IAN REIFOWITZ is an associate professor of history at Empire State College of the State University of New York. In 2009 he received the college s Susan H. Turben Award for Scholarly Excellence. His opinion pieces and articles on American politics have appeared in Newsday, the New Republic, History News Network, and the Daily Kos. He is the author of "Imagining an Austrian Nation "(East European Monographs, 2003). He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.