GARY B. COHEN was educated at the University of Southern California (B.A., 1970) and Princeton University (M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1975). He was a member of the University of Oklahoma history faculty from 1976 to 2001, where he taught a range of courses on modern European social and political history and East-Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In August 2001, he retired from the University of Oklahoma faculty after twenty-five years of service and assumed a new position as director of the Center for Austrian Studies, executive editor of The Austrian History Yearbook, and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.