FIELDS Women's History. Gender and Colonialism. Atlantic World History. Comparative European Expansion / Colonial History,

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1 PERNILLE IPSEN 3307 Sterling Hall 475 N. Charter St Gender and Women s Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI (608) ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2009 Current Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Gender and Women s Studies, Department of History AFFILIATIONS 2009 Current Program in Gender and Women s History, UW Madison 2011 Current Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, UW Madison 2013 Current 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 M.A. from Copenhagen University with a gold medal for my masters thesis Thesis title: Et bryllup mellem to kulturer I 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, 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 The Danish Research Council for the Humanities (Dkr 750,000) Funding for the network "Global Cultural history" The Danish Research Council for the Humanities (Dkr 1.4 million) Ph.D. funding for three years

2 Ipsen Professor Ludvig Wimmers og Hustrus Scholarship (Dkr 20,000) 2004 Professor Ludvig Wimmers og Hustrus Scholarship (Dkr 20,000) 2002 Copenhagen University s Gold Medal 1999 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): 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 af Tinne Wammen (Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag 2002). [Temporary Lodging. Copenhagen Women's shelter 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): [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, (Fall) GWS 315: Gender, Race & Colonialism HIST 600: Gender, Race & Cultural Encounters, (Fall) HIST 600: Race & Gender in the Atlantic World,

3 Ipsen (Spring) GWS 102: Gender, Women and Society in Global Perspective 2009 (Fall) GWS 310: Gender & Colonialism PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Curriculum committee, member MA committee, member 2011 Faculty Development Seminar: LGBTQ Studies: Its Past, Present, and Promise in Humanities Senator for GWS, Faculty Senate Co-organizer, Global Cultural History, network for the study of Colonial and Postcolonial history (primary author of successful grant; see above) Board member Dansk historisk Samfund (the Danish Historical Society) 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 Member of Ph.D. Committee in, Aaron Kahn. Adviser: Prof. Laird Boswell Adviser, Martha Fischhoff, masters student GWS 2010 Member of Ph.D. Committee in, Susan Nelson. Adviser: Prof. Suzanne Desan. PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS November Entangled Worlds: Ga-Danish Families in the Atlantic Slave Trade at The African Studies Associations 54 th Annual meeting in Baltimore, November, 2013 November Koko s Daughters: Interracial Marriage in the Atlantic Slave Trade at The International Learning Community (ILC), UW-Madison. January The Christian Mulatresses: Interracial Marriage in a Slave Trading Town at The American Historical Association meeting, New Orleans, 3-6 January, November Koko s Daughters: Interracial Marriage in a Slave Trading Town on the Gold Coast at Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison. March 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 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.

4 Ipsen 4 June 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, February 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 Kulturmødet som analytisk kategori? at the Danish Historical Association s Meeting, Copenhagen University. May Colonialism and Interracial marriage during the European Expansion at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. April Anna Sophie and her Norwegian husbands: A story of Danish colonialism in West Africa during the slave trade at the 99 th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 30-May 2, March 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 Koko s daughters. Danish men marrying Ga women during the Atlantic slave trade at the 14 th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. March European Sexual Expectations in 18 th Century Travel Accounts of West Africa given at a seminar on "Sexuality, Violence and Cultural Imagination" at the Department of Anthropology, UW- Madison. November Ægteskaber mellem to kulturer. Danske mænd og afrikanske kvinder i Dansk Guinea, ca given at Folkeuniversitetet, Copenhagen. October 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 Slaveri og transatlantiske kulturmøder given at the bi-annual meeting in the Organization of Danish Historians, Copenhagen. August Intercultural intimacy in Danish Guinea given at the 8 th Nordic Women s and Gender History, Turku, Finland. February 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.

5 Ipsen 5 November Interracial intimacy in Danish Guinea given in the session: European men and Indigenous Women, Part I at the African Studies Associations 48 th annual meeting, Washington. December Blanke mænd og kulørte kvinder. En historisk undersøgelse af ægteskabslignende forhold mellem danske mænd og afrikanske kvinder i diskurs og praksis i dansk Guinea, given at the seminar Maskuliniteter og andre sekuelle selv er at Georg Brandes Skolen, Copenhagen University. May Historierne om Pocahontas eller koloniseringen af en høvdingedatter at a meeting in the Danish Historical Society, Copenhagen. REFERENCES Prof. Jennifer Morgan New York University Prof. Randy Sparks Tulane University Prof. Lou Roberts UW Madison