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William McCagg, Jr. |
William McCagg, Jr., was a historian and educator who specialized in Central and Eastern Europe. He passed away on Tuesday, June 8, 1993 at his home in Stonington, Connecticut at the age of 62 of colon cancer. Dr. McCagg was director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Michigan State University where he taught for 30 years in the History Department. He earned his bachelor's degree at Harvard University and a doctorate in history at Columbia.
He wrote several books, including Jewish Nobles and Geniuses in Modern Hungary, 1972; Stalin Embattled, 1979 and A History of Habsburg Jews, 1990. He was fluent in seven languages, including Hungarian and Czech. He studied the treatment of disabled people in Soviet and Eastern Europe and was the coeditor of The Disabled in the Soviet Union, 1979. He was afflicted by progressive deafness in his later years and produced and appeared in a 1992 film on deafness, "Ben's Bridge."
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