Ivo Banac
Bradford Durfee Professor of History
Office: 1541 PC
Phone: (203) 432-6365
Email: ivo.banac@yale.edu
Ivo Banac is Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University. From 1995 to 1999 he was the University Professor of History at the Central European University at Budapest, where he also directed the OSI/CEU Institute on Southeastern Europe. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, and is the author of The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (1984), which was awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism (1988), which was awarded the Josip Juraj Strossmayer Award by the Zagreb Book Fair, as well as numerous reviews, articles, and collections. He has edited eight additional books.
He was the editor of East European Politics and Societies and served as the co-chair of the Open Society Institute (Croatia), as a member of presidency of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, and as the Director General of the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik. He is a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) and the president of the advisory council of the "Vlado Gotovac" Institute in Zagreb.
