SELECTED APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS
Max Kade Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Austrian Studies in 2023. Awarded by the Austrian Studies Association, the Journal of Austrian Studies, & the Max-Kade Foundation
Second Place, Radomír Luža Prize for Best Manuscript in Austrian/Czechoslovak Studies in the World War II Era, American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies, German Studies Association
Travel Funding to Present at 47th Annual Conference in Montréal, German Studies Association
Travel & Research Grant, Central European History Society
Best Paper in World History, Northeastern University Graduate Student Conference, Awarded by Department Chair, Monetary Prize & Year Membership in World History Association
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)-STIPET-Scholarship, For Excellent Students of Partner Universities, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
DAAD-STIPET-Scholarship, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Dean of Summer Session Teaching Fellowship, Woods College of Advancing Studies at BC
Conference, Research, & Professional Development Grant, Graduate Student Association, Boston College
Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Boston College
Summer Research Grant, History Department, Boston College
Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, Boston College
Graduate Fellow, Clough Center for Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College
PUBLICATIONS
“Austria & Japan as Cultural Nations? Photography & Art in the Occupied Axis Powers, 1945-1955,” Co-Authored Chapter in Austrian Art, Culture, and Literature of the 20th/21st Century (Istanbul: Istanbul University Press, 2026), Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in German Philology, Co-Author: Dr. Emily E. Cole. Forthcoming.
“One Volk, One Reich, Many Fredericks: The ‘Great’ Frederick the Second during the Third Reich,” Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics (2025): 1-20.
“From Bavaria to the Brenner: Austria as a Fascist Borderland, 1933-1936,” German Studies Review 48, no. 2 (2025): 249-267.
“Making Austria German Again: Austrofascist ‘Home Guards’ Against Nazi ‘Austrian Legionaries,’ 1933-1934,” Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 13, no. 1 (2024): 99-121.
“Borderland Brothers: Austrofascist Competition & Cooperation with National Socialists, 1936-1938,” Journal of Austrian Studies 56, no. 1 (2023): 1-24. Max Kade Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Austrian Studies in 2023. Awarded by the Austrian Studies Association, the Journal of Austrian Studies, & the Max-Kade Foundation
“Casualties of War? Refining the Civilian-Military Dichotomy in World War I,” Madison Historical Review 16, Article 5 (2019): 1-36.
“Racist Limitations on Violence: The Nazi Occupation of Denmark,” Essays in History 50 (2017): 1-18.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Conferences & Presentations
“Armaments after Armistice: Right-Wing Paramilitary Agents in the Austro-Bavarian Borderland, 1918-1928,” German Studies Association, 48th Annual Conference, Atlanta, September 27-29.
“Fighting Fire with Fire: Austrofascist Resistance to Nazism, 1933-1938,” 2023-2024 Lecture Series on Resistance, Boston College History Department, March 22.
Discussion Moderator/Facilitator, “Dialogue & Action: War, Civilians, International Law,” Pertaining to Ongoing War in Gaza, Provosts’ Series on Dialogue, Live Stream Panels across Nine Universities in Greater Boston Area, March 13.
Panel Commentator, “Culture, Consumption and Catholicism in Austrian History and Diplomacy,” German Studies Association, 47th Annual Conference, Montréal, October 6-8.
“The Nazi March to War: ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Eastern Marches in Imperial Imaginaries, 1938–1945,” German Studies Association, 47th Annual Conference, Montréal, October 6-8.
“Repeating the ‘July Crisis’ of 1914? An Austrian Assassination & Border Mobilizations Twenty Years Later,” Freie Universität & German Studies Association, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Berlin, July 5-6.
“What’s in a Nazi Name? Anschluss, Altreich, & Austria, 1938-1945,” Lafayette College, Austrian Studies Association Meeting, Easton PA, April 14-16.
“Österreich or Ostmark? Nazi Nomenclature After Anschluss, 1938-1941.” University of Alabama, 15th Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshop, Tuscaloosa, February 23-24.
“‘Wir brauchen Waffen von Bayern:’ Arming Activists Across the Austro-Bavarian Borderland, 1918-1928.” Freie Universität & German Studies Association, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Berlin, July 6-7.
“‘One of the Queerest Wars:’ Fascist Infiltration of Parliament & Fascist Infighting Across the Austro-Bavarian Border, 1928-1934.” Austrian Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, April 12-14.
“From Bavaria to the Brenner: The Austrofascist Regime as a Fascist Borderland, 1934-1936.” Joshua B. Stein Works in Progress Lecture Series, Roger Williams University, Bristol, April 7.
“Across the Alps: Transborder Smuggling & Paramilitary Formation, 1918-1928.” Appalachian State University, 14th Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshop, Virtual, March 24-25.
“Two Brudervölker, Two Bruderreiche, Two Führer: Austrofascist Engagement with Nazism, 1936-1938.” Freie Universität & German Studies Association, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Virtual, June 30-July 2.
