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PERSONAL INFORMATION: Home Address: Graben 28/2/13 1 September 1999-30 June 2000: 1010 Vienna, Austria 1301 33rd Street N.W. No. 3 Telephone: +43-1-535.67.71 Washington, D.C. 20007 (202) 687-3593 e-mail: mittenr@ceu.hu Date of Birth: 25 July 1952, Kansas City, Missouri Citzenship: United States (with permanent residency visa for Austria) Current Positions: Associate Professor of History Central European University Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1999-2000) UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: B.A. (summa cum lauda) 1980, Columbia College, Columbia University B.A. (Honours) 1982, University of Cambridge (King's College) M.A. 1985, University of Cambridge (King's College) Ph.D. (Distinction) 1991, University of Vienna, Austria TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1982 - 1984: University of Cambridge: Adjunct lecturer in the Faculties of History and of Social and Political Sciences Subjects taught: European History since 1870, Modern Revolutions, History of Political Thought, General Historical Problems 1986 - present: Austrian Studies Program, University of Southern Mississippi: Austrian History since 1900 1989 - present Adjunct Lecturer, University of Vienna, Departments of Contemporary History and Philosophy. Subjects taught: Schools of Interpretation of the Holocaust; "Auschwitz"; Topics in Contemporary U.S. History I: The Reagan Era; II: The Civil Rights Movement; Recent Historiography in and of the United States 1992: Adjunct Lecturer, Duke University in Vienna Subjects taught: Austrian History since 1800; Austria since 1945 TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (cont.): 1993-1996 Executive Director, Zentrum für Internationale und Interdiszplinäre Studien, University of Vienna 1997-present Associate Professor of History Central European University RESEARCH GRANTS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS: 1970: Board of Regents' Undergraduate Scholarship, Southeast Missouri State College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. 1980: Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship, Columbia University Albert Marion Ellsberg Prize for History, Columbia University Danforth Graduate Followship 1981: Doncaster Prize for History, King's College, University of Cambridge 1982: Doncaster Prize for History, King's College, University of Cambridge 1982-85: Overseas Research Student Award of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom 1983: Research Award, Political Science Fund, University of Cambridge, 1984: Research Award, Prothero Fund, King's College, University of Cambridge 1985: Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research 1988-1989: Research Grant, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research 1993-1995: Research Grant, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research 1999 Research Award, CEU Faculty Research Fund 1999-2000: Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars PUBLIC HISTORY AND NON-TEACHING PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Oct. 1987- Sept. 1989: Historical Consultant and Research Associate, "Language and Prejudice," a study carried out under the aegis of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna Nov. 1987 - May 1988: Senior Researcher, Thames Television, London, on the Program Waldheim: A Commission of Inquiry PUBLIC HISTORY AND NON-TEACHING PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (cont.): Mar. 1990 - Mar. 1992: Historical Consultant and Research Associate, "The Languages of the Past," a study carried out under the aegis of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna 1992-present: Member, Editorial Board, Patterns of Prejudice 1994: Consultant for the volume Political Extremism and the Threat to Democracy in Europe, compiled by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, London, for the European Centre for Research and Action on Racism and Antisemitism (London, 1994). 1996-present Member, International Advisory Board, Wittgenstein Prize Research Cluster Discourse, Politics and Identity, University of Vienna 1997-present Member, Advistory Board Zentrum für Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Studien University of Vienna SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: 1. Books and Monographs "Wir sind alle unschuldige Täter" Diskurshistorische Studien zum Nachkriegsantisemitismus in Österreich. