Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, 77, passed away on October 15, 2016. She earned a B.A. and M.A. from Boston University in 1959 and 1962, respectively and a PhD in history from Indiana University in 1980. She began her career at ASU in 1983 and retired in 2015. She was Regents' Professor and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at ASU. Her specialty was the social history of 19th-century France. Her pioneering studies of the intersections of gender, poverty, and law in 19th-century France reshaped the field of European historical studies. She was a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Camargo Foundation as well as numerous academic awards and teaching prizes. At her death she was halfway through an appointment as the General Mark W. Clark Distinguished Visiting Chair of History at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. She served variously as president of the Society for French Historical Studies and the Pacific Coast branch of the American Historical Association; associate editor and board member of "French Historical Studies"; co-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History; associate chair of the History Department and interim director of the Institute for Humanities Research at ASU and on numerous review panels for fellowships, academic presses, and journals. Dr. Fuchs is survived by her husband, Norman Fuchs, a Purdue University emeritus professor of physics. She is also survived by a daughter, a son, four grandchildren and many other kinfolk.