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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 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 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 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'' () 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 ( ); Volume 4: Modern Sexualities ( ).

She holds 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.

Wiesner-Hanks is the long-term senior editor of ''The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies'', and from 2011 to 2020 an editor of the ''Journal of Global History''. In history pedagogy, 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 23 states. She has also been on the author team of several innovative source books and textbooks used in college and Advanced Placement high school classrooms. These include Discovering the Western Past (Cengage, 7e 2104) and A History of Western Society (Bedford, 14e 2023) often used in Advanced Placement European History classes. Provided by Wikipedia