Barbara Jelavich

Barbara Jelavich

Barbara Jelavich was an American professor of history at Indiana University and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. She was born on April 12, 1923 as Barbara Brightfield and earned multiple degrees in history from the University of California at Berkeley. She received here A.B. honors degree in 1943, her M.A. in 1944, and her Ph.D in 1948. She married Charles Jelavich in 1944 and both engaged in multiple academic collaborations. They were jointly honored in 1992 with the AAASS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies. [Michelson, p. 258.]

Barbara Jelavich briefly taught at Berkeley College and Mills College. Afterwards, she dedicated her time towards raising her two sons (Mark and Peter) while conducting further research in Balkan history and diplomatic history. In 1961, she and her husband went to the Department of History at Indiana University. In 1967, Barbara Jelavich was promoted to professor in the Department of History and in 1984 was named Distinguished Professor of History. She served as chairman of the Conference on Slavic and East European History in 1979 and also served as President of the Society for Romanian Studies from 1988 up until 1990. When Barbara and her husband retired in 1992, she was elected as an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. During that same year, she was given the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies. [Michelson, p. 258.]

Jelavich’s works were concentrated on the diplomatic histories of the Russian and Habsburg monarchies, the diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire, and the history of the Balkans (including nations such as Romania and Greece). Her most impressive accomplishment was the publication of the "History of the Balkans" in 1983. She intended to update this particular work in order to accommodate the major events that occurred in the Balkans in 1989. Her work entitled "Modern Austria" appeared in 1994 in a Japanese edition and she collaborated on the third edition of the American Historical Association’s "Guide to Historical Literature" (published in 1995). She also wrote a piece on the international position of Romania in 1848 that reflected the standpoints of the Habsburgs, Ottomans, Russians, and southeastern Europeans. [Michelson, p. 259.]

Romanian historian Cornelia Bodea complimented Barbara Jelavich by acknowledging her as an internationally "respected ruler in her territorial waters". [Michelson, p. 259.]

In 1994, Barbara Jelavich was received into the Catholic Church. On January 14, 1995, she died in Bloomington, Indiana after her long struggle with cancer. She was buried in the Mission Cemetery in Santa Clara, California. A Barbara Jelavich Prize was established under the auspices of the AAASS in recognition of scholarship in 19th and 20th century southeastern European and Habsburg studies, as well as in Russian and Ottoman diplomatic history. [Michelson, p. 258.]

Published works

*1983 - "History of the Balkans" (undertaken at the request of the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the ACLS and the SSRC [Michelson, p. 259.] ).

References

ources

*Michelson, Paul E. “Barbara Jelavich: 1923-1995”. ‘’Slavic Review’’, Vol. 54, No. 1, (Spring, 1995), pp. 258-259.


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