Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 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 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, 500CE–1500CE (ISBN ) with Benjamin Z. Kedar and Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations (ISBN ) and Part 2: Patterns of Change (ISBN ) with Jerry H. Bentley and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and before moving to the University of Wisconsin she was an Assistant Professor at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois from 1979 to 1985.

Wiesner-Hanks is a senior editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, and an editor of the Journal of Global History.

Her books include Gender in History: Global Perspectives (2nd ed, 2010, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN ); Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 (2nd ed, 2013, Cambridge UP, ISBN ); and A Concise History of the World (2015, Cambridge UP, ISBN ).

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