Theodore Saloutos was an American academic historian whose main areas of research included:

• agrarian politics and reform movements
• immigration studies
• Greek immigration into the United States

Education

Saloutos's undergraduate education was Milwaukee State Teacher’s College from where he was awarded a BA in 1933. He took a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin.

Employment

In 1945 he gained a post as lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 becoming a full professor in 1955. He stayed there till his retirement.

Evidence of Notability

Between 1965-1966 he was president of the Agriculture History Society. In 1973 he was elected as the president of the Immigration History Society.

Selected Publications

• (1951) Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West, 1900-1939
• (1968) Populism: Reaction or Reform?
• (1982) The American Farmer and the New Deal