Pernille Ipsen
Assistant Professor

Email: pipsen@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)770-9843
Office: 3307 Sterling

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Website: http://womenstudies.wisc.edu/professional-pages/ipsen.htm

Office Hours: TBA

Education: PhD: Copenhagen University, 2008

Bio Sketch:

I specialize in the social history of the Atlantic world with a broad interest in interracial marriage and developments in social categories of gender and race during European colonialism and encounters with “others” around the globe.

Selected Publications:

• Pernille Ipsen: Entangled Worlds. Interracial Marriage in the Atlantic Slave Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming)
• Pernille Ipsen: ""The Christened Mulatresses": Euro-African Families in a Slave trading Town" in The William and Mary Quarterly (April 2013)
• Pernille I. Hamilton and Henrikke Terp Møllevang: Hver tid sin Pocahontas. Om kulturmøder og koloniseringen af Nordamerika (Gyldendal 2003). [In English: 400 years of Pocahontas stories. Cultural encounters and the colonization of North America].
• Pernille Ipsen (ed.): Midlertidigt ophold. Kvindehjemmet i København 1902-2002 af Tinne Wammen (Hans Reitzels Forlag 2002). [In English: Temporary Lodging. Copenhagen Women's shelter 1902-2002 by Tinne Wammen].
• Editor + co-author of the introduction of a special issue of the journal Itinerario about "Nordic Colonialism" based on a collection of papers presented at three conferences hosted in our network "Global Cultural History".
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• Gender & Women's Studies 101 - Gender, Women, and Cultural Representation
• Gender & Women's Studies 102 - Women, Social Institutions and Social Change
• Gender & Women's Studies 310 - Gender & Colonialism
• Gender & Women's Studies 315 - Gender, Race & Colonialism

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Race and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1500-1900" Syllabus 2012 (pdf)