Mary Lindemann

PH.D., University of Cincinnati (1980);
Professor

e-mail: mlindemann@miami.edu
Office: Rm. 605 Ashe
Phone: (305) 284-5963

      Mary Lindemann received her graduate education at the University of Cincinnati and did her dissertation research in Hamburg. She currently works on early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish history as well as medical history in the early modern world. Her first book, Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 (Oxford University Press, 1990), analyzed poverty and governing policies and was named  “An Outstanding Academic Book for 1990" by Choice. She then embarked on a medical historical topic and spent two years on a post-doctoral fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (Germany). The result was Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). In 1998 the American Association of the History of Medicine named Health and Healing the winner of its William H. Welch Medal book prize. A survey, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, appeared in Fall 1999 with Cambridge University Press in the series “New Approaches to European History” and has since been translated into Spanish (2001) and Portuguese (2003). Her most recent book, Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great, appeared in May 2006 with Johns Hopkins University Press.  Professor Lindemann is currently working on several projects.  She is writing a comparative study of political cultures in three early modern cities, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, from 1650-1790.  In addition, she has contracted with Cambridge University Press to produce a second, revised and expanded edition of her Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe.  Finally, she has been working (sporadically) on a short book tentatively titled “Charlotte’s Web:  The Guyard Incest Case as History and Literature.” Professor Lindemann has received many major scholarly awards including an NEH Fellowship for 1997-98 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 1998-1998.  During the academic year 2002-2003, she was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar (The Netherlands).  She was a Fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek from January through June 2006.  In summer 2007 she was an Affiliate of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London and will be returning there again for summer 2008. In addition, Professor Lindemann serves on several editorial boards (among them, Central European History and H-German).  Professor Lindemann teaches a range of courses in early modern history and on the history of medicine at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.