Charles F. Fanning, Jr. is an
Irish American
Irish Americans () are Irish ethnics who live within in the United States, whether immigrants from Ireland or Americans with full or partial Irish ancestry.
Irish immigration to the United States
From the 17th century to the mid-19th c ...
historian
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and academic.
Life
He grew up in
Norwood, Massachusetts
Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Norwood is part of the Greater Boston area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,611. The town was named after Norwood, England. Norwood is ...
. He graduated from
Harvard College
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in 1964, with a master's in 1966, and from the
University of Pennsylvania
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with a master's and doctoral degrees, in 1968 and 1972.
He taught at
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater State University is a public university with its main campus in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest of nine state universities in Massachusetts. Including its off-campus sites in New Bedford, Attleboro, and ...
, and at
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Southern Illinois University (SIU) is a public research university in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. Chartered in 1869, SIU is the oldest and flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system. SIU enrolls students from all 50 sta ...
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.
Awards
* 1979
Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the
Organization of American Historians
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for ''Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years''
* 1989
American Book Award
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for ''The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction''
* 1991 Prize for Literary Criticism from the American Conference for Irish Studies for The Irish Voice in America
* 2004 ''Outstanding Scholar'', Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Bibliography
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*Mapping Norwood: An Irish-American Memoir. University of Massachusetts Press. 2010. .
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References
External links
"IRISH VOICES", ''Perspectives'', Spring 2004Charles Fanning Collection of Audio Recordings
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
People from Norwood, Massachusetts
Harvard College alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Bridgewater State University faculty
Southern Illinois University Carbondale faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American Book Award winners
Historians from Massachusetts
21st-century American male writers
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