Stavro Skëndi

Stavro Skëndi (1905 in Korçë – August 17, 1989 in Long Island) 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. (The situation of Albania today and the duty of the Albanians.) 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. The Political Evolution of Albania, 1912-1944. Mid-European Studies Center, New York 1954. Albania. (With Mehmet Beqiraj, George Bossy, Robert F. Byrnes.) Atlantic Pr., London 1957. Mendimi politik dhe veprimtarija kryengritese shqiptare, 1881–1912. (Political opinion and the activities of the Albanian uprising, 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, [Colo.]; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York 1980. Zgjimi kombëtar shqiptar: 1878-1912. (The awakening of the Albanian nation: 1878–1912.) Tirana/Phoenix 2000.