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Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor

Office: Holton Hall Room 347
Phone: (414) 229-4529
E-mail: merrywh@uwm.edu
Web Page: www.uwm.edu/~merrywh/ merrywiesner-han.html

Degree:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979

Current Research Interests:
Early modern European and comparative history
History of women and gender
Comparative religious history

Current Teaching Interests:
Early modern Europe
World history
Women's and gender history
History of Christianity

Other Relevant Activities:
Editor, Sixteenth Century Journal
Chief Reader, Advanced Placement World History Examination

Recent Publications:
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Cambridge History of Europe, Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Turkish and Greek translations forthcoming.

Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence. Vols. I and II. With W. Bruce Wheeler, Franklin Doehringer, and Ken Curtis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Third edition 2006.

An Age of Voyages, 1350-1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Gender in History. New Perspectives on the Past. London: Blackwell, 2001. Translated into Chinese: Lishi Zhong De Xingbie. Translation by Wang Yihe. Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2003. Korean translation forthcoming.

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2000. Translated into Spanish: Cristianismo y sexualidad en la Edad Moderns: La regulación del deseo, la reforma de la práctica. Madrid: Siglo XXI de España Editores, 2000.

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