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Department Affiliations
Specialties
- European social history
- France
- Germany
- history of female labor in European textile industries
- history of the family
- Ireland
- women
- personal narratives
- autobiography
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: History, University of Michigan, 1977.
- B.A.: History, University of Pennsylvania, 1971.
Publications
- 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.
Research Activities
- Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences: book in progress
- European Girlhood and Female Selfhood in the Age of Nascent Liberalism: book in progresss
Professional Activities
- 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
Awards
- 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
Courses Taught
- 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
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