Mary Jo Maynes

MJ Maynes is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern Europe with interests in comparative and world history. Her work explores the history of the family, gender and generational relations, class dynamics, and personal narratives. Her books include: Children and youth as subjects, objects, agents: innovative approaches to research across space and time, co-edited with Deborah Levison and Frances Vavrus (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), in which she has a chapter entitled: “Visualizing the Spaces of Childhood in Graphic Memoirs;” The Family: A World History (Oxford, 2012), co-authored with Ann Waltner; and Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (Cornell, 2008), co-authored with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett. She has also served as co-editor of several journals, including Gender & History.
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