Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook, (née Wilson; born 28 November 1951) is a British academic and historian. Since 1995, she has been Professor of German History at

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. She is a noted researcher in a wide range of fields, including religion and society in early modern Europe, the German dictatorships of the twentieth century, Europe after the Holocaust, and historiography and social theory.

Early life

Fulbrook was born Mary Jean Alexandra Wilson on 28 November 1951 to Arthur Wilson and Harriett C. Wilson (née Friedeberg). She was educated at Sidcot School, a private

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and

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in Somerset, and at King Edward VI High School, an all-girls independent school in

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. She went on to study at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1973, she graduated with a double first class

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(BA) degree; this was converted to

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(MA Cantab) in 1977. She then moved to the

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where she undertook post-graduate study at

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. She completed her

(AM) degree in 1975 and her

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(PhD) degree in 1979.

Academic career

Fulbrook began her academic career as a temporary lecturer at the

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for the 1977/1978 academic year and at Brunel University for 1978/1979. She was then held the Lady Margaret Research Fellowship at

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from 1979 to 1982, and was a research associate at

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from 1982 to 1983. On 1 October 1983, Fulbrook joined

(UCL) as a lecturer. She was promoted to Reader in German History in 1991, and made Professor of German History in 1995. She was head of UCL's Department of German from 1995 to 2006, and was Executive Dean of its Faculty of Social and History Sciences from 2013 to 2018. Fulbrook was the first female Chair of the German History Society; and, together with Richard J. Evans, was a founding Editor of its journal, ''German History''.

Personal life

In 1973, the then Mary Wilson married Julian Fulbrook. Together they have one daughter and two sons.

Honours

In 2007, Fulbrook was elected

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(FBA). She is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). For her monograph, ''Reckonings'', Fulbrook won the 2019 Wolfson History Prize and one of the two "Recognition of Excellence" Cundill Prizes awarded in 2019.

Publications

* ''German National Identity after the Holocaust''. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999 * ''Historical Theory'' Routledge, 2003 * ''The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker''. New Haven, Conn.; London : Yale University Press, 2008. , * ''Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979: The 'Normalisation of Rule'?''. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. , * ''German History Since 1800''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. , * ''Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence Through the German Dictatorships''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. , * ''A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust''. Oxford University Press. 2012. , * ''Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice.'' Oxford University Press. 2018. ,

References

External links

University College London staff page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fulbrook, Mary Living people 1951 births Academics of University College London People educated at Sidcot School People educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the British Academy Harvard University alumni British women historians Academics of the London School of Economics Academics of Brunel University London Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge Academics of King's College London Wolfson History Prize winners