Marynel Ryan

History Discipline

University of Minnesota, Morris

 

Metropolis Triptych, Otto Dix (1927/28)

I am a historian of modern Europe (that is, Europe since ca. 1750), with subspecialties in the history of Germany, European women's history, and the history of the social sciences. My dissertation, Between Essence and Expertise: German Women Economists and the Shifting Ground of Social Reform, 1890-1933, brought my three specialties together. I explored the lives of the first group of women to receive doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Berlin relative to the broader intellectual history of the social sciences and the political and institutional changes that affected the production of knowledge in Germany during the late imperial period and under the Weimar Republic. I am currently revising the dissertation for submission as a book manuscript and have begun work on a new project that will locate the household as an object in the modern production of knowledge, for which I will be a fellow in residence at the University of Minnesota Institute of Advanced Study during spring 2008.

I teach courses on the history of Europe more broadly as well as on the national histories of Germany and France. More specialized courses include European Women's History since 1600, the History of the Household, the Enlightenment, Nazi Germany, German Intellectual History, and the Russian Revolution. I have also enjoyed teaching a course on postcolonial Europe in the First Year Seminar program of the University of Minnesota, Morris.

101 Camden Hall

University of Minnesota, Morris

600 East Fourth Street

Morris, Minnesota 56267

(320) 589-6181

mkryan@umn.edu