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Siegfried Beer
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
sb2746@columbia.edu
Biography:
Siegfried Beer was born in Scheibbs, Lower Austria, in 1948, graduated from the Akademisches Gymnasium Graz in 1966 summa cum laude and was educated in history and English literature at the universities of Vienna and Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. (Fulbright scholarship). He holds M.A. (1974) and Ph.D (1983) degrees from the University of Vienna. He is currently professor for late modern and contemporary history at the University of Graz, Austria. His teaching and research center on British and American history since 1776, international politics since 1648 and Austrian history as well as general intelligence history in the 20th century. He taught at several institutions, among them the University of Vienna and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. In 1996/97 he held the Austrian Schumpeter research professorship at Harvard University. In 2004 he founded the Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (ACIPSS) at the University of Graz. He is presently involved in a five-year research project entitled CLIOHRES.net ("Creating Links and Innovative Overviews for a New History Research Agenda for the Citizens of a Growing Europe"), a network of excellence, funded by the European Commission through the 6th Framework Program and coordinated by the University of Pisa. Among his major publications are: Der "unmoralische" Anschluss. Britische Osterreichpolitik zwischen Containment und Appeasement, 1931-1934 (1988); Der Krieg aus der Luft. Kärnten und Steiermark 1941-1945 (1992); Die britische" Steiermark, 1945-1955 (1995); Osterreich unter alliierter Besatzung, 1945-1955 (1998); FOCUS Austria. Vom Vielvölkerreich zum EU-Staat (2003) and Public Power in Europe: Studies in Historical Transformations (2006). He is married and father of four adult children.