Mary Jo Maynes

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).
• Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization. University of North Carolina Press, Maynes, Mary Jo, 1995.
• 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.
• Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Approaches to Research in a Global Context . [co-edited with Deborah Levison and and Frances Vavrus]., Palgrave Macmillan, Maynes, Mary Jo, 2021.
• “Modern Political Revolutions: Connecting Grassroots Political Contention and Global Historical Transformations” : Ann Waltner, London: Bloomsbury, Maynes, Mary Jo, World History from Below, edited by Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne, 11-46, 2016.
• “Young women, textile labour, and marriage in Europe and China around 1800: Ann Waltner, Palgrave Macmillan, Maynes, Mary Jo, A History of the Girl: Formation, Education and Identity, edited by Mary O’Dowd and June Purvis , 75-102, 2018.
• “Visualizing the Spaces of Childhood in Graphic Memoirs” : Palgrave Macmillan, Maynes, Mary Jo, Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Approaches to Research in a Global Context , 20021.

Activities

Awards

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

Courses

• 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
• History 3020 –Hands On History: “Children and Youth in History”