Alfred E. Senn
Alfred Erich Senn (born April 12, 1932 in Madison, Wisconsin[1]) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Senn was born to Swiss philologist and lexicographer, Alfred Senn. His father taught at the University of Lithuania, where he met his future wife. After they married, they moved to the United States 1930–1931, along with two daughters. Alfred E. Senn was born in the United States.[2]
Senn received a BA in 1953 from the University of Pennsylvania and then an MA in 1955 and a Ph.D. in 1958 from Columbia University in East European history.[3] He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1961, from which he retired as professor emeritus.
Senn is the author of eight books, several monographs, and numerous scholarly articles. Many of his works center on the history of Lithuania. His book, Gorbachev’s Failure in Lithuania, was awarded the Edgar Anderson Presidential Prize by the American Association of Baltic Studies in 1996.
Works
- Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above. Amsterdam: Ropodi, 2007. ISBN 9789042022256
- Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1999. ISBN 9780880119580
- Gorbachev's Failure in Lithuania. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. ISBN 9780312124571
- Lithuania Awakening. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. ISBN 9780520071704
- Assassination in Switzerland: The Murder of Vatslav Vorovsky. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. ISBN 9780299085506
- Jonas Basanavičius, the Patriarch of the Lithuanian National Renaissance. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1980. ISBN 9780892502516
- Nicholas Rubakin: A Life for Books. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1977. ISBN 9780892501250
- Diplomacy and Revolution: the Soviet Mission to Switzerland, 1918. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974. ISBN 9780268005412
- The Russian Revolution in Switzerland, 1914-1917. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. ISBN 9780299059415
- The Great Powers, Lithuania and the Vilna Question 1920-1928. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1966. OCLC 398265
- The Emergence of Modern Lithuania. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. OCLC 1624803
References
- ^ Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų Lietuviai: biografijų žinynas, Vol. 2 (Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2002: ISBN 5420015137), p. 231.
- ^ Alfred E. Senn. Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above. Amsterdam: Ropodi, 2007. p. 5.
- ^ Directory of Foreign Area Training Fellows, 1952-1959 (Ford Foundation, 1960), p. 141.
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