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ULRIKE STRASSER
PhD, University of Minnesota
MA, Western Michigan University
Undergraduate studies at the University of Regensburg and the University of Passau

Ulrike Strasser is Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her training included studies in history, philosophy, gender, and critical theory at universities in Germany and the United States.

Strasser is the author of State of Virginity: Gender, Religion and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State (University of Michigan Press, 2004; paperback 2007). The study received the 2005 book award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and was honored as a finalist for "Das Historische Buch 2004." She has published a range of articles on issues dealing with gender, religion, history, and theory.

Strasser's current monograph, Consuming Missions, explores the activities of German missionaries in the Pacific Rim and the ways in which their narratives from the colonial periphery informed the formation of religio-political and gender identities "back home" in the Holy Roman Empire. She is also involved in two long-term collaborative projects, one on engendering world history and one on media theory and Reformation history.

Strasser has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching and research. Among other things, she has received fellowships from Harvard Divinity School, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.