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.[1] 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.[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]

Selected publications

Books

  • Forster, Marc R. (July 1, 1992). The Counter-Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801425660.
  • Forster, Marc R. (February 5, 2001). Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque: Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550–1750. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521780445.
  • Forster, Marc R. (2002). "Debating the Meaning of Pilgrimage: Maria Steinbach 1733". In Van Horn Melton, James (ed.). Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment. Routledge. pp. 93–103. doi:10.4324/9781315258669-8. ISBN 9781315258669.
  • Kaplan, Benjamin J.; Forster, Marc R., eds. (2005). Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315246819. ISBN 9781315246819.
  • Forster, Marc R. (October 15, 2007). "Taverns and Inns in the German Countryside: Male Honor and Public Space". In Ocker, Christopher; Printy, Michael; Starenko, Peter; Wallace, Peter (eds.). Politics and Reformations: Communities, Polities, Nations, and Empires. Brill Publishers. pp. 229–238. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004161733.i-630.51. ISBN 978-90-47-42224-2.
  • Forster, Marc R. (November 19, 2007). Catholic Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333698389.

Journals

Reviews

References

  1. ^ a b "Marc Forster". Connecticut College. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  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.