Sidney Fine (historian)

Sidney Fine (1920–2009) was a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He authored many books on Frank Murphy, who served successively as mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and twice the winner of the University of Michigan Press Award. He received the University of Michigan's Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1969. He died on March 31, 2009 at the age of 86.

Sidney Fine was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920. He was awarded his B.A. from Western Reserve University in 1942, served in the Navy, serving as a Japanese Language Officer from 1942-1946, and earned both an M.A. (1944) and Ph.D. (1948) in history from the University of Michigan. Dr. Fine was a specialist in modern American history, with interest in the history of the labor movement, the New Deal, and the history of Michigan and its political environment. He wrote and edited over fifteen books and many articles.

Sidney Fine’s first appointment at the University of Michigan was as a teaching assistant in 1946. He accepted a position as a UM instructor in 1948 and was appointed as an assistant professor, an associate professor, then a full professor in 1959 in the History Department. Dr. Fine acted as advisor to masters and doctoral students, served on many doctoral committees, and was chairman of the department from 1969-1971. He was named the Richard Hudson Research Professor of History, the Andrew Dickson White Distinguished Professor of History, the Henry Russel Lecturer, and was named the “Professor of the Year” for the state of Michigan in 1986. He is the only member of the UM faculty to have ever been designated as the Henry Russel Lecturer as well as being honored by the undergraduates with the Golden Apple Award for outstanding university teaching.

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