Mary Jo Maynes

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Department of History 1010 HellerH

Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

Class Cultures and Images of Proper Family Life (1789-1914). Maynes, Mary Jo, in History of the European Family vol. 2, 2001.
Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization. Maynes, Mary Jo, University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
"Gender, Labor, and the History of Globalization: European Spinsters in the International Textile Industry, 1750-1880,=". Maynes, Mary Jo, Author, 2004.
Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History. Maynes, Mary Jo, Christina Benninghaus and Birgitte Soland, Indiana University Press, 2004.
Gender, Kinship and Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History. Maynes, Mary Jo, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland and Ulrike Strasser, Routledge, 1996.

Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences: book in progress
European Girlhood and Female Selfhood in the Age of Nascent Liberalism: book in progresss

Vice-president, President-elect, Conference group on Central European History, American Historical Association affiliate: 1998 - 2000
Graduate Research Advisory Committee: 1990 - 1999
President: Social Science History Association , November 2003 - November 2004
Director of Graduate Studies: Graduate Program in History , June 2000 - June 2003
Chair, Department of History: July 2003 - June 2006

College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1999
McKnight Arts and Humanities Research Award, 1994 - 1995
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 2001 - 2002
Spector Truax Women’s Leadership Award., 2005

Hist 5980 - Topics in Comparative Women's History: Gender/Genre/Politics - TransAtlantic
Hist 5735 - Modern European Women’s History
Hist 5720 - Society and Politics in Modern Europe
Hist 1012 - World History
Hist 4961 - Senior Projects

Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.
Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.
November 17th, 2009
Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.
June 5th, 2009
Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.
June 5th, 2009