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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (born 20th century) is an American historian and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Department of History.
She describes herself as wearing "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." She has taught and published in European history, world history, and history pedagogy, and has served as the president of the Sixteenth Century Society, the Society for Reformation Research, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, and the World History Association.
She received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and before moving to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee she was an assistant professor at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1979 to 1985.
She is editor-in-chief of the seven-volume 2015 Cambridge World History, and co-editor of three of its parts: Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500 CE–1500 CE with Benjamin Z. Kedar and Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations and Part 2: Patterns of Change with Jerry H. Bentley and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. She is also the co-editor, with Mathew Kuefler, of the four-volume 2024 Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 1: General Overviews; Volume 2: Systems of Thought and Belief; Volume 3: Sites of Knowledge and Practice; and Volume 4: Modern Sexualities.
Wiesner-Hanks is the senior editor of Sixteenth Century Journal, and from 2011 to 2020 was an editor of the Journal of Global History. She was the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History, is on the board for the Society for History Education and World History Commons, and was one of the history authors of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards, which by 2017 had been incorporated into the social studies standards in twenty-three states.
She has also been on the author team of several textbooks used in college and Advanced Placement high school classrooms. These include Discovering the Western Past (Cengage Group, 7th ed., 2014) and A History of Western Society (Bedford/St. Martin's, 14th ed., 2023) often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.
She edited the book Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), which was the winner of the 2021 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Prize for a Collaborative Project.
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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (born 20th century) is an American historian and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Department of History.
She describes herself as wearing "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." She has taught and published in European history, world history, and history pedagogy, and has served as the president of the Sixteenth Century Society, the Society for Reformation Research, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, and the World History Association.
She received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and before moving to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee she was an assistant professor at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1979 to 1985.
She is editor-in-chief of the seven-volume 2015 Cambridge World History, and co-editor of three of its parts: Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500 CE–1500 CE with Benjamin Z. Kedar and Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations and Part 2: Patterns of Change with Jerry H. Bentley and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. She is also the co-editor, with Mathew Kuefler, of the four-volume 2024 Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 1: General Overviews; Volume 2: Systems of Thought and Belief; Volume 3: Sites of Knowledge and Practice; and Volume 4: Modern Sexualities.
Wiesner-Hanks is the senior editor of Sixteenth Century Journal, and from 2011 to 2020 was an editor of the Journal of Global History. She was the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History, is on the board for the Society for History Education and World History Commons, and was one of the history authors of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards, which by 2017 had been incorporated into the social studies standards in twenty-three states.
She has also been on the author team of several textbooks used in college and Advanced Placement high school classrooms. These include Discovering the Western Past (Cengage Group, 7th ed., 2014) and A History of Western Society (Bedford/St. Martin's, 14th ed., 2023) often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.
She edited the book Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), which was the winner of the 2021 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Prize for a Collaborative Project.
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