Amy Nelson Burnett

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Amy Nelson Burnett
Born1957 (age 6869)
Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison
Occupationshistorian, author
Scientific career
FieldsEarly modern European history
Institutions University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Amy Nelson Burnett (born 1957) is an American historian, author and academic who specializes in early modern European history. [1]

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Biography

She was born in 1957. [2]

She is married to Stephen Burnett and has two children with him. [3]

Education

She completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics in 1979 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, [3] [4] a Master of Arts Degree in History in 1984 at the same university, [3] [4] and a Ph.D. in History in 1989 at the same university. [3] [4]

Career

She is currently the Paula and D.B. Varner University Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. [5]

Awards and honours

She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 2009. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical society in 2010 and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2001–2004. [1]

In 2012, she became a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Leibniz-Institute für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany. She has also received a Solmsen Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2020–21. [1]

Lastly, she has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2021. [1]

Bibliography

She is the author of a number of notable books: [1] [6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Amy Nelson Burnett | Department of History | Nebraska". history.unl.edu. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  2. "Burnett, Amy Nelson 1957– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Amy Nelson Burnett | Nebraska Authors". nebraskaauthors.org. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Amy Nelson Burnett – Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. December 9, 2019. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  5. "Burnett, Amy Nelson". Institute for Research in the Humanities. August 3, 2020. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  6. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved July 3, 2025.