Name Charles Fanning Role Historian | Awards American Book Awards | |
Education University of Pennsylvania Books The Irish voice in America, The Exiles of Erin, Finley Peter Dunne, Nineteenth century Chicago I Edited works New Perspectives on the Iris, The Exiles of Erin, Chicago Stories | ||
Charles F. Fanning, Jr. is an American historian, and Irish American academic.
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Life
He grew up in Norwood, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1964, with a master's in 1966, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's and doctoral degrees, in 1968 and 1972. He taught at Bridgewater State College, and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1993 to 2007. He and his wife, Frances, live in Carbondale, Illinois. They have two children, Stephen, born in 1982 and Ellen, born in 1984.
A Medal and Lecture in Irish Studies are named for him.
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