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 Günter Bischof Chair and Marshall Plan Professor of History Director of CenterAustria University of New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana gjbischo(at)uno.edu +1 504-280-3223 Günter Bischof is the chair and Marshall Plan professor of history and the director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans. He has been teaching American and European Diplomatic History at the University of New Orleans since 1989 and is the recipient of the junior and senior research awards of the UNO Alumni Foundation; he was Executive Director of CenterAustria since its founding in 1997 and then director since 2000. He has also taught as a guest professor at the Universities of Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, and the Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien. He has taught in the UNO International Summer School for a dozen summers and directed it twice; in 2008 he directs the UNO Summer Seminars in Prague and teaches a course on the Cold War. He is the author of "Austria in the First Cold War, 1945/55: The Leverage of the Weak" (1999), the co-editor (with Anton Pelinka and now with Fritz Plasser) of "Contemporary Austrian Studies" (16 vols), and co-editor of a dozen other books and numerous articles on World War II, the Cold War, and contemporary Austrian history. He is also the editor of the series "Studies in Austrian and Central European History" with Transaction Publishers (3 vols) and "TRANSATLANTICA" with StudienVerlag Innsbruck (3 vols). Biscof's current research projects deal with the U.S. (non)responses to the Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasions of the GDR (1953), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968) and Poland (1981), as well as a prosopography of Austrian immigrants/refugees to the United States in the 20th century provisionally entitled "Quiet Invaders Revisited".
Bischof is an alumnus of both the University of Innsbruck and the University of New Orleans, and holds a Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University (1989). In 2006 the University of Innsbruck made him an "honorary citizen." He is also a recipient of Research Prize Wilfried-Haslauer Foundation of Salzburg (2004) and has lectured in the European Forum Alpbach (2007) and co-teaches a Seminar there on trans-Atlantic relations in August 2008. Contributions |
