Ann Waltner

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Department of History 912 HellerH

Department Affiliations

Writing her Way out of Trouble: Li Yuying in History and Fiction.. Waltner, Ann Beth, 1997.
The World of a Late Ming Mystic: T'an-Yang-Tzu and her Followers. Waltner, Ann Beth, University of California Press, 2000.
Lingering Fragrance: The Poetry of Tu Yaosi and Shen Tiansun.. Waltner, Ann Beth, Pi-ching Hsu, 1997.

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
The fifteenth century explorer Zheng He in American classrooms
Family scandal and political crisis in the domestic life of the sixteenth-century literatus Wang Shizhen, as shown in eulogies and letters

Member, MacArthur Program Steering Committee: 1988 - 1997
Associate Chair, History Department, University of Minnesota: 2002 - present
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
Member, University Senate: 2000 - 2001
Member, Levenson Prize Committee: 1994 - 1996
Member, Executive Faculty, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota: 2001 - present

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