John Anthony Petropulos was an American historian of Modern Greek history. Petropulos was born in 1929 in Lewiston, Maine to Greek immigrants. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1951 and his Ph.D. from

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1963. He joined the faculty of

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

in 1958, where he taught Balkan and Middle Eastern history. He died in his office on May 3, 1999, allegedly while correcting student papers. His most influential work is '' Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece, 1833–1843'', published by Princeton University Press in 1968, a detailed analysis of the political parties of the period. Petropulos argued that the parties influenced state institutions as well as the structure of the state. The Greek translation has been edited by Nikiforos Diamandouros. Petropulos was president of the Modern Greek Studies Association from 1974-1976."MGSA Presidents"
p. 1
(PDF)

References

Historians from Maine American people of Greek descent People from Lewiston, Maine Historians of modern Greece Historians of Europe Yale University alumni 1929 births Amherst College faculty Harvard University alumni 1999 deaths {{US-historian-stub