Donna Merwick

Donna Jeanne Merwick (February 14, 1932 Chicago – August 22, 2021 Melbourne)^[1] was a historian^[2] who was Senior Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Long Term Visiting Fellow at Australian National University, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology.^[3]

Early life

After studying history at Mundelein College, Merwick entered the Order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1962 she earned a MA from DePaul University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She began teaching at Mundelein in 1966, left the Order in 1968 and began teaching at the University of Melbourne in 1971 (she retired in 1995).^[2][4]

Personal life

Merwick married Australian historian Greg Dening in 1971.^[2]

Publications

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• Boston priests, 1848-1910: a study of social and intellectual change 1973
• Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: the Dutch and English experiences 1990
• Death of a notary: conquest and change in colonial New York 1999
• The shame and the sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian encounters in New Netherland 2006
• Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time 2013

Journal articles

• Geertz, Clifford, 'History and Anthropology', New Literary History, vol. 21, 1990, pp. 325–335.
• Hoffer, Peter, 'Review of Death of a notary', The Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1465–6.
• Kroen, Sheryl, 'Review of Death of a notary', Rethinking History, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000, pp. 228–230.

References

1. "Donna Merwick Dening (1932–2021)". University of Melbourne. 24 October 2021. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
2. "Merwick, Donna Jeanne (1932 - )". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
3. "Stuyvesant Bound An Essay on Loss Across Time". University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
4. Goodman, David; McDonnell, Mike (July 2015). "An Interview with Donna Merwick". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 34 (1): 60–83. JSTOR 44779753. Retrieved 11 November 2021.