"Dringliche Angelegenheit" Nr. 7, by Tom Baecker (www.a-point-of-view.de)

Marynel Ryan Van Zee

Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Morris

116 Camden Hall

(320) 589-6181

mkryan@morris.umn.edu

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 Women, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe, the History of the Household, the Enlightenment, Nazi Germany, and German Intellectual History.

Syllabi for courses taught recently:

History 3204 Nazi Germany (Spring 2010)

History 3209 Modern Germany (Spring 2009)

History 3211 Modern France (Fall 2008)

History 3009 Microhistory: the History of the Modern Household (Spring 2007)

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

Library of Congress

Marynel's Research and Publications:

""Form and Reform: Hellerau-bei-Dresden between Company Town and Model Town," contribution to Marcelo Borges and Susana Torres, Eds., Company Towns: Historical Studies in Global Perspective, under review with Palgrave Macmillan.

"Womanly Qualities and Contested Methodology: Gender and the Discipline of Economics in Late Imperial Germany," Gender and History (Blackwell), August 2010.

" Women’s Way to the Professions—a European Perspective," Contribution to the web-feature Europa ist eine Frau, in the Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (2009), URL: http://www.europa.clio-online.de/2009/Article=408.

"Shifting Foundations: Women Economists in the Weimar Republic," Women's History Review (Routledge), February 2009.

Recent Conference and Workshop Presentations:

“Company Town or Model Town? Hellerau-bei-Dresden in the World of German Social Reform,”part of the session entitled Company Towns in International Comparative Perspective for the World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 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.