Carole Fink

Humanities Distinguished Professor
History
315A Mershon Center
614.292.3498
fink.24@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Bard College, History (1960)
M.A., Yale University, History (1961)
Ph.D., Yale University, History (1968)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Fink specializes in European international history and historiography. She teaches courses in 19th and 20th century European international history, Europe since 1945, and European historiography. Her current research is on German Ostpolitik after 1966 and German-Israeli relations in the 1960s as well as on refugee problems during the 1920s and 1930s.

Selected Publications
Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: The European and Global Response, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

"Two Pogroms: Lemberg (November 1918) and Pinsk (April 1919)," in Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse, ed. by Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez, and Bruce Thompson (University of Delaware Press, 2009)

"Louis Marshall: An American Jewish Diplomat" (American Jewish History, 2008)

1956: European and Global Perspectives, co-editor and introduction (Leipzig, 2006)

Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (Cambridge, 2004; paperback, 2006)

Human Rights in Europe Since 1945, co-editor, introduction and afterward (Peter Lang, 2003)

1968: The World Transformed, co-editor and introduction (Cambridge, 1998)

The Establishment of Frontiers in Europe after the Two World Wars, co-editor and introduction (Berne, 1996)

The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22 (Chapel Hill, 1984; Syracuse paperback edition, 1993)

Genoa, Rapallo, and the Reconstruction of Europe in 1922, joint editor and introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1991; paperback edition 2002)

Marc Bloch: A Life in History (Cambridge, 1989), the first biography of France’s soldier-patriot-historian, translated into six languages

Translation and introduction, Marc Bloch’s Memoirs of War, 1914-15 (Cornell, 1980; Cambridge, 1988)

German Nationalism and the European Response, 1890-1945, joint editor and introduction (University of Oklahoma Press, 1985)

Honors and Awards
Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (2007)

George Louis Beer Prize for Best Book in European International History, American Historical Association, for Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (2005)

The Akira Ariye Prize for Best Book in International History, Foundation for Pacific Quest, Chicago, for Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (2005)

George Louis Beer Prize for Best Book in European International History, American Historical Association, for The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22 (1985)

Fellowships from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2004), Fulbright Foundation (2004), German Marshall Fund (2001), Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton (1999), Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1994), National Endowment for the Humanities (1990-91), Fulbright Foundation (1991), American Philosophical Society (1990), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1990, 1986), American Council of Learned Societies (1990, 1985), American Association of University Women (1982).

Mershon Projects
Pacts and Alliances: Why They Succeed, Why They Fail, and Why Scholars Should Care (2009-10)
Ostpolitik and Israel, 1966-74
Empire at End Global Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century (2008-09)
Mershon Network of International Historians

Carole Fink
Humanities Distinguished Professor of History
The Ohio State University