Günter Josef Bischof

Günter Bischof

Guest Speaker

University Research & Marshall Plan Professor of History, University of New Orleans

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 has written on POW treatment and memory of World War II. Other interests are biography, historical memory and Austrian history, esp. Austrian foreign policy. He is also a historian — and a self-proclaimed admirer — of the Marshall Plan and its legacies. 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).