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								Marianne S.																 Wokeck

Marianne S. Wokeck

Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of History
Senior Editor of the Santayana Edition
Senior Fellow of the Institute for American Thought
Fellow of the Max Kade German-American Studies Center
Department: American Studies, History, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Institute for American Thought, Max Kade German-American Center

Bio

Biography

Marianne S. Wokeck is Chancellor’s Professor emeritus of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where she taught early American history and directed the Institute for American Thought. She was educated in Germany and the United States. Her major research interests in the history of the North Atlantic World (1600-1800) focus on immigration and ethnicity, including the role of religion in defining identity, and also on scholarly editing. Those interests are reflected in her publications as author and editor (Trade in Strangers; The Papers of William Penn; Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; The Works of George Santayana; and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies).

Education

Education

  • PhD Temple University 1982
  • Staatsexamen Hamburg University 1973

Teaching

Teaching

  • Early American history,
  • immigration and ethnic history,
  • women’s history,
  • scholarly (documentary) editing

Publications

Publications

  • Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (Penn State University Press 1999),
  • (editor and author)Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, vol. 1 (University of Pennsylvania Press 1991),
  • (editor) The Papers of William Penn vols. 3-4 (University of Pennsylvania Press 1986, 1987),
  • numerous articles in scholarly books and journals,
  • Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, vol. 1 (http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/), German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.
  • and (editor with others) The Letters of George Santayana, volume 5 in 8 books and Life of Reason, volume 7 in 5 books of The Works of George Santayana (MIT Press, 2001-16).

Awards

Awards

  • Spirit of Philanthropy at IUPUI 2016
  • Chancellor’s Professor 2009,
  • Outstanding Female Faculty and Leader 2003, 2004, 2013,
  • Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration
  • Alwin S. Bynum Award for Excellence in Academic Mentoring 1996,
  • Outstanding Academic Advisor 1993, 1997, 2005,
  • IU Teaching Excellence Recognition Award 1997,
  • National Endowment for the Humanities grants (Biographical Dictionary of Early Pennsylvania Legislators, 1986-91, The Works of George Santayana, 2003-9),
  • Senior Fulbright Scholar (Germany) 1997-98.,

Academic Interests

Academic Interests

American history, colonial and Revolutionary history, history of the Atlantic world 1500-1800, immigration and ethnicity, and women’s history, scholarly editing.