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1990 (with R. Wodak, H. Gruber, J. Pelikan, P. Nowak and R. de Cillia). The Politics of Antisemitic Prejudice. The Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1992. Die Sprachen der Vergangenheiten Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1994 (with R. Wodak, F. Menz and F. Stern). 2. Articles: "Von der Kunst, antisemitisch zu sein," in K. Albrecht-Weinberger and F. Heimann-Jellinek (eds), Judentum in Wien (Wien, 1987), 94-107 (with R. de Cillia and R. Wodak). "Sprechen Sie antisemitisch?" in Sprachreport, 3/89, 6-10 (with R. de Cillia und R. Wodak). "'Ehrlose Gesellen?' zur Rolle des Jüdischen Weltkongresses in der Waldheim 'Affäre,' und was österreichische Medien daraus machten," Medien und Zeit, 3/1989, Jahrgang 4, 30-38. "Die Kampagne mit 'der Kampagne:' Diskurs-historische Untersuchung des Bundespräsidentschaftswahlkampfs 1986," Zeitgeschichte, Jahrgang 17, No. 4: Jänner 1990, 175-195. "New Faces of Antisemitic Prejudice: Reflections on the Waldheim Affair", in Robert Wistrich (ed), Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century, London: St. Martin's Press, 1992, 252-273. "Waldheim Affair," Entry in the Encyclopedia Judaica Yearbook (1992). "Im Gericht die Geschichte: Der Fall Hans Schafranek," Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft Vol. , No. 1 (1992), 76-84; in English in Central European History, Vol. 24, No. 2-3 (September 1992), 335-344. "Antisemitic Prejudice in Contemporary Austria," Patterns of Prejudice Vol. 25, No. 2 (Winter 1991), 49-54 (with Ruth Wodak). "Die 'Judenfrage' im Nachkriegsösterreich. Probleme der Forschung", Zeitgeschichte, Vol. 13, No. 11/12 (November-December 1992), 356-367. "Austria." Entry in the Antisemitism World Report, London 1993. (Also entry in ibid., London 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998) "On the Discourse of Racism and Prejudice: Two Examples from Austria," Working Papers in Austrian Studies" 93-4 (April 1993). [Revised version: "On the Discourse of Racism and Prejudice", Folia Linguistica, XXVII/3-4, 1993, 191-215. (with Ruth Wodak). 'Jörg Haider, the Anti-immigrant Petition and Immigration Policy in Austria', Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 28, no. 2, 1994, 27-47. "Die Vergangenheit bewältigen?" in Gerhard Botz and Gerald Sprengnagel (eds) Kontroversen um Österreichs Zeitgeschichte. Verdrängte Vergangenheit, Österreich-Identität, Waldheim und die Historiker. Vienna: Campus-Verlag, 1994, 385-408. 'The Eyes of the Beholder: Allied Wartime Attitudes and the Delimiting of the 'Jewish Question' for Post-war Austria', Tel Aviv Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, XXIII/1994, 345-370. "Was bedeutet: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheitsbewältigung?" in Ruth Wodak und Peter Kirsch (eds), Langue de Bois-Sprachen der Diktatur-The Language of Dictatorship Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1994, 21-39. "'Die Sühne . . . möglichst milde zu gestalten': Die sozialdemokratische 'Bearbeitung' des Nationalsozialismus und des Antisemitismus in Österreich," in Werner Bergman, Rainer Erb and Albert Lichtblau (eds), Schwieriges Erbe. Der Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus in Österreich, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag 1994, 102-119. (revised version in English as "The Social Democratic 'memoire volontaire' and Coming to terms with the Legacy of National Socialism in Austria," in Günther Bischof and Anton Pelinka (eds) Austro-Corporatism. Past-Present-Future, special issue of Contemporary Austrian Studies Vol. 4: 1995, 336-350.) "Bitburg, Waldheim, and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting," in David Good and Ruth Wodak (eds), From World War to Waldheim: Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Publishers 1999, 51-84. Book Reviews and Review Essays in Times Literary Supplement, Patterns of Prejudice, Austria Kultur. Assorted journalistic publications, including: Profil (Vienna), Die Weltwoche (Zürich), Falter (Vienna), Wiener Tagebuch (Vienna); New York Newsday, Jewish Quarterly (London). |
