2021-2024 Advisory Board

László Zsolt Fülöp

László Zsolt Fülöp is a Professor in the School of the Arts - Department of Film at the University of New Orleans. He teaches Script Analysis, Documentary Film Production, History of Documentary Film, Screenwriting, and other film-related subjects.

D. Ryan Gray

D. Ryan Gray is the Richard Wallin Boebel Professor of Anthropology and the Associate Director of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. He specializes in the archaeology of the recent past, especially urban historical archaeology. Since 2017, he has helped to develop a partnership between UNO, the University of Innsbruck's Institute for Archaeology, and the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, to explore aircraft crash sites from World War II.

The first of these projects resulted in the identification and return of the remains of missing Tuskegee Airman Captain Lawrence Dickson. Gray and Innsbruck Univ.-Prof. Harald Stadler continue to collaborate to create new opportunities for archaeological fieldwork for both American and Austrian students.

Philip D. Lorio III

Philip D. Lorio III holds a law degree from Loyola University. Since 1978 he practiced as an attorney with the Louisiana law firm Deutsch Kerrigan; one of its founders, Eberhard Deutsch, served as a legal adviser to General Mark Clark, the first American High Commissioner in the post-World War II occupation of Austria.

Lorio served on many professional legal committees for Tulane and Loyola Law Schools and the American Bar Association. From 1991 to 2021 he served as the Honorary Consul of Austria for Louisiana and Mississippi and was elected in 2007 a Vice Dean of the Consular Corps of Louisiana.

Suzanne Marchand

Suzanne Marchand is LSU Systems Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Her research focuses on the history of the humanities, arts, and sciences in modern Germany and Austria. She is the author of three books, including, most recently, Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020), which has received the Ralph Gomory Prize from the Conference on Business History.

Hans Petschar

Hans Petschar is the director of the Picture Archives and Graphics Department at the Austrian National Library and the representative of the library at the Board of Directors of European National Librarians. In 2015/2016 he served as the Austrian Marshall Plan Chair at the University of New Orleans.

He has published in the fields of Visual History, Public History, Library History and Contemporary Austrian History and curated several annual exhibitions at the Austrian National Library, recently: The Danube. A Journey into the Past (2021).

Wolfgang Petritsch

Wolfgang Petritsch currently serves as the President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation; he was press secretary and deputy chief of cabinet to Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (1977-1983), whose biography he wrote (now in its 6th printing).

He served as Austria’s ambassador to Serbia and the OECD in Paris; he was the European Union Special Envoy at the Kosovo Peace Talks Rambouillet and Paris (1998/99), and the international community’s High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2002).

He also was a guest professor at UC Berkeley and the Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University.