Donald Lee Fanger, 94
Donald Fanger in 2008.Harvard file photo Campus & Community Donald Lee Fanger, 94 Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences March 6, 2025 6 min read At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 4, 2025, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Donald Lee Fanger was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. Donald Fanger liked to say that he was privileged to have worked in the golden age of American academic life. His many friends, colleagues, students, and readers bear witness to his outstanding contributions, formal and informal, to it as scholar, teacher, mentor, and citizen. Fanger’s education at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard and his faculty positions at Brown, Stanford, and Harvard certainly placed him in centers of academic prominence. His career advanced swiftly and decisively. He became a full professor while still in his...