Andrew Rossos

Andrew Rossos (born 1941) is a Macedonian Canadian Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto.[1]

Andrew Rossos
Born1941 (age 79–80)
Moschochori, Florina, Greece
NationalityCanadian
OccupationProfessor, scholar, academic

Early life and education

Rossos was born in 1941 in the village of Moschochori, Florina, Greece. During the Greek Civil War in 1948, he was evacuated to Czechoslovakia as a refugee child. Rossos attended primary school in Sobotin and Technical School in Prague. In 1958 he moved with the rest of his family to Canada and graduated from high school in Toronto. Rossos earned a bachelor's degree in history at Michigan State University in 1963 and did his postgraduate studies at the University of Stanford, earning his PhD in 1971. Since then he has worked at the University of Toronto and became a professor there in 1982.[2]

Career

At the end of 2008, his book Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History was published. He authored a monograph on Russian foreign policy in the Balkans titled Russia and the Balkans: Inter-Balkan Rivalries and Russian Foreign Policy, 1908-1914.

Rossos is an adherent of some controversial views espoused by the historiography in North Macedonia, that Macedonian identity was well developed before the mid of the 20th century[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] which itself is highly politicized, because the Macedonian nation-building process has not yet been accomplished.[10]

Bibliography
  • "The Disintegration of Yugoslavia, Macedonia's Independence, and Stability in the Balkans." In War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict, and Cooperation, edited by Brad K. Blitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Rossos, Andrew (2000). "Great Britain and Macedonian Statehood and Unification, 1940-49". East European Politics and Societies. 14 (1): 119–142. doi:10.1177/0888325400014001006. S2CID 144297050.
  • Rossos, Andrew (1997). "Incompatible Allies: Greek Communism and Macedonian Nationalism in the Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949". Journal of Modern History. 69 (1): 42–76. doi:10.1086/245440. S2CID 143512864.
  • "The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941." In National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe, edited by Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdey. New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1995.
  • "The Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia: A British Officer's Report, 1944". Slavonic and East European Review. 69 (2): 282–309. 1991.
  • The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941 (Slavic Review, 1994)
  • Incompatible Allies: Greek Communism and Macedonian Nationalism in the Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949
  • Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History (2008)

References
  1. Rezension für H-Soz-Kult von Stefan Troebst, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO), Universität Leipzig - "Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History", 2008 (in German). Citation: Rossos selbst ist makedonischer Herkunft, geboren im zu Griechenland gehörigen Ägäisch-Makedonien. in English: Rossos himself is of Macedonian origin, born in Aegean Macedonia belonging to Greece.
  2. Македонска енциклопедија. Скопје, 2009, т.ІІ, p. 1282.
  3. Per Troebst Rossos' teleological representation, suffers from the fixation on what he calls "Macedonianism" ("Macedonism"), that is, in the source-wise weakly and sporadically supported view... Rossos excludes, and like the science of history in Skopje, puts occasional expressions of individual representatives of the small intellectual elites of the southern Slavs of Ottoman Macedonia in a fragile continuity line in exile in Russia, Western Europe or Bulgaria to support the Macedonian thesis... The counterpart of this selective approach is to hide such strands of development and events that do not fit into this interpretation scheme. This is especially true for the ethno-nationally Bulgarian-defining part of the Macedonian movement - Macedonian Bulgarians. For more see: Recension from Professor Stefan Troebst about Rossos's book: Macedonia and the Macedonians. A History, 2008
  4. Canadian-Macedonian historian Andrew Rossos is credited as having published ‘the first professional English language overview of the history of Macedonia, although the historian Stefan Troebst suggests that his ‘teleologic portrayal is negatively affected by the Skopjan view of history’ and thus is considered a pro-Macedonian nationalist account, representing the latest developments in Macedonian historiography. For more see: The Historical Association, Teaching history journal, March 2015, The Democratisation of the Macedonian Question, Adrienne Wright Smith’s Hill High School Wollongong, HTA extension essay price 2014 – 1st place. p. 49.
  5. Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington ed., A Companion to Ancient Macedonia, Volume 84 of Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, ISBN 144435163X, p. 581.
  6. Ana S. Trbovich, A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 0199715475, p. 104.
  7. Tchavdar Marinov and Alexander Vezenkov, Communism and Nationalism in the Balkans: Marriage of Convenience or Mutual Attraction? in Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Two, ISBN 9789004261914, BRILL, 2013, pp.: 501–502. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004261914_007
  8. Tziampiris, Aristotle. (2011). Greece and the Macedonian Question: an assessment of recent claims and criticisms. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 11. pp. 69-83. 10.1080/14683857.2011.556428.
  9. Илко Дренков. Великобритания и Македонският въпрос (1919–1949), Македонски научен институт, София, 2017, ISBN 978-619-7377 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: Invalid ISBN.-01, стр. 9-10.
  10. Historein, Vol 4 (2003), Serving the Nation: Historiography in the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) after Socialism. Ulf Brunnbauer, p. 175, doi:10.12681/historein.86
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