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Gary Cohen

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Center for Austrian Studies 314 Social Sciences Bldg.

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Central and Eastern Europe, 1740-1939
  • Austria and Germany, 1790-1939
  • modern European social and political history
  • modern European Jewish history
  • ethnic minorities in modern Europe

Publications

  • Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria. Cohen, Gary B., West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1996.
  • Neither Absolutism nor Anarchy: New Narratives on Society and Government in Late Imperial Austria: Cohen, Gary B., Austrian History Yearbook, 29(1) 37-61, 1998.
  • The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914, revised 2nd ed. Cohen, Gary B., W. Lafayette: Purdue University Press, Author, 2006.
  • Nationalist Politics & the Dynamics of State & Civil Society in the Habsburg: Cohen, Gary B., Central European History, 40 241-78, 2007.

Research Activities

  • Book project, "Society, Popular Politics, and the State in Late Imperial Austria": an interpretive synthesis on the evolving relationship of society and the state in the Habsburg Monarchy from 1890 to World War I, 1996

Professional Activities

  • Director, Center for Austrian Studies

Courses Taught

  • History 3244: History of Eastern Europe
  • History 3747: Habsburg Central Europe, 1740-1918
  • History 3775: History of the European Jews
  • History 5777: Proseminar on Habsburg Central Europe, 1740-1918
  • History 5900: Proseminar on Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009
  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

    June 5th, 2009
  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

    June 5th, 2009

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