Michael Boro Petrovich

Michael Boro Petrovich (Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, 18 October 1922 - Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 28 March 1989) was a noteworthy Serbian American historian, translator and educator. He was one of the founding fathers of postwar Slavic and East European studies, also according to Marquis Who's Who.
==Biography==
Michael Petrovich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 18 October 1922 to Father Boro (Serbian Orthodox Church) and Anne Marie (née Roper) Petrovich. Michael Boro Petrovich graduated with a diploma from the Kansas City Junior College in Kansas in 1941. Two years later he received his bachelor's degree from Western Reserve University, his master's degree in 1947 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1955 both from Columbia University. During World War II (between 1943 and 1945) he was an officer in the OSS along with Eli Popovich (of the Popovich Brothers of Chicago fame), George Musulin, George Vujnovich, Michael Rajacich, Nick Lalich, and other American Serbs who readilly volunteered to fight the Nazis. Petrovich was a member of the Independent Yugoslavia and the Allies Mission to Josip Broz Tito in Belgrade in 1945. The relationship between the British and American intelligence and special operations services was ambigous. Afterwards Petrovich learned that under the terms of 'London Agreement' signed in June 1942 all Office of Strategic Services (OSS) missions in Europe were under the SOE command. With the help of the British Tito went on to usurped the goverment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the war and even attempted to expand territorial claims into Trieste, Italy by ignoring the Armistice of Cassibile. 
Petrovich's academic career began as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1950 to 1953. There he tenured as assistant professor from 1953 to 1956; associate professor from 1956 to 1960; Evjue=Bascom professor from 1982-1988; and professor emeritus from 1988. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1956, and visiting professor at Harvard University in 1957.
Many academic achievements followed and in 1987 he was diagnosed as suffering from terminal cancer. During the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) held in Honolulu in 1988 he was schedualed to receive an award for achievement but was unable to attend to receive the award.
He died on 28 March 1989, aged 67.
==Membership==
* Fellow of the Russian Research Center (Harvard University fellow 1957)
* American Historical Association
* American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (founder, board directors 1953-1954)
* American Association for the Advancement Southeast European Studies
* American Council of Learned Societies (joint committee Slavic studies 1969-1971 
* Director of Eastern European History project 1973-1979) 
* Clubs: Rotary and Literary (Madison)
==Awards==
* William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, presented by University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1957
* Recipient of the E. Harris Harbison Award for excellence in teaching given by the Danforth Foundation, 1967
* Recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Award of Achivement, 1988
==Works==
* "America and Russia" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published by University of Wisconsin: 1951
* "Conversations with Stalin" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt (publisher)
* "Land Without Justice"	by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published Harcourt (publisher) Brace Jovanovich in 1956
* "Petar II Petrović-Njegoš" by Milovan Djilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966
* "Wartime" by Milovan Đilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (Translator), published by Harcourt (publisher) in 1977
* "A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918" by Michael Boro Petrovich. Two volume set published by Harcourt (publisher) in 1976
* "The Emergence of Russian Panslavism, 1856-1870" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1985
* "Of Prisons and Ideas" by Milovan Djilas, Michael Boro Petrovich (translator), published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986
* "Yugoslavia: A Bibliographic Guide", published: 1974
* "World Cultures" by Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1995
* "The Human Achievement" by Philip D. Curtin, Michael Boro Petrovich, published: 1967
Category:1922 births
Category:1989 deaths
Category:American historians 
Category:American translators
Category:American educators
Category:People from Cleveland, Ohio