urban Design and Possibilities for Political Participation in Czech Prague 1900," Northwestern University.
• 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 Erlönig: 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

• 2008: Deborah R. Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
• 2006: Alison Flieg 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: Dr. Evan Burr Bukey, Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-45, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
• 2000: Dr. 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 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.)