Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Date of Birth

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

American historian

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1952

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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 9780521190749) with Benjamin Z.
Kedar and Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations (ISBN 9780521761628) and Part 2: Patterns of Change (ISBN 9780521192460) 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 Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe; Gender in History: Global Perspectives; Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789; and A Concise History of the World.
Wiesner-Hanks also contributed to the textbook A History of Western Society with John P.
McKay, which has been published in several editions and is often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.