Professor Alice Lovejoy Becomes New Director of Center for Austrian Studies
The Center for Austrian Studies is excited to announce that, as of this fiscal year, Professor Alice Lovejoy became the new director of the Center for Austrian Studies!
Professor Lovejoy served as Interim Director during the 2021-22 academic year, and succeeds Professor Howard Louthan (Department of History), who was CAS Director from 2015 to 2025.
Professor Lovejoy (Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature/Moving Image, Media, and Sound) is a media and cultural historian whose research examines East Central Europe in transnational perspective. Lovejoy is the author of Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (Indiana, 2015), winner of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as the newly published Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War (California, 2025), and co-editor of the volume Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations (Indiana, 2022).
About the Center for Austrian Studies: The University of Minnesota's Center for Austrian Studies is the Western Hemisphere's oldest and largest research center focusing on the past, present, and future of Central and Eastern Europe, including Austria and the successor states of the former Habsburg Empire. The Center for Austrian Studies was also the first Austrian studies center founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science in 1977, with funds raised by the people of the Republic of Austria. In addition to the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, other centers are located at the University of New Orleans, the University of Alberta (Canada), University of California-Berkeley, University of Vienna (Austria), Palacký University Olomouc (Czechia), Leiden University (The Netherlands), Andrássy University Budapest (Hungary), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
