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Janek Wasserman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington University in Saint Louis, 2010
iwasserman@ua.edu
Research Interests:
- Austrian Intellectual History
- Modern German History
Courses Regularly Taught:
- Honors Western Civilization Since 1648
- Fascism in Europe
Recent Publications:
- “The Austro-Marxist Struggle for 'Intellectual Workers': the Lost Debate on the Question of Intellectuals in Interwar Vienna,” Modern Intellectual History (forthcoming).
Selected Lectures and Presentations:
- "Black Vienna: Authoritarian Cultural Hegemony in the 'Red' Capital, 1918-1938," Sabanci University, Istanbul Turkey, March 2011.
- "Carl Schmitt versus Othmar Spann: A Tale of Two Conservative Revolutionaries in Interwar Central Europe," German Studies Association, Oakland CA, October 2010.
- "Black Vienna: Richard Kralik, Othmar Spann and the silent majority reactionary intelligentsia in interwar Vienna," Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies Workshop, March 2010
- "Reconsidering Red Vienna: Othmar Spann, Richard Kralik and right-wing Viennese intellectual life," German Studies Association, Washington DC, October 2009.
- "'Absolut unpolitisch' societies: the Vienna Circle, Freethinkers and adult education, 1922-1930," Positivismus/Macht/Aufklärung Conference, Vienna Austria, September 2009.
- "Vienna Circles: the confluence of radical politics, philosophy and science in 'Red' Vienna," Mellon Dissertation Writers' Seminar, St. Louis, June 2008.
- "From Kakania to the First Republic: Continuities and Contrasts in Pre- and Postwar Austria," Mellon Dissertation Writers' Seminar, St. Louis, June 2005.
Fellowships and Recent Awards:
- Honorary Research Fellow, Washington University, 2010-2011
- Austrian Cultural Forum Travel Award, October 2010
- 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
- Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University, 2009-10
- Richard Plaschka Stipendium, Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF), 2008-9
- Mellon Dissertation Writers’ Fellowship, Summer 2008
- International and Area Studies Pre-Dissertation Writers’ Grant, Washington University, Summer 2006
Frankel Fellowship, Washington University, 2004-5
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