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: Tuesday 11:00am-12:00pm and by appointment
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
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Lee Palmer Wandel. Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion. Brill, 2016. -
Lee Palmer Wandel. The Reformation: Towards a New History. Cambridge University Press, 2011. -
Lee Palmer Wandel. The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy. Cambridge University Press, 2006. -
Lee Palmer Wandel. History Has Many Voices: In Honor of Robert McCune Kingdon. Vol. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, vol. 63, Truman State University Press, 2003. -
Robin W. Winks (Co-editor), and Lee Palmer Wandel (Co-editor). A History of Civilization, Vol. III: Europe in a Wider World: 1350-1650. Oxford University Press, 2003. -
Lee Palmer Wandel. Facing Death. Yale University Press, 1996. -
Lee Palmer Wandel. Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel. Cambridge University Press, 1995. -
Lee Palmer Wandel. Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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 2024 (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 2024 (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