Charles W. Ingrao

Ph.D. Brown University, 1974

Specialization

European History. Early Modern Europe and Habsburg History.

Professor Ingrao has a B.A. degree from Wesleyan (1969) and a Ph.D. from Brown (1974). His areas of specialty are Early Modern Europe, Habsburg and Central European History. He served as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook (1997-2006) as general editor of the Purdue University Press "Central European Studies" series, and as director of the Scholar's Initiative for the Former Yugoslavia (1997-). His publications include: The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994; The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 1760-1785, Cambridge University Press, 1987; In Quest and Crisis: Emperor Joseph I and the Habsburg Monarchy, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press, 1979; Josef I. Der "vergessene" Kaiser, Vienna: Styria Verlag, 1982, revised and expanded German edition; The Germans & the East (2005); Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative (2009). Over the past three decades he has focused on issues of ethnic conflict and coexistence in contemporary central Europe, and European overseas exploration, expansion and colonization 

Website (Scholar's Initiative: Confronting the Yugoslave Controversies)

Interviews on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer:

"Slobodan Milosevic”, 9-23-1998
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-qr4nk36w97

Slobo Go: Voices of Protest,” 8-19-1999
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-hm52f7kh23

"Inside Kosovo,” 11-23-1999
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-v11vd6pz1n

"The People’s Will: Yugoslav Elections,” 9-27-2000
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-p26pz52c54

"Milosevic Arrest,” 4-2-2001
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/milosevic-arrest  [TRANSCRIPT ONLY]

"Move to Extradict: The Road to the Hague,” 6-25-2001
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-dv1cj8888s

List of Publications