About John R. Lampe John R. Lampe is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is a Senior Scholar and the former Director of East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center and author of Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. Books by John R. Lampe Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans From Postconflict Struggles toward European Integration by (author) Lenard J. Cohen & John R. Lampe