PERNILLE IPSEN
3307 Sterling Hall
475 N. Charter St
Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53706
[email protected]
(608) 770-9843
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2009 – Current
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies,
Department of History
AFFILIATIONS
2009 – Current
2011 – Current
2013 – Current
Program in Gender and Women’s History, UW Madison
Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, UW Madison
African Studies Program, UW Madison
EDUCATION
2008 Ph.D. from Copenhagen University.
Dissertation title: “Koko's Daughters: Danish men marrying Ga women in an Atlantic slave
trading port in the eighteenth Century.”
2002
M.A. from Copenhagen University with a gold medal for my masters thesis
Thesis title: “Et bryllup mellem to kulturer I 1614. En litterær og en etnohistorisk tilgang til
et kulturmøde i Nordamerika.” [In English: “A wedding between two cultures in 1614: A
literary and an ethnohistorical methodological approach to a cultural encounter in North
America.”].
FIELDS
Women's History. Gender and Colonialism. Atlantic World History. Comparative European
Expansion / Colonial History, 1500-1900.
AWARDS and HONORS
2013 Graduate School Fall Competition Research Grant, UW-Madison
2011 Graduate School Fall Competition Research Grant, UW-Madison
2012 REI Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW - Madison
2006 Honorary Fellow at the Department of History, UW-Madison.
2005-2007
The Danish Research Council for the Humanities (Dkr 750,000)
Funding for the network "Global Cultural history"
2003-2007
The Danish Research Council for the Humanities (Dkr 1.4 million)
Ph.D. funding for three years
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Professor Ludvig Wimmers og Hustrus Scholarship (Dkr 20,000)
Professor Ludvig Wimmers og Hustrus Scholarship (Dkr 20,000)
Copenhagen University’s Gold Medal
Sawakawa Young Leadership Foundation (Dkr 60,000)
PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
“Scandinavian Colonialism,” Itinerario: International Journal of the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction 33:2 (2009), Guest Editor and Co-author of introduction of journal issue.
Ipsen, Pernille. “”The Christian Mulatresses”: Interracial Marriage in a Slave Trading Town,” The
William and Mary Quarterly 70:2 (2013): 371-398.
Forthcoming Publications
Ipsen, Pernille. Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (University
of Pennsylvania Press, January 2015)
PUBLICATIONS IN DANISH Original Titles and [Translated Titles]
Pernille Ipsen Hamilton and Henrikke Terp Møllevang: Hver tid sin Pocahontas. Om
kulturmøder og koloniseringen af Nordamerika (Copenhagen: Gyldendal 2003). [400 years of Pocahontas
stories. Cultural encounters and the colonization of North America], 96 pages.
Pernille Ipsen (ed.): Midlertidigt ophold. Kvindehjemmet i København 1902-2002 af Tinne Wammen
(Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag 2002). [Temporary Lodging. Copenhagen Women's shelter 1902-2002 by
Tinne Wammen], 254 pages.
Articles and chapters
Peer-reviewed:
Hamilton, Pernille Ipsen. ”Pocahontas i et kristent engelsk verdensbillede. En litterær tilgangs
muligheder,” Den jyske Historiker 105 (2004): 109-126. [Pocahontas in a Christian English World
View. The Possibilities of a Literary Approach]
Non peer-reviewed:
Ipsen, Pernille. ”Kolonialisme” in Fokus – kernestof i historie, 2 (Copenhagen: Gyldendal 2007).
[Chapter about colonialism in a history reader for highschool], 30 pages.
TEACHING (UW-Madison)
2013 (Fall)
GWS 640: Writing Feminist Auto/Biography
HIST 680/690: Honors Thesis Colloquium
2013 (Spring) GWS 101: Gender, Women & Cultural Representation
GWS 101: Honors Section
HIST 680/690: Honors Thesis Colloquium
2012 (Spring) GWS 101: Gender, Women & Cultural Representation
HIST 600: Gender & Race in the British Atlantic World, 1607-1850
2011 (Fall)
GWS 315: Gender, Race & Colonialism
HIST 600: Gender, Race & Cultural Encounters, 1500-1850
2010 (Fall)
HIST 600: Race & Gender in the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
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2010 (Spring) GWS 102: Gender, Women and Society in Global Perspective
2009 (Fall)
GWS 310: Gender & Colonialism
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013Curriculum committee, member
2011-2013
MA committee, member
2011
Faculty Development Seminar: LGBTQ Studies: Its Past, Present, and Promise in
Humanities
2010-2013
Senator for GWS, Faculty Senate
2005-2007
Co-organizer, Global Cultural History, network for the study of Colonial and
Postcolonial history (primary author of successful grant; see above)
2004-2006
Board member Dansk historisk Samfund (the Danish Historical Society).
2003-2007
Editorial Board, 1066 – Journal of History, Copenhagen University.
