Candace Falk | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | July 30, 1947
Occupation | Historian |
Spouse | Lowell Finley (m. 1977) |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) |
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Emma Goldman |
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Candace Falk (born July 30,1947) is an American historian. A 1998 Guggenheim Fellow,she is the founder of the University of California,Berkeley's Emma Goldman Papers Project,and she is author of Love,Anarchy,and Emma Goldman (1984) and editor of Emma Goldman:A Documentary History of the American Years .
Candace Falk was born on July 30,1947 in New York City to Mildred ( née Rosen) and Nathaniel Falk. [1] She worked as a research associate at Woodlawn Mental Health Center,while studying at the University of Chicago,where she got a BA in 1969 and an MA in 1971. [1] After working as a teacher at Stockton State College (1971-1972) and as an editor at the Center for Social Research and Education in San Francisco (1972-1979) and the Southeast Asia Resource Center (1976-1979),she moved to the University of California,Berkeley,in 1980. [1] She obtained her PhD from the University of California,Santa Cruz,in 1984. [1]
Falk specializes in anarchist Emma Goldman,having gained interest through her own interest in the anti-war movement and feminism. [2] She founded UCB's Emma Goldman Papers Project [2] the same year she joined the university. [3] In 1984,she wrote Love,Anarchy,and Emma Goldman ,a biography based on letters from Goldman's ten-year love affair with Ben Reitman. [4] She is editor of Emma Goldman:A Documentary History of the American Years ,a multi-volume collection of original documents pertaining to Goldman's time spent in the United States, [5] as well as Emma Goldman:A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (1995). [1] She wrote the preface for a 1982 edition of Goldman's autobiography Living My Life . [1] Her other collaborations include a secondary school curriculum on Goldman [6] and a microfilm edition on Goldman's papers. [1]
In 1998, [7] Falk was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write essays on Emma Goldman. [3] Her Emma Goldman Papers Project won the Society of American Archivists' 2014 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award. [8] She is a Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. [2]
On October 23,1977,Falk married lawyer Lowell Finley;they have two children. [1] Falk lives in Berkeley,California. [1]