Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is an American historian and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee, UWM, or Milwaukee) is a public urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and a member of the University of Wiscons ...

'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 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 Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (born 2 September 1938)Who's Who in Israel 2001 (Tel Aviv, 2002), p. 214: "KEDAR, Benjamin Z. is professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the international Society for the Stu ...

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 Sanjay Subrahmanyam (born 21 May 1961) is a historian who specialises in the early modern period and in Connected History. He is the author of several books and publications. He holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at ...

. She holds a Ph.D. from the

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, 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 The ''Journal of Global History'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic history journal covering the study of comparative, world, and global history. It was established in 2006 and is published by Cambridge University Press. The editor-in-chief ...

''. 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 John P. McKay (died November 24, 2022) born in St. Louis, Missouri, was a professor of history and an author. He received his Bachelor of Arts, B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Califo ...

, which has been published in several editions and is often used in

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classes.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women historians University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty Augustana College (Illinois) faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the World History Association {{US-historian-stub

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