Günter Josef Bischof

Günter Bischof is a historian of international history, focusing on American and European diplomatic history of the 20th century, especially Cold War international relations. He also harbors interest in the history of 20th century wars, especially World War II and the Vietnam War. He is the author of Austria in the First Cold War: The Leverage of the Weak (1999); a collection of essays, Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten: Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century (2014); and with Hans Petschar, The Marshall Plan Since 1947: Saving Europe, Rebuilding Austria (2017). He is co-editor of Contemporary Austrian Studies (30 vols).

He served as co-editor (with Stephen Ambrose) of the 10-volume Eisenhower Center Studies of War and Peace and also edited the series Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture and TRANSATLANTICA (11 vols). He has co-edited a dozen other books and some 100 scholarly articles. He serves as a Presidential Counselor to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, and is a board member of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.

Ph.D., Harvard University 1989

M.A. Harvard University 1983

Mag. Phil. University of Innsbruck 1982

M.A. University of New Orleans 1980

American & European Diplomatic, 20th Century, Central Europe