Michael Finefrock, a professor of history at the College of Charleston, S.C, died Dec. 6, 2009. He was 69.
Finefrock earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1961. He was a lieutenant in the Navy until 1965, serving in the Middle East as a translator of Turkish. He received a master’s degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1976 from Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. He taught at California State University in Long Beach for two years before joining the faculty of the College of Charleston in 1974.
In addition to teaching at Charleston, he was speaker of the college faculty in 1986-87, a writer of several papers on Turkey and Turkish history, and a Fulbright scholar. He served on evaluation panels for the U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays program for international research and studies. He wrote on computer applications to the humanities and consulted on the development of copyrighted computer software.
He is survived by a cousin, Mart A. Diana.
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