Dr. Mary Magray has an MA in European history and a PhD in British and Irish history, with a focus on women and religion. Now retired, she taught a wide variety of European history courses to students of all ages for more than thirty years, including the history of early Irish and British Christianity at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900, and worked as an instructor in the Division of Continuing Studies at UW–Madison.
Courses offered:
Cities of the World: Edinburgh
Cities of the World: Dublin
“Rule by Strongmen”: Europe Between the Wars and the Troubling Legacy of Fascism
The “Anglo-Saxons”: History, Legacy and Myth
A Virtual Tour of Ireland
The Making and Unmaking of the United Kingdom
History on the Landscape: Ancient and Medieval Ireland
Contest and Controversy: Early Christianity in Rome, Ireland, and the British Isles
The Witch Panic of the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Western World
