Marc R. Forster

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Marc Richard Forster (born 1959) is an American historian. He serves as the Henry B. Plant Professor of History at Connecticut College, where he was also appointed as the chair of its history department. In 2015, Forster served as the President of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society and Conference. [1] In 2016, he was appointed as the College Marshall of Connecticut College.

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Biography

Forster is the son of Elborg Forster and social historian Robert Forster (1931–2020), who had been a professor at Johns Hopkins University. [2] Forster received a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College. He completed his graduate studies at Harvard University, where he obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. [1] From 1989 until 1990, Forster was a lecturer in history at Harvard. He became a professor at Connecticut College in 1990. [3] In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study German and East European history. [4] In December 2005, Forster received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. [5]

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References

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  2. Rasmussen, Frederick N. (June 11, 2020). "Robert Forster, a social historian who taught at Johns Hopkins for 31 years specializing in French history, dies". The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  3. "2011". Connecticut College. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  4. "Marc R. Forster". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  5. "NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANTS" (PDF). National Endowment for the Humanities . December 2005.