Charles Ingrao

Charlie Ingrao, a popular Smithsonian Journeys Expert, is professor emeritus of history at Purdue University, where he has taught a wide range of courses on the European world.  Most of his twelve books focus on the Austro-Hungarian empire, including the classic study of the Habsburg Monarchy 1618-1815.  Following the recent Yugoslav wars, he founded an international consortium of 300+ Balkan and Western scholars that published Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies, the first common narrative of the conflict.  To date, his work has appeared in six European languages.  As a public historian he has given over a hundred public lectures to academic, governmental, and military audiences across North America and central Europe and been a regular commentator for print, radio, and television media, including The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS).