Marc R. Forster

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. In 2016, he was appointed as the College Marshall of Connecticut College.

Biography
Forster is the son of Elborg Forster and social historian Robert Forster (1931–2020), who had been a professor at Johns Hopkins University. 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. From 1989 until 1990, Forster was a lecturer in history at Harvard. He became a professor at Connecticut College in 1990. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study German and East European history. In December 2005, Forster received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.