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Michael Roger Scher (1942-1975) was assistant professor of history (1972-75) at the University of Illinois (UI). He was an educator and scholar of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century French history.
Scher was born on March 24, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree (1964), a master's degree (1966), and a doctorate (1972) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an instructor at UCLA (1971-72) before joining the faculty at UI in 1972. Scher taught courses in nineteenth-and-twentieth-century European history as well as on the contemporary Western world. In 1974, he participated in the Seventh Annual Illinois Conference of Community College, College, and University Teachers, presenting his paper, "Involvement in Teaching and Learning: A Lesson in Dynamics." At the time of his death, he had recently published "Neither War Nor Nation: The Rise of Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1900" in
Scher died suddenly and prematurely on January 25, 1975. He was remembered as "an extremely enthusiastic and popular teacher" and a promising young scholar (History at Illinois). The UIUC Department of History's Michael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper was named in his honor.
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"Michael Roger Scher,"
"Michael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper," Department of History, accessed May 21, 2020, https://history.illinois.edu/award/michael-scher-award-outstanding-undergraduate-paper.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
2/13/1975; 2/14/1975; 5/3/1982
By type of material (correspondence and research material).
Papers of Michael Scher (1942-75), professor of history (1972-75), including correspondence, microfilm, thesis material, papers, outlines, notes on interviews, primary and secondary source documents and notes concerning his academic work at UCLAÂ and research interests in Gustave Herve as a journalist, his writings and those of contemporary political writers with emphasis on the pre-World War I period. The source documents acquired at the Archives Nationales in Paris and the College at Lesneven in Brittany relate to the Department of Yonne, the proceedings of international and national socialist congresses prior to World War I, governmental reports on anarchist, antimilitarist and socialist movements and the French publications, La Vie Socialiste (1904-05) and La Revue Socialiste (1905-13).