Charles Fanning

Charles F. Fanning, Jr. is an Irish American historian and academic.

Life
He grew up in Norwood, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1964, with a master's in 1966, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's and doctoral degrees, in 1968 and 1972. He taught at Bridgewater State College, and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale 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 for Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years
 * 1989 American Book Award 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