Habsburg Experts between Austria-Hungary and the United States

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The impact of Habsburg-born elites on disciplines, research practices, and schools of thought is well-established. Approaches to these elites have generally treated their intellectual development, together with their contributions to their respective fields, in isolation. This panel brings together three speakers on the topic of Habsburg experts, with the purpose of articulating new approaches, e.g. history of science, criminology, political science, as well as to propose shared connections among Habsburg elites whose careers were shaped through encounters with life and thought in the United States.

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Michael Burri, Haverford College

Papers

• From Vienna to New York and Beyond: Interwar Austrian Political Networks and Émigré Culture - James McSpadden, U of Nevada, Reno

• 'Unity through Diversity': Austrian Experts and International Systems: Thinking after 1945 - Libby S O'Neil, Yale U

• Experts Bridging Borders: Unveiling Transatlantic Ties in Criminal Sciences between Hans Gross and John Henry Wigmore - Nina Kaiser, U of Graz (Austria)

Discussant

• Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Purdue U