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 current research is focused on the history of economic thought in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the persistence of ideas from the German past in the way that the economy, state, and household are perceived today. I received my PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2006, and I have been teaching at the University of Minnesota, Morris, since August of 2005.
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, and German Intellectual History.
Syllabi for courses taught recently:
History 3211 Modern France (Fall 2008)
History 3204 Nazi Germany (Fall 2007)
History 3009 Microhistory: the History of the Modern Household (Spring 2007)
History 3151 Modern Europe (Spring 2007)
History 3209 Modern Germany (Fall 2006)
Links for Study in Modern History:
German History in Documents and Images (at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.)
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook
WWW Virtual Library of Women's History
Marynel's Research and Publications:
"Womanly Qualities and Contested Methodology: Gender and the Definition of German Economics," under review for publilcation in Gender and History (Blackwell).
"Shifting Foundations: Women Economists in the Weimar Republic," forthcoming in Women's History Review (Routledge)..
"Different Paths to the Public: European Women, Educational Opportunity, and Expertise," Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies (Cambridge), February 2005.Recent Conference and Workshop Presentations:
“Company Town or Model Town? Hellerau-bei-Dresden in the World of German Social Reform,” accepted as part of the session entitled Company Towns in International Comparative Perspective for the World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 2009.
“Womanly Qualities, Contested Methodologies: Gender, Historical Economics, and the Methodenstreit,” part of the session entitled Method and Society II: the Nineteenth Century for the German Studies Association Annual Conference, 2008.
“Embodied Knowledge and Strategies of Professionalization,” part of the workshop entitled The Woman/Professional? Tensions and Contentions in the Construction of Women’s Professional Careers for the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, 2008
“The Household in German and American Social Reform,” part of the session entitled Imagining the Welfare Household: Perspectives on Welfare in Early Twentieth-Century US and German History, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, 2007.
“Women’s Expertise and the Weimar Welfare State,” part of the session entitled Gender and Genre: Women's Voices and Democratic Rights, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Centers for German and European Studies Conference, “Cultures of Democracy? Germany and the USA at Home and Abroad,” 2007 2007.
“Modern Homes and Model Households in Late-Wilhelmine Siedlungen,” part of the session entitled Engendering Planned Communities in the Long Nineteenth Century for the German Studies Association Annual Conference, 2007.
“Embodied Knowledge: Women as Subjects in German Economics,” presented to the Comparative Workshop on the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2007.