First name

Rachel G.

Last name

Fuchs

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Status

Deceased

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2009

Bio summary

Fuchs was a Distinguished Foundation Professor of History. Her specialty was the social history of 19th-century France. Her pioneering studies of the intersections of gender, poverty and law in 19th-century France reshaped the field of European historical studies.