Traian Stoianovich (20 July 1921 – December 21, 2005) was an American historian and a professor of history at Rutgers University.
At a time when it was difficult for working-class people and immigrants to achieve higher education, he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.
After serving in the United States Army during World War II (1942–45[1]), he took a master's degree at New York University and received a doctorate from Université de Paris in 1952, where he became a major figure in the internationally influential Annales School of history.
When the politicians and generals who directed that war of aggression are ugly footnotes to history, his work as a scholar and his enormously positive achievements as a teacher will continue to live.He was a member of the Jasenovac Research Institute's Advisory Board.
He continued to work as a scholar right up to his death on December 21, 2005 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, after a long struggle with cancer.