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