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Written by: Susan Alderman, 260-481-6165

Media contact: Bernd Fischer, 260-481-6698

IPFW Professor Elected to Albanian Academy of Sciences

(Fort Wayne, Nov. 3, 2006) -- Bernd Fischer, chair and professor of history at Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), is now a member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences. The honor was recently bestowed on Fischer for his “important contribution in the domain of social sciences,” according to a letter he received from the president of the Academy. The Academy, which is made up of two sections—one for social science and the other for natural and technical sciences— is described as the highest and most important scholarly institution in Albania. There are less than 100 members in the Academy, and of those, less than a dozen are from outside Albania.

Fischer has been studying Albania and its people for about 35 years. “I was encouraged to do so by a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who eventually became the chair of my Ph.D. committee,” said Fischer. Over the years, he has visited the country many times and has published numerous articles and three books about Albania. His fourth book, which will be published before the end of the year, is an edited volume called Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of Southeast Europe. His books and articles have been translated and published in Albania, as have the numerous articles he has published in that country’s journals.

For more information on Fischer and his studies of Albania, call
260-481-6698.

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