Tibor Frank is professor of history and director of the School of English and American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. He is currently a visiting professor at the History Department of Columbia University in the city of New York where he taught before. Frank was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at UCLA, an NEH Visiting Professor at the University of Nevada-Reno, and is a faculty member of the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria. He headed his program on "The New Europe" at UCSB in 1994-97. His recent books include From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi 1820-1892 (New York, 2000, also in Hungarian: Budapest, 1985, in Japanese: Tokyo, 1994, in German: Vienna, 2002), Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy (New York, 2005), Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-Making: Studies on Hungarian Connections to Britain and America, 1848-1945 (Budapest, 1999), Senkanki Hungary-Gaikoh to Seioh-Gensoh no Wana: Eibei to Suhjikukoku no hazama de (Tokyo, 2007). Professor Frank was awarded the Humboldt Research Award in 2002 and spent a year at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin (2003-04). For further information see www.franktibor.hu, current address in the Spring 2007 term tf2014@columbia.edu."