Stavro Skëndi

Stavro Skëndi was an Albanian-American linguist and historian.

Career

Skendi was an academic at Columbia University between 1951 and 1972. While at Columbia, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship during 1963. Outside of Columbia, Skendi went to the Institute for Advanced Study as a Visiting Fellow.

Selected works

Gjendja e Shqiperise sot dhe detyra e Shqiptarvet. Konference e dhene ne Detroit, me 19 prill, 1953. Detroit 1953.Albanian political thought and revolutionary activity, 1881–1912. München 1954.Albanian and South Slavic oral epic poetry. American Folklore Society, Philadelphia 1954.. Mid-European Studies Center, New York 1954.. Atlantic Pr., London 1957.Mendimi politik dhe veprimtarija kryengritese shqiptare, 1881–1912. New York 1958.The history of the Albanian alphabet: a case of complex cultural and political development. R. Oldenbourg, München 1960.The emergence of the modern Balkan literary languages: a comparative approach. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964.Crypto-Christianity in the Balkan area under the Ottomans. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1967.The Albanian national awakening, 1878-1912. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1967.Kačić's "Razgovor" and Fishta's "Lahuta e Malcís". Wiesbaden 1968.Language as a factor of national identity in the Balkans of the nineteenth century. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1975.Balkan cultural studies. East European Monographs, Boulder, ; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York 1980.Zgjimi kombëtar shqiptar: 1878-1912. Tirana/Phoenix 2000.