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Name
  
Norman Fiering


Role
  
Historian

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Books
  
Moral philosophy at seventeenth-century Harvard

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Norman Fiering (born 1935 New York City) is an American historian, and Director and Librarian, Emeritus, of the John Carter Brown Library.

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Life

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1956, where he was a student of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in 1969.

He taught at Stanford University between 1964 and 1969, and was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1969-1972. In 1972 he was appointed Editor of Publications at the Institute. From 1983 to 2006, he was Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Awards

  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship
  • 1975-76 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
  • 1978-79 National Humanities Center Fellowship in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
  • 1983 Merle Curti Award
  • References

    Norman Fiering Wikipedia