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Candace Falk
Born (1947-07-30) July 30, 1947 (age 78)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationHistorian
Spouse
Lowell Finley
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(m. 1977)​
Children2
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1998)
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Alma mater
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DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineEmma Goldman
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Notable works

Candace Falk (born July 30, 1947) is an American historian. A 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the founder of the University of California, Berkeley's Emma Goldman Papers Project, and she is author of Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman (1984) and editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years.

Biography

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Candace Falk was born on July 30, 1947 in New York City to Mildred (née Rosen) and Nathaniel Falk.[1] She worked as a research associate at Woodlawn Mental Health Center, while studying at the University of Chicago, where she got a BA in 1969 and an MA in 1971.[1] After working as a teacher at Stockton State College (1971-1972) and as an editor at the Center for Social Research and Education in San Francisco (1972-1979) and the Southeast Asia Resource Center (1976-1979), she moved to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980.[1] She obtained her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1984.[1]

Falk specializes in anarchist Emma Goldman, having gained interest through her own interest in the anti-war movement and feminism.[2] She founded UCB's Emma Goldman Papers Project[2] the same year she joined the university.[3] In 1984, she wrote Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman, a biography based on letters from Goldman's ten-year love affair with Ben Reitman.[4] She is editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, a multi-volume collection of original documents pertaining to Goldman's time spent in the United States,[5] as well as Emma Goldman: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (1995).[1] She wrote the preface for a 1982 edition of Goldman's autobiography Living My Life.[1] Her other collaborations include a secondary school curriculum on Goldman[6] and a microfilm edition on Goldman's papers.[1]

In 1998,[7] Falk was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write essays on Emma Goldman.[3] Her Emma Goldman Papers Project won the Society of American Archivists' 2014 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award.[8] She is a Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.[2]

On October 23, 1977, Falk married lawyer Lowell Finley; they have two children.[1] Falk lives in Berkeley, California.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Candace Falk". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. July 29, 2025 – via Gale In Context: Biography.
  2. ^ a b c "Candace Falk". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1999. p. 73.
  4. ^ Myers, Constance Ashton (1986). "Review of Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman; Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life". The American Historical Review. 91 (3): 754–755. doi:10.2307/1869316. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1869316.
  5. ^ Unger, Nancy C. (2013). "Review of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, vol. 3; Light and Shadows, 1910—1916". The Journal of American History. 100 (3): 860–861. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 44308845.
  6. ^ "The Life and Times of Emma Goldman: A Curriculum for Middle and High School Students". ERIC. Archived from the original on February 1, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  7. ^ "Candace Falk". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  8. ^ "Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award". Society of American Archivists. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
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