Lee Palmer Wandel
Professor

Email: lpwandel@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1661
Office: 4105 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 4021 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:30 or by appointment

Education: PhD: University of Michigan; MA: Brown University; BA: University of California-Santa Cruz

Bio Sketch:

My field of research is early modern Christianity.  I study texts, objects, practices, and identities in the early modern world.

My teaching area is early modern Europe, 1492 to 1648, and as it entered a wider world.

Selected Publications:

• The Reformation: Towards a New History. Cambridge University Press, 2011
• The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel. Cambridge University Press, 1994; paperback, 1999.
• Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich. Cambridge University Press, 1990; Digital paperback, 2001; paperback, 2003.
• With Robin Winks. A History of Civilization, Vol. III: Europe in a Wider World: 1350-1650. Oxford, 2003.
• History Has Many Voices: In Honor of Robert McCune Kingdon. Editor & Introduction. Sixteenth Century Monograph series, 2003.
• Facing Death. Edited Howard Spiro, Mary McCrea Curnen, & Lee Palmer Wandel. Introduction & Preface to Part 2. Yale University Press, 1996; paperback, 1998; netLibrary edition, 2001.
  

Awards:

• Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012
• Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Teaching Award, 2011
• Chadbourne Residential College Honored Instructor Award, 2008, 2009, 2011
• Kellett Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin, 2007
• Senior Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2004-2009
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2003
• Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Fall 2002
• Vilas Associate, University of Wisconsin, 2000-2002
• Lilly Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1999-2000
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1997-98
• Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College, 1995

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 119 - Europe 1500-1815 - Syllabus 2012 (pdf)
• History 201 - The Historian’s Craft: Visible History - Syllabus 2013 (pdf)
• History 334 - The Reformation Europe
• History 223/Religious Studies 234 - Genres of Western Religious Writing - Syllabus 2010 (pdf)
• History 223 - History of Western Christianity

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 200 - Historical Studies - Topics: "Witches and Saints" Syllabus 2010 (pdf)
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Rome in the Reformation"; " Witches and Saints"; " Inscribing the Americas" Syllabus 2010 (pdf); "Early Modern Cities" Syllabus 2009 (pdf); "Utopia: Fiction and History" Syllabus 2013 (pdf); "Old Worlds and New Worlds" Syllabus 2012 (pdf)

Graduate Courses:

• History 707 - Early Modern European History 1500-1789
• History 814 - Seminar in the History of Europe During the Reformation
• History 891 - Pro-seminar in Modern European History