Günter Josef Bischof

Chair and Marshall Plan Professor of History & Director, CenterAustria

Contact Information

Phone: (504) 280-6882 or (504) 280-3223
E-mail: gjbischo@uno.edu
Office: ED 151 and ED 128
Office Hours: None (On Sabbatical for Fall 2008 – Take a message)
Personal Website: http://www.centeraustria.org/curriculum-vitae/

Educational Background

PhD Harvard University 1989

Research Interests

American & European Diplomatic, 20th Century, Central Europe

Background

Günter Bischof is a historian of international history, focusing on American and European diplomatic history of the 20th century, especially Cold War international relations; he also harbors interests in the history of 20th century wars, especially World War II and the Vietnam War; he has written on POW treatment and memory of World War II; other interests are biography, historical memory and Austrian history, esp. Austrian foreign policy; he is also a historian -- and a self-proclaimed admirer -- of the Marshall Plan and its legacies. He is the author of Austria in the First Cold War: The Leverage of the Weak (Macmillan 1999), which looks at the four-power postwar occupation of Austria and the negotiations of the Austrian state treaty within the East-West context. He is co-editor of Contemporary Austrian Studies (16 vols., Transaction Publishers 1993-2008) one of the leading journals in the Anglo-American world on post-WW I Austria. He served as co-editor (with S.E. Ambrose) of Eisenhower Center Studies of War and Peace (10 vols., Louisiana State University Press), and also edits the series Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture (3 vols., Transaction Publishers ) and TRANSATLANTICA (2 vols., StudienVerlag Innsbruck). He is also the co-editor of a dozen other books and some 100 scholarly articles. He is a Presidential Counselor of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

At present he is embarking on a study of American non-interventions during the Cold War in the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe (East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Poland 1981); he is also researching the impact of Austrian immigrants to the United States with the provisional title Quiet Invaders Revisited, as well as revising a book of essays on Austrian-American Relations in the Twentieth Century. A native of Austria who grew up in a picturesque Alpine village, he has won the Haslauer Research Prize and has been made an honorary citizen of his alma mater, the Karl-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, and also received a high award from the Austrian government. He enjoys teaching for UNO international summer schools in Innsbruck and Prague and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna , Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien; he also served as the Post-Katrina Visiting Professor in the LSU History Department. From skiing and playing soccer as a youngster he has graduated to swimming and hiking in his beloved Alps; he enjoys gardening and gourmet cooking and raises three children with his Cajun wife Melanie Boulet, who is an award-winning social studies middle school teacher.

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