Leon Fink (historian) - Early Life and Education

Early Life and Education

Fink was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1948.

He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1970. While at Harvard, he spent the 1968-1969 term studying at the Centre for the Study of Social History at the University of Warwick in Coventry, U.K..

He obtained his master's degree in 1971 and his doctorate in 1977, both from the University of Rochester, where he studied with Herbert Gutman.

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