Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is an American historian and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Department of History.

[1] She describes herself as wearing "... two hats, one as a historian of early modern Europe and the other as a world/global historian, with a primary focus on women, gender, and sexuality within these".

She is editor-in-chief of the seven-volume 2015 Cambridge World History, and co-editor of three of its parts: Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE–1500CE (ISBN 9780521190749) with Benjamin Z. Kedar and Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations (ISBN 9780521761628) and Part 2: Patterns of Change (ISBN 9780521192460) with Jerry H. Bentley and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

She has also been on the author team of several innovative source books and textbooks used in college and Advanced Placement high school classrooms.

These include Discovering the Western Past (Cengage, 7e 2104) and A History of Western Society (Bedford, 14e 2023) often used in Advanced Placement European History classes.