Andrea Wenz

Title: Associate Professor and History Undergraduate Advisor
Office: 412 Varner Hall
Phone: (248) 370-3527
Fax: (248) 370-3528
Email: [email protected]

Education:

2017 Ph.D. in History, Boston College
2010 M.A. in History, Boston College
2006 B.A. in History, State University of New York, College at Geneseo

Major Fields:

Early Modern Italy and Europe, Renaissance, Reformation

Biography:

Andrea Wenz is a cultural and religious historian of early modern Europe (1400-1800), specializing particularly in the history of early modern Italy and the Protestant Reformation. Her book, Bernardino Ochino’s Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation (Penn State, 2025) explores the vernacular Italian publications of Bernardino Ochino, a famed Italian Catholic preacher turned religious reformer. Her book uses Ochino’s writings to reexamine our understanding of early modern exile and consider how mobility and the use of print facilitated religious change in the sixteenth century.

In the classroom, Professor Wenz enjoys teaching the introductory European history survey as well as a variety of upper-division offerings including courses on the Black Death, the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, Occult Sciences and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, and more.

Publications:

Book

Bernardino Ochino's Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation (State College, PA: Penn State University Press, 2025).

Articles and Chapters

“The Discussion and Transmission of Reformed Religious Beliefs in Early Modern Siena,” in A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena, eds. Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 132-53.

Work in Progress

Professor Wenz is currently working on two additional projects. The first is an article tentatively titled “ ‘Let this…be marked’: Writing, Printing, and Reading Vermigli’s Commentary on the Book of Judges.” The second is a book chapter titled “Facing Exile, Finding Meaning, and Building Community,” for an interdisciplinary volume that seeks to explore the experiences of late medieval and early modern exile from literary, art historical, and historical perspectives.