Donna Jeanne Merwick (February 14, 1932

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– August 22, 2021

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) was a historian who was Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the

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, Long Term Visiting Fellow at

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, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at the

Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without access ...

Early life

After studying history at

Mundelein College Mundelein College was the last private, independent, Roman Catholic women's college in Illinois. Located on the edge of the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods on the far north side of Chicago, Illinois, Mundelein College was founded and adm ...

, Merwick entered the Order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1962 she earned a MA from

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and a Ph.D. from the

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. She began teaching at Mundelein in 1966, left the Order in 1968 and began teaching at the University of Melbourne in 1971 (she retired in 1995).

Personal life

Merwick married Australian historian

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in 1971.

Publications

*''Boston priests, 1848-1910: a study of social and intellectual change'' 1973 *''Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: the Dutch and English experiences'' 1990 *''Death of a notary: conquest and change in colonial New York'' 1999 *''The shame and the sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland'' 2006 *''Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time'' 2013

Journal articles

*Geertz, Clifford, 'History and Anthropology', New Literary History, vol. 21, 1990, pp. 325–335. *Hoffer, Peter, 'Review of Death of a notary', The Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1465–6. *Kroen, Sheryl, 'Review of Death of a notary', Rethinking History, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000, pp. 228–230.

References

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