Carole Fink

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Born in New York City in 1940, Carole Fink graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and received a BA in History from Bard College and a PhD in History from Yale University. She taught History for 46 years, beginning at Connecticut College, Albertus Magnus College, Canisius College, and SUNY Binghamton. She was Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University. She was also a visiting Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the University of Haifa, Qingdao University, the University of Jena, and the University of Sydney.

A scholar of International History, Modern European History, German History, and Jewish History, Fink’s books include
The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy 1921-1922 and Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 which both received the AHA George Louis Beer Prize, respectively in 1985 and 2005; the first biography of France’s eminent soldier-patriot-historian, Marc Bloch: A Life in History, which has been translated into six languages; Cold War: An International History; West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974; and Writing 20th Century International History: Explorations and Examples. Fink has also published over fifty articles and essays, co-edited seven books, and translated and written the introduction to Marc Bloch’s Memoirs of War, 1914-15. She has conducted archival research in a dozen countries and given conference papers and lectures throughout the world.

Fink has received two Fulbright fellowships (to Israel and Australia), research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the American Association of University Women, and residential fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis in New Brunswick, NJ, the Leibniz Institute in Mainz, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.


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