July 28, 2012
Dear Professor Jelier:
Let me strongly encourage you to apply for the Award #3138 American Studies at University of Salzburg .
Since I am closely familiar with your work and career, I think you would be a special asset for the
American Studies Program at our university because you can offer perspectives that are different from
those of previous Fulbright visiting faculty and could thus substantially ad to the quality of the program.
Your background in Political Science and Urban Development along with Public Admin/Planning as well
as in state and local government would allow Austrian students appreciate aspects of American
(political) life and culture that are generally ignored here. The entire issue of state politics as well as the
question of industrial decline and renaissance, which you could superbly present, would add a new
dimension to American Studies that all too often pursues well-worn paths (popular and classical US
culture) and locations confined to a few the well-known cities and states. We, in the department of
political science, would certainly draw upon your expertise in politics and would be able to organize a
number of joint activities, ranging from research to lecturing and teaching.
Your long and distinguished career as an educator and your experience with overseas teaching makes
you especially qualified to work with a non-American student audience.
I give your application the strongest and most unqualified endorsement and hope we will be able to
welcome you at the University of Salzburg.
Best regards,
Reinhard Heinisch
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Reinhard Heinisch, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor of Austrian Politics in European Perspective
Department of Political Science, Chair
Division of Political Science and Sociology, Chair
University of Salzburg
A-5020 Salzburg,
Rudolfskai 42, AUSTRIA
reinhard.c.heinisch@sbg.ac.at
Tel.:0043(0)662 8044–6615
Fax.: 0043 (0)0662-6389-6615
Secretary: Tel.: 0043(0)662-8044-6610
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Associate Faculty, Center of European Studies
European Union Center of Excellence
University of Pittsburgh, USA
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce/content/center-associates
heinisch@pitt.edu
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