ADVISING
2013 Member of Curriculum Committee, GWS
2013 Adviser, E Ornelas, masters student GWS
2012 Member of MA Committee in Dept. of Gender and Women’s Studies, Abigail Nappier.
2012 Member of Ph.D. Committee in Dept. of History, Aaron Kahn. Adviser: Prof. Laird
Boswell.
2010 Adviser, Martha Fischhoff, masters student GWS
2010 Member of Ph.D. Committee in Dept. of History, Susan Nelson. Adviser: Prof. Suzanne
Desan.
PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS
November 2013. “Entangled Worlds: Ga-Danish Families in the Atlantic Slave Trade” at The African
Studies Associations 54th Annual meeting in Baltimore, 21-24 November, 2013
November 2013. “Koko’s Daughters: Interracial Marriage in the Atlantic Slave Trade” at The
International Learning Community (ILC), UW-Madison.
January 2013. “The Christian Mulatresses: Interracial Marriage in a Slave Trading Town” at The
American Historical Association meeting, New Orleans, 3-6 January, 2013.
November 2012. “Koko’s Daughters: Interracial Marriage in a Slave Trading Town on the Gold
Coast” at Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison.
March 2012. “Filling the Void the Witches left: Ethnopornography in Early Modern European
Travel Writing about West African Women” at conference on “Race, Gender, and Sexualities in the
Atlantic World” at The Carolina Lowcountry in the Atlantic World Program (CLAW), College of Charleston,
Charleston.
April 2012. “Interracial Marriage in the European Expansion - in comparative perspective with the
Gold Coast as case” at the biennial conference of The Forum on European Expansion and Global
Interaction [FEEGI], held at the University of Minnesota.
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June 2011. “Questions about selling a free woman: negotiating blackness and slavery during the
trans-Atlantic slave trade” at the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, June 9-12, 2011.
February 2011. “Creating Interracial Families in the Atlantic Slave Trade” at Centering Families in Atlantic
Worlds - A conference sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin,
and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
August 2009. “Kulturmødet som analytisk kategori?” at the Danish Historical Association’s Meeting,
Copenhagen University.
May 2009. “Colonialism and Interracial marriage during the European Expansion” at
McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
April 2009. “Anna Sophie and her Norwegian husbands: A story of Danish colonialism in West
Africa during the slave trade” at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian
Study, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 30-May 2, 2009.
March 2009. “Interracial marriage and Indirect Colonialism: Ga Women and Danish Men in the Atlantic
Slave Trade” (jobtalk) at Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
June 2008. “Koko’s daughters. Danish men marrying Ga women during the Atlantic slave trade” at
the 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
March 2007. “European Sexual Expectations in 18th Century Travel Accounts of West Africa” given
at a seminar on "Sexuality, Violence and Cultural Imagination" at the Department of Anthropology, UWMadison.
November 2006. “Ægteskaber mellem to kulturer. Danske mænd og afrikanske kvinder i Dansk
Guinea, ca. 1700-1850” given at Folkeuniversitetet, Copenhagen.
October 2006. “Interracial Intimacy at Christiansborg in the Eighteenth Century: Expectations of
cultural supremacy and a pre-colonial experience” given at the weekly “staff and students seminar”
at Institute of African Studies, University of Legon, Ghana.
August 2006. “Slaveri og transatlantiske kulturmøder” given at the bi-annual meeting in the
Organization of Danish Historians, Copenhagen.
August 2005. “Intercultural intimacy in Danish Guinea 1680-1740” given at the 8th Nordic Women’s
and Gender History, Turku, Finland.
February 2005. ““En af de mærkeligste skikke …” Ægteskaber mellem danske mænd og ga kvinder i
en handelsstation på Guldkysten i 1700-tallet” given at the seminar “Kærlighed på Kryds og Tværs”,
Centre for Gender and Women's studies, University of Copenhagen.
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November 2005. “Interracial intimacy in Danish Guinea” given in the session: “European men and
Indigenous Women, Part I” at the African Studies Associations 48th annual meeting, Washington.
December 2004. “Blanke mænd og kulørte kvinder. En historisk undersøgelse af ægteskabslignende
forhold mellem danske mænd og afrikanske kvinder i diskurs og praksis i dansk Guinea, 1700-1850”
given at the seminar “Maskuliniteter og andre sekuelle selv’er” at Georg Brandes Skolen, Copenhagen
University.
May 2004. “Historierne om Pocahontas – eller koloniseringen af en høvdingedatter” at a meeting in
the Danish Historical Society, Copenhagen.
REFERENCES
Prof. Jennifer Morgan
Dept. of History
New York University
[email protected]
Prof. Randy Sparks
Dept. of History
Tulane University
[email protected]
Prof. Lou Roberts
Dept. of History
UW Madison
[email protected]