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Dominique Kirchner Reill, Wirth Institute Director and History, Classics, and Religion Professor, will be one of the researchers participating in Research in Uncertain Times: A celebration of research in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, on Thursday, October 16 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. MT in the Education North 4th Floor Lounge and Studio.

The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia 

Why do New York City’s public parks, housing projects, and cultural venues resemble so much their European equivalents? My work-in-progress "The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia" tries to answer this question by investigating the eight years of experience the city’s most beloved mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, had living in the industrial, migrant-rich cities of Habsburg Europe before taking his first steps as an adult New Yorker. Through years of research in the archives of Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, Budapest, Zagreb, Washington, D.C., and New York City this research project aims to give a social biography of an impoverished, self-educated, multi-lingual lowly migrant turned political firebrand who lived in urban Babylons on both sides of the Atlantic. This analysis of the former worlds that formed a man who later would do much to reform his new world hopes not just to tell a fascinating transnational story we have been trained not to see. It also aims to show how much political transformations in turn-of-the-century global cities fed into one another, thereby challenging not just what we know about the development of US progressivism in the early twentieth century, but also what we know of “Old Europe.”