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Merry Wiesner-Hanks

  • Distinguished Professor Emerita, History

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught

  • Hist 131 - World History to 1500
  • Hist 241 - European Women’s History, 1300-1750
  • Hist 600 - Renaissance and Reformation; Gender and Colonialism
  • Hist 716 - Professional and Pedagogical Issues in History

Research Interests

My research, writing, and teaching have been closely related. I began my career as a historian of early modern Europe, with a research focus on women’s work in Germany. When I moved to 51猎奇, my teaching responsibilities came to include the history of Christianity, and my research interests also increasingly focused on religion, especially issues of gender and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. At the same time, I began to write and publish various types of source books designed for use in the classroom and to teach courses in world history. This took me into geographic areas and time periods far away from early modern Europe, and my research expanded as well, becoming global as well as European. Since 2000, I have worn these two hats, one as a historian of early modern Europe and the other as a world/global historian, with a primary focus on women, gender, and sexuality within these.

Professional Service

Senior Editor, Sixteenth Century Journal Editor, Journal of Global History National Advisory Board, Society for History Education World History Association Book Prize Committee

Selected Publications

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.“Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective” Oxford Handbook of the Protestant ReformationsEd. Rublack, Ulinka. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2017): 747-764.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015.
. 10th ed.. Ed. McKay, John P., Buckley Ebrey, Patricia , Beck, Roger B., Hara Crowston, Clare , Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Davila, Jerry. Bedford/St. Martins. 2015.
. 7 volumes in 9 books. Ed. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015.
. Ed. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2015.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., Evans, Andrew D., Wheeler, William B., and Ruff, Julius R.7th ed.. Boston: Cengage. 2014.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.2nd ed.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013.
. Ed. Paik, Peter Y., and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2013.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice2nd ed.. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 2010.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.2nd ed.. London : Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2009.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.3rd ed.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008.