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Ann Waltner

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Department of History 912 HellerH 271 19th Ave S

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • ritual
  • law
  • religion
  • traditional Chinese social history
  • law
  • gender
  • analysis of historical documentation
  • rumor
  • gossip
  • chinese history
  • world history
  • feminism

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Chinese History, University of California, Berkeley, 1981.

Publications

  • Family: A World History. Waltner, Ann, Mary Jo Maynes, Oxford University Press, Co-Author, 2012.
  • Temporalities and Periodization in Deep History: Technology, Gender, and Benchmarks of “Human Development": Waltner, Ann, Mary Jo Maynes, Social Science History, 36:1 59-83, 2012.
  • Performing the Map and Music of Matteo Ricci: Waltner, Ann, Linda Pearse, Qin Fang, Ming Studies, 62 1-20, 2010.
  • “Tanyangzi in her own Words and those of Wang Shizhen“ : Waltner, Ann, edited by Joan Judge and Hu Ying, University of California Press, Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History, 2011.
  • “Remembering the Lady Wei: Eulogy and Commemoration in Ming Dynasty China“ : Waltner, Ann, Ming Studies, 55 75-103, 2007.

Research Activities

  • Transition from Girlhood to Adulthood in China and Europe: collaborative project with MJ Maynes, fall 2012 - ongoing
  • Religion and kinship in late Ming dynasty China: the Story of Tanyangzi
  • Spatial impropriety and other transgressions in Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life
  • Family scandal and political crisis in the domestic life of the sixteenth-century literatus Wang Shizhen, as shown in eulogies and letters
  • comparative family history

Creative Activities

  • The Map and Music of Matteo Ricci: Performance with Sacabuche an early music ensemble, using text pulled from seventeenth century sources, December 2010 - ongoing

Professional Activities

  • Associate Dean for Academic Programs: 1997 - 2000
  • Editor, Jounal of Asian Studies: 2000
  • Co-chair, Program Committee, American Historical Association: 1996 - 1997
  • Member, Program Committee, American Historical Association: 1995 - 1996
  • Member of the Board, Association for Asian Studies: 2000 - present
  • Chair, Levenson Prize Committee: 1995 - 1996
  • Chair, CLA Committee on Curriculum, Instruction and Advising: 1996 - 1997
  • Director, Institute for Advanced Study: 2005 - ongoing

Awards

  • Graduate School Grant-in-Aid, 2001 - 2002
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2002
  • Graduate School Grant-in-Aid, 1990 - 1995
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2001
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986 - 1987

Courses Taught

  • All 5920 - Topics in Asian Culture
  • Hist 5940 - Topics in Modern Chinese History
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Featured Faculty

  • Major Awards for History Profs. Kevin Murphy, Barbara Welke, Donna Gabaccia (2), Kay Reyerson, Elaine Tyler May

    It has been a season for great honors and accomplishments for our faculty. Congratulations to all!

    Donna Gabaccia is one of the recipients of the 2013 University Outstanding Community Service Award
    Donna Gabaccia has been awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective.
    Elaine Tyler May has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 by The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
    Kevin Murphy is a 2013 recipient of the UofM's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.
    Kay Reyerson has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy.
    Barbara Welke has been named one of the new Distinguished McKnight University Professors.

     April 3rd, 2013

  • 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History to Ruth Karras

    Congratulations to Professor Ruth Karras, who has been named co-winner of the AHA's 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

    Given by the American Historical Association and named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).

     November 13th, 2012

  • Erika Lee to receive 2012 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award

    Congratulations to Erika Lee who has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Sciences for 2012 at the University of Minnesota.

    Erika Lee received the award at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on October 12, 2012.

    October 30th, 2012

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