Landry, Marc

Marc Landry is Associate Professor of History, Marshall Plan Endowed Professor in Austrian Studies, and Director of the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age (Stanford University Press), and Series Editor of Contemporary Austrian Studies, and his research has also appeared in journals like Environmental History and Journal of Global History. Landry was the Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor in Austrian-American Studies at the University of Innsbruck.

Dr. Landry owes a great deal to the University of New Orleans. As an undergraduate, he studied for a year in UNO’s Academic Year Abroad program in Innsbruck. The experience launched him on the path of becoming a historian, and led to him meeting his wife, a South Tyrolean, there. Thanks to UNO, Innsbruck has become like a second home for him. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck and relishes teaching at UNO's international summer school there as well.

A native of Colchester, Vermont, Landry grew up Nordic skiing in the winters and running in the short period of time when there was no snow on the ground. Nowadays he spends most of his free time scrambling to keep up with his two busy children.