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Center for Austrian Studies

The Western Hemisphere's oldest and best-known research center investigating the past, present, and future of Central Europe with a specific focus on Austria and the successor states of the Habsburg Empire.

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Recent News

Anti-terrorist operation in Eastern Ukraine

New Issue of the Central Europe Yearbook Now Available

The open-access journal, promoting the study of Central Europe among undergraduate students, has recently published its fourth volume

Three Pieces on Ukraine to Appear in Upcoming Issue of Central Europe Yearbook

Three forthcoming pieces shed light on the war in Ukraine

The Center for Austrian Studies Now Accepting 2023 Book Prize Submissions

Center for Austrian Studies Now Accepting Book Prize Submissions

Ambika Natarajan Announced As 2022 Center for Austrian Studies Dissertation Prize Winner

Joshua Shanes Announced As 2022 Rath Prize Winner

Shanes' article, “The ‘Bloody Election’ in Drohobycz: Violence, Urban Politics, and National Memory in an Imperial Borderland” was published in the Austrian History Yearbook

Upcoming Events

December 06, 2022

Talk with Petra Aigner

"The Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Foreign-Born Migrant Families - A Comparison between Austria and the United States"