Mary Jo Maynes

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: History, University of Michigan, , 1977 - none
• B.A.: History, University of Pennsylvania, , 1971 - none

Specialties

• European social history
• France
• Germany
• history of female labor in European textile industries
• history of the family
• Ireland
• women
• personal narratives
• autobiography
• the family in global history
• history of childhood, youth, girlhood

Publications

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Publications

• Maynes, Mary Jo. "Age as a Category of Historical Analysis: History, Agency, and Narratives of Childhood,." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth I:1 (2008):
• The Family: A World History. Family: A World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) [with Ann Waltner]., Oxford University Press , Maynes, Mary Jo, 2012.
• “Girlhood in Modern European History. (Proto-)Industrialisation, Consumption, Marriage, and Selfhood, ca. 1750-1900.“ : Maynes, Mary Jo, "European history – gender history". Themenportal Europí¤ische Geschichte , 2009.
• Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History. Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte, Soland, Christina Benninghaus, Indiana University Press, Maynes, Mary Jo, 2005.
• Telling Stories: Analysis of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History. Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett, Cornell University Press, Maynes, Mary Jo, 2008.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Co-editor: Gender & History. 2013 - 2018
• Member, Board of Editors: American Historical Review. 2007 - 2010
• President: Social Science History Association. November 2003 - November 2004
• Chair, Department of History July 2003 - June 2006
• Director of Graduate Studies: Graduate Program in History. June 2000 - June 2003
• Vice-president, President-elect, Conference group on Central European History, American Historical Association affiliate 1998 - 2000

Research

• European Girlhood and Female Selfhood in the Age of Nascent Liberalism: book in progresss. none - none

Awards

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Awards

College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1999 - none

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 2001 - 2002

Spector Truax Women’s Leadership Award., 2005 - none

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

Hist 5980 - Topics in Comparative Women's History: Gender/Genre/Politics - TransAtlantic

Hist 3615/5735 - Modern European Women’s History

Hist 5720 - Society and Politics in Modern Europe

Hist 1/3000w - The History of the Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present

Hist 5960 - Teaching Global Cities as Sites of History

Hist 3960 GLOS 3900 GER 3510 - Berlin as a Site of History

Hist 8025 - The Politics of Historical Memory