Lee Palmer Wandel

Position title: WARF Michael Baxandall and Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History

Email: lpwandel@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1661

Address:
Office: 4135 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 4021 Mosse Humanities
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:30-10:30am and by appointment

Lee Palmer Wandel

Biography

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.

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., Brown University
B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz

Books

Selected Awards

  • Visiting Professor, Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2020, 2023
  • Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History, 2017-present
  • WARF Michael Baxandall Chair of History, 2016-present
  • 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, 2002
  • 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

History Courses

  • History 119 – Europe 1500-1815 – Syllabus 2022 (pdf)
  • History 201 – The Historians Craft: Representing History: Monuments and Films – Syllabus 2022 (pdf)
  • History 201 – The Historians Craft: Visible History – Syllabus 2019 (pdf)
  • History 201 – The Historians Craft: Witches and Saints – Syllabus 2014 (pdf)
  • History 212 – The History of Western Christianity to 1750 – Syllabus 2018 (pdf)
  • History 223/Religious Studies 234 – Genres of Western Religious Writing – Syllabus 2010 (pdf)
  • History 223 – History of Western Christianity
  • History 334 – The Reformation Europe
  • History 600 – Witches and Saints
  • History 600 – Inscribing the Americas – Syllabus 2010 (pdf)
  • History 600 – Utopia: Fiction and History – Syllabus 2013 (pdf)
  • History 600 – Old Worlds and New Worlds – Syllabus 2012 (pdf)
  • History 600 – History & Film – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)
  • History 707 – Early Modern European History 1500-1789
  • History 710 – Professional Development Seminar: Designing Courses – Syllabus 2022 (pdf)
  • History 891 – Pro-seminar in Modern European History