Education
- PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2010
Research Areas
- European History
- Military and Naval History
About
Research Interests
- European Intellectual History
- Modern German History
- Central European History
- History of Economic Thought
- Holocaust
Courses Taught
- Holocaust: History and Memory
- History of Fascism
- Modern German History
- Western Civilization
Conference Presentations
- “The Influence of Austrian Economics in Mid-Century America and Europe” Austrian National Bank lecture, Vienna Austria, October 2015.
- “Postwar Austrian Economics and Theories of International Trade and Finance” Duke University History of Political Economy workshop, Durham NC, October 2015.
- “Beyond Hayek and Mises: The Preservation of an Austrian School of Economics in America” Quiet Invaders workshop, Vienna Austria, June 2015.
- “Austrian Economics: Made in the USA” Organization of American Historians, St. Louis MO, April 2015.
- “Imported from Vienna or Made in America? An Intellectual History of Austrian Economics, 1918-1974” CenterAustria lecture, New Orleans, LA, March 2015.
- “What Makes Austrian Economics Austrian? On the Constitution (and Reconstitution) of Intellectual Movements” German Studies Association, Kansas City MO, September 2014.
- “Between Debates: The Research Program of Austrian Economics in the 1920s” History of Economics Society, Montreal QC, June 2014.
- “Austrian Economics in Exile: Imported from Vienna or Made in America?” Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Irvine CA, November 2013.
Awards and Honors
- Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid (Summer 2015)
- Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies [BIAAS] Fellowship (2014-2015)
- Research Grants Committee Fellowship, University of Alabama (2012-2014)
- Volkswagen Foundation Exchange (2011-2012 [declined])
- Austrian Cultural Forum Travel Award (October 2010; October 2012)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, New Europe College Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, Romania (2010-11 [declined])
- Foreign Language and Area Studies [FLAS] Fellowship in Hungarian, Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages, Indiana University (Summer 2010)
Selected Publications
- The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019).
- Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014).
- “Österreichische Aktion: Monarchism, Authoritarianism, and the Unity of the Austrian Conservative Ideological Field during the First Republic,” Central European History 47, no. 1 (May 2014).
- “The Austro-Marxist Struggle for ‘Intellectual Workers’: the Lost Debate on the Question of Intellectuals in Interwar Vienna,” Modern Intellectual History 9, no. 2 (August 2012).