John R. Lampe

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John R. Lampe is an American educator. He is a professor of history at the University of Maryland.

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Lampe received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. [1]

He has published several books; his first was Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950, From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations, with Marvin Jackson, published by Indiana University Press in 1982. [2] It was the winner of the first annual Vucinich Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. [3] He is also the author of Balkans into Southeastern Europe and Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country, which was initially published in 1996 and went into a second edition in 2000. [2]

Lampe was Director of the East European Studies program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has been a senior scholar there since 2007. [2]

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References

  1. Teichova, Alice; Matis, Herbert (2003). Nation, State and the Economy in History. Cambridge University Press. p. 215. ISBN   978-1-13943-556-7.
  2. 1 2 3 "John Lampe". history.umd.edu. University of Maryland.
  3. "Past Winners of the ASEEES Vucinich Book Prize". asees.org. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.