21 Facts About Paul Finkelman

Paul Finkelman was born on November 15,1949 and is an American legal historian, the Robert E and Susan T Rydell Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, Minnesota, and a research affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Paul Finkelman is the author or editor of more than 50 books on American legal and constitutional history, slavery, general American history and baseball.

From 2017 - 2022, Finkelman served as the President and Chancellor of Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania.

Paul Finkelman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Watertown, where he attended public schools.

Paul Finkelman received his undergraduate degree in American studies from Syracuse University in 1971, and his master's degree and doctorate in American history from the University of Chicago in 1972 and 1976.

Paul Finkelman received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Library of Congress, Yale University, Harvard Law School, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Since 2001, Paul Finkelman has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

Paul Finkelman received the Joseph L Andrews Award from American Association of Law Libraries in 1986, and in 1995, was named Historian of the Year by the Virginia Social Science Association.

Paul Finkelman has lectured on behalf of the US State Department in Colombia, Germany, Japan, and China.

Paul Finkelman spent part of the fall 2008 semester at Osaka University in Japan, as a visiting research scholar.

In 2012, Paul Finkelman was the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School.

From 2003 to 2006, Paul Finkelman was President of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Memorial Foundation.

Professor Paul Finkelman has been part of amicus curiae briefs for cases related to Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, gay marriage in New York State, affirmative action, and separation of church and state.

Paul Finkelman has appeared in several historical films, including Ken Burns's documentary on Thomas Jefferson, and a documentary about the Barry Bonds' home run ball, Up for Grabs.

Paul Finkelman has served on numerous editorial and advisory boards, as well as delivered more than 150 papers and lectures in the United States, and in Austria, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Paul Finkelman has published more than 50 books and hundreds of scholarly articles.

Paul Finkelman's interests include slavery, race, civil rights, civil liberties, the United States Constitution and constitutional law, and baseball.

Paul Finkelman was listed as one of the ten most-cited legal historians in Brian Leiter's survey of most-cited law professors by specialty from 2000 to 2014.

Paul Finkelman has written numerous entries for encyclopedias and reference works.

Paul Finkelman edited The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia, published by CQ Press, and is an advisor to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Paul Finkelman is the editor-in-chief of the book series, Routledge Historical Americans, co-editor-in-chief of Studies in Southern Legal History at the University of Georgia Press, and co-editor of Law Politics and Society in the Midwest at Ohio University Press.