Faculty in History
Dr. Marli F. Weiner
Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History
207-581-1924
140 Stevens Hall
E-mail:
marli.weiner@umit.maine.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1986 - History, University of Rochester
MA 1976 - Women's History, Sarah Lawrence College
BA 1974 - The Johns Hopkins University
Teaching Experience
2005- A&A Bird Professor of History
2000-2005 - Professor
1993-2000 - Associate Professor
1988-1993 - Assistant Professor, History, University of Maine
Publications
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Editor, Of Place and Gender: Women in
Maine History (Orono: University of Maine Press, 2005).
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Chapter on "Rural Women" for A
Companion to American Women's History, ed. Nancy Hewitt (New York:
Blackwell, 2002).
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Plantation Women: South Carolina
Mistresses and Slaves, 1830-1880
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998).
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"A Heritage of Woe:" The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997).
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"Mistresses, Morality, and the Dilemmas of Slaveholding: The Ideology
and Behavior of Elite Antebellum Women," in Patricia Morton, ed.,
Discovering the Women in Slavery (Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1996).
Publication in Progress
Defining the Body: Race, Sex, and Place in the Antebellum South,
monograph under consideration, University of Illinois Press.
Papers
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"The Mind in the Body: Medical
Understandings of Mind-Body Connections in the Antebellum South," paper
presented at the American Historical Association Annual Conference,
Seattle, WA, January 9, 2005.
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"Maine Women's Changing Roles," part of
Changing Maine lecture series sponsored by the Muskie School for Public
Policy, University of Southern Maine, October 29, 2005.
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Roundtable presentation on Hannah Crafts,
The Bondwoman's Narrative, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Southern
Association of Women Historians Conference, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA, June 2003.
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"Defining the Body: Race and Sex Mixing in
the Antebellum South," presented at the Organization of American
Historians, Memphis, TN, April 2003.
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