Meet Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of twenty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, and Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 1450-1789 (Cambridge, 2006); Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Third Edition, Cambridge, 2008); Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (Second Edition, Routledge, 2010); and Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Second Edition, Blackwell, 2010). Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others. She has also written a number of source books for use in the college classroom, including Discovering the Global Past (Third Edition, Cengage, 2006), a book for young adults, An Age of Voyages, 1350-1600 (Oxford, 2005), and a book for general readers, The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds (Yale, 2009), the story of a family of extremely hairy people who lived in Europe in the late sixteenth century. She currently serves as the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History and as the editor in chief of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the World.

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