Awards and Opportunities for Faculty and Scholars

Prizes

CAS Book & Dissertation Prizes

The Center for Austrian Studies offers Book and Dissertation Prizes, thanks to a generous donation from David and Rosemary Good.

Rath Prize

The R. John Rath prize is given annually for the best article published in the Austrian History Yearbook (AHY). It is funded by the estate of the longtime Habsburg scholar and founding editor of the AHY, R. John Rath (1910-2001), and by contributions made in his memory.

First-Book Subventions

Established in 2024, the Center for Austrian Studies provides book subventions on a case-by-case basis to pre- and non-tenure scholars publishing their first single-author monograph. Please contact Dr. Meyer Weinshel (CAS Associate Director) at [email protected] for more information.

Fulbright Program

Austrian Fulbright Opportunities

The purpose of the Fulbright Program is to promote “mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peoples of other countries.” Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright from Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has over 310,000 alumni and currently operates in 155 countries, including 50 countries with binational Fulbright commissions such as the Austrian-American Educational Commission. Funded primarily by direct contributions from the governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Austria, the Fulbright Program provides grants for US citizens—who are recent graduates and graduate students or scholars and professionals—to study, teach, or pursue research in Austria and for Austrian citizens to engage in similar activities in the US. Among the Fulbright programs available to Austrians and Americans through the Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Austria) are research grants for students and faculty, teaching opportunities for faculty, opportunities for recent Austrian college grads to teach German in America, and opportunities for recent American college grads to teach English in Austria. Find more information on the Austrian-American Educational Commission's website.

Fellowships

EURIAS (Post-Doctoral) Fellowship Program

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Program is an international researcher mobility program offering 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, and Wassenaar. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.

For UMN Faculty Only - Travel Awards

Overview:

The Center for Austrian Studies, through the Alexander Dubček Fund, is able to supply limited travel funding (between $1,000 and $1,500) to UMN faculty and instructional staff who:

Require travel to the regions of East Central or Eastern Europe to participate in academic exchanges or teaching, and/or to conduct research in East Central or Eastern Europe, in order to strengthen undergraduate and graduate curricula in Central European Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be faculty or instructional staff at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Preference is given to those who support and maintain educational partnerships between the University of Minnesota and institutions abroad. Preference will also be given to applicants who have not been awarded a Faculty Travel Grant within the last two academic years.

NOTE: These awards are generally NOT intended for conference presentations. On a case-by-case basis, CAS will award grants to faculty or instructional staff who facilitate professional development workshops (or similar) for graduate students through scholarly organizations with connections to Central and Eastern European Studies.

Please enquire with the Center if you have further questions on eligibility.

Application Requirements:

Download and complete the Application Form (UMN email address required)

Please send a one-page project description of the work being undertaken, and include travel destination and dates, as well as research and/or curricular goals to the Center for Austrian Studies at casahy[AT]umn.edu.

At the end of the award period: recipients must also submit a one-page project report that specifies the project outcomes, and (if appropriate) allow the Center for Austrian to include these outcomes in its publications and reports to funding sources. NOTE: past recipients who do not submitted this report will be ineligible for new funding.

Application Deadlines:

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, but we do require that applications be received at least 60 days before the departure date.

Other Grantee Obligations:

1. Grantees are required to complete a University Travel Authorization form and register international travel in the GPS Alliance International Travel Registry before travel. Grantees should also observe all other GPS Alliance mandated requirements and regulations pertaining to international travel.

2. If noted in the offer letter: as a condition of the award, grantees must submit a new or revised syllabus resulting from the travel grant

NOTE: University policy currently requires that CAS faculty directly book any university-related travel, and submit their reimbursement requests individually via the necessary channels. CAS will provide the accounts information to the awardee who will complete the reimbursement.