Wayne Spiro Vucinich[4] (bornVoislav Vucinich;[5][6] June 23, 1913 – April 21, 2005) was an Americanhistorian. FollowingWorld War II, he was one of the founders of Russian, Slavic, East European and Byzantine studies atStanford University, where he spent his entire academic career.
Vucinich was born in the United States to Spiro J. Vucinich and Sofija (Palikucha) Vucinich, a family ofSerb immigrants who had come fromBosnia in the early twentieth century.[2][3][5][7][8] He was born inButte, Montana in 1913,[7] and lived there until he was orphaned at 5 years old and then sent back to Herzegovina.[9]
Vucinich began working forOffice of Strategic Services (OSS) and worked as an analyst for theBalkans and theSoviet Union during theSecond World War.[9] He was offered a teaching position inStanford's History Department after the war; he taught there from 1946 to his 1978 retirement.[9] In 1977, the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies chair was established for him.[9] Among his students wereDavid Kennedy andNorman Naimark.[9]
1982, the Vucinich Book Prize was established in his honor by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Given annual, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is awarded to "the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published English in the United States in the previous calendar year".[11]
Serbian foreign policy 1903-1909. Thesis (M.A.), University of California, Berkeley 1936.
Serbian foreign policy, 1903-1908. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of California, Berkeley 1941.
The Second World War and beyond. 1949.
Yugoslavs of the Moslem faith. 1949.
"Postwar Yugoslav Historiography,"The Journal of Modern History Vol. 23, No. 1, March 1951
Serbia between East and West; the events of 1903-1908. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1954.
"The Yugoslav Lands in the Ottoman Period: Postwar Marxist Interpretations of Indigenous and Ottoman Institutions,"The Journal of Modern History Vol. 27, No. 3, September 1955
Yugoslavs in California. Los Angeles 1960.
The Ottoman Empire, its record and legacy. Van Nostrand, Princeton, N.J. 1965.
The peasant in nineteenth-century Russia: a conference on the Russian peasant in the nineteenth century. Stanford 1966.
Contemporary Yugoslavia; twenty years of Socialist experiment. (WithJozo Tomasevich; Stanford University.; et al.) University of California Press, Berkeley 1969.
Nation and ideology: essays in honour of Wayne S. Vucinich. (WithIvo Banac.) East European monographs, Boulder; Columbia U.P. (distr.) New York, 1981.
The First Serbian uprising, 1804-1813. Social Science Monographs; New York. Distributed by Columbia University Press, Boulder 1982.
At the brink of war and peace: the Tito-Stalin split in a historic perspective. Social Science Monographs, Brooklyn College Press, New York. Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1982.
Kosovo: legacy of a medieval battle. (With Thomas Allan Emmert.) University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 1991.
^ab"VUCINICH, WAYNE S.".Supplement to Who's Who in America. Vol. 44. 1987. p. 900.ISBN9780837971001.VUCINICH, WAYNE S., historian; b. Butte, Mont., June 23, 1913; s. Spiro J. and Sofija (Palikucha) V.; m. Sara Stys, Jan. 31, 1942; [...